Bizarre protest in Birmingham

[likesfish]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-19681547

I think the point of a protest is for people to know what the fuck you are protesting about.
If the police are puzzled its sort of failed hasn't it.

 

[Pickman's model]

not at all. it's not like the police are renowned for their intelligence, is it?

 

[Badgers]

not at all. it's not like the police are renowned for their intelligence, is it?

Did they write the thread title?

 

[Pickman's model]

Did they write the thread title?

probably.

 

[butchersapron]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-19681547

I think the point of a protest is for people to know what the fuck you are protesting about.
If the police are puzzled its sort of failed hasn't it.

Is the aim for the police to know? And you were in the army ffs

 

[likesfish]

Well tbf usually you can figure out what a protest about in 5 minutes the bbc

 

[butchersapron]

Well tbf usually you can figure out what a protest about in 5 minutes the bbc

And they can't. Now what?

 

[Badgers]

And they can't. Now what?

Call in the army.
Or G4S, or Batman.

 

[DotCommunist]

ask the paper sellers.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well tbf usually you can figure out what a protest about in 5 minutes the bbc

yes, i know i can. but can the police? that's the question.

 

[Pickman's model]

Call in the army.
Or G4S, or Batman.

or the a team

 

[likesfish]

It just seemed weird protest in birmingham nobody seemed to see what it was about.

 

[butchersapron]

Can you say why the protest was Bizarrie yet?

 

[Pickman's model]

It just seemed weird protest in birmingham nobody seemed to see what it was about.

only if by everyone you mean the police and the bbc. there seems to have been no effort made by our intrepid journalists to actually ask the participants what they're up to.

 

[likesfish]

Thats odd you sort of imagine journalist asking questions kinda what you expect them to do.

 

[butchersapron]

Thats odd you sort of imagine journalist asking questions kinda what you expect them to do.

Great thread.

 

[moochedit]

it's about the anti-islam film according to this...

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/...inst-american-anti-islam-film-97319-31883268/

 

[Pickman's model]

it's about the anti-islam film according to this...

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/...inst-american-anti-islam-film-97319-31883268/

so the brum mail know but not the police or the bbc. what times we live in!

 

[Wilf]

Down with that sort of thing - or the other sort of thing.

 

[likesfish]

Ffs how hard is it too find what somebody is protesting about.
Fuck it I managed to find it out what cypriot anarchists were protesting about and they didnt speak english and were lobbing rocks at us.

 

[BigTom]

it was a pretty spontaneous demo following mosque prayer / colleges closing time, so no placards for journos to read to find out what it was about, hence the lack of info on the BBC I suspect.
I wasn't there.. apparently 3 arrests and nothing happened bar chanting (which I'm told was more about iraq / afghanistan / palestine than the islamic film but that's from a swappie so I'm taking it with a pinch of salt till I've heard from others) before the police kettled the protest, brought in dogs etc..

 

[stuff_it]

it was a pretty spontaneous demo following mosque prayer / colleges closing time, so no placards for journos to read to find out what it was about, hence the lack of info on the BBC I suspect.
I wasn't there.. apparently 3 arrests and nothing happened bar chanting (which I'm told was more about iraq / afghanistan / palestine than the islamic film but that's from a swappie so I'm taking it with a pinch of salt till I've heard from others) before the police kettled the protest, brought in dogs etc..

So they couldn't have, you know....asked someone?

 

[Termite Man]

That article is really badly written, it's almost like they couldn't think up enough words so they repeated the police quote.

 

[likesfish]

Well it was in birmingham probably didnt have any foreign correspondants with birmingham experience

 

[BigTom]

So they couldn't have, you know....asked someone?

The BBC? ask protesters what they're about? That might mean having to represent their views..
(obviously they should have asked someone, like the Birmingham Mail journo did.. )

 

[stuff_it]

Well it was in birmingham probably didnt have any foreign correspondants with birmingham experience

...because it's North of Watford Gap?

 

[likesfish]

...because it's North of Watford Gap?

Of course there be dragons up there


Foreign dragons

 

[Ax^]

...because it's North of Watford Gap?

Mostly because its a hole

And even journos stay away