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Why were there coaches stopped? Just what powers do the police ACTUALLY have? I had always assumed we had the free right to assembly - am i wrong?

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what the fuck is that trailer being towed by cop van??

Honestly.

A few hundred protesters walking up Princes Street with a few hundred cops is hardly likely to change or effect g8 policy ..

go home ..

gives us our City back.

That thing being towed is a wonderful and beautiful tool of repression. It neatly and quickly unfolds into a porta-pen. It and its brother were unfolded at the mid-point of Hanover street around 3 pm today to completely block any possible retreat in that direction by the protesters.

we were in the front line of this protest - just behind that blockade of police you can see in the photos. This is what happened about half an hour after those pictures were taken: The guys who had been trying to organise the peaceful protestors were led off by the police - we were told they'd gone to 'negociate' - yeah right. we all sat down, we'd been there, peacefully for about 45 minutes, when the police enclosed a group of about a hundred people - they started pulling us up from the ground, forcefully and aggressively pushing us back. i saw someone hit several times in the back with a police baton. i was pushed and shoved in the mass of people the police had decided to attack for no reason. what was amazing, was that in the face of all this police aggression, even though people were so angry and frightened, no one among the protestors responded with the violence the police used so unnecessarily. what kind of deomocracy is this, where youths, adults and children protesting peacefully for a fairer, kinder world, are attacked by police? and this is the democracy we are meant to be 'exporting'??

You have no rights, you are the property of the Queen. The police will take whatever steps necessary to control you and beat the dissent out of you. Road blocks, holding people for longer than is necessary and transporting them to other areas, intimidation and harassment, they have whatever such rights as they deem fit.

They also use these tactics because they want protestors to become agitated and to riot because it justifies their existence as warfare perversely justifies the arms industry.

A sad pattern which has developed at these meetings are the mass arrests which are used to clear the streets, and limit the visibility of the Demos. Most often, these are illegal actions on the part of the police, and all charges against demonstrators are dropped.

The Elite has gotten what it wanted; The streets are cleared, and the Opposition silenced, or at the very least, quieted.

If this is the case, the legal action is a must. If we continue to allow this criminal behaviour to go unpunished, this will only embolden the perpetrators.

[Quote] trailer trash?

06.07.2005 16:25
what the fuck is that trailer being towed by cop van??
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It's a mobile fence that folds out to block roads.

etc.