Protest against Sussex Police dispersal order and curfew
Worthing Freedom Campaign | 01.06.2012 09:59 | South Coast
A PROTEST has been called for outside Worthing's town centre police station on Saturday June 9 in protest at a controversial Section 30 imposed on the town for the whole of the summer.
This will be at 12 noon outside the cop shop in Chatsworth Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1LY.
Anyone who cares about freedom, wherever they live, is invited to attend as this could be a worrying sign of things to come for the whole country.
A new Worthing Freedom Campaign has been set up after the issue was highlighted by The Porkbolter, the town's long-running radical newsletter.
On its blog it condemns what it calls "an outrageous attack on our freedom launched by Sussex Police in collaboration with Worthing Borough Council."
It says: "They have imposed on us the type of draconian legislation that would normally be deployed by a dictatorship trying to put down a revolution!
"The sinister Section 30 Dispersal Order came into place on Friday June 1 and will last the whole summer, until August 31. It means police have the power to “disperse” groups of two or more people - even if you have done nothing wrong! The cops just have to claim it is “likely” your presence may upset someone - this gives free rein to the worst kind of police bullying and intimidation.
"And the order includes a 9pm curfew for anyone under 16, whom the police can take home if they find them out without their parents. If you ignore the order - no matter how unfair it is - you can be jailed for three months or fined £2,500.
"No justification for this nazi-style approach to policing has been produced.
"The police have said it is about protecting businesses and the council say it is about ‘the Jubilee and Olympic festivities’. This is not good enough!
"We don’t need this fascist law in Worthing. This is a town not a prison camp!
"We are all innocent unless proven guilty - if someone commits a crime, then the police can prosecute them.
"Join us in our call for this disgraceful and unnecessary police-state order to be withdrawn immediately!"
More details can be found at
http://worthingfreedom.blogspot.co.uk/
and at
http://www.eco-action.org/porkbolter/hogblog.html
Anyone who cares about freedom, wherever they live, is invited to attend as this could be a worrying sign of things to come for the whole country.
A new Worthing Freedom Campaign has been set up after the issue was highlighted by The Porkbolter, the town's long-running radical newsletter.
On its blog it condemns what it calls "an outrageous attack on our freedom launched by Sussex Police in collaboration with Worthing Borough Council."
It says: "They have imposed on us the type of draconian legislation that would normally be deployed by a dictatorship trying to put down a revolution!
"The sinister Section 30 Dispersal Order came into place on Friday June 1 and will last the whole summer, until August 31. It means police have the power to “disperse” groups of two or more people - even if you have done nothing wrong! The cops just have to claim it is “likely” your presence may upset someone - this gives free rein to the worst kind of police bullying and intimidation.
"And the order includes a 9pm curfew for anyone under 16, whom the police can take home if they find them out without their parents. If you ignore the order - no matter how unfair it is - you can be jailed for three months or fined £2,500.
"No justification for this nazi-style approach to policing has been produced.
"The police have said it is about protecting businesses and the council say it is about ‘the Jubilee and Olympic festivities’. This is not good enough!
"We don’t need this fascist law in Worthing. This is a town not a prison camp!
"We are all innocent unless proven guilty - if someone commits a crime, then the police can prosecute them.
"Join us in our call for this disgraceful and unnecessary police-state order to be withdrawn immediately!"
More details can be found at

and at

Worthing Freedom Campaign
Homepage:
http://worthingfreedom.blogspot.co.uk/
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New logo for Sussex Police
01.06.2012 10:17
WFC
new logo
01.06.2012 11:07
yawn
Fuck off troll!
01.06.2012 11:59
WFC
For "WFC"
01.06.2012 12:04
Yawn
I stopped reading
01.06.2012 16:50
Utter shite. Try harder
Not my style fuck off
bad taste
01.06.2012 22:14
Is this related to Godwin's Law?
Nazis were nazis. Stop cheapening the deal you sewer rat.
SmashEDO are nazis - there you go...... what are you going to do about that?
the people
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