time to start treating the police as they treat us . Like SCUM

The cops were saying one thing today right from the start:
Don't bother protesting in the future - It's not big and it's not clever - end of story.

So is it illegal for the police to take picture/film of single person?
When i left the Oxford Circus protest, i was controlled and checked by 2 nazi officers who took picture of me and aslo film me while all my stuffs were checked...
So if it is not legal, i'd like to know...
Of course i geve them a wrong name: Nicolas Bové (i thought giving them José as my first name would be just too much)
;)

I've just realised - why the bollocks didn't I give a fake name like the one I've put on this message.

Oh poo.

I guess I was just so shaken and scared by being pushed and shoved by riot police (robocops) and having stuff thrown at me (well at the riot police next me but it felt like at me) by off-duty football hooligans for several hours that my brain wasn't working and I just did it all automatically in the vague hope that they would continue to roughly drag me until I was right out of there.

So, was it illegal to photograph me? And how long can they keep my photo and what will they do with it? I think perhaps I'll change my name now.

Also, why on earth did they push us peaceful protesters into the violent ones? Oh look those lot are throwing fire and fighting - let's push these ones who're standing out of the way asking to go home into those ones and then they'll all be hurt. That's a good idea.

I guess also I assumed that they were doing it legally and that they could therefore ask for proof of identity. And I didn't want to be beaten up by the 30 killing machines that seemed to be assigned to each searchee.

What can I do about it?

What a scandal.THe politicians, say they support peacefull demonstrations, still yesterday we were victims of the lowest form of excess of authority. I came all the way from portugal(not really, i study here) to show my countrys support for the peace fighters of london, and what i saw was the police abusing it's authority, towards a group of innocent demonstraters. Those dirty officers(anxious to use their new and funky equipment), did all to provoke a riot, but everyone kept cool...i was so proud of being there(even being so cold).We showed them that our weapon is our voice.We don't need no more troubles. I am just sorry i gave them my real name,if only i new...
Still "well done" england...i was surprised with the people i met...true freedom fighters....keep it real.
I would also like to say the riots in oxford street could have been evoided...not that i have anything against burning Nike(quite the contrary), but in a way it overshadowed the statement of the majority(why didn't you burn nike today, it would have been better)...the international press, as always, coverded the violence, but didn't covered the the early protests...shame

"hasta la victoria , siempre"
che guevara (untill victory, always)

It was disscusting the way the police treated the peaceful protestors on May 1st.

Boxing them in to a small area for 7 Hours, obstructing their right of way, and then treating them like criminals when they finaly let them leave. It looked to me as if the police were the ones trying to provoke an all out riot amongst the protestors, to give the mainstream media DIRTBAGS the story they wanted.

Thankfully, the protestors did'nt rise to the bait.

Congratulations on a peaceful protest and getting your messages across so well!!!

So called "peaceful protest" is an invention of the State, another form of control. They allow "peaceful protest" when it suits them, and they stop "peaceful protest" when it suits them also. Either way they do it in the name of "democracy". It is all part of the State's wider agenda of control to manipulate people into conformity. We need to see this control and not be led into so called "peaceful protest". The State laughs at "peaceful protest" cos it plays right into their hands, they are not in the least bit threatened by it. They are threatened by people attacking property and the people who defend property, which is why they try and break those peoples heads with clubs and try and lock them up. A fundamental part of this State repression is to label the people carrying out the attacks on property & security forces as "violent". This labelling serves to marginalise those people so they can be more easily repressed. At the same time people who stay within the law are labelled "peaceful protestors", which is part of the same process that maginalises the people being labelled as "violent". This labelling forms the whole basis of State & Corporate control, as it serves to keep us divided and ruled. We need to dump this labelling altogether to overturn the control. There really is no "peaceful protesters" or "violent protestors". These are just labels used to divide us so we can be more easily repressed.