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How I got to spit and swear at Barnbrook.

None of the above | 04.05.2008 04:47

The Crook the Toff the Fash and the Cop, another disappointing protest that could of left me thinking of the pointlessness of "revolting" has it not been for this amusing set of events.

OK, I figured, I've seen those things before, we go dress in black, bring loads of black&red flags, and made to feel like the towns fools. It's a bit like trying to rob a police station, by announcing it first. Anyway, I figured I'll drop the whole BB uniform come with a bicycle, a change of cloths, No ID, no phone, no docs, and just have a look around. Also, there is very little reason to arrive less then an hour later then the announced time.

I got there, to find, as predicted, some not so clever people with loads of flags, some in a pen, others trying to cleverly avoid being penned in, but mostly just random people having a look. I've just cycled around, for about an hour being quite depressed, but except for the odd cop who recognised me, I seemed to be blending in the "normal" crowed. I cycled back and forth and at some point I realised that there were camera crews in the front of the building, on the grass on the exact opposite side of where the protesters were. I also noticed that there are hardly any cops over there, I was still just cycling back and forth on queen's walk, at times joining the crowed, at times joining to now dispersed groups of protesters around the area.

At some point, some 4 met cops were blocking the way to anyone they felt like, me included. I just agreed to go away and cycled round the block to the platform where the public was observing from.After a while I got bored of this, so I cycled up to the street and on tower bridge, where I had a look and realised that there still were hardly any cops on that side of the building. I went down from the bridge into the bank and had a chat to this insane lone protester who was convinced that the vote was rigged.

Then, out came 5 particularly ugly man (may have been 4), one in a white suite, the others in dark suits, and one particularly ugly kid on a power trip, wearing only black. they had badges, which took me a second or two to get to within a close enough distance to read, by then I realised that it was Barnbrook, and his cronies walking right towards me shamelessly wearing BNP badges. I recognised that kid from somewhere too... I'm not very good at snap decisions, but I tried to grub one of their badges as I was shouting abuse at them. "You wankers, you pray on hate, you capitalise on the politician's fuck ups, only you are much worse then they, and now you're in power, you're going to be much worse then they have ever been,die, rot,I'm not scared of you, etc" the kid was pushing me away, and some cops were starting to walk towards me, Barnbrook seemed to have have not expected this, a little scared, but mostly surprised. The kid then proceeded to take them to the raised grass platform, and I was followed by a few cops on foot, but I can cycle quicker then them.

I cycled round and back onto the street, then past the town hall, under some scaffolding, I spotted the fash having a nice friendly chat with the cops, so even though it was on the wrong side of the road, right in front of the cops, I prepared the biggest gob I had and just sput at those fuckers, I'm not sure if i actually hit them,all the same though! I just cycled round, changed my cloths somewhere and cycled off.

Can I just say, that we need a better plan then the cops have. I mean, "let's go and kick things off" sort of line sounds cool and all, but it's definitely beginning to be a pattern, and I think the police have already figured out that all they need to stop 100 anarchists, is to get 1000 cops and have a field day. we don't seem to have a "plan" as such for these sort of actions. We don't have the numbers and we just need to recognise that and have clever strategies, or build up an army.
A point to think about, a day before this the high jackers organised a Mayfair complete with police repression, that seemed to do the trick because the cops realised that if they just go away we'd loose, and so they did. but please, just not another "sack parliament".

None of the above

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Display the following 7 comments

  1. talk the talk.... — nbody
  2. Well done. — One in a hundred
  3. nbody - that was the plan — None of the above
  4. Only in the UK! — @narchist
  5. no riot planned — nbody
  6. My bad, — None of the above
  7. No collectivism — no solidarity
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