The throwing of the fire extinguisher was a fucking stupid and wrecklessly dangerous act.It could equally easily have killed a student as a copper.If it had killed a copper it would also have killed the protest movement dead.It also landed about 20 yards away from me. Oh how the papers would have enjoyed the delicious irony of ‘BONE BRAINED’. That said the salivating of the Daily Mail and the rest over the trumpeted arrest by scotland Yard of a suspect was nauseating.They can hardly wait to get their feature pieces on the suspect’s family onto the pages…….see pages 5,6,7,9…….Well it turns out the Daily Mail will have to stay disappointed for a bit longer. Suddenly the ‘alleged’ thrower has got bail…..not likely if the cops thought he’d done it. Turns out he is Jackson Potter a Cambridge university student. Turns out he was photogrpaphed on the roof with a fire extinguisher – but not the same kind of fire extinguisher as landed on the ground. The ravening hounds are denied.They run a bit about his family anyway.And rember all the stuff about the demo being hijacked – turns out everyone arrested to date is a student. Its all gone quiet over there. There’s more to come.BUT WHEN THE KIDS ARE UNITED………..
There is some good advice for students fearing arrest here:: http://www.fitwatch.org.uk
Ian Bone 
It has been the same for years one crass act becomes the headlines, the fact some Anarchist was there means it was them who organised the actions, we can not condone the throwing the fire extinguisher but understand the circumstance..
I let of fire extinguishers for legal and proper reasons, they look good in music videos and be frank there fun..
I have in my youth done crass things, this is all this was, however as always the media and there lackeys will get there man, but lets make it clear while I condone his actions, I will support him through court and help fund raise to the fine and his cost, why because one of act of stupidity dose not mean we show solidarity..
One of those ‘exposed’ in the Sun yesterday was a Hackney College student.
Those looking to portray the rioters as a sort of left wing version of the Bullingdon Club are going to have to do slightly better than that……..
‘BONE BRAINED’ – ha, like it. Maybe we should have a headline contest for the tragedy that nearly was?
How about ‘CLASS WAR EXTINGUISHED’ 😉
Ok missing a copper by inches on this particular occassion was out of order because the cops were bystanders (and if the rumours are correct were on a demo of their own , showing Osborne what a reduced police presence would look like after the cuts).
However when they’re charging at you on horses or battering you with truncheons , or dragging you by the hair to be assaulted in a van or cell, that extinguisher would be a gift from the gods, heaven sent, so to speak.
In a similar vain it would be interesting to wonder how long it would have taken the London firemen to arrive and put Millbank out if the Students had of torched it?……..After all the Tories couldn’t really expect them to do a lot as they had been calling the London firemen lazy wasters for going on strike just a few day earlier?
I’m Sparticus the fire extinguiser thrower and so are all my mates at work.
NO… I’m Sparticus the fire extinguiser thrower and so are all MY mates at work.
According to the Mail on Sunday the Met took their time to provide back-up at Tory HQ.
“The six-man security team guarding Tory headquarters during the Millbank riot made a 999 call – but had to wait nearly an hour for police reinforcements.
They requested help at 1.50pm when they feared hundreds of protesters – who had broken away from the 52,000-strong march – would storm the building.
But by the time about 30 to 40 officers arrived, it was, according to a source, ‘too little, too late’.”. http://tinyurl.com/234hzp8
Have a look at this link, it looks like someone stole the idea I put forward about the multiple I’m Sparticus spoof messages on the dob in a Millbank Rioter hotline when we were thinking of ways to waste hotline time.
It seems to have been hijacked for a twitter campaign. The P*ss off is this site or Anarchists get no mention in comming up with the original idea or the context for what it was intended.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8130376/I-am-Spartacus-goes-viral-on-Twitter.html
I’m Sparticus the fire extinguiser thrower and so are all my mates at down the jobcenter…