I don’t think I have shown my other side on this blog previously… possibly my evil side… well here it is…
How do I put this in layman’s terms…. I am angry, and I want to confront the people involved…
Anger first.
The G20 summit started in London today. The leaders of the 20 largest global economies gathered in one location to understand and act on how to take the world forward collectively. Items on the agenda are primarily the current financial crisis, world peace and climate (probably not so much of the latter two).
Something which seems to accompany these summits are protesters. These people are like groupies, and attraction is essentially like flies to poo. My anger is towards these protesters. The protests were supposed to be peaceful, and anti-G20, and anti-capitalism. Now, dear people of the anti-G20 protest group, let me explain some simple things to you:
- The leaders were meeting to figure out how to rebuild the global economy; since you are anti-G20, that implies that you are against global financial recovery.
- Living in a capitalist nation, you are anti-capitalism; this implies that you believe in socialism or communism, or some other -ism… but you don’t have any strong organisation which can actually push for the change you believe in, or doesn’t have an agenda for a stable economy…
- Since you are anti-G20, you are anti-world peace… so you are terrorists… right?
- Since you are anti-G20, you are anti-climate change… that sounds right, since none of you walked all the way from your house to the protest – I don’t care where you live!
My point – well.. the G20 is trying to help and improve the global community. I agree that mistakes have been made by financial organisations and this has to be dealt with; but these leaders are trying to help revive the economies by trying to collectively deal with the situation. So why oh why are you anti-G20 protesters against what the leaders are aiming to achieve? When was the last time you protesters actually came out and applauded and supported governments on their efforts on any economy? Is your job to mainly criticize, complain and moan? I think it is, you people can NEVER appreciate!
And I thought this was supposed to be a peaceful protest…. So many people were saying that organisations in the financial districts were overreacting by boarding up their fronts to prevent damage… so how fitting, that you protesters smashed and stromed into a huge bank, attempted to steal computers and files from within the branch? We as a society complain about a big brother state, monitoring every move and action of ours, yet you guys take this action and potentially compromise the details of a thousand others! Whats more… (wait for it…) The RBS is majority owned by the state. Our money (tax payers) is funding this organisation – which is fine actually… until you decide to smash and attempt to loot it. So now tell me oh sensible protester – if RBS now decides to spend millions more in protecting it’s branches, and workers from suffering trauma like this, is it or is it not justified? Is it justified that the money of the tax payer will be spent on measures to protect against imbeciles like you? IS IT FUCKING JUSTIFIED?!!!
And in all of this – the police… we bitch and moan about crime going up, an not enough police on the streets. To cover the events over the next two days, every police officer is on duty in London – EVERY police officer. Some forces are requiring officers to work 36 hours straight – that’s one and a half days straight on duty! So when you anti-G20 protesters in your Nike trainers and cans of Coke go attacking the cops and throwing bottled water (the plastic of which can damage the environment btw) and causing glass related cuts and injuries during the attacks on RBS and HSBC – what makes you think someone would want a career in the Police force? How is your behaviour NOT inspiring kids who will watch this on TV to behave inappropriately and think anarchy is the answer? How are your actions NOT putting fear in the minds and hearts of people? Most importantly, how are your actions of today HELPING anyone?
In my belief – sure, the protests were largely peaceful but the violence did happen. This contravenes not only the spirit of the G20 summit, but also proves that the organisers of the protest are a bunch of amateurs without any aims in their protest. If you organise a mass demonstration, then hundreds of people will not end up charging at the police, people will not attempt to loot organisations. THIS IS NOT PEACE! Oh! and did I mention that a lot of protesters were wearing balaclavas or hoodies with their faces covered as well? I wonder WHY!??!
All you anarchists and anti-capitalists and eco-warriors can say all that you like, but since you are not game enough to stand up and organise solutions for your local economy, then leave it the people who probably can! You live in a country where capitalism stands; if you cannot stand for it, then either form a solid political organisation which can bring that change to the country, or accept your environment, and be part of it!
I have been tweeting and following as much as I can on the G20 happenings today, some of my tweets can be found here… have a read – some re-tweets were quite funny! You can catch up with some pictures of the day here. Further reports and analysis of this violence can be found here and here. The guardian live blog has been a good source of updates too.
Confrontation….
So as you protesters spend your energy on something absolutely unproductive (nobody ever listens to you anyways!), I spent my lunch hour, kicking back, reading a nice book, and contributing to this capitalist economy with a nice cool drink.
Up yours Anti-G20 protesters!
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It’s about time someone said it. While I agree that financial matters have been badly managed and regulated and that governments need to sort themselves out, these protests are doing NOTHING to help the cause at all.
I agree that the protests are pointless and in vain, but I still don’t think there’s anything wrong with a socialist society.
I have an issue with both the protesters and the summit. For pete’s sake, instead of wasting tax payers money by going to some summit where you’ll kiss each other’s ass and make merry, stick to your countries and try to solve the problems individually.
