Muujun.

I have been half following the G20 protests (riots) this week and am quite amazed at the sheer chaos and destruction people have managed to cause in the name of peace and order.
One thing that has particularly surprised me was the genius who decided to smash up the RBS building. I can understand why people are annoyed with RBS, not least because of the government bailout they’ve received funded by taxpayers after managing to royally shaft the economy, and yet still attempt to waste it all on failure bonuses. But the logic of some of the masterminds behind smashing a few windows was pretty baffling to say the least…

A bespectacled man in a beige jacket began remonstrating with black-clad and hooded protesters. “Gandhi taught us not to use violence,” said John Rowley, from the Gandhi Foundation. “This isn’t violence,” retorted another voice in the crowd. “We paid for this building.”

Yes of course we paid for it in a sense if you want to be pedantic, but now you have just smashed it up, and they are going to have to use yours and my taxes to pay to fix it, thanks.
If RBS had killed your sister I could empathise with you being a bit angry, but perhaps you should just chill out for a second and consider things before you blindly attack like a testosterone fuelled ape.
I can understand that people are rioting because they are unhappy with the state of the economy amongst many things, but surely they are far from illustrating they have the faintest idea of how to do any better.
It’s not pretty, and it really shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but it has, so lets try and fix it shall we instead of making it worse?

Maybe I am missing the point entirely though, but isn’t smashing things up just because you don’t like them is something 4 years olds do?

There’s also an excellent video of some police attacking some (apparently) peaceful protesters in Bishopsgate, which is a nice contrasting view of the protesters not being the only mindless thugs in the situation.

http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/993

It does feel frightfully ‘them versus us’ though, which is weird considering that all involved are just normal citizens, except some of them are employed by the police force.
That said, if it is deemed okay to smash up the RBS building because a few of it’s employees managed to shaft the economy, then I suppose by that reasoning it must be okay to batton a few protesters because a few of them are causing trouble in a different part of the city.

Just depends from which side you look at it really doesn’t it.