G20 demonstrations

these protests are lame.

They're lame because 90% of the people are there for a carnival and a piss up. They're having fun and taking a break from work because they're bored, not trying to change the world. Half the people in 99 didn't know what WTO stood for and I'd wager the same percentage here don't know what G20 means or what they do.

Yep, we need to take a leaf out the European's book.

Disenchanted youths in Paris get a bit pissed off with the price of crack = 2 weeks of full blown street wars and looting.

Police shoot innocent kid in Athens = a months worth of running battles with police, cars burning through the night and general civil unrest.

That's proper protesting