Pro Hunt Protestors Attacked By Police, Parliament Suspended
oops | 15.09.2004 16:34 | Animal Liberation | Repression | London
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pics from media coverage
15.09.2004 16:51
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?c=news_photos&p=fox
info
still kicking off 5.55pm
15.09.2004 17:04
update
Fuck the CA
15.09.2004 17:06
I give the CA there dues they have done a good job at disruption.
But come on 10-20 000 isent big even as much as 30 000 or 50 000 isent big
100-200 000 is getting there when you're in London.the CA demo is just a binch of blood thirsty wankers.
but then look at what diference a small group of animal rights protesters could do or anti-capitalist or any cause for that matter.
We could do better than this for something good not the right to kill defenceless animals.
Angry lady
traffic cam offline - well there's a surprise!
15.09.2004 17:08
camera for parliament square has been offline - now there's a surprise!
eye in the sky
Fuck the CA
15.09.2004 17:08
I give the CA there dues they have done a good job at disruption.
But come on 10-20 000 isent big even as much as 30 000 or 50 000 isent big
100-200 000 is getting there when you're in London.the CA demo is just a binch of blood thirsty wankers.
but then look at what diference a small group of animal rights protesters could do or anti-capitalist or any cause for that matter.
We could do better than this for something good not the right to kill defenceless animals.
Angry lady
BBC coverage
15.09.2004 17:09
Mac Flurry
more pics
15.09.2004 17:09
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?ei=ISO-8859-1&c=news_photos&p=hunting
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BBC 6pm news
15.09.2004 17:18
hmmm
mmm id rather not fuck em not my style...........
15.09.2004 17:25
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anarchkit
anarchkit
re anarchkit
15.09.2004 17:29
correction
opps sorry correction
15.09.2004 17:33
anarchkit
ps. some humor
15.09.2004 17:59
thanks today program for that.
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anarchkit
anarhckit ........ agian
re anarchkit
15.09.2004 18:03
wot, the cardiff anarchists?
but seriously, will be ineresting to see the coverage in tomorrows papers. The tv is all security breach will change our democracy for ever stuff.
not a posh nob
cardif anarchists sounds good can i join?
15.09.2004 18:12
stop hunting with dogs.
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anarchkit
anarhckit
HA HA HA
15.09.2004 18:55
I JUST WANTED TO BE UP BIG BEN CHEERING BOTH SIDES INDISCRIMINATLEY
A PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES
SAB 'EM ALL
Good for the CA
15.09.2004 19:06
2. It surprises me that more people aren't supporting the right of CA to demonstrate without being attacked by the police.
3. Good for the CA for getting people into the chamber and for not taking crap from the police.
4. I know many anarchists are vegan/vegetarian etc, but I don't see why they're so keen to have the government interfere in what is after all a personal decision. The health/welfare of the number of animals affected is far less than if there were some meaningful action by the government on regulating the conditions of animals raised for food-production. Backing the government in coercive and interfering measures on a matter like this is not something anarchists should be doing: by all means hunt-sab, protest and argue, but don't go helping out a repressive government.
an anarchist
e-mail: noemail@noplace.net
Enemy against enemy
15.09.2004 19:06
JustHowWeLikeIt!
imagine if an animal rights demo had kicked off like that!
15.09.2004 19:08
oob
"and now you are blooded"
15.09.2004 19:16
There were 300 of them. He made an appeal to fight blair's proposed anti-Hunt legislation, and vowed to use new technology to channel the energy of myriad groups.
By which he meant to use the internet.
he went on to make reference to RTS! 1999-
"That nasty little riot in the City of London some months ago showed us all the organising potential in what can now be done. That was for a bad purpose. The alliance will realise that potential for a good purpose."
he warned Blair that that government plans to ban foxhunting had "lit the fuse" and provoked it into action.
Almost five years later, of all the fuses lit in 1999, that of the CA seems to still burn brightest. And it is indicitive of how prejudiced have been authorities, democratic institutions, police forces and the whole "law and order" brigade have been in so selectivly focussing their not paltry attentions on Social, Libertarian and Ecological protest and pressure groupings who used the internet in 1999 and use the internet in 2004 and more than once reclaimed Westminster Square and more than once have been made the senseless and arbitrary object of the policeman's baton.
