Our neo-Nazis ride the waves of anti-USA (Bush, present US government), anti-globalisation, anti-Iraq war, anti-Israel, anti-capitalist, pro-environment emotions.

That puts the organisers of any demonstration in a dilemma: Can you turn away protesters who share the aims of your protest? I had to laugh when listening to an interview this morning. One of the organisers of the anti-G8 protest was asked whether they had thought of turning away the violent crowd of anarchists and hooligans. He said with emphasis that the organisers would never turn away anybody who shared the aims of the protest.

He had not thought about the obvious following question: But you did turn away the neo-Nazis, didn't you?

The way he did stutter then made me laugh.

Wolfgang