The actual protest is very small ... a handful of teens with black masks covering their faces, and a large black flag flying in the breeze. It's quite intimidating, since the government has put snipers in position on roof tops, there are hundreds of cops, at least one helicopter, and numerous "undercover" agents.
One undercover cop is chased by a group of us, and he admits that he is there to photograph us. "I'm just doing my job", he whines. We leave him alone, and he pretends that he is still undercover so that his superiors won't fire him.
Loads of secret service guys from England are on the scene, and cram in around our protest. But they haven't thought how easy it is to pick them out! Ask them the time, and they can't answer without revealing their accents and blowing their cover.
Two really dumb looking cops stand around in long trench coats, looking more like Tweedledee and Tweedledum than the "inconspicuous" tourists they had hoped.
Here is a little bit from an article printed on November 11th,1991 in Ate Ball Justice Volume 1, Issue 6.
The Parasite Charles and the Parasitess Diana were met in Kingston by thousands of adoring shnooks, supplementing the mandatory audience of 500-700 cops, agents, secret service, and others.
Well before the visit, Kingston Police and other government top secret agents were preparing for the security these two would need. At the cost of huge amounts of casholine... We were treated to the best. They had trench coats by the score, dark glasses by the dozen, as well as the all popular Dick Tracy wrist radios. No expense was spared: motorcycle cops, choppers, tons of arrest vehicles, undercover agents, snipers and numerous barricades.
As well as these and more they had surveillance cameras, informers, and hidden away somewhere probably mounted police, a few hundred riot cops, the military and a couple of tanks. Maybe even a Patriot missile or two.
Not since the struggle at Oka had I seen so many cops in one place. Why did Kingston get twice the dose of cops that were present in Toronto? Why did little backwoods nowhere warrant this? Not because the Spoil couple would be in two different locations as the media said.
Oh no! It was all because of little old ATE BALL JUSTICE. Yep. It's true. The people who run this paper called for an international anti-monarchy rally right here. UP CHUCK AND DI weekend!
The cops with their paranoia must have expected hundreds of Anarchists to show from across the US. They conjured up images of huge riots involving masses of people. (Helped along by our own hyped versions ofsible outcomes in our letters and phone calls which they no doubt monitored).
Imagine their dismay when they found out that there were only two small protest groups.
The cops ended up being teir own worst enemy -- they were hilariously incompetent. Anyone who didn't care about being caught afterwards could have whacked out the royal couple... so all this money and "man" power was wasted.
The two cop cars crashing into each other in front of Di was only one of the highlights. Another was the [supposedly undercover] cop who followed us and who "didn't want trouble" and was "just doing his job" [when we confronted him]. He then proceeded to keep his "undercover status" to fool his superiors into thinking he hadn't been spotted.
Other cards included the British secret service men who couldn't speak without blowing their cover with their accents -- I asked several the time and they walked away. The funniest part was that their dress and posture stood out [so much anyway].
In all we had a great time in our masks, carrying the black flag and telling everyone we met what a waste of money this whole affair was.
