G20 demonstrations

you wanna help me with an experiment? I thought it might be nice to get a tape recorder and record what the police say when we go and draw pictures of them, you know court artist style. The tape and pictures should give a reasonable account of events, despite not being able to take photographic evidence.

I'm going to get down there early with a couple of blank canvases and some oil paint.

It's worrying to me (and to many others) at how this is all going, the very idea that the police can carry out their work secretly, away from public scrutiny is more akin to some South American Junta than a modern democracy.

These new powers will, of course, be widely abused.