I have today looked through the archives of an organisation, with paramilitary assocation, access to firearms, which threatens to undermine the armed forces of the UK, which has secretly planned and carried through multiple attacks on the democratic institutions so beloved of the Englishman and Englishwoman since the restoration of fox hunting to legality by Charles Stuart the 2nd after Cromwell's military dictatorship had proscribed such sports as immoral gaming.
I have seen an orchestrated campaign which has brought hundreds of thousands of trouble seekers onto the streets of Britain, the evidence is there in the archives of their site.
Never once have they desisted from using language is not only violent in intent, but sinister in motive.
This morning's photos show masked protesters "dressed as wild animals", as surely they have proved themselves capable to act.
It is past time, that these reactionary and anti-State forces were seen for what they are, and who they are.
Arrest every single one.
Send them to Guantamano.
You will have my blessing Tony Blair
Wankah Wankah! that you are.
the merrovinginvanjan
some clarification
15.09.2004 19:31
fuck them. they don't represent me any more than Blair represents the homeless on the streets of our cities.
another thing, the CA also draws in a lot of otherwise sound-minded people as they see it as the only organisation that gives a single fuck about the appalling breakdown of life in rural communities, with post offices closing, employment moving into the cities, and the aforesaid upper and middle classes pushing up the rent by using the "countryside" (let's do away with the distinction between country and town. people are people. and OUR LAND is OUR FUCKING LAND) as their holiday home.
Where i'm from (caithness, far north scotland) you have to travel over 50 miles to see a (NHS) dentist, who is awfy overbooked with people from this county, the next nearest being in inverness 120 miles away. There is talk of closing the maternity ward in Wick hospital, meaning that if you're about to drop a baby round here you'd better have a midwife handy if you don't wanna have to take a trip to inverness. christ knows how people in the west'd cope, they've got it bad enough as it is.
However, we are lucky with the bus service round here. the last bus out of thurso leaves at 5:30pm. as this happens to be my drinking day (well, my get-proper-smashed day) i'm sitting at my parent's places drinking Special Brew (tm) cause i didn't feel like walking 12 miles home. last time i tried going out for a drink of a night i woke up in a ditch halfway between here and there. then still had to walk 5 miles shivering. but that's just me i guess, can't blame capitalism for my drunken behaviour i suppose.
yeah, this is turning into a rant, but a lot fo these people ARE NOT NAZI SCUM. You might have had unpleasent encounters with hunt supporters, and i'll tell you that i had a fucking awful time in london, but that did not cause me to label all londoners as cold, inhuman beasts with no care for their fellow man. My point is that there are a great deal of concerns people outside of the metropolises have, which are not being addressed by any major party, NGO or campaign group apart from the CA (who only pay lip-service to them, their main concern being the aristocracy's ancient right to ride roughshod, literally, over their lessers).
let's put it this way. Trotsky was a mass-murdering bastard (my opinion, not intended to start an anarcho-trot flame war), that does not make all trotskyists mass-murdering bastard.
finally, the CA encourage the polarisation of town/country. much like black/white, straight/gay and so on. in truth these are on and the same and neither exists truthfully. a town can have many parks, allotments, wilderness ground, trees and so on. the countryside can also, likewise be a barren, lifeless wilderness with barely a living thing growing. see though the subconcious core of their lies. they would set us against each other. they fooled those who turned up at the pro-hunt demo (think how many would turnm up to london mass demos if the anti-war movement could afford to rent a nationwide fleet of buses, the CA practically pay people to go to these demos), they didn't fool the majority of us.
AND DON'T LET THEM FOOL YOU!
-a
not a townie
animal 'rights' and banning stuff
15.09.2004 19:45
One good thing at least when they're putting their energies into fighting the police and fucking up the M25 they're not marauding around the countryiside knocking hedges down and killing cats (instead of foxes) from the odd council house that still remains in the country. But I have some doubts about all this crap regarding the 'best thing Blair has done'.
sab
Thesesare humans (some of them!)
15.09.2004 21:46
dh
What about the fox?
