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[ramAnag]

A fair point, but to really understand what Orgreave means, I think you do have to be closely connected to those that were involved, they still feel that their father's, brothers, Grandfather's etc. were basically attacked deliberately by the Police acting as agents of the state. Its not about winning points off a long dead Thatcher, any more than Hillsborough was about point scoring, its about establishing the truth of what happened in the face of a cover up and media lies.

It is easy to dismiss such an enquiry as irrelevant, If it doesn't affect you or your relatives and community, so I can see why there is a justification for it, just hope it's done properly and quickly.

I was thinking about it and do accept your point about the need to clear the reputations of ‘fathers, brothers, grandfathers’ etc.

I think we all have to accept that ‘the past is a different country’ and that the police of the sixties, seventies and eighties were a very different and more sinister beast to today, but you’re probably right…the truth does need to be established although I doubt, on the evidence of other such inquiries, that it will be quick and I hope it doesn’t detract from other more recent public inquiries which, imo, are more important.

[Andy_Faber]

I was thinking about it and do accept your point about the need to clear the reputations of ?fathers, brothers, grandfathers? etc.

I think we all have to accept that ?the past is a different country? and that the police of the sixties, seventies and eighties were a very different and more sinister beast to today, but you?re probably right?the truth does need to be established although I doubt, on the evidence of other such inquiries, that it will be quick and I hope it doesn?t detract from other more recent public inquiries which, imo, are more important.

No ?we? don?t, I think at their extreme the police of today are more ?sinister? either of their own volition or acting under orders.

[ramAnag]

No ?we? don?t, I think at their extreme the police of today are more ?sinister? either of their own volition or acting under orders.

Not sure how you reach that conclusion, but based on three or four ‘encounters’ as a student in the seventies I’ll have to disagree.