by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 2, 2002

Threatening to shut down the city, the People’s Strike of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence Alliance stormed into this capital city last week – and went directly to jail without passing Go.

Perhaps a fifth of the promised 20,000 demonstrators turned up, and by Friday afternoon 649 were in the custody of Police Chief Ramsey, charged with failing to get off the street. Raged 42-year-old Eric Laursen of New York, “These streets are our streets. We don’t need permission to be in the street and send a message.”