[thechat] What about the economy?

[Charlie Llewellin]

boy, ain't that always the way...
remember, Notting Hill back in the nineties, Brixton, the Mardi Gras 
demonstration a few weeks ago here in Austin Tx where I live.

While most of the time your local cops are generally protecting the 
community, in instances like this the police are the protectors of status 
quo. Any demonstration against the status quo is generally viewed as an 
attack by the powers that be and responded to with disproportionate force.

Charlie
>
>Current reporting in most mass media alleges that the entire
>demonstration was violent. A few honourable exceptions and most
>eyewitness reports are clear that most of the unprovoked violence
>was on the part of the police on unarmed, non-violent demonstrators.
>Again: what's this 'democracy' which the G8 claim to be keen on?
>
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