The Shocking Truth about Water Cannons in 2 Minutes
I don't normally post serious stuff here, but with our rights to protest and rights to complain and rights to even have a say being diminished by new laws etc. we surely don't want these dangerous, high pressure, chundering machines to be used to silence us or make people afraid to speak up or talk out - do we?
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Rotten Eggs I don't know why I call him Gerald, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:05,
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They should be filled with baby oil & fired with enough pressure
to rip the clothes off sexy protesters.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:10,
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ha ha ha
You might just be on to something there!
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Rotten Eggs I don't know why I call him Gerald, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:21,
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Fucking soap dodgers
Maybe if you had a shower occasionally the police wouldn't need to hose you down first before arresting you.
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wakeupandsmellthebacon, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:11,
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perhaps they could 'accidently' aim the cannon at the homeless and elderly
p.s. your username is apt for someone speaking up for the pigs
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I'm guessing a policeman being hit in the head with a brick
or worse is okay though. As long as no civilians are injured.
I do agree they could turn the psi down a tad though.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:12,
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you can't criticise thrown bricks and shop windows smashed to bits
unless the state does it
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They're not used to stop protests though are they?
They're used to stop riots. There's a bit of a difference.
The alternative to the water cannon in those respects is fun stuff like rubber bullets and tear gas.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:17,
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And there's nothing better than a water cannon and some light kettling
for turning a potentially damaging, newsworthy protest in to a dismissable riot.
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Well the point is...
Recent new laws and other proposed laws are designed to make it easier to criminalise peaceful protests, so they will in effect end up being treated like riots! Riots are shit yes, but everyone should have the right to protest peacefully with out being shot at by the police with any type of weapon!
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Rotten Eggs I don't know why I call him Gerald, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:25,
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It is "The right to association", isn't it?
One of our most basic human rights.
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I like to think that 'right to association' legally protects orgies
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^This^
Very much!
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:29,
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yeah that pensioner looked like a rioter
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 18:35,
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Most of the last 'demonstrations' i've seen here in London ended up with protesters smashing things up and giving the cops a hard time, and me struggling to figure out why.
People don't seem to realise when they are on a protest with lots of other people about things like middle class people's right to go to university and not have to pay for any of it for example, there really isn't any need to pretend they are an anarchist and its 1917 again, and McDonalds windows need smashing.
And yet that's what always happens. Water canons seem good to me
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Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:23,
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That has to be about the most predictable comment ever
to any comment that doesn't bumlick it's way through the Guardian slavishly like some leftwing Stasi clone
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Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:29,
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Is it
"Wrong"?
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Legionary - My god, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 17:35,
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Students did their cause a lot of harm when one of the little fuckers chucked a fire extinguisher off the roof.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:07,
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"Seen" or "Seen" ?
Some of the "best bits" of what happened were edited together and shown on the tellybox, but I don't believe what I saw there is what happened.
See my earlier comment on riots being "easily dismissable".
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Hear hear.
Whilst I didn't enjoy watching all that scum nicking stuff and beating people up during the riots the other year, it was great to see them all get nicked and sent down.
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Yeah let the police only use them on protesters i don't think have legitimate cause
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 18:34,
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I'm all for them.
as long as the Police are allowed to use them to hose the crusties off the road at Balcombe that is.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:49,
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I once took a Super Soaker to the Rocky Horror Show
to return fire when the staff administered the usual audience soaking during "There's a Light".
I got thrown out into Leicester Square, sans water pistol, and had to wait in the pub dressed in full Frank n Furter outfit while my bastard mates finished watching the film.
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pineapplecharm D d M Y, H:i, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:25,
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so their gender-bending and general boundary breaking anarchic liberalism has limits?
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They could at least have got the plural of cannon correct
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mugwump In summary then, oh no. Chris., Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:56,
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Just my thoughts too
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herd of chickens First part only £1.99 and comes with a free, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:58,
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In the turrets of my country manor
I have many cannon
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herd of chickens First part only £1.99 and comes with a free, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:34,
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you have one cannon
let the revolution commence!
