G20 protests turn violent in London

Power to the People! Not that I am encouraging violence and civil insurrection as that would be bad but I will not shed a tear when people that are disillusioned by governments that:

Refused to enforce the law, allowing greed, corruption and favoritism to crush dissenters.

Catered to illegals by failing to control immigration,

Gave favoritism to oppressive and backward ideologies by allowing sharia to replace modern law.

Attempted to stifle free speech and crush individualism and protect human rights.

Granted that list could be much longer but you get the idea, payback is a bitch and this will worsen.

2 April, 2009, AAP
Protesters swarmed through London on Wednesday, smashing their way into a bank and clashing with police in an outburst of anger on the eve of the G20 summit.
-Banks I can understand but government offices and mega mansions would have been my first choice. I never met a rich man that got that way off the backs of other rich men.

Police, many dressed in riot gear, were out in force as thousands of protesters demonstrated through the city’s financial district, outside the US embassy and in Trafalgar Square.

Chanting anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-pollution slogans, they were determined the G20 leaders heard their fury before holding talks about the global financial crisis on Thursday.
-The important point here is dozens of groups with competing agendas teamed up, forgave grievances to show their displeasure. These groups working together should scare the hell out of authorities. This is just the beginning.

Dozens of people were arrested after violence erupted outside the Bank of England in the heart of London’s financial district around lunchtime.

Anarchists smashed the windows of a neighbouring branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, a financial giant saved from collapse by the British government, and stormed inside.

Riot police on horses were called in to push the protesters on the street back as bottles, cans and paint bombs were thrown at officers.

Some protesters were left bleeding after being hit by baton-wielding police during the clashes.

Police quickly cordoned off surrounding streets to coral the 4,000 protesters who had converged on the area.

Metropolitan Police commander Simon O’Brien said the response by officers had been “proportionate”, adding that it was clear some protesters had been “determined to cause violence”.
-Duh!

The violence was condemned from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has travelled to London for the G20 summit.

“When it comes to acts of violence, these are unacceptable on the streets of London as they would be on the streets of Sydney or the streets of Melbourne,” he told reporters.
-If that were true they would have stopped the criminal gangs of illegals wreaking havoc.

“People around the world are concerned about the impact of a crisis which they did not cause and its impact on their families and their communities through the loss of jobs, I understand that.

“That does not provide any justification whatsoever to wanton violence.”
-What does? Where is the trigger for revolution? Does the term “taxation without representation” sound familiar?

The protest had began peacefully, with thousands of demonstrators descending on the Bank of England from four different directions for what was dubbed “Financial Fools Day”.

Led by the “four horsemen of the apocalypse”, the anti-capitalist protesters chanted “build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put the bankers on top” and “fight back, fight back”.
-I am betting they will soon ask to toss in a few political leaders.

Effigies of bankers were hung from traffic lights, while some protesters dressed as grim reapers and devils and waved placards.

Ronnie, a 38-year-old unemployed builder, said many people were “disgusted” at the way they had been treated by governments during the credit crunch.

“They need to listen because the world is in a state,” he told AAP.
-Preach it brother.

Many businesses near the Bank of England were boarded up amid fears they would be attacked, while swathes of office workers decided to take the day off to avoid any clashes.

Nearby on Bishopsgate, environmentalists brought traffic to a halt on the busy road as they pitched hundreds of tents for a “climate change flash camp” outside the European Carbon Exchange.

Their demonstration remained mostly peaceful, with only a few minor skirmishes with police as officers attempted to clear the road.

The protesters planned to spend the night camped at the site to highlight their concerns about carbon trading and global warming.

Hundreds of other anti-war campaigners also rallied at Trafalgar Square after protesting outside the US Embassy in west London.
-The war they should protest is between the forces that want an end to England and the ones that want to change it by force. Right idea but wrong target.

A total of 24 people had been arrested by the end of the day, including 11 who had been in an armoured vehicle with police uniforms.
-Hmmm sounds like they had a plan.

More protests are planned tomorrow when the G20 leaders, including US President Barack Obama, meet for their talks in the Docklands, in London’s east.
-Enjoy.

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