Liverpool Riot
johno | 12.06.2006 13:28 | Free Spaces | Repression | Liverpool
eye witness account: police provocation o reclaim the streets.
liverpool riots over police attack on fans watching for free.
liverpool riots over police attack on fans watching for free.
the scene of rioting fans in the city centre of liverpool capital of culture was blasted across the tv and press in the frenzy for media stories.truth was last to emerge.the first casualty.
several factors however were omitted from the picture presented, several thousand young and jubilant fans watching the match for free in clayton square a city centre shopping quarter idly chatting and chanting in the sweltering heat, were suddenly made aware of a massive police prescence..as they turned the power to the tv off announcing the end..just 3 minutes before the final whistle blew ..then with loudspeakers ordered people to disperse... there prescence was to say the least unwelcome. and the instant angry reaction they wanted from the young was targetted by the press and media hacks who prefer prejudice to the truth.
the spontaneous anger however football coated it appeared was channelled into hatred for the police this however is the unconscious side to the anger at the government..for its war plans and wider social neglect a polarisation of the rich and poor in the city (like everywhere else in the world) meant protect the commercial sector at all costs and prevent rioting and looting ..spectre of 1981 toxteth was on everyone's lips and the police remember it well for they got their asses kicked good style.
the social space in the city is being more and more seized by greedy landgrabbing friends of duke of westminister who have choked the city with new exciting deveolpments..consulting only the business chums of the city not the communities..property speculators and other parasitic professional scum.. yahoo around the city like its theirs.. you're only some one if you own something private property has never been so blessed greed is good for the housing market..we just need to clear the masses from the view..the next reaction to this push and shove or test of strength might not be so peaceful..with the third bout of rioting going all the way to an uprising unleashing social contradictions and economic disparities in wealth and poverty to more explosive effects..viva the urban insurrrection viva the people viva ..anti capitalism...fuck off police bastards.
several factors however were omitted from the picture presented, several thousand young and jubilant fans watching the match for free in clayton square a city centre shopping quarter idly chatting and chanting in the sweltering heat, were suddenly made aware of a massive police prescence..as they turned the power to the tv off announcing the end..just 3 minutes before the final whistle blew ..then with loudspeakers ordered people to disperse... there prescence was to say the least unwelcome. and the instant angry reaction they wanted from the young was targetted by the press and media hacks who prefer prejudice to the truth.
the spontaneous anger however football coated it appeared was channelled into hatred for the police this however is the unconscious side to the anger at the government..for its war plans and wider social neglect a polarisation of the rich and poor in the city (like everywhere else in the world) meant protect the commercial sector at all costs and prevent rioting and looting ..spectre of 1981 toxteth was on everyone's lips and the police remember it well for they got their asses kicked good style.
the social space in the city is being more and more seized by greedy landgrabbing friends of duke of westminister who have choked the city with new exciting deveolpments..consulting only the business chums of the city not the communities..property speculators and other parasitic professional scum.. yahoo around the city like its theirs.. you're only some one if you own something private property has never been so blessed greed is good for the housing market..we just need to clear the masses from the view..the next reaction to this push and shove or test of strength might not be so peaceful..with the third bout of rioting going all the way to an uprising unleashing social contradictions and economic disparities in wealth and poverty to more explosive effects..viva the urban insurrrection viva the people viva ..anti capitalism...fuck off police bastards.
johno
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