No Guardian.co.uk, pode ler-se: «The last time bankers faced angry demonstrations, some responded by pouring champagne or photocopied £50 notes from windows, but it is unlikely that protesters targeting the City next week during the G20 summit will be met by similar shows of bravado. Many staff are being advised to dress down next Wednesday and Thursday to avoid being marked out as City workers - if they cannot avoid the protests entirely by working from home. Others have been advised to avoid leaving the office to attend meetings. Concern about possible violence heightened when the home of former Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Fred Goodwin was vandalised early yesterday morning, leaving three windows shattered and the rear window of his black Mercedes smashed. An anonymous email was sent to media organisations shortly after the attack threatening further action against "criminal" bank bosses. The former RBS boss, who had not been at home and is at the centre of a row over the size of his pension from the taxpayer-owned bank, was said to have been "shaken" by the incident. Many in the City believe aggressive media coverage of the financial crisis has declared a virtual open season on financial sector workers. The financial advisory group Bluefin, which employs 500 staff in London, has set up a phone line offering staff updates next week. Staff have been told not to go to its office in Mark Lane in the City unless absolutely necessary. "As a responsible employer, the safety and wellbeing of our staff is always considered of paramount importance," a spokesman said. A UBS spokesman said the bank would continue to assess the level of threat as it got nearer the time. "We are telling people to be cautious. If you have client meetings, do you need to have them here? Some of the banks have said dress down or try not to move around. It is all pretty obvious. "It is quite co-ordinated among the banks. We all talk to each other. I think it is different if you are in a landmark building, some are more obvious than others." Another banker complained that we "are in an era of the demonisation of financial services". World leaders, including Barack Obama, are due to begin arriving early next week with the summit beginning on Thursday at the ExCeL centre in London's Docklands. The G20 Meltdown campaign is a loose alliance of organisations that will set off from four locations in London a day earlier and converge on the Bank of England, each marching behind one of the "four horsemen of the apocalypse". A separate climate change protest group intends to set up camp outside the European Climate Exchange on Bishopsgate. Further protests are to take place outside the offices of RBS and there will be marches on ExCeL during the event. Other action is rumoured to be planned to disrupt transport and cause chaos in the City in what many believe could be the biggest protests since the poll tax riots. An additional 2,500 police have been drafted in at a cost of £7.5m and plan a "ring of steel" around ExCeL. Police chiefs last week called City firms to a briefing that gave advice on how to beef up security.The protesters say they plan peaceful demonstrations. "This is not a problem about a few greedy bankers or regulators who were asleep at the wheel, it is a systemic problem," said Michael Rainsbro, who has helped organise the protests. But even a cursory search on the internet finds more chilling threats, with one organisation, London Class War, showing Goodwin's head in a guillotine on the front of its G20 newsletter and suggesting in its manifesto: "Direct action is necessary against the individuals and institutions". The email that followed the attack on Goodwin's house was sent from the address http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/26/g20-summit-protests and said: "We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless. This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning."But many appeared to be relaxed. "If you turn up for work in a bold pinstripe that might be an issue," said a Merrill Lynch spokesman, "but we have all been here before."»

Meu caro, não me estou a referir a problemas actuais, mesmo os recentes casos do Bank of Scotland, a verdade é que sempre que existe uma reunião do G7, 8, 20, independentemente da conjectura, lá estão hordas de vândalos prontos a destruirem propriedade privada, muitas vezes simples lojas e automóveis do cidadão comum. Não gosto, lamento, mas a violência não é solução.

Até pode ser que o palco seja numa ilhazinha do Pacífico onde os seus amigalhaços, compinchas e apaniguados tenham as suas contas off-shore. Selvagens são sempre estes, não são os que nos ROUBAM deliberadamente dinheiro dos bolsos.

Pode ser numa rua de qualquer cidade, virando um carro do cidadão comum, poderia ser o meu ou o seu, como já aconteceu. Isto não começou agora, nada tem que ver com a crise, estamos a enganar quem?

Olhe, pois lhe garanto que a mim, vossa excelência não engana mesmo.

Concordo quando afirma que os actos de vandalismo são gratuitos e desnecessários, mas já não concordo quando teoricamente se insurge contra o direito de protesto.

Mas não me insurjo contra o direito de protesto pacífico. Sabemos é que tal não é o que acontece nestas reuniões.

Todos têm direito ao protesto e à indignação, ainda mais perante as atrocidades que forma cometidas por algumas instituições financeiras. Mas com violência, não.

Caro Ricardo

Claro que sim, mas para se protestar contra o Bank of Scotland não é necessário esperar pela reunião do G20. O problema é que isto vem de trás, Génova, Seattle...

Tem toda a razão!

Não me parece que lides bem com o direito à indignação...

Depende da interpretação, lido mal com os disparates da turba em fúria, nada tenho contra manifestações de protesto, embora possa concordar ou discordar dos seus motivos.

Era só uma provocação!

Os danos causados por uma manhã de piratagem nos bancos ultrapassa largamente o valor dos danos de motins...

Como defendo que as más práticas devem conduzir à falência, logo deixar falir banqueiros...

Concordo contigo meu caro António.
Os oportunistas gravitam essas autoridades do G20 , G30 , G40 .... ONGs e mais ONGs vivem desse movimento. Aqui no Rio, imagine você, os imbecis do Greenpeace causaram um transtorno descomunal, com o intuito de chamar a atenção dos chefes de estado reunidos em Londres. Coisa de jumento.
No meu blog fiz um comentário a respeito desses caras.
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