On March 26, more than 500,000 people peacefully marched through the streets of London against the mega-rich who avoid paying their fair share of tax, and whose tax avoidance is now leading to the closure of hundreds of libraries and the removal of community services in some of England's poorest towns.
When the march was all but over, a group of so-called anarchists went on a rampage, daubing tired cliches on Starbucks, smashing windows, throwing smoke bombs and easily avoiding arrest by the police.
How do these masked 'anarchists' always avoid arrest by the police when they are clearly the troublmakers?
They have the right ID, apparently.
If you look closely at the below video you can see one of these 'anarchists' approach the police, shortly after helping to push the crowd against police lines. He shows his ID to a police officer is allowed through police lines with a guiding hand on his back. Watch for the 'anarchist' at 4:49 in the centre of the screen, near the phone booths :
Nothing new in undercover police, or outside agents, infiltrating protests, dressing up as anarchists, stirring up trouble and provoking others into violence for the cameras, of course.
The exact same thing, including ski-masked 'anarchists' seen showing police their ID to get through police cordons, happened during the G20 protests in London in 2009, as reported in the New York Times :
...it appeared to at least these two photographers that most of the much-photographed violence on Wednesday evening was caused by people who looked like “agent provocateurs,” who “were going from police line to police line baiting the police — and they were the ones who instigated the push against police lines that kicked off the evening violence.”The question is why does the media continually fall for this illegal police tactic, and then fail to report on it when it is clear as hell what's been going on?
This photographer adds that “There was another guy baiting the police and whipping up the crowd to rush the police, he got a hundred or so protesters to follow him and then sneaked off as they reached police lines.”
He also writes that the second photographer, who is a reliable reporter, “saw a bunch of protesters trying to stop a guy in black throwing bottles at the police, the protesters had an argument him and then accused him of being a policeman, whereupon he ran to the police cordon, showed some I.D. and was let through!”
Finally, my friend says: “I should point out that the only reason that we were able to spot these guys so easily was because the protest at that point was so peaceful, they really stuck out, so we followed them from one police line to another as they tried to start trouble.”
What would the evening news talk about if there was no violence to fill those precious few minutes devoted to the biggest peoples' movement in decades?
Well, they might talk about the issues that drew half a million people into the streets of London.
And we couldn't have that.
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