With news that the High Court has found the blanket stops & searches conducted by the police at Kingsnorth Climate Camp in 2008 to have been unlawful we have once again a proven case of the police acting in a manner far in excess of that permitted by Law.
And once again we are reminded of [...]
Britain under the Nazis? No. Britain under New Labour!
A slideshow of stills… all from London during 2009.
No narrative needed. But a word or two of explanation…
The heavy-handedness and increasing abuses of the authority of their office by the police is nowhere more in evidence than in the suppression of dissent and legitimate protest. By now [...]
Protesters warned that measures from the criminal justice bill would be turned against the wider population. We were right
This article by Ally Fogg, writing in The Guardian 21 July 2009
Fifteen years on, there is little pleasure to be gained from saying “we told you so”. But the manner in which a law designed to prevent [...]
From the BBC Radio 4 iPM programme…
Surveillance fears for the UK
Computer security veteran Phil Zimmermann warns about the seductive nature of technology.
The UK is risking sliding unwittingly into a police state because of the growing use of surveillance technology, says security guru Phil Zimmermann.
“When you live in that society and it changes incrementally over time [...]
In the days following the G20 protests in London stories have begun to surface of what really occurred.
Eyewitness accounts and testimony about the horrendous level of police brutality inflicted upon the protesters, seemingly without reason and without provocation.
So many of these tales are truly harrowing to read, almost unbelievable in their description of the sheer [...]
