Comments on: Can I have my lens hood back officer?

By: Graham Nicholls

Graham Nicholls — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:07:19 +0000

What a twat Stephen Power is. I’m not a journalist, nor a protester/anarchist – just an ordinary middle-class guy. There’s lots of great coppers around, but some truly nasty thugs like this guy. PLEASE keep reporting on them, and getting in their faces. I don’t entirely trust our media, either, to be honest, but they are an vital to our freedom. Governments are automatically anti-freedom, no matter where in the spectrum of politics they sit, and the fact that we are facing some small terrorist threat gives them opportunity to undermine our liberties. Why next they’ll be proposing some sort of special card you have to carry, identifying you, with a picture and personal information, linked back to a central database. Really.

By: michael c

michael c — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:06:23 +0000

Paul – heres a tip – best to look like Heath & Safety/ Murphy/ tourist / little old lady.

Black will invite police surveillance more or less anywhere – its seen as a uniform.

By: paul mattsson

paul mattsson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:40:41 +0000

Thanks mate but I don’t tend to wear my cammo combat trousers while working unless its something like a music festival or something fluffy like that.
Wearing dark (including black) and inconspicious clothing clothing and looking “normal” seems to be the best option in my experience.
I used to have red spiky hair and several dangly earrings and wondered why I used to get hassle from cops on demos.

By: michael c

michael c — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:46:17 +0000

Paul
this is the info you need

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage

By: paul mattsson

paul mattsson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:54:48 +0000

Really? Do you expect us to wear dayglo vests with a target symbol painted on the then?

By: michael c

michael c — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:00:10 +0000

That copper is a thug! But also I have to point out that if you wear BLACK clothing in these times, you will be marked as anarchists or black block etc.

By: Felipe Trueba

Felipe Trueba — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:18:19 +0000

I do not have the same opinions as Marc in different matters but I fully support him and Jason in this one. Guys like them are constantly pushing for our rights; with every push of them, the rest of us gain a little bit more. Without them we would not even enjoy half of the rights we have now. I also have been working side by side with both of them and I never saw them doing anything “unlawfully”. Keep going, Marc, keep going Jason!

By: Facundo Arrizabalaga

Facundo Arrizabalaga — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:14:46 +0000

I have been working with Marc and Jason in many occasions and never came across as them being different in the way their approach demonstrations. I fully support both in this one.
Best
Facundo

By: Chris atkins

Chris atkins — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:44:51 +0000

I would have to say, having been on many demos with marc, that there IS something about the way he approaches these situations that antagonises the law enforcement community. Namely he turns up at dangerous and unpredictable protests, and peacefully takes pictures of the police breaking the law, and then puts them on the web. It’s this wanton exercising of his democratic rights that really gets up their noses, and they predictably respond with authoritarian aggression. I’ve told marc time and time again that if he only applied for permission to film the police a week in advance, and snapped them giving tourists directions or helping cats down out of trees he wouldn’t get this trouble… but he won’t listen.

Chris

PS We were also there at the Sack Parliament demo and did film marc being seriously assaulted by that gorilla in uniform. it’s on the dvd extras of the Taking Liberties DVD.

By: rich simcox

rich simcox — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:39:21 +0000

Oh hang on, sorry…

http://www.adareimages.com/photo_2145226.html

…those pensioners look pretty nasty, this could have turned ugly. Brave, brave, Stephen.