Mayday Propaganda War starts - cops may ban all protests
don't throw stones in a greenhouse | 14.02.2001 17:43
plus extremist groups are planning violent protests
and the Met top cop considers banning all demos in london over mayday period....
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 13 2001
Anarchists plot May protests to disrupt election
BY STEWART TENDLER AND DANIEL MCGRORY
EXTREMIST groups are plotting to paralyse London with violent May Day protests 48 hours before the expected general election polling day.
Intelligence reports say that organisers are recruiting support from abroad to choke the capital on May 1. They intend the protests to spill over to election day. Police are monitoring “electronic traffic” between anarchist groups to thwart their plans, amid fears that ringleaders are intent on causing more trouble than at last year’s May Day protests.
Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said that he was drawing up plans to cancel all leave over the May Day period and was considering a ban on all protests in the capital.
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Every security agency in the country has been told to concentrate its efforts on uncovering then blocking the protesters’ plans.
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This year he said that the Yard had drawn up contingency plans. “We will have the resources to meet, match and beat (the protesters).
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