Amazing... a country that has a long history of women activists and women's camps... and you still find it necessary to put women on the same level as children when it comes to police attacking them?
It's necessary to point out when the police attacks children, when they don't respect the position of legal advisers, but why does it make a difference to you as feature writer whether the police attacks a male or female activist?

How The Police Radicalized An Entire Generation? About fucking time too. None of these tactics are new and we need to realise this and build on the past and our experience, not just go on and on about how dreadful it all is. Stop being hysterical about police violence - this is what they do; it was they did in the Miners Strike, what they did at Greenham and Molesworth, what they did to the travellers and protests in the nineties. Welcome to the club guys - now stop behaving like whinging middle class brats and start fighting.

Star

I totally agree with Clara. It is massively important that the story about children and young teenagers being assaulted, harassed etc. gets out, and mentioning "women and children" like this really waters down the argument. And insults us women who are usually happy to put ourselves on the front line. I mean, going on what I saw last year, probably 60 per cent of climate campers are women... are we really this small, delicate sub-group that need defending by the big men? Fuck off.
However, half a dozen large male coppers throwing a small female in a floaty dress about, shoving her to the ground and sitting on her is shocking...
good on you, campers... well done.
Now get home for a bath and several days of sleep.
xx

I`m embarrassed for Indymedia reading this. An Entire Generation Radicalized! It appears that the author is somewhat divorced from reality. All power to Star and our Sister`s for their most valid observations.

NON VIOLENCE PROTECTS THE STATE---------------EARTH FIRST!

Breach of PACE codes does not make a search unlawful, in the way that an officer not giving his name does (PACE s2).

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From PACE Section 67:

(10) A failure on the part—

(a)of a police officer to comply with any provision of such a code;
(b)of any person other than a police officer who is charged with the duty of investigating offences or charging offenders to have regard to any relevant provision of such a code in the discharge of that duty, or
(c)of a person designated under section 38 or 39 or accredited under section 41 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30) to have regard to any relevant provision of such a code in the exercise or performance of the powers and duties conferred or imposed on him by that designation or accreditation,

shall not of itself render him liable to any criminal or civil proceedings.

(11) In all criminal and civil proceedings any such code shall be admissible in evidence; and if any provision of such a code appears to the court or tribunal conducting the proceedings to be relevant to any question arising in the proceedings it shall be taken into account in determining that question.
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 http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?parentActiveTextDocId=1871554&ActiveTextDocId=1871644

The term/concept of radicalisation is used here by IMCista as if it was an unintended or stupid action by the police - but that's the very point: to radicalise - to radicalise to the point of people reacting so strongly that the violent unlawful means used in the first place are justified retrospectively: "Look, we told you that these climate campers were dangerous people..."

It is repression lesson 1.

Google strategy of tension for entry into more relevant stuff....

But none of the Campers succumbed to the provocation.

How ever much the police might have deserved reprisals against them ("a black eye for a black eye"?), the wise, brave Campers realised that it was better to stay on the high moral ground.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't be forceful in defending ourselves (and that is radical), but it needs to be low key in appearance to be perceived as legitimate (actually, I guess you agree with that last part).

The War On Terror boardgame seized by the cops appears in The IT Crowd (a stupid sitcom shown on channel 4 on 2007).

Oh, and I agree with the above posters. "women and children." This is Indymedia, not the Sun. Think about what you're writing.

Lets try something a bit more honest and a bit less sensational shall we? How about: "How The Police pissed off a few hundred white middle class kids who were previously indifferent to them."? Its not such a catchy title but its certainly a lot more accurate. If you wan't to see kids radicalized en masse by the filth then just go to any council estate.