"Harlequin", for those of you new to the newswire, was outed many months ago as an employee of the British government. His posts have varied over the last year between calls for sabotage, bombing, and random acts of domestic terrorism, to appeals to various trotskist or maoist or anarchists sectlets, to posts suggesting we should all go home and make a nice cup of tea.

First, The Hyde Park demonstration yesterday, organized at two days notice, pulled in hundreds of thousands of people. The police estimate was 100,000, the Independent gave the figure at 200,000 people, Stop the War said one million. My own guess is that it was close to half a million.

Without the global antiwar movement this war would have happened months ago, and would have involved far more indiscriminate killing.

As it is, it remains an illegal war.

This is clearly disinformation. Even the police were saying 200,000 demonstrators in London. The official organisers claimed 750,000 people were in London meaning that this was the biggest ever war-time peace demonstration ever.

The above message also claims that there were only 200 protestors at the sit-in at Oxford Street. As someone who was at the side watching I can confirm the reports that there were at least 1000 protestors taking part.

...if you think the millions protesting failed.Now
that the US is using Brittish soldiers for fodder,perhaps
you'll think we won.

As to the suggestion that the crowd was quickly moved on, the small group of people I was with went close to Oxford Street to protest quietly with our placards outside the American Embassy as we were going past we could see the police cordoning off the protestors at Oxford Street. We stayed outside the American Embassy for at least half an hour. When we left we went up to Oxford Street to witness the blockade which was still there.

BBC tried very hard to play down yesterdays demo.
But BBC WORLD says 200.000 and then 100.000 punters.

Five live followed a now standard line.

"not the 100.000 expected by the organisers" this is pretty standard style of dissing demo's

"most people have realised that now the war has started it's
futile to protest" this was repeated by two or three reporters, based upon what ?? she didn't say probably
part of the governments instruction to the media or maybe Harliquinn is briefin' the press, sounds like a good case of the idiotic leading the idiotic.

when the supporters of Israel had their demo the BBC pronounced the day before that their would be 40,000
and low and behold reports confirmed this.

later a much larger pro palestinian demo was weighed in at a much lesser figure and there fore a failure .

the other line yesterday was that there were far fewer than on the F15 demo . Of course they didn't mention that F15 was
a real international demo with loads more organization and planning, yesterday was not on the same scale for that reason.

Caro H , which "we" are you refering to .... ???

Why is anyone replying to this policeman?