"Indeed, but that age bracket wasn't the one with the power, privilege etc to do much about methods of policing."
True enough, but then we became all growed up and attained that power- and they STILL don't damn well listen as this blooming 'toiletgate' business proves pretty well :o)
Interesting thing about mods and rockers is how blown out of all proportion the 'riots' were by the media. There was a prog on about this a few months back and the reality was far from the stories in the Daily Malice and such.
It was like the skin'eads who were supposed to be such a threat to my generation- they were in reality a tiny minority who we saw very little of.
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Date: 2008-08-01 03:42 pm (UTC)True enough, but then we became all growed up and attained that power- and they STILL don't damn well listen as this blooming
'toiletgate' business proves pretty well :o)
Interesting thing about mods and rockers is how blown out of all proportion the 'riots' were by the media. There was a prog on about this a few months back and the reality was far from the stories in the Daily Malice and such.
It was like the skin'eads who were supposed to be such a threat to my generation- they were in reality a tiny minority who we saw very little of.