footnote

At the G20 in Canada 1 billion dollars were spent on preventing anyone from
getting close to the so-called "leaders".

What were those leaders doing that was so important? Apparently, they have decided
not to spend more money on schools, jobs, or anything social.
It goes without saying that death and destruction will have all the money they want.

Why would those G20 people be so afraid of ordinary people?

Would a democratic leader need to fear the people s/he represents?

And then there were those terrible young people in black! breaking shop windows!
Setting police cars on fire!

Let's see, we have how many people who will die today from lack of clean water,
from lack of sanitation... how many people who live in despair because they've
lost their jobs or homes....we have oil spilling in the Gulf of Mexico...
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, murders by remote-controlled plane in Pakistan,
sweat shops in Haiti, supression and worse in Gaza.......and.... and... and.......
you can fill in the blanks easily enough.
That's in the one corner... (on the side of the G20)

and in the other, what do we have?

and then we have a few broken windows and burned police cars....

not violence, but public property damage (not mere criminality but an act of political disobedience).....

Maybe we would be better off if the black garbed people were in charge; they would be less destructive.