Well Done Plod.....

[ToraToraTora]

....for keeping these plonkers out of the way.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65523439

[Untitled]

why in your opinion should these people have been arrested?

[ToraToraTora]

Because they were intent on disrupting the coronation.

[Untitled]

in what way were they planning to disrupt it? they had arranged their protest with the police beforehand

[William51]

Yes. But why cannot the police act like that all the time ?.

[Untitled]

do you agree with these people being arrested too?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65516825

[ToraToraTora]

Did you read the link? They were carrying lock on devices, in effect going equipped. A law was recently passed against that, even if the law was previously insufficiently clear.

[ToraToraTora]

13:38, yes they also seem to be planning disruption.

[William51]

Yes. These people were suspected of being up to no good.

[Untitled]

because they had not been given the powers to do so william

the arrest of these people cannot be defended by anyone who wishes to live in a democratic pluralistic society... they arranged their protest months in advance and liaised with the police regularly. Yet they were arrested immediately and without cause... as were a women's safety group in posession of rape alarms

now anyone who seeks to protest peacefully will be subject to arrest... though i somehow suspect that this will not end up applying to causes popular among tories. a step in a very bad direction.

[Untitled]

they were not carrying lock on devices. they were carring bits of string to attach their placards.

[ToraToraTora]

I just don't understand these morons. There are loads of things I disagree with but I don't go out and try and spoil them for others.

[Untitled]

the women's safety group were not planning disruption! they are out in westminster all the time to give women rape alarms and help revellers stay safe.

[Untitled]

many people in this country object to having a monarchy tora and they are entitled to protest it... we used to have things called freedom of conscience, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech.... all under attack by the wretched tories

[William51]

The intelligence was that they were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt the procession.Think what that would have done to horses and the bystanders nearby.

[Zacs-Master]

It is a bit of a dangerous road to go down, stopping people from using their right to protest.

[ToraToraTora]

untitled: "many people in this country object to having a monarchy tora and they are entitled to protest it.." - I agree but these people were clearly planning to disrupt.

[William51]

There is no problem with them to protest peacefully. I agree that the police should have confiscated the alarms and let them go free.

[ToraToraTora]

untitled: "we used to have things called freedom of conscience, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech.... all under attack by the wretched tories " - We still have those things and I would not want them curtailed but I don't see why various idiots have to go and disrupt things and spoil them for those that do. Don't make me laugh It ain't the Tories that are the new creeping fascism, such that anyone without the "correct" view on any given subject gets "cancelled" etc. things and spoil them for those that do.

[Ellipsis]

> Commander Karen Findlay, who led the Met's policing operation during the Coronation, said on Saturday: "Earlier this week we said our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low and that we would deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining the celebration."

"Our tolerance for any disruption will be low." Lots of debatable words there: our, tolerance, any, disruption and low ...

[ToraToraTora]

untitled: "they arranged their protest months in advance and liaised with the police regularly. Yet they were arrested immediately and without cause... as were a women's safety group in possession of rape alarms " - they went equiped to disrupt, surely you can see that.