The filth are living up to their various names by being total dicks as usual and confiscating (stealing is probably more a accurate term) various items from people attending camp. You might of heard about the raid on the camp yesterday where police took away items such as board games and crayons, along with attempting to deprive the camp of essential materials such as plumbing and construction timber. However, even before the raid the filth were stealing stuff from those arriving.
Some messages from people who have arrived give a flavor of what to leave at home or stash on route...
Cyclists are warned that the police will steal their bike locks. Make sure you insist on receipts for anything they take, along with full documentation of the search and reasons for it. If the police do take your lock and your bike ends up being stolen on the way home, do remember to sue the f**kers. Forewarned, you may as well find a place to lock up your bike locks out of sight a couple of miles from the camp or you'll probably not see them again.
"Took us 10 hours to climate camp. Bike route 1 very bendy and narrow, mostly sharing with pedestrians, often disappearing, very badly sign posted. gravel with big stones and gates to stop cars are very difficult to pass with bike, impossible to pass with panniers unless with help, slowly and none by one, impossible to pass a trailer. Gravel and stones fuck wheels. In the end we had to use main roads, 'use lights'. Got stop/searched and confiscated all our D-locks, no return. Locals usually helpful but avoid pubs."
Police are also stealing tools which is going to make setting up pretty difficult. Don't bring what wont be needed and if having read this article you think something you will need will be confiscated then hide it well.
One person sorting out electrics and comms on site said, "Cops searched us and took snips, knives and crimper's off me. Need some more crimpers". Looks like we'll be stripping wires with our teeth and using nut crackers to crimp connections.
According to the camp media team's press release this morning, at least some two way radios have be taken by police. They also seem to have a thing about marker pens and even childrens crayons. Legal observers also noted that vans being searched lost items such as inflatable toys and duct tape.
Some of this might seem pretty random (and certainly illegal).They are clearly going way beyond the remit of articles that could be used to cause criminal damage when taking walkie talkies, water pipes, construction wood, and board games but the cops are basically taking things that might vaguely be used in any form of action be it lock-ons, raft making, graffiti, cutting fences or hijacking aircraft armed only with a crimping tool.
Cyclists are warned that the police will steal their bike locks. Make sure you insist on receipts for anything they take, along with full documentation of the search and reasons for it. If the police do take your lock and your bike ends up being stolen on the way home, do remember to sue the f**kers. Forewarned, you may as well find a place to lock up your bike locks out of sight a couple of miles from the camp or you'll probably not see them again.
"Took us 10 hours to climate camp. Bike route 1 very bendy and narrow, mostly sharing with pedestrians, often disappearing, very badly sign posted. gravel with big stones and gates to stop cars are very difficult to pass with bike, impossible to pass with panniers unless with help, slowly and none by one, impossible to pass a trailer. Gravel and stones fuck wheels. In the end we had to use main roads, 'use lights'. Got stop/searched and confiscated all our D-locks, no return. Locals usually helpful but avoid pubs."
Police are also stealing tools which is going to make setting up pretty difficult. Don't bring what wont be needed and if having read this article you think something you will need will be confiscated then hide it well.
One person sorting out electrics and comms on site said, "Cops searched us and took snips, knives and crimper's off me. Need some more crimpers". Looks like we'll be stripping wires with our teeth and using nut crackers to crimp connections.
According to the camp media team's press release this morning, at least some two way radios have be taken by police. They also seem to have a thing about marker pens and even childrens crayons. Legal observers also noted that vans being searched lost items such as inflatable toys and duct tape.
Some of this might seem pretty random (and certainly illegal).They are clearly going way beyond the remit of articles that could be used to cause criminal damage when taking walkie talkies, water pipes, construction wood, and board games but the cops are basically taking things that might vaguely be used in any form of action be it lock-ons, raft making, graffiti, cutting fences or hijacking aircraft armed only with a crimping tool.
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Be nice,do list/photo/receipt before going thru lines&keep copies somewhere safe
01.08.2008 11:17
Jeez, how bad does it have to get?, climate change is a emergency bigger than Alqueada, even the US pentagon agree. Hopefully free range SBS-SEALS wont have to be sent.
All this & more is being said down the pub & clubs up & down the country
JohnnyJamesDex
Sod stolid more coal not dole moaners, what about wind not dole, sun not dole, g
01.08.2008 11:18
talk about silly,shouldnt they be chasing murderers & paedophiles, in fact shouldnt they be helping us stop Kingsnorth?, shame on so called "defenders of law". What do people pay taxes for, these companies are already robbing enough from people & most wont pay good people for proper sustainable work. Sod stolid more coal not dole moaners, what about wind not dole, sun not dole, geothermal not dole, good work not dole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Clean coal"is inefficient&doesnt work yet, we need more renewables now!!
Jeez, how bad does it have to get?, climate change is a emergency bigger than Alqueada, even the US pentagon agree. Hopefully free range SBS-SEALS wont have to be sent.
All this & more is being said down the pub & clubs up & down the country
JohnnyJamesDex
How about setting up a left luggage store?
01.08.2008 11:37
Bicycles could also be secured at the camp by long cables secured with a padlock with people taking it in turns to superive them. People leaving their bicycles could then be issued with a ticket for when they got to collect their bike again.
poster
The REAL Criminals
01.08.2008 14:14
They have nothing to do with catching criminals but are out doing them with their misdeeds. There are more honest people in prison now.
When approached by one of the uniformed crooks, say the magic word, "Freemason" and watch him. Say, "bent Freemason, or "Fucking Freemason" and you can be sure of a result, no doubt you will be arrested!
Police are all out for enforcing masonic vendattas and I speak from experience here.
The rules state that if they take anything from you they have to give a receipt. They usually find an excuse not to, even that they don't have any paper to write on (no notebook really officer?). Take numbers and names and complain vigorously. Demand a full investigation they don't like that as it means work for them.
Don't be humble be obnoxious.
Jolly Roger
you can strip little wires with a nail-clippers.
02.08.2008 14:58
improvising imp.
need to stop the searches
05.08.2008 01:29
It is getting to the levels of the absurd when things like board games, crayons and water pipes are being stolen. But basically, police should not be so much as laying a finger on a protester or their possessions. It's a human rights violation, it's intimidation and it's an obvious provocation.
At the moment, police get away with almost anything - the result is the kind of totalitarian regime we have today, where people can't walk the streets without fear of police abuse, and the simple act of holding a protest is criminalised in advance. If they get away with it without bearing a cost, they will just keep on and on. At the moment they bear too little cost. What can't be done on the day and on the spot, can be done later - but it's important that it be made clear that it is in response to repression.
PS. Repression does not actually deter people from hating and acting against the state. But it does keep people away from specific events. I know for a fact that there are people absent from Climate Camp not so much out of fear, as because they know they would lose it completely if they were treated in the dehumanising way which is now so typical here. This basically means denial of the right to protest - only those who are able to be sufficiently deferential in the face of police abuse are allowed to protest.
annoyed