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UK No Borders Actvists Stopped and Searched at Border

Last Hours | 23.06.2009 14:23 | Migration | Repression

No Borders activists on their way to the Calais No Borders Camp where stopped before boarding their ferry by British Border control at Dover.

They where stopped under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act and made to miss their ferry.

Though they where stopped under the terrorism act, police only took details and tested diesel - no search was made.

They are now on another ferry on their way to the camp.

Stay up to date with what is happening at the camp at  http://www.lasthours.org.uk and  http://twitter.com/noborderswales

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- Homepage: http://www.lasthours.org.uk

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Crap bastards

23.06.2009 17:52

Looking forward to being threatened by knive-wielding Kurds/getting your wallets, i-pods etc nicked by your "migrant" friends? Don't say you didn't read it here first. But then again, they do say that property is theft.

Muppetwatch


muppet muppet

23.06.2009 19:37

You are a muppet, and what's worst you are a racist. Most wallets and i-pods get stolen by British thiefs. Get your statistics right. Most people who come to Britain have to leave their homelands because the real thiefs, that is the colonial powers such as Britain have stolen everything from their country: get real, read your own history and enlighten your ignorant self.

camper


Solidarity!

23.06.2009 21:43

Best wishes to all the No Borders people heading over in support and solidarity with all our sisters and brothers sleeping rough at Calais. x

anon


I'm with Muppet

24.06.2009 09:55

You're wrong Muppet, all the liddel middle class bwoys and gals would, of course, leave their ipods and mobile phones back at home to show solidarity with the migrants. (or their parents would have gone through their rucksacks the night before to secretly remove said valuable items!)

These annoying kids are typical teenage lefties playing at radical politics before they settle down and get a well paid job.

Tallskin
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Judicial Review

24.06.2009 10:25

This tactic has been used a lot against UK animal rights activists. The police have a few hours where they can hold you without seeing a lawyer and in theory you don't have the right to remain silent. However, as they know they are being illegal, no one ever talks to them and they can't do anything about it. The police always release before the no-lawyer time limit expires.

I would suggest the best thing to do is everyone who encounters this illegal use of the law should document it, and go for a judicial review.

Roger Smith


HI muppetwatch im in calais

24.06.2009 15:44

I have taken a week off work so that I can be in a field in Calais with people who are being brutalized by the system of borders that “muppetwatch” and his friends on the force so love. I am a parent and I am shocked that there are children here risking their lives so that they they too can get the opportunity of owning an I pod. I am writing this on an expensive computer that is not under lock and key, as it would have to be in kind of Britain I suspect “muppetwatch” is fond of, a Britain that relies on cops to offer protection whilst all they can give is brutality.

I going to be brief because I cant spend all day lounging on the Internet like “muppetwatch” I need to go and engage in the grown up politics of the real world, I.e highlighting the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding 20 miles from the shore of Britain, the only rational response to which is opening the border!

PS the people from the minibus arrived here safely
PPS I believe more detailed UK IMC reports are to come as the Internet has only recently been connected here,

Kermit the frog