G20: Money and Murder

Posted on | April 3, 2009 |

The violent confrontations in London over the arrival of the main movers of the economic world has sparked a few questions, to say the least.  Police and protestors, some of whom seemed to be bleeding profusely, are pictured in most of the news coverage.

In the US, though, we have violent protests of another sort.  There was the woman who shot herself while being evicted from her repossessed home. She died several hours later.  There was the spate of shootings last week, some of which could be traced back to people who had suffered disproportionately in the economic downturn, and these could perhaps be linked to the failures of the G20 nations.

Perhaps in Europe the tendency is to take anger onto the streets and protest. Amid the placards and bull-horns of the British clashes yesterday one man died. In the US it seems to be much more likely to result in scattered shootings and murders.  Or am I imagining this?

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