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May 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“It’s crazy. There’s so many people here,” she said. “Having Nato in town is
kind of exciting.”
But she wondered whether the political agendas of the protesters were too
unfocused to get diplomats’ attention.
“It seems like there’s so many messages and people aren’t really sure what
they want to get accomplished,” Westlake said. “People just need to figure
out what their argument is going to be.”
She worried that some protesters participated simply “to do stupid things” and
cause trouble.
Some participants called for the dissolution of Nato, the 63-year-old military
alliance that is holding its 25th formal meeting in Chicago. It is the first
time the summit has been held in a US city other than Washington.
Diplomats at the meeting planned to discuss the war in Afghanistan, European
missile defense and other international security matters.
“Basically Nato is used to keep the poor poor and the rich rich,” said John
Schraufnagel, who traveled from Minneapolis to Chicago for the march. Since
the end of the Cold War, he said, the alliance has become “the enforcement
arm of the ruling 1 percent, of the capitalist 1 percent.”
The march lacked the size and single message that shaped the last major
protest moment in Chicago, when nearly half a million people filled the
city’s downtown in 2006 to protest making it a felony to be an illegal
immigrant.
At one point, dozens of protesters in black clothing surged toward a much
smaller group of police, throwing objects at them. The badly outnumbered
officers fought back with truncheons, and people on both sides threw
punches. As police reinforcements moved in, the pack of violent protesters
fled.
Authorities had planned to provide heightened security along the march route
to protect people and property.
But unseasonably warm temperatures raised concerns about the safety of the
marchers themselves. The city provided water, rest stations and cooling
buses along the 2ﾽ-mile protest route.
The heat offered an unexpected benefit for police: making it easier to spot
potential troublemakers.
Before the summit, officers were told to keep an eye out for people wearing
bulky clothing that could hide weapons or big pieces of cardboard that
protesters could use to shield themselves against rubber bullets. But anyone
wearing overcoats or sweatshirts was conspicuous on a 90-degree
(32.22-Celsius) day, when many people wore T-shirts and shorts.
Organisers of Sunday’s rally had initially predicted tens of thousands of
protesters this weekend. But that was when the G-8 summit of leading
industrial nations was also scheduled to be in Chicago. Earlier this year,
President Barack Obama moved the Group of Eight economic meeting to Camp
David, the secluded retreat in rural Maryland.
At the end of the march, police appeared to be using precisely the tactics
Superintendent Garry McCarthy said they would – extracting individuals from
the crowd and quickly getting them away from the rest of the demonstrators.
Several times they could be seen pulling protesters into a line of officers,
which parted briefly before quickly closing ranks again.
Police also used “sound cannons” to give orders to demonstrators and tried to
relieve officers who had become fatigued to help prevent any escalation in
violence.
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