G20 Protests - Page 3

**Damien** · 01-04-2009, 13:50

I am down here now and expect for a bit of aggro nothing is really happening yet...

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Although apparently the RBS has been smashed, can't see it from here.

frogstamper · 01-04-2009, 13:53

I've just been watching the coverage on NEWS 24 and it was showing a bunch of morons who were clearly intent on goading the police, pushing them gesturing at them and basically behaving like idiots.
As a bystander I'm watching this and thinking to myself, "why don't the police just grab that mouthy sod in front of them and nick him"?
The chief officer has said this lot by the bank of England made no effort to inform the police in advance of numbers or their intention, unlike the majority of other groups who are protesting today, so I suppose the police knew this is where the trouble would kick off if it was going to.
These idiots are not interested in whats happening in the world, I expect most would be hard pressed to spell their bloody names let alone know whats going on in the world, its the usual suspects who turn up at these events to disrupt them and cause trouble, hopefully the police will nick them before they ruin the event.

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Originally Posted by Damien

I am down here now and expect for a bit of aggro nothing is really happening yet...

Your not the person on TV who's fighting with the police are you Damien.

Charlie_Bubble · 01-04-2009, 13:56

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Originally Posted by punky

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LMAO!

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news...h_10_notes.php

Yeah, there's defnitely a recession on when they're only waving tenners at them!

punky · 01-04-2009, 14:11

If you want a free computer, head over to RBS because apparently they were looting it earlier.

frogstamper · 01-04-2009, 14:18

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Originally Posted by punky

If you want a free computer, head over to RBS because apparently they were looting it earlier.

Yep all on camera for your family and friends to see.

STONEISLAND · 01-04-2009, 14:23

The Police should pepper spray the lot, starting with Russell Bran who is there!!

Bloody protesters have they no work to be getting on with!!!!!

**Derek** · 01-04-2009, 14:29

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Originally Posted by STONEISLAND

The Police should pepper spray the lot, starting with Russell Bran who is there!!

Russell Brand. Protesting about excessive pay.

He either has a good sense of irony or a helluva cheek.

**Damien** · 01-04-2009, 15:10

Protesters outside my office:

http://twitpic.com/2oh0e

http://twitpic.com/2ogka
http://twitpic.com/2ogox
http://twitpic.com/2oh0e

STONEISLAND · 01-04-2009, 15:16

Can we not call the protesters, there yobs!!

TheDaddy · 01-04-2009, 15:25

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Originally Posted by Osem

..and apart from being criminally funny at times your crime is what??... ....

Gawd dont encourage him....................

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Why should ordinary, law abiding people like you be harrassed, intimidated and/or even injured by those with an anti-capitalist, anti law and order agenda?

These people have the gall to whine about the wrongs being done by the targets of their action yet don't seem unwilling to accept that much of what they do is just as unfair and unjustifiable

I have one question for them, asked by Saxondale to people of a similar ilk

'Have any of you ever paid rent'

**Damien** · 01-04-2009, 16:15

Protesters just saw us out of the windows and started chanting "jump" and "it's all your fault"

! Nice

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Protesters have been throwing glass bottles and metals at the police

Chrysalis · 01-04-2009, 16:32

protests are a good thing, would you rather the nation sits back when things go wrong?

that way the government and other people in positions of power get too comfortable.

**Hugh** · 01-04-2009, 17:13

It's when protests turn into vandalism, and are hi-jacked for other causes, is when it all goes wrong (imho).

frogstamper · 02-04-2009, 01:13

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

protests are a good thing, would you rather the nation sits back when things go wrong?

that way the government and other people in positions of power get too comfortable.

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

It's when protests turn into vandalism, and are hi-jacked for other causes, is when it all goes wrong (imho).

IMO protests are essential for a democratic society to thrive, its just sad you get knuckle-draggers who turn using the event to their own moronic ends.
On the positive side before the event even started it seems the police were well aware that this group outside the B of E were the likely troublemakers, the group had made no effort to liaise with the police before the march, as other participating groups had.
Britain has a proud history of demonstrations and protest marches going back years, if it wasn't for the suffragette movement women in our country might well have had to wait even longer for the right to vote.
Then there was the "Jarrow Marchers" who in 1936 marched 300 miles from the north-east down to London in their fight for jobs.
Its the mark of a truly free society to be able to take to the streets and criticize the government of the day, or any other part of the establishment..

**Hugh** · 02-04-2009, 08:39

froggy, in total agreement - the right of free assembly and protest is paramount; it's the morons who ruin it for others with vandalism and violence that cause the problems.