The WOMBLES are coming.....again!
ftp | 08.12.2010 14:01 | Other Press | Repression
In what has become a bit of a tradition, Commander Bob Broadhurst has once again resurrected the WOMBLES in an attempt to justify the attacks that the cops will undoutably make on the mostly peaceful demonstrators on Thursday's protest.
Once were Wombles: (2001)
That he knows the WOMBLES are no longer an active protest group is made clear in this BBC article, where he stated, prior to the G20 that "there was evidence that groups not seen since the 1990s, such as direct action exponents Reclaim the Streets and the Wombles, were re-forming and planning activity.". They did not appear.
Oscar Beard failed to see the mystical WOMBLES at Sack Parliament in 2006, after another Broadhurst warning, and despite warnings in the Telegraph, neither did they materialise at Heathrow's Climate Camp.
Perhaps Bob Broadhurst is suffering from delsusions or flashbacks which mean that he is constantly seeing WOMBLEs that aren't there, and, if so, it is illuminating that rather than exposing his delusions, the corporate media continues to share them. More likely he has learnt that raising the spectre is an easy way to justify attacking all protestors, an agenda seemingly shared with corporate journalists such as Justin Davenport and Anna Davis of the Standard.
ftp
Comments
Hide 3 hidden comments or hide all comments
Wimbles
08.12.2010 14:24
old commie
Overlap
08.12.2010 15:54
Fleabite, meet ftp, I'm interested if you have anything to add.
dp
WOMBLES ARE THE BEST
08.12.2010 16:09
wombles are cool
e-mail:
kissmyasspolicescum@hotmail.com
"I cant slag em off here" with solidarity like that, who needs enemies?
08.12.2010 16:10
They were as well organised& padded, if not better organised than many black blocs& it would be great to see them again in some guise.
womble lover
Solidarity?
08.12.2010 16:42
I was invited along to the Wombles student recruitment in Bristo Square in '05, and turned back at the door when I spotted the two policemen pretending to be skateboarders outside. The following weeks where the Wombles ignored military industrial targets and instead smashed up poor peoples cars and an unguarded burger joint - but not the one with the guard - shows I was right.
Middle class Swappies and LibCommies and state assets in my experience. Still, ignore me, I'm happy to sit back and see how the WomblIMCistas here respond.
dp
"I cant slag em off here"
08.12.2010 17:30
Read that again before it is hidden. Without any irony, the police tried to charge me for calling their informant a police informer, and looked genuinely upset when I burst out laughing.
The sad fact is though that IMCistas including ftp, so brave to criticise other groups, have failed to try to investigate the same police scum operating within IM.
dp
light the womble-signal
09.12.2010 12:53
Like this but its an W-A thngy in a circle
Anyway, I believe in the centre of London there is a large light that beams a giant W" in the sky so that Comissioner 'Bob' Gordon can shine when he needs to create some more moral panic amongst the stupid and the misinformed.ie Evading Standardski readers.
Still I'm sure WAG will be the next group to demonise. Tell the cops tuna and chicken sandwiches are on us....
Shake your Durutti
Hide 3 hidden comments or hide all comments