what exactly are G8 Protesters protesting about?

martinedwards

SPECIFICALLY....

other than a chance to just yell abit.....

seamus

It's usually a mix of everything. War and poverty are the staples and will attract a few hundred protestors. Though austerity and taxation will make up the bulk of it this year. Nothing gets people more annoyed than if they're a little less well-off than they were last year.

tin79

seamus wrote: »

Nothing gets people more annoyed than if they're a little less well-off than they were last year.

Being a lot less well off than last year does.

Sergeant

As a means of trying to justify in their own heads' the utter failure of their stupid political ideologies.

God Hates G8

AnonoBoy

They're probably protesting the near txtspk title of the summit.



"How was the summit?"

- Ah you know, it wasn't a good summit, it was a Gr8 summit!

Fukuyama

In London it looked like a one size fits all circle jerk for the crusties.

Think #occupy with even more hippies.

GerryT

Fake protester for fake summits .

Have you ever seen something come out from a staged protest ?

Everything is already decided before hand , the summit are only to exuse a free holiday , and the protester a bunch of dreamers . Or a bunch of too doopy people with no contacts with the surrounding reality .

All the summit are just a pain for the people that are located around the area or on the several routes that take the big fat guys to the destinated place where they will claim they right for spending their free time as they wish and the right to watch the show put up by the protester ... have a laugh a Glass of whatever a nice meal and back of to their original destination.

Of course some of them would spend some nice word toward the host country and peraphs go out and have pint in a pub pretending to smile .

Spidermensch

They're sticking it to the Man......………..........probably.

caustic 1

Sandwich fillings.

Aidric

Rent a mob, basically. Not a coherent argument between them.

Yitzhak Rabin

Your usual hodge-podge of lefties and lunatics. A few there will be protesting against war and famine etc., others who don't want to pay taxes for services they use, assorted treehuggers, and a few banging on about 'freeing da weed', but for most though its just a good excuse to throw on the hemp poncho, light up a doob, chant a few slogans and blow whistles with their mates and go home with a smug satisfaction that they "at least did something", whatever that means...

Cody Pomeray

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

Your usual hodge-podge of lefties and lunatics. A few there will be protesting against war and famine etc.,

Yeah, what a bunch of losers.

--Kaiser--

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

Your usual hodge-podge of lefties and lunatics. A few there will be protesting against war and famine etc., others who don't want to pay taxes for services they use, assorted treehuggers, and a few banging on about 'freeing da weed', but for most though its just a good excuse to throw on the hemp poncho, light up a doob, chant a few slogans and blow whistles with their mates and go home with a smug satisfaction that they "at least did something", whatever that means...

Well said, professional protesters

muddypaws

I didn't think there were any, the campsite is empty apart from a couple of Dutch tourists who saw it and decided it was a great place to stay for a few days.

Snake Pliisken

The apathy and ignorance in this thread is discouraging.

A generation of this country will grow up worse off because of the actions of our political and banking class and when those they bent over for come to our shores we bemoan anyone who would stand up and be counted? Pathetic.

Gran Hermano

Tony the Tiger, he's Gr8

FTA69

Even if a few of them are a shower of hippies the basic premise of protesting at the G8 is justified. The world is a sickeningly unequal place riven by war and famine. In the western world in general working people are under systematic attack in terms of wages, jobs and living standards while the share of the world's wealth gets increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite.

If you want to b*tch about something then I suggest the above is of more importance than whether a protester is a vegetarian or not.

Grayditch

Probably people who don't like to be ripped off, or like to watch human atrocities.

I know they're mostly annoying looking/sounding, but their message is important and they have my ear, anyway.

dsmythy

Snake Pliisken wrote: »

The apathy and ignorance in this thread is discouraging.

A generation of this country will grow up worse off because of the actions of our political and banking class and when those they bent over for come to our shores we bemoan anyone who would stand up and be counted? Pathetic.

Will they?

MagicMarker

FTA69 wrote: »

The world is a sickeningly unequal place riven by war and famine.

Has it ever not been....?

Phill Ewinn

MagicMarker wrote: »

Has it ever not been....?

Think it's getting worse. At least before you could run away from wars or battles. The drones have put an end to that. Also how does a country that owes $17trillion afford expensive drones. Buying them while the unemployment queues get longer........

Cienciano

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Yeah, what a bunch of losers.

Will their protest stop war or famine? So, technically they are losers

FTA69

MagicMarker wrote: »

Has it ever not been....?

Unlike other periods in history we now have the potential to change all of that. Similarly we can also change the fact that people now are worse off than they were years ago, that their wages are being cut while profits massively increase etc.

"Sure that's the way it has always been." Things change, but nothing will change if people don't organise around that.