15.09.2004 21:54
These violent filth have murdered two saboteurs in the past and walked away scot free without charge and hospitalised dozens of others.
They know how many paracetamols to take to overdose ...
Shenanigan
all animals are innocent (perhaps)
15.09.2004 22:41
is it just that you can think of animals as being all cute and innocent whilst people seem a lot more complicated?
so people who kill animals are scum and animals are somehow intrinsically good, despite the fact they don't always kill purely for food, in fact my cat is positively entertained by a baby sparrow in its death throes. But of course we maybe 'moral', which means we might/should know better, but hey that means we might also be more interesting, complicated and difficult to deal with. So stick with animals because they're just acting 'natural'. Bit like the in-bred idiots with fuck all other than wandering around blowing stupid horns and killing stuff to entertain them.
dave
Hunters show their true colours
16.09.2004 00:15
Respect to all those over the last 80 years who have fought this campaign. We're nearly there.
Rubarb Rupert
Parliamentary Editor, PA News on that "terror" word
16.09.2004 01:33
By Trevor Mason, Parliamentary Editor, PA News
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3501018
A Labour MP today accused pro-hunt supporters of trying to “terrorise” his family last night.
Phil Sawford (Kettering) claimed masked activists had arrived outside his home with sacks of manure.
But they left when police arrived on the scene and before any criminal act had been committed.
In debate on the Hunting Bill, Mr Sawford said: “I was concerned to learn this morning that people carrying masks were outside my home last night, in a vehicle which apparently contained some sacks of manure.
“Their intent was perhaps some kind of illegal or criminal act around my home. But apparently they saw some police cars and left, which is not surprising since I live two doors from a police station.”
He told MPs: “I was surprised to learn that the local media had colluded in this disgraceful attempt to harass and intimidate my family.
“I was even more concerned to learn from a local reporter that initially they had got the wrong address. It wasn’t my home that would have been targeted but the home of my parents – my 79-year-old father and 78-year-old mother with a heart condition.”
“These masked intruders were planning to intimidate and harass the wrong people.”
Mr Sawford said he suspected the people were not representative of the vast majority of hunt supporters, but a “lunatic fringe”.
He added: “If this is the kind of activity we can expect. If these people seek to intimidate, nay terrorise, the families of MPs, there is a matter of urgency.”
Supporting the Government’s timetable to force the hunting ban on to the statute book, he said: “The quicker we bring this matter to a conclusion the better.”
Mr Sawford said he understood a similar unsuccessful attempt at harassment had also been made outside the home of the Labour MP for Corby, Phil Hope.
FYI
Guardian on coming wave of direct action
16.09.2004 01:37
Sandra Laville and Rosie Cowan
Thursday September 16, 2004
The Guardian
Police across the country are braced for a wave of protests in the wake of the ban on fox hunting.
Hunt followers are planning demonstrations, road blocks and other direct action which could stretch security resources in rural areas.
But police chiefs vowed last night to do whatever it takes to enforce the law....
full article at:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1305600,00.html
FYI
more pics
16.09.2004 09:40
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Anarchists provoked the police
16.09.2004 20:02
Fuckwits in this instance either being anti hunt anarchists or possibly agents provocateur for the state.
Engager
bias
17.09.2004 10:34
why is it middle england get to do what they want? makes me sick.
maybe they won't be so bloody quick to side with the police next time there's a demo other than anti hunt.
daniel gurney
yeah
17.09.2004 12:25
neoliberal commie
ha ha laughable!
17.09.2004 12:43
Just like any demo there were people there more up for having a fight than the majority of the crowd. But the police did go over the top, it's clear from all of the head injuries and blood everywhere.
Get a life! and some perspective!
fair play
what really happened...
17.09.2004 14:20
then as the ruck expanded others joined in, some got caught up in it, and the police panicked and battered a load of people. bringing in more riot cops just seemed to make the situation worse, and more people joined in and more police began splitting heads.
so yep, sure you can say "Pro Hunt Protestors Attacked By Police", but only after "Pro Hunt Protestors Attack Police".
that a lot of the press has ignored the truth in what happened, and even given tacit support to those having a go at the police, again shows how shite this countries media is.
two sides to every story!