G20…It’s Going To Get Messy

March 27, 2009 at 8:44 pm

TheEye is unsure of the tack for this story. Whilst wanting keenly to assemble politicians, lampposts and hemp-based material in the same place at the same time, and deploring huge (legally and contractually due) bonuses going to bankers, these things go too far sometimes.

Remembering the chaos at Davos a few years ago for the G7/8/10 and now 20 (hey, if you want to find new friends, just add them to your International Finance Facebook group. Instant Messenger contacts between collapsing economies are soooo 2001 now.

But look at this nonsense. It’s okay to protest, but you just know that a park bench or two are going to go through windows of helpless retailers…who will probably be collared by the Peelers if they try to defend their own premises.

These graphics are being circulated online and the protests are slated to start tomorrow and last all week. Thousands are expected to turn up, throw bricks at policemen and become martyrs to the cause by being arrested…hmmmm….except it is illegal to take a photograph of a policeman in the course of hitting a “suspect” nor indeed taking one at any time at all now.

The anarchists are reportedly using Google Streetview and Twitter to organize riots, hang businessmen in effigy at the behest of a university professor known as “Mr. Mayhem,” call for guillotining bank execs, and target London firms that fail to turn off their lights to commemorate the moronic “Earth Hour”. If shops and offices don’t worship at the altar of environmentalism then protesters have “reserved the right” to break in and turn their lights off themselves.

If you don’t like it then just leave North Korea to set the example.

TheEye will be turning on a couple of lights randomly just to take the piss.