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Quote by: tinybear I hear that the protesters are 'professionals', i.e. they get paid to organize and stage/incite these and many other similar protests. Does anyone know whether there's any truth in this?
Actually, if the powers that be wish to see an end to such protests, my advice to them is to hold these meetings in an authoritarian country (such as China for example). |
I think they are using the word professional loosely, I believe they mean to say these are protest veterans who turn up to as much as possible, some of them with permanent networks to organise the protests.
The UK police are well versed in 'neutralising' any protest, and by neutralise I mean kill. What the police do is herd the protesters along the street, preferably into a corner with only two exits, then blockade the front and plug the back. The protesters get stuck and sit around for 9 hours and all the steam is out of them then they go home. This 'corner' is preferably as far away as possible from those who are meant to hear the protest ei Westminster, Gleneagles Hotel etc
Additional tactics by the police are agent provocateurs planted by police, which they have admitted to using in the past, so no doubt they still do. They also look for the group of close knit people, they're usually all selling the Socialist Worker or something similar. When they spot them they hit one of them, the rest come running, the police batter those too, more from the crowd turn up. By then the BBC turn up and start reporting all these violent protesters. If they didn't have the police within site of the protest, the most you would have is a few bust windows, but with the police there it aggravates the protesters whose only aim is to demonstrate peacefully, as is their right.