City workers told to wear dress-down disguises to beat G20 rioters

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City workers told to wear dress-down disguises to beat G20 rioters (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164999/City-staff-told-wear-dress-disguises-avoid-G20-demonstrator-threat.html)




Thousands of City staff told to stay at home next week
Bankers told not to wear suits and 'dress down'
Additional 2,500 police deployed at cost of £10million


City workers are being urged to stay at home or to dress down during next week's G20 summit to avoid being targeted by anti-capitalist protesters.
Unprecedented measures are being put in place to prepare for thousands of demonstrators targeting the City and Canary Wharf.

About 3,000 anti-capitalist protesters are expected, with groups next Wednesday marching to the Bank of England, holding 'flashcamps' outside the European Climate Exchange in Bishopsgate, and marching on the US Embassy.
Demonstrators have vowed to hang effigies of bankers from lampposts along the protest route.


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Riot: Police guard the offices of Accenture in the City of London during May Day demonstrations in 2001


City workers have been warned not to wear suits, but to 'dress down' in chinos and loafers because they would be obvious targets.
Banks have been warned to take extra security precautions to protect their staff after vandals attacked former RBS chief Sir Fred Goodwin's Edinburgh home.
Security specialists at Kroll, the risk consultancy, said high profile bankers were 'easy targets'. Companies linked to the financial crisis are taking extra security measures for prominent staff.

An extra 2,500 police, including riot units and intelligence officers, are being deployed at a cost of £10million to tackle any violence, while security consultants are giving firms constant updates on threat levels.

The demonstrations, as 20 world leaders meet at the ExCeL Centre in Docklands to discuss how to end the world recession, are expected to be the biggest in London this decade.


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A shattered window at the home of disgraced former RBS chief Fred Goodwin


Demonstrators will target the ExCeL centre the next day. Banks, insurers, accountancy firms and brokerages have all circulated emails to staff with security instructions.
One warns: 'The front door is to be permanently locked during these two days.'


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Face of the financial crisis: Sir Fred


The London Chamber of Commerce have warned businesses to take security precautions, including making sure staff carry ID, keep movement in and out of the offices to a minimum and cancelling all but essential meetings.
Colin Stanbridge, chief executive of the LCCI, said: 'There will be concern among businesses at the protests but the vast majority of firms will have robust security arrangements in place.'

The financial advisory group Bluefin, which employs 500 staff in London-has told employees not to go to its office in Mark Lane in the City unless absolutely necessary.

A spokesman for the bank UBS said: 'We are telling people to be cautious. If you have client meetings do you need to have them here?"

Chris Knight, professor of anthropology at the University of East London, is organising protests under the banner G20 Meltdown.
He said: 'We are going to be hanging a lot of people like Fred the Shred from lampposts and I can only say let's hope they are just effigies. If he winds us up any more I'm afraid there will be real bankers hanging from lampposts.'

Meanwhile, the group claiming responsibility for vandalising the former Royal Bank of Scotland chairman's home has threatened further action against 'criminal' bank bosses.
A statement claiming to be from the group responsible for damage at his £3million mansion warned of further attacks, saying: 'This is just the beginning.'
The threat sparked fears of a terror campaign against those blamed for the collapse in the financial system.

Security adviser Dai Davies, a former head of Scotland Yard's Royalty Protection squad, said: 'Risk assessments will have to be carried out by the police on individuals who are concerned about their safety. If there is cause for concern then appropriate advice will be given and pre put in place.
'The developments at Sir Fred Goodwin's home will almost certainly make some other high-profile bankers want to review their own private security arrangements.'

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He said: 'We are going to be hanging a lot of people like Fred the Shred from lampposts and I can only say let's hope they are just effigies. If he winds us up any more I'm afraid there will be real bankers hanging from lampposts.'


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Where do I join? Could be fun.

[Beorn]

City workers have been warned not to wear suits, but to 'dress down' in chinos and loafers because they would be obvious targets.

LOL! That's right. Instead of dressing in your several hundred pound suit, you should dress in your several hundred pound "leisure gear" instead.

You will mix unnoticed alongside the dole collecting unwashed.

[Fortis in Arduis]

There was a wank article in the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1164932/STEPHEN-GLOVER-Fred-Shreds-easy-target-beware-nihilists-Left--itching-reduce-country-anarchy.html


Sitting comfortably in your own house, it is tempting to feel pretty relaxed at the news of the vandalising of Sir Fred Goodwin's home in Edinburgh, as well as the damage caused to his car. Didn't he rather deserve it? Isn't he one of those filthy-rich bankers who is responsible for the ever-deepening recession?

The attack was nothing.


Yes, he is. But he didn't deserve it.

How?


In a civilised society, no one should expect his property to be attacked. Yet so much has 'Fred the Shred' been demonised by Government ministers and the media that what happened to his home is represented as, if not exactly legitimate, certainly understandable, and barely regrettable.

This is not a civilised society.


I disagree. The people who smashed his windows early yesterday morning might turn their attentions in greater numbers to the house of anyone else whom they have taken against. Mine, maybe. Or yours.

No, as I sit in my bedsit, I worry about my mother's savings, and how we are going to manage, thank you very much.


Incidentally, though there is no evidence that they played a role in this instance, Google's new on-line street maps will be a marvellous aid for voyeurs, as well as for anyone who might want to burgle or damage your home. They show every house in 20 cities, including Edinburgh, and will be extended to many more. Where on earth is the public benefit?

It means that I can check places out to see if I want to move there.

The hysteria about Google StreetView is paranoid nonsense. Street cameras are a real problem, write about that instead, bitch.


Listen to the statement made to Edinburgh's evening newspaper by those who attacked Sir Fred's house: 'We are angry that rich people ... are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and are living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless. This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed.'

Clearly.


Simple souls, no doubt. But also revolutionary ones. And they speak for a growing constituency of anti-capitalists whose analysis of the economic recession - if that is not too grand a word - is fatally encouraged by the Government's and the media's jihad against Sir Fred Goodwin and his ilk.

Sure. I think that one would have to be a 'complicated' soul to convince oneself that what they are doing is good for the nation. :lightbul:


He may well be a greedy and stubborn man. He undoubtedly contributed in large measure to the downfall of the Royal Bank of Scotland, of which he was chief executive. But he has broken no law. So far as we know, he pays his taxes, and will continue to do so on his £700,000-a-year pension. When all was going well, he was embraced - no, celebrated - by Gordon Brown and other members of the Government.

You have a point, the Government are also to blame, they are the traitors.


Next week, London will host a meeting of the leaders of the 20 largest economies in the world. It is a fair bet that the antiglobalists will be out in force, trying to disrupt the proceedings, and possibly using violence in what is euphemistically called 'direct action'. That means bringing our capital to a halt.

And?

More liberal-Tory crap from Stephen Glover:


STEPHEN GLOVER: Like his father, Max Mosley does not believe in freedom 11/03/09

STEPHEN GLOVER: We welcome those who preach terror and death. So why ban an idiotic Dutch MP with noxious yet non-violent views? 11/02/09 :rolleyes:


Let's hear some robust arguments in favour of free trade, capitalism and open markets. They have produced enormous wealth before, and will do so again, while the policies (if they can be so dignified) of the protesters who will be on show in London next week would lead only to anarchy, poverty and chaos.

Too late bitch.

The cat is well and truly out of the bag now, and actually, anarchist economics would and shall save our nation.