Lost liberties

The great newspaper of the North of England, The Northern Echo, had a great feature article on Thursday of last week regarding the police crack down against peaceful protests. I missed this due to the sheer volume of other items upon which to blog, but link it now and offer this taster the title of which is "Why police need to be reined in"(I believe another power station protest story is about to break)

This catalogue of abuses comes hard on the heels of the disgraceful, unprovoked violence when a climate change camp was set up to protest against a new coal-fired power station in Kent.

Then, the “potentially dangerous” items seized by police included blankets, soap, toilet rolls, board games, clown costumes, children’s crayons, cushions, carpet, marker pens and a pensioner’s walking stick.

Justifying such draconian action, the police claimed 70 officers were injured – only to later admit that the only “injuries” were heat exhaustion, toothache, insect bites, diarrhoea, cut fingers and headaches.

I am fast coming to the conclusion that the police are out of control and that anyone joining a peaceful demonstration risks a trip to hospital – or even the morgue.