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Originally Posted by papa smurf
"What a sorry story for those who believe in justice. Whether you sympathise with the striking miners or not, they are British citizens. They have the right to be treated fairly, and to be protected from arbitrary violence and cover-ups on the part of the state. And when justice is denied for some, it can be denied to all of us. A good day for the state, a bad day for the rest of us."
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Given that the miners were allowing themselves to be used as foot soldiers in an insurrection with the aim of bringing down a legitimate government, they should consider themselves lucky they faced police waving truncheons and not soldiers firing live rounds.
He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. This was not Hillsborough, the "victims" were not exuberant football fans on a day out at a location that should have been safe. They put themselves in harms way, they sought to harm the police that opposed them, and if some of the coppers there present overstepped a line in the face of such extreme violence and provocation, then frankly tough, the miners should perhaps have restricted themselves to picketing the gates and waving placards. Or, better still, getting back to work, earning a crust and feeding their families, instead of watching their kids starve and blaming Margaret Thatcher.