Class Warfare On Global Display In London

G20 protesters smash windows, clash with police

"I am angry at the hubris of the government, the hubris of the bankers," said Jean Noble, a 60-year-old from Blackburn in northern England.

"I am here on behalf of the poor, those who are not going to now get their pension or who have lost their houses while these fat cats keep their bonuses, hide their money in tax havens and go and live where nobody can touch them."

If there is one thing that the British are good at? It is the putting on of a very good show! Perhaps that is where the old English idiom of "Good Show!" actually comes from.

As I told one of my British friends in email earlier today, "it looks like your anarchist lads are really showing their collective arses today!" And they were and they have for most of the better part of the day.

I was particularly fascinated while watching a live feed early this morning, which put it at about mid day in London during the protests. This one fellow suddenly appeared in the melee, wearing what appeared to be a rather large white piece of cloth draped over his neck like a Mexican serape. And the thing was becoming more blood soaked as the minutes passed!

There was no obvious evidence of this individual having been touched by the police that I could see and he periodically would dive back into the crowd, only to reappear a minute or so later with what was obviously more blood on his nappie!

Talk about street theater!

Meanwhile, the journalists and commentators covering the government chaperoned melee, were almost merry in their descriptions of how it was all going quite well and that although the protesters were seeking to draw the police into combat, the police seemed to be doing a good job of managing the protest and maintaining order. The media referred to the protests as peaceful and "festive." I particularly liked that part...."festive."

In the mean time, there were windows being smashed at the Royal Bank of Scotland in the background, and not the first policeman was ever noted in any of the coverage of the incident that I watched and I watched a good amount of the live and subsequent coverage. So I almost sat up and exclaimed at my TV? "Good show!" But I controlled myself.

Of course, not everyone watching the protests and reporting on them, saw them as peaceful and festive. Like this Indian reporter who called it completely differently from mainstream British and American media coverage. They also seemed to include more of the pertinent footage.



In any event, the reports were that the anarchists were chanting "abolish money!" And painting "Thieves" on the side of the RBS.

I do hope that we get a follow up on all that and how it is all working out for them (protesters) as time passes. I say that the British people should demand that these louts be given their desire. Abolish all the government subsidized payments and stipends to these student academics and rebel rousers that you know are on the public dole and participatig in organized anarchy.

After all....they are against money and capitalism. That's what they are there protesting and hell raising about.

So give them what they want. Jerk their rugs from under them and dump them on their collective heads. Then stand by to watch some real bleeding and bleating! LOL!!!!