{"id":1341,"date":"2009-04-23T14:33:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T19:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2009-04-23T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T19:33:57","slug":"a-liberal-is-a-conservative-who-has-been-%c2%adtwatted-by-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2009\/04\/23\/a-liberal-is-a-conservative-who-has-been-%c2%adtwatted-by-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"a liberal is a conservative who has been \u00adtwatted by the police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn the light of the death of Ian Tomlinson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/apr\/20\/police-g20-protests\">George Monbiot talks about his own experiences with aggressive coppers<\/a>, the cozy relationship between them and the rightwing press and how this relationship has changed in recent years:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nBut none of this featured in the \u00adconservative press. The story was always the same: we would \u00adstagger home after our peaceful protests were attacked by uniformed \u00adskinheads to \u00addiscover that we were \u00ad&#8221;Anarchist thugs on the rampage&#8221; whose attempt to destroy civilisation had been thwarted only by the calm \u00adprofessionalism of the police. Violent police action mutated into violent \u00adprotests. The papers believed \u00adeverything the police told them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis began to change when the police foolishly attacked a \u00adCountryside \u00adAlliance march in 2004. In the spirit of impartial policing, the cops gave these reactionaries the treatment they had doled out to \u00adgenerations of \u00adprogressives. It was grotesque, \u00addisproportionate and \u00adfamiliar \u00adpolicing, but there&#8217;s a world of \u00addifference between bloodstained hemp ponchos and bloodstained tweeds. The exposure of the lies the police then told about the killing of Jean Charles de \u00adMenezes and the shooting of \u00adMohammed Abdul Kahar made the papers \u2013 which had reproduced the \u00adofficial version \u2013 feel stung.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nTomlinson&#8217;s death, as well as all the other documented police thuggery during the G-20 demo might finally have shocked the press out of its reflexive habit of trusting the police, but I wouldn&#8217;t count on it too much. It&#8217;s just too deeply ingrained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the light of the death of Ian Tomlinson, George Monbiot talks about his own experiences with aggressive coppers, the cozy relationship between them and the rightwing press and how this relationship has changed in recent years: But none of this featured in the \u00adconservative press. The story was always the same: we would \u00adstagger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}