Smashing Time.

I know its a bit late but we have had the small matter of the travellers site to deal with, but I was going to make a comment on the attack on the Edinburgh property of the notorious banker, Sir Fred 'The Shred' Goodwin.

Earlier in the week, on a forum elsewhere, I had a bit of an exchange with one Darren Redstar, who is I believe, a supporter of the anarchist grouping, Class War. Darren, as might be expected, thought that the attack on Sir Fred's house and car was a splendid piece of work and that such displays of anger might just persuade 'The Shred' and his like to mend their ways. I pointed out that this was unlikely because the likes of Sir Fred can write off such attacks on their insurance and that the long arm of the law was very likely to descend upon the perpetrators of the attack with all possible force, because, as we all know, crimes against property in this country have traditionally been taken much more seriously then crimes against people. The real task is to build alternatives to the system that allows people like Goodwin to flourish and these are long and difficult tasks that cannot be achieved by throwing a few bricks. Also, as pointed out by Dave Osler on the Dave's Part blog. what starts as attacks on property can end as attacks on people, as in thge case of the german Red Army Fraction and the banker Hans Martin Scheyer.

So however justified the anger operations like that carried out in Edinburgh are a dead end.