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Originally posted by Hubris Boy
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BTW tw- I agree with a lot of what you say, but I think you're wide of the mark when you compare the rioters in Genoa to the Nazis. Both the Nazi and Communist parties in Weimar Germany were very well organized and reasonably disciplined. (When they weren't busy killing each other in the streets, that is.) More importantly, all the members were (theoretically) fighting for a common ideology, however abhorrent it may have been.
As far as I can tell, neither of these elements are present with Giuliani and his buddies. To call them anything other than vandals or hooligans is to give them too much credit. To suggest that they share a common goal, other than random violence, is absurd.
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I am rather surprised to learn that even British soccer hooligans are organized. For example, in a PBS radio piece, the reporter got a chance to follow with one of the 'defacto' leaders as they rampaged through the streets of a European town. When blocked by the police, why does the crowd move in unision in a new direction? There are actually leaders who direct this thing. At one point, the leader ordered his hooligan troops to disperse where upon the merged together in another location. That takes organization.
The fact that these anti-globalization anarchists can collect in various cities on cue - even have warehouses setup to support their demonstrators in some cities (was it Washington DC that undermined these support facilities with building inspectors?). These are indeed quite organized anarchists - much like 1930 Nazi party storm troopers.