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Strange police days have found us...

Owain Glendwr | 17.12.2001 19:25

tracked us down and moved into the spare room.

It may have escaped the attention of most readers but in both media reports and newspapers the talk is of the police taking industrial action against the government for the first time since about 1911 (if I recall correctly).
What is the attitude of the left to be about this ? I rememebr on last years Gay Pride march a contingent from the Gay & Lesbian Police Officers Group and thinking, soon they'll have to decide which its to be: gay activists, or police... in other words, things are changing rapidly. Activists now include farmers, lorry drivers and all kinds of poeple we would never have expected. Time for a quick think.

Owain Glendwr

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why not...

17.12.2001 21:17

Why not turn up dressed as rozzers and provoke a disturbance. then do a runner leaving their good name sullied. after all that is what they would do for us!

only joking


Taste the Pain

17.12.2001 23:21

When the police demonstrate, the people should box them in, confine them for 9 hours, till their bladder's burst, film them, then allow them to leave the area in single file, under raining batton blows. What goes around.......

DCI Mason


yeah, but

18.12.2001 00:26

a c60 is the obvious retort, but thinking more constructively, isn't this more the time to try and reach out to the decent police - of whom there are a few, though it often doesn't seem like it? once police as a group come under the same attacks as other sections of the community that are driven to protest, there's a chance to re-establish our common humanity with some of them and help change attitudes in the rest... establishing comon cause with a few police won't change the world on its own but it maybe could be a chance to help refocus wider community perspectives on the real enemies - the big boys of global capitalism - rather than just resorting to 'fuck tha police'? I dunno. might be worth a try. might not. who knows...

zedhead


tear gas them

18.12.2001 01:07

I really wouldlike to see if the"cops" would use the same force they use on any other demostration(of course not)they will go and shout and after a few hours of been with their mates they will go to the pub together.lest hope they get food poisoning.Another thing they lost all their humanity the ay they join the force,and got transform in the mercenays of the state and corporations.

black block
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More the Merrier

18.12.2001 10:15

Maybe disgruntled police will join the next anti-capitalist protest?

Brothers with Arms


NO EASY ANSWERS !!!

18.12.2001 15:50

i think this characters got to the central question of the time...
until now, we have all been operating with a 'frame of reference' based on 1968 (student rebellion) and 1984 (miners strike). when Blair was elected one thing was obvious, but unclear: an old era had passed, and a new one had commenced. we are just beginning to see the strange fruits of these strange days. Look at recent developments:
Blair seizing control of NATO[ #], and proclaiming a National Moral Purpose /Countryside Alliance/ housing estates beset by lynch mobs of army wives/ MPs being dragged off(Mr Galloway) and beaten up (Mr Marsden), spurious diseases on farms, truckers & tractor drivers rising up against oil refineries, and now the coppers are about to protest aginst the Stalinist Blunkett. [*]
We should merely observe at this stage; the cops are angry (among other things )about the proposal to create a part time civil force with full powers of arrest and all the gear such as batons and handcuffs. if THAT can be stopped, all to the best, for we know what kind of people want to play at being bobbies.

[#] think about it. why hasnt bush used NATO in the War against Terror ? Becuase Blair and Russia sneaked in. Who runs the secraetariat ? Mr Robertson MP...

[*] of this be in no doubt. Blunkett, like most other of high ranking Labourites, has a Communist history, even if via the Labour party.

zara thustra


Depressed and demoralised sections of society

18.12.2001 17:28

About the only sections of society that are NOT depressed and demoralised are A: financial capitalists B: the army. C: Evangelical christians

The police are demoralised, and so are the parliament, the labour party, the trades unions, farmers, truckers, radical leftists and almost everyone except the above three.

If Blunkett clashes with the coppers, who will carry out his orders?
what a scary thought : a capitalist- army- church alliance. book your ticket abroad now !

querty uiop


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