Morning on the 6th July near Stirling. We see the M9 being blockaded by radical drummers who pile trees and rocks on the road. They move on when 9 Police vans turn up at high speed. But their exit into a field of cows starts a stampede. One protester is injured by. And the farmer turns up at high speed in his 4x4 and starts to threaten the protesters with a hammer. Police then run in to arrest just about everyone including the farmer.
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http://video.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/123.shtml Morning on the 6th July near Stirling. We see the M9 being blockaded by radical drummers who pile trees and rocks on the road. They move on when 9 Police vans turn up at high speed.
But their exit into a field of cows starts a stampede. One protester is injured by. And the farmer turns up at high speed in his 4x4 and starts to threaten the protesters with a hammer. Police then run in to arrest just about everyone including the farmer.
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Nice one!
08.07.2005 05:28
Doug.
hahahahaha
08.07.2005 07:10
"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
a wee calf
No Exit Strategy!
08.07.2005 08:11
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..
Delia, Stop Ripping Off my Recipes
Even worse
08.07.2005 09:39
..as de kou skyt as de bolle....
Klompie
Homepage:
http://www.devrije.nl
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08.07.2005 10:32
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
a wee calf
Daisy The Cow Strikes Back
08.07.2005 10:34
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.
Mikey
Great, Stirlingshire farmer shows how its done.
08.07.2005 10:53
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!
Greyfriars Bobby
Bull shit
08.07.2005 13:43
Bloody townies!!!
Milky bar kid
Herd Instinct
08.07.2005 20:01
And I thought the farmer summed up pretty much the mood of most Scottish people I've met on this one.
Pete
Kiddies
08.07.2005 21:30
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
That was fun to watch
09.07.2005 00:37
Nukem Tilleyglow
We love heifers ~ great job guys
09.07.2005 01:42
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!
Greyfriars B
Battle of the bull field
09.07.2005 19:33
Dogend
cowtastic
09.07.2005 22:48
The cows are like a herd of wild buffalo.
fladgy
Such bright people
10.07.2005 10:38
Butterfly
Quagmire!
10.07.2005 11:21
foreign devil
Anarchy works so much better in the city.
11.07.2005 00:24
Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.
Henry
which terrorists?
11.07.2005 16:05
Julie, the protesters ARE terrorists!
Greg
Homepage:
http://www.catscape.com
Cows: 1 - Whining protestors: 0
12.07.2005 22:16
Thx for a good laugh.
Pippi
Rofl
14.07.2005 06:25
He might have been hiding more cows out back :)
Jon
blimey
16.07.2005 23:53
frill
M9 DRUMMINGG BLOCK- TACTICAL WITHDRAWAL AND RUNNING AWAY
19.07.2005 12:03
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
usual suspect
nice one!!
12.08.2005 13:44
good luck with future protests.
best of luck and wishes
xXx
random female
Police POV from Plod's Blog
19.12.2005 15:37
Gooz