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

Good photos e1939484 ...

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like this one .. :D
 
pboi said:
hopefully rhe police keep up the violence and segregation. Be grateful we dont live in a country with less than favourable treatment of 'protests' such as these. the (Chinese, Russians etc etc) would beat the crap out of these soap dodgers
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The trolls are coming out of their hidey holes quicker than I can put them on ignore :(
 
pboi said:
Be grateful we dont live in a country with less than favourable treatment of 'protests' such as these. the (Chinese, Russians etc etc) would beat the crap out of these soap dodgers
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Yes be grateful we don't live in an authoratative repressive country, because....no, wait. What?
 
SpookyFrank said:
There were coppers inside the building but not outside am I right?

What's that about then? Hardly acting to prevent property damage there were they? More like waiting for the inevitable bit of window smashing then nicking those responsible so they've got something to brag about and lots of pictures of things 'getting out of hand' to justify the subsequent kickings-off. Doubt the papers will see it like that though :( :mad: :hmm: :rolleyes:
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Yes there was fit as i understand inside, windows smash as they film and photograph, no blaim on the protesters here, but praise for going for it though it seems to have been a set up as all other windows boards on rbs not? you make up your own mind, likewise with hsbc


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editor said:
This is against the law, surely?
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Looks like Labour/Cons changed the law.
Jan 2008 said:
Labour has been locked in a war of words with the Conservatives over stop and search, with the two parties promoting apparently similar policies.

In the Commons, Mr Cameron challenged Mr Brown to scrap the "stop and account" forms officers must fill in when they stop someone, which he said were a "colossal waste of police time".

Mr Brown told him to wait for the publication of the Flanagan report next Monday, adding: "We are taking the action that is necessary and you should be supporting us."

In an interim report published last year, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the chief inspector of constabulary in England and Wales, said police were bogged down in red tape and afraid to use their own judgement.

In a separate move, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is expected to announce in the next few days that more police officers will be given the power to search people without giving a reason, the BBC understands.

The powers - which have been trialled in four pilot areas - will be limited to a 24 hour period within specific area where there is reason to believe serious crime is being committed.

Mr Cameron told the BBC he would back such a move - and he dismissed claims that it would harm community relations.

Mr Cameron said the rules had been brought in to protect black and Asian communities from racist police officers but were now harming the communities they were meant to help.
It's one thing to cut down on bureaucracy - quite another to use powers as a blunt instrument which alienates more young people than it protects
Shami Chakrabarti
Liberty
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Under Tory proposals, police sergeants would be able to authorise the use of stop and search of pedestrians and vehicles in a specific area for up to six hours - or 48 hours if permission is granted by a senior officer.

Director of human rights group Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, said: "We look forward to Sir Ronnie's detailed report and less political bluster on stop and search.

"It's one thing to cut down on bureaucracy - quite another to use powers as a blunt instrument which alienates more young people than it protects."

Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said he backed more intelligence-led stop and search but would resist Tory and Labour efforts to scrap data gathering.

"The police need good relations with all our communities. Stop and search is currently used six times as much with ethnic minorities.

"That is why records must be kept and reviewed, and why we will resist any Tory or Labour attempts to remove these safeguards."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7216815.stm
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And I noticed that Cameron was presented on BBC News 24 (9pm) as 'might be our next Prime Minister'
 
just seen a thouroghly depressing news report on sky news. Completly twisting it onto being the protesters fault. Bunch of fucking cunts.
 
Wild G20 protests lock down London

Daily Telegraph in Oz has this!

Wild G20 protests lock down London

PROTESTERS swarmed through London on Wednesday, smashing their way into a bank and clashing with police in an outburst of anger on the eve of the G20 summit.

Police, many dressed in riot gear, were out in force as thousands of protesters demonstrated through the city's financial district, outside the US embassy and in Trafalgar Square.

Chanting anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-pollution slogans, they were determined the G20 leaders heard their fury before holding talks about the global financial crisis on Thursday.

Dozens of people were arrested after violence erupted outside the Bank of England in the heart of London's financial district around lunchtime.

Anarchists smashed the windows of a neighbouring branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, a financial giant saved from collapse by the British government, and stormed inside.

Riot police on horses were called in to push the protesters on the street back as bottles, cans and paint bombs were thrown at officers.

Some protesters were left bleeding after being hit by baton-wielding police during the clashes.
Police quickly cordoned off surrounding streets to coral the 4,000 protesters who had converged on the area.

Metropolitan Police commander Simon O'Brien said the response by officers had been "proportionate'', adding that it was clear some protesters had been "determined to cause violence''.

The violence was condemned from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has travelled to London for the G20 summit.

"When it comes to acts of violence, these are unacceptable on the streets of London as they would be on the streets of Sydney or the streets of Melbourne,'' he told reporters.

"People around the world are concerned about the impact of a crisis which they did not cause and its impact on their families and their communities through the loss of jobs, I understand that.

"That does not provide any justification whatsoever to wanton violence.''

The protest had began peacefully, with thousands of demonstrators descending on the Bank of England from four different directions for what was dubbed "Financial Fools Day''.

Led by the ``four horsemen of the apocalypse'', the anti-capitalist protesters chanted ``build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put the bankers on top'' and ``fight back, fight back''.

Effigies of bankers were hung from traffic lights, while some protesters dressed as grim reapers and devils and waved placards.

Ronnie, a 38-year-old unemployed builder, said many people were ``disgusted'' at the way they had been treated by governments during the credit crunch.

"They need to listen because the world is in a state,'' he said.

Many businesses near the Bank of England were boarded up amid fears they would be attacked, while swathes of office workers decided to take the day off to avoid any clashes.

Nearby on Bishopsgate, environmentalists brought traffic to a halt on the busy road as they pitched hundreds of tents for a ``climate change flash camp'' outside the European Carbon Exchange.

Their demonstration remained mostly peaceful, with only a few minor skirmishes with police as officers attempted to clear the road.

The protesters planned to spend the night camped at the site to highlight their concerns about carbon trading and global warming.

Hundreds of other anti-war campaigners also rallied at Trafalgar Square after protesting outside the US Embassy in west London.

A total of 24 people had been arrested by the end of the day, including 11 who had been in an armoured vehicle with police uniforms.

More protests are planned tomorrow when the G20 leaders, including US President Barack Obama, meet for their talks in the Docklands, in London's east.
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ElectricKingdom said:
So why do these people feel the need to cover their faces at these protests?
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because they know there's a distinct potential for the police to kick off at some point, and if they do and you opt to defend yourself rather than passively allowingthe police to batter you, if you've not been masked up all day then the police will search back through the FIT teams pictures from the day til they find one of you without the mask on, then use that to find you and nick you for whatever they can get away with... doesn't matter if they started it, it's still you that'll end up in court.
 
21:35 - A photographer was taken to one side by police and threatened under anti-terror legislation that he was not allowed to take pictures of police "engaged in their duty." Police confiscated his camera and attempted to delete all the photographs he'd taken. The photographer pulled out another camera to film them doing this, and was threatened again, but police then returned the first camera.
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The phrase 'win' comes to mind :D

If ever there was proof positive that the public must be allowed* to take pictures/footage of the plod no matter what they're up to, today's circus of kickings and kettlings is surely it.

*allowed is the wrong word obviously, we pay these cunts' wages; it should be us 'allowing' them to do stuff, not the other way round.
 
free spirit said:
because they know there's a distinct potential for the police to kick off at some point, and if they do and you opt to defend yourself rather than passively allowingthe police to batter you, if you've not been masked up all day then the police will search back through the FIT teams pictures from the day til they find one of you without the mask on, then use that to find you and nick you for whatever they can get away with... doesn't matter if they started it, it's still you that'll end up in court.
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Thanks for your answer.
 
ElectricKingdom said:
I'm asking a resonable question. I don't know - so i'm asking.
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the goverment see people who don't go along with their policies as terrorists. Would you want to get yourself onto a terrorist file just for standing up for what is right? All these stop and searches, were brought in under all the new anti terror law. They are treating people as terrorists, when they are the ones who truly care for the country and it's people.
 
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