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Agents Provocateurs Turn Peaceful Tuition Protest Into Violent Melee

Asheron
Asheron Posts: 1,229 Forumite
edited 11 November 2010 pm30 11:51PM in Debate House Prices & the Economy
Once again, dispatched agents provocateurs have turned a peaceful protest into a property-destroying circus sideshow.

“It was supposed to be a day of peaceful protest, with students exercising their democratic right to demonstrate against soaring university fees,” reports the Daily Mail.

“But anarchists hijacked the event, setting off the most violent scenes of student unrest seen in Britain for decades. Militants from far-Left groups whipped up a mix of middle-class students and younger college and school pupils into a frenzy.”

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Did any of you not wonder why the police just let them smash the windows ? and all the photographers were standing around in a semi circle taking photos?

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  • They were certainly allowed to continue.

    Police were ordered not to intervene
    Not Again
  • Loughton_Monkey
    Loughton_Monkey Posts: 8,913 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Hung up my suit!
    edited 12 November 2010 am30 12:36AM
    Agents Provocateurs?

    Just to be one myself, may I make the suggestion that "Dave" is probably quite happy about this one? OK, a bit of a claim on the Insurance. But this bunch of Anarchist !!!!!! have 'successfully' shifted the focus from sensible discussion on a debatable policy onto "proof" that students are a revolting bunch of morons who should no more be sponsored that Al Quaida?

    What's next on the agenda? Maybe the long term unemployed will use similar tactics to protest about IDS, thereby shifting public opinion firmly back into the realm of "stick 'em all in the workhouse..."

    .... same 'lemming-like' brains of those who, when faced with almost bankrupt employer near to making redundancies, used to... er... go on strike!
  • diable
    diable Posts: 5,258 Forumite
    Geeeeez I thought this was a thread about Vivienne Westwood's son and his !!!!!! business.
  • diable wrote: »
    Geeeeez I thought this was a thread about Vivienne Westwood's son and his !!!!!! business.

    Surely it would be if you post a few example pictures for comment. Probably more interesting than a 'Trot' student kicking a window in.
  • chris_m
    chris_m Posts: 8,250 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 12 November 2010 pm30 1:05PM
    The thing that made me laugh was the high proportion of placards branded "Socialist Worker"
    Workers? Very few of them, I suspect.
    Socialists? Even less.
  • Heyman_2
    Heyman_2 Posts: 1,819 Forumite
    That picture is interesting as it was clearly taken INSIDE the building. Hmmmm.

    Still, the government have what they wanted, a discredited protest where the Media are now talking all about the criminal damage and violence of one afternoon rather than the legislation which is going to see Students finishing University with an even bigger mountain of debt and yet another massive U-turn for the Liberal Democrats from their pre-election position.
  • PhylPho
    PhylPho Posts: 1,443 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    It's doubtful any of the thick thugs kicking in the windows would even know what an agent provocateur might be, still less be able to spell it. This description cropped up yesterday on some amateur UK website or other and, inexplicably, has been repetitively quoted ever since.

    From a glance at any of the anarchist websites and from watching the interview with one who missed the entire event perhaps because of a delay in collecting his benefits, it's obvious this bunch of toe-rags were not in the employ of anyone: not the police, not the Tory Party.

    So they weren't there as paid agents of incitement. And they weren't 'dispatched' by anyone.

    Instead, they've spent weeks preparing for this well advertised 'student protest' and the Met has yet again failed to exercise anything in the way of intelligence, whether with a capital I or not. Nowadays, anarchists give notice of intent on, er, their websites, so you need to be a pretty thick police chief not to know what's going on.

    Same applies to the Students Union: as a qualification for going to university is supposed to require a greater display of functioning brain cells than ordinary mortals can manage, the ignorance of those responsible for the march can only mean they're all doing degrees in David Beckham.

    And as for the demented NUS spokeswoman who had her moment of fame on the TV news, the NUS needs her like Custer needed more Indians.

    Other posters here who say the violence played right into the hands of the State and the politicians are correct. But to describe as 'agents provocateurs' the morons who had an open invite to the event and then predictably wrecked it is to grant them a status they neither deserve nor could begin to comprehend.
  • diable
    diable Posts: 5,258 Forumite
    PhylPho wrote: »
    the morons who had an open invite to the event and then predictably wrecked it is to grant them a status they neither deserve nor could begin to comprehend.

    It does look like a University education will be wasted on them, I hope the parents see them and make them work for a living when they leave school.
  • zenmaster
    zenmaster Posts: 3,151 Forumite
    PhylPho wrote: »
    It's doubtful any of the thick thugs kicking in the windows would even know what an agent provocateur might be, still less be able to spell it.
    Ladeez underwear, innit?
  • Expect more of this,the NUS privately are organising what one of their executive described as "french style civil unrest"over the coming weeks,whilst publicly decrying the violence.
    Allegedly the demostrators on weds were "goaded"by tory HO staff.
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