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Originally posted by dizzylizzy
Did NuLabour put my country into these dire straights or was it their puppet makers.
People here are angry, while front line services are being cut the bankers are still having pay rises and huge bonus.
I wish I could have been there today alas health and distance made it impossible.
Funny old world we live in, the protesters in the Middle East are applauded, yet here in the West they are questioned,...why...is it because we already have a so called Democracy?
Originally posted by Misoir
I am watching this on TV and I have to say these people out there throwing molotov cocktails are absolute morons and should be arrested. I do not disagree with protests demanding changes but these people being violent and destroying private property should be arrested.
Sorry to all the Anarchists but there should always be law and order at all times.
Originally posted by arollingstone
reply to post by xxshadowfaxx
Fair enough, had read that it was half a million.. good correction! Some sources still say 250 000 (including the police apparently), not really sure who to believe. In any case, the aggressive ones are still the vast minority.
A black bloc is a tactic for protests and marches, whereby individuals wear black clothing, scarfs, ski masks, motorcycle helmets with padding or other face-concealing items and often carry some sort of shields and truncheons.[1][2] The clothing is used to avoid being identified, and to, theoretically, appear as one large mass, promoting solidarity.
The tactic was developed in the 1980s by autonomists protesting squatter evictions, nuclear power and restrictions on abortion among other things.[1] Black blocs gained broader media attention outside Europe during the 1999 anti-WTO demonstrations, when a black bloc damaged property of GAP, Starbucks, Old Navy, and other multinational retail locations in downtown Seattle.[1]