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some photos of todays Edinburgh protest

James Morrison | 06.07.2005 14:02 | G8 2005

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After the coaches to Gleneagles where stopped. They slowly marched up and down Princes St with lots of police with them.

to be updated later-

James Morrison

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James Morrison


Coaches stopped?

06.07.2005 15:10

Why were there coaches stopped? Just what powers do the police ACTUALLY have? I had always assumed we had the free right to assembly - am i wrong?

There is a great new website for political discussion at www.dialectic.org.uk,

Hope you would like to join :)

karic
- Homepage: http://www.dialectic.org.uk


trailer trash?

06.07.2005 15:25

what the fuck is that trailer being towed by cop van??

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What a waste of time

06.07.2005 15:26

Honestly.

A few hundred protesters walking up Princes Street with a few hundred cops is hardly likely to change or effect g8 policy ..

go home ..

gives us our City back.

Tick Tock


Porta-pen

06.07.2005 16:26

That thing being towed is a wonderful and beautiful tool of repression. It neatly and quickly unfolds into a porta-pen. It and its brother were unfolded at the mid-point of Hanover street around 3 pm today to completely block any possible retreat in that direction by the protesters.

Rabble Burns


peaceful protest attacked by police

06.07.2005 16:51

we were in the front line of this protest - just behind that blockade of police you can see in the photos. This is what happened about half an hour after those pictures were taken: The guys who had been trying to organise the peaceful protestors were led off by the police - we were told they'd gone to 'negociate' - yeah right. we all sat down, we'd been there, peacefully for about 45 minutes, when the police enclosed a group of about a hundred people - they started pulling us up from the ground, forcefully and aggressively pushing us back. i saw someone hit several times in the back with a police baton. i was pushed and shoved in the mass of people the police had decided to attack for no reason. what was amazing, was that in the face of all this police aggression, even though people were so angry and frightened, no one among the protestors responded with the violence the police used so unnecessarily. what kind of deomocracy is this, where youths, adults and children protesting peacefully for a fairer, kinder world, are attacked by police? and this is the democracy we are meant to be 'exporting'??

tabs


Right to free assembly

06.07.2005 16:57

You have no rights, you are the property of the Queen. The police will take whatever steps necessary to control you and beat the dissent out of you. Road blocks, holding people for longer than is necessary and transporting them to other areas, intimidation and harassment, they have whatever such rights as they deem fit.

They also use these tactics because they want protestors to become agitated and to riot because it justifies their existence as warfare perversely justifies the arms industry.

Alastair


Legality

06.07.2005 18:29

A sad pattern which has developed at these meetings are the mass arrests which are used to clear the streets, and limit the visibility of the Demos. Most often, these are illegal actions on the part of the police, and all charges against demonstrators are dropped.

The Elite has gotten what it wanted; The streets are cleared, and the Opposition silenced, or at the very least, quieted.

If this is the case, the legal action is a must. If we continue to allow this criminal behaviour to go unpunished, this will only embolden the perpetrators.

Never Underestimate Police - See: Genova


ermm

01.08.2005 16:14

[Quote] trailer trash?

06.07.2005 16:25
what the fuck is that trailer being towed by cop van??
[End Quote]

It's a mobile fence that folds out to block roads.

etc.

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