fred, seriously, same people, same time every year.
why are these ****ers not at work like you and me.
cos they are trouble causing idiots who will protest at someone farting.
shoot the ****ing lot of em and get it over and done with.
[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/police-looking-forward-to-%91summer-of-truncheons%92-200902241600/ ]Supt Logan stressed that anyone who is thinking about protesting this summer should not be put off, adding: "Come to London. Have a day out. Throw bricks, deface banks with your tins of Farrow and Ball paint and above all, when the policemen charge at you, stand your ground.And when six of my lads are dragging you by the hood of your Fat Face cagoule into the back of a van, please do struggle a bit, thereby giving them reasonable cause to boot you squarely in the kidneys. They love that."[/url] 😉
spot on juan.
the red and black flags of the anarchists are in view now thats why the coppers are getting suited and booted.
Keeping them all in one place stops them from running amok throughout the city. my routes to the station to get home already sound blocked, so I don't want anymore neanderthals buggering up my day further. Keep 'em there until they get bored / tired, etc
If the route was known before the protest, why would they not board up the RBS of all buildings?
Are the government looking to put forward further restrictions to right to protest before the carp hits the fan with higher unemployment etcetera later on in the year??
New sweepstake:How many times is ton going to post the same thought?
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I'd like to see them go face to face with protesters like men, without gear or tears gases or water canon
Maybe they could just all get their manhood out and compare? Save all the fisticuffs?
LOL @ BD, love it.
A lot of my lads were too young for the poll tax riots and so this could be their only chance to knock the absolute living shit out of a Guardian reader.
my mate who is a copper loves a good ruck
The Beard, last time the protesters actually went up against people who really diditn like them, they got off far worse 🙂
WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail.What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.
“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article515384.ece
and no ****erts biting bd.New sweepstake:How many times is ton going to post the same thought?
may as well go get a bun from the shop...... 😥
i love the daily mash, thats a classic 'story'!
I'd like to see these protestors go face to face with a police force that aren't subject to such media scrutiny. There's any number of countries, including European ones that would have quashed this whole protest already with water cannons, tear gas etc.
The relative restraint and coordinated effort our boys are showing right now is admirable. The penning in is a standard tactic of containment in anything like this, and used to protect the civil liberties of the non-protesting majority. Whether it inflames or not isn't relevant, as in the same way as a fire, if you contain it, it will burn out.
Ton, there are undoubtedly some troublemakers, tis is true. But I'm watching the BBC coverage, and it does appear that the police are provoking violence. This is what the BBC are saying, actually. And the footage does show police pushing the crowds back. Apparently, many people now want to leave the area, but are being prevented from doin so.
You may not agree with their point of view, but they have the right to protest. As did the Miners, the Dockers, the Jarrow Hunger Marchers, the Print workers, etc.
Do you honestly believe the Police want a riot?
It would serve the police's and the government's interests, to have ugly scenes of violence and civil unrest. This would undoubtedly precipitate further restrictions on rights to protest, as new laws banning protests would seem more justified.
They've spent millions on this operation. Of course they want a ruck!
he penning in is a standard tactic of containment in anything like this, and used to protect the civil liberties of the non-protesting majority
Wrong. It's to prevent people leaving the scene, to join protests elsewhere, and to provoke violent response.I've seen this with my own eyes, from within such a situation. The police could easily simply move the group on, allow people to leave, or just let them stay there, which would not provoke angry response.
Protect the Civil Liberties of the Non-Protesting Majority. You make me laugh.
Protect the banks and greed-mongers, more like!
i still cant understand why RBS are the only building on the route not to board up their windows
are these bankers really that stupid
or were they deliberately hoping for this to happen?
Apparently, many people now want to leave the area, but are being prevented from doin so.
See, when the footie is on in Sheffield and when they let the 'peaceful hooligans' leave the area, they (the hooligans) all run round the back street with their 'mates' and re-form, only to spread the disturbance, broken windows and fighting.
Seems sensible to me to bore them into submission by keeping them all in a nice tight knit group, with no weapons to hand, limiting them moving and reforming.
It would serve the police's and the government's interests, to have ugly scenes of violence and civil unrest. This would undoubtedly precipitate further restrictions on rights to protest, as new laws banning protests would seem more justified.
Agrees with Rude Boy.
Goes off for a quiet lie down.
Well, what do you expect from the BBC? Stokes up the story a bit, doesn't it?
kimbers, I would suggest a couple of possible reasons:
1) externally mounted glass clad frames arent easy to "board up"
2) maybe they were trying to say "we have nothing to hide and we support your right to protest"
3) maybe they were trying to say "we arent your enemy, we are a state bank, so dont pick on us"
Matt, it's only rudeboy that doesn't get the concept, so no change there.
Seems sensible to me to bore them into submission by keeping them all in a nice tight knit group
you are trolling aren't you? please tell me you are?
i feel sorry for the everyday staff at the banks, cashiers and the like
Well, it might be protecting the greed-mongers (whoever they are), but I assume they have civil liberties to be protected? Or do you think they should be thrown to the baying crowd? And how do you identify one?
And by banks do you mean their employees, their buildings or the oppressive capitalist system they rely upon?
2) maybe they were trying to say "we have nothing to hide and we support your right to protest"
3) maybe they were trying to say "we arent your enemy, we are a state bank, so dont pick on us"
LOL! Nice one, Stoner!
Matt, it's only rudeboy that doesn't get the concept, so no change there.
LOL! I get the 'concept', PK Pucker, you just don't get the REAL reasons behind such tactics.
And that's '[b]Mr[/b] RudeBoy' to you.
richc - MemberSeems sensible to me to bore them into submission by keeping them all in a nice tight knit group
you are trolling aren't you? please tell me you are?
