Orwell turns in his grave
 

Pre-emptive arrests are being made on people who have a "potential to breach the peace" at tomorrow's Royal Wedding. In this video is a pension-age anthropology professor being arrested taken into the back of a van in a blatant sting operation which is as infuriating as it is chilling to watch. What amazes me is just how many of them are present. Almost as if LMP had nothing better to do today.

This video was brought to you courtesy of the British taxpayer.

I hear they're giving away tinfoil hats for free

Yeah this is obviously a massive conspiracy. It mean it could just well be a a fox dining away on a chicken in that video. It all depends on how you look at it.

No it's an old man and a harmless street theatre group getting bundled in the back of a van for being anti capatalist. Arrested for 'breach of the peace'. Arrested for, translation, 'having views which we do not like'. Look how many officers are there. Good lord. It's a fucking dangerous precedent that cannot just be glazed over with some tired argument that 'well they have to be vigilante etc'.

But hey who cares. ~Wedding! Let's do what the Americans do when they elect a new president and grandstand in front of the world espousing the virtues of freedom. Nobody will care about this. It's not a free magazine that comes with some mind numbing tabloid revealing in great detail the sort of fabrics that will be hanging at the wedding afterparty.

They were probably let free by the end of the day anyway. A bunch of officers over reacting =/= a dictatorship

oh well that's okay then Chewy.

Of course it isn't but one bunch of OTT police officers doesn't represent the state of the London Metropolitan police, nor does it mean that free speech is banned. Which is my point in this thread, I'm tired of hearing modern society being compared to a 1984 dictatorship - go to China if you want to find out what that is really like.

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...d.php?t=173630

Knight the punk trouble maker arrested

I really hope word of these arbitrary arrests gets around. However much our draconian media censorship laws and libel tourism to the UK (the litigation capital of Europe) compromise our freedom speech, seeing this still doesn't fail to shock. As if it weren't enough that we have a military sending troops and advisors over to Bahrain to help their royal family keep their own usurpers in check. So much for this being a great week for royalty.

How does this justify the dispatch of scores of police officers (in an already overstretched police force) to make arbitrary arrests on perfectly law abiding citizens (whose only "crime" is having the "potential" to express views deemed dangerous to the status quo) as either democratic or even vaguely morally acceptable? And I reject your statement that this does not represent the prevailing attitudes of the London Metropolitan Police. A police force that has spent years being pressured into arresting terrorist suspects and which is all but known to have cooperated with News International in a cover-up of their criminal invasion of people's privacy.

You don't have to remind me that the 'People's Republic of China' is a police state... and yet CCP propaganda would have Chinese citizens believe that they are living in a democracy which has the best interests of Chinese people at heart. Just like North Korea assures its long-suffering inhabitants that they are living in a 'workers' paradise'. Funny that.

Chris Knight's a bit of a dickhead really so I do struggle to sympathise with him and his cronies. Having said that, this whole thing is ridiculous, it is effectively arresting them for pre-crime, for doing absolutely nothing, no matter how they dress it up; "conspiracy to breach the peace" and all that crap