Mac attack

Last week, a trio of 'anti-globalization' Filipino women were detained for questioning at Hong Kong immigration before being allowed into the Hong Kong SAR. Which begs the question: why is it that arch-looters and crooks such as Imelda (the wit and wisdom of) Marcos and Joseph Estrada sail in and get the VIP treatment?
Anyway, likewise detained at Hong Kong International Airport, French farmer José Bové. Farmer Jo (who once took a bulldozer to a McDo), is an invited and accredited attendee at the WTO meeting. What to do? Monsieur Bové, sans bulldozer, gets on the phone, gets on the radio:

From detention, Mr. Bové phoned a national radio call-in show in France on which Pascal Lamy, the W.T.O.'s director general and a fellow Frenchman, was being interviewed. Mr. Bové was connected with Mr. Lamy, who is also in Hong Kong, and complained about the openness of the W.T.O. process when he could not get past the airport.

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