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Police warn of G20 protest scale

I think the Met Police and their leaders are in such a funk that they have dug up all of the things that have ever happened in the past (including the sandpit idea) and imagined them all happening at once over the weekend.

I won't be going to any demos over this period. The reality can only be an anticlimax after the deliberate build up by the plod. I have a feeling that there may be a shooting or two though, as they have given permission for foreign security people to carry and use firearms. Obama's security guard won't be using waterpistols and having been briefed by our security people who themselves are obviously very scared they will be very jumpy.

Frightened security personell armed to the teeth are much more dangerous than even the biggest crowd of protestors.

wtf ? you're spouting more shit than they are you muppet - stay at home , you don't sound like you'd be much use to anyone anyway
 
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I'm just trying to imagine the TSG attempting to get to grips with the idea of consensus decision making and peaceful conflict resolution, followed by an African drumming workshop and some herbal tea.

Come on now Tabbatha and Tarquin move on, Tabbatha to nasty Police Man but mother says you are as she throws her dummy out, and meanwhile Tarquin has another tantrum, because he was not allowed to be a spoilt brat, as the nasty police man gives the soap dodgers some soap, ha but but man that is totely out of order man more bullshit from Tarquin.

On the phone latter oh mother it was a riot..
 
One climate change activist, who has been arrested on numerous protests, said yesterday: "With so much media attention and so many world leaders coming to town next week I can guarantee there will be all sorts of groups looking to perform an array of exciting direct action stunts.

Time again we are told it is divisive crap, to bring forward at this time of the global crises, concern over climate change, the issue of The Middle Class. We are openly classist, not because we are having a temper tantrum, being naughty children, rebelling against The protest over G20 for the sake of it, neither are we seeking attention.

We might have the same concerns, and issues of those involved in The G20 protest, but feel there is more direct action we can take within our locality, for us there seems to very little, no point in taking part of finding a common path with the likes of those involved in what we feel is a utopian and somewhat crass protest.

As has been said it is nothing but a stunt, in all of The Hype we have not read any serious alternatives towards the everyday problem of capitalism, just the need to protest what seems to us for the sake of it, we have been there on such protest and to be frank wish we had not waisted our time in trying to engage or work the middle class involved.

It might be all to easy for us to sit in our little meetings, plagiarise some of our content, spend time writing a cretquie on all of this, then face the bile spewing from the mouths of those involved, telling us we must engage and find common unity.

There is no common unity we have with The Middle Class, there will never be any, we dislike the stretchers of capitalism such as the G20, The Police as much they might do, but we do feel our time our energy is far better spent in giving them a kick.

Agreed it might seem we are just a bunch of extrema head bangers, to place ourself s against The G2O protest, and when we are asked which side are we on, it is simple the side of The Working Class, with so much media attention upon what you are planning, do you not feel you have wasted another opportunity to place anarchism into the conversation? Because we feel once again another opportunity has been waisted, and this is the real shame.
 
Agreed it might seem we are just a bunch of extrema head bangers, to place ourself s against The G2O protest, and when we are asked which side are we on, it is simple the side of The Working Class, with so much media attention upon what you are planning, do you not feel you have wasted another opportunity to place anarchism into the conversation? Because we feel once again another opportunity has been waisted, and this is the real shame.

You may say that you're on the side of the working class, but is the working class on your side?

Serious question because the fash seem to be doing fairly well in some w/c communities.
 
I remember a great article in the Times before the Gleneagles G8 summit that warned us about thousands of greek and italian anarchists sneaking into the country and setting up sleeper cells in various UK cities, led by a mysterious figure known only as 'the raven' :D

I don't know where this shit comes from I really don't, but I find it particularly amusing that the press/the police/whoever still can't wrap their heads around the fact that anarchists don't have leaders. These people seem to have a total mental breakdown on this point, they assume that because they don't know who the leader is that the leader must be some bond villain hidden away in a volcano somewhere. All the talk of 'plots' amounts to saying that a) whatever the protestors get up to will be illegal even though we don't know what it is yet and b) there's a massive conspiracy out there which somehow remains a mystery to our wiretap-happy state.
 
"They are very clever people and they understand our tactics and will try to outsmart us. I have encouraged officers to try to think about what these people might try and do and hopefully we will have something to mitigate that. It will be an exciting couple of days to say the least."

Outsmart you? Come off it pal, where's the sport in swatting a fly with a cruise missile?
 
Maybe they are redirecting a deeply repressed urge to arrest the investment bankers :hmm: ;)
 
Prediction 1: No matter how many people turn up on the protest the media will lie about it, and minimise the numbers.

Prediction 2: If there is no 'violence' on the day, recycled images of 'violence' will be used in the press.

Prediction 3: Galleries of mug-shots in the tabloids afterwards if anything does happen. 'Do you know these rioters? SHOP 'EM...'

Prediction 4: Increased police budget for public order.
 
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