People Protesting in London

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People Protesting in London

The protest known as “Occupy Wall Street,” which has been going on for weeks in the United States reached Europe on Monday, as people protested in the City of London against what they call the greed of the financial system. The British version of the protest was called “Occupy the Stock Exchange” and is considered a peaceful protest against the global financial system.

They wanted to take Paternoster Square, where the British Stock Exchange is located, but the police secured the area before the protest began. A notice was posted saying that the space was private property, and that access would be denied. A high court injunction was obtained to make sure that the private property is being observed.

The British people who attended the protest said they were 99% of the population, and that “the bankers got a bailout, while the people were sold out.”

The protesters said that they were challenging the myth according to which there are not enough resources for the entire population of the world to be sustained. The “myth” is at the heart of the teachings of the Club of Rome, which is promoting the idea that as the population of the world grows, the resources diminish to the point where they may not be enough to sustain the population, which is about to reach 7 billion people in no more than a few weeks.

The Club of Rome draws on the work of the British philosopher T.R. Malthus, who predicted that the increase of the population would lead to a depletion of resources. In order to avoid this outcome, Malthus was proposing, almost two hundred years ago, that the population growth be placed under control, either by control of birth or by controlling the political movements that could lead to depopulation, such as wars or epidemics.

The people protesting on Monday in Britain, as those protesting in New York City or Italy addressed the real problem: It is not the increase of the population that depletes the resources of the planet, but rather the greed of a small upper crust, in this case the bankers, which consumes far much more than it actually produces or than the planet produces, in terms of natural resources.

People in London erected tents in hopes to remain in the future in this area of the City of London. On their placards one can read slogans like: “Rich, beware, your days are numbered,” or “No to the banking elite! No to Codex Alimentarius! No more lies!”

The protest was attended by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who was wearing a mask. Police demanded that he remove the mask. Assange complained that police used kettle techniques to encircle some of the protestors while keeping others outside. Though police said no kettling techniques were used, the people were contained around St Paul’s Cathedral.

The protesters said that they were inspired by the protests in the United States of America, in Greece, in Spain and in the Middle East. They said they wanted to make a contribution to a better an just society.

The developments in the City of London keep up with other similar movements in what has come to be called “the Global Revolution.”

Protest in Frankfurt

On Saturday, the similar action that started in Rome, Italy, as a mere peaceful protest degenerated in a violent riot, forcing police to intervene to calm the situation.

The protest in Rome was part of the “Occupy Wall Street” global revolution against greed and the financial system.

The protest went global, or at least wanted to go global on Saturday, united thousands of “indignant” people all over Europe, in what was meant to be a protest against the failed financial policies in the democratic world and the greed of the bankers.

In Rome, groups of people with their faces covered and their heads hooded protested downtown throwing rocks and incendiary bottles at the bank offices. They destroyed bank ATMs, set trash bins on fire and aggressed the press crews.

The protest in Rome added to the international message of the “global revolution” the domestic frustration of the population against Berlusconi’s government, which barely survived another vote of confidence in the Parliament.

Police was expecting some 100,000 people to protest against this vote in Italy, a country which is also in very big problems as a result of the financial policies and the serious troubles of the eurozone.

On Monday, 5,000 people protested in Frankfurt, 200 in Helsinki, and several hundreds in other cities in Europe, Australia or south east Asia.

What is absolutely dazzling about this global revolution is the almost insignificant turnout. Except for countries where the call for revolution was overlapped on domestic revolutions like Italy or Arab countries, people in Europe, America or Australia did not the call for such an action. Why is that?

First thing that comes to mind is that this revolution resembles the ideas of an ancient revolution organized at the beginning of the 20th century, that is the Communist revolution staged in Russia by Lenin and then exported to other countries around the globe.

Protest in Rome

While it may be true what the economist Roubini said that Marx was right and the capitalist world was caving in as the capitalism as a financial system was eating itself out, very few people believe that the alternative to this kind of society is socialism, let alone communism.

There are people who advocate a third way of financial order called distributism, which would create, in their opinion, the conditions for a moral society, where the social security is observed by a correct distribution of the resources.

Another reason why people did not pour into the streets by thousands or by millions, even though they suffer from all kinds of shortages, is that they do not trust the organizers.

Even though the “Occupy Wall Street” seemed as a rather spontaneous movement, many people fear that the action is no more than an elaborate trick to foster the installation of the New World Order by creating a global revolution that would bring on universal chaos, and eventually someone to restore order.

In other words, some people believe that there is a plan beyond such a movement. A plan that would benefit those who are being protested against. The manipulation was so big over these past few decades that people do not trust anyone anymore.

Besides, without a spiritual guidance that would help them understand what is good and what is not, people fear that they may fall into just another trap, and play into the hand of another politician.

Many people see the idea of a New World Order as an era of total control over the population and of domination of the financial system over the large masses, which would be kept in check by means of technological “leashes” such as micro-chip technology, internet and mobile phone system locating, credit card systems and many others that turn the technological discoveries into enemies of personal freedom.

A third motif not to attend such an event is the fact that people like George Soros expressed his solidarity with the protestors.

George Soros is one of the wealthiest people in the world and his wealth was mostly built on using the system these people protest against. When Soros calls on to global revolution against banks, that mere thing is enough to have second thoughts about attending such an event.

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