Riots in Barcelona - 29 September 2010

Protesters took to the streets, forcibly closing shops that refused to obey the general strike order. Several days earlier, they had occupied the Banco Español de Crédito building in Plaça de Catalunya, which served as a central meeting point for the protests.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• politics
• protests
• riots
• vaga
• general
• barcelona
• strike

[mphello]

@blackmesa10 Thanks. Unfortunately, conservaturds do not have the mental capacity to comprehend this massive logical inconsistency in their thinking.

To all the "uphold-the-law" nuts: the LAW says *I* don't have to GIVE a fuck about Egypt/Tunisia/UK/Ireland/Greec­e trying to prosecute protestors. If I had the power to stop such prosecutions, I would. But, I DO have the LEGAL right to take the protestors' side.

[blackmesa10]

@mphello Well said 

[mphello]

To the idiots who complain about vandals and violent demonsrators:

why should I (or anyone) bail YOUR cause out? Why should my - or anyone who agrees with the protestors' cause - have their tax money spent arresting any demostrators who merely punish the banking terrorists?

You complain about vandalism? You're lucky the bankers and politicians are not drawn and quartered.

[blacksultan85]

@Mikdeelo yeah i meant Portugal.

[Mikdeelo]

@blacksultan85 Who? Portugal? Where they still drink the Catholic Cool-Aid that the poor are that way because it is God's will? Or do you mean someone else...?

[blacksultan85]

it's funny how Spain's next door neighbor is not that violent!!!!!

[KikinBcN]

@ramonbusero Desgraciadamente dudo mucho que los poderosos quieran ceder sus privilegios antes bonitas palabras.

[TyrannisSicSemper]

Lot of clueless comments as always.

You DO realize some people view corporate and commercial property as symbols of the problems of capitalism right? If you put any thought in to what the demonstration is about ... property destruction starts to make sense.

When you say "trashing their own city", that's so vague as to be meaningless. I don't "own" the city I'm from. Rich people do.

[ramonbusero]

no se si es la solucion, pero como nos quedemos sentados viendo como nos comen las crisis a los 4 que curramos, aun sera peor que salir a la calle. esta claro que votando no se va a ningun lado

[chosanzapan]

@ad1sbxx Then why just think & talk about vandals and not about ordinary people? We watch it everyday in the news: they say a hundred people trashed the city, but they won't talk about thousands of peaceful people saying enough is enough.

So the propaganda works fine: everyone who wasn't in the demonstration will believe we are criminals and reason is not on our side.

By the way, police know who the vandals are, and they are freed after a few hours, while "uncomfortable" people remain in jail.