*charges up gravel driveway*
(, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:41, Reply)
Ha ha just the trap I wanted you to fall into
*lights charge on my 15 tubular artillery devices using gunpowder to propeller shots or balls, other wise known as a cannon or when multiple cannon"
**misses**
***releases hounds instead***
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herd of chickens First part only £1.99 and comes with a free, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:49,
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Moose is the plural of mice
and they are not very scary. Unless you are a stereotype black lady from the deep south that keeps a cat called Thomas
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herd of chickens First part only £1.99 and comes with a free, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 17:09,
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Tommy Cannon's Cannons
the episode of 'Who do You Think You Are' featuring one half of Cannon and Ball
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Tommy Cannon's Cannonade
a bukkake video featuring one half of Cannon and Ball
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Tommy Cannon Can Nonce
a Yewtree investigation of one half of Cannon and Ball
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Tommy Cannon's Can On Cannons
a series on the history channel where Tommy Cannon rests his can of Iron Bru on historical firearms up and down the country
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Cannon and Ball's Cannon and Ball
a two man stage play featuring Cannon and Ball talking intimately about their genitals for three hours
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Saw this image and could help it...
Sorry for the wrong font. Couldn't be arsed to find the right one
*couldn't help it*. Edit won't let me change the subject. boohoo
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I F Hobo then {steal bindle}, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 15:59,
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Laughed like a loon.
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retrofly How about a link to a picture of something funny.., Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:32,
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Fuck the font
This is brilliant
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:36,
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Been used for decades in N. Ireland and noone gave a shit
Now that a middle class wanna be anarchist may get a soaking it's suddenly an issue.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:05,
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Oh this ^^ in spades!!
Some trendy occupy tit-wank getting his basin haircut wet whilst lobbing bricks at the police= brutality.
Some Belfast headbanger protesting against an orange wearing bowler hatted twat marching through their sink estate= irrelevant local news
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 16:30,
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Slight difference...
...between the old converted fire pumps used in N. Ireland and the high velocity water cannons we're talking about here. The ones in N Ireland could hardly knock you off your feet. They were designed to repel, not inflict injury!
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Rotten Eggs I don't know why I call him Gerald, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 17:13,
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Did you know that yesterday the Lobbying Bill went through?
We are starting to lose all our rights to complain about or influence this govt, and now we'll be shot with water cannons for thinking about trying.
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What part of the Lobbying Bill is detremental to my protest rights?
When I protest I'm not normally spending a lot of money to do so and won't need to register with the electoral commission.
I will also be very interested in seeing who being lobbying my M.P.
Large charities along with other big business spending lots of money to influence the democratic process will do but I don't have a problem with that.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 17:09,
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The water cannon is detrimental to your physical protest rights
The lobbying bill is detrimental to the rest of your protest rights.
Speaking out against the govt is slowly becoming illegal.
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I'll be very very surprised if these are ever used on the vocal placard brigade.
Brick throwers yes, window smashers yes but not bog standard protest.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 17:28,
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i hope you're right, i really do
But I can't help but think of various peaceful protests last year where the police kettled, brought in horses and massaged the situation in to a violent one. The last thing they need is another weapon with which to antagonise.
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I have a fairly large problem
with limiting groups with no political agenda from being able to publically point at a political figure or party before or during an election - or any time - and say "You're shit, you're not doing what we, the people, want, you're lying, you're crap and you're corrupt"
It's like they don't want us to go about remembering stuff at such sensitive times (or at all)
I also have a problem with big businesses being allowed to lobby the govt in their interests. The bill (so I've heard) will do nothing to curtail lobbying of politicians.
One might argue that it was named thus because it aimed to make lobbying of the people illegal (unless by politicians).
YOU may personally be able to protest, but if you associate with people to do this and try to encourage others to join you, and try to reach a lot of people through advertising - ie, if you try to actually make a difference - you're now being naughty.
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What part of the bill stops you doing that?
Genuine question.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 17:24,
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have a read of the this and the other related stuff if you can find it
blog.38degrees.org.uk/2014/01/29/gagging-law-its-over-for-now/
It is a device aimed at stopping the rise of grass-roots protests, so that (I imagine) the only debate is on TV where the message can be managed.
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in defence of the police
that guy was only going to use those eyes to read the Guardian
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Whats happening in Ukraine could never happen in this country
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Wed 29 Jan 2014, 18:38,
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