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Dot-commers to blame for anti-capitalist violence

Louis Lingg writes: "Is the economic contraction in the tech sector expanding the ranks of the Black Bloc?

The Register (UK) is running a piece on a speech given by WTO chieftain Mike Moore in which he urged "citizen's groups" and NGOs to distance themselves from "masked stone-throwers who claim to want more transparency, anti-globalization dot.com-types who trot out slogans that are trite, shallow and superficial." Moore calls for "civilized discourse," and more transparency and accountability (on the part of "citizen's groups," and the NGOs, not the WTO).

The full text of his speech can be found here, on the WTO's site."