lol someone has a sick sense of humor...

[johnny861]

Police Spray Water Cannons at World Water Forum Protesters

http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/03/1...um-protesters/

Apparently Turkish police have a biting sense of irony: they’ve sprayed protesters at the World Water Forum with high-pressured water cannons.

The forum, which occurs every three years, is supposed to focus on ways to eliminate water poverty across the globe, but protesters believe the forum takes a heavy-handed approach and supports construction of dangerous and environmentally-disastrous large dams.

Two activists with the non-profit group International Rivers were deported from Turkey earlier this week for doing nothing but stand up with a banner reading “No risky dams.” But while these activists were ticket-holding forum attendees, other protesters gathered outside the forum before it began.

The police said that the water cannons were the most “cost effective” way to respond to these protesters. While of course I do not condone any act of violence against people merely expressing themselves, if the cops were going to do it anyway, this was a wonderful weapon choice.

Tear gas? $7,350.

Water cannons? $235.

Using water cannons against people protesting water poverty? Priceless.

[transparentaura]

water is the next big battleground. There has been a lot of really good reporting on this as of late. The same old culprits and the same old nihlistic profiteers at the IMF are setting the rulees for what the multinational conglomrerates need to do to get their cash from the IMF. I'm afraid that this is gonna be the beginning of the thirld world taking shit from these handfuls of greedy bastards puting pay for water wells in the townships of south africa and cutting off those who maxedout their water debit cards. Which aren't loaded with any sustanence amt of water and cost so much to recharge that kids with waterborne parasites and distended bellies frome drinnking out of drainage canals. And this is the new mulltinational revenue stream to make up for the nationalization of the peoples oil and gas and peak oil and the pipeline armies of the Capitalists. I know what this ends as and Its been a while coming. All sub saharan africans in favor of paying for your ration of water lets see a show of Hand. Those without one left to show, have your kid fire a burst with his AK. People will only take so much. and these people are not gonna pay for their own water quietly

[zymote]

I can see why the Turks would be touchy about risky dams. They've gotten enough flak for their own projects that they really wouldn't want any more attention being drawn to it.