Thank you, Pittsburgh Protesters! You were, even though unreported by news sources, "the only ones alive in here." The Miami demonstration against "free" trade (in support of its opposite, _Fair_ trade) on November 17-21 in 2003 was attacked by John F. Timony and "Timoney and (Miami Mayor Manny) Diaz suspended the constitution to achieve their version of 'homeland defense,'" said Brenna Bell, a lawyer with a group called Miami Activist Defense. Timony became an instant crowd-control hero among American fascists and was hired to manage other cities during events like the National Democratic and Republican conventions, and the G-20 in Pittsburgh. My family managed to escape the police without arrest, but many of my friends were not so lucky, and our photos of police and protestors' injuries disappeared. Mayor Diaz said that the massive Miami police operation to avoid a repeat of the riots that marred a 1999 World Trade Organization meeting was a model for post-Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. defense against domestic attack. Even though we attended in Miami with the Teamsters, John Sweeney, former president of the U.S. labor federation AFL-CIO (now Mr. Trumka), which represents around 13 million trade union members, said that the crushing of dissent in Miami enabled him to understand, "that the protesters' basic right to have their voices heard was severely restricted, and that all Americans' civil liberties" are threatened by such police actions as we have recently witnessed. Why would America's workers in Teamsters and AFL-CIO join together to oppose NAFTA? Why would they be marginalized or silenced? It is as if our professional killers (Marines, Blackwater mercenaries, and returning soldiers) who were hired to manage Iraq, Afghanistan, torture in black sites, etc. have come back home to staff police forces led by such people as Mr. Timony. Fearful authorities (such as the mayor in the movie "Battle in Seattle") plan strategy long in advance of such gatherings as G-20. The plan is to put experienced-with-killing troops in battle gear on the streets to squirt spray, tear-gas, and shoot rubber bullets and sound cannons at ordinary citizens. The experience these men have with killing the enemy easily enables them to map onto their fellow citizens the demeaning, dehumanizing label of "enemy." In order to combat this fascist take-over of America, we who object must convince the individual policemen who brutally throw people onto the pavement, etc. that we are in fact fellow citizens--on the same side--and that the enemy is a chimera, a phantom created by Mr. Bush and other fearful authority figures to push unity and coherence onto our society. It should be emphasized that Pittsburgh does not belong to the people of Pittsburgh just because the police presence "disappeared" (temporarily). Nowhere in America does the site belong to the citizens and property owners. These things are illusions, phantoms. We do know who it really belongs to. And we know John Timoney's tactics will be employed at the next gathering and that ever newer experiments in crowd control and dispersal will be used against us: undercover policemen infiltrators, riot cops with their weapons firing, helicopters, gunboats, Air Force jets (no kidding), huge tank-impeding cement barriers, chain-link fencing topped with concertina wire, cars and motorcycles, Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) armored vehicles, monster trucks and troop carriers, small electric go-karts, thousands of police plus 2500 National Guard plus Coast Guard and Air Force dressed in battle gear: bulky black ninja turtle outfits--helmets with clear visors, strapped on body armor, shin guards, big boots, batons, and long guns. The Central Arbiter of the World's Economy? The "world leaders" who met in Pittsburgh last week and will meet again in Ontario, Seoul, Copenhagen, Doha, and Paris will likely be "protected" from us hoi-polloi with similar coordinated military/police power. Will _The Police_ ever show up during one of their conference meetings and sing a few bars such as: We were at the policy meeting They were finding new ways of cheating I don't want to rock your boat But you sent this dangerous note You've been letting your feelings show Are you safe Miss Gradenko? Is anybody alive in here? No terrorists showed up. No American constitutional rights were exercised either. And the broken windows? Were they smashed by real anarchists? Or just undercover policemen infiltrators? Just remember: There's nobody but us. Nobody but us. Nobody but us.