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PMM Apr 1, 2009 21:34:08
Replying to pooley

Thousands of people descend on a city to express their passion. A small minority come for trouble and the police present are attacked with bricks and glass bottles. Twenty-seven people are arrested.

They were Swansea FC supporters having a day out in Cardiff last year.

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/26-arrested-violence-Swansea-v-Cardiff-football-matcharticle-453033-details/article.html

You probably won’t have read about it. The story certainly wasn’t top of every bulletin on every news network.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7977489.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/demonstrations-turn-violent-1659268.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5089870/G20-protests-Rioters-loot-RBS-as-demonstrations-turn-violent.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g97rsFx3dbUHPQSoLAaXQa97RGBwD979S04G0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/01/g20-summit-protests
http://www.smh.com.au/world/g20-protesters-strike-at-londons-heart-20090402-9k0h.html

(etc)

Prime Minister Gordon Brown did not warn the offenders that ‘violence and intimidation will not be tolerated‘.

shamelessly pinched from here: http://www.chickyog.net/2009/04/01/heliocentric/

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mojojojo Apr 1, 2009 23:00:22
Replying to PMM

Yeah, the police do everything they can to stop legitimate protest, protecting the powerful as always and lay into few people for good measure, but ohmygod, some windows got smashed. Not a little shop window either, but RBS's. How will they pay for the damage?

The BBC is as impartial as ever - 'even injured the protester continues to harangue police' they said as a bleeding man was clearly trying reason with the police that had just crakced his head and make sense of what had happened to him. I'm no body languauge expert but it was obvious.

Noone wants to smash your windows becuase of your opinons Pooley, and it would be shameful if they did - but you're not a huge bank that is fucking all of us over while laughing in our faces are you?

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