First off...Jade you're doing just fine...you're not digging anywhere, keep up the writing you have a good grasp of the situation at hand

Richard, what we do or don't do is just as you describe, but having said that, there are some who would cross that line and mete out punishment, goaded on by members of the very organisations we are up against, that's what the BNP etc wants, a violent confrontation between them and the anti fascist organisations.

I'm old enough to remember and to have taken part in the Anti-Vietnam actions in Grosvenor Square back in the late sixties, I saw th Met's finest deliberately goad people into violent action and then take full advantage and pound the crap out of any demonstrator at hand, I know, I was one of those so beaten, at one demo, I was simply trying to pull someone clear of being trampled by horse's hooves

It's something we have to avoid at all costs, because if we don't, we've lost the war before we start.