Is it my imagination or are our police now completely out of control? They seem to be able to do exactly as they please with impunity and are never seriously held to account when they gun down innocent people, kill people in custody and generally flout the law. When was the last time a copper was succesfully sentenced in a court of law?

Good work Rikki capturing these pics and video. The world needs to know what really goes on in the name of justice.

well done. keep up the good work!

There's some decent journalism!

... that this could happen in broad daylight in the middle of the capital, in full view of lots of passers-by, and yet this is the only report I can find of the incident. Nothing on the BBC radio news, nothing else on the web that I can find.

Were there no other journos or photographers present?

Seeing as this is getting to be a regular occurrence outside the gates of Downing Street, maybe it would be worth trying to persuade some representatives of the more respectable mainstream press to hang around outside Downing Street of a Sunday afternoon to see what happens...?

Keep up the good work Rikki, the world needs to know about these disgraceful incidents.

this is absolutely disgraceful. i feel we should organise 10,000 or more people to peacefully stand there with peace banners and openly defy this fascistic legislation. if we all stand together and say we aint gonna let em stop us, there aint a damn thing they can do about it.....

Just maybe the police want you to be shocked so that you don't consider doing anything as naughty yourself in the future.

mike d is correct, but i want to clarify that the police still have no right to demand your name or address unless they have reasonable cause to believe you are committing, have committed, or are about to commit an offence. when steve was asked for his details outside downing street, he maintained that he was not committing an offence, and so it was not legal to demand his details, and it was not legal to arrest him for refusing to give his details.

the police often ask for details, but they do not yet have blanket right to be given them. very often, if you say that they will have to arrest you in order to get the details they will back off, as unless you have truly done something arrestable, the paperwork and the possible legal repurcussions are enough to discourage them.

it's more important than ever to know your rights. especially as the police continually prove that they often DON'T know your rights themselves and so overstep their powers.

So we see what Blair can do to hurt us, and we are horrified. Is there anything that can be done to strike back? What made Blair go absolutely BESERK at the time of the Iraq invasion? ANSWER: the participation of school children in anti-invasion protests.

THESE PHOTOS, AND THE VIDEO (is there one?) OF THE BRUTAL POLICE ATTACK, NEED TO BE GOT INTO AS MANY SECONDARY SCHOOLS AS POSSIBLE.

The very best time, of course, would be if any police visits to a school were planned. Activist pupils can then demand a statement from the visiting policepeople that they condemn the police actions shown. This, of course, they won't do under any circumstances, allowing the correct conclusion to be drawn, namely the policeforce of the UK is merely a unity of uniformed thugs, obeying Blair's every command.

Now I have triggered the red-alert sirens of Blair's embedded agents here. They can attempt to tolerate many things in the name of pretending to be anti-Blair, but the one thing they CANNOT sit back and allow is any practical method for weakening the grip of Blair's police state.

Blair did not give a damn about any aspect of the 'adult' anti-war movement (well, he already had the control of that movement well in hand), BUT HE COULD NOT ALLOW UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE THE PARTICIPATION OF PEOPLE CURRENTLY OF SCHOOL AGE. When a monster fears a thing so publicly, you damned well better know that a genuine vunerability has been discovered.

In this age of computer printing, it is very easy to create photographic materials for distribution. Those of you that have kids in school can demand of the head that no member of the police force is allowed to have anything to do with your children's classes unless those people first issue a written statement disassociating themselves with the actions shown above.

Steve Jago, and Barbara Tucker take it on the chin. In making greater use of their actions to roll back the evil progress of Blair, people do not have to risk such actions happening to themselves. Instead, images clearly showing the state abuse of these two people become some of the very best weapons possible at this time against Blair.

Understand this. Schools are already having debates on state clampdowns of protest in the UK, but these are on BLAIR'S TERMS, using images of 'extremist' muslim slogans. Blair's New Reich propaganda currently floods your schools. Images showing Blair's thugs attacking the fundamental right to peaceful protest in this nation of ours will ruin years of carefully crafted racist, pro-war, pro-policestate propaganda that vomits from BBC's Newsround and Radio One 'news' broadcasts, in the direction of young people.

One day soon, the kids currently at school will be Blair's cannon fodder, and Blair will have the absolute power required to exterminate all attempts to oppose him. These are the dying embers of the last fire that will ever warm our souls, if we refuse to act now to rekindle the flame of decency, fairness, hope, and justice. Blair's people scream loudly on places like this in one final push to buy their master a little more time, for they know that there always comes a tipping point with such evil monsters, after which ALL HOPE IS LOST.

Please consider the stories of the great monsters of history, and understand that for each of them there came a point in time where afterwards, only their death removed them from power. Once Blair begins his GENOCIDE of Iran, he becomes absolute dictator of the UK. No vestigial democratic mechanism will ever be able to dislodge him.

If you hate the idea of violent or aggressive activism, here is your opportunity to show that by using the most effective peaceful protest possible, exposing the next generation to the truth about the evil that this generation has allowed to gather such extraordinary power. Blair has lost most of his 'active' support, but gets by perfectly well on 'passive' support. It is this 'passive' support that needs to be destroyed.

Passive support is built carefully by Blair's goons using such memes as "support our boys in Afghanistan", "remember 7/7", and "the police have a hard time fighting all these muslim 'extremists' ". The memes are mostly reinforced by the absolute control of the mass media in the UK. When Blair's security services used their tiny 'muslim' cell of patsies to produce provacative placards, photos of these slogans covered multiple pages in all the major newspapers. Even a microscope won't find coverage of Brain Haw, Steve Jago, Babara Tucker etc, except in the 10% of papers like The Guardian dedicated to flavouring extremist pro-war propaganda with the 'sugar' of liberal-friendly comment (for Guardian readers, a spoon full of sugar allows the most vile of Blair's medicine to slip down the throat un-noticed).

If Blair's press won't show it, Blair fears it. If we see it, no good has been done, for we, by our very interests, seek out such information anyway (again, hence The Guardian). The images MUST be shown to people that would not normally see such things. The biggest and most powerful group in this category is young people.

"Once Blair begins his GENOCIDE of Iran, he becomes absolute dictator of the UK. No vestigial democratic mechanism will ever be able to dislodge him."

That is silly, you are mistaking the puppet with the play. Blair doesn't have any chance of becoming absolute dictator, anymore than he is just now anyway. You are making the mistake of focussing on personalities and thus obscurring the arguments. Blair will undoubtedly be replaced with a similar self-enriching smiling public-school snake-charmer, but it is the power of the state and corporations which are strengthened through his war-mongering. The real limits of power of the UK state was amply and humiliatingly exposed when they were forced to abandon the ERM on 'Black Wednesday' ('black' as in 'black-ashamed').

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