G20 Meltdown - London Protest 1 April 2009 - Financial Fools Day

Sky news footage of today- the 1st April 2009... covering the more excitable aspects of today's G20 Meltdown at Bank of England....

.... will be uploading my own footage of today, which shows a more peaceful, thoughtful and happy aspect of the protest....

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[0Maiky0]

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[TheBritishWatcher]

Lmao, thanks for the comment. :)

[cncxgrinder]

not worthy of comment

[TheBritishWatcher]

The police tactics were not to blame, it was those anarchists who wanted to cause trouble and anarchists at previous summits which led to such heavy policing of the event.

[TheBritishWatcher]

There is anger, i fully accept theres much anger on many of these issues, but its not anywhere near turning to unrest. And if it does, perhaps people better think how the police will respond hehehe ;)

[TheBritishWatcher]

You have a right to peaceful protest, but when we have 20 world leaders, sensitive areas of the city, a bunch of anarchists, tough methods must be used to keep people in line and the day passed off reasonably well, compare that to France where hotels were set on fire days later.

People were allowed to protest that day, nobody stoppped anyone from protesting, but the police acting for the saftey of public and the city have the right to decide where such protests can take place

[cncxgrinder]

dont nonsense me well you believe what you want to believe . there is a smouldering sense of unrest on immigration, jobs ,unemployment, bankers wait and see get in the real world. i wasnt talking about the us so why mention it im intrested in the people of this country. you sound like a politition who has lost touch with the people

[TheSpartacat]

you have so much to be ashamed of too, but sadly too many forget.

You're proud of haping the world but haven't you noticed the world sucks?

i'm not religious but i do agree, pride cometh before a fall.

[TheSpartacat]

your comment is contradictory.

you speak of rights but then applaud taking those rights away and treating ppl like cattle.

go read about the pre-emptive police moves in nottingham yesterday. look a little harder. then go watch minority report and ask why anyone has the right to decide what you intend to do.

the kettling tactic caused most of the problems on that day... but you weren't there were you?

[TheBritishWatcher]

People still have that right, there are protests all the time and large ones which are allowed to go ahead. But most protests are peaceful, the police knew that some at this event only had one goal and that was to cause trouble which is why they used the tactics then

Now i dont support police abuse, police shouldnt be going around hitting people with no reason, but the "kettling" tactic as its called seems like a reasonable and sensible one to me. Keeping people in a certain area to control em