Blair's fascist thugs in Manchester

[HERA]

Policing in Blair's kind of democracy

29 sept 2006

http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article1771818.ece

Sir: One of Tony Blair's most important domestic achievements has to be the greater sense of security we now enjoy in Britain. I saw this in action in the centre of Manchester on Wednesday afternoon, in St Peter's Square, near the site of the Peterloo massacre.

A small group of protesters made the threatening gesture of attempting to release balloons into the air bearing messages of peace and opposition to war. This disturbance of the peace was dealt with quickly and effectively by members of the huge police force present there, who surrounded, then jostled, pushed and threatened those involved, including children and the elderly.

Whilst watching this take place I was issued a warning for committing a public order offence. Another young man observing these events wasn't so fortunate; for committing the crime of asking the police if they thought their response was excessive, he was wrestled to the ground by six officers, arrested, had a DNA sample taken and given an £80 fine.

It's lucky that so many police officers were drafted into Manchester from around the UK to deal with all the serious crimes committed during this Labour party conference. We were questioned by officers from Redditch in Worcestershire, whilst armed men helped a convicted armed robber escape from a custody vehicle in that very same town.

One young PC told us that we were lucky to be living in a democracy. In Tony Blair's Britain, who dares to even question it ?

JAMES ALFRED

MANCHESTER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3L35UWH5sY&NR

[Roger the Horse]

If it is bad now just imagine where we're headed unless people wake up to what is really going on. And let's just hope they don't manage to force John Reid on us as PM.

[hampton]

i hope they refused to pay the fine

[graphicequaliser]

The police have been told to treat peaceful demonstrators as dangerous terrorists. The letter writer is not just lucky to live in a democracy, but is lucky to be alive after such awful behaviour. I mean, watching terrorist balloons being released by a bunch of terrorists, who train their children and pensioners to "suicide-balloon" important events like the conference. What did you expect?