An academic at the University of East London, Chris Knight, professor of anthropology, has been suspended from his post for speaking out on bankers and for implying that if the police use violence against demonstrators they will be repaid in kind.
Pretty senseless bravado on his part but it is hardly cause for being suspended from your post. Such are the limits to democracy in Britain in the age of the war on terror.
A good story for the media to wind up their 'violence' agenda to scare people off going to the protests and to provide the police with a ready-made excuse for aggressive and violent policing.
Don't support Knight's suspension but his grasp of strategy and tactics vis a vis the state is very poor.
Pretty senseless bravado on his part but it is hardly cause for being suspended from your post. Such are the limits to democracy in Britain in the age of the war on terror.
A good story for the media to wind up their 'violence' agenda to scare people off going to the protests and to provide the police with a ready-made excuse for aggressive and violent policing.
Don't support Knight's suspension but his grasp of strategy and tactics vis a vis the state is very poor.
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