Rampage before dawn ignites protest chaos (G8)

[mom cat]

Thu 7 Jul 2005

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=449&id=751692005

Tempers flared as news filtered through to Edinburgh that the planned protest march on Gleneagles had been banned, leading to an impromptu procession along Princes Street.
Picture: Lewis Houghton


Rampage before dawn ignites protest chaos

THE SCOTSMAN REPORTING TEAM


Key points
• Activists vandalise shops in Bannockburn and Stirling before arriving at G8
• Police engage in running battle with protesters attempting to block M9 road

Story in full THEY moved before dawn, a rabble army clad in black whose mission was destruction and disruption. Creeping out of their tented "eco-village" at Stirling's Forthbank, this was the day for which they had so long prepared.


At 2:45am, a 300-strong gang of hardened activists, faces clad in bandanas or masked by black hooded tops, began a wave of vandalism that initially caught police unawares. Marching towards Auchterarder and the Gleneagles Hotel, the disparate band of anarchists from across Europe vandalised shops in Bannockburn such as PC World and Pizza Hut, smashed up any parked cars in their path and ripped satellite dishes from the walls of homes.

In the Springkerse area of Stirling, protesters pulled the protective iron grill from the windows of a Burger King restaurant and smashed its windows. The wall was dubbed in graffiti: "10,000 Pharaohs Six Billion Slaves."

[JoFerret]

1. Crikey!

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[Quakerfriend]

2. When I heard they were "calling the protest off" I chuckled

I knew they would not just go quietly in the night!

Power to THE PEOPLE! I sure wish our sheeples would do little of this.

But, sad about the violence. Velvet revolution is the only way.

[Oversea Visitor]

7. Dont mess with peasant with pitchforks hey

Angry peasants, the human tsunami, dont play play, can really kick azz.

[dArKeR]

3. She did it?

[Monkie]

4. Some photo's from the M9 blockade by the anarchist Rebel Clown Army

Their full title is CIRCA,the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.





very dangerous Anarchists that use street performance combined with mild civil disobedience to form a "terrorist threat to the very fabric of UK society" or something that allows anti-terror laws to be used against them.

more at indymedia http://www.indymedia.org.uk
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/316629.html

[mom cat]

5. WoW...Thanks Monkie...Send in the clowns!

[dArKeR]

6. I know we're supposed to suck up the Media and Politicians' vomit... but

there sure looks like a heck of a lot of nice places to live in Europe. Did you know if your grandfather, on either side, was born in Europe you are entitled to an EU passport. One of my Canadian friends told me this. For sure grandparents maybe she even said great grandparents?

These people really look like my kind of people!

[Nihil]

8. Quick boys, no-one around, team photo!

Love the coppers having a quick "team photo" in front of their van
in the last photo there!