G20 thugs impersonate police, break into bank
A taste of things to come, just as I wrote last week. These people deserve to have the book thrown at them. But if past treatment of anti-capitalist anarchists here and abroad is any guide, they’ll get wrist slaps again — guaranteeing another global tantrum.
Anti-capitalist protesters are believed to have broken into a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland in the centre of London today after smashing windows with a volley of missiles.
With police on horseback unable to maintain control and being forced back, a series of windows at the building were broken, graffiti was daubed on the walls and there were reports that some protesters had broken into the branch.
Hundreds of protesters were seen to converge on the bank, on the corner of Threadneedle Street and Bartholomew Lane, as a total of 4,000 demonstrated outside the Bank of England nearby.
As police on horseback and in riot gear proved unable to protect the building, which was thought to be empty, officers with dogs charged at the crowd in an attempt to force them back. The crowd were heard to chant: “Shame on you” as officers drove them away from the door…
With the demonstrations – carried out by a combination of anarchists, anti-war protesters, environmentalists and others – rapidly heating up, Scotland Yard said cordons had been put up all around the surrounding area in response to “increasing levels of violence.”
…Police confirmed earlier that 11 people had been arrested for impersonating police officers as they travelled towards Bishopsgate in uniform in a fake armoured personnel carrier.
Oh, you’ll love this:
Among those spotted among the crowd was the comedian Russell Brand, who said he was accompanying the marchers because he was interested to see why the protest was taking place.
That’s the same anti-American asshat who Meghan McCain thinks is “freaking hilarious.”
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Sorry Brits, EuroTrash, Canadians as with all too many American Jurisdictions sit on their sorry butts and do not defend themselves–”WAIT FOR THE POLICE-let the professionals handle it”
With police on horseback unable to maintain control and being forced back Bunch of sissy punks can take a great city apart like that-terrible. And just who are these American Weenies who give a damn what the Sorry Brits, EuroTrash, Canadians and others think of us?
Protesters? Try to enter my house or place of business and the punks will find out what an AMERICAN does to protect home and hearth. Throw the book at them? What book–Rules for Radicals, Das Kapital, Grimms Fairy Tales?
Let Britain burn–I could care less. Take Detroit and DC while they are at it.
But then where will PBS get all of its comedies?
A world without Fawlty Towers is a world to horrible to imagine.
That’s what dvds are for.
Revised:
A world without free Fawlty Towers is a world to horrible to imagine.
What I can’t figure out is what these people think will happen if they get what they want? If we close all the banks, do away with with currencies, dissolve all the governments, then what? Get rid of the rich, where are the jobs going to come from? No money to buy produce, means no incetive for the farmers to grow food, where is the food going to come from?
Can one of these reporters ask them that?
Idiots.
I am frightened for my relatives still living there (in UK), but not just for this mess. England, Scotland etc has been sliding down that slippery slope of socialism/political correctness/dhimmitude for a long time now.
Skulls need to be cracked there, and fast.
You watch too much television. I would send a few brigades to defend Glenfiddich and Glenlive single malts-but that is all.
I think Britain wants to burn!
I’ve believed all along that there has been some need by Euro officials to allow these G Summit protests to occur. Why are police instructed to wait for all the people to gather and then be used only as barriers? Why not be proactive and keep crowds from forming in the first place?
It can be done, I saw it. I was in London for the Millennium Celebration. Transportation into and out of the city was curtailed in the afternoon of the 31st for at least 12 hours (or more). Roads were blocked and Metro stopped. Those already there were stuck there and had to walk home (as I did). They could do the same thing to keep people out of the city. (If you wanted to be in Greenwich you had to even have a wrist band to remain and people attempting to enter were being turned away from the town!) All police enforced.
And before anyone says this would be too expensive…look at what’s going on now and tell me what would be more expensive.
Their anger is misdirected it should be towards parliment and Gordon Brown
Shame, chap–’Manuel’ (Basil’s hapless waiter) is the very guy that Russell Brand derided on his radio show right?
Remember the Guinness!
Famous Grouse, The Dalmore and Glayva.
Just my preferences.
walterc: one of their chants is “Abolish money”.
We’re not talking about enlightened people here.
Confession. I have never watched the show. But I demand a steady stream of free, pretentious British programming.
That’s Ireland. And no worries. Anyone trying to get between an Irishman and their Guinness would not be long for this world.
Free to you, subsidized by every taxpayer. This is symptomatic of a basic problem in America: the perception of what it “free” and what is not. Nothing that comes from government is “free.”
Looks like a target rich environment, no?
More like…Remember the New Castle Brown Ale! Or Bass Ale!
Now, now.
‘Benny Hill’ wasn’t pretentious!
What Britain needs is a Sybil Fawlty for PM. She can slay a man at 20 paces with one lash of her tongue! She’d staighten their hash but good.
I’m sure the police will bill the Royal Bank of Scotland for today’s time and effort. After all – it’s their fault.
As much power as she had over Basil, I’d say she spent too much time in the bed eating bon-bons & talking to her sister on the phone.
‘I know.’
Exactly. Has any of the reporters covering these idiots ask them what they propose to use to buy food if we abolish money? come on free press, aks the obvious question and show them for the clueless idiots they are.
