M9 drumming Blockade and Cow Stampede

I really enjoyed this video, espcially the bit where the cows joined in. The protestors did good.

nice to see the way to make you all fuck off is a heard of cows and a scotsman with a hammer!

"They move on when 9 Police vans turn up at high speed"High Speed? I've seen a reliant robin move faster!

"One protester is injured" Tell me did she go to hospital? Not against "The Man" that much when you need medical assistance

"And the farmer turns up at high speed in his 4x4" Yes cos until some of you "weekend warriors" he needs a 4x4 for work, not for dropping your wee darlings off at school

"and starts to threaten the protesters with a hammer" - the funniest thing I have seen over the last week! send it into you've been framed you'll get £250 for that

"Police then run in to arrest just about everyone including the farmer" do they? its not on the film?

thanks for that,it really has made my Friday. Now fuck off back to Middle England you cunts

Like the previous poster, Your film made me laugh til I cried.

Like news from the middle of nowhere..
What were you demonstrating against?
Where was the opposition, the enemy, the focus?

And you had the funniest NO EXIT strategy I've seen
In a long long time..

It is even worse, you xenophobic lads and lassies - the resisters did not come from Middle England to your pastures green to pester your cows, but from The Netherlands.
..as de kou skyt as de bolle....

xenaphobic? scotland? don't be silly

and can I just thank you for adding to your carbon footprint by coming to Scotland to be chased by a few cows and an angry scotsman with a hammer

How long before the accusations that the cow was really two secret police/government spies who were dressed in Daisy the Cow pantomime outfit?

You protest on a road next to an open field full of cattle, then run through that field full of cattle what the hell do you expect?

So laughable it’s unreal!

PS - I'm no xenophobic lad or a lass but a Scotsman who looks at both sides of the story.

FANTASTIC.....pity the poor cows who got spooked though. Well done the farmer. Crikey, the 'anarchist' cunts were relaly shitting themselves, I thought that they were going to ask for police protection at one point.


He he he he, makes up foe the shit they caused here in Edinburgh a bit.......

bring it on........

A big 'hello' to all decent Scottish folk who are having to put up with this nonsense, keep post on Indymedia, but remember they WILL remove any posts which speak up against the 'anarchist' fucks.....free speech, Indymedia, dont make me laugh any more eh!

Apart from the inane comments of a couple of the less enlightened posters on this topic i have to agree with the hilarity of protesters who dont know the difference between bulls and cows!!!!!
Bloody townies!!!

You know, it would be deeply ironic if the poor devil that was injured turned out to be a veggie.

And I thought the farmer summed up pretty much the mood of most Scottish people I've met on this one.

My face hurts from laughing! I almost lost it when the farmer started chasing the idiots with the hammer! Too bad he didn't have a shotgun—then you'd have really heard some shrieking. The farmer showed remarkable restraint in refraining from bopping those masked brats swarming all over his yard and chasing his cattle.

So the police were having to babysit these kiddies and pick up their messes, when they could have been doing something more important, like, say, oh I don't know—looking for terrorists?

What a bunch of idiots!

nice one bovines, however, call me paraniod but me and her were at the Highland Show the other week, and guesss what, Best in show went many, many times to stock cared for and trained by none other than the Glasgow Council.....who kind of run the police.....conspiracy theorists get to work on this one....its explosive.

Anyway, it was nice to note the so called riot police actually tending to the injured cow, I do hope she is in pain for week, "ooh, my leg twisted under me, can you call BUPA and daddy please" Tsk!

Firstly...i feel sorry for the cattle,.........but more importantly i have a huge amout of respect for the protestors.........spesh the injured lass...................my m8 was a medic there.............@ thet exact demo............as for the rest of the population............wot a bunch of twats.............OI population of stirling...........................GET A PROPER LIFE......................................

If you haven't seen this yet, download it now before it disappears off the bottom.

The cows are like a herd of wild buffalo.

Dang. Those people were not the brightest on the old Christmas Tree Lights.

Seems like a bit of a QUAGMIRE at the end there...nice to get out in the country and get some fresh air for a change though, isn't it? But remember...cows are people too and you invaded their space and scared them. That's unkind, unChristian, unMuslim and unjustabouteverythingelseIcanthinkof! I think the cows won...just sayin' is all!

Cows and angry farmers just don't play. That was a great laugh.

Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

"So the police were having to babysit these kiddies and pick up their messes, when they could have been doing something more important, like, say, oh I don't know—looking for terrorists?"

Julie, the protesters ARE terrorists!

