It might be "heartening"to see people coming together over what they believe in. But the with all the litter, tied up traffic (like there wasn't enough already!) tear gas, chaos, etc. the protesters (who are mostly from out of town) are creating, it has all left this young college boy heartless!

Isn't if funny how all these guys come in with sea turtle and butterfly costumes protesting enviromental issues while dropping their coke bottles, wrappers, and other litter on the ground, tieing up traffic and making the air that much worse? Sure, it was a small group with no diretion who trashed storefronts and knocked over trash cans, but the protesters created the ennviroment which made that group feel it was okay and luered the police away from the scene where they trashed everything. The rest of the guys did there part. Of course though, they are all from out of town and will be gone once the WTO moves on, what do they care?

A friend of mine who has a condo down town was asked by his wife to open up the window for some air. When he opened up the window, tear gas came into his place! Just the enviroment for a man and his blind wife to raise their 1 month old daughter.

I HATE these protesters! They turned a prospering city into chaos in a day! Thanks to the protesters "trying to protect my freedom" I lost my freedom just to go down town last night! I don't take much for granted anymore, but I do expect the right to walk the streets of the city was born in and have lived in my whole life! Do these guys really have the freedom to just come in, trash the place and turn the city to chaos then just leave? Their appologies are SO FAKE! They said from the begining that they would try to bring the city to a virtual stand still, which would make it difficult for guys like me to just go on and live our lives.

If you want to see people gathering over what they believe in, Go To Church! If you lived in this city, you wouldn't call the protests (which all that is really going on is a bunch of out of towners are making the natives lives as difficult as they can "heartening."