I sure hope they leave old Rumpole alone over at The Bailey. She Who Must Be Obeyed would never buy his story if he came home late….again.
RufusTFirefly said:
Are you free? I’m Free!
LOL, Pasadena Phil.
‘Sheridan would be appalled.’
RufusT: wrong show but same idea.
scituate_tgr;
‘Mr Humphries, would help Mrs Slocombe in ladies’s undergarments?’
Wait a minute…
Don’t tell me all you people throwing around “Basil” and Sybil” references didn’t watch it on PBS.
I know, P.Phil. I just love quoting Hyacinth.
Now excuse me whilst I put out tea in the Royal Doulton with the handpainted periwinkles…
Derailed at #3. Good job Chap…
Oh, sure I did, chap.
1975 through 1977
Im almost starting to think the news channels are trying to make the protests in London out to be something a LOT larger than what they are.
They showed video of protests in Trafalgar Square in London (which is NOT Canary Wharf where the G20 is going on). On a normal weekend there are more (doubel/triple) the number of TOURISTS than there are protesters today.
And the newscaster was like ‘OMG, we’ll keep you up to date on all the damage/mayhem/destruction going on!!!!’
Soros just isnt putting his money into protests in the UK this season. I feel for these anarchists, they’re like kids going to Haight/Ashbery to drop acid in ’71 (hey?? where’d everyone go?)
Sorry chap…I was providing my own self-inflicted entertainment during those years.
And if you really look close in the background or peripheral shots of all the anarchy (re: kid smashing bank windows) there are more CAMERAMEN than there are rioters.
Boring….
Come on Euros, light up London like its the Blitz again!!!! (wusses)
Yesterday, one of the news channels was London reporting that many bankers/executives were told to come to work in street clothes instead of suits and ties, fearing violence against their employees.
Anyone scared yet?
maybe if Britain burns for a bit it’ll come back to its senses
Not with these pansies. In the future maybe but not yet. The Brits bankers need to come in street clothes because the random protester may throw some pudding that stains and is a biatch to get out of a silk tie .
They’re not worried about injury – but of dry cleaning costs.
“…if you don’t eat yer meat, ya can’t have any pudding!!…How can ya have any pudding if ya don’t eat yer meat?!!…”
Apparently he’s also disappointed in the depth of newspaper reporting.
Monty Python’s Flying Cirrrrrrrrrcuss!! was my favorite 1970′s show from BBC on PBS!
They all have their own “victory gardens” and chickens, doncha know?
/sarc off
So, you don’t like these people, but at least they’re fighting. All you’re doing is whining.
“Run away! Run away!…”
bruce, what are they fighting for or against? they are strictly a rent a mob brought out on any suitable occassion to tear s$%t up. they need the kent state treatment.
Seriously?? Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink put up a bigger fight.
Just watch a Liverpool – Manchester United scrum and that ~sort of~ gives you an idea of what the wankers can do …
I will give them one – “Now THATS a KNIFE!!!” – for originality! Bloody good old chap!
And Russell Brand is an a$$hat. But if Meghan McCain wasnt 20ish and blond with big boobs then would anyone really listen to what she has to say anyway? I have nothing against her, but then I’m a guy…
ok… just wanted to be clear that im not listening to her either…
you convinced me chap, yep, your a liberal.
Maybe, just maybe, the free press is as clueless as the as perp’s.
Hey! I was just kidding! Look around at all the other so called “conservatives” here that admit to feeding the PBS beast!
Nothing is free. PBS is subsidized by taxes. It’s ok if you like Fawlty Towers, but why the heck should I pay for it?
These people serve no useful purpose. This is not about protest, it is about lawlessness unchallenged.
Deny permits to protest (we know what’s coming), declare unlawful assemblies, shoot anyone who engages in violent behavior (of any kind,) arrest and convict those who participate, confiscate their passports, and put them in work camps for five years (make them work for their food and lodging.)
Yeah, that’s draconian, but…if they know ahead of time this will happen to them, will they stand by their so-called principles and still come? I doubt it!
Hmm . . .
If memory serves, private ownership of guns (outside of hunting clubs) is prohibited in Great Britain.
Wonder what these geeks would do if they had it in the back of their minds that the bankers they are so violently attacking, might – just might – be packing heat?
In the US, the ACORN nuts protested, shouted and bullhorned idiotic comments at the AIG folks and/or their families, but I don’t recall them getting more intrusive than that. Coincidentally(?) Connecticut is a may-issue state (shall-issue in practice).
Say what you will, but if the Second Amendment gets re-defined as a “group right” as opposed to an “individual right”, or CCW laws are reversed, we really are screwed. And the lefty-loonies will have even free-er reign than they do now.
There were very few guns in Rwanda.
Sticks and stones may break your bones…. but the 2nd Amendment ensures you’re not a dumba$$.
(hmmm I’ll polish that one up, theres a gem in there somewhere
)
A friend’s husband is returning from a business trip to London today. He told his wife that they were told “not to wear suits” and to leave London before G-20.
So, in addition to protesting against capitalism, or protesting whatever they are protesting, they are also protesting against any business man wearing a suit!
Indeed, Rabbid; the employment of the ‘panga’ made it real ‘wet work’ in Rwanda.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer (and you dont have to lead them so much)