Officially the police are there to protect property and the safety of people and I have nothing but respect for the UK police, seeing that they handle these difficult events suprisingly well and are good natured and respectfull. I expected them to be utter fascists after the miners fiasco under Thatcher.
However I do think they are a bit onesided as they have a mandate to the establishment only, and if the demonstration is against the establishment we should gain a bit more freedom to express ourselves - especially when the subjects are as important as global capitalism and environment (which are so easily hidden by vain local government pretence). As the slogan goes - "if democracy ever changed anything it would be illegal" because quite correctly the establishment will never lose its position at any cost.
A strategy that would be excellent against the police is rugby mauling. If you watch rugby you can see that the game played by police and protesters is similar to that of opponents in rugby, which is gaining movement into the opposition area. This is primarily enabled by pushing in tightly bound packs which draw the opposition into the maul to return the same force. The image here is a set-piece scrum by the process is the same.If the police were forced to maul, this would break up their lines and the game would be played in blob like packs which are of no use to the police strategy of containing the demonstrations.
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