Tuesday, December 14, 2010

'There was a suggestion you were rolling towards the police in your wheelchair...'


19 comments:

MerkinOnParis said...

Of course he was a danger.
I saw Doctor Strangelove more than once.

Seriously, Mail/Express types will call for his assassination or incarceration as part of the faux War on Terror.

Antipholus Papps said...

Thanks for posting that Stef! Jody McIntyre kept his cool and made his points admirably. The lickspittle news [w]anchor needs the same blackshirt treatment as do the coppers who pulled Jody from his chair.

gyg3s said...

Incredibly professional interview by the BBC journalist. Seriously. The manner in which he implies that black is white is incredibly slick. Examples include the manner in which he delivers the word appears at the beginning of the interview; the manner in which the interviewee is pinballed away from topics such as the comparison between us (students) and them (police/charles/camilla); topics such as the treatment of the Palestinians. The manner in which he shamelessly continued the interview within his fictional reality which was so at odds with the objective reality for all to see.

I want to nominate him for a gong for this particular interview.

Does anyone know the procedure?

paul said...

Have you, or anyone you know ever rolled towards the police in a wheelchair?

Davros was a psyop.

stef said...

@gyges

I agree with your analysis whoelheartedly and the sheer inoffensiveness of the evil doer on this occasion enables us to savour the techniques in all their glory

Gong nomination aka (wink wink) 'complaints' form here

Affirmative Action Jackson said...

...on the positive side, it's great to see that the Police and the BBC are equal opportunities beaters and slanderers

Stef said...

and on the subject of savouring techniques in all their glory, the comments made by the State-friendly keyboard monkeys underneath this clip on Youtube are also an education

Edo said...

I feel for the wheelchair man, but seriously, a million protestors against the Iraq war achieved, well, nothing... which begs the question, "is protesting an effective tool for bringing about change?"

Now they're talking about bringing in water cannons to control the happless protestors, and my guess is the majority of folk with their MSM goggles on will think those 'dirty lazy students' deserve it, even those in wheelchairs.

If activists really want the government to sit up and take notice (and then action), they'll need to come up with more innovative ways of making their case.

I can think of a couple of things that require a bit more commitment than taking the day out to get kettled into a corner till it starts becoming uncomfortable...

paul said...

I do like Benjamin`s thoughtful chin on hand pose, it brings to mind rodin`s `The wanking,fucking newsreader`

lwtc247 said...

This guy is great. Compare this bloke to the shit-eating politicians (don't you dare pretend Oaten's the only one!) What a shameful little-dribble of a country this is.

ver word is 'stand'. I kid ye not.

lwtc247 said...

UK: 12-year-old dissident hauled out of class for questioning by police...

Notorious Nicky was pulled from his class by police and warned that he was under investigation by the Anti-terrorist squad. He was repeatedly warned by the police that he ought not attend the protest and that police intended to hold him personally responsible for anything that happened at the protest. They also warned him that armed police would be on hand in case the protesters got out of hand....

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/12/uk-govt-moves-against-12-year-old-dissident/

Anonymous said...

UK Student Riots - Slideshows - The Daily Bail

gyg3s said...

His Grace writes, "Have the British Government deployed the Army against civilian protestors?"

lwtc247 said...

Funny that some accuse Wikileaks of practically being a Rothschild enterprise, whose (at least in-part) intent is to facilitate and excuse to censure the internet {which is already 100% spied on, censored (totally if necessary)) yet there same people aren't critical of the utterly pointless students for their actions which are being used to stop the possibility of civillian protest (or at least without lachromatory watercannons, indefinite detention, DNA databasing, and some scumbag police or army pointing (and likely shooting)seni-automatic weaponry at them.

Actually it's not funny at all.

Wait 10 years. See the 'ringleaders' of these protests become Canditates for completely stupid main political parties in the UK (esp. those that bask in the illusion that they are some how left wing or liberal).

Well Julian, when your sitting in Jail or being spied on or bum raped c/o TSA, all for the sake of the CIA or as part of a 'deal' with Israyhell or something, perhaps you might like to play that game too.

gyg3s said...

Check out Vaughan Smith on wikipedia.

Some choice links here, http://nodeinthenoosphere.blogspot.com/2010/12/hotel-victor.html but it's just as quick to get them via google.

Stef said...

@lwtc247

As it happens, I do share some of your and Edo's reservations about the student demos and I've been reminded of my own student days back during the Miners' Strike.

I knew a group of private school types who used to pop on their donkey jackets and whizz off to the picket lines in the cars their daddies bought for them so that they could enjoy a bit of a ruck. They went on to become partners in accountancy and law firms, that sort of thing...

Stef said...

...I see the current round of protests as being largely a case of the establishment and the establishment's children setting things up before the real strife gets going

I didn't post this link because I stand solidly behind Toby and Jasper and Hugo and all the other privileged twunts pretending to act against the interests of their class. I posted this link as an undeniable demonstration of BBC bias and how the BBC prosecutes that bias

Stef said...

@gyg3s

yup, yet another example of someone we're supposed to believe is acting against the interests of themselves and their peers

there's a lot of them about

Stef said...

@gyg3s

Are police numbers 'supplemented' by soldiers where there is a threat to the Queen's Peace?

More to the point, how many ex-soldiers who've picked up the moral flexibility to be able to kill, wound and torture during service in Iraq and Afghanistan are being recruited full-time into the Met and other forces?

My guess, based on stories I'm hearing, is that the answer is 'quite a few'