Riot police at Threadneedle street 1st April

imc_london_mobile | 01.04.2009 13:32 | G20 London Summit | Climate Chaos | Workers' Movements

Riot police vans in the crows at Threadneedle street

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Big Brother TV

01.04.2009 13:47

G20 - Police to commandeer 3000 CCTV cams in London

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/London-G20-Summit-2009-Police-To-Monitor-Citys-CCTV-Cameras-As-Security-Operation-Tightens/Article/200903415252761?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15252761_London_G20_Summit_2009%3A_Police_To_Monitor_Citys_CCTV_Cameras_As_Security_Operation_Tightens_

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Why

01.04.2009 13:59

.. were the protestors kettled outside the RBS, an obvious target with bizarrely unprotected plate glass windows? A more suspicious mind than mine might get all conspiratorial (damage, pillage, etc.)

sphatt

Mainstream coverage shows that the people were kettled and after a while some of them attacked the bank, though journalists are not making the connection because they are either too stupid to make it or their editors don't want to hear the truth.

The police have kettled people outside places which "just happen" to be unprotected, in full view of the mainstream media, before. It is not a new tactic and it is clear that their aim is to frustrate people so that some of them cause the damage the police want to see because they can use this as an excuse for even more repression. The police did a minor variation on it at Gleneagles, where the weak part of the fence "just happened" to be in front of where the mainstream media were located. The police are not as stupid as they make out.

A N Other

Damn non violence!

01.04.2009 14:49

We should be using various different tactics not just ruling class, racist etc non violence tactics.

Everyone should read "How non violence protects the state" if you search on piratebay you'll find a photocopied version to download and read.

Insurrection

Has anyone bothered...

01.04.2009 14:52

...to ask the police just WHY they are protecting the G20 criminals against the anger of the robbed?

Because it's obvious

01.04.2009 15:01

The police protect the G20 because they are all part of the same machine; just like most of us, including the ones who Tut! when a window is broken but still support symbolic "action".

It's a lovely day - most of the protestors are having a nice time, but nothing will change because of this. Undermine the system; don't support state-sanctioned protest.

Keith
Homepage: http://www.amatterofscale.com

it's not a police setup

12.04.2009 11:21

> Mainstream coverage shows that the people were kettled and after a while some of them
> attacked the bank, though journalists are not making the connection because they are
> either too stupid to make it or their editors don't want to hear the truth.

You're a moron, people fought through the police line at the junction of Threadneedle Street and Bartholomew Lane, the bank was initially outside the cordon.

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> some of them cause the damage the police want to see because they can
> use this as an excuse for even more repression.

Stop defending the police, people should take action *because* of police repression, not shut up in fear of it.

ACAB

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