A Life and Death Struggle in Genoa

Today in Genoa a protester, 23 year old Carlo Giuliani, armed with righteous rage against repression and injustice and what appears to be a roll of packing tape on his right arm, was killed, shot twice in the streets by the Carabinieri. Then, in a fit of excessive cruelty, the kind of excess that capitalism is best known by, the Carabinieri ran over his dead body with a heavy police vehicle.

On this ugly, antidemocratic, repressive day, UK PM Tony Blair could say only that

``We would prefer to be out there in a normal setting being able to meet people, Blair told reporters. ``But we can't because some of these demonstrators are so violent.''

President Bush told the protesters on Friday,

"I reject the isolationism and protectionism that dominate those who would try to disrupt the meetings in Genoa."

Presumably the violent protesters did not include Carlo Giuliani; the one armed only with that very lethal roll of packing tape; the one who, just in case his dead, lifeless body still posed a threat to Bush and Blair, to the G-8 Summit, to the whole goddamned capitalist system, was run over by a police jeep after having been shot dead by authoritarian thugs.