2012 Olympics: Police-State Measures for London as Super-Wealthy Party
Submitted on December 7, 2011
By Paul Stuart - 7 December 2011
...[W]ith four years of austerity and the districts surrounding the [London] Olympic site sinking into desperate hardship, and the eruption of riots this summer, the games are being approached based on the calculation that Britain is a country on the edge of mass social conflict...Preparations have assumed the character of an orgy of luxury and ostentatious displays of wealth by the financial elite, coupled with police-state measures directed against working class districts.
