Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Expensive partying

Instead of taking some time off during the weekends, the police in Berlin do their best to stop people from having fun, party and/or enjoy nature in outdoor activities in other than traditional ways. In what seems to be a kind of anti-freedom to roam principle, I've met dozens of police men/women disrupting some completely excellent parties. Although it sure makes amusing photos, I don't even want to think about how much it costs the taxpayers, but maybe the police themselves deduct it from their training-camp costs in preparation for 1st of May.
The only rational explanation could be that, since it's actually forbidden for right-wing extremists to excercise their democratic right to make demonstrations, the police actually have the right to clear any collection (>3) of people in public spaces, unless they have permission to be there! But there's better ways to fight.. well I'm actually not sure about that. At least its more fun!

Everything bad brings some good with it though! After being escorted away, we made a spontaneous house-party, where the music blasted through a single broken 15" speaker, and made people dance like crazy.

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