Quote ="jdrocket"i'll give you half marks for the perception you have of me. Very uncanny.
No one will truly know what happened to instigate the conflict. As i have mentioned previously, the students went there to hold a peaceful protest. There is nothing that any cynicism of youth can say to refute that. There may have been people who went there to cause trouble (I think it is undoubtable) or there may have point a point where people ticked. But the end of the day. 1 Policeman fell off a horse. Multiple children and young adults were beaten by men with big sticks. No police men went to hospital. at least one almost died.
These are shocking facts. I admit that the cenotaph incident was a disgrace but we know that the idiot didn't know what he was doing. And when you compare the injuries some people sustained to the graffiti on Churchill's statue; it is small potatoes.
I think that the image the media has portrayed of the students is a very negative one. There was a minority causing trouble. Don't believe it? you need only look at the damage. a few broken windows, a man fell off a horse, no injuries to the media or the police. If this was as bad as people would like to think. Akin to riots on the street. Where were the burning cars, buildings, where was the attacks on people. The police were heavy handed. I suppose when you give a man a big stick and sheild and, most importantly, power. Some will take advantage. I think the police did a poor showing on the night. The tactics were wrong from the beginning( letting the students at the supreme court and treasury + the kettling) and they tried to claw it back with violence.'"
You should of watched it live on sky, the student organisers had agreed a route with the authorities but the plebs wearing the green helmets weren't happy about it and so decided to rip the metal barriers up and fire them at the police. The force helicopter captured it for all to see, no media portrayal but a sky eye view. The students or the UAF pillocks were hell bent on a riot and nothing would stop them.
Anybody who watched the live broadcast would of seen the missiles bouncing of the police helmets, we are not talking about riot police but police brought in on their rest days to cover the march, before you come back with "well they had helmets on" believe me the bobby's would have felt everything' like I've already said alot were WPCs. You talk about the police being heavy handed, you seriously are really clueless, the police could of dished out a pasting but didn't (politicians children on the march) you say a policeman fell off his horse, well lets have it right a mounted policeman's horse panicked under the amount of missiles it was being hit with and threw the rider. I've met pr**ks like you all my life, slag the police off all the time but first sign off trouble and you're straight on to them.
You say the idiot on the cenotaph didn't know what he was doing, he was studying history for gods sake he knew where the cenotaph was, maybe the large inscription THE GLORIOUS DEAD would be a give away! but no, people like you would sooner believe he made a mistake. In the words of one famous lefty MY ARES!
Let me guess your hatred of the police is down to the fact they've done you for speeding!
