get roped in with those who might be genuinely disruptive just to be sure. But if half a million people are marching against government cuts now that's a different matter! Let them run amok. It'll take the media's attention away from the march, smear the marchers and their cause and, what's more, lay the ground for a severe clampdown on the day of the impending Royal Wedding! We live in an authoritarian police state where dissent is routinely spied upon and the constabulary can kill bystanders with seeming impunity. Banksters and media moguls are afforded every kind consideration if they have misbehaved and perverted the course of justice but the ordinary bod gets kettled, baton charged, cavalry charged, attacked from behind and thrown in jail for months for nicking a bottle of water. Steal billions and they will kiss your arse and they send you off with a pension the 99.9% can only dream of but dare to question the establishment too closely and expect to see spooks and "the book" being thrown at you. The Metropolitan police decided the gathering (an alternative celebration organised by Queer Resistance) was a demonstration against the royal family -- therefore we were arrested. Alternative Celebration? It was a protest, Queer Celebration admit so on their blog . Ok, It was a general anti-cuts protest as opposed to a specific anti royal protest, but it was a protest none the less. Please try to look at this from the point of view of the