More Police Brutality at Student Demo.... - Page 2

Who knows what the guy was doing? Maybe he was throwing petrol bombs all over the place. Maybe he was throwing stuff at people. The point is I don't feel like I have enough information to make a judgement either way.

I support the students in this one. The tuition fee hike by 9K pounds is nasty. At the same time, you can see the members of parliament debate over increased spending for education, etc. in Zimbabwe. There has to be some limit to hypocrisy.

No specific looting mentioned, but burning, yes. And a great deal of vandalism.

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Mounted police were used to control crowds, at one point charging a group of protesters, as thousands of demonstrators protested outside the Houses of Parliament.

Other reported actions taken by the protesters include:

Setting the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square alight
Smashing windows at shops in Oxford Street
Vandalising statues in Parliament Square, including that of Winston Churchill
A sit-in by about 150 students at the National Gallery
Superintendent Julia Pendry said officers had come under sustained attack and condemned "acts of wanton vandalism, wanton violence" by protesters.
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There is definitely a double standard as regards crowd behavior, and the police; when the event is politically oriented, cops tend to get rougher than on non politically colored crowd occasions, such as large sporting events where an unruly element is present.

People who attend political rallies and protests for genuine reasons, sympathetic to their cause hope and pray for a peaceful event, knowing that wanton violence invariably trashes their cause amongst the mainstream majority. Naturally, the powers-that-be are fully aware of this, and on numerous occasions have instigated violence in order to influence public opinion; those attacked naturally react in self defense, and are thus arrested on serious charges, such as "resisting arrest", or "assaulting a police officer" or "causing bodily harm" etc. etc.

Police have also used such tactics as hiring and paying unsavory characters to show up and start fights, or vandalize property on cue, while corporate media TV cameras and reporters are present. The WTO Seattle event was a classic example of this, where multiple witnesses saw and videotaped black-clad, masked individuals being "mock arrested" in the downtown area after throwing rocks through storefront windows, being carted off alongside genuine protesters in police vehicles and then released. On one famous occasion, a phony "Black Bloc" member was filmed waving a wad of cash and laughing as he emerged from a rear exit at the main police station in the city. This tactic is another variant on the "false flag" theme, in which elements of an authority, or paid hacks in disguise, attack their own infrastructure or bystanders, in order to generate public support for that authority and its agendæ.

Since Seattle, I've seen this kind of stuff happen first-hand more times than many people have had hot dinners.

The sit in was the only part of that I had no problem with. All the rest crossed many lines. This article was before the wheelchair incident. It was the first one you linked to. Just got around to giving it a more thorough reading. Unless, of course they changed what the link pointed to, which is possible I guess.

Otherwise, do you have a link to the information that backs up all your other claims? Or are you going off of intuition and ESP?

That is not ok. If that was the extent of what he posted the response was way out of touch with reality.