Someone said the protestors are dutch. Well, Im a dutch myself, and I can wholeheartily say the cows did a good job. The lazy, jobless parasites that make up the G8 protestors (I know a few who went there myself), can't be hit hard enough. And the farmer should get a medal.

Thx for a good laugh.

That was hilarious. I loved it when the "legal observer" decided discretion was the better part of valour, and rather than arguing, just got the off the farmers land quicksmart.

He might have been hiding more cows out back :)

looks like cops have been working overtime spamming this one

M9 DRUMMING BLOCKADE

i was there
most, if not all, of the g8 deals had been done by the time the protests started.
so in that sense the blockades to close down the g8 were primarily symbolic, but nonetheless important.
yes we were tactically effective, and the M9 drumming blockade was an important node in the days' events, one of the most mobile and proactive groups, tying up a lot of the more up-for it- police, enabling other blockades and lock ons the time to work. and we were there for ages holding the road so up yours, whoever you are, who think that we werent effective. i dont need to engage with your , er, bullshit.

there weren't enough of us to hold the road for very long, once enough "steaming for a riot" cop vans hurled into view. we'd played tactical cat and mouse for a bit, enough to hold a line with them keeping a distance.
TACTICAL WITHDRAWAL- OR RUNNING AWAY

after about 40 mins or maybe more having lots of fun on the completely silent, car free motorway doing some samba dancing with onlooking bemused locals peering at us from the footbridges, when the cops 200 + yards away looked like they were going to pile in, we'd withdrawn back from our original position and barricade, and were walking back to meet another group of 50-70 activists on the motorway further back towards junction 10.
a collective decision was made to tactically withdraw. the days objective was hutting down the motorway and disrupting/shutting down gleneagles, not rucking with the cops. we were at that point still on the motorway.

tacitcal withdrawl is v useful. and actually, despite the herd of young bullocks, nature (as opposed to a farm!!) is v effective for activists, for william wallace style ' keep under cover till the last minute, then dive out, occupy for as long as you can hold it (or, on occasion if tactically effective eg if locked on - stay there and hold the line), then withdraw, hide in woods as before, chill, and do it again once the cops have pissed off'

much better, in my opinion, than being hemmed in in city streets. nature provides more escape routes.
this is in my opinion a useful account of tactical effectivness, and i would imagine that such stories are similar for the many that came in on foot to get to gleneagles itself.
we were all over that landscape and we completely tactically out manouevered Plod, collectively. nyah nyah nyah nyah nyahhhhhhhh!!!!!
my affinity group did precisely that -getting onto the motorway, and escaping the cops and not being hit or nicked, by disappearing back into the trees. in my opinion a successful action and i was free and still mobile.
if i'd stood and fought i'd have got hit and nicked.

at this point the police finally dismantled our abandoned barricade and suddenly 7 or 8 vans piled towards us at high speed
there was no way those police vans were stopping, we had to get off that side of the motorway to avoid being knocked down, if anyone had falllen over they could have been killed.

the 2 groups of us were now running towards each other to try to regroup- the vans stopped and piled into the 2 groups, with people now running away off the road into a neighbouring field, from riot cops who looked at least from a short distance away, like they were hitting people. it looked like the beanfield. i am glad i wasnt in the middle of that.
actually the cops main objective initially was to clear us off the motorway, v few of them initially came over onto the field, but people understandably panicked and legged it, causing the bullocks to stampede. unfortunately one young woman was apparently seriously injured by stampeding bullcocks , i understand she broke her leg but have no confirmation of this.

the farmer arriving back had an understandable, though compltely unneccesary, over reaction to the activists who were leaving his land as quickly as possible. he thought his family were being threatened, but he did the classic 'get off my land' thing. in fact his family were being reassured by one activist and the farmer was being asked for his grid reference for the farm, for the ambulance, by another, trying to avoid being hit by a hammer.
heigho. not the greatest of outcomes but worse was that plod decided to nick everyone they could find, not sure of details as i'd got back up the hill by then. hopefully enough people got away there, i know quite a few did, there were good escape routes but they needed looking for, and i very much hope no one was injured by police, as it looked like it could have got hectic.
unfiortuntely not many activists at this point found the rather hidden pathway leading round the cliff edge and back up the wooded slope to the top of the hill.
hope enough people got away to rejoin other m9 blockades or get up to gleneagles later. nice one it was a pleasure doing actions with you all :-)
usual suspect x

just like to say well done to all the demonstrators/protestors that were there-you all did a good job, but next time i would advise you to work out an escape route before starting. i personally know one person that was there on the day and he loved every minute of it and really thinks that it was good and it made an impact on quite a few people. i hope that the young lady is okay...
good luck with future protests.
best of luck and wishes
xXx

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