I think I will write just one more entry about last Thursday, then change subjects next time. It strikes me as interesting how so many contrasting versions of events have arisen from one day. On the one hand, there are those that claim that the violence was all the protesters fault, and that the police were forced to act as they did. At the other end of the scale, there are those that claim that the police wanted there to be trouble in order to justify their violence, even going as far as alleging that the police planted agitators in the crowd. I must say I find that idea ludicrous, but I also do not think the police are totally without blame either. Then there’s the case of Jody Macintyre: the police acted disgustingly in ripping him from his chair, but do you really think the cops would do this just for ‘rolling towards them’? I doubt it was much, and nothing can justify their actions, but he must have been doing something to provoke the police, and I don’t think he s being completely truthful. Thus there are those who blame the violence on thugs in the crowd, and those who blame it on police agitation. I was there and saw thugs throwing rocks at the police totally unprovoked; when I got home I saw firm evidence of police brutality. I do not think you can blame one side or the other, as some people seem very eager to do. The truth is, as we all know, a subjective construct, so I refuse on this occasion to fall into one camp or the other.