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Article: Say no to fortress London; Yesterday's hunting protest and invasion of the Commons must not open the door to oppressive security.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 16, 2004
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Byline: SIMON JENKINS
OK everybody, quiet on set, lights, camera, action, ...
welcome back to London, agitprop theatre and stage-set for protest. So who is it today, student fee marchers, animalrights activists, Fathers 4 Justice, or those weird huntsmen again?
Of course the violence in and outside Parliament yesterday is deplored by all right-thinking people. Apart from anything else it was counterproductive to hunting's case.
But something like this was bound to happen from the moment MPs, in their vanity, allowed their proceedings to be televised.
Many people will have found the self-importance with which they decried the " ...