From 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7544475.stm. Read paragraph 2 closely:
"Officers in stab vests and purple latex gloves question and search all visitors. Other police dressed in black coveralls search roadside ditches. Overhead, a police helicopter hovers.
"The sense of paranoia is compounded by the knowledge that on the previous day there had been violent protests on the site - a sheep field about two miles from the power station - which ended in nine arrests.
"That morning police announced that they had found a stash of weapons - including a knife and a "throwing star" in nearby woods - protesters deny involvement."
Please follow BBC complaints process over the said "violent protests" in reference to police being pushed back when they unlawfully invaded the site at 5am. You could also complain that the report is tardy in failing to report the seizure over 12 hours previously of bicycles and destruction of bike locks where police had told protesters to leave them.
Please note also that the BBC complaints process was recently revised to have shorter timescales, of only a few weeks, to elevate the complaint further if you get fobbed off at each stage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7544475.stm. Read paragraph 2 closely: "Officers in stab vests and purple latex gloves question and search all visitors. Other police dressed in black coveralls search roadside ditches. Overhead, a police helicopter hovers.
"The sense of paranoia is compounded by the knowledge that on the previous day there had been violent protests on the site - a sheep field about two miles from the power station - which ended in nine arrests.
"That morning police announced that they had found a stash of weapons - including a knife and a "throwing star" in nearby woods - protesters deny involvement."
Please follow BBC complaints process over the said "violent protests" in reference to police being pushed back when they unlawfully invaded the site at 5am. You could also complain that the report is tardy in failing to report the seizure over 12 hours previously of bicycles and destruction of bike locks where police had told protesters to leave them.
Please note also that the BBC complaints process was recently revised to have shorter timescales, of only a few weeks, to elevate the complaint further if you get fobbed off at each stage.
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moon23
06.08.2008 15:02
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06.08.2008 15:52
So let ye take stock and not be so dismayed.
Yesterday the journalists of the local Kent phylum expressed their amazement and quoted neighbours of the camp on their blog as being equally amazed that the climate camp wasn't making national news. Sure - it was getting to the pages of BBC Kent but not as far as St- Mary Meade or the dark satanic mills of middle on its uppers England. Yet a missing snake story had been counted newsworthy enough for its little bit of fame and infamy. The climate camp is now a story. OK - you're not exactly the type of people who are being held up as role-models for youth, but also it is very unlikely that Ninja mutants from Chatham are going to horde it through your camp un-noticed this side of the weekend. If it's one thing we all know now - it is you don't do oriental weaponry.
I'd be very pleased if I were ye. well done olé! your'e topping thousand on attendence, that's lots of vegan stew, had less than a score of arrests, no weapons found on site - improvised a camp without basic tools and no deaths through misadventure, no tear gas, no tasers, just the incessant buzzzing of a helicopter.
Or is it that you would prefer in depth BBC coverage of the sympathetic variety?
Kill your campaign with love and cuddles?
Now work on your media manipulation & make the weekend a story worthy of being told to the baby hobbits of the future.
nayland smith
BBC diary entry for the 9th
06.08.2008 18:48
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