The events on Locke St in Hamilton over the weekend are being portrayed as the surfacing of a sinister “black bloc” creature from another world. Not so much. More like kids smashing things in a juvenile rage against their benighted state. Anarchism is, and always has been, a transparent excuse for violent envy. See a guy eking out a living, wreck his place because it isn’t yours. As events subsequent to G20 riots have shown, the police are well able to hunt down the people who broke store windows behind their black masks Saturday. After smashing a handful of storefront windows with rocks, lighting fireworks and setting off smoke bombs, they fled — some on foot and others by vehicle — from Locke Street South Saturday night, ditching their clothing after the unprecedented attack.
