Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
These are not protestors. These are rioters. This is the problem, that's why people don't see an end to this. A large part of the demonstrators are venting anger. The larger part of the kids that want to actually demand something can't do much better than "reform the police" or "disarm the police".

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Wed Dec 10th, 2008 at 10:15:20 AM EST
[ Parent ]
I believe Norway has got violent deaths at the hands of the police, as well as violent deaths of police officers down by partially disarming. The guns are there all right, but not on the cops. Instead they are in some form of weapons locker in the squad car, and the protocol if weapons are needed is to fall back to the car, radio it in and only after that get the guns out. This gives them more time to think and - if that is needed - cool off.

Please note that this is all second hand information at best (though our norwegians might be able to confirm and improve). And I do not really expect you to be able to insert a program at the front of riots, though it would be cool if you could.

Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se

by A swedish kind of death on Wed Dec 10th, 2008 at 03:16:29 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Display:

Occasional Series