Falafal & Humus on Sun 11, January 2009 @ 18:51

Falafal & Humus — 2009-01-11 18:51:26

Why don't you train small groups of young men & women with gas masks, cycle helmets & placards which double up as a defensive stick & shields and basic padded clothing? The costs are minimal and only a couple of hundred of these trained & equipped individuals are needed to cause major problems.

It would be really easy to force the Police hand because their training is ineffective to organised and equipped groups as their tactics rely on reconnaissance, separation tactics and short attack bursts in order to separate, isolate, deter & control crowds into smaller more manageable groups, whilst their reconnaissance are targeting group leaders or the more excited protester and the gas is used as a dispersion tactic.

This leaves them vulnerable for a counter offensive by several small groups of suitably equipped demonstrators who with a little training can overcome the Police strategy by simply playing on a number of simple factors, such as the individual policemans biggest fear of being caught out and swallowed into the crowd when on the offensive & the best use of the narrow space.

The space is purposely narrowed by the use of barriers but these barriers can be detached individually and used as defensive 3 man shields. Finally communications and strategic movement should be implemented from afar with the use of basic communications methods as the use of mobile phones or walkie talkies can be both monitored or disrupted.

The manoeuvring of the trained and equipped must be orchestrated in 3 steps, the overall movements must be controlled from a Command & Control site away from the main crowds in order to have a full view of the area and react to counter Police movements, with access to TETRA scanners like Uniden Bearcat series & net access to help with decrypting frequencies in order to monitor Police communication activity, although the frequency is encrypted the encryption is easily decrypted using software.

The C&C will pass on the information to two groups, one group situated inside the main crowd and one group with the trained & equipped.

Decoy ring leaders, spotters & several locations for command & control communicators should be deployed to confuse reconnaissance and the use of women would also add to the psychological impact & provide fantastic press coverage.

This level of organisation can easily be put together and would lead the Police to use more force leading to huge criticism and heavy causalities on both sides but provides better press coverage.

This method & organisation would also make it easier to spot agent provocateurs who are more easily identified from outside spotters, if they are not following movement directives or acting overly violent.

Considering the directive is to demonstrate over a long period of time, this level of organisation is important to be effective against the Police tactics, otherwise the protests will continuously be downplayed by the Police and shrugged off by the Government, leading to possible, gradual disenchantment with protests in these cold conditions, however if the demonstrators are organised to choose volunteers to defend their civilian rights to protest and defend themselves from Police brutality then this is both more news worthy, a more expensive police force is required and allows demonstrators to protest for a longer duration of time.

Police Forces have a major problem with the amount of trained staff they have for such events and the longer it goes on, the more reliant they will become on non trained volunteer staff which will lead them to make mistakes which can be politically exploited.

JB on Sun 11, January 2009 @ 19:50

JB — 2009-01-11 19:50:19

Veteran Welsh Palestine campaigner Ray Davies, 79, was among those attacked by the police outside the embassy - clubbed and kicked unconscious. Short article at http://radicalsocialist.org.

PR webby on Mon 12, January 2009 @ 14:25

PR webby — 2009-01-12 14:25:22

PR Public meeting

Stop Zionist Slaughter!

The Ship, Borough

High St, London SE1

Wed 14 January 19.30

Permanent Revolution

Falafal & Humus on Sun 11, January 2009 @ 18:51

JB on Sun 11, January 2009 @ 19:50

PR webby on Mon 12, January 2009 @ 14:25