[asia-apec 1517] TV3 (NZ) on anti-WTO demo

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>  MOORE AGGRO
>  UPDATED: 09:05PM MONDAY 14 AUGUST
>  Visiting World Trade Organisation director Mike
>  Moore gave his only public speaking engagement
>  in New Zealand today. 
>  The former Labour MP spoke at a business lunch
>  in Christchurch, extolling the virtues of
>  globalisation. 
>  Outside, a vocal anti-trade group staged their
>  own reception for him. 
>  World trade organisation head Mike Moore back
>  in Christchurch, but to a less than enthusiastic
>  welcome. 
>  "Moore is less, less is more," they chanted. 
>  "He calls this his hometown, we're here to give
>  him a message that we don't want him back
>  here, he can stay in Geneva," said Murray Horton
>  of the GATT watchdog group. 
>  But the group were happy to take advantage of
>  his appearance to get their anti-free trade
>  message across. 
>  We would be here if the WTO was heading by the
>  Queen Mother or Todd Blackadder. That it's Mike
>  Moore is a bonus, because he's such an
>  unreconstructed 19th century man, an
>  evangelist, a zealot, in favour of globalisation." 
>  One they today honoured - presenting a Moore
>  lookalike with their own "unguided missile
>  award," calling him their secret agent. 
>  "For services rendered for undermining the
>  credibility and function of the WTO." 
>  But Mike Moore, who has run the gauntlet of
>  much more violent protests like those in Seattle
>  during December's WTO meetings, was unfazed
>  by today's demonstration. 
>  "It's one of the great honours of my life that I'm
>  the first New Zealander to be burned in effigy in
>  four continents." 
>  Mike Moore returns to Geneva in ten days.
>