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Indymedia SUPPORTS police murderers

A | 01.08.2005 12:58

You can protest against anything you want, as long as it doesn't cause awkward ethical questions

In all seriousness, a group of people are trying to organise a demonstration against the continued brutality of the Brazilian police, who MURDERED 1,600 people last year.

And yet when we tried to advertise this on the news wire, alongside a million and one other protests against police brutality in a different country, the message was almost immeadiately removed.

The only obvious explanation of this is that Indymedia SUPPORTS the killing of children such as Jaqueline Duque Patriarcha, aged 13, gunned down by the cops last year.

The Brazillian embassy is at 32 Green Street, W1K 7AT. Marble Arch tube. If you are against state-sanctioned executions by the security forces, come and protest on Wednesday at 12:30pm.

A

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What are you talking about?

01.08.2005 14:22

Your article appears here -- and it is not hidden at all!
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/320092.html

Don't you have enough to fight against? Why are you looking for more enemies?

manos


Not the first time

01.08.2005 14:27

Is not only you, if you post something about abuses of human rights in the middle east it will also be deleted, I mean as long as is not the Americans or the British abusing them. Apparently according to some Indymedia UK censor in Saudi Arabia, Iran or Syria their governments can't abuse human rights and if you say so you are a racist anti-muslim.

This does not happen in othe Indymedias luckily it's only in the UK one.

Unai


WTFRU talking about?

01.08.2005 14:59

what hidden article?

Sean


shitstirers

01.08.2005 15:57

Unai, give some examples (which aren't racist etc) rather than just throwing shit around, otherwise you're just being destructive like the original post.

cauldron


After posting

01.08.2005 16:10

...wait for a while and your article will appear. It's there, as pointed out above. Less coffee perhaps?

@TP


Stupid

01.08.2005 17:07


"Indymedia supports police murder".. thats funny mate, i'm not going to this demo just cos this stupid titlle you give to your comment.... Yes man, less coffi and a bit of pacience!!!!

kacho


Distraction to cover up the illegal murder of Jean Charles de Menezes

01.08.2005 18:10


The writer is trying to distract us from the Blairs murders

I agree that the police murders in Brazil are wrong. Most occur in favela (shantytown) areas where drug dealing and drug addict related crimes are high. Most are of drug dealers and the drug dealers make life hell for honest citizens, and the dealers have weapons. Some favelas are no-go areas. It would probably be better to go through the legal system to get justice, although I have little sympathy for many of the dealers. The no-go favelas are just one part of Brazil, not all favelas are like this, and there are a lot of positive things about Brazil. The legal system in Brazil is actually superior to that in the UK and they have constitutional protections which we don't have in the UK.

We have few protections here in the UK, and now Tony Blair and Ian Blair have said it's alright to shoot to kill any of us. Their excuse, it could have been a terrorist, but it wasn’t and they’re always trying to scare monger the British public as a distraction and to increase the power of the Government, and they are behaving like state terrorists.

The facts show that Jean Charles de Menezes did nothing wrong and did not behave suspiciously or illegally, it could be you next. He was shot a point blank, had already been immobilized and was an innocent victim. The facts have come out now that Blair’s henchmen lied and lied and lied. I believe there's still a cover-up about the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes.

Blair keeps eroding our freedoms and civil liberties, now he's saying the state can do what they want with us. He started an illegal war in Iraq, unapproved by the United Nations, and for oil money. Saddam needed to go, but Tony Blair could have removed Saddam through negotiation, and avoided all the Blair ally war crimes such as Abu Ghraib. Blair has created a climate of terrorism and fear in the UK.

I THINK THE WRITER WHO ASKS US TO PROTEST OUTSIDE THE BRAZILIAN EMBASSY IS USING THIS AS A CALLOUS DISTRACTION FROM THE COLD BLOODED, ILLEGAL MURDER OF JEAN CHARLES DE MENEZES AN INNOCENT, A HARD WORKING, BRAZILIAN NATIONAL, WHO WAS A GOOD FAMILY MAN. He even supported his family financially back home. The writer failed to mention his murder, and the constant changes in the Government and police's story, and that they haven’t told the truth.

It would be better to focus on protesting against the Blair Labour Government state sanctioned murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. Also protest about the fact that they have said this policy will continue.

I am tired of the dictatorship, big brother, nanny state, new world order Blair Labour Government. Charles Clarke seems to have been hiding from the media recently and avoided discussing the real issues and hyping fear among us, and when he speaks we hear an arrogant dictator as we do with many of the Labour Party front bench. Jean Charles de Menezes murderers must be brought to justice. The Government and media have kept quiet about who the murderers are. Are they British police, or are they keeping quiet because the murderers might be foreign or foreign-trained (MOSAD / CIA ) secret service agents. We need to know who murdered de Menezes, and the Government have kept the media silent about this. Only when the murderer(s) and Tony Blair, are made accountable and we have justice for innocent Jean should you consider protesting about what is happening in Brazil. Tony Blair should resign for this and other policies.  http://www.impeachblair.org . The writer is trying to slur the Brazilian Government because they have defended their innocent citizen. The writer should be pointing the finger at Tony Blair’s authoritarian Government where murder of civilians is sanctioned.

Please don’t be fooled by distractions especially this one, in Brazil killings by Government workers are illegal. Here in the UK now, Blair’s New Labour Government have said shoot to kill by the civilian police is now policy here in the UK and is legal. www.mikeypowell-campaign.org.uk/ Blair didn’t care about the thousands of deaths of innocent civilians in Iraq, and has said that another innocent Jean Charles de Menezes could die, because he still wants policies where other innocents can die. Tony Blair is doing to Britain in terms of taking away most basic civil liberties and human rights that we should expect in a democracy, and introducing a dictator state.

These sites might give you an idea of what’s really going on
www.no2id.net www.pledgebank.com/resist www.bushflash.com/brits.html  http://fightbackuk.blogspot.com/ www.amnesty.org.uk



I urge you to instead join the Menezes family in getting justice for Jean Charles de Menezes through the Menezes Family Campaign
PO Box 273, London E7 07956 210332 / 07931 337890
 Justice4jean@hotmail.co.uk


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