Dear fellow OLOers.

a recent exchange between myself and another here has prompted me to investigate the issue of 'how we perceive things' in visual imagery.

Please have a look at this video and then, make your assessment of 'what' actually happened to a policeman who ends up on the ground and is eventually carried off to hospital.

There are 2 parts of this incident which we should examine.

1/ Policeman is forced to the ground (by ?)
2/ Fellow policeman turns and looks.(at?/why)

This will be most interesting, because the phrase "You only see what you want to see" comes into play here.

So..what do 'you' see ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_pBLnoTmc

View from 2.00 on please.

All can agree on one thing.. "An officer was injured and taken to hospital"

According to one report the officer had an "injured leg" (how ?)

While the old aphorism 'seeing is believing'seems to make 'common sense' it has long since been shown to be quite flawed. Most of the research I'm aware of in the field indicates that the opposite is closer to the truth, ie, one tends to see ('perceive) what one believes or expects'.
Cambo

what do i see..?
a buss-load of nationalists..[20-30]
with flags...walking into an enclosed protest-zone..

watched over by 100 police
who stand facing the bus=load/few
with their backs to near 80 watchers

later shots show 2 dogs..used to induce fear..imply threat
reminding me of guantonimo...later more police are seen wearing black
and two on bikes..i saw a wisp of 'gas'? ..but no gas masks

then police agetaitors..[in plain clothes]..making what will be the 'media-shot'..of the day...that looks like mayhem...that excuses the calling of what seems hundreds of police..to what was clearly a bus-load..trying to make some point

there were a few signs..but appart from one having some-thing..about islamb on it..i didnt read the other few...but think they related to some union blurb..

why are we required to watch this vidio...without knowing the con-text

clearly the vid is a professional effort
posted to serve some adgenda or other

5000 vieuws indicate its getting vieuws...so someone is getting it arround...going by the comments..its some hate group...serving some elite adgenda

anyhow i seen..it
over policing...based on keeping their message...silent
a sign of things are at this time in histry
the time of fear and of subverting others adgenda's

soon..even less will dare pro-test
think of the mindsets..of those planning this..over the top policing
add in the media silence..the joke becomes clear

this war on terror
is a war on free-speech and act

interesting/revealing.. is the beginning...
where the people..walk off the buss..into the protest area
THROUGH minimal-police lines..till they are fully enclosed
ensconced on their plat-form/stage..behind bars

like..the acters they are..taking to their stage...
to get...a visual mess-age...out there

just to make....a media moment..[headline-point]
to distil/..instil..the watchers..to...fear

at least there wasnt the typical[hypnotic]..flashing lights
or the media flashes..usual in such pr

The real agenda of Islam in Democratic countries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CA6IWnbfw&feature=related

I saw a cop trip over a dog by the looks of it?
I opened it in a video editor and sure enough, frame by frame the cop trips over the dog as he steps backward.

So are they saying the protesters did it?

Boazy you ask me to judge apples when only spuds are on the table.
It is your written word, nothing else people judge you by here.
Let me be clear, I do not dislike or like you.
Regard you as a well known old shirt,some times it fits others it is crumpled.
I had no need to take your test, did not bother.
Reality is in fact not perception, oh I know the saying, but truth is truth.
Americas Christian right,seemingly your home, is in my view war mongering and a threat to world peace.
Just as my thoughts and ideals repel you, I am convinced you follow a path that is blind to humanity, all humans not just American right.