Round 2: Thursday & G8 in Germany

You know, it's either a sign of the times or just me getting kinda old, when I started laughing my ass off 2 minutes into the start of a Swedish porn movie.

The movie opens with a fighting scene of an agent stealing a radioactive package wrapped in BROWN PAPER. After knocking out 5 bodyguards with flimsy slaps on their faces, the agent roars away on a snow jet and later,removes the ski-mask to reveal a so-so looking blond who introduces herself as Jane Bomb, secret agent 006, with the license to kill.

Jane Bomb then narrates further of their secret HQ as M-I-SEX fronting as a brothel,hahaha! She enter the HQ, and meets Miss Moneypussy(wth!?), who starts fondling Jane's tits! Jane is then interrupted and goes in to meet M,some cigar-smoking british guy. She is handed a new mission from M and the new mission turns out to be the intervention of a Russian spy who plans to make Californians horny and get them screwing all the time with a sex drug. Operation is code-named: Operation Penetration! When I heard that, I just lost it. I roared in laughter for a good 3 minutes...the set-ups are just so lame, its f***ing hilarious and one just must laugh. Incredible.


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Thursdays are my off days - I have no lessons at all. I usually head off to the FH and get some learning done, but not this week. By the time I managed to drag my ass outta bed, its was close to 11am. Although the day didn't turn out too productive, I did manage to book bus tickets to Paris for myself and the gf, and did my roadwork : 4.5km in approx. 45mins. Dinner was simple - grilled fish with tomatoes - but despite a good shower, I somehow didn't feel too good. The stomach was kinda queasy. Putting it down to just wind, I retired early for the night and surfed channels.


That was when I came to a Spiegel TV documentary on the protesters and their demonstrations against the nations gathering at the G8 Summit in Rostock, Mecklenburg Vorpommern in north Germany. The protesters seemed rather quiet and peaceful at the beginning. The camera then switched to another group don in black clothing and ski masks. It wasn't just the black clothing that made the air of menace so imminent. They kept their group cohesive by having the members at the edge of the group hold a black banner all around the group.You could see the wild anger in their eyes. You just knew something was about to happen.

The next minute, scenes of fighting and disorder broke across the tv screen. The black-clad protesters were hurling stones at a police officer inside a green police VW. Seemed like the officer was too stunned to drive away immediately; he took off after the car windows were smashed to bits. The violence escalated from that point on. Protesters threw all kinds of things they could lay their hands on.Some even came prepared with handmade bombs, A car belonging to a Rostock resident was overturned and set on flames as a barricade. 2 of the protesters turned a rubbish dump on its side and pushed it along the road, in the direction of the accumulating police blockage. The violence that unfolded before my eyes just seemed surreal. I had seen similar clashes on tv before, but that was years ago in France, with the famous Macdonald's Restaurant being the target of vandalism. But to witness such frustration and anger in Germany, made me feel almost naive.

What had started out as a peaceful demonstration,
turned out to become one of the most violent clashes between the police and civilians,


just because of idiots like this,


and these punks:

provoking other issues on police violence and abuse.

You could call me a fence-sitter on this issue. I have no sidings, am not totally for or against capitalism. Money is unarguably the main driving force in today's economy. But I do not stand for silence of the voices of the opposition either. So long as one of the 2 exist, so must the other half. Make your voice heard, but using violence instantly destroys your credibility.

As Gandhi, along with several other non-violence quotes, once uttered: An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.