Comments on: The G20 backhander

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:21:29 +0000

I read somewhere it was gaffer/duct tape.

By: Dunc

Dunc — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:01:45 +0000

I’m also really curious about those nifty little epaulette covers… Where are they getting them from? Is there a forum somewhere where they swap sewing patterns for them, or are they actually issued?

By: Grimy Miner

Grimy Miner — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:47:51 +0000

This springs to mind:

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:36:20 +0000

More, her ‘lip’ appears to be a response to the forceful detention of people on the other side of the police line. Several people try to leave, and one is thrown back with some force. Her ‘lip’ is a pretty reasonable response to that.

By: CP

CP — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:26:29 +0000

*Yawn*

What would you say if that was your sister?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:14:32 +0000

“It is not proporionate.”

Neither is it ‘reasonable’, a word which, as a Tory, LFAT ought to know is one of the basic cornerstones of British justice. Or has the concept of British justice gone with the rest of his principles when faced with the much more important opportunity to bash some lefties?

By: Grimy Miner

Grimy Miner — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:03:46 +0000

Substitute G20 demonstrators for Jews – doesn’t sit easy on the conscience now, does it?

By: Dunc

Dunc — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:56:22 +0000

LFAT, the point is that verbal abuse does not justify hitting someone, never mind with a baton. It is not proporionate.

I’m curious – is there any level of police violence which you think would be unjustified in a situation like this? Does giving lip to a policeman justify being tazered? Shot?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:53:42 +0000

Do you do anything else in comment boxes other than whore your own blog?

Suffice to say that you evidently think that shouting at a policeman deserves to be rewarded with physical violence whereas I do not.

By: Letters From A Tory

Letters From A Tory — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:47:58 +0000

*yawn*

Covering up police numbers is wrong, but you seem to be under the impression that this woman’s behaviour was is no way wrong – which is laughable.

I’ve posted on this video today, suffice to say that you evidently think that provoking, charging and harrassing riot police is acceptable whereas I do not.