This is absolutely bloody unbelievable. In fact, I’m having difficulty believing it actually says what I’m reading! Have I inadvertently stumbled across some spoof site I ask myself.
So what is it I’m reading? An article in the Guardian, “Fears police tactics at G20 protests will lead to violence“, all about, well, the upcoming G20 protests in London.
First there was all that nonsense a few weeks ago with the cops warning of a “Summer of Rage” (see here and here).
There’s little doubt in my mind all that rubbish was a rather clumsy attempt on the part of the Met cops to deter legitimate and peaceful protesters who have no truck with violence from attending the various G20 “events” that have been publicised and, instead, deliberately seek to attract the troublemakers and those who fancy “a bit of a bundle”.
And now, only days after the release of the Human Rights Joint Committee report on the policing of protest, in which the cops are criticised for heavy-handedness, for misusing “anti-terror” laws against protesters, and for failing to engage in dialogue with protesters, we have utterances such as “”up for it, and up to it” dripping from the mouths of the cops following their warnings to protest groups that “the main day of protest, Wednesday, 1 April would be ‘very violent’”.
And just how the hell can they make assertions like that with such assurance unless they’re gonna be the ones starting in with the violence?
Surely it would be more appropriate for the cops to try to defuse potential “trouble” than come out with such provocative comments?
Or perhaps they actually want violence in order to justify the huge budgets they seem to squander on policing protests?
And, again despite that recently-released report recommending against the inappropriate use of “anti-terror” laws in the context of protests, apparently the Met’s Commissioner has “refused to rule out the use of anti-terror legislation”.
And all of that within the first three paragraphs of the Guardian’s article!
Barely had I recovered my composure from reading the foregoing when I start choking over the next load of tripe, in reference to the events being staged by Climate Campers. I quote:
“Last night Scotland Yard denied that it had received any communication from the group and said it had been looking forward to hearing from them.”
What an utter load of bullshit! When will the cops begin to realise that the only thing achieved by coming out with crap like this is to undermine their own credibility even more.
Well, I’m totally confident that the lie will be given to that by the Campers when they reveal the history of their repeated attempts to start a dialogue with the cops.
One has to ask, precisely what agenda is it that the cops are playing to? Seems to me its bugger all to do with “facilitating protest” as the cops so often claim they’re doing.
Clearly just another cop lie.
