I was talking to a friend last night who lives in Pittsburgh. He was telling me how the city is preparing for the G20 summit this week. As expected, universities are shutting down, roads and businesses will be closed, and they are making a real effort to keep anarchists out of the city to avoid what happened in Seattle in 1999 and other countries a few years later.
The thing that made me pause while we were talking was that he didn’t say they were keeping out protesters. He said they are tr…