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(mostly in German)
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FitWatch blog - keeps an eye on the activities of some of the controversial Police Forward Intelligence Teams, who supposedly only target "known troublemakers" for photo and video surveillance, at otherwise legal, peaceful protests and demonstrations.
It is times like these when I wish the UK had a constitution that spelled out people's free democratic right to protest...
Is it still against the law to protest within like 6 miles of the houses of parliament or has that been overturned?
I would just like to add that if you don't let people peacefully protest and then they resort to violence (See London Bombings) then you only have your selves to blame (I'm looking at the current government).
And would like to ask the question, did the police have intelligence on this protest or was it just "luck"? We all know that Margaret Thatcher used the security services to spy on all sorts of peaceful protestors.
@ Manip - "Is it still against the law to protest within like 6 miles of the houses of parliament or has that been overturned?"
Nothing so blatant.
However, the whole of the area within the M25 is designated as a stop and search "without needing reasonable suspicion" zone under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Any large scale processions or protests which might disrupt traffic, anywhere, require prior permission from the police, under the sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Public Order Act 1986.
Most controversially, you now need prior written permission to "demonstrate" (undefined) from the Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis (i.e. Sir Ian Blair) within the Designated Area drawn around Parliament Square, which streches from the MI5 building in the south, to New Scotland Yard in the West, up to but not including Trafalagar Sqaure in the North and, for no sane reason, across the river to the London Eye ferris wheel in the East. This applies evenif you are a solitary demonstrator !
This all came in without proper scrutiny or debate in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 during the "wash-up" period at the end of the last Parliament when the General Election had been called.
See http://ParliamentProtest.org.uk for more details.
I realise that the term "Police State" as bandied about in reference to UK, is but a pale shadow of the real thing. Doing slammer time for Apartheid offences is now seen as a badge of honour for White South Africans. Perhaps when the Blair and Bush regimes are overthrown, those involved in early protests will become similarly honoured citizens. But I get ahead of myself.
I admire US citizens for their patriotism, albiet misguided. However, any country that could let itself get into such dire political straits is not going to resolve matters simply with a change of government. But at least they are trying. Rather than preparing to fly the coop, they are planning to take back their country. Fortunately or unfortunately, Brits. at present have no such ambition, and I for one have no desire to foster revolution. Plays hell with property prices, the stock market and foreign exchange rates. But revolution held back is twice as bloody when it finally comes. Tony Blair kindly note.
Blair, as leader of NuLabour is stifling all forms of descent, including using the nebulous “justifying terrorism” (aka criticising UK foreign policy) as an excuse to control the Internet. The vast apathetic mass of the population has such a low level of political consciousness you'd literally have to ban soaps and football to get them manning the barricades. If you think these are the people you’re protesting for, fighting for, dream on. The threat to your way of life is not synonymous with the threat to Britain. So for those with the intellect to envision UK’s immediate political future and the confidence and wherewithal to pull up stakes, emigration seems an obvious option. Because as of now, you are well and truly shafted. Moving to a more democratic country is not the issue. I don't think I've ever identified with Britain, even before I left back in 1972. But believe me, you don't feel anything like as incensed when it's not your own country. You can always transfer yourself and your ill-gotten gains to a more grateful country. But when you have a Brit. wife, children, mortgage and can loosely be categorised as a blackmailed paid-employment slave, your feet are nailed to the floor. So the time to split is either immediately after you graduate (and before you repay the student loan), or as you reach retirement. However, those men with a messy divorce in their recent past may feel they are leaving very little of value behind. Thus a new start may be just what the doctor ordered. But forget same language, same culture, former colonies. The “English gentleman” still plays well in most parts of Asia.
"This applies even if you are a solitary demonstrator!"
Well, I didn't get arrested for wearing a NO2ID t-shirt in front of Parliament on Monday. I even had a friendly chat with one of the officers guarding the gates and asked him about whether it constituted a protest or not - in my case, it apparently didn't.
Mind you, that doesn't excuse the legislation in the slightest - the fact I had to ask if I was breaking the law just for wearing a T-shirt speaks volumes.
@ Ian D - the legislation is a bureacratic nightmare for the Police to enforce, so there are going to many times when they do not enforce it, and others when they do so arbitrarily, which is a perversion of our supposed "everbody is equal before the law" justice system.
The opinion of one police officer on one particular day, that you in your tshirt do not constitute a one man demonstration. should not be taken as proof of a legal precedent. Another policeman or even the same one on another day, may take a different view
The legislation says that "A constable in uniform may arrest without warrant anyone he reasonably believes is committing an offence"
According to the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4228718.stm
"Last Updated: Friday, 9 September 2005, 08:01 GMT 09:01 UK
Six EU summit campaigners bailed
Six civil liberties campaigners arrested outside a summit of European ministers on Tyneside have been released on conditional bail.
The four men and two women from the group NO2ID were driving towards the venue of the meeting in Gosforth on Thursday when police stopped them.
A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said they were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
It comes as the interior ministers' meeting enters its last day.
About 70 EU ministers have been attending the summit where host Home Secretary Charles Clarke was confident of securing a deal with his European counterparts on controversial counter-terrorist measures"
Welcome to the marxist super state of europe!
Not allowed to march have a demo or protest who says?
This is our country hard fought for!
Politicians need reminding of their status, it is servant of the people not vise versa?
A regime that tries to hold a nations citizens down is totalitarian!
Are we free or not? can they arrest us all?
Where will they put everyone in the full up prisons?
We brits should say " enough already"
Make a stand for freedom before it is too late!