G20 summit in London
Summit protesters rage about eating the rich, but exploit the poor and unemployed
By Judi McLeod Thursday, April 2, 2009
Though you’d never know it from mainstream media coverage, the same people who helped bring America’s auto industry to its knees, are the anti-capitalist protesters pushing for mob rule outside London’s G20 summit.
The leading politicians making a big play about rescuing the world economy and the anarchists, environmentalists and anti-war demonstrators are singing from the same choir-book page.
“Abolish money!” “Capitalism kills!” “Eat the rich!”, the slogans shouted by the mob is the same message, wrapped in more subtle terms by politicians dining at her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s, “you-can-bring-five-guests-each” royal feasts last night.
Under the umbrella name G20 Meltdown, some of whose anarchists advocated choking its enemies with piano wire, protesters who smashed windows at the Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday hid their identities behind balaclavas.
Organizers had promised that protests, which include a range of groups from climate- change activists to anarchists to unemployed workers, would be peaceful. Instead, videos depicting bleeding police and protesters have been making the rounds on the Internet.
Protesters marched behind models of the “four horsemen of the apocalypse”, meant to represent financial crimes, war, climate change and homelessness.
“Some threw eggs at police and chanted “build a bonfire”, “put the bankers on the top.” (http://www.reuters.com, April 1, 2009. Others shouted “jump” and “shame on you” at financial sector workers watching the march from office block windows.
Neither US President Barack Obama nor British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, hosting the Summit, the leaders of the countries trying to spend their way out of global recession, commented on the protests, perhaps because they provide good theatre.
But bankers and greedy capitalists are the target of protester wrath, not the politicians.
The pattern of mob rule is familiar on both sides of the pond. Just as groups with billions of dollars in government funding like US ACORN, chartered a bus to menace American Insurance Group (AIG) executives in their own homes, G20 summit protesters levy their rage against bankers.
“This is about making it shameful to be a banker,” said 25-year-old consultant, Annabel Acton. “I’ve come here today so we can engage in a peaceful protest and vent our anger against the greed of the financial institutions. They are dealers in death and intent on oppressing us.” (http://www.Bloomberg.com).
Lack of money may be a real worry for the unemployed who joined protester ranks, but it isn’t for whomever paid to rent or buy the military-style armored vehicle with the word “RIOT” printed on the front or the 11 occupants arrested for wearing fake police uniforms.
Groups sharing the stage with the G20 Meltdown include household names like the “green” campaigners of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Stop Climate Chaos.
The MSM never reports how anti-corporation Greenpeace has morphed over the years into one of the largest corporations on the planet.
Nor does the MSM, whose journalists and photographers were being entertained by a group of Summit protesters by playing a giant Monopoly game this morning, ever point out that the presence of groups like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth et al, provide the opportunity for the three masterminds to pull off the G20 Meltdown.
According to Telegraph.co.uk the three mob-rule masterminds include:
Chris Knight, who has been suspended from his job as Professor of Anthropology at the University of east London after he said last week that the group would string up an effigy of Sir Fred Goodwin, the disgraced ex-Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) boss, and warned that there could be “real bankers hanging from lampposts”. Prof. Knight, 66, is a former member of Labour’s left-wing Militant Tendency and once spent a week in jail for trespassing on a US airbase. He believes the protests will be the beginning of a “Velvet Revolution”, which will turn the entire planet into one country by June, which is not far from the overworked agenda of the multi-billionaires, fomenting for One World Government.
Then there’s the charming Marina Pepper, described by The Telegraph as “a self-professed witch.” Mrs. Pepper, 41, grew up in a family of travelers, trained as a ballet dancer, then began her working life as a glamour model, posing for the Sun’s page 3 at the age of 17 and baring all as a 19-year-old Playboy Playmate of the month in 1987. The glamour puss went on to become a journalist for the London Evening Standard and wrote books on witchcraft. The public purse allows her mastermind of G20 meltdown status, as she is is now a Liberal Democrat town councillor in Telscombe, East Sussex. The married mother-of-two is also an environmental campaigner, taking a prominent role in the recent protests against a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
Bringing up the rear is Camilla Power, senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of east London, working closely with Prof. Chris Knight, where she is currently working on a research paper on the “evolution of female sexuality”. She has been at UEL since 1995, where her previous accomplishments include organizing a conference in 2003 titled Menstruation and the Origins of Art and a research paper titled The Woman with the Zebra’s Penis. She lives on a council estate in Battersea, south west London and set up a website which called for protesters to descend on the Bank of England on April 1 to conduct “the trial of capitalism for crimes against the planet”.
Meanwhile, the protesters at today’s G20 summit only talk about “eating the rich”, while they exploit the poor and unemployed.
Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and Glenn Beck.
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