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29-04-2011, 12:20 AM | #1 | |||
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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.
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off? - Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis Last edited by BB_Eye; 29-04-2011 at 12:24 AM. |
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29-04-2011, 12:41 AM | #2 | |||
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I hear they're giving away tinfoil hats for free
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29-04-2011, 07:53 AM | #3 | |||
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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. Last edited by Stu; 29-04-2011 at 08:06 AM. |
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29-04-2011, 11:53 AM | #4 | |||
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They were probably let free by the end of the day anyway. A bunch of officers over reacting =/= a dictatorship
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29-04-2011, 11:56 AM | #5 | |||
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oh well that's okay then Chewy.
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29-04-2011, 12:00 PM | #6 | |||
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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.
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29-04-2011, 12:44 PM | #7 | |||
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29-04-2011, 02:52 PM | #8 | |||
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29-04-2011, 03:03 PM | #9 | |||
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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.
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off? - Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis Last edited by BB_Eye; 29-04-2011 at 03:09 PM. |
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30-04-2011, 11:30 AM | #10 | |||
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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
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