‘Rescuing’ corporate giants won’t revive the economy.
As for the protesters, they’re as useless as their leaders. Instead of looting and dying and creating mayhem, just stick your home! Seriously, it’s not like the G-20 will invite you inside to listen to your point. Let go of your big fat egos and save energy by staying home. While you’re at it, quit smoking too.
Phew. Quite a rant. Sorry about using up your space
This is a very confused rant.
dear people of the anti-G20 protest group
Why do you think you can address people as a collective entity simply because they occupied the same geographic position for a short space of time?
Anyway, my main problem is with your series of statements numbered 1 – 4 as it seems you simply don’t understand the basic rules of argument and logic.
The leaders were meeting to figure out how to rebuild the global economy; since you are anti-G20, that implies that you are against global financial recovery.
The first part of this statement does not imply the second part. It would only imply the second if you make an a priori conclusion that the G20 is the only means through which the global economy will be restarted. Protestors may disagree with this statement, in fact they probably do, and so adopt a position of opposing the G20 because they think it will bring no benefits to the global economy.
Living in a capitalist nation, you are anti-capitalism; this implies that you believe in socialism or communism, or some other -ism… but you don’t have any strong organisation which can actually push for the change you believe in, or doesn’t have an agenda for a stable economy…
The poor sentence structure of this point makes it unreadable so it’s unclear what you’re getting at.
Since you are anti-G20, you are anti-world peace… so you are terrorists… right?
A spectacularly bad piece of reasoning. First, to make that statement you must have already concluded that the G20 and world peace are the same thing. Protestors would disagree with this statement as many of the members of the G20 are currently engaged in armed conflict around the globe. Not very peaceful.
Second, the third part of the statement has nothing to do with the rest of it, unless you think the only people who oppose ‘world peace’ are terrorists.
Since you are anti-G20, you are anti-climate change… that sounds right, since none of you walked all the way from your house to the protest – I don’t care where you live!
Do you think that being opposed to the total environmental destruction of the planet necessarily implies that an individual should have no carbon emissions at all?
And I thought this was supposed to be a peaceful protest….
It was. If you think it was a violent protest you are evidently of a very delicate disposition and probably find it difficult to go outside much. There were a reported 23 arrests in a crowd of between 5000 and 10000 people, hardly indicative of widespread violence. There will probably have been more arrests in the aftermath of the England match tonight.
There were elements of violence but this doesn’t make the overall character of the protests violent. Even the police acknowledge this.
In short, this post is composed of controversial opinions presented as fact by someone who appears to be misinformed about the protests, the G20 and the basic rules of grammar. When you’ve finished your GCSE’s try rewriting this so it makes sense,
My apologies, I thought from this article you were a young teenager. In fact, it says elsewhere on this site that you’re in your 20′s.
That makes the basic errors in this post even more inexcusable.
argh! our stupid President went to that meeting..argh.
I should be chillin’ with my friends in London..i.e. Cookie Monster…instead of her chillin’ with her leader fellows
Sure, the G20 has got a lot of issues as the countries can’t even agree amongst themselves – at least from the last articles I posted on our newspaper. But at least people are trying to get together to come to a solution.
I don’t know too much about the protesters in the G20 summit, but I feel that nowadays, ‘protesting’ for something sounds cool rather than actually wanting to protest about something. And that really does not help the people who truly have something to protest about and want change.
What’s my feelings about G20? Meh, I’m on the fence. Just wait and watch. I doubt the G20 will swoop in and solve anything overnight – we’ll still be in a recession, or depression in some places till at least 2010 – but perhaps something just might be done to help.
My Prime Minister was in the bathroom when the group picture for the G20 summit was being taken and is the joke of the news for that reason.
@cookiemonster82
Your post = my opinions exactly.
However I COMPLETELY disagree with your take on Starbucks’ drinks. They suck.
@Duncan
It’s very easy to protest. Even 12 year olds do it. In fact even my 4 year old nephew does it. So believe you me, being a protester is not a great feat. Ever wonder WHY you get so many protesters? A lot of them look forward to the idea of robbing and looting when shit hits the fan. A lot of your crowd looks forward to aforementioned riots and takes advantage.
It’s safe to say that a lot of your crowd are a bunch of opportunists. As for the G20 summit. Maybe nothing positive will come out. Maybe something positive will. But nothing negative will come out (save for the so called peaceful protesters becoming altogether douches).
I’ve protested too, in the past. When my boss asks me to stay late or my friends refuse to cough up for my gas when they use my car.
You want to put pressure on the G20? Do it the right way. Vote the right people in. Don’t be a kid and make a huge fuss outside the G20 door and expect to get things done. Are you married with kids? When your kid throws a fuss, do you listen? I think not.
I rest my case.
@cookiemonster82
WOOOOO! (Starbucks still sucks)
M
I liked that post=)
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