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By Garson Hunter - July 6, 2010

Unconventionally, I wish to state some of the conclusions of my essay at the beginning: the social democratic left is wrong in their belief that the police allowed the Bloc to vandalize property therefore permitting the state to justify its $1 billion in security expenditures...Rather, my conclusion is that the events are as they appear and there is no need for any conspiracy theories about the actions of the police or the state security apparatus.