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Anarchists call in the police

Harry's Place gleefully reports:

According to a report in The Evening Standard:

Protesters have barred police from their Climate Camp site at Blackheath.

The activists, who say they take all decisions by consensus, have decided not to allow police to conduct what they term “community liaison” with the camp.

But now something has upset this elegant state of grace. Someone has had their laptop stolen.  By “stolen”, I mean of course “removed to an alternative location without consultation, notice or prior consent and/or community consensus” and not the Capitalist definition...

A story on Indymedia has the details.

At just after 6pm tonight the police were called to the camp following a robbery.

In an amazing about turn the police that were kept off the site for the past two days were invited onto the Climate Camp today after the theft of a laptop was discovered. Statements were taken and the police were then escorted off the site by members of the legal team.

I’m not sure how to feel about this.

Well, may I helpfully suggest the following:

Communities should solve their own crimes. They can form like an ‘anti-crime commitee’ with powers to investigate. Maybe they could be given special hats.

Would it be fair to wonder whether these climate campers might be as elastic with regard to their other convictions.   Can any of them drive?  Did any of them go to Rio, and if so, did they walk or swim there?  Can any of them see the irony in all this, or are they just Plane Stupid?