Can't we say No One is Illegal? Or is there a bigger German-speaking community in Brum than we've been led to believe?

"We" can say whatever "we" wish, so long as "we" turn up at the demo.

..but I live in London.

Actually I apologise for seeming to take the piss. It's a fucking serious issue in any language.

 http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/justiceandrights/

The police "tactics" were to push the demo into a car park, off the pavement outside Sandford House. They said we were blocking the foot path. there were no pedestrians anyway. We offered to make a single line so that people if any could get by, but our placardscould still be read by passers by. In the car park no-one could read us. Then they sent a police van that parked half across the car park entrance so that even less could we be read. This resulted in people finding a way round the cordon and dancing and waving placards in the street. The police had to close Homer Road. So, because they said we were blocking the pavement when effectively we weren't, they had to close the whole raod. Not good policing. Mindless. not open to negotiation. closed minds.
As I left a woman was upset about not being able to get up Homer froad from Touchwood. I explained to her that people were demonstrating for their lives. She said they should all be sent back. What? I remonstrated, To be killed? Yes she said. Oh is there any cause in nature makes these hard hearts? (Shakespeare! King Lear!)


Didn't see Blixa at thedemo - aber sie werde wilkommen sein.

Respect to the demonstrators: saw the coverage on the TV: looked as though the turn out was impressive and that people got their message across despite the ridiculous police interventions.

And the Touchwood woman should be given a month's free holiday in a Kinshasa gaol: see if that might change her tiny mind!