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May first demonstrators harassment and trumped up charges

a non government entity | 06.07.2003 12:36 | May Day 2003 | Globalisation | Oxford

Undercover police or troublemakers working with police were ate demon-stration......
I noticed alot of right-on out of uniform military types,possibly mi5 or undercover police pretending to mingle with crowd outside south africa house......They were going and asking people"why are you here" "are you here because you don't agree with the government" There was a very tall undercover cop there who I recognise from the protest when the war started in parliament square,except this time he was in a ridculous looking cheap viscose material type suit.....

The police on may the first demonstators...were slapping and pushing people,and generally attacking photographers and videographers,the british government had a team of intelligence operatives posing as demonstrators,and the local pigs had a specially trained team of undercover pigs posing as demonstrators.......Who were mingling with the crowd looking ridculously out of rythmn with the music and vibe of the crowd....It is not hard to spot these "undercovers" as they will always be just a little too "right on" and noticeably uncomfortable in thier adopted event goer/demonstrator personalities....It is likely that these were the people who provided the initial spark for the widespread confusion and mass panic that was the precursor for the"riots" ....What we have is one or two undercover police/offduty soldiers/intelligence operatives who are to go and pick a pretend fight with a specific individual or group of pigs who recognise them from "pre-demonstration breifing"and it is only they who are privy to these "riot precursor rituals"
the rest of the crowd and police are not and respond with predictable mass panic ,people try to run away from the pigs who are suprisingly enough surrounding them with riot police,therefore someone obviously trys to break free of the deliberate-catch 22- police enclosure and the underintelligent-police-pack-mentality views this as a threat to US as opposed to THEM and ther riot police jump in kick a few heads and arrests are made,the press get thier stories and people like us get stitched up.....Herin lies the typical police-catch 22-provocational-scenario-tactic that they wilfully use to get the ruse and procure meaningless arrests and false charges.....
The whole purpose of the police on may 1st was not to prevent trouble,but to provide the wholly uncomfortable situation/scenario and necessary spark to ignite trouble......
I saw this as did many others the way that the police had purposely cordoned off a group of"trouble makers" .These "trouble makers" were far from it and were just demonstrably peacable demonstrators.....They were cordoned of by a group of forty or more riot police in heavy protective gear i.e groin sheilds and forearm guards/padding.They had more than a few broken noses,and were clearly as thick as two planks,clearly demonstrable by thier method of cordoning off the group of "troublemakers" all the way from endell street near covent garden to the north-east corner of trafalgar square where they stood for twenty minutes or more clearly wishing for the demonstrators to panic and make a run for it,thereby giving they the police the much needed excuse for "resisting arrest" charges and others.....These police are brutal thugs and unfortunately they know no different,and it is obvious that they are there to harass intimidate and beat people up thereby instilling fear and obesiance/obedience to "big brother" quite like hitlers brownshirts more soon............
p.s I have an informant who is in police and tells me that they always have undercovers posing as demonstrators.....

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