G20 Thugs and Trumpets from Planck's Constant

For the amount of money they spend on security, housing, etc. (more than a billion dollars) wherever the G-20 meets, they could build a walled minicity somewhere far from the main drag complete with hotels, restaurants, massage parlors, that only has one roadway in and is by invitation only. It would be infinitely easier to police. I really don't understand - it's so clear to me - why can't the government of the country hosting the event see it?

Here we see a G-20 thug who just set fire to a police car.

What is interesting in this photo is not the fact that he seems happy with his handiwork nor that he is blatantly nearly naked, no the thing of interest here is the trumpet in his hand.

Blogger Jewel at Tasty Infidelicacies marvelously tells us:

If the Trumpet could speak:
But I am not interested in him...he's a piece of wondrous crapmanship, all right. No. It is the trumpet that has caught my eye.

The trumpet was made according to very strict guidelines. The combination of copper and nickel and other metals was exact, the precise width and bend of the pipes were carefully hammered out, and it was passed on to someone else who buffed and cleaned and polished and buffed again and again and again.

The specific color of brass that plated it was not some helter skelter crap shoot, but a precise calculation by metallurgists.

The inlaid pearl on the buttons, and the springs, and every little detail that went into the exquisite etchings on its bell made this manly instrument a work that required many skilled hands and minds, with the end result being that the man playing the trumpet submits to the authority of a conductor, who not only knows the trumpeter's part, but all the parts of the symphonic work as well, with the trumpeter playing only his parts when called upon. The trumpeter must trust that the conductor knows his job, and the conductor must trust the trumpeter to likewise know his music and instrument.

The trumpet and the trumpeter are the outcome of strict, ordered and well-disciplined minds and hands, as its music is also ordered. They are in tune with all around them, and take their cues from all around them. And as a result of the order and skill, we who are not skilled in the playing of the trumpet meet with the sublime and are elevated by it.

Read the rest here.

More pix of the protests here.