NUS national protest against the cuts 10.11.10 [London]

[Streathamite]

Violence achieves nothing. It just leads to more violence.

Revolutionary violence achieves an awful lot, actually!

 

[audiotech]

The Dep Comm of the Met.
'Did you anticipate trouble?'
'Reserve's were available.'
'Are people confident now in the ability of the Met to manage such protests?'
'The Met hugely experienced.'

 

[Blagsta]

Does any know if it is safe to travel home via Westminster on the tube

I dunno, are you a tory?

 

[Lock&Light]

Revolutionary violence achieves an awful lot, actually!

An awful lot of destruction, generally.

 

[Ungrateful]

Violence achieves nothing. It just leads to more violence.

Errr.... Second World War.... Anti-Franco resistance.... containing and confronting aggressive racists.... All effective to a lesser or greater extent.

In fact to do anyting effective against the ruling owers requires actions which they will consider 'violent'. It's not a matter of pacifism against violemnce, but which types of violence. Whose hurt, what's gained, what sort of relationships are developed or destroyed through vthe action....

Good luck to the students and university employees..... shake in your boots NUS bureaucrats and the political class you want to join....

 

[revol68]

The cunt from the NUS is on Sky, blaming it on Anarchists, called the actions at Millbank despicable and a disgrace.

Fuck off you piece of shit wannabe bureaucrat.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Yeah, this certainly seems to be just the start of such things.

Fuckin' right!

Have they torched Tory HQ yet?

 

[fractionMan]

Because leadership like this crave ineffectual protest as an outlet and diversion for real anger, safe in the knowledge that such protests will achieve nothing and allow them to scale the career ladder in politics that every national NUS bureaucrat dreams of building on the backs of their members.

This is real treachery and his reaction to the minor civil disobedience shown today tells us everything we need to know about him and the entire NUS leadership. He, like all union leaders are active obstacles to a real fight. Steam valves whose entire purpose is to control and dampen real struggles. As soon as the slightest attempt to launch anything but impotent symbolic protest is made his true colours come out and he condemns it. He's a traitor and every NUS member should treat him with the contempt he deserves and spit in his cowardly face.

well said

 

[dylans]

yeah, they wage violent class war on the working class and should be met with violence in return.

peaceful lawful protest achieves fuck all. How many million marched against the invasion of Iraq did fuck all, maybe if a a tenth of those marching had taken direct action and violence the outcome would have been different.

This

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Revolutionary violence achieves an awful lot, actually!

Too true.

 

[krtek a houby]

Revolutionary violence achieves an awful lot, actually!

This is a revolution, is it? Thing is, much as I deplore violence, I can understand it in truly repressed countries where the people are subject to brutal regimes. As I said earlier, this ain't no Tianamen Square.

Yeah, it's shit what the ConDems and their New Labour predecessors and their predecessors etc have done to the people but it's not fertile ground for a revolution.

 

[grit]

The cunt from the NUS is on Sky, blaming it on Anarchists, called the actions at Millbank despicable and a disgrace.

Fuck off you piece of shit wannabe bureaucrat.

Even if he did agree, he couldnt say it publicly. Also, the lads in millbank are not representative of the general students down there today, I still salute them though.

 

[audiotech]

BBC spokeswoman:

'Protest very violent, people were kicking in windows.'

 

[eoin_k]

Will you advise us when we have been sufficiently repreesed?

 

[editor]

Violence achieves nothing. It just leads to more violence.

Poll Tax?

 

[krtek a houby]

Errr.... Second World War.... Anti-Franco resistance.... containing and confronting aggressive racists.... All effective to a lesser or greater extent.

Good luck to the students and university employees..... shake in your boots NUS bureaucrats and the political class you want to join....

This is not WW2, nor a fight against fascism or racism. To even compare today's violence to the above is crass and insulting.

 

[The Rural Juror]

This is not WW2, nor a fight against fascism or racism. To even compare today's violence to the above is crass and insulting.

to compare what's happening today with any kind of significance violence is crass and insulting. You credulous dick

 

[Fruitloop]

This is not WW2, nor a fight against fascism or racism. To even compare today's violence to the above is crass and insulting.

Dude, you have no idea what it is.

 

[krtek a houby]

Poll Tax?

Which was replaced by the lesser of two evils - council tax.

I'm not knocking the protests today - but what has the violence achieved?

 

[krtek a houby]

to compare what's happening today with any kind of significance violence is crass and insulting. You credulous dick

That's what I said, arse biscuit

 

[The Rural Juror]

Which was replaced by the lesser of two evils - council tax.

I'm not knocking the protests today - but what has the violence achieved?

not quite Compton is it? fucksake

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

but what has the violence achieved?

a great deal of tv coverage for one thing.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I'm not knocking the protests today - but what has the violence achieved?

Hopefully it's got the ball rolling!

 

[The Rural Juror]

That's what I said, arse biscuit

jesus wept (facepalm).

 

[fractionMan]

It's energised others and made people like yourself sit up and take notice. No damage == no coverage.

 

[krtek a houby]

a great deal of tv coverage for one thing.

Yeah, played right into their hands, didn't they? Once again the reasons for the protest will be ignored in favour of salacious coverage of the violence.

Well done, dickheads.

 

[grit]

a great deal of tv coverage for one thing.

++

 

[Idris2002]

Which was replaced by the lesser of two evils - council tax.

I'm not knocking the protests today - but what has the violence achieved?

We'll know soon enough. Quite possibly it may have achieved little or nothing; on the other hand. . .

 

[sir.clip]

- but what has the violence achieved?

one big headache & a few dead folk, poppy day & grime music.

 

[krtek a houby]

jesus wept (facepalm).

Tell me about it