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“if you are going to
break the window
and go into the bank,
at least head for the
roof and occupy the
building! what’s
the point in just
breaking stuff!”
a wound in his head. He looks a little the Police are now pushing back against sends a rush of cool energy spiralling
dizzy and is raising his voice to the riot the protestors. Around 30 of us then around my head.
police. ‘What are you defending?’ he sit in front of the riot Police and refuse It’s reaching the end of the day and
keeps repeating. The police officer he to move. The police seem willing to the riot police are violently approaching
is shouting at is deaf to his questioning. stay where they are for now, so we from all sides, trying to herd everyone
Disoriented, he stumbles into one of the stay sitting quietly, talking peacefully into the centre of the junction. Calmly,
police officers, who violently pushes amongst ourselves. I say to one of I walk over to a police line in one of
him back into the crowd where a girl the officers, “If I order a Pizza will you the side streets, then suddenly dash
begins to console him and persuades guys let it through?” The officer looks between 2 officers, breaking out into
him to stay away from the police line. amused and jokes, “Well you can give a sprint that takes me a distance away
Looking over towards the Royal it a go, but if it does get through I’ll from the protest. A lucky and well-
Bank of Scotland, I see several masked have to seize it”. “Yeah and I’ll have to calculated escape! 15 minutes later, I
men breaking through the glass lace it with poison first” I say warmly. hear from a friend that the police lines
windows of the bank. I run in that We both have a little chuckle and for have tightened and doubled, with riot
direction while many people scream a short moment we are not ‘Us and police lining the outskirts of the crowds,
“Burn the bank!” Several people are Them’ but simply ‘Us’. This thought so that no-one can go anywhere.
now entering the hole, destroying nurses me gently into place of stillness Protesters are illegally detained for
computers and whatever they can within myself, as I sit quietly for some several hours and released one by one
find. I shout, “If you are going to break time in front of the police. Dreamily I not before being photographed on their
the window and go into the bank, at think about how one man’s dream has way out.
least head for the roof and occupy brought us all together. ‘Maybe there’s I remember a sign I had seen
the building! What’s the point in just power in following each other’s dreams displayed earlier in the protest,
breaking stuff!’” At this point I become as well as our own?’ I think. ‘If one ‘Democracy is an illusion’.
incensed with this destructive rabble man’s dream is powerful enough to
and want nothing to do with them, so create this, then what is possible if we
I head back over to the riot-line where all dare to dream together?’ The thought
avantoure
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