G8
The G8 Alternatives is a fine body – but you’ve got to laugh at the recent plea for ‘more sensitive policing’ of the forthcoming summit…. “Organisers of the protests expected at the forthcoming G8 summit are calling for low-key policing to allow peaceful protest at Gleneagles this summer. G8 Alternatives, a group organising planned demos, is to appeal for a sensitive policing policy at the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday.” Is the new naïveté? Last week at the Scottish Tsunami Benefit Gig we had one musician (I can’t remember if it was Fran or Franz or Keane) saying “We’re going to make sure this never happens again!” What? Your going to stop earthquakes?!! How? Huge vinyl plugs melted down into the earths core? And the week before we had Nelson Mandela and Bono and everyone saying they were going to “Make Poverty History”. Well excuse me but this is really just a heap of liberal crap. The Tsunami happened because shit happens, the police aren’t going to respond to an appeal from a Trot front-group, and nobody’ (not even Bono) is going to ‘make poverty history’ because that’s what capitalism is based on. It’s not a problem like a badly done cake recipe. It’s not a mistake.