"This is a red herring to distract attention from the actual issues that we're trying to bring up with these institutions," said Soren Ambrose, another protest organizer Dawson singled out by name today. "Because they don't have a defense of their policies, they focus on a window being broken." Dawson said these groups downplay the threats from some of the participants, and pointed reporters to the Mobilization for Global Justice's Web site, which he said encourages confrontations with the IMF's participants from 183 countries.
"While we fully understand the tradition of peaceful protest in the nation's capital, we also fully expect those who attend to understand that there are valid security concerns," he said.
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