The Circus Comes to Town

Ted Bromund / April 02, 2009

The G-20 summit has finally begun. For the security forces in London, it can hardly end soon enough. Protests on Wednesday resulted in 88 arrests, the trashing of a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland by activists, and the death by heart attack of a man on his way home from work. The protesters were almost as diverse as the interests represented at the summit itself, ranging from the Stop the War Coalition, to the British Muslim Initiative, to Ogaden separatists protesting the participation of the Ethiopian Prime Minister in the summit.

The overriding hate object of the protesters, of course, was the banks, with the entire system of capitalism at its back. As one protester put it:

“Unemployment is hitting young people hardest, and we don’t see why young people should be paying for the losses of the banks,” said Becci Heagney, 21, a student at the University of Leicester, in central England. (more…)