Are you really suprised.
This is how its always been.
The tragedy is its not the few thousand outside the red zone of Genoa but the millions due south and east....... The g8 is a metaphor for US/WE and our wealth....we are rich because you are poor. The whole of the" first" world is part of this, we are all culpable. It is easy to blame 8 leaders, but they shoulder a blame that belongs to all of us. we cannot expect to protest a meeting and change the world. As sincere and committed as the protesters are, change must begin at the grass roots and the pressure must be constant and consistant. I hear the arguements against capitalism and globalisation but where are the solutions and how can you convince workaday people to change. Trying to beat up the coppers can only be counter productive. Change will only come about when, for example, the Sun newspaper and its readership support that change.
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