by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Police in Nottingham recently in dawn raids arrested over 100 people under suspicion of wanting to mount a Climate Change protest against coal fired power stations.
So far no charges have been brought against any of those arrested but all were arrested under the Anti-Terrorism legislation brought in by the current regime in Britain.
It would appear that just intending to go to a peaceful demonstration – or to organize some peaceful protest – is now a felony and considered a “conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism”.
So much for freedoms.
Then again, the freedoms that people in Britain assume to be theirs by right are, like the “freedom of speech” and the “freedom of the press” and the “freedom to peacefully assemble”, are privileges granted and not unalienable rights, which can all be removed, basically, at the stroke of a pen.
This is what appears to be happening, incrementally though, in Britain today.
A while back a Home Office minister remarked that the so-called “freedom of speech” was but a privilege granted and that government could curtail at any time.
I guess the same is happening with the assumed right of “freedom of assembly” and to demonstrate peacefully.
The actions of the police officers at the G20 protests in London in Spring 2009 definitely point to this.
Aside from the fact that officers covered up, or even removed altogether, illegally, mind you, their Force Identification Numbers (FIN), so as not to be able to be identified and the brutality of a considerable number of them, officers were seen and heard talking about going to take the war to the protesters.
Officers, some of them at least, were gunning for a fight.
While this is being vehemently denied a number of people managed to overhear officers' conversations to this point.
While there are still many decent officers in the British police forces many of the younger ones are becoming more like JBTs every day. They would have made great SA men.
The attitude is that they ARE the law and can basically do as they please. Old culture in new bottles, I guess.
It is now – basically – illegal for anyone, including journalists, to photograph police officers under a recently passed legislation while they can film and photograph anyone, at protests, etc., regardless whether ordinary peaceful protesters, anarchists, innocent bystanders or journalists, to their little hearts' content.
Journalists, it would seem, are their special and pet target nowadays, especially as far as those reporting on events such as protests and also those that criticize this dictatorial regime in Britain and the jackbooted thugs that are all too often now are masquerading as police officers.
While there are many great cops in this country and some of them are personally known to me and are friends and acquaintances many of he younger ones, as said, are getting out of hand. But is it them or is it actually something that they are taught?
Anyway, welcome to the Fourth Reich!
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Over 100 possible Climate Change protesters arrested in Nottingham
