Death at G20 protest

[Conquistatore]

Man dies at G20 protest camp

Police say a man has been found dead in a G20 protest camp near the Bank of England.
London's Metropolitan police said the man had collapsed on the street in London's financial district.
Police officers called an ambulance but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
It was not immediately clear how the man died, although some people had earlier been injured when protesters held in a police cordon near the Bank of England surged against the crash barriers.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Poli...mp_318106.html

This is a new development following on from another thread that was on here but seems to have disappeared. It's quite shocking that there has been a death and im sure there will be a few more before this protest ends. The thing I don't understand is the reason for all this protesting? Exactly what is their problem? The whole world is suffering from this financil crisis and world leaders and government are well aware by now of the situation. What is protesting going to do, especially violent ones like this?

[cottontail]

What are the protests going to do? Absolutely nothing. This is just a chance for losers to get out of their chairs and say, "LOOK AT ME,I'm IMPORTANT, I'M DOING SOMETHING". None of the bigwigs are being effected by the protest at all, it is, ironically, the common people that are. The fact is the protestors like to yell alot, but they have no idea how to end the crisis either.

[Khannis]

In that I agree, the protests are going to do nothing, but vent their anger, or frustration. Killing someone important would do something... several important people would do more.

A death? shocking? I'm tempted to ask in what world do you live.

[Carach]

What are the protests going to do? Absolutely nothing. This is just a chance for losers to get out of their chairs and say, "LOOK AT ME,I'm IMPORTANT, I'M DOING SOMETHING". None of the bigwigs are being effected by the protest at all, it is, ironically, the common people that are. The fact is the protestors like to yell alot, but they have no idea how to end the crisis either.

indeed. they change nothing, millions protesting against the invasion of iraq achieved nothing, so turning up and shouting abuse at some policemen about how our economy is.... isnt going to change anything. besides, like we're all saying here; what exactly are they protesting about?

but hey, as long as they feel theyre achieving something, doing their bit for mankind blah blah blah..

on a relevant note though: is there seriously not a thread on the G20's decisions here at TWC? am i missing it or is nobody actually interested? people arent on the ball?

[BoJaN]

indeed. they change nothing, millions protesting against the invasion of iraq achieved nothing, so turning up and shouting abuse at some policemen about how our economy is.... isnt going to change anything. besides, like we're all saying here; what exactly are they protesting about?

but hey, as long as they feel theyre achieving something, doing their bit for mankind blah blah blah..

on a relevant note though: is there seriously not a thread on the G20's decisions here at TWC? am i missing it or is nobody actually interested? people arent on the ball?

Yeah, but coming online and complaining on a forum does even less to raise awareness for an issue. You keep something up long enough, you will eventually see changes. If everyone had your mentality places like India would still be under Britian occupation.

[Carach]

Yeah, but coming online and complaining on a forum does even less to raise awareness for an issue.

i dont believe it does...so what is ur point?

You keep something up long enough, you will eventually see changes. If everyone had your mentality places like India would still be under Britian occupation.

pretty majorly debatable. pacifist protest never forced Britain to leave India. Pacifist resistance to China's occupation of tibet doesnt get the chinese out....

Only government mentality changes.

[bushbush]

man...RIP for that fellow....but that death ranks almost as meaningless as those who died protesting about the Danish cartoons...

[Valiant Champion]

Venting their frustration against a nationalistic coglomerate of Capitalists who are raking in everything so that a few will have it all and the masses will have nothing.

[Conquistatore]

Venting their frustration against a nationalistic coglomerate of Capitalists who are raking in everything so that a few will have it all and the masses will have nothing.

Isn't that the way of the world? The poor get poorer and the rich get richer?

A death? shocking? I'm tempted to ask in what world do you live.

Shocking in the sense that it is a death in a protest about an International financial meeting of world leaders and banking institutions. I still don't understand why they make such a big song and dance of it everytime there is a summit, so the fact that someone has died because of this protest is... shocking.

[Martin N]

What are the protests going to do? Absolutely nothing

Except they achieved what they were meant to do, complete economic lockdown on london, and worldwide attention, so whats your problem.

You against the freedom to protest or something ? Go live in china bud, i hear they rape you if you dare to protest, then sell your organs.

[The Dude]

Except they achieved what they were meant to do, complete economic lockdown on london, and worldwide attention, so whats your problem.

You against the freedom to protest or something ? Go live in china bud, i hear they rape you if you dare to protest, then sell your organs.

International attention. Oooh. Now we're impressed.

In the end its still just a bunch of hobos trying to be important. Nothing will change based on what they're protesting against, so they're really just wasting their time and being dickwads.

[Martin N]

International attention. Oooh. Now we're impressed.

In the end its still just a bunch of hobos trying to be important. Nothing will change based on what they're protesting against, so they're really just wasting their time and being dickwads.

Then go back to being an obediant servant of the government and try not to bring up a fuss when they violate the rest of your libertys, there only doing it to protect you after all.

Millions of people died so you can protest, so not one second of it is a waste.

[The Dude]

Millions of people died so you can protest, so not one second of it is a waste.

Except when said protests change nothing and kill one fellow protester.

Protests are for whiny pricks anyway. If you want to change something you don't go protest. You do that if you're a whiner by nature. The people who get things done are -not- the people on the streets with angry signs and t-shirts.

[Admiral Piett]

Whatever happened to the people expressing their concern about government policy? We're not stupid, we all know we're in a crisis. But are the actions of the government hurting the populace and making it worse? Certainly a lot of people think so, otherwise there wouldn't be protests.

So don't assume that you have all the answers when so many oppose them. They have every right to express that disapproval. You guys did the same thing when the other party was in power.

[Quadratus]

Died for a failed ideologically.

How sad.

[Admiral Piett]

Died for a failed ideologically.

How sad.

I was under the impression that the protestors were mainly conservatives protesting labor?

[Quadratus]

I was under the impression that the protestors were mainly conservatives protesting labor?

No, most of them were anarchists. Anti-Capitalist & Socialists.

[Admiral Piett]

No, most of them were anarchists. Anti-Capitalist & Socialists.

No they aren't. Anarchists are usually anarcho-capitalists dude.

I was under the impression they were pissed that the government was going to bail out the banks? That's something you and I would be mad about too.

[VALIS]

No they aren't. Anarchists are usually anarcho-capitalists dude.

I was under the impression they were pissed that the government was going to bail out the banks? That's something you and I would be mad about too.

He's right. The people protesting this are extreme Marxists, anti-capitalists, professional hippie protestors and ignorant Anarchists, ignorant in the sense that their concept of Anarchy is of the destroy and cause inane mayhem variety without any underlying ideology.

The police are taking it to these morons.








However it appears the man died of natural causes completley unrelated to the police action.

[Каие]

Guys the people protesting were people who had lost their jobs and livelihoods due to the recession and bank failures and needed to be heard outside the G20 to make sure they did something. There were, as usual, some pro-Marxists and whatever groups who use this as an opportunity to blow their trumpet, and naturally there were some violence from a small angry minority. As we can see in the pictures the people clashing with police were mostly student types, not people who had lost their jobs in the finance and manufacturing sectors and elsewhere.

There needs to be an investigation into how this fella died to avoid the whole ''police killed him'' or ''he is an arse'' premature comments.