gominokouhai: (pajh)gominokouhai ([personal profile] gominokouhai) wrote,
@ 2010-10-23 08:56 pm UTC
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Entry tags:edinburgh, local, news, personal life, politics

I watched the march along Princes Street this morning: 20,000 people turned up. I stood next to two beautiful, but very bored, police horses and watched the protestors file past in a line stretching out beyond the horizon. It felt like 1983, except it wasn't in black and white, and there were iPhones and vuvuzelas.

I couldn't join in because I had to rush off to an audition, but I'm starting to think I should get some practice in while everything's still peaceful. I'd hate for my first rally to be the one when they start throwing bricks around.

A while back, I wrote If I woke up tomorrow morning in a terrifying neo-Thatcherpunk dystopia, then so be it: start stockpiling guns then. Is it time yet?


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akicif: After Beltane 2003 at Talamh (beltane-blue, beltane03)


[personal profile] akicif
2010-10-26 12:37 pm UTC (link)
Doh! Of course the papers were red-topped: I've such a strong picture in my mind's eye of that time that I was half assuming it was an actual picture that you would have seen - apologies!

Yeah, I saw your piece - and it reminded me indeed of the G8. Some of the police up then were great folk (I was still doing voluntary stewarding in those days - I may yet go back to it). But the Met! Apparently after the bombing down south that week someone on the Scotsman wanted to use the headline "Met Return to London: two cities feel safer"....

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2010-10-26 05:04 pm UTC (link)
During G8 I saw a bunch of coppers forming one of those line things to keep protestors contained. (Wasn't kettling; there was actual violence kicking off inside.) They all looked very young and very, very scared, so I can't help but feel a little sympathy. Don't think those ones were the Met though.

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