i didn't join the 18/3 march, i had been expecting the "local action" folks, friends & affliates coming to the Queen's Pier, which i was told, is very likely to be knocked down soon despite the government's promise on a professional consultation
and i had been wondering why they took so long and was quite unaware of the
police activities during the marchand then i see it myself; our folks are like "esorted" to the pier
and right from the start of the poetry/music/dance gathering, one of the police camera and its bulky operators took over such a unreasonably moronish pressence in the middle of our 2 loud-speakers, centrally; and as i talk i realised my frontal face was being videotaped close-up for at least 20 seconds; while i was
only talking (i don't know what offence i could have possibly committed, or suspected to have committed, i don't know what evidence this could be made of)
at some point the place is took over by a general outrage against police videotaping the faces of participants; at another point, a group of police officers came to me and one of them says "he wants to speak something"; i didn't reply and just move aside to go on with my hosting... i don't talk to police, i don't engage converstion with this type of people
while our resident fellows from "re-development" districts are trying to speak and the gathering to proceed, i thought this is unreal and i am dishearted by what i see: a whole team of people with their telecommuncation, guns, cargo viechles and cameras and all sorts of tax payer subsidised equipment... and all there are here is to stop someone speaking to a bunch of folks in a public place on a sunday evening outside City Hall
T was very nice to remind me to hold fast onto the mic, and i am confident that he was to take care of the sound system... in case something happens
...and i realise then, that the police that almost out-numbered us, whether which quaters they are from,
they have no practical goals or objectives to serve or to meet at all; i can thus only conclude, very reluctantly, that they are not there to stop us, they are not there to contain the size of the crowd, they are not even monitoring pedestrain traffics, and they are not there to take up charges against anyone yet... the size, scale and the quiet nature of our activities would dismisses all such claims
and thus you have to face the truth, somehow, that they really are not there to stop us, they really are not there to contain the size of the crowd, they really are not even monitoring pedestrain traffics, and they really are not there to take up charges against anyone yet...
they are there to merely to create nuisance, and to harass, they are like mischevious protestetors with their uniform being their statement and slogans, and they are there to telll you that they are eating their lunch box 10 metres away and they really, really have their telecommuncation, guns, cargo viechles and cameras at their disposal, and they are only eager to show you just that. period
some say it is "white terror," i am not even sure of that, because i am not terrorised, i am just dishearted and immensely sad
just so to share
See also:Tale's pictorial at
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