When a countless number of people gather together to protest against something as powerful as the G20, disasters happen. Such is the case of the anti-G20 protest that took place in London today (Wednesday), where one person was killed and many others have been injured. It has not yet been identified whether the fatality was caused by the police or by fellow protesters, but it is speculated that the police might have applied too much force on the victim.
So far, according to the Mail Online more than 30 people have been taken into custody, and although today's results were far from peaceful, the big day for protest is believed to take place at the same time in the same place tomorrow, at the exact same time the G20 summit - the event for which many have been waiting - will take place in London.
But what started out as a peaceful protest became a nightmare for the police when the protesters started to get out of control. As early as 13:00 the situation started to get more and more difficult as the adrenaline grew among the protesters and chaos among the city of London, the whole event was soon broadcasted by many national and international TV channels. According to the BBC News channel - as it was broadcasted live-in-London - the protesters started to get more and more aggressive and took the opportunity of being pushed back by the police to start breaking windows of key economic buildings, including the RBS' main headquarters in London. Protesters started to climb the roofs of many building around.
It is believed that the protesters wanted to throw objects to the police, and that is the reason why the police decided to arrest some of them. It is also believed that the police might have applied too much force against the protesters. It was broadcasted by the BBC News Channel that the protester's purposes was to burn the headquarter building of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Meanwhile thousands of people were protesting and being injured, the heavy weigh economic and political leaders of the world gathered together with Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip - as it was broadcasted by the BBC News Channel - to discuss matters concerning the economic crisis and other serious and yet delicate issues.
Among the many leaders and political figures of the world only one president was able to have a private meeting with Her Majesty the Queen. U.S. President Barack Obama and her wife Michelle met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on a private meeting before they went to meet the other leaders. 
As strange and harsh as it might sound, the Against-G20 protesters are only wasting their time, and not because the leaders adopting the G20 summit lack of interest towards the economic crisis or climate changes, the reason why these so-called 'protests' are a big wast of time and money - the London Metropolitan Police has had to spend 7.2 Million on security operations - is because protesters will not change anything by protesting. On the contrary, they are only making the government loose money that could be used for more useful things. Honestly, to me at least, these protesters are just trying to boycott the G20 summit - an attempt to make the world a better place - and whether protesters like it or not, the G20 is actually trying to solve the global economic crisis. Whether it will work or not is yet to be seen, but I assure the readers of this blog that trying to solve the global economic crisis by talking is better than protesting for nothing.
The BBC News Channel broadcasted a protester saying: "Our bank, our rules." My respond to that is that it isn't the way it works, and one thing is certain, protesting rarely works, and it certainly does not work when the protests are drawn by the wrong reasons. In this case, sadly, one of the main reasons why people are protesting is because they can't take that bankers get paid so much, and that they get paid seven figure pensions. People seem to forget that not all bankers are like Sir Fred Goodwin and that some bankers do deserve that much money, due to the among of time and effort they apply to their work.
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