Further evidence, if any was needed, that the police are acting above the law marching towards a police state. Good on the staff at the Boots shop tho!

I am all for people's right to protest, peacefully and would defend their right to speak freely, but..

"Other demonstrators tried to stop the arrest and at least one police officer used CS spray, which hospitalised three people."

If folks are trying to resist/stop arrests..then they are asking for trouble.
I for one, want to see the Police maintaining order, within the law. As a taxpayer, I don't want to be paying the bills for the damage / havoc some protesting marches will create, if the Police are not able to maintain a basic level of control.

edited: AGAIN.

If this is what a thread about peaceful protest looks like, let's never discuss violence and confrontation!

:o)

Reading the news of the Bahrain Tear-gassing got me to wondering; Bahrain has never has civil unrest before, as far as I know, so why had the authorities stockpiled Tear-gas? As a contingency? What weapons do our authorities have stockpiled still against its citizens? Are there still rubber bullets in government warehouses over here?