This is footage of the student demonstration in Whitehall on November 24. Police horses were used- and at one point we see what looks like a cavalry charge. As I wrote in steepholm 's LJ, the British state is waging war on its young people.
Well, I was expecting it to look worse than that. I wonder what the fuzz were trying to achieve with that charge? But the magic thing is that, thanks to mobile phones and cameras, now nothing can be done in private. We are watching Big Brother (yay!)and the more of this is posted, the more unsavoury the police's methods are going to look.
The ability to monitor and report on the behaviour of the authorities is the big difference between now and previous periods of social upheaval. It'll be interesting to see how this era pans out when it's virtually impossible to prevent the distribution of this sort of information.
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Date: 2010-11-26 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-11-26 08:10 pm (UTC)It annoys me that the media- even the BBC- are mostly reporting this story from the point of view of the authorities.