And Now… The ‘Summer of Rage’ in Britain
February 23rd, 2009Please read about “Pseudo-Gangs” before you wave any signs or consider joining some dumbshit group.
The groups mentioned below are going to be crawling with counterinsurgency personnel.
Via: Guardian:
Police are preparing for a “summer of rage” as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has learned.
Britain’s most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming “footsoldiers” in a wave of potentially violent mass protests.
Superintendent David Hartshorn, who heads the Metropolitan police’s public order branch, told the Guardian that middle-class individuals who would never have considered joining demonstrations may now seek to vent their anger through protests this year.
He said that banks, particularly those that still pay large bonuses despite receiving billions in taxpayer money, had become “viable targets”. So too had the headquarters of multinational companies and other financial institutions in the City which are being blamed for the financial crisis.
Hartshorn, who receives regular intelligence briefings on potential causes of civil unrest, said the mood at some demonstrations had changed recently, with activists increasingly “intent on coming on to the streets to create public disorder”.
The warning comes in the wake of often violent protests against the handling of the economy across Europe. In recent weeks Greek farmers have blocked roads over falling agricultural prices, a million workers in France joined demonstrations to demand greater protection for jobs and wages and Icelandic demonstrators have clashed with police in Reykjavik.
In the UK hundreds of oil refinery workers mounted wildcat strikes last month over the use of foreign workers.
Intelligence reports suggest that “known activists” are also returning to the streets, and police claim they will foment unrest. “Those people would be good at motivating people, but they haven’t had the ‘footsoldiers’ to actually carry out [protests],” Hartshorn said. “Obviously the downturn in the economy, unemployment, repossessions, changes that. Suddenly there is the opportunity for people to mass protest.
“It means that where we would possibly look at certain events and say, ‘yes there’ll be a lot of people there, there’ll be a lot of banner waving, but generally it will be peaceful’, [now] we have to make sure these elements don’t come out and hijack that event and turn that into disorder.”
Hartshorn identified April’s G20 meeting of the group of leading and developing nations in London as an event that could kick-start a challenging summer. “We’ve got G20 coming and I think that is being advertised on some of the sites as the highlight of what they see as a ‘summer of rage’,” he said.
a summer of dumpster diving would be more productive: http://www.psfk.com/2008/05/60-of-food-waste-untouched.html,
# 5,500 whole chickens were thrown away each day in the UK.
# “Mixed foods” like ready meals made up 21% of the total cost of waste, with 440,000 thrown away each day.
# The two most significantly wasted foods were potatoes and bread.
# 1.3m unopened yoghurt pots are disposed every day
All Cointelpro stuff. Like 7/7 real terrorists, not Mossad false flaggers, would go after the rich jews who support the murder in Israel against the poor Palestinians. Not blowing up working class people that just causes resentment and hate toward them. Read Che on Guerrilla Warfare. Revolutionaries never kill the working people