Alle politzie ist terroristen!

I arrived a little late, and i was told that those who had arrived early were bullied and moved on by large numbers of police. But when 30 people had arrived they allowed us to have our demonstration.

A fine group of individuals had thrown yellow paint all over the building two nights before, and one piece of the graffiti was still very visible, 'No to Oppression!' written to the right of the door - despite apparent vigorous scrubbing, it remained.

There was a man on stilts, and drummers. There were some lovely banners, in english and german including: 'Police are terrorists', 'police state? no thanks!', 'End the Repression'.

A female pig told us that people who were swearing and being noisy were committing a breach of the peace. I reminded her of the law, that since there are no members of the public around to be 'alarmed, distressed or annoyed' only protestors and police, therefore no breach of the peace was able to occur in this case. then she decided we were blocking public access to the pavement, however i reminded her that there were no members of the public. We moved off the pavement to allow more than a meter space for passers by, but the police stood in a line, blocking the pavement. really mature eh?!

The boss-pig arrived and asked if anyone was 'organising' to which everyone broke out into laughter. His mood really soured after we ridiculed him. He then told us that we were only allowed to have a half hour protest, and then we would face consequences - he was obviously trying to intimidate us from having our legitimate and peaceful protest.

so we chatted, socialised and drummed, fitted up by the Forward Intelligence Team, who were constantly filming us. They were especially interested in those who were masked up. The FIT were not wearing numbers, so an argument broke out between the cops and a masked up fellow who was recording their numbers and photographing them. not wearing numbers is illegal.

when our time was up according to the boss-pig, we packed up an moved along, followed by a riot van. as we reached a junction, two mounted police 'coincidentaly' rode in front of us.

The police chased after the small group of protestors i was in, two of which the FIT team has obviously not identified, and chased them into an alleyway. one of them was searched on the justification that 'he might have stolen goods' and that two members of the public had been distressed by the sight of them - complete bollox and a pretext for more intimidation and to get the remaining photos they needed for their collection.

the event was characterised by heavy-handed police often acting illegally, restricting our rights to protest, and intimidating us from using our democratic rights. It is not surprising that there has been an increase in clandestine attacks on offices, broken windows and paint - we are becoming unable to express ourselves using our legal and democratic rights. I was not planning to go to the G8 this summer, but as a result of the pigs being arseholes, i am going there now, and im more radicalised than ever! Fuck the police!

if anyone has any more perspectives please add them to this one! and i dont have any pictures so can someone upload some? :)