Back To The Beginning 14: More Shit Policing

In a spectacular own goal, the Met arrested some completely non-dangerous women just for the temerity of attending a vigil against, essentially, misogyny. It's not really an own goal; this is standard operating procedure for the state. In particular it's sheriffs. You can point to the existence of emergency Covid legislation but anyone with a clear mind can see that the attendees posed no threat of viral transmission. It was outdoors ffs. 

Instead this protest, although that isn't the correct word really, was a stand against the institutional misogyny that the Met represents and defends daily. It's all part of the mechanism behind the ruling class. Misogyny, like all forms of prejudice, are integral. If it wasn't why would we still endure it? If it didn't, somehow,. benefit the ruling class to maintain the toxic systems (such as patriarchy) why would it still exist? There is, at the very least, no profit and no benefit for the ruling class to tackle these systems. Including the systems that drive the police to respond with force and to arrest working class women for speaking out against that which injures them.

They were never going to behave differently and expecting different would be a fool's errand. This is, once again, what they are. They are not our friends, they do not help us and they certainly do not represent class interests. They stand with the state enforcing its oppression. They could have let this go. They could have stepped back. They could even apologise and say it was a 'mistake', except that would all be false.

Maybe we are at a tipping point, now. I would like to think that with so many of our institutions falling short so publicly that maybe people are seeing them as truly inadequate. Reform isn't the answer. None of this can be fixed from within. It requires revolution. Anything else is a betrayal and a waste of time, Expecting our elected representatives (they aren't) to do anything is equally foolish. I note the government have of course empathised with the cause (in other words, just words), but they won't do anything. Of course not; they need the Met. They're the only ones that do. At this point it's all theatre anyway. Nothing will really change without revolution.