Well it seems as though some people don’t want corporations and banks walking over them after all. SBS television Australia reported tonight (other major networks also briefly) of rioting in the streets of London as G20 protesters united in this global cause.
...YESS!!!
SBS stated the protest was marred by violence which occurred when a group of men in hoodies with “faces covered” moved quickly to the front of the crowd and attacked police, setting the rest of the protesters off as police retaliated in defence.
Yawn! This is NOTHING new. There is footage freely available online of similarly dressed thugs jumping from the “police side of the barrier” at another G8 summit (suggesting they were undercover units) into the mass of people protesting and working their way to the front to perpetrate similar violence for the same purposes. Here too in Australia, a few years ago at the G8 summit (essentially same thing as G20) there was conflict between police and protesters which began as a result of hooded, “masked” thugs that attacked police via whatever means. ..so cliché, “hooded, masked thugs”
...it’s hard not to get “caught up in the hype”, it’s so prolific
In the current socio-economic conditions we live in this sort of violence occurs about every time a group of people have a valid reason to protest which might affect fortune 500 or arms manufacturers. It's to discredit an otherwise normal, justifiable expression of a group of people’s anger when the remainder of the nation might notice or worse still...do something about it.
It works because the majority of the population abhor violence (as they should) and incidents such as this serve to keep those people out of the fight. The cause conflicts morally with embedded notions of violence, becomes tainted and people are susceptible to propaganda, hype and will often reject an otherwise beneficial cause due to this conflict of values.
...it’s like a movie and we’re lapping it up but the thing is, suspension of disbelief is not required here for us to get it, it’s the opposite.
Wikipedia: Suspension of disbelief or "willing suspension of disbelief" was a formula devised by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge to justify the use of fantastic or non-realistic elements in literature. Coleridge suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend his judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.
It’s what we bring to movies/books, in our minds, so we can believe wild and far out stories. In our “real” day to day lives, we should do the opposite and use extremes of love, rationale and logic to determine truth in events such as these.
- look at effects to see causes (ask: what effect does it have – who benefits most)
- do we really think this fanciful schmultz only happens in films?
- if you don’t look, you can’t see
Apart from the perceived property damage and a few fractured skulls though, someone actually died during these London protests. ???? Yes a pretty big downside and absolute tragedy for the family and friends of this individual along with everyone attending, but in reality...nothing compared to the damage and death corporations pushing globalisation and G20 summits are doing every day in third world countries.
I’m going to say it again because it sounds ridiculous, like a movie...someone “died” at a world rally in London when a major protest over workers rights and the push for a global economy became violent. Is this the next push? Not merely violence to dissuade, but death? A victim of the movies?
It matters not, he died in a fight helping the whole of humanity, it was not in vain. We are one voice, one people, one earth, one mind connected in universal consciousness.
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