Police facilitates ESF-meeting?!
transmitter | 16.08.2004 18:41 | European Social Forum | London
Just talked a friend who went to an ESF meeting tonight at the Granbanks Social Center. He says there are 2 police vans, 2 foto units and about a dozen of cops hanging out in front of the Social Center, taking pictures of everyone. Asked why they were there, and why they were taking pictures of people, and wether this might be a strategy of intimidation, a police sergeant replied: "We are here to make sure you are having a save meeting, we are here to facilitate your meeting."
Thank you, cops!
Thank you, cops!
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Red Kens lackeys
16.08.2004 19:39
Tiptop
Embaressed For You
16.08.2004 20:21
The European Social Forum is embaressing. Are you Londoners ashamed of yourselves for letting corporate and hierarchical power brokers take over the organising of it? I think there should be a complete boycott of the ESF. It has been stolen from right under your noses and you get no credit for it whatsover. It has turned into a Labor Party event starring Ken Livingston. Ken is a member of Blair's Labor Party which is a supporter of the US "War President".
What a fucking hoax! Sort it out London and start promoting the alternate events ASA!
Not A Londoner
Clarification
16.08.2004 20:32
spanner
What about my knitting meeting?
16.08.2004 20:34
Ooh aren't they nice those boys in blue. Just think, they are so overstretched and can't cope with all these young hooligans running around the streets, and crack dealings become such a problem in parts of London, but at least they've got time to take a few snap shots.
I wish they'd come to my local knitting club and photograph us and protect us from thoe vicious anti-knitting hoodlums who bother us!
Miss Point
You guys are so funny!
16.08.2004 22:16
"The SWP and Ken Livingston are in league with the cops!!!!!"
Turns out it is an "alternative" meeting and of course then it's
"These evil bootboys must have been called by the KLSWP front!!!"
Keep up the good work chaps, lets not let facts get in the way of a satisfying sectarian rant.
Sonic
Not home
17.08.2004 08:47
Spanner, The www.altspaces.net site you sent me to is broken.
Sonic, I can't see anything Sectarian on this thread. you're just a trouble maker.
Not A Londoner
ESF sherief
17.08.2004 15:07
jerome
ESF sherief
17.08.2004 15:08
Wanker!
jerome
state repression
17.08.2004 16:33
Also I've seen computer printouts showing that resources including CCTV, remote eavesdropping, heat cameras and surveillance satellites have been tasked to track the movements of all participants.
The Office of Threat Monitoring (part of MI6) have categorised the anti-ESF and the horizontals as "the single most immediate and serious threat to security in the capital".
asif umupitz
sigh
18.08.2004 17:37
"The SWP sucks the life out of the movement"
"The SWP are as bad as fascists"
"The SWP are authoritarian 'Trots'"
"The SWP are in secret talks with the police to kill all autonomists"
Wait...you have already written the last one...
SWPer
I was joking!
19.08.2004 09:03
(try saying my name out loud)
asif umupitz
smile
22.08.2004 22:51
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