Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
My naiivity?! Don't make me laugh!

I've just seen a video of a Just Stop Oil protestor who was arrested on saturday "for doing nothing" when they have been disrupting people's lives for months on end by sitting in roads. You honestly don't think they would have done that?

If the police watched them and felt they were about to commit an offence it's fair game to stop them.

As we know, many hundreds peacefully protested and no one has an issue with that. But if people are about to commit disorder or crime with no regard for anyone else at all, then I think it's part of the police's job to prevent that.

Again, this has been bought upon them by themselves, thinking they can do what the hell they like when they like. Well, you can't. None of us can. I can't block whatever street I like for a reason of my choosing and there be no consequences.

Do you think I could turn up at Swansea City today in a Cardiff City shirt chanting fk the jacks and lay in front of the main road and the police should just watch me?
The problem is anyone in authority can rely upon "intelligence" to execute any arrest they wish. Even though that "intelligence" is contrived or flimsy. I would have thought the Hillsborough example would be sufficient for you to be wary about police actions and motives. Yes anyone who blithely supports the extension of police powers in matters of protest is definitely naive in my opinion.