Economics: G8: Have Geldof, Make Poverty History & Christian Aid taken strong enuff a stand against violent Anarchists?

G8 Watch

Predictably, the violence-makers arrived in the Gleneagles and Edinburgh environs to make of the G8 Summit their own creation under the cover of the cause of anti-globalization. Let alone that the process of globalization is irreversible, and it is only in counter-factual hope that we can presume results and consequences are directable at all even by even half-decent forces and institutions - instead of by conflagrations of opposing tendencies set in motion that often seem steerlessly inevitable - without any wild-eyed anti-globos adding their insanity to the mix. But the bloody violets are not interested in a strategy of re-direction, or in tactics that may be something positive for the world.

I'm convinced that Geldof, mastermind with Bono and their filmaker friend, are seeking something potentially positive. Right now, there's another Live8 Concernt in progress in Edinburgh itself. It's clear this is a military tactic, to keep his troops from being infiltrated and infected by the fist-anarchists anxious to turn as much the Geldof Army from their master, just as the sectarians did so in Cromwell's Army long ago.
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But as we read on refWrite yesterday, my conviction of hope for Geldof's deepest purpose is not an uncontested conviction. RoomThinker, the Kenyan blogging genius, has a better case for his analysis, than I can make for my hopes regarding the intentions of Geldof and his buddies. But, notably, Geldof has called for No Violence, and Steady on Course in a separate march free of puerile anti-globo violent historionics. It's very important that G & Co actually denounce the attacks on the police, the motives and tactics, especially of the 200 hardcore stone-throwers (tomorrow it could be Molotovs). At the Hemisphere Summit in Québec City a few years back, the Canadian New Democratic Party's socialist leader of the time simply gushed about the militants who tried their best to provoke the poice. I heard inexperienced marchers remarking afterward of how they ached to join in with the those who could defeat the purpose of any protest, assuming it had some good motive and purpose to begin with. The romantic juices that are stirred in the politically naîve when they witness for the first time true militants seeking their live bodies to hurl at authorities, is not to be underestimated. I heard the same sentiment from a staff person of Ciitzens for Public Justice - Canada. I do not truck with such nonsense, and have a lot to say about, some from experience, and some from an experienced person's firs-hand observations and interviews with participants. Christian politics is a discipline, not a romance or fantasy.

So, most of all right know, I want to hear from Christian Aid its policy of participation in and leadership of Evangelicals, especially youth, into mass demonstrations. The more Christian Aid pursues these policies and techniques in Europe and North America, the more fanatically-led marachers in countries where Christian Aid recipients are a seriously suffering minority, these people will become incresingly targetted because they are helped financially by Christian Aid. That's just the raw starting point for a serious delivery from CA about what the heck it's doing in such a milieu. - Owlb