Live from Edinburgh: Chaos!
Ahhh, yes, the morally superior, enlightened "activists" and "protestors", and their rational, reasonable behavior.
It's not difficult to see the truth here. These lunatics (the "activists", not the police) aren't really there to protest any specific issue; they're generally ill-informed about the issues and the specifics. Most of them are there to protest the eeeeeevil fascist Bush administration; many of them are there just for the sake of "activism", rebelling against police, and damaging property, just like the WTO protests a few years ago in Seattle. Many of them will demand a total debt forgiveness to African nations without acknowledging that such a move by Western nations would do little to solve the actual problems that lead to poverty, national debt, and disease in Africa.
And let's not forget that accusing police of being "heavy handed" isn't much different than accusing Gitmo guards of "abuse". The accusations don't have to be true; once you get the accusation on record, there's always that doubt, and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever make the issue disappear. Am I equating these protestors with terrorists? Not precisely, but some aren't far off: they have a bad habit of inadvertantly (or not so inadvertantly, in some cases) giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and their tactics and goals are often the same (can you say "ELF" and "ALF"?).
CNN just reported (I can't find a link) that the G8 has already decided to forgive billions and billions of dollars in debt for Sub-Saharan African countries, exceeding sixty billion dollars. What does this accomplish? Not much; the debts wouldn't have ever been paid anyway, and we'll be back in the same situation in ten or fifteen years when nothing has been done to reform the governments that cause the debt in the first place. Until that reform takes place across the board, these nations in Africa will be stuck at square one. Will the "activists" acknowledge this? Of course not.
Here's a link that discusses the G8 summit.
So, to review, protestors are generally poorly informed miscreants who want to break stuff and give the police grief, and even if their demands happen to occur, it's generally completely independent of their "activism", and they still won't acknowledge it.
Police say 100 people are expected to appear in court after being arrested during clashes in Edinburgh sparked by a protest against the G8 summit.
Demonstrators fought running battles with 1,000 police in the centre of the city, which was brought to a standstill for six hours.
The police have been accused of using "heavy-handed" tactics but insist their response was "proportionate".
More than 20 protesters and police officers were injured.
It's not difficult to see the truth here. These lunatics (the "activists", not the police) aren't really there to protest any specific issue; they're generally ill-informed about the issues and the specifics. Most of them are there to protest the eeeeeevil fascist Bush administration; many of them are there just for the sake of "activism", rebelling against police, and damaging property, just like the WTO protests a few years ago in Seattle. Many of them will demand a total debt forgiveness to African nations without acknowledging that such a move by Western nations would do little to solve the actual problems that lead to poverty, national debt, and disease in Africa.
And let's not forget that accusing police of being "heavy handed" isn't much different than accusing Gitmo guards of "abuse". The accusations don't have to be true; once you get the accusation on record, there's always that doubt, and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever make the issue disappear. Am I equating these protestors with terrorists? Not precisely, but some aren't far off: they have a bad habit of inadvertantly (or not so inadvertantly, in some cases) giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and their tactics and goals are often the same (can you say "ELF" and "ALF"?).
CNN just reported (I can't find a link) that the G8 has already decided to forgive billions and billions of dollars in debt for Sub-Saharan African countries, exceeding sixty billion dollars. What does this accomplish? Not much; the debts wouldn't have ever been paid anyway, and we'll be back in the same situation in ten or fifteen years when nothing has been done to reform the governments that cause the debt in the first place. Until that reform takes place across the board, these nations in Africa will be stuck at square one. Will the "activists" acknowledge this? Of course not.
Here's a link that discusses the G8 summit.
So, to review, protestors are generally poorly informed miscreants who want to break stuff and give the police grief, and even if their demands happen to occur, it's generally completely independent of their "activism", and they still won't acknowledge it.
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