Weds 1st April: G20 protests - discussion, reaction and chat

[Jeff Robinson]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article6016628.ece

"Canada Out of Afghanistan"

Nice to know the Spartacist league were in attendance!

 

[Treacle Toes]

yeah, he was good. very lucid.

As opposed to??? Off his face?

 

[tangentlama]

They didn't have any difficulty broadcasting for a couple of hours from 11am till 1.15-ish, including with an overhead helicopter camera and Ben Brown on the ground. 1.15-ish also coincidentally seems to be when the police increased the kettling and whacking people.

Ben Brown was just in the middle of doing a live piece to camera when the police baton charged without warning, and the BBC cut off the picture and haven't showed what happened. He said afterwards that he doesn't understand why they suddenly charged and beat the people who were sitting down in the road.

Maybe I could withold my council tax which goes to pay for policing in protest at treatment of obviously peaceful demonstrators? They don't deserve overtime for willful injury of my fellow citizens.

 

[ElectricKingdom]

whats news on the protest front....another resounding success I take it ....

Rik from The Young Ones sang a song on the steps of the BOE. Everyone blamed the police.

 

[Griff]

Guardian 4.30pm

Here, at least, it really does seem like pumped police looking for a fight. Protesters trying to sit down on road getting pounded.

 

[DRINK?]

Rik from The Young Ones sang a song on the steps of the BOE. Everyone blamed the police.

Whenever I picture a protest I imagine that fat girl that argued with Ali G when he went protesting

 

[tangentlama]

Police just charged the protestors they'd penned in? These same protestors they are not allowing to leave? What's their game?

Anyone got any more news on this?

 

[Yossarian]

Sounds like some incredibly shitty policing today, I hope the fuckers go home to discover the Met invested their pension funds with Bernie Madoff.

 

[cesare]

Anyone got any more news on this?

The Beeb did say that there was a sudden charge, but also that it wasn't clear why.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Rik from The Young Ones sang a song on the steps of the BOE. Everyone blamed the police.

Whenever I picture a protest I imagine that fat girl that argued with Ali G when he went protesting

funny cos whenever i picture you two and ajdowner... i always imagine the of course i was terribly drunk at the time spit fleck lips and ranting insanity...

 

[T & P]

I do like this picture

 

[Griff]

Guardian 4.42pm

I've just seen a girl unconscious being carried away, her whole face drenched in blood. This obv whipping up real anger

 

[purplex]

funny cos whenever i picture you two and ajdowner... i always imagine the of course i was terribly drunk at the time spit fleck lips and ranting insanity...

I like you garf, a lot actually

 

[DRINK?]

funny cos whenever i picture you two and ajdowner... i always imagine the of course i was terribly drunk at the time spit fleck lips and ranting insanity...

rapier-like wit again... would be quicker to write it on a Post-it and stick it to the back of a tortoise.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I do like this picture

Love it.

Time for some J Dilla:

1 2 3

 

[purplex]

I do like this picture

Wicked

 

[ElectricKingdom]

funny cos whenever i picture you two and ajdowner... i always imagine the of course i was terribly drunk at the time spit fleck lips and ranting insanity...

Stop fantasizing about us.

 

[nopassaran]

I do like this picture

..and for the benefit of some here, it should come with the caption "NOT STAGE MANAGED"

 

[DRINK?]

Wicked

brilliant...capitalism ends here....mugs

 

[tangentlama]

Guardian 4.42pm

I've just seen a girl unconscious being carried away, her whole face drenched in blood. This obv whipping up real anger

Who will police the police if not the BBC cameramen who are present at the scene. Next time BBC, don't bother cutting your camera feed. Just keep rolling. The British public don't need to be protected from the knowledge of idiotic police tactics. A 14 year old can work out that the consequences of penning people in then pushing at them is going to cause some in the crowd to be crushed.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

brilliant...capitalism ends here....mugs

Who said that you thick cunt?

 

[nopassaran]

I do like this picture

...arguably more effective than writing to your MP!

 

[DRINK?]

Who said that you thick cunt?

good stuff....

How can the vllage idiot get online so easily these days? ...its them community carers. Bleeding heart liberals

 

[marshall]

gah, disappointed, hardly 1990 was it?

 

[jæd]

...arguably more effective than writing to your MP!

Only if you want to appear on TV, potentially put lives at risk, damage the reputation of your fellow protesters. Won't actually do much to the Credit Crunch, RBS profits...

 

[Mitre10]

Just watching the news and the workers in one of the bank buildings they showed was holding a sign up to the window:

"While you're here protesting we're busy repossessing your house"

Had to laugh

 

[nopassaran]

Only if you want to appear on TV, potentially put lives at risk, damage the reputation of your fellow protesters. Won't actually do much to the Credit Crunch, RBS profits...

...agreed, but you can't deny it makes a statement of radical dissent.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

good stuff.... [and yet you were unable to address the question, probably because you're a dumb fuck]

How can the vllage [you needed an i there] idiot get online so easily these days? ...its [apostrophe needed here] them [you mean those] community carers. Bleeding heart liberals

Thick twat

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

rapier-like wit again... would be quicker to write it on a Post-it and stick it to the back of a tortoise.

intresting choice of metaphore... you identify with a creature known for pulling it's head into it's shell to hide from the realities of the world...

 

[jæd]

...agreed, but you can't deny it makes a statement of radical dissent.

A smashed window is hardly "radical". More go-with flow, smash something because we can, etc...