Britain - Awake yet?
Police have finally removed those placards from peace activist Brian Haw at the scene of his five-year vigil outside Parliament.Officers went to Parliament Square in the early hours of Tuesday to deal with alleged breaches of Mr Haw's 'demonstration conditions' (how sinister sounding is that).
"They have left me with just one placard. All of my personal belongings have been taken and dumped in a container along with nearly all the displays.
"They have completely destroyed all the expressions of people who opposed the war in Iraq."
Indeed Brian. Your piss poor demo and anti American drivel might do nothing for me but I’d defend to the death etc and so on and so forth…...even when Cindy Moonbat pays you a visit.
We even get some proper righteous indignation from Liberty ...and some people wrestlng with the police (and ending up looking a bit daft…)Doug Jewell, from the civil rights group: "The government's intolerance has surely reached a fever-pitch when 50 police are sent in to dismantle one man's peaceful protest in the middle of the night."
Yeah well Doug we had 50 or so looking on menacingly and taking our photos with 50 foot zoom lenses and camcorders, at the free speech rally, banning our flags with bogus by-laws...where were you then?
Haw was being mobbed by photographers, cameramen and reporters, including a crew from an Iranian TV station all eager to get a shot of Krusty who couldn’t give a shit about the Kurds. (And who frankly offends me)
A group of supporters had already gathered, including one guy wearing a t-shirt sporting the Hoxton slag's slogan "Bliar", and shouting phrases like "House of Criminals" in the direction of the Palace of Westminster…. Oh, finally, the righteous indignation.
Yep…your basic rights as an individual - to protest, to criticize...to offend….be it politics or religeon....slowly being eroded…to keep us all in check. Awake yet?
So…Could Lord Haw Haw save free speech????
(..dont get too excited - thats a link to the BBC so obviously it isnt the answer...im still working on that)
posted by Alison @ 9:00 pm
5 Comments:
So many things to say, and so much space to say it all in..... But I'll desist from verbiage.... maybe....
All that jazz from Ms. Thatcher was very Uh huh and so forth, considering what a load of crap it was. The reason people are losing faith in their politicians is because all the politicians, apparently without exception, just plain suck. They all are chasing agendas that have absolutely nothing to do with properly running the countries they are supposedly helping to govern, they are either completely corrupt or doing their best to become so, and if Democracy in the world is taking a big crap it's because of these self-serving assholes entirely and NOT because Democracy is new and untried and all that gassy effluent.
Your Brian Haw appears to have found himself a clever way to be fed while homeless, by espousing a cause. Chances are he took a crap on the Parliament steps and was too drunk on cheap wine to remember to wipe it up. Good enough reason for making him move on.
On the surface it does sound as if his freedom of expression was curtailed, but then, just how long is anyone allowed to take up a large area of public space, and how large a space? Looks like he was slowly spreading across the breadth of the front of Parliament. A little common sense would have been a good idea there. None of us should have to tolerate a magpie croaking in our ear for 5 years, regardless of the message. Rather than curtailing this guys freedom of expression, it seems to me that he was given an excessively free rein. 3 days of sign-waving would have been more than adequate, but FIVE YEARS? Good lord...
OK again totally missing the points. Ill come back to you when ive more time. I know it irks you that she's a Brit but at least bother to read it properly before mouthin off about what a load of 'crap' democracy all is which is what you seem to be implying? Cos thats how it works Rasta and thats what we have to work WITH.
I was being sarky on the Brit thing.
You seemed to be implying it is crap and id probably go along with that on a bad day.
Feminists view? Attacking her cos shes a woman. No I didnt think that at all. I dislike most feminists. They are mostly now all morally bankrupt. I admire women who make it to the top in what remains a mans world, on merit.
Did you know Nazanin's case is up for review this week. See all the outraged feminists marching in the streets? All the pro rights women with voices on this issue gathered together for the worlds press. No neither did I.
Re Haw Haw - if the rentamob lot thought they were about to lose their right to demo on Iraq they might actually get behind the issue of free speech? As far as he is concerned Im happy he was scooped off the pavement. I hate that permademo shit. He took the piss. I was also referring to Liberty.
Concerned that I am over the erosion of freedom in Britain I can't help but come to the conclusion that Mr Haw was the victim of his own inflated ego and self-importance so that over the years he has become a parody of himself who provided no serious support for the anti-war movement. He is a self-appointed straw-man and Westminster eye-sore. Sorry, no sympathy.
Guys - i am completely with you - i think the guy is an arse. Nevertheless its interesting to note how much publicity he got along with Liberty attention...my point was that noone cares about free speech until it stops them harpin on about iraq...
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