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Why are the police protecting Phillip Green? - A thought from jail....

UK uncut | 18.12.2011 14:02 | Other Press | Policing | Public sector cuts

Yesterday I was arrested inside Topshop on Oxford Street after just two minutes of protesting.

For chanting “pay your tax”, two snarling beefcake thugs hired by Topshop bent my arms behind my back, shoved me in front of two coppers, who then frog marched me out to the back of the store, and onto the police station, where I remained for seven hours.

Police station cells are barren concrete holes where the only signs of life come from the immortal carvings etched into the wooden bench by some previous guests of the State.

Yesterday’s police cell promoted two things things: 1)Walking in a circle 2)Thinking………

Why on earth are the police protecting the likes of Topshop, Vodafone, Boots, and Barclays bank!! The bosses of these companies take an active interest in reducing their contributions to public funds.



9 people got arrested yesterday, six in London, and three in Nottingham. Dozens of police heavys guarded the front of Vodafone, Boots, and Arcadia stores across the country.

The political Right in this country like to talk about the horrors of a “something for nothing” culture. Well, Phillip Green pays no tax on his company dividends. He couldn’t give a monkeys about public funds, yet his stores are granted protection by the police force – a public service!

Companies like Topshop also make full use of waste disposal services, the Royal Mail, ambulances, fire service,and road maintenance.

How amazing would it be if the unions and the police federation organised to withdraw their labour from these companies. Binmen should refuse to pick up Vodafone’s garbage! The police should refuse to attend demonstrations or arrest shop lifters at Topshop and friends.

Philip Green, if you refute tax payments, then you should rely on your beefcake thugs to protect your profits, and not call in the cops. Yesterday you,and the rest of your ilk, proved that you really are filthy rich scroungers.

UK uncut
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Why?

18.12.2011 14:28

I'm trying to comprehend the logic of the protest.
You want Philip Green to collect more tax from the shoppers and hand it to the state, so their hired thugs can break the law and kidnap and imprison you. Why?

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Phillip Green will file this under "I" for ignore

18.12.2011 14:28

Seriously, in 2005 Philip paid his family £1.2 billion
He really isn't going to give a rats arse about your rantings

Move on

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18.12.2011 15:28

it's not tax from shoppers, it's tax on massive company dividends

although you may like to think that tax's only go to hitting protestors, they also go towards hospitals, schools, social care, fire services bla bla bla bla....

you pay tax, so should he.

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ah! yes! the NHS of cource! silly me!

18.12.2011 16:15

So long as they provide us with NHS to shut us up, we'll not stop funding their crusades and social control. Government must have a monopoly over all health care, all education all fire safety etc. The the government is us. We are the government. Long live social control (oops! I mean socialism)

Oh, just one thing, do you not think if you tax top shop profits, they don't have the power to just put up the prices on the essential products they provide. The ordinary working classes wont live long in the english winter without clothing and we can't make it ourselves.

I don't mean to be negative about your protest, well done for telling people about the hypocrisy of the state, but don't think it can be fixed.

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dividend?

18.12.2011 16:47

>>it's not tax from shoppers, it's tax on massive company dividends

your sure its not corporation tax?
if its dividends then you probably want to aim the protest at the recipient of the dividents

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18.12.2011 17:08

So long as they provide us with NHS to shut us up, we'll not stop funding their crusades and social control. Government must have a monopoly over all health care, all education all fire safety etc. The the government is us. We are the government. Long live social control (oops! I mean socialism)

No one is stopping you going private with Bupa etc?
And who else is going to deal with "fire safety" - you with a bucket? I'd rather have the fire brigade thanks.

>>Oh, just one thing, do you not think if you tax top shop profits, they don't have the power to just put up the prices on the essential products they provide.

Not really. They can't put up prices because they must be competitive to stay in business :)
"the power"? ..... you mean they can choose how to run their own business?
If they do try to put the prices up too much, then they wont be in business long will they.
I think the issue is a small set are managing to avoid paying corporation tax.


> The ordinary working classes wont live long in the english winter without clothing and we can't make it ourselves.
Yes - precisely. No one is forcing us to buy clothes from shops. Personally, I think it is a good idea. I don't want to freeze to death or spend hours and hours making my own clothes. It makes more sense and is cheaper for me to buy them.

Basically, I'm not a clothes maker, I would pay a clothes maker to make my clothes :)

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anarcho-capitalist trolls out in strength again...

18.12.2011 18:55

You can be anarchist for the abolition of the state and still see the hypocrisy of rich people (who fund the politicians paying low or no tax whilst simultaneously expecting plebs like us to pay a lot of tax.

There are two tactics we can use in practical terms whilst waiting for the eventual abolition of the state:

1) encourage regular people to fiddle their own tax as much as possible.
2) attack the rich scum directly and "tax" them by stealing from them.

And Philip Green may not give a rat's arse what people think but there are a lot of nutters out there on our side who might well be inspired to take some Robin Hood or French Revolution style action against him after reading this!

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why WOULD the cops do anything else?

18.12.2011 23:56

cops exist to protect the rich and powerful (and their property) from the poor.

why on earth is anyone even mildly surprised by their behaviour? this is why they exist, this is why they are cops, this is why the state grants them the powers it does.

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hypo

19.12.2011 02:17

>> cops exist to protect the rich and powerful (and their property) from the poor.

You think 'the poor' should just be able to taken stuff off people!!?

Well, my theory is different. if someone owns something, then yes, they have a right to have it protected from someone who wants to take it off them. Afterall, they paid for it!

Heres one for you....
If the "poor" suddenly win the lottery (which they do). How come they don't give all their money away to the poor when they suddenly become "rich" ?

I bet if you won the lottery, you wouldn't suddenly be thinking about the poor

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