Communists party members threaten musician in London
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Interesting incident in London the other day. Having seen what communist party members got up to in Manchester he got off lucky!
Not sure I agree with BTP person's initial approach towards Brendan however seemed to calm down once he stuck to his guns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iwnI2hjAA
PS I'm assuming Chinese communists party members / state media based on what I saw/heard but could be wrong. If they're British citizen or from elsewhere just as unacceptable. Not just American exceptionalism we have to put up with now
PPS Manchester incident where Chinese staff attack protesters I'm referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8fmszE2UQw
Interesting incident in London the other day. Having seen what communist party members got up to in Manchester he got off lucky!
Not sure I agree with BTP person's initial approach towards Brendan however seemed to calm down once he stuck to his guns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iwnI2hjAA
PS I'm assuming Chinese communists party members / state media based on what I saw/heard but could be wrong. If they're British citizen or from elsewhere just as unacceptable. Not just American exceptionalism we have to put up with now
PPS Manchester incident where Chinese staff attack protesters I'm referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8fmszE2UQw
Edited by pistonheader no-312 on Monday 22 January 13:44
It is odd these days, but their first thought is increasingly common., If you didn't want to be filmed, simply move away would be the sensible approach
...but no. They needed to get the piano player to stop filming. They needed to cause a fuss. Someone else needed to change to suit them.
Typical millennial, eh!
...but no. They needed to get the piano player to stop filming. They needed to cause a fuss. Someone else needed to change to suit them.
Typical millennial, eh!
williamp said:
It is odd these days, but their first thought is increasingly common., If you didn't want to be filmed, simply move away would be the sensible approach
...but no. They needed to get the piano player to stop filming. They needed to cause a fuss. Someone else needed to change to suit them.
Typical millennial, eh!
yeah weird, there not ven on camera till they approch him. ...but no. They needed to get the piano player to stop filming. They needed to cause a fuss. Someone else needed to change to suit them.
Typical millennial, eh!
insteresting that one police officer states immidetly, that hes free to film. and the other is asking for him to stop recording?
Zephyr Speedshop said:
yeah weird, there not ven on camera till they approch him.
insteresting that one police officer states immidetly, that hes free to film. and the other is asking for him to stop recording?
Why is that surprising to you, a law degree and certain level of understanding of basic law is not a perquisite for joining the UK Police as I understand it.insteresting that one police officer states immidetly, that hes free to film. and the other is asking for him to stop recording?
The first BTPO was spot on, its a public place, a train station and no one has any right to privacy, the second Female BTPO seems to object initially as she would rather she was not filmed, which is rather odd as she has a BWV Camera and would do the same to others.
Then later she tries to make some argument that the Chinese Nationals are employed by a company and therefore he (DR K) should film them for YouTube and make financial gain from it, again a pretty ill-informed statement.
Evanivitch said:
yellowjack said:
Interesting...
Speculation that one of the people in the Chinese party may have been a "handler" and potentially armed. . . ?
Speculation that one of the people in the Chinese party may have been a "handler" and potentially armed. . . ?
Yeah, no.The whole thing seemed peculiar. The piano player initially suggested that they were Japanese, and that the friend (who also played the piano and sang a Blues song) was something to do with them - I thought he might have been their tour guide at one point.
To be maybe fairer than I should be, the player probably did appear to approach them first - he asked the girl if she wanted to dance at one point (nothing wrong with that of course).
I wonder if they were on some sort of official business and were somewhere they shouldn’t have been? They obviously weren’t in tune with western behavioural norms - a polite request may well have led to them being removed from the footage. The ridiculous scene they created instead must have had the piano player thinking that all his You Tube Christmases had come at once.
To be maybe fairer than I should be, the player probably did appear to approach them first - he asked the girl if she wanted to dance at one point (nothing wrong with that of course).
I wonder if they were on some sort of official business and were somewhere they shouldn’t have been? They obviously weren’t in tune with western behavioural norms - a polite request may well have led to them being removed from the footage. The ridiculous scene they created instead must have had the piano player thinking that all his You Tube Christmases had come at once
.williamp said:
It is odd these days, but their first thought is increasingly common., If you didn't want to be filmed, simply move away would be the sensible approach
...but no. They needed to get the piano player to stop filming. They needed to cause a fuss. Someone else needed to change to suit them.
Typical millennial, eh!
I’ve seen more stubborn entitled old farts tbh. ...but no. They needed to get the piano player to stop filming. They needed to cause a fuss. Someone else needed to change to suit them.
Typical millennial, eh!
BertBert said:
yellowjack said:
Interesting...
Speculation that one of the people in the Chinese party may have been a "handler" and potentially armed. . . ?
What is a "handler" in this circumstance then?Speculation that one of the people in the Chinese party may have been a "handler" and potentially armed. . . ?
I can't speak from a strong position of knowledge regarding China, and the modern Chinese Communist Party, but I've had dealings in the dim and distant past with Warsaw Pact and former Warsaw Pact military personnel (professional soldiers) being escorted and supervised by "party officials" in uniform embedded in the group. It's all a big game, and a bit of a farce if you ask me.
DaveCWK said:
They're holding the Chinese flag, not the 'communist flag'
Seems like he just wound them up and got a bit of a bite.
The Chinese national flag is entirely made up of Communist Party symbols, though. Trying to separate them one from the other isn't possible given that there isn't any political alternative to the Communist Party in mainland China. Seems like he just wound them up and got a bit of a bite.
DaveCWK said:
They're holding the Chinese flag, not the 'communist flag'
Seems like he just wound them up and got a bit of a bite.
From Taiwans perspective it's definitely the communist flag.Seems like he just wound them up and got a bit of a bite.
"The red represents the Chinese Communist Revolution. The five stars and their relationships to each other represent the unity of four social classes of Chinese people, symbolized by four smaller stars, under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), symbolized by the large star."
juice said:
"We don't want our voice or picture being filmed"
Then why the hell did you walk up to someone who is holding a camera and obviously filming ? Are they being deliberately thick ?
Not forgetting walking around carrying Chinese flags and drawing attention to themselves.........why?Then why the hell did you walk up to someone who is holding a camera and obviously filming ? Are they being deliberately thick ?
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