Cody Pomeray

MagicMarker wrote: »

Has it ever not been....?

Of course not.

But it would be a lot worse if nobody ever bothered their ass protesting. 40% of the world is living in extreme poverty.

If people want to protest global poverty while the OECD pours trillions of euro into bank rescues, I'm certainly not going to mock them on an internet forum.

I'd say the Shell to Sea lads are enjoying their away day.

68Murph68

FTA69 wrote: »

Even if a few of them are a shower of hippies the basic premise of protesting at the G8 is justified. The world is a sickeningly unequal place riven by war and famine. In the western world in general working people are under systematic attack in terms of wages, jobs and living standards while the share of the world's wealth gets increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite.

If you want to b*tch about something then I suggest the above is of more importance than whether a protester is a vegetarian or not.

And is the G8 working to make the world a better place or a worse place?

Syria is one of the key topics. Are the world leaders going to be trying to do what they can to sort the situation out or are they going to be talking about how to keep the civil war going longer?

Another issue on the table is tax. Basically the big countries are looking to crack down on tax havens. Given it's generally only the richest in society who take advantage of tax havens, this can only be a good thing for the average punter. Will the G8 make the situation for the average person better or worse in relation to tax?

Obviously the lads in the G8 aren't all the nicest bunch in the world but the nonsense the protesters come out with is just protesting for the sake of protesting. Politics is the art of the possible. The politicians are doing what little they possibly can to improve things. They don't have a magic wand to wave and solve all of the world's problems. The protesters are complaining because the world isn't perfect. If the G8 announced tomorrow that they had solved world hunger 99% of the folk protesting would still be giving out.

68Murph68

68Murph68 wrote: »

Given it's generally only the richest in society who take advantage of tax havens, this can only be a good thing for the average punter. .

Especially if all the companies here pack up and leave

Valetta

68Murph68 wrote: »

And is the G8 working to make the world a better place or a worse place?

Syria is one of the key topics. Are the world leaders going to be trying to do what they can to sort the situation out or are they going to be talking about how to keep the civil war going longer?

Another issue on the table is tax. Basically the big countries are looking to crack down on tax havens. Given it's generally only the richest in society who take advantage of tax havens, this can only be a good thing for the average punter. Will the G8 make the situation for the average person better or worse in relation to tax?

Obviously the lads in the G8 aren't all the nicest bunch in the world but the nonsense the protesters come out with is just protesting for the sake of protesting. Politics is the art of the possible. The politicians are doing what little they possibly can to improve things. They don't have a magic wand to wave and solve all of the world's problems. The protesters are complaining because the world isn't perfect. If the G8 announced tomorrow that they had solved world hunger 99% of the folk protesting would still be giving out.

That's far too sensible for AH.

They're protesting about the water canons. Something about keeping religion out of politics.

FTA69

And is the G8 working to make the world a better place or a worse place?

The people who compose it are definitely making it worse. For the most part it is them presiding over the neo-liberal system which is seeing greater and greater inequality in the world today.

Syria is one of the key topics. Are the world leaders going to be trying to do what they can to sort the situation out or are they going to be talking about how to keep the civil war going longer?

Considering the US and Britain are planning on arming rebel groups which contain large groups of Islamic fundamentalists, and Russia are arming the Assad regime I'd imagine that civil war may go on a lot longer. The likes of the US and Russia only care about their own spheres of interest. They couldn't give a sh*t about the ordinary Syrian.

We have Obama up to his neck in drone strikes in Pakistan while in Britain we have David Cameron leading a Thatcherite government that is currently presiding over the biggest attack on working people since Maggie herself took power. And these are the type of people you think are working "to make the world better?"

The G8 represents a collection of the political elite that conceived and implemented the type of global capitalism we see today. It isn't a problem-solving club there to benefit the ordinary man or woman.

KyussBishop

It's kind of ironic that the (supposedly) anti-authoritarian Libertarians on boards, become apologists for authority when it comes to protesting and economic issues.

Honestly, if none of you can think of a single issue worth protesting about, out of all that's happened in the last 5 years, then don't pretend to give a toss about Libertarian ideals.

Ridiculous, that those who supposedly promote liberty above all else, would disparage others exercising their liberty to protest.


The only argument they can come up with, in opposition to those who do protest is that they, the people complaining about protesting, are totally ignorant about what people are protesting about.

Your own ignorance is a comment on you, not on the people protesting.


If any of you believe, you are just engaging in intelligent/crafty trolling, to rile up lefties/crusties etc., and thus aren't taking what you say seriously:
That doesn't work, it does not count as trolling, when you actually believe every word you are saying; that is not trolling, that is displaying an obnoxiously ideological personality.