Shocking Lack of Proper Violence!
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Shay, when the government has peed off enough honest, hard working chaps and leads them to protest THEN the government will really know what's hit them. I think for the most part the people will at least half a brain are focusing on keeping food on their tables for their families and hoping that Winky will be voted out at the next election.
The G20 protesters are going to achieve nothing, which is historically proven. That's why they have no support from the normal half of society.
The G20 protesters are going to achieve nothing, which is historically proven. That's why they have no support from the normal half of society.
Backing away from the "The police should give them a good shoeing" angle for a minute - anyone else incredibly impressed about how the police handled the protest yesterday? From what was shown in the media (!...) the appear to have kept the vast bulk under control, used minimal force and had the upper hand in the tactics war. Nicely done.
Seriously, if you are goin to riot, RIOT. Don't smash a few windows and pootle off home.
I did have to laugh at the mob smashing the windows at RBS. One of them was trying to smash a huge shard of glass with his elbow. Had he of succeeded he would almost certainly of severed his whole arm off. Stupid hippy.
I did have to laugh at the mob smashing the windows at RBS. One of them was trying to smash a huge shard of glass with his elbow. Had he of succeeded he would almost certainly of severed his whole arm off. Stupid hippy.
From what I have heard, Prof Steve Reicher has been advising the met on crowd control for a few years. Giving the crowd a good beating is just what the SWP agitators want. Better to let the handful of t
ts who want to "smash the system" break a few windows, get filmed and caught later, than go in indiscriminately, make the rest of the fluffy vegans feel like they are under attack, and then end up with a full blown riot.
ts who want to "smash the system" break a few windows, get filmed and caught later, than go in indiscriminately, make the rest of the fluffy vegans feel like they are under attack, and then end up with a full blown riot.Jimbeaux said:
Shay HTFC said:
350GT said:
Yes, hats off to them for getting a good riot off their chests, despite it being a trumped up reason for doing so.
Try telling them it was a chumped up reason.If you were so in support of it, then why didn't you and the masses of people who shared your views go out and protest when the government introduced council tax instead?
Shay HTFC said:
Oh without a doubt most people in this 'riot' were lentil munching students, but what about the poll tax riots?
I know it won't be popular on here, but those were people who were genuinely angry at the government and felt the need to make their voice very much known.
Fair play to them.
People on here seem to just be anti-protest, which I cannot understand.
And look what that has landed us with.I know it won't be popular on here, but those were people who were genuinely angry at the government and felt the need to make their voice very much known.
Fair play to them.
People on here seem to just be anti-protest, which I cannot understand.
Fair play to them? They were frigging idiots who's actions directly resulted in the Goddam shafting we get with the Community Charge now.
March with them? If I could find any of the little buggers, Id get my hand round their sodding throats and strangle them!
Shay HTFC said:
Thread after thread I cannot believe what I am reading. I simply cannot fathom how many boring, armchair loving, whiskey sipping, seemingly state-loving whiners there are on here.
I was being sarcastic.I'm actually deeply concerned about the way this whole thing has been handled.
By talking up the violence and preparing the scene for a battle royale the Police have managed to dissuade people from turning up to express their discontent, they're using fear to quash the right to protest.
It worked too.
In 1998 Birmingham hosted the G8. An estimated fifty thousand people turned up and held a protest to end global poverty. That's ten times as many as turned up to protest at the injection of a whole years GDP into a system that many pereceive to be flawed & corrupt, the most unpopular war in recent history and climate change.
In 1998 there was no talk of a summer of rage, unprecedented levels of violence or of TERROR!!! Had this year been the same I wonder how many people would have attended to show their discontent yesterday?
Fetchez la vache said:
Hey Jimbeaux, I saw some pretty dangerous placcard waving, and some of the protesters hadn't washed or combed their hair in.. what?... weeks!
Then of course there was the "whistles of death" - they get me every time...
What more do you want? It was just like South Central..
Then of course there was the "whistles of death" - they get me every time...
What more do you want? It was just like South Central..
Highlights for me...
1) The environmentalists march that trampled daffodils...
2) The woman who complained about Bank tube being shut as she had to get home.
3) The press saying "hard disks are being trampled on" when it clearly wasn't a hard disk at all
4) The fact that RBS branch that got smashed up was boarded up last week with "To Let" signs on it.
1) The environmentalists march that trampled daffodils...
2) The woman who complained about Bank tube being shut as she had to get home.
3) The press saying "hard disks are being trampled on" when it clearly wasn't a hard disk at all
4) The fact that RBS branch that got smashed up was boarded up last week with "To Let" signs on it.
Podie said:
Highlights for me...
1) The environmentalists march that trampled daffodils...
2) The woman who complained about Bank tube being shut as she had to get home.
3) The press saying "hard disks are being trampled on" when it clearly wasn't a hard disk at all
4) The fact that RBS branch that got smashed up was boarded up last week with "To Let" signs on it.
how was the Pasta?1) The environmentalists march that trampled daffodils...
2) The woman who complained about Bank tube being shut as she had to get home.
3) The press saying "hard disks are being trampled on" when it clearly wasn't a hard disk at all
4) The fact that RBS branch that got smashed up was boarded up last week with "To Let" signs on it.
scotal said:
Podie said:
Highlights for me...
1) The environmentalists march that trampled daffodils...
2) The woman who complained about Bank tube being shut as she had to get home.
3) The press saying "hard disks are being trampled on" when it clearly wasn't a hard disk at all
4) The fact that RBS branch that got smashed up was boarded up last week with "To Let" signs on it.
how was the Pasta?1) The environmentalists march that trampled daffodils...
2) The woman who complained about Bank tube being shut as she had to get home.
3) The press saying "hard disks are being trampled on" when it clearly wasn't a hard disk at all
4) The fact that RBS branch that got smashed up was boarded up last week with "To Let" signs on it.
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