G8 Protest

bullock · 06-07-2005 10:23AM #1

What do you think of the G8 protestors??

06-07-2005 10:26AM

The ones who are causing the violence and are probably football scumbags looking for a fight? Or the ones who think they can persuade the world leaders to change by a peaceful demonstration?

Oriel · 06-07-2005 10:30AM

bullock, would you and your sh!itty polls ever f!ck off?

bullock · 06-07-2005 10:34AM

Why sinecura .... Whats your problem!!!!!

Did any of you's not check out the attachment!

joejoem · 06-07-2005 10:34AM

its scum bags causing the fight. There shoud be a minimum jail sentance of one year for any of them that get violent. Its the same type fúcker that spoil this country and that are being talked about in another thread!

Oriel · 06-07-2005 10:37AM

The next Poll starter of a spammy poll gets a 1 month ban, the next one after that gets a 2 month ban, and so fourth.

Just though I'd remind you about the charter...

bullock · 06-07-2005 10:38AM

This is not a spammy poll. This is a revalent topic as was on the news this morning!!

amazingemmet · 06-07-2005 10:38AM

atari jaguar tbh
http://www.boards.ie/wiki/index.php/Atari_Jaguar

toiletduck · 06-07-2005 10:51AM

Muppets!

danniemcq · 06-07-2005 11:02AM

I would like to take this opportunity to ask people who reply or vote in this forum to answer me one simple question. Have you ever been in one of these demonstrations??? Have you seen the inner workings of a full scale protest? Do you know the different groups of protesters that are actually at the event (and I mean by the colour not political parties). Yes I believe in the right of freedom of speech and expression but how can you form a serious opinion on the matter if you don't fully understand the situation.

BlitzKrieg · 06-07-2005 11:07AM

bullock wrote:

What do you think of the G8 protestors??

which ones?

go on pick one:

Thousands of anti-war, anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist demonstrators are planning to blockade the G8 summit,

the_syco · 06-07-2005 11:15AM

Those dressed in black, with their faces covered, promoting violence, should get the **** kicked out of them.

danniemcq · 06-07-2005 11:28AM

the_syco wrote:

Those dressed in black, with their faces covered, promoting violence, should get the **** kicked out of them.

In other words the black bloc.

Right the black bloc's job in an anarchist protest is to cause as much disturbance as possible by any means necessary. They will pad themselves up in any material they can find as when they meet any opposition they will attempt to get around it. Black blocs became infamous in Genoa a few years back when one black bloc protester (Carlo Giuliani) was fatally wounded when an Italian policeman shot him in the head t point blank range from the back of a land rover and then proceeded to roll over the body twice after Carlo and some others attacked the land rover in question when it comes to police lines they will force their way through using any means possible. I would like to point out that the black block is a minority of protesters and the "group" itself seems to have run its course.

It is just a shame that the media only focuses on these protesters so much and ignore the other side of the story completely (ie what happens and has happened the peaceful protesters in the past)

Lump · 06-07-2005 11:28AM

SEND IN THE HORSES AND DOGS - AND MEN WITH BIG STICKS!

John

toiletduck · 06-07-2005 11:44AM

Lump wrote:

SEND IN THE HORSES AND DOGS - AND MEN WITH BIG STICKS!

ah yes, remeber when the gardai were smacking heads when the england fans started rioting a few years back, good times...

danniemcq · 06-07-2005 11:52AM

Lump wrote:

SEND IN THE HORSES AND DOGS - AND MEN WITH BIG STICKS!

John

they do and this is what happens

The July 22 police raid on the headquarters of the Genoa Social Forum-- theumbrella group coordinating the protests-- and the neighboring IndependentMedia Center (IMC) received largely indifferent coverage. Reports indicatethat some 200 police officers descended on the Forum, brutally beating theactivists sleeping there in an attack that injured 61 people, with more thana dozen of the 93 people arrested carried out of the building on stretchers,some unconscious (London Guardian, 7/24/01).

