When Mr Ennis refers to the "heavy-handed" police presence at the EDO site in Brighton (Letters, March 4), I marvel at his hypocrisy when he says the police made a foolish and unpleasant spectacle of themselves.

In my opinion, the foolish and unpleasant ones are the demonstrators themselves, who laughingly call themselves pacifists.

Ask the poor people who work at EDO who, on a daily basis, have to run the gauntlet of intimidatory booing and jeering and no doubt verbal abuse from these "pacifists", whether or not they feel threatened - I suspect I know the answer you will get.

I have no particular cross to bear for the police or the workers.

I am in neither occupation and I also respect the right of protestors to express their view, although I do think their efforts would be more productively directed at higher echelons of government.

But to start bleating because the centre of attention has been diverted from their cause to another more newsworthy event is rather childish.

Maybe if the organisers had, as requested, furnished the police with details of their protest and the likely numbers of those who would be attending, as the law stipulates, Supt Moore would not have had to provide such cover as was seen here.

Or maybe the protestors see it as a weakness to co-operate with the police at any time?

The law applies to us all, Mr Ennis, not just the select few who scream the loudest and expect people to agree with them or face the consequences.

-David Gale, Lewes