Why I choose to be part of the student protests...

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Emerald Green wrote:How true. There was very similar Police behaviour at Poll Tax, anti-apartheid, Anti-Nazi, anti Criminal Justice Act etc demos I attended back in the day. Digital recording devices have really opened up the ability to collect independent evidence. The rozzers did a good job in destroying film from cameras as I remember.
Yeah. I remember one anti-nazi demo I went on where there was a sizeable fascist counter-demo. The filth were virtually joining in on their side. It did not end well :urff:
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:eek: ... like we had it in Germany with the Stuttgart21 protests ...
kids and elderly people get hit and injured by over-motivated police forces.

Seems European governments nowadays learn a lot more from globalisation
than only how to globalise markets to the best profit of their economies.
They also sneakingly adapt third world standards of means and measures to
implement their goals.

Another fall back to stupid.
At least, in the UK this does not take place under the notion of
(re-)inventing some so-called Christian cultural or national identity ...
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those things that happens to countries like Germany and Britain have happened elsewhere some years ago...

there is a similar tactic about protesters globally
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You can't just blame the police for that though. Some of the protestors were trying to break through police lines and used these girls as shields, or at least that's how I read that article. I doubt if I was on the recieving end of missiles and having people screaming abuse in my face I'd be very "sympathetic"! No excuse for manhandling a teenage girl though. I'm not sure either side comes out of this with any great moral high ground. :|
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DeWinter wrote:You can't just blame the police for that though.
I can blame the Police for anything I like. Off the pigs! Helter Skelter!

*swoons*

I came over all funny then, what happened?
DeWinter wrote:No excuse for manhandling a teenage girl though. I'm not sure either side comes out of this with any great moral high ground. :|
Yeah. :|
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I was in two minds about supporting the students, but having read this I've decided that they only way to get through to them is to re-establish the Special Patrol Group and take the fight to the enemy. Perhaps a few well-placed size-9s through the door will encourage them to get out of bed and go to the lectures that their parents and the tax-payer are underwriting, and stop them messing with dark forces of which they have little comprehension.
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THE HORROR!!

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Nationalise the f**king lot.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155567.html - Ketling Breaches Human Rights
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Being645 wrote:http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155567.html - Ketling Breaches Human Rights
According to Beth Shiner, who has just completed a Masters in....art and politics. Pointless non-job as a "public arts officer" in local government beckons! :roll:

Not that she doesnt have a valid point, but I do think the amount of phony degrees needs sorting before fees are reduced/abolished.
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EvilBastard wrote: is to re-establish the Special Patrol Group.
You'll be needing one of these then

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DeWinter wrote:
Being645 wrote:http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155567.html - Ketling Breaches Human Rights
According to Beth Shiner, who has just completed a Masters in....art and politics. Pointless non-job as a "public arts officer" in local government beckons! :roll:

Not that she doesnt have a valid point, but I do think the amount of phony degrees needs sorting before fees are reduced/abolished.
1. to make phony wars governments need people with phony degrees ...
(you see I do not exactly believe in the superiority of degrees, basically,
but sad jokes aside ...)

2. every person should have the right to develop his/her talents and,
thus, be enabled to contribute to our all benefit what she/he has been given ...

3. instead of supporting only what companies might find useful to exploit
in the shortest run possible to the benefit of their shareholders

Not to mention the choking trap you're in, once you've got kids to feed ... :wink: ... in case you chose to take on the responsibility ... :twisted: ...
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Being645 wrote: Not to mention the choking trap you're in, once you've got kids to feed ... :wink: ... in case you chose to take on the responsibility ... :twisted: ...
I think I can safely say without fear of contradiction on this board that the idea of me having children is a horrifying one!! The notion of being trapped in a house with someone as argumentative as me who I'm legally forbidden from bitchslapping makes me positively shudder.. :urff:
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is it true that even disabled people considered as threat ?? :eek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smwhz386x_U :?

what wrong with this small planet? :(
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DeWinter wrote:
Being645 wrote: Not to mention the choking trap you're in, once you've got kids to feed ... :wink: ... in case you chose to take on the responsibility ... :twisted: ...
I think I can safely say without fear of contradiction on this board that the idea of me having children is a horrifying one!! The notion of being trapped in a house with someone as argumentative as me who I'm legally forbidden from bitchslapping makes me positively shudder.. :urff:
... :lol: ... the widespread notion of girls dreaming of kids and a house and some *I won't say the word now to care for

has always made me ... Image Image Image ... I am not, and I never will be, got definitely other things to do ... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: ... :lol: ...
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iesus wrote:is it true that even disabled people considered as threat ?? :eek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smwhz386x_U :?

what wrong with this small planet? :(
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Being645 wrote:
iesus wrote:is it true that even disabled people considered as threat ?? :eek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smwhz386x_U :?

what wrong with this small planet? :(
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This is outrageous,the journalist should be executed. They should be ashamed of themselves at the bbc.
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The Beeb is running scared of the Tories (I think they fear the dreaded "P" word) so they're trying to suck up.

Pathetic.
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markfiend wrote:The Beeb is running scared of the Tories (I think they fear the dreaded "P" word) so they're trying to suck up.

Pathetic.
Have you noticed the Beeb are being a bit funny re: Assange, too? I saw that Humphrys interview. Maybe he was just bitter that Assange has managed more actual investigative journalim than the BBC has managed for decades. Or maybe you're right and they're just spinning the establishment line now.
I still say privatise it. We'll need that £140-odd quid to pay for the next gas/'leccy price rise.
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Hmm. I'd rather the BBC stayed independent of commercial concerns. I don't want that cnut Murdoch anywhere near the Beeb.
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markfiend wrote:Hmm. I'd rather the BBC stayed independent of commercial concerns. I don't want that cnut Murdoch anywhere near the Beeb.
I don't think he'll need to, thanks to Vince Cable trying to impress the ladies he's bound to get all of BSkyB now..
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Heard about that; typical, the only bloke willing to officially say "F'ck off Murdoch" gets the boot.

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timsinister wrote:Heard about that; typical, the only bloke willing to officially say "F'ck off Murdoch" gets the boot.

:roll:
Well, he's had the ministerial equivalent of all sharp objects removed, like Labour did when they realised John Prescott couldn't be trusted with the tying of his own shoelaces but had too many supporters to be ditched.

If Cable made the decision against Murdoch after what he is on record as saying, Murdoch would have a near unbeatable court case. In fact if any government minister goes against him in this he's got a good case because he'll claim it's politics and nothing else. All because Cable wanted to impress a few young ladies.
There's a reason the non-Murdoch press' coverage boils down to "You utter twadge, Cable!"
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You're absolutely right, but it's a dirty way of doing business. Parliament is essentially defanging itself, and if the BBC rolls over and plays dead as well, what's going to stand in The Dirty Digger's way?
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