Can you imagine a more self defeating action as having a police escort when protesting on the streets? Having to present a notice six days prior to the proposed protest to see if it will be declared illegal?! I’ve been to the remembrance rally of the Tibetan Uprising of March 1959 for two years now and we are contained by yellow tape, police on motorcycles, megaphones and a fraction of what the street is. Chanting down racial oppression, human rights abuses, religious incarceration in occupied Tibet seems to be a message that should be heard on the streets of London. Here is a bit of what is mentioned in the article:
Under the Public Order Act, police have the powers to impose conditions on assemblies and marches of two or more people if they fear serious violence, serious criminal damage or serious disruption to the life of the community. Sussex Police, for example, have imposed conditions on gatherings of as few as three people before now. In effect the law allows for cops on the day to decide exactly how much dissent they are prepared to tolerate and arrest those who do not comply. …. Also explicitly mentioned is the idea of redrafting the law so that police can confiscate banners with slogans they fear might cause ‘public disorder’. This is a major step in the direction of ‘thoughtcrime’. Just as it is an offence to participate in a banned march it will be an offence to attend a banned assembly.
check out the full article. There is also a bit on how the US arms conglomerate ITT, a known past supplier to the Nazi war machine, is planning to buy out EDO MGM, one of Britain’s largest bomb builders.
