Why should we allow a few miserable idiots to spoil it, for the millions who loved it.
Plod has 'regrets'...
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We're they spoiling anything?
Your mindless rant makes no sense. You state "The protestors" as though they're a single entity. You state this as though the completely innocent woman who was handcuffed and locked up for standing close to some other protestors somehow deserved it because someone else had thrown a statue in the sea in Bristol.
There is absolutely no connection between the people who were protesting in London for various causes and those who were protesting in Bristol for completely different causes. There is definitely no connection between this woman and the protestors she happened to be standing near to.
This ignorant attitude is the sort of thing that justifies governments persecuting the people they are meant to serve. If you stand up for what you think is a good cause or just happen to stand in the wrong place one day you'll find out what an oppressive police state is really like.
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WTF?
There's a world of difference between criminal damage and a peaceful banner waving protest.
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Yes, there is. But one has inevitably led to the other through the actions of a hardcore element within the peaceful protests who insist on escalating tensions and causing criminal damage in order to attract publicity. It's often self-defeating and serves no purpose other than bringing disrepute on those who protest peacefully within the law.
Now the government has an excuse to toughen laws to prevent anyone doing the same.
Blowin' hard today, Pat. Batten down the hatches, there's a good lad.
You've been successfully fooled, exactly as planned by the government.
They've been deliberately letting various protests get out of hand over the last year or so, despite already having laws that could have been used to stop them, precisely so that they could then falsely justify essentially banning all protests, as they've now done, apparently cheered on by the people who were taken in by this.
You are proof that they can fool some of the people all of the time.
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I think the police are being more than over-zealous here.
The architect that was arrested was done so on suspicion of "potential to cause a breach of the peace."
Suspicion?
Potential?
Neither of these are a crime.
The architect that was arrested was done so on suspicion of "potential to cause a breach of the peace."
Suspicion?
Potential?
Neither of these are a crime.
Nonsense.
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It's that slippery slope. And some are helping make it even slippier
It wasn't his car, he just happened to be walking past someone else's car.
So obviously get him handcuffed and chuck him in a cell for 13 hours.
Blooming protesting types, you can't be too tough on em, locking him up will teach the 1990s poll tax protestors a lesson or something. Errrmmm...
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Nothing has changed in law other than some tightening of the loopholes around static protests.
The police do make mistakes, sometimes you get wrongfully detained for 13 hours and sometimes [thankfully very rarely] you get shot 5 times in the head. It does not make the law wrong.
People have a right to protest, it would have been very easy to keep them to a specific area away from the supporters.
The police do make mistakes, sometimes you get wrongfully detained for 13 hours and sometimes [thankfully very rarely] you get shot 5 times in the head. It does not make the law wrong.
People have a right to protest, it would have been very easy to keep them to a specific area away from the supporters.
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