WHAT WERE YOU DOING, DADDY ...
... WHEN THE WORLD BECAME A FASCIST STATE ...?
'Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.' - John Milton, English poet (1608-1674)
Hello all,
I was passing through Parliament Square in London recently in the heartland of British 'government'. Police were everywhere and I noticed that the now famous line of banners protesting against the Bush/Blair wars of slaughter were gone.
Brian Haw has been protesting there, opposite the Houses of Parliament, since June 2nd, 2001. His campaign started when he saw how hundreds of thousands of children were dying as a direct result of the British and American sanctions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, but after the attacks of 9/11 the protest widened to the whole bogus 'war on terror'. For more than five years he has been there in all weathers and situations and his commitment is incredible. But standing so publicly for peace makes you powerful enemies among the dark suits at the dark heart of government.
Brian Haw ... for five years he has refused to be silenced ...
When I found Brian among a group of supporters and journalists he told me that nearly 80 police officers had marched into the square like Hitler's Brownshirts at around 3 am that morning and taken down all his banners and pictures of dead and suffering children.
Brian has provided a constant reminder of what is really happening in Afghanistan and Iraq and who the real terrorists are. Tony Blair has been trying to remove him from the start and many attempts have been made, all of which had been thwarted. Blair's gofers tried to claim that he was obstructing the pavement (not true) and that his placards were 'illegal advertising'. How desperate their arguments were to stop a man's freedom to protest at mass murder.
The protest against the slaughter of children was removed by police
In May 2004, the police came in the middle of the night and tore down the placards after telling Brian that he had to leave the area because there was a 'suspicious car' parked nearby. It was all an obvious lie and he was arrested and injured when he refused to leave. Once they had forced him to go they moved in to trash his protest. All this coincided with a visit to London by the Chinese Prime Minister with whom Blair was supposed to have talked about 'human rights'. Injustice is not without a sense of irony. After the meeting of monsters had transpired, Brian's broken placards were 'returned'.
I was in London at the time filming with an American team and we captured the before and after scenes when a peaceful protest was destroyed by a violent police imposing the will of the war criminal down the road in Downing Street.
After the policemen called in 'free' Britain ...
A year later, in April 2005, Blair's pathetic poodles in parliament voted for a new law specifically aimed at removing Brian and his protest. It was introduced as part of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. Get that. They were seeking to remove a single peaceful protestor against mass murder through legislation apparently aimed at 'serious organised crime'.
The act bans all protest within one kilometre of parliament without the permission of the police. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner - appointed by the government - has to be given six days notice and he decides if a protest can go ahead and what restrictions are imposed upon it. Loudspeakers are banned, except for those used by police.
Brian took the case to court and he won temporary exemption from the law because the judge said it applied only to protests that started after the legislation was passed. Existing protests were not subject to its restrictions.
But the Blair Home Office, using taxpayers money, of course, so they have limitless funds to deny freedom, won an appeal against the verdict and on May 23rd the police launched the 3 am raid to remove his protest. Yet again his display of words and images exposing the real cost of the war on terror was taken apart by the forces of infamy.
The head of police, Ian Blair, for whom truth is a rare companion, even lied about how much the raid had cost. He said it was £7,000 when the real cost was officially nearly £30,000 and almost certainly far more. If the chief of police is not honest, and the evidence that he isn't is legion, what chance is there for the rest of the force? But then that's the way the structure works. It is a pyramid of lies and deceit from top to bottom with decent, honest, police officers being squeezed out by the week.
Parliament Square, May 23rd, 2006. Freedom of speech under police guard.
What B-liar said in 2002 ...at the time he spoke these words the authorities were already seeking to remove Brian Haw
The story of Brian Haw is in so many ways the story of how basic freedoms have been devastated since the manufactured attacks of September 11th. The scale of destruction is now reaching staggering proportions all over the world and there is more to come unless we unite in mass non-cooperation with the system of control. When you have a 'Serious Organised Crime' Act being used to stop peaceful protest how much further can we sink into the fascist abyss? Once again, think about that. Peaceful protest is now a 'serious organised crime'.
Maya Anne Evans, a 25-year-old vegan cook from Hastings, was arrested and charged with a breach of Section 132 of the Act for reading out the names of soldiers killed in Iraq at the Cenotaph memorial near Downing Street. It was inside the one kilometre protest exclusion zone around parliament and she had not given the London police commissioner six days notice for him to decide if she could protest. Therefore she was guilty under the Serious Organised Crime Act.
Maya Evans: 'I just think it's a shame that you can't voice your freedom of speech in this country any more and it is illegal to hold a remembrance ceremony for the dead.'
We are now seeing in the attitude and response of 'law enforcement' still more confirmation of how deeply the fascism is becoming ingrained in daily life. When I was in Parliament Square with Brian Haw the morning after the raid last month a police chief turned up to hand him a letter. In tow were his underlings in their luminous jackets, including one taking video footage of everyone there (hope he got my good side). The demeanour of the luminous small fry was especially cold and callous.
Law enforcement so often attracts the wrong people because of the power that goes with it. If you are imbalanced enough to seek power over others then law enforcement must look very attractive. You don't have to be intelligent, nor honest, nor fair. You just need to wear the right clothes. Donning a uniform is the ultimate in power-dressing.
The people involved have no power in themselves. When they remove their uniform they remove their power, as they do permanently when they leave the job. Their power resides only in the uniform which, itself, is an extension of the power of the state and the few who dictate events
The uniform, and those inside, are appendages of the State. The dictionary definition of 'appendage' is 'an external body part that projects from the body'. That is what law enforcement officers are in relation to the State