tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334362352319610285.post4287396209235399070..comments2023-10-02T01:17:11.975-07:00Comments on FIX University Planet Green: UK Students Welcomed @ FIX UniversityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334362352319610285.post-6570605413538166702011-06-07T06:27:58.993-07:002011-06-07T06:27:58.993-07:00"She was also among those who tried in vain t..."She was also among those who tried in vain to hold back the activists, many of them masked, who were intent on turning an unruly but largely peaceful demonstration violent."<br /><br />Whether or not that police van was left there deliberately is irrelevant, in my opinion. Perhaps it was there to incite violence and make people more sympathetic towards the police, perhaps it wasn't. Either way, leaving it alone was the only option, if the protesters wanted people to sympathise with their cause. As it happened, a minority of yobs spoilt the protest for the vast number of students who were protesting peacefully. As you've said, those images were seized by the media and presented as though that was all the protest was. <br /><br />Students have a right to be frightened, they have a right to be angry. Hiking the fees now, at a time when the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.graduate-jobs.com/">graduate jobs</a> market is so tough just seems like rubbing salt in the wound. But violence was never going to change anything.Nicolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17342674552124092002noreply@blogger.com