G20 demonstrations

I can't believe that, you should lay off thos Hemp Cakes Oliver :)

Can't--they've got a pretty good trade union.

They will be angry kids using this to get the rush you get in mobs, no different from football thugs
It's not as innocent as that.

Sorry i'll clear that up. they did not want to riot but they showed open hatred to bankers, police, money men etc etc why? its their job!
I also disagree with the interview tactics, i was right all along :)

Do you mean 'I, too, disagree with the interview tactics'?

Did they know what they wanted well enough to articulate it? i saw about 5 interviews and it was cringe-worthy
If you have a real belief in change and understanding of the problem you could have stood the test. as it stands you are a lay about fair weather agitator blaming the worlds faults with lofty ideals and half thought out/fully stoned views.
if you are not sure you would have said - "i only came to see what it's about"
How can you expect all young and inexperienced people to achieve a full grasp of complex world issues? Firstly, many lack education (and I use that word advisedly, and not in the peculiarly British class system sense of 'being made to feel more special than others and acquiring a sense of entitlement', but in a sense that means real, benign education), secondly, they lack information, and thirdly, they lack resources.

The vast majority of people who ostensibly 'support' prevailing conditions are completely uninformed about what's going on, too. You always have that in people, whatever area of society you look at. Some lead, some follow. It's a simple consequence of specialisation.

Yes, of course, if people are protesting for a more egalitarian society (roughly), then it is natural to assume that within their part of society they will already have achieved that, but of course that's not going to be the case. Everybody will play different roles. Get a press spokesperson for a protest movement in front of the camera and they'll be able to make a much better case. (Many movements, of course, don't have press spokespeople, so you could say it's fair enough to buttonhole unsuspecting participants, but then don't expect that you'll get anything that's been worked on to be made fit for the press.)

If someone hears a distilled-down version of problems and they can match that to a vague sense that they've been able to acquire, convincing them, then they should have a right to protest without fearing that they'll be lampooned by a prejudiced and tendentious media, by journalists who know how to spin stories by infusing them with subtle untruths, and without fearing that they'll be held up as the whole justification of a protest in which they are merely a small participant.