G20 Protesters Break into RBS

As CNBC makes fun of the G20 "fair with jesters and jugglers" in London, things are, in reality, getting serious. Just out of Foxnews:

Protesters reportedly broke into a Royal Bank of Scotland building during demonstrations against bank bailouts, and global capitalism in London Monday. The bank has been one of the biggest recipients of government assistance during the financial crisis. Several thousand demonstrators clogged the streets of London's financial district amid tight police security and have also targeted the Bank of England's headquarters.

Wonder how Erin Burnett will spin this into just more jolly frolicking along Piccadilly Circus. Then again, last thing Americans need to know or see, is that people everywhere else are angry, and may have had enough.

Comments

[robertc39:]

Reminds me of the 60's when the peaceniks were throwing rocks at the police and attemptimg to disrupt everything. This is not a perfect world, people should realize this and attempt to correct current problems in a civilized fashion rather than acting as children.

Apr 01 12:57 PM

[debtacid:]

Lesson 1 of politics 101:
A thousand violent protesters are more effective than a million peaceful voters...

Apr 01 02:07 PM

[Tony Petroski:]

This bunch hasn't "had enough." They jet around the world and throw tantrums. They'll want more soon.

Apr 01 08:19 PM

[ScottyEcono...:]

We should all follow Gore-Tex example. Fire all executives, and let the employees vote for a senior rep. I think their senior rep makes the same amt as the average employee at Gore-Tex too. It's a goofy setup but seems to work well for them. Just a model to look into....sorry, it was off the subject I know. On subject, I think it is cool that protestors broke into RBS, how cool is that.

Apr 01 08:26 PM

[Al-USA:]

From what I read, all it took was 4,000 mobilized workers to overcome the police security guarding that bank. Only 4,000...

Four thousand is nothing, a real mobilization of the masses will number in the millions, perhaps tens of millions, and that will be when the real "change" will begin, in the USA, not putting Obama up as USA President.

Apr 02 12:10 AM

[User 375980:]

Many conservative and libertarian Americans agree with the G20 protests against the financial establishment although they have little else in common with the protesters. While most of the London and European protesters are from the far left, many working Americans feel the same about Washington’s excessive bailouts for Wall Street and the banking establishment.

Washington has bailed out the banks, Wall Street & their Washington special interests and much of the cost is added to the national debt to by paid by this and future generations while real estate and investments continue to fall.

Find out how a growing repudiate the debt movement could stop Washington’s deficits, the exploding national debt and end the bailouts.

The Campaign to Cancel the Washington National Debt By 12/21/2012 Constitutional Amendment is starting now in the U.S.
See: www.facebook.com/group...
Ron

Apr 02 10:41 AM

[henarl:]

User 270430: First of all, those 4,000 violent London protesters were not "mobilized workers" but mostly young, easily influenced, high school and college kids out to have some "fun", along with a few professional protest organizers. Secondly when, as you say, that 4,000 morphs into millions of violent law breakers, what would you expect the armed forces to do; start shooting down their own citizens or stand by and let law and order be replaced with mob rule? Tough choice but, either way, civilization will regress a few hundred years!

Apr 02 02:54 PM

[antiquary:]

"People everywhere else are angry, and may have had enough"?

You're right; they may have had enough of being remotely competitive. Let them do whatever feel-good, instinctive, populist things they wish, and get outcompeted left, right and center in the future by those who take economics and anything similarly beyond the scope of the comprehension and conscience of the average shmoe seriously.

Apr 04 03:39 PM