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More on arrests of "Road to Guantanamo" stars by Bedfordshire Police

Niks Bijzonders | 21.02.2006 11:43 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Bedfordshire Police: Woburn Road, Kempston, Beds, MK43 9AX +44 (0)1234 841212 FAX +44 (0)1234 842133 -  bimd@bedfordshire.police.uk

The Chief Constable is Gillian Parker.

The film's producers say four actors from the film, who all play terrorism suspects, were detained at Luton airport after flying back from Germany on an easyJet flight. They included Rizwan Ahmed and Farhad Harun, who were stopped along with Shafiq Rasul and Rhuhel Ahmed, the former Guantánamo inmates they play on screen.

In a statement, Rizwan Ahmed said police swore at him and asked if he had become an actor to further the Islamic cause. He said he was at first denied access to a lawyer and was questioned about his views on the Iraq war by a policewoman. "She asked me whether I intended to do more documentary films, specifically more political ones like The Road to Guantánamo. She asked 'Did you become an actor mainly to do films like this, to publicise the struggles of Muslims?'"

Mr Ahmed alleged that he had a telephone wrestled from his hand as he tried to contact a lawyer and was later abused. He claimed that one police officer had called him a "fucker".

Melissa Parmenter, co-producer of the film, described the detention and questioning as outrageous.

A spokeswoman for Bedfordshire police, which patrols Luton airport, said that none of the six men had been arrested. "The police officers wanted to ask them some questions under the counter-terrorism act," she said. "All were released within the hour. Part of the counter-terrorism act allows us to stop and examine people if something happens that might be suspicious."

Niks Bijzonders
- Homepage: http://www.bedfordshire.police.uk/

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Shocking - even more arrests !!

21.02.2006 12:19

It gets worse. Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas and Charles Grey have all been arrested under new terror laws for glorifying terrorism. They were held incommunicado and interrogated without the presence of their lawyers for two weeks before being blind folded and thrown out of the back of a van in a back alley in downtown Hollywood. The actors who have all played James Bonds nemesis Blofeld were snatched by secret service agents and taken to a secret underground CIA prison somewhere in Eastern Europe on an Easyjet extraordinary rendition flight. They have reported that they were tortured by being hung over a pool of sharks and having their head immersed in an aquarium filled with pirana. The home office refused to confirm or deny the allocations but an unnamed source in the ministry has indicated that the interrogation of actors is a new government policy and said that extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Rumors suggest that a crack team of illustrators and cartoonists have been recruited by the secret service to root out terrorist sympathisers among British actors. They are apparently infiltrating Equity which is considered a recruiting organisation with secret training camps in Wales.

democracy in action


The events at Luton Airport PROVE the total depravity of Blair and his regime

21.02.2006 14:08

When Blair has his muslim extermination camps set up (and we are far closer to that day than most of you want to admit to yourselves), no doubt Gillian Parker will get her wish to be the new Irma Grese. One of the first things that Thatcher did when she gained power was to end all the programs designed to reduce the number of racist psychopaths joining the police force. The first thing that Blair did when he gained power (apart from murdering the cat at no.10) was to invite Thatcher to tea. She, of course, was NOT his predecessor.

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Part of the counter-terrorism act allows us to stop and examine people if something happens that might be suspicious
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let me guess, they were detained under the suspicion of possessing a muslim faith. Still, they're luckier than those kids being tortured by UK soldiers in that recently released video. In case you haven't read, Blair has ordered the quisling government of Iraq to send the death squads down to their family homes to "deal" with them. Those kids are GUILTY of embarrassing Blair by publicly scuffing the boots of his British thugs, and that means the DEATH PENALTY. As it was in nazi occupied territory, so it is with Blair occupied territory.

As I have said before, these are our dying days, but if you are not muslim, you are likely to be expