Strange police days have found us...
Owain Glendwr | 17.12.2001 19:25
It may have escaped the attention of most readers but in both media reports and newspapers the talk is of the police taking industrial action against the government for the first time since about 1911 (if I recall correctly).
What is the attitude of the left to be about this ? I rememebr on last years Gay Pride march a contingent from the Gay & Lesbian Police Officers Group and thinking, soon they'll have to decide which its to be: gay activists, or police... in other words, things are changing rapidly. Activists now include farmers, lorry drivers and all kinds of poeple we would never have expected. Time for a quick think.
What is the attitude of the left to be about this ? I rememebr on last years Gay Pride march a contingent from the Gay & Lesbian Police Officers Group and thinking, soon they'll have to decide which its to be: gay activists, or police... in other words, things are changing rapidly. Activists now include farmers, lorry drivers and all kinds of poeple we would never have expected. Time for a quick think.
Owain Glendwr
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why not...
17.12.2001 21:17
only joking
Taste the Pain
17.12.2001 23:21
DCI Mason
yeah, but
18.12.2001 00:26
zedhead
tear gas them
18.12.2001 01:07
black block
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More the Merrier
18.12.2001 10:15
Brothers with Arms
NO EASY ANSWERS !!!
18.12.2001 15:50
until now, we have all been operating with a 'frame of reference' based on 1968 (student rebellion) and 1984 (miners strike). when Blair was elected one thing was obvious, but unclear: an old era had passed, and a new one had commenced. we are just beginning to see the strange fruits of these strange days. Look at recent developments:
Blair seizing control of NATO[ #], and proclaiming a National Moral Purpose /Countryside Alliance/ housing estates beset by lynch mobs of army wives/ MPs being dragged off(Mr Galloway) and beaten up (Mr Marsden), spurious diseases on farms, truckers & tractor drivers rising up against oil refineries, and now the coppers are about to protest aginst the Stalinist Blunkett. [*]
We should merely observe at this stage; the cops are angry (among other things )about the proposal to create a part time civil force with full powers of arrest and all the gear such as batons and handcuffs. if THAT can be stopped, all to the best, for we know what kind of people want to play at being bobbies.
[#] think about it. why hasnt bush used NATO in the War against Terror ? Becuase Blair and Russia sneaked in. Who runs the secraetariat ? Mr Robertson MP...
[*] of this be in no doubt. Blunkett, like most other of high ranking Labourites, has a Communist history, even if via the Labour party.
zara thustra
Depressed and demoralised sections of society
18.12.2001 17:28
The police are demoralised, and so are the parliament, the labour party, the trades unions, farmers, truckers, radical leftists and almost everyone except the above three.
If Blunkett clashes with the coppers, who will carry out his orders?
what a scary thought : a capitalist- army- church alliance. book your ticket abroad now !
querty uiop