Romford cops disregard for law exposed in mainstream media
Bo Peep | 02.07.2010 10:58 | Culture | Other Press | Repression
The reasons these Romford cops use against the teen freelance photographer, Jules Mattsson, to stop him from photographing a parade of police cadets keeps shifting from "photography of children", to "obstruction", to "terrorism" and even a bit of "antisocial behaviour" for good measure.
Read the article and watch the vid.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/officers-claim-they-dont-need-law-to-stop-photographer-taking-pictures-2012827.html
Wonder how Ms May will care to respond to this, in this new era of the bonfire of the anti-civil liberties from nuLab? If these cops do this on the street at a public parade, perhaps the mainstream can now begin to see who tends to throw whose weight around at protests ... despite the bad press the protestors get, the public may now be coming around to see that the cops are generally thugs in public order situations, using any old justification (and sometimes none at all) to push onto the general public participating in an allegedly democratic and free society. There should be clarity on this issue: we are either within our rights to protest, to photograph, to participate in public life, or we are not - and we will then have to see about our responses. Those who make the laws need to reign in those who (claim to) enforce them - dogs that bite get put down.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/officers-claim-they-dont-need-law-to-stop-photographer-taking-pictures-2012827.html Wonder how Ms May will care to respond to this, in this new era of the bonfire of the anti-civil liberties from nuLab? If these cops do this on the street at a public parade, perhaps the mainstream can now begin to see who tends to throw whose weight around at protests ... despite the bad press the protestors get, the public may now be coming around to see that the cops are generally thugs in public order situations, using any old justification (and sometimes none at all) to push onto the general public participating in an allegedly democratic and free society. There should be clarity on this issue: we are either within our rights to protest, to photograph, to participate in public life, or we are not - and we will then have to see about our responses. Those who make the laws need to reign in those who (claim to) enforce them - dogs that bite get put down.
Bo Peep
