UK Minister Anti G Protesters = Organized crime Compliment or Insult?
za | 14.07.2001 06:50
In a report in the Guradian Bob Ainsworth, the British home office minister for organised crime, said: "We will not tolerate thuggery as seen in Gothenburg. Violence is not the friend of peaceful protest. It is the enemy. The problem is that legitimate peaceful demonstration is being stifled."
EU gets tough on summit violence
Special report: globalisation
Ian Black in Brussels
Saturday July 14, 2001
The Guardian
European Union ministers promised yesterday to crack down on violence at future summits, after last month's riots in Gothenburg showed that better coordination and tactics were needed to combat protests against globalisation.
With unprecedented security measures in place for next week's G8 summit in Genoa, EU interior ministers called for wider intelligence-gathering powers for Europol and the use of special spotters to identify troublemakers.
Protests are also expected at next week's UN climate talks in Bonn, which will attract thousands of campaigners fighting to save the Kyoto climate change protocol.
Friends of the Earth Europe warned that clamping down on all protesters would lead to frustration and promote violence. "We have to show that peaceful protest is effective," its spokesman Martin Rocholl told reporters in Brussels.
The EU made it clear that peaceful protest was anchored in law, and called for "constructive dialogue" between demonstrators and the authorities.
But the tone was tough. Bob Ainsworth, the British home office minister for organised crime, said: "We will not tolerate thuggery as seen in Gothenburg. Violence is not the friend of peaceful protest. It is the enemy. The problem is that legitimate peaceful demonstration is being stifled."
More than 500 demonstrators -dubbed by Tony Blair an "anarchists' travelling circus" - were detained at the Swedish summit.
There were more than 90 injuries and the damage was put at nearly £3m.
The Swedish police were criticised for failing to use teargas or water cannon, provoking demonstrators, and eventually resorting to gunfire.
Mr Ainsworth said there were no British plans to issue travel bans, like those used against football hooligans, but diplomats said the idea could be studied in national capitals.
Contact Details for Bob Ainsworth
People > MPs > Labour > Bob Ainsworth > Contact details
No email address. (Modernist/Technophobe Bob?)
Telephone numbers:
House of Commons Phone number: 020 7219 4047
Constituency Phone number: 024 7622 6707
Constituency Fax number: 024 7622 6707
Addresses:
Constituency
2nd Floor
107 New Union Street
Coventry CV1 2NT
Special report: globalisation
Ian Black in Brussels
Saturday July 14, 2001
The Guardian
European Union ministers promised yesterday to crack down on violence at future summits, after last month's riots in Gothenburg showed that better coordination and tactics were needed to combat protests against globalisation.
With unprecedented security measures in place for next week's G8 summit in Genoa, EU interior ministers called for wider intelligence-gathering powers for Europol and the use of special spotters to identify troublemakers.
Protests are also expected at next week's UN climate talks in Bonn, which will attract thousands of campaigners fighting to save the Kyoto climate change protocol.
Friends of the Earth Europe warned that clamping down on all protesters would lead to frustration and promote violence. "We have to show that peaceful protest is effective," its spokesman Martin Rocholl told reporters in Brussels.
The EU made it clear that peaceful protest was anchored in law, and called for "constructive dialogue" between demonstrators and the authorities.
But the tone was tough. Bob Ainsworth, the British home office minister for organised crime, said: "We will not tolerate thuggery as seen in Gothenburg. Violence is not the friend of peaceful protest. It is the enemy. The problem is that legitimate peaceful demonstration is being stifled."
More than 500 demonstrators -dubbed by Tony Blair an "anarchists' travelling circus" - were detained at the Swedish summit.
There were more than 90 injuries and the damage was put at nearly £3m.
The Swedish police were criticised for failing to use teargas or water cannon, provoking demonstrators, and eventually resorting to gunfire.
Mr Ainsworth said there were no British plans to issue travel bans, like those used against football hooligans, but diplomats said the idea could be studied in national capitals.
