G20 Death - There WERE CCTV Cameras

So it looks like the original IPCC statement there were no CCTV cameras covering the area where Ian Tomlinson was assaulted was either mistaken, or a lie.

The IPCC has issued a new statement, reported here by the BBC there there was in fact CCTV coverage of the area, hopefully as a result of people like myself, pointing out the bloody obvious to them. As my earlier blog stated, there were other cameras in the area at the time, especially the one I pointed out gathering news footage from a building overlooking the scene.

Hopefully this incident won't be whitewashed like all the other deaths at Police hands. Yes the Police have a tough job, but to openly assault a person like that is reprehensible.

I've long been critical of the tactics employed by the Police in these sorts of situations as well as during arrests, there seems to be too much brutish force involved.

Even when force isn't used, there appears to be an arrogance that the Police themselves are above the law. They are wrong.

G20: Its all about Ego.

Ok, now I've had time to have a think about it and go through what happened this week at the G20, I've come to one firm conclusion: Our politicians haven't reined in their Egos at all.

I blogged here that I thought the credit crunch was caused by massive egos. The same goes for the failure that is the G20 summit.

All it's been is a platform to massage the egos of 20 national leaders. So they can display and grandstand about how they "fixed" the credit crunch, without actually committing to any real new initiatives.

The credit crunch hasn't finished. Its reached a plateau, but the signs are that without regular injections of cash, things will start to slide again. I don't see any indicators of stability in markets, nor indicators of confidence anywhere that would lead me to believe we've hit the bottom.

Basically the world economy is on life support. What you have to ask your self is why. What are the motives behind pumping trillions of pounds, dollars or Euros into a sick, possibly terminally ill system?
What are the world leaders waiting for? Why the desperate measures (including printing non-existent money) to delay the inevitable?

Are they so stupid that they can't see what I see and fail to realise that splashing cash around isn't the answer? I really don't believe that. No, there needs to be a reason, a bloody good reason why they're doing it.

But I guess to the elite, Egomania is as good a reason as any.

Its like buying a Saville Row Suit, an expensive car, or a big house: its the feel-good factor. Its intoxicating to meet powerful people, eat good food, and delude yourself that it'll never end. so long as you can take money from your electorate, take more than you need in the form of salary and expenses, then hand the rest over to banks to squander and keep the system going, everything is wonderful.

But just how long before the people of the world wise up? I hope its very, very soon.