The police have admitted there's just something about children that makes you want to hit them, then crush them, kettle them, then charge them with horses... then lie about it.
The bullshitter in chief had this to say:
"While protesters should be able to march peacefully to highlight their concerns, they should not be able to seriously disrupt the lives of Londoners and prevent them going about their daily business. People have a right to go to work, go shopping or sight see without fear of violence and disorder."
Work, shop and look at stuff, the three things you 'have a right' to do, according to Spokesman Plod.
Aside from the deliberate blindness over police violence, it is another example of the pernicious neo-liberal 'tolerance' pervading mainstream politics. Everyone has the right to protest, it's just no one has the right for their protest to have an effect. Apart from revenge, Wednesday's kettle in Central London was motivated by the state's desire to isolate the students from the rest of London (which is a shame for the police because news travels over police lines, but hey-ho). It is worth repeating, our students cannot use so-called democratic means, they have been shut out of mainstream politics by all three parties. They must resort to direct action, be that walkouts, sit-downs, marches or occupations.
This means someone's life must be disrupted. N'er mind, eh?
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