Link To Full Story

do a google search and you'll find some personal accounts on the police violence.

katiegordon · 06-07-2005 11:55AM

it said on sky the main one 2day was cancelled or something???

toiletduck · 06-07-2005 11:57AM

if i was living in edinbrugh, i'd be well pi$$ed off with the protesters and wouldn't mind the police keeping order.

dlofnep · 06-07-2005 12:02PM

Some are protesting peacefully but then there are the ones who think that throwing chairs through windows will get the world's governments to listen. They are clowns.

danniemcq · 06-07-2005 12:05PM

katiegordon wrote:

it said on sky the main one 2day was cancelled or something???

police have cancelled the "official" protest. this isn't gonna change the protesters minds as if anyone remembers dublin mayday 2 years ago the main grassroots protest was cancelled by the gardai yet the march went ahead with roughly 5000 people involved.

Sky Story Here

bullock · 06-07-2005 12:18PM

You's do know that I wrote this thread as a light hearted joke making reference to the picture with Ted and Doughal. I didn't want anyone to get so upset by it!!!

BlitzKrieg · 06-07-2005 12:25PM

...your timing is awful...

danniemcq · 06-07-2005 12:33PM

BlitzKrieg wrote:

...your timing is awful...

agreed

Cojofl · 06-07-2005 06:12PM

A mix of respectable people, muppets and hippies. Much like most other things in life

catholicireland · 06-07-2005 06:15PM

ah yes, remeber when the gardai were smacking heads when the england fans started rioting a few years back, good times...

Happy days!

Mossy Monk · 06-07-2005 06:22PM

there are the protestors and the hippies

then there are the scumbags only there to throw stuff and break windows

catholicireland · 06-07-2005 06:27PM

there are the protestors and the hippies

then there are the scumbags only there to throw stuff and break windows

Hippies > Scumbags, i dont really see the difference

Lump · 06-07-2005 10:16PM

danniemcq wrote:

they do and this is what happens

The July 22 police raid on the headquarters of the Genoa Social Forum-- theumbrella group coordinating the protests-- and the neighboring IndependentMedia Center (IMC) received largely indifferent coverage. Reports indicatethat some 200 police officers descended on the Forum, brutally beating theactivists sleeping there in an attack that injured 61 people, with more thana dozen of the 93 people arrested carried out of the building on stretchers,some unconscious (London Guardian, 7/24/01).

Link To Full Story

do a google search and you'll find some personal accounts on the police violence.

I said release the Horses and Big sticks, not live ammunition. If you're going to throw bricks at police. You deserve to be beat down on. TAKE IT PROTESTORS!

John

secret_squirrel · 06-07-2005 10:32PM

danniemcq wrote:

In other words the black bloc.
..................SNIP..........................................
It is just a shame that the media only focuses on these protesters so much and ignore the other side of the story completely (ie what happens and has happened the peaceful protesters in the past)

You can hardly expect the media to dwell on the odd peacenik getting a beating when there's great footage of the black bloc getting the bejesus beaten out of them can you now?

Anyone who diliberately trys to provoke the police deserves the kicking tbh, or if the police are armed then they obviously knew the risks they were taking on and still went ahead.

As far as the black bloc go - they are just ruining the protest for ordinary decent protestors who may have genuine greivances - not just a bunch of nutters looking for a ruck. Personally I think shooting is too good for the black bloc.

Geiger · 06-07-2005 11:04PM

The people who are there to protest are fine and the people who are there to riot are scum. They deserve whatever punishment the police can dish out.

danniemcq · 06-07-2005 11:30PM

Lump wrote:

I said release the Horses and Big sticks, not live ammunition. If you're going to throw bricks at police. You deserve to be beat down on. TAKE IT PROTESTORS!

John

ummm i think you may notice that the ones throwing the bricks at Genoa weren't the ones gettin the S**T beaten outta them by the italien police. they were sleeping in a media area and i think if you delve deeper into tje story you will find eyewitness accounts of extreme police brutality

this is NOT a direct quote as i onl;y have limited time on the net right now but i remember one account describing "blood on the ceilings" now i do believe that that is uncalled for

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