ionetics: STW march

Let's say the STW march was small, select and perfectly formed- maybe 500? Almost as poignant as the naming of the dead, both Iraqis (many children) and coalition soldiers, including a naming from Rose Gentle, the mother of one such.

My ex-mother-in-law expressed vox populus when she said she didn't attend for STW (although she showed up yesterday for MPH) because the war was a done deed. As if turning up for MPH will make a difference... don't people learn from experience and observation? I was with my mum, kids and friends. Here's Nini right at the back of the march with one of our friends. Are there enough cops there to contain one child, a woman and a bike?

The biggest policing event- the S60-ing of a solitary black-hoodied youth in the small crowd- will probably be reported by Scotshit tomorrow as an anarcho riot. The massive overkill police presence (including riot cops in vans and on horseback) for a raggle-taggle demo were desperate to do their job, as they understood it. The poor bloke was wearing a Burberry cap beneath this hoodie (smiley). I snapped the cops snapping him, and the hooded druid who didn't get S60-ed, although his hoodie was also black. He said they already had him on file...