A Letter to the Met

[fingertrouble]

Via boing boing...I love how this presents the camps in a different light and humorously (basically if you want our camps to go peacefully and without trouble then stay away! Yes police - especially the Metropolitan Police - do start riots regularly, for political and tactical reasons - as well as sheer bloody-minded alpha male nonsense). What are the police scared of? And why do they want to beat the crap out of mostly peaceful protesters? Could it maybe that their way of life is threatened by these green anti-capitalists being all nice and community minded in ways that don't need the police? Really I don't believe this 'kinder and more sensitive' police will work - they still reserve the right to 'kettle' despite it causing at least one death and a miscarriage and many injuries - some of the non-protesting public - and I've read recently that for this climate camp they are putting women officers in charge and setting up Twitter accounts (I kid you not) - it's probably a good step, but I doubt 100s of years of antagonism and male violent culture will go away overnight. Or at all.