The ride was great at first, good music, nice vibes, and circling Parliament Sq was very enjoyable. Though during the last hour or so things started to turn very nasty, especially at the front
It seems the latest police tactics are to barricade the ride at the front whilst pressing the pace at the back with a police van and screamed orders to move on......thus forcing us to occupy the minimum possible amount of road space and compacting the ride to the point where it is nearly impossible to move without clipping someone's back wheel.
Those people who resented being herded like sheep were subjected by the police to physical assault, intimidation, threats, verbal abuse of the most foul kind and in one case, arrest.
These sickening bully-boy tactics cannot be tolerated under any circumstances. The police officers behaving in this manner are a disgrace to their uniform and must be held to account.
It seems that legal observers will have to be brought in and video evidence collected in order to protect ourselves and obtain justice.
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk
Those people who resented being herded like sheep were subjected by the police to physical assault, intimidation, threats, verbal abuse of the most foul kind and in one case, arrest.
These sickening bully-boy tactics cannot be tolerated under any circumstances. The police officers behaving in this manner are a disgrace to their uniform and must be held to account.
It seems that legal observers will have to be brought in and video evidence collected in order to protect ourselves and obtain justice.
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk
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Why don't they chase some real murderers? Coz they are!
26.08.2006 23:36
The boys in blue ain't no good at picking on people their own size and under the current corrupt way of doing things they are incapable of getting their own house in order. Armed to the teeth with a lot more than a truncheon they could round up the terrorists, i.e. the politicians and royals that pre-emptively voted/signed off 'T.W.A.T.' - 'The War Against Towel-heads', but do they? Pigs might fly...
Where were thousands of 'pigs' on 11 September 2001? Rounding up fluffy arms-trade protestors outside the DSEi exhibition. Meanwhile, on the BBC, people from the company responsible for aforementioned arms-trade fair were telling the world that 'only Osama bin Laden' had the means, motive and opportunity to take out the Pentagon (arms?) and Twin Towers (trade?). As we all know, no hard evidence has ever been presented to make the case against Osama bin Laden, and even the 'feds' acknowledge this to be the case.
When is the proverbial going to hit the fan? Where did that saying come from anyway? Is that Judgement Day? I guess that the intimidation is somewhat sub-conscious, cyclists just plain irritate the people that just don't get it. Cyclists don't have quite the same eco-baggage that the tin-box fraternity have and neither are (most) cyclists massively risk averse, i.e. sold on insurance and in fear of car-crime, of which there is plenty. Even worse, some cyclists are quite fit, in mind if not body, for the simple reason that cycling gets the heart going. Who knows, maybe it could be the cyclists that first begin to put two and two together regarding the day that took us into this war, and all those plods that were in on 'Operation Calm' are utterly complicit, whether they like it or not.
As a cyclist I always take the train if I have to travel long-distance, so I no longer get to see motorways. If I can remember, seventy miles per hour is the speed limit, not eighty miles an our, or ninety or even one-hundred-and-forty (nowadays 'acceptable' for off-duty traffic-cops). Is it still the norm for motorists (people) to speed on motorways, gridlock permitting? If I remember, under such circumstances it can be difficult to stick to seventy as that 'holds everyone up'. Maybe it is time for the traffic-cops to apply the tactics they have been perfecting on cyclists to the speeding motorway users - they could do with being slowed down a bit because speed kills and motoring kills the air, sucking the life out of it (oxygen) and only putting pollutants back. Every car should come with an 'ASBO'.
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