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Ian Tomlinson was drunk, and did not move when the policeman asked him to move. The response of the policeman was completely appropriate and deserved. I was not referring to his subsequent heart attack. Anyone who did not understand what I was referring to obviously has poor reading and comprehension skills.

As for you ‘The Plain Truth’, you’re sole contribution to this thread has been to level hysterical, baseless and emotive accusations at people who’s opinions you dislike. Other than that, you obviously have nothing else to say.

I think you need to learn some maturity yourself.

What is a factual statement? That he would have had the heart attack anyway regardless of what happened to him at the demonstration? Well it’s reasonable speculation but we don’t know enough at this stage to declare it a fact. Or do you mean it’s a fact that he got what he deserved? If so would you like to justify that remark. In fact would you like to justify it anyway.

if they wish politicos to face up to the unintended and deliriousness consequences of their actions from many thousands of miles away, they should apply appropriate introspection to their own actions.

What actions are they? Merely attending a lawful demonstration with the intention of protesting peacefully makes you partly responsible for anything bad that happens there? You might have more of a point if you at least directed your ire at those people who were actually intent on causing trouble but even then the behaviour of that police officer was so far removed from what could reasonably be expected in those circumstances you simply can’t pin any of the responsibility on the protesters.
Moreover it is worth considering how his actions were influenced by the mindset of the police in general on that day. The police were not all neccessarily neutral actors merely responding to events, their actions and decision, and the attitudes that informed them, had an influence on how things eventually turned out.

It’s just that one cannot then start preaching about what a wonderful person one is and who can effect world change can be effected by a half hour jolly up Threadneedle Street.

I haven’t seen anyone claming that merely being on that march made them a wonderful person or that they were going to change the world. No doubt many of them believed they had a righteous cause and that by voicing their protest they were doing the right thing, but that is equally true of anyone who protests anywhere about anything in any way, including those who do so by commenting on the internet.

You’ve only just noticed this!!

You seethe because you know I am right.

No it is not a factual statement. It is childish emotionally retarded cretinism designed to shock and masquerading as a comment on an adult blog. That is why very few people have commented on it.