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Protest against police brutality — Wednesday 3 August, 12:30pm

A | 01.08.2005 12:20 | London

Brazillian embassy, 32 Green Street, W1K 7AT — Marble Arch tube

Demonstrate against continued brutality by killer cops in Brazil, where the police shot dead 1,600 people last year including Jaqueline Duque Patriarcha, a 13-year-old girl murdered because she was caught using drugs.

This slaughter has to end, and it's time to send that message to the government of Brazil

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

01.08.2005 16:24

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. 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 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.

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

protester

This is a distraction and cover up for the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes

01.08.2005 16:50

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.

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

protester

light bulbs

02.08.2005 22:37

Hey, I've got an idea - how about supporting both protests!

Sean

Another distractor, sean is dim

03.08.2005 01:17

Stupid idea sean. Don't think people are that gullible. Stop trying to take attention away from what’s going on here in the UK. You’ve insulted the memory of Jean Charles de Menezes. If Tony Blair gets away with his criminal policing policies it will only get worse here. Clarke, Blears and Blair are ruining police community relations, especially through racial profiling which affects ethnic minorities more than white people. Blair's government are making out they are protecting us, when really what they're doing is getting the police to stop people with darker skin. This is racial harrassment. So we have shoot and kill approved by Blair and his cabinet and now we have racial harrassment, nothing new in Labour's crap policies. Stopping innocent people who aren't doing anything wrong, what other injustices does that remind you of? And it just creates problems. Blair obviously wants a police state and a new world order by dividing us through "divide and rule".

not an idiot like sean

1600 people killed by brazillian police in 2004

19.08.2005 12:28

I am not trying to distract attention from the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, and I hope his family obtain justice and peace.
However, the British Police should not be subject to interrogation by officials from Brazil, where last year over 1600 people were murdered by the police force.
The Brazilian police are subject to numerous critical reports by Human Rights groups like Amnesty International.
It is misleading to say that these people are all drug dealers who live in shanty towns (as if that somehow makes it OK). Recently a demonstration against police brutality in Brazil was broken up by the police who murdered 30 people in the process.
I am not saying that the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes was right, nor that his family should not seek appropriate legal redress. I am simply pointing out that the British police have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to learn from one of the most corrupt and brutal police forces in the world, and that it is the Brazilian officials who are trying to distract the attention of the Brazilian population from their own appalling police record, by concentrating on a rare and isolated incident half way around the world.

Frank

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