What are they afraid of?

The police, as the advance guard of the state, have come down hard.
Do we blame Boris or should it be New Labour? Does it matter? Both parties aren’t exactly divided on the issue.
The G20 protests were built up as a violent demonstration. Unknown ‘anarchists’ were rolled out in BBC Radio and other media weeks before to create a sense of fear among people who might have turned up.
Then, the Police were given the task of using brute force to ‘bring order’.
It didn’t seem very different from what I have witnessed in South Asia. In place of the lathi, it’s the truncheon. Same result.
Had people been allowed to protest peacefully, they would have embarrassed the G20 leaders. And why not?
Those same leaders are happy to meet in the seclusion of Davos. If all they want is a photo-op, why not go there instead?
Of course, Gordon “Dirty Tricks” Brown wanted to ’save the world’ and be seen to be doing it.
Unfortunately for him, all that effort seems to have been wasted.
People are more concerned with how Gordon can allegedly hire thugs (with keyboards rather than weapons) to consider writing fanciful stories about affairs among the Tory leadership.
Voters have forgotten the glitz of the G20, though unable to forget the police action given the stream of new pictures and suspensions. And they have seen the seamier side of New Labour.
This is so reminiscent of 1996. Mr. and Mrs Hamilton and David Mellor seem so tame in comparison. N
ew Labour should be very afraid if other people reach this same conclusion about New Labour sleaze and muck-raking. Even Gordon’s scowl resembles that of Nixon!
In comparison, a few thousand protestors clamouring for economic and environmental justice should not have frightened anyone in Government.
Perhaps the Government is afraid we may have rumbelled them about their bailout for bankers, and cuts for the rest of us.
Ah, now I see the point.
We all know about duplicity and incompetence.
So the best thing to do is create confrontation and turn the victim (people) into the criminal, and turn this into a re-run of 1968, to scare @Middle England’
It will not work. Middle England (if it exists) is also getting stuffed as they see their pensions, houses and jobs ebbing away.
We all hope New Labour return to trying to clean up their economic mess and not play with fire. They are on their way out. Could they but make a graceful exit.

Farid Bakht