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Don’t be on a database « Netpol

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Netpol have today launched a campaign to limit the gathering of data by the police on political protest. The campaign, don’t be on a database, encourages protesters to assert their legal rights to keep their personal details private. The campaign includes a series of posters and flyers with the words, ‘Your name and address is none of their business’.

Netpol has observed and reported countless incidents in which the police have tried to obtain names and addresses of protesters, often with some form of coercion. In a number of cases the police have used the threat of arrest to obtain details from protesters who had committed no criminal offence, and made unjustified allegations that people had engaged in ‘anti-social behaviour’.

The police have powers to demand personal data only in very limited situations, such as when they believe a person has committed a criminal offence, or if they are driving a vehicle. In the vast majority of instances, the police have no power to demand this information – yet they routinely do.

more here Don’t be on a database « Netpol.

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PressTV – Police ignited British unrest

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Amid the worsening and spreading unrest throughout Britain, an analyst says the incident was sparked by police forces that were heavily armed.

The whole incident was “sparked by the police carrying fire arms” that they never used to carry in the past across Britain, said Ian Williams, of Foreign Policy in Focus, in a Wednesday interview with Press TV.

“The fact that they had the fire arms and they were prepared to use them, in very dubious circumstances, shows the reduction in the civility of British life over the last few decades,” he underlined. Continue reading →

Police to use bullets that ‘petal’ for more impact

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Bullets similar to illegal dum-dum ammunition and designed to cause catastrophic injury are to be used as standard by police marksmen in London. Senior officers at the Metropolitan Police have selected the bullet because it is better at incapacitating a target and is less likely to pass through the body to hit someone else.

The bullet is similar those used to kill Jean Charles de Menezes, the 27-year-old Brazilian man shot by police who mistook him for a terrorist at Stockwell Tube station in July 2005.

more @  The Independent

 

“One advantage of the bullet, said police, is that it does not fragment so medics can retrieve it in one piece. But the injuries are often so devastating the target is unlikely to live.”

If you’re a REAL TERRORIST then GOOD, if not you’re screwed BIG TIME!  Good or bad? You decide…

 

 

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UK Police Tells Public To Report Anti-Government Beliefs As Terrorism

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300px-London_Polizei-EinsatzThe London Metropolitan Police is encouraging businesses and the general public to immediately report anyone who holds anti-government political beliefs to the authorities as terrorists, calling on people to become volunteer informants as the state prepares for widespread social unrest.

“This was the surprising injunction from the Metropolitan Police issued to businesses and members of the public in Westminster last week,” reports the London Guardian. “There was no warning about other political groups, but next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police’s “counter terrorist focus desk” called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: “Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police.”

Full report by Paul Joseph Watson  click here
Infowars.com
Monday, August 1, 2011

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