it's all relative
riots on the streets of london.
i agree with my mate james: direct action is the only way to effect change
BUT...
and...
i also have family who are police.
people can't expect to go unescorted fucking up london and police shouldn't be expected not to use force in protecting themselves.
really.
i think it's amazing that prince charles' security detail didn't whip out guns and start shooting at people when the 'protestors' were smashing the windows of the royal limo.
i also think the fool who allowed the royal limo into the middle of a demonstration should lose his job, at least.
i went to the very left-wing, politically minded university of westminster (then called the polytechnic of central london).
we got to see alternative footage of the poll tax riots which included some video of people throwing scaffold poles through the windscreen of a police car trying to impale the police inside it.
my fellow students were cheering and claiming the poll tax riots were a victory over the scum police.
i know it's not a popular or cool opinion, and i admit i don't get on very well with authority figures myself but police are people too.
everyone's quick enough to call them when they're in trouble.
generally police don't go out looking to get into a fight: if there weren't people throwing sticks at their horses or bricks in their faces, firing flares at them etc. they wouldn't have to steam in with truncheons and shields.
gggrrrr
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