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Yesterday the full, awful reality of what happened at Hillsborough 23 years ago came to light; indicating an astonishing catalogue of deceit on behalf of, not only the police but also the ambulance service.
Some years ago a brilliant drama-doc shown on ITV gave us the heads-up on what reality happened- how the police basically lost control of a crowd situation and panicked. And how the victims, many of them in a parlous state, but still alive, were simply lined up in a gym, denied access to any medical intervention and basically left to die. Yesterday we heard that as many as 41 people died in this way, people who should have been alive today. The doctoring (as a doctor I have never been comfortable about that term) of reports by the police to make them appear in a more favourable light is one of the most disgraceful scandals to have been perpetrated by the British state since the Amritsar massacre, and make no mistake: this WAS a massacre of the young and innocent.
I heard someone on Sky News this morning say something about "surely this couldn't happen today". Who are they kidding? Of course it could. But we'll have to wait at least 23 years to find out how they're screwing us right now- and then they'll still be saying: "surely this couldn't happen today".
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