& the problem is what exactly?
I have to confess to being slightly perplexed at the witch hunt that Parliament seems to trying to hold over the policing of the G20 demonstrations: as a taxpayer who likes to feel he is getting value for money from public services, surely if the Police are not fully employed with the unprovoked beating of immigrants & ethnic minorities, then I can think of no better employment for plod than administering proper kickings to a bunch of soap dodging eco-scumbag dole moles & assorted anti-capitalist social misfits.
Indeed if the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police were to promise me that I would be remunerated in direct proportion to the number of hippies & mini-cab drivers I hospitalise, hand on heart I’d have to ask, where’s the dotted line, riot stick & CS gas?
By any sane measure, a huge number of the G20 protesters we well & truly up for a violent confrontation with the police – frankly it would have been beyond churlish not to beat at least a few of them to a bloodied pulp. Think of it less as the Met exceeding its powers & more as simply meeting visitor expectations. With Sterling languishing at record lows against just about any other currency you care to mention, London is awash with tourists – could we turn this into some sort of visitor attraction? I wager you that there is good money to be made from the TV rights. Forget Richard & Judy or the plethora of makeover shows that seem to dominate prime time scheduling ... won’t you much rather be watching a bunch anaemic Italian crypto-anarchists taking a well rounded shoeing from the lads at Walthamstow nick?
Now before anyone tries to seize the moral high ground & start banging on about that newspaper seller that had a heart attack – sad though it may be, judging from the number of people that have unsuccessfully tried to sell me a copy of the Big Issue this week, we can afford to go a few light in that department at the moment. Think of it like lawyers; it doesn’t matter how many die, there always seem to be more.
As for the whole protesting thing, I don’t feel that we protest enough – it’s a character flaw in the bulldog personality. We are way way too polite & we should protest against a whole raft of things, but we don’t: possibly because the Westminster trough feeders are far too superior to listen to vox populi. They are in fact way too busy writing the works of fiction that are their expenses claims to bother with such minor things as the concerns of voters. But I have absolutely no problem with anyone peaceably taking there grievance to Parliament Square unless you are an Indian waiter carping on about what is going on somewhere that has nothing to do with Blighty anymore & blocking the traffic. Please I beseech you, go back to work because at the moment it’s almost impossible to get any service in any of the many curry houses I frequent – frankly I really don’t care if the Ceylonese government is shelling women & children, I just want my Chicken Jalfrezi. No really.
But to return finally to the deep greens, social malcontents & the economically immature – they wanted a punch up & they got one.
However some officers might just like to note that you can get more than one unconscious neo-Marxist politics student into an ambulance. When it comes to the likes of say errrrrrrr hunt saboteurs, (allegedly) the door of the blacksmiths Toyota pick-up is remarkably efficient in ensuring that the local Accident & Emergency ward sees an increase in admissions. As others would say, don’t ask me how I know this
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For crying out loud, this is the 21st century and the police are using short sticks for crowd control. There are such things as Enfield L85s. Read the riot act, rip off a mag full, then bayonet the wounded. Burial is cheaper than hospital, trials, and all that.
Posted by: toad | May 14, 2009 3:00 AM
It is precisely for events like these that God invented the machinegun and the hand grenade.
What's the worst that could happen? More protests, more targets.
Posted by: POWinCA | May 14, 2009 7:51 AM
Only problem I see is that the Bill seem to use a different "manual of arms" for short sticks than what I was taught, lo! these many years ago. You go waving the thing over your head, chopping down onto the punks head like chopping wood with an axe, and you a) leave yourself wide open, and b) may use too much force and split the punks skull like a watermelon. (I agree, it's unlikely that this is a problem, per se, in the sense that we have more than enough punks, but then you have to clean what little brains punk had off your shoes...)
Posted by: D.W. Drang | May 14, 2009 8:44 AM
As a libertarian I know that the only rights that one really has are the rights that one would also give to others. Have you forgotten the the same violence that was used against the pro-hunting protesters a few years ago?
Posted by: GJ | May 14, 2009 8:57 AM
As I'm not a libertarian - Maybe we should use water cannons at these events.
They would be useful for washing away the bloodied pulp in to the Thames after letting rip with the Vulcan cannons first.
Posted by: MovingRight | May 14, 2009 10:47 AM
Don't moove to far to the right or you will come right round to the left. Hitler and Stalin were like two peas in a pod. That is why all citizens should be free to keep and bear arms to protect themselves and to threaten to contain or even overthrow goverments that are out of control. See www.britainneedsguns.co.uk/
Posted by: GJ | May 14, 2009 1:17 PM
Coming from a family with more than its fair share of police in our ranks I am ashamed at how a once respected force has become a tool of a socialist clique...I have no sympathies with either side.
Posted by: thud | May 14, 2009 5:33 PM
"Have you forgotten the the same violence that was used against the pro-hunting protesters a few years ago?"
The difference is that the Loonies have no problem with violent demonstrations -- in fact, it's part of the plan -- whereas the pro-Country protesters were quiet, well-mannered and orderly (the precise opposite of the typical Lefty nonsense).
The plain fact is that the rozzers attacked the country folk precisely because they were a safe target and unlikely to engender either violent resistance or screaming accusations of "Police Brutalityyyyyyyy!" in The Guardian.
Let a bunch of foaming anarchists toss a few paint bombs and Molotovs in their direction, however, and the Boys In Blue (and now, In Black) run like rabbits instead of gunning down the lawless fuckers where they stand.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | May 14, 2009 7:05 PM
wow all of you are ignorant as hell the society reflects the government if there wasent a big problem then why would there be so many people rebelling like that there i something obviously wrong. in my opinion the public should be armed better than the police force that way they could get their message across easier instead if the people getting beat by the police the police should be beaten by the people. people should not fear their government, the government should fear its people.
Posted by: keefer lewis | May 23, 2009 4:57 PM