Children, pregnant women charged by mounted Met police

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At the student fees protest, 24th Nov.

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If, as a vet of the Liverpool riots i make a few points:-

Why the F*CK did that assh*le bring his pregga girl friend on a demo that might get nasty?
Where the F*UCK were these people while 200-500,000 people in Iraq were getting killed?

Why are they "so" upset?
They being asked to foot part of the bill for their own education, that will lead them to a nice "Bmw owning" job. So they refuse to pay what £9,000 (about the price of the options on a 5 series) over a lot of years after they earning + £22 k!

My Heart bleeds for them!
Mike

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Why the F*CK did that assh*le bring his pregga girl friend on a demo that might get nasty?

Probably because he's a naive middle class chap who grew up trusting authority figures.

Where the F*UCK were these people while 200-500,000 people in Iraq were getting killed?

Some of these students were less than 10 years old then.
Anyway, millions (literally) did march.
They were peaceful.
They were ignored.

They being asked to foot part of the bill for their own education, that will lead them to a nice "Bmw owning" job. So they refuse to pay what £9,000 (about the price of the options on a 5 series) over a lot of years after they earning + £22 k!

There is no guarantee of any job at the end of it, these days. And it's 9k a year -- higher than in the US, even -- so with living expenses they'll be over £50k in debt when they graduate, with no guarantee of a job.

So you'd be £50k in debt, no savings, meagre prospects for work, priced out of the housing market, unable to borrow money to start a business, while your government transfers the unpayable private debt of the previous generation's bankers onto your pitiful tax-paying shoulders.

They SHOULD be rioting.

Education is now for rich people. This is designed to keep the poor poor. I actually do feel sad for them.

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Its going to a lovely revolution

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I sure hope so. We'll see where the chips fall.

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Just as damning was this to my mind:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/la...kettle-protest

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Inside the Whitehall kettle

Posted by Laurie Penny - 25 November 2010 16:48

Police violence against children.
Police force demonstrators back. Photo: Getty Images.


It's the coldest day of the year, and I've just spent seven hours being kettled in Westminster. That sounds jolly, doesn't it? It sounds a bit like I went and had a lovely cup of tea with the Queen, rather than being trapped into a freezing pen of frightened teenagers and watching baton-wielding police kidney-punching children, six months into a government that ran an election campaign on a platform of fairness. So before we go any further, let's remind ourselves precisely what kettling is, and what it's for.
Take a protest, one whose premise is uncomfortable for the administration - say, yesterday's protest, with thousands of teenagers from all over London walking out of lessons and marching spontaneously on Westminster to voice their anger at government cuts to education funding which will prevent thousands from attending college and university. Toss in hundreds of police officers with riot shields, batons, dogs, armoured horses and meat wagons, then block the protesters into an area of open space with no toilets, food or shelter, for hours. If anyone tries to leave, shout at them and hit them with sticks. It doesn't sound like much, but it's effective.
I didn't understand quite how bad things had become in this country until I saw "armoured" cops being deployed against schoolchildren in the middle of Whitehall. These young people joined the protest to defend their right to learn, but in the kettle they are quickly coming to realise that their civil liberties are of less consequence to this government than they had ever imagined The term 'kettle' is rather apt, given that penning already-outraged people into a small space tends to make tempers boil and give the police an excuse to turn up the heat, and it doesn't take long for that to happen. When they understand that are being prevented from marching to parliament by three lines of cops and a wall of riot vans, the kids at the front of the protest begin to moan. "It's ridiculous that they won't let us march," says Melissa, 15, who has never been in trouble before. "We can't even vote yet, we should be allowed to have our say."
The chant goes up: "what do we want? The right to protest!" At first, the cops give curt answers to the kids demanding to know why they can't get through. Then they all seem to get some sort of signal, because suddenly the polite copper in front of me is screaming in my face, shoving me hard in the back of the head, raising his baton, and the protesters around me are yelling and running back. Some of them have started to shake down a set of iron railings to get out, and the cops storm forward, pushing us right through those railings, leaving twenty of us sprawling in the rubble of road works with cracked knees. When they realised that they are trapped, the young protesters panic. The crush of bodies is suddenly painful - my scarf is ripped away from me and I can hear my friend Clare calling for her son - and as I watch the second line of police advance, with horses following behind them, as I watch a surge of teenagers carrying a rack of iron railings towards the riot guard and howling to be released, I realise they're not going to stop, and the monkey instinct kicks in. I scramble up a set of traffic lights, just in time to see a member of the Metropolitan police grab a young protester by the neck and hurl him back into the crowd.


DISGUSTING

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Lots more acoming:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF5-e...eature=related
Ah, the good old days!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...fe-ruined.html

"Now i won't get a job"
I ear the army are looking for opuim plant protectors son

The reson you will not get a job is that you were too soft to wear mask!
Mike