Today one of Britain’s most senior police officers with responsibility for public order raises the spectre of a "summer of rage," with victims of the increasingly bitter recession taking to the streets in possibly violent protest. Superintendent David Hartshorn, who heads the Metropolitan police’s public order branch, warned that law-abiding middle-class individuals who would never have considered joining demonstrations may now seek to vent their anger through protests this year. Many will consider such a scenario unlikely, or point out this has not been the "British way" over the past two decades. Violent protests take place in Europe – in … Continue reading Yes We Are Raging – Against a Government That Spies on its Citizens While Ignoring the Crimes of Greedy Bankers