Something for the anti-campaigning motorists who dominate this
transport newsgroup to gloat over as they witness their fellow
citizens loss of human rights and civil liberties in our shamocracy.

"...The police – primarily from the local Medway force but
Metropolitan officers are also in evidence – have raided the camp
twice now, confiscating items that included crayons, disabled access
ramps, marker pens, banners, radios for relaying fire and medical
emergency information, the nuts and bolts holding toilet cubicles
together and blackboard paint. They have found it necessary to use
pepper spray without provocation, and several campers have been
arrested and bailed off the site for "obstructing" increasingly
aggressive police officers.

Everyone who enters the site is being searched. Police officers are
taking anything away that "could be used for illegal activity", with
efforts being made to strip protesters of such hardcore weapons of
choice as bits of carpet, biodegradable soap and toilet paper. In the
absence of any serious threat, the police clearly found it necessary
to justify their presence with an unprovoked attack on personal
hygiene..."

Doug typed:

"Activists from far and wide have travelled to register"

Not exactly being 'green' themselves then, just want to harp on to others
about it and jump on yet another Hippy style colony of doom mongers.
However, at least they're protesting peacefully, they say, and legitimately.
I wonder how long that will last..

"It is crucial that we defend the right to peaceful protest, a right that is
under threat from the government's disproportionate anti-terrorism
legislation"

I agree with. :)

On 5 Aug, 06:53, "Daul P." hotpop.com> wrote:

The police attack indiscriminately and pre-emptively peaceful and non-
peaceful protesters alike.

Check this out:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/405393.html

"Doug" riseup.net> wrote in message
news:c6668657-fbb3-4645-96b9-8b34c4865916@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
Something for the anti-campaigning motorists who dominate this
transport newsgroup to gloat over as they witness their fellow
citizens loss of human rights and civil liberties in our shamocracy.

"...The police – primarily from the local Medway force but
Metropolitan officers are also in evidence – have raided the camp
twice now, confiscating items that included crayons, disabled access
ramps, marker pens, banners, radios for relaying fire and medical
emergency information, the nuts and bolts holding toilet cubicles
together and blackboard paint. They have found it necessary to use
pepper spray without provocation, and several campers have been
arrested and bailed off the site for "obstructing" increasingly
aggressive police officers.

Doug typed:

No.

You lie and your sources lie.

"Doug" riseup.net> wrote in message
news:c6668657-fbb3-4645-96b9-8b34c4865916@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...

A reporter who believes in the peak oil myth is too gullible to be trusted
to check properly into propaganda stories. For example, radios are far more
likely to be there to organise protesters than 'for fire and medical
emergency information'. Most of the rest of the things confiscated can be
use for vandalism or as weapons (such as the bag of nuts and bolts) and the
disabled access ramp would make an excellent shield. The fact that the
Police have had to resort to the use of pepper spray makes it clear that the
protestors are not as peaceful as they want people to think.

Colin Bignell

Doug riseup.net> wrote:

What is there to gloat over, in the biased propaganda that you just
posted? The "protesters" at the camp have been happy to appear on
television advocating violence and it has been the usual suspects who
turn up at every similar event. It's amusing that you're so naive or so
biased that you swallow the crap at face value.

Or is it, as with your lies, that you imagine that everyone else is so
dumb that they will accept your lies without pausing to think about
them?

On 5 Aug, 10:01, %%ste...@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

I was commenting on the Guardian article. Go take it up with them.

Doug riseup.net> wrote:

Doug riseup.net> wrote:

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Duhgllearse shoots himself in the foot, again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7542592.stm

"A "stash of knives and weapons" has been found near the Climate Camp in
Kent, police have said."

"Peaceful protest" is it Doug?