http://www.news.com.au/world/schoolboy-pulled-out-of-class-by-uk-police-over-pm-protest-plans/story-e6frfkyi-1225969900132
They start so young these days.
QuoteANTI-terror police had a 12-year-old schoolboy hauled out of class over his online attempts to organize a protest against the British prime minister.
The youngster said he hoped the action could save a local youth centre,
"I said it was simply because we didn't want our youth centre to close - it's a fantastic place to go and there isn't much else for us to do round here."
The paper said the officer told Wishart his comments online were being monitored by the country's anti-terror squad and that he would be responsible if the planned protest Friday caused "trouble".
Sounds about right.
There has already been talk in the Murdoch-owned press that police officers should be allowed to confront rioting students with firearms. We already have a kid in hospital, recovering from brain surgery after riot police smashed his skull in and gave him a kicking, while all the press can do is whine about how the Duchess of Cornwall (a welfare-sucking layabout married to the third biggest leeches in this country after the banks and Parliament) was terribly accosted by EVIL ANARCHISTS who touched her.
Oh the humanity!
Good grief.
Mental note- no protesting ever.
Hate to burst your bubble, but they already won.
Quote from: East Coast Hipster on December 13, 2010, 04:33:24 PM
Hate to burst your bubble, but they already won.
Surely they've only won if the country just takes this sort of thing with a shrug of the shoulders and decides to let it go?
Oh...
oh wait...
damn it.
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 13, 2010, 04:17:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 13, 2010, 04:16:06 PM
Mental note- no protesting ever.
Then they win. Hands down.
Ok, no protesting in a traceable way, bring a football helmet and jock strap.
Well...I am surprised police intimidating a child did not have any negative consequences; other than causing these children hating politicians even more than they already did.
Since when did police worry about 12-year old kids protesting?
Quote from: Persona Facade on December 13, 2010, 04:38:05 PM
Well...I am surprised police intimidating a child did not have any negative consequences; other than causing these children hating politicians even more than they already did.
Since when did police worry about 12-year old kids protesting?
It's an escalation. We have to be safe from ourselves and not question authority. Questioning authority and expressing opinions leads to extremism. Extremism leads to TERRORISM!
See what I did there? Yeah it doesn't make sense to me either.
Quote from: East Coast Hipster on December 13, 2010, 04:33:24 PM
Hate to burst your bubble, but they already won.
I refuse to give up.
^ That.
they say where he was posting?
Quote from: Able on December 13, 2010, 11:01:19 PM
they say where he was posting?
Whats the point? The sites probably been taken down already.
theres alot of education related protests on the island...
and doesnt even really say which youth center/
http://www.spired.com/c-o-p-s/homepages.asp?id=30
there more that can be done, besides drunk emailing the PM about nine eleven the affairs of their country
The full-scale security operation swung into effect days after Nicky made an innocent request on Facebook to "save our youth centre". :lulz:
FOUND IT
http://www.spired.com/centres/eynsham_yc.htm
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/12/12/boy-of-12-hauled-out-of-class-by-police-over-david-cameron-facebook-protest-115875-22778944
In opposition, Mr Cameron often spoke of the need to keep youth clubs open to give youngsters a constructive way to spend their time.
He said in 2007: "Before people break the law, we need strong families, we need youth clubs, we need things to divert people from crime."
But, as part of the Con-Dem cuts, Tory-run Oxfordshire County Council is axing £4million of funding for 20 clubs - including the one in Nicky's home village, Eynsham. The council claims volunteers might take over as part of Mr Cameron's "Big Society".
But Nicky says that if funding for the five staff at the centre is removed, it will be forced to close in March.