G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'
"An MP who was involved in last month's G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds. Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards. Brake, who along with hundreds of others was corralled behind police lines near Bank tube station in the City of London on the day of the protests, says he was informed by people in the crowd that the men had been seen to throw bottles at the police and had encouraged others to do the same shortly before they passed through the cordon. Brake, a member of the influential home affairs select committee, will raise the allegations when he gives evidence before parliament's joint committee on human rights on Tuesday."
If this turns out to be true it will be a new low in quasi-fascist, police-state politics. This has the hallmarks of the same mentality seen in Germany's staged attack by Poland in the run-up to WWII. I'm guessing they thought that at best they might get a major riot and would then be seen to be justified in using all the force they used at the protests (and who knows maybe have grounds to call for more policing power in the future?) and at worst they would have a handful of 'incidents' that they could use to persuade people that the crowds were troublesome and keep the media off their backs.
Obviously nothing is certain at this stage but we shall see. If this accusation has any truth in it then the chief of police's head must roll... and maybe even Gordon's too.
"An MP who was involved in last month's G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds. Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards. Brake, who along with hundreds of others was corralled behind police lines near Bank tube station in the City of London on the day of the protests, says he was informed by people in the crowd that the men had been seen to throw bottles at the police and had encouraged others to do the same shortly before they passed through the cordon. Brake, a member of the influential home affairs select committee, will raise the allegations when he gives evidence before parliament's joint committee on human rights on Tuesday."
If this turns out to be true it will be a new low in quasi-fascist, police-state politics. This has the hallmarks of the same mentality seen in Germany's staged attack by Poland in the run-up to WWII. I'm guessing they thought that at best they might get a major riot and would then be seen to be justified in using all the force they used at the protests (and who knows maybe have grounds to call for more policing power in the future?) and at worst they would have a handful of 'incidents' that they could use to persuade people that the crowds were troublesome and keep the media off their backs.
Obviously nothing is certain at this stage but we shall see. If this accusation has any truth in it then the chief of police's head must roll... and maybe even Gordon's too.