Contact Details for Bob Ainsworth
People > MPs > Labour > Bob Ainsworth > Contact details
No email address. (Modernist/Technophobe Bob?)
Telephone numbers:
House of Commons Phone number: 020 7219 4047
Constituency Phone number: 024 7622 6707
Constituency Fax number: 024 7622 6707
Addresses:
Constituency
2nd Floor
107 New Union Street
Coventry CV1 2NT
za
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Brave New World
14.07.2001 10:41
Governments across the World are at war with their citizens,
Cyprus
Ireland
England
Papau New Guinea
Zimbabwe
Cincinnati
Jamaica
Indonesia...
etc, etc.
Ann Archy
Organised crime
14.07.2001 17:10
Ask yourself, why are Nigerians forced to live off rubbish tips because Sani Abacha, the former dictator supported by Shell and western governments, plundered their country's wealth and forced it into virtual bankruptcy? Why should western institutions force Nigerians into poverty because their government has to spend money on servicing the debts of a man who oppressed them? Why are western governments not talking about the debt they owe to the Ogoni and others whose land has been polluted by constant oil spills and who were murdered for standing against the system? Why are they pushing Nigeria into civil war and poverty just so their paymasters, the 300 odd people who own half the world's wealth, can plunder Nigeria's natural resources. And Nigeria is just one example - there are scores of other countries that are even worse off, eg Bolivia, Bangladesh, Haiti.
In truth, the US, EU and Japanese governments are the henchmen of an international criminal racket run by multi-national corporations, which has the IMF and IDB as its bailiffs and bully boys and the G8 and WTO as its boardrooms.
We are the upholders of morality, not the fascists that have the world in their grip. We have every right to use everything in our power to destroy capitalism, smash the state and all instruments of oppression: the armies, policemen and paramilitaries who intimidate, maim and murder opponents.
Daniel Brett
e-mail:
dan@danielbrett.co.uk
working on it
15.07.2001 07:57
We all seem to be part of a protest movement .
There are certain set dates, G8 for example, where 'we' will demonstrate. I'm in the music(independent) biz, to me the demo's are live gigs, where the band do their live thing . But there is a whole lot of work going on behind the scenes, like rehearsals and making the album or CD, whatever.
We have to sate our case clearly by gathering together a whole lot of facts and info which demonstrate exactly how a bunch of power crazed criminals are ripping us off and at the same time detroying 'our' planet. Chucking bricks at the cops will do very little to achieve this aim, but i spose it keeps you on the streets.sorry about that one.
Here's what I do . find a dodgy project
find the name of the company, get the details from company's house , then get the names of the directors and run a check on them to see what else they control . you soon find out who the mafia is. Go to the local council and get the plans and all the procedure for granting permission.
check that the procedure has been followed correctly, it is quite normal for the procedures to completely ignored when there is a dodgy working relationship between politix / and industrialists .. they can square each other up in so many ways... who always misses out the ordinary punter.
I have loads of info, I have discovered the mafia selling tuscany villa's to rich dicks in mayfair and that's the least of it . It's a big job , if any of you have a moment or two between bricks, I could do with all the help I can get .
I have found out that corruption is everywhere just depends on how much effort you put into looking for it .
I will be at 'the gig ' next weekend I will also be carrying on studying the criminals who run the world ..
good luck to everyone who goes to Genova LB
sorry about the spelling punctuation , got booted out of school at 15, hahahahahahahaa
GoodWood
e-mail:
goodwood@pussyclat.cum
Well done
15.07.2001 10:56
Agnostic
re argy bargy
15.07.2001 15:00
it's very stimulating ... I should co co..
is worth spending five or ten years behind bars for .
some of the people who go to genova might have prolonged holiday in italy.
I realise that these demo's are the focal point for a fast growing protest movement ...
This demo's alone will not solve our problems,as with all
protest movements and radical political groups, the greens are a v g example,all end up getting hijacked by opportunists who then sell out to the same old gang of crooks .
big talking people on ego trippers must not be allowed to take over.
LB
deadwood
e-mail:
longone@dicksend.nuts