Police at the gate of Kingsnorth
treborgolan | 09.08.2008 19:45 | Climate Camp 2008 | Climate Chaos | South Coast
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10.08.2008 06:21
I don't see why future attendees should be made to walk through walls of policeman to attend, or indeed leave the march peacefully as we all had to yesterday - disgraceful. Only time I've seen such tactics was in the first anti war demos and they caused bad feeling and were a disaster then.
Did the government purposely choose Yorkshire Police to assist - knowing how sensitive the coal subject is in their history? Unfair on those officers, unfair on the protestors.
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Learn your history or repeat it.....
11.08.2008 08:38
You forget Betteshanger Colliery - closed by Thatcher at the beggining of the coal dispute and site of some of the most vicious clashes between Police and Miners.
Betteshanger near Deal in KENT has yet to recover and remains one of the most deprived areas in the UK - they are not all up north you know.
Betteshanger Colliery
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11.08.2008 10:15
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