You will have something to cry about then.

Who’s going to vote me onto the IPCC?

What?

You can’t?

It is a closed institution you say?

Well, hit me over the head with a baton, why don’t you.

To steal a line:

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The metropolitian police seem to think that their perporse is to act as Nu-Labours stoormtroopers and who appear(in my opinion)to have become a dreadful parody of the SA/Sturmabteilung thugs whose perporse was to crush violently any dissent/protest against Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP. We ignore this kind of conduct at our peril,the police in this country have effecively come under the control of what is de facto a private buissness to wit the assosiation of chief police officers(ACPO)and if we are not careful this band of self styled illuminati will become our masters.

“Choose the lesser evil” de officiis : Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Given my former line of work, I know about fifteen by name, maybe twice that by acquaintance – I’m related to two, and count one as a friend. Almost all of them are good people, and I can count the power-trippers I’ve met on one hand – arsehole coppers who get a stiffy battering people do exist, but the days of the West Midlands Serious Crimes are long gone.

That said, put anyone in a hi-tech space marine outfit, train them in crowd control and give them authority to keep the plebs in line… Well, you don’t have to be Stanley Milgram to see that’s going to bring out their unfriendly side. There’s no way to keep these events peaceful, but I think the Met could’ve done better than they did.

It’s easy to forget, but coppers do a shitty job that I wouldn’t do for twice the wage they get. I wouldn’t do crowd control for four times what they get, now I come to think of it, and you wouldn’t either.

Who polices the Police?
We the public.

Who votes for the party of government which sets the legislative agenda and controls the Police?
We the public.

Who is to blame if we don’t like it?
We the public.

What can we do if we don’t like it?
Get involved. Vote for a different party. Scrutinise processes. Stand for election.

Stop protesting and start proposing.

Have you ever met a policeman? Wednesday proves yet again that the police are a malign force in this country an asking for them nicely to change ain’t gonna work. Fuck ‘em – they’re a tumor that needs cutting out.

As even people ‘on your side’ of the argument must appreciate, you are a moron.

Freedom of speech & so on, but I do wonder why you’re using your own time in such a way.

Kettling or whatever you want to call it has been used as a tactic to control football fans looking for trouble since the early 90s at least. Fans would mob up and roam the streets looking for the opposing mob or firm. The Police will follow them in large numbers and gradually hassle them until they corner and surround them. Sometimes they would force you into a pub and hold you hostage for hours. They moved from this after some fans would set fire to the pub, forcing the Police to let them out. More likely, they would pin you in a street for as long as they want. Then they will let you out one by one after photographing and taking details from each ‘offender’, to kept on the Football Intelligence Unit database.

Often innocent fans or passers by would end up penned in with the hardcore troublemakers. When the Belgian Police did this at Euro 2000, they even deported some American tourists to England. Many fans arrested were beaten and had their €s stolen.

So where was the hysterical reaction from the Left and their human rights for all? Don’t white working-class fellas have human rights? Its probably because football fans realise there is a small minority looking for aggro and a bigger minority still, that are gawpers or like to hang around when there is potential, just like these anti-capitalist demos. Reasonable people understand the need for such tactics to prevent serious injury or disorder. It works.

It a shame the poor fella who died was just an ordinary lower-class newsagent worker and not some trustafarian student. It should make these socialist indoctrinated pricks think again that their pathetic protests are mostly detrimental to ordinary working people, not some media led stereotype bankers. I doubt it.

You need to think about what you were doing there and what you were attempting to achieve. Don’t give me that shit about your right to protest. You were there to disrupt a working day in the City, as an attention seeking irrelevance.

Please don’t do that here. You make me, Alix and everyone else sane on here look like raving loonies because you agree with us about some things.

Most of the beat coppers I’ve dealt with are professional, sane people. You think the squeeze tactics are designed only to raise temperatures among protesters?

Thatcher’s constables, the men who were beating on pregnant women at the Battle of the Beanfield and on poll-tax protesters in Trafalgar Square, are now running the Met. They know how to turn a peaceful protest into a riot; prime your cops, then push the two sides up against each other and don’t let anyone leave. Now you just have to wait; the partisan atmosphere will infect the front-line people on both sides, the strain on the bladder will result in temper tantrums on both sides, and eventually violence will out.

So calling for the deaths of coppers just puts you among the lunatic fringe, and LibCon is not the lunatic fringe.

I would never have thought, correct me if I am wrong, that a cry for mass suicide was likely to be effective?

Well, if you don’t ask…

It might help if the violent protestors were kept away or restrained by the peaceful protestors.

It might help if the violent police were kept away or restrained by the peaceful police.

That is fairly irritating, so it is.

Says the middle of the road, me.

I would never have thought, correct me if I am wrong, that a cry for mass suicide was likely to be effective?

To any coppers reading this: sit down, pour yourself a drink and look closely at the forthcoming paragraph. Wipe clean your eyes and look clearly, contemplate and comprehend.

Please kill yourselves. You are all worthless. Kill yourselves. You are all pointless. Kill yourselves. The past thirty years have seen civil liberties eroded but your powers increased. Kill yourselves. Yet you all think you don’t have enough power and that the state’s ’soft’. Kill yourselves. No-one will miss you. Kill yourselves, and kill yourselves now.

I’m currently taking bookings for children’s parties…