Tuesday April 21, 2009
Printing Police Lies
George Monbiot
The Guardian
The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.
If a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who has been twatted by the police. As the tabloids turn their fire onto an unfamiliar target - the unprovoked aggression of Her Majesty’s constabulary - the love affair between the cops and the rightwing press has never been more fragile.
The policing of the G20 protests at the beginning of this month was routine. Policemen hiding their identification numbers and beating up peaceful protesters is as much a part of British life as grey skies and red buses.
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