A Death, Damaged and Laughing Bankers

April 2 2009, the G20 Summit begins. Whilst 19 world leaders seat together and try to find a way to fix the current economic and financial mess we have found ourselves in, on the other side of London a group of Anarchists believe that violence somehow is the way to make their voices heard. The result? An unfortunate death of an innocent man, vandalism on public buildings, lootings and oh the government and police are blamed.
Now i may not be a psychology student but i'm pretty sure that one of the traits that i have noticed amongst us British people is that for everything that happens, the government or the police are to blame. We seem to forget the reason why we elect people to public office or have a very strong police force. It is not there to receive all the blame that we can lay on them. First let us look at the case of Mr Iain Tomlinson (hope i spelt it right). It is very unfortunate that the man who had nothing to do with the unrest being caused was the one who paid a fatal price, not that i am saying that anyone had to but maybe it would be more fair or realistic to say that perhaps it is not the police that are responsible for this man's death, rather it is those anarchists who were out there causing unrest. We must remember that it was riot police that were sent out to tackle the problem and that with the rate of violence that went on that day, everyone automatically becomes a suspect. I have already seen the video of Mr Tomlinson being hit and do agree that it cannot be condoned but i also stand on my point that Police cannot stand 100% accused for such an unfortunate incident. Blunt and slightly radical some might i claim but i call this statement realistic; Wherever there is unrest, it results in injuries and in the most unfortunate of cases, death.
We place so much blame on our police who were out there protecting our interests that day. Let me state some facts that you should know off the top of you head as a person. SIR FRED GOODWIN WHO EVERYONE IS ANGRY WITH AT THE MOMENT DID NOT BUILD THE RBS BUILDING THAT WAS VANDALISD, WE THE TAX PAYERS DID. Oh and guess whose gonna foot the bill for the smashed windows, THE TAX PAYER. Another fact: IF THESE ANARCHISTS CARE SO MUCH ABOUT THE RUINED ECONOMY, CAN THEY STATE THE EXACT JUSTIFICATION IN LOOTING A BANK or isn't that stealing; the same crime that Bankers have been accused of?
In the end of this whole mess, what do we end uo with? A death, A bill to repair the damage caused by anarchists. Whatever measure was taken to gain attention i assure you would never have resulted in Gordon Brown running down to Liverpool street to apologise or Barack Obama coming down to Liverpool street to assure Anarchists of change they could believe in. The summit would have gone on peacefully with the comfort of fine food and merry. But to live everyone on a light note, whilst anarchists went around causing unrest and damage to the city, it was to the entertainment of bankers who stared out their windows, watching , laughing at the rioters and at the end of the probably laughing on the way to the bank.