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• holding back the river commented  ·  April 11, 2011 3:14 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Laura, if you'd like to know more about this, you can look back through the comments below, especially the very early ones. Kettling is confining people, who are not breaking the law, in a way that they would be treated, if they were breaking the law. It is is false imprisonment and it is designed to deter protest. It is contrary to the European Human Rights Act, but still used here.It has resulted in schoolchildren being deprived of their liberty (not to mention the toilet) for up to 8 hours. Please vote to ban kettling.

• Laura.x commented  ·  April 11, 2011 8:24 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  What is kettling?

• Tony_G commented  ·  April 2, 2011 7:10 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Kettling is false imprisonment (illegal), inhumane and provocative. Watch two examples of citizens kettling the police:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYWwaMmDfA&feature=player_embedded#at=716. It's a start, anyway!

• GildedCage commented  ·  March 31, 2011 1:05 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It's a ridiculous tactic and may not be like using fire hoses and police dogs but the effect is the same; it is designed to frighten and intimidate people into not ever protesting again. Calling it right now.

• elpida commented  ·  March 30, 2011 6:27 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Government is elected to serve the people, they are not so doing, rather, they are lining their own pockets and those of the richest with our money. We must therefore, protest until they govern for the benefit of the majority who put them in parliament, otherwise we must seek to remove them as any employer would in this scenario

• Sam Johnson commented  ·  March 30, 2011 12:54 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Kettling is an infringement on human rights. It is wrong, violent and does not have a place in today's democracy.

• Sam Johnson commented  ·  March 30, 2011 12:36 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Kettling is an infringement on human rights. It is wrong, violent and does not have a place in today's democracy.

• Sam Johnson commented  ·  March 30, 2011 12:36 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Kettling is an infringement on human rights. It is wrong, violent and does not have a place in today's democracy.

• Sam Johnson commented  ·  March 30, 2011 12:35 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Kettling is an infringement on human rights. It is wrong, violent and does not have a place in today's democracy.

• Sam Johnson commented  ·  March 30, 2011 12:35 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Kettling is an infringement on human rights. It is wrong, violent and does not have a place in today's democracy.

• elpida commented  ·  March 30, 2011 7:28 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Right to protest is our fundamental human right. In the words of William Hague, "The people have a legitimate grievances, economical grievance and, political grievance .....its important for the authorities to respond positively to that and to be able to hold out the hope and prospect of reform in the future THAT is the answer to these situations rather than repression..it does not help to suppress peoples right to freedom of expression ...suppressing freedom of expression will not, in any case, resolve problems on any long term basis ...."

• KarlosMacronius commented  ·  March 30, 2011 4:56 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  kettling makes peaceful protesters panic, when they panic they do silly things, the police respond to these things with more violence. it is a completely counter-productive cycle of aggression. ban it and start policing these things properly instead of taking the lazy way out.

• Nicola Gatt commented  ·  March 30, 2011 4:16 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Massive Heath and safety issues here as well as being an infringement in our rights to protest. It also increases the possibility of violence.

• Michael Bater commented  ·  March 30, 2011 3:34 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It's not only a infringement of Democratic & human rights, but also a health & safety issue.

• Sabine Stork commented  ·  March 30, 2011 2:20 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Kettling at the very least undermines the right to protest - as such erodes democracy - we have to ban it

• David Bovill commented  ·  March 30, 2011 2:03 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Kettling is an incitement to violence, that increases the risk of violent confrontation between the police and the public. It permanently alienates hundreds of innocent people caught up in a trap alongside a handful of trouble makers, radicalising them. It should never be used in defence of property.

• Jose Aguiar commented  ·  March 30, 2011 1:23 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Right to protest is a fundamental right

• Steve Shaw commented  ·  March 30, 2011 12:57 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This is an extremely important issue, and if put into a larger public realm will receive a lot of support. With Germany now paying victims of kettling compensation, we must act to uphold our democratic right to protest without indiscriminate force from the police deterring this.

• Jose Aguiar commented  ·  March 30, 2011 12:45 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Citizens have the right to protest

• MCL commented  ·  March 28, 2011 12:39 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  The people always win.