[mattomac]

It only seems to be a choice when they talk about their own “choice”.

[Andy McDandy]

They seem to be adopting the "film everything" tactic, the idea being that they either use footage of them being assaulted (after much provocation) as evidence in one of those courts they don't recognise, or stick it up on the internet for fellow wankers to coo over.

We had one of these guys over the summer - just one person but he managed to disrupt activity at a test centre badly enough to get it closed for the day. His approach was to get in people's faces and demand to know why they were stopping him doing something, then when the person told him to get lost he'd take it as a personal insult, and if they muttered "fine, whatever", he'd treat it as a massive climbdown by those in authority and licence to do whatever he liked.

Thing was that our nutter put his footage up on YouTube (long since taken down) and we got a hell of a lot of abusive calls and threats - mostly from clearly inebriated people in the small hours of the morning. We also got a few calls from people claiming to be journalists working for apparently local outlets we'd never heard of (note to twats - local news is a small field, and if you regularly issue press releases you get to recognise the names; anyone claiming to be a senior reporter from some title we've never heard of will get short shrift) asking for our side of the story, but in all honesty that was just designed to keep the matter alive.

But yeah, there's protest and there's being a fucking dick.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

His approach was to get in people's faces and demand to know why they were stopping him doing something, then when the person told him to get lost he'd take it as a personal insult, and if they muttered "fine, whatever", he'd treat it as a massive climbdown by those in authority and licence to do whatever he liked.

Well known to teachers of bottom group Year 8 everywhere.

[Boiler]

They seem to be adopting the "film everything" tactic, the idea being that they either use footage of them being assaulted (after much provocation) as evidence in one of those courts they don't recognise, or stick it up on the internet for fellow wankers to coo over.

As other people have pointed out here and elsewhere - film the clips so they can be "monetized" (I hate that fucking word) or as you say, so that they can be used in evidence when they choose to recognise the courts after they've been given a righteous kicking.

A bit more on yesterday's protests - seems that their own research can't tell the difference between a testing centre and a vaccination centre.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... ton-keynes

[Andy McDandy]

Former Kipper candidate. Former For Britain organiser. Why am I not surprised?

In a similar vein, there was footage a few days ago of hunt supporters laying into saboteurs and protesters, as the police looked on. Same faces, instantly recognisable from the EDL marches, "defending" statues, and fighting at the football. Superannuated hooligans, outpriced minicab drivers, Spoons habitues and probably a fair number of twats called Ray.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Men of the same demographic and political background as members of the Met.

[Boiler]

What unnerves me somewhat is that these people are very organised.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Is it too much to hope?

[Boiler]

Tweet names a name.

[Boiler]

[Andy McDandy]

John O'Loony doing his bit for nominative determinism there.

[Watchman]

Is it too much to hope?

Would the family of the patient have grounds for action?

[Cyclist]

I've not heard of these nutters removing random people from hospital, so they probably *are* relatives of the patient. Or, at least, call themselves friends.

[Watchman]

Must admit, I wasn’t sure from reports if it was a random person or not

[Andy McDandy]

May well have been the family trying to "liberate" grandad.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

From the article:

The patient being targeted is said to be the father of one of the men in the group. At one point, the man filming accuses hospital staff of having “murdered” the patient’s wife. He then bizarrely claims Chris Whitty and Boris Johnson have been arrested.

A nurse is heard telling police officers that the patient’s son’s mother had died of Covid, adding: “But he doesn’t believe in Covid. Since then we have had multiple threats from them that he was going to come to the ward and remove his dad.”

You do wonder if he had been making multiple threats to 'liberate' his father, had the police had been informed, and if so, what they did about it.

[Bones McCoy]

I've not heard of these nutters removing random people from hospital, so they probably *are* relatives of the patient. Or, at least, call themselves friends.

Strong echoes of Alfie's army here.

I know a few Scousers, great folks every one, but their city seems to have a strain of mentalism to rival Glasgow.

[mattomac]

Really wish they wouldn’t present it as serious. It’s absolute lunacy.

[davidjay]

It's lunacy that a lot of people believe, and it's lunatics who will soon end up killing someone.

[Boiler]

Well, I am hoping this grinning piece of shit will have her collar felt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-b ... s-59836172