Well, I would be bored after a couple of hours of rainforest polyphonic singing.
Superb! Are you now comparing today's protestors to the Jarrow Hunger March? or laterly the Miners? Anyway why are you not out there if you care so much? Who knows you may even find the hairy-pitted/like minded/white lightening drinking crustette of your dreams. Or crusty, (not wanting to discriminate.)
What is it really about, a protest or fighting the police? Try this in France or Italy and see what happens.
personally i think all the cashiers should go and find fred the shed and the rest of the board who were so good at their job and offer them to the rioters as a sacrifice
except im sure the board are well out of the way drinking champers with CFH at some old boys club where they probably still import slaves from the "dark continent"
[i]Try this in France or Italy and see what happens.[/i]
[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7952336.stm ]they do it in france all the time!![/url]
but i wouldnt try it in italy [url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7728583.stm ]the police there will beat you to death plant evidence and then get promoted[/url]
Are you now comparing today's protestors to the Jarrow Hunger March? or laterly the Miners?
Protesters are protesters are protesters. ALL protesters have the right to protest. It's part of our rapidly eroding Civil Rights.
Anyway why are you not out there if you care so much?
Because I'm very concerned that the heavy-handed police tactics will result in violence, and I've had enough of violent situations, tbh. I was hoping to pop over the Canary Wharf, but Farticus says nowt's happening there.
Plus, I've got some Capitalist Pig just demanding that I produce miracles by 5pm. I tell you, it's enough to drive one to riot....
Duckman, spot on
Fred has started a new glazing company, arf!
I wonder if all the glass is rose tinted?
I was down at the Bank of England to check it out, nothing really exciting. A bunch of ninja types all in black did a sort of charge that created some momentary excitement. I took photos on my iphone (you have to call it an iphone - see other thread) and posted them to facebook.
The best thing was the gay and tranvestite protestors with the "Trannys against Tyranny" banner - respect!
The climate crusties were trying to pitch tents on tarmac just up the road. I didn't see any real trouble and we suspected the RBS branch was vulnerable given it is right next to the Bank of England and wasn't boarded up. Why these losers think stealing from a bank branch and causing damage is in any way helpful I don't know. Anyway, I bought Pilkington shares ahead of the protests so hopefully that will at least help a bit with their market value.
I think the police were doing a good job of allowing legitimate protest without being agressive, lots of press and TV around and the police were taking a lot of photos.
AIG is next apparently
Oh and everyone wave at the spooks 🙂 page 2 on google [url= http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=protesting+tomorrow+g20+protests&hl=en&start=10&sa=N ]linky[/url]
Apparently, many people now want to leave the area, but are being prevented from doin so.
So they turned up to protest then what? They changed their mind? Wanted a lunch break? Have to pick up the kids from school?
Do or do not, there is no try.
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SSP
I should add, the "thousands" on the streets as reported so far were mainly like me - City workers out for an enjoyable spot of entertainment in the sun over lunch. Take away the spectators and this is not a big protest thus far. I would say the majority of people I saw were just people out for a look and dressed down for the day. My company advised no suits for the day but there were plenty of suits around and plenty of dressed down types - blazers from Ede & Ravenscroft, Calvin Klein chinos and a Gant shirt..
blazers from Ede & Ravenscroft, Calvin Klein chinos and a Gant shirt..
Cheeze, can they not be arrested for that???
[i]blazers from Ede & Ravenscroft, Calvin Klein chinos and a Gant shirt..[/i]
style for miles them guys
Rudeboy, both the Jarrow Marchers (the original ones) and the Miners were fighting(sometimes) to save their livelihoods and their communities. They both behaved with more dignity than any of the protesters on the beeb, despite having none, or very few, of todays lots opps or chances. I find it insulting that you would lump todays protest in with them. Ask the vast majority of todays lot to explain in detail what they are protesting about and I would be suprised if they knew much about toxic debt etc. That is despite three years re-sitting 1st year Moral Philosophy and Cultural studies at poly.
Message to Crusties...
STOP PLAYING RADICAL ON DADDY'S CREDIT CARD.
I don't know, but I suspect that some of the incoherence of today's lot would be down to the sheer complexity of what they might legitimaely have their knickers in a twist about.
Just try to think through how you get a coherent protest chant out of "these bastids invested heavily in collateralised debt obligations under inadequate supervision from a toothless and incoherent tripartite regulatory system, relying on ratings agencies compromised assurances that the assets were worth what investors were paying for them despite the fact that they were derived from at times fraudulent mortgage broking and based on wholly false assumptions about the ability of real estate prices to break free from traditional price drivers, and, once all that lot had come crashing down as a result of a wobble in the US real estate market radically increased perception opf counter-party risk in the money-markets created a sudden and near-total contraction of credit leading to knock-on effects in the real economy which are incrweasingly being felt by ordinary people while the government's response to this is to socialise risk while leaving profit private thereby increasing Birtain's public debt to unheard-of levels to no very obvious benefit"
It's really hard... 😕
France will give you the same treatment than italy. It doesn't mean it's right. And as I said it's very easy for copper to play cowboy when they have sticks, dogs, tears grenade water canon and are fighting 3 against one.
And as I said it's very easy for copper to play cowboy when they have sticks, dogs, tears grenade water canon and are fighting 3 against one.
Only three? I'd be insulted...
Juan, that would be three rioters to one cop yes? Certainly that is the footage Sky and Bbc are showing.
In which case, wouldn't the sensible protestor remain peaceful and not start saying it with bricks? Faced with opponents armed to the teeth and full of menace I'd be more inclined to curl up, not antagonise them.