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Tamil protest, the difference?

AnnO'Neemus said:
The difference is that the police baton charging a large group of people mostly of an ethnic minority would be criticised and roundly condemned as racist, as they'd probably spend the next decade dealing with official police complaints and anti-racist law suits.
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You were alive in January 2009, no?
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Of course they will, they've got brown aint they? We all know white people can never be terrorists! :hmm:
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all get's a bit depressingly predicitable after a while really can we start shooting and burning at the stake yet come on tyburn has the great white arch we could use and everything... :D
 
AnnO'Neemus said:
The difference is that the police baton charging a large group of people mostly of an ethnic minority would be criticised and roundly condemned as racist, as they'd probably spend the next decade dealing with official police complaints and anti-racist law suits.

Baton charging a group of mostly white middle class-ish political protesters, maligned as anarchist and rent-a-protesters from disparate groups, well, what's discriminatory or harmful about that, the police are just doing their job and maintaining public order, aren't they?

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Not really:

Gaza protest this year.
Notting Hill 2008, 2007.
2001: Bradford & Oldham.

Based on their previous record I don't think there is any evidence that the police are 'racist in reverse' or 'racist against white people'.
 
there is going to be a military solution to this :(
Nobody is going to stop the sri lanken military now
 
What will the reaction be of the 66 million or so Tamil-speakers in southern India? There's an Indian election coming up, and Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated over this issue, let's remember.
 
likesfish said:
there is going to be a military solution to this :(
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The LTTE may be finished off as a conventional force which holds territory, but it will most likely continue with attacks and the underlying issue hasn't been 'solved' or 'ended', so you can't really say there is going to be a military 'solution'.
 
hipipol said:
The Tigers invented suicide bombing, charge protection money to all Lankan Tamil shops in London, dont pay you get a kicking, or bit chopped off, tho the chopping has slowed up since its peak in 2002/03, they also organise the takeover of businesses - mainly petrol stations to that credit cards can be cloned, - they are a fucking eveil bunch of shits, this lot wave their flags about?

Arrest the fucking lot, charge with membership of an illegal organisation - a number of them may have info on what the Tigers are up to in the UK which would be no bad thing to know about, if for no other reason than to protect other innocent Tamils who are terrorised by them in London
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woah! sounds like someone bought into someones propaganda there! i do not doubt there are elements of that shite in all national liberation movements ( one of the reasons i stay clear of them) .. but that just sounds like someones propaganada you are repeating
 
Well I'm pretty impress at it appears that they been there since last night and into this night. Must had been inspired by the Bank of England Protest... :) What you views on them? Good or Bad? I expect the Police will be getting a bumper pay this week and I expect the Police probably clamp down harder tomorrow. Guess there's no prison spaces left... :/
 
lopsidedbunny said:
...Must had been inspired by the Bank of England Protest...
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Why so self-obsessed? On 31st Jan. there was a massive protest march in London - of 50,000 (police estimate) some estimates up to 150,000. In February someone tried to set themselves on fire in Downing Street (and someone did and died in Geneva). Why are you saying that this 'must' have been inspired by April 1st? None of the protestors interviewed have mentioned it - most of them *have* mentioned reports of thousands of deaths at the weekend as being the reason behind the short notice and level of grief/fear/anger.
 
I think there are some fundamental reasons why this demonstration was policed differently to the ones last week, but most notably because the potential for property damage to occur was far less likely, whereas with the G20, protestors were targeting institutions and an ideology in the heart of the banking community, as opposed to a particular aspect of British foreign policy.
 
editor said:
I bet you won't hear the Tamils being described in the press as 'soap dodging rioters' before their next peaceful protest either.
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Have you got any conception of whats' going on in this part of the world, suffering, slaughter and discrimination and chauvanistic attitude against the Tamils, backed up by the British Establishment.

Is this some assimulation of being sympathetic towards Sinhalese Buddhist (acknowledging many of the negative prejudices that Hinduism adopted under British Colonial Rule) something to do with support among pseudo anarcho subcultural elements for Dalai Lama Clicque in Tibet?:rolleyes::hmm:
 
hipipol said:
The Tigers invented suicide bombing, charge protection money to all Lankan Tamil shops in London, dont pay you get a kicking, or bit chopped off, tho the chopping has slowed up since its peak in 2002/03, they also organise the takeover of businesses - mainly petrol stations to that credit cards can be cloned, - they are a fucking eveil bunch of shits, this lot wave their flags about?

Arrest the fucking lot, charge with membership of an illegal organisation - a number of them may have info on what the Tigers are up to in the UK which would be no bad thing to know about, if for no other reason than to protect other innocent Tamils who are terrorised by them in London

I agree the primary reason for nowt being done - actually worse than that they were herded into Parliament Sq, where no demo can occur? - is that they are not white - bad publicity an all that - plus its the met running this show, NOT the City police. City boys had one to prove, how hard they are like
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I'd bet you would like to put the whole Tamil population into concentration camps:mad:
 
winjer said:
No. Jog on, daft troll.
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I'm not 'trolling', both groups beleive in a strict caste system(the theocracy and governments not the people as a whole), and quasi mystic ideas of Racial/Ethnic superiority.

If you want to discuss the issue do so, slating me as a troll is both incorrect and rubbish!
 
There was still a Tamil demo at Parliament last night. I dont know if it was still the same one though. But on Monday I did see someone break from the main demo and jump of off Westminister bridge. I understand they have broken their back.
 
hipipol said:
The Tigers invented suicide bombing, charge protection money to all Lankan Tamil shops in London, dont pay you get a kicking, or bit chopped off, tho the chopping has slowed up since its peak in 2002/03, they also organise the takeover of businesses - mainly petrol stations to that credit cards can be cloned, - they are a fucking eveil bunch of shits, this lot wave their flags about?

Arrest the fucking lot, charge with membership of an illegal organisation - a number of them may have info on what the Tigers are up to in the UK which would be no bad thing to know about, if for no other reason than to protect other innocent Tamils who are terrorised by them in London

I agree the primary reason for nowt being done - actually worse than that they were herded into Parliament Sq, where no demo can occur? - is that they are not white - bad publicity an all that - plus its the met running this show, NOT the City police. City boys had one to prove, how hard they are like
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All the protestors at G20 were lazy hippies, never had a job, the great unwashed, anarchists. Right.
No it was lazy thinking and an excuse for police brutality.

They are British people, they have a right to protest peacefully,which is exactly what they are doing. The fact the G20 protests were attacked doesn't mean these people shouldn't have the right to protest.

There is a reason the Tamil Tigers are trying to establish a homeland and it has to do with oppression in their own land.

The LTTE flags are the only symbol of resistance these people can carry, because they are the only organization fighting the oppression of the Sri Lankan Tamils out there. These people will have close relatives whose lives are at severe risk. Waving a flag doesn't make you a terrorist. Arrest them. What a cunt you are.

How about supporting their right to peaceful protest.

Id be careful about believing anything that comes out of official sources about any organization, the government and the police spout lies constantly. If the LTTE behaved as you say they simply wouldn't get the support they do.
 
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