Surviving the G20.

So, I work in downtown Pittsburgh, I do not have a car and am generally pretty effin' broke, but still I am not bothered by the G20 and the detours my buses will have to take to accommodate the gathering of rich politicians. This is because I understand that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and yes that's a qoute from a StarTrek movie, feck off!

I was walking about the city one day and saw a flyer with a picture of the PPG builiding (ya know, the pretty castle looking one) with a caption that was along the lines of "Yes! We want to see their palaces burn too!" This is totally ridiculous, do you morons even know what goes on in that building? You don't because you're idiot, tourist college kids getting your liberal arts degrees at Pitt and CMU.

Now everyone is freaking out because of the inconvienence of the gathering and the potential for excessive police force on protesters but I like to think of it this way, if there were no protesters being obnoxious there would be no force. Yes, protesters are the reason that this whole showdown is going to be a big mess, and everyone knows that protesters are just a bunch of bored college-aged Americans with yuppie parents paying for their education.
There have been times where protesting was totally understandable, such as the Vietnam War and Taxation Without Representation but the G20? Are you fucking serious? If everyone just minded their business and went about their days as usual then everything would be fine. The security perimeter isn't that large and the transportation solutions are pretty bearable considering how small downtown actually is.

Getting your panties in a bunch because of the small inconvienence that this meeting imposes for only a few days is considerably selfish, but what else would one expect from a bunch of spoiled, selfish, Americans with nothing better to do. Get over yourselves and grow up. You aren't actually protesting anything. You're abusing your right to peacefully assemble to protest a group of people who want to peacefully assemble? The protesters secretly hope for riots and uproar, how else are they going to feel as though they were truly part of something? They should just stay home so that security can focus on real potential threats and not bored American brats. Fucking hipsters.

Even the people protesting specific things such as the war in Iraq and Afghanistan are idiots because this is a meeting to come to terms with the world's problems and the majority of the politicians didn't want to go to war either. But you can't just pull out of a war in a few months just because a cabinent and regime change. Why don't you protest about the real problems in America, why don't you pay attention to the ways that the government is raping you of your rights on a daily basis, how the Constitution is being spat on regularly but no one notices because no one even knows the Constitution anymore. We don't need socialized healthcare, socialized government, media, or education. We need REFORM on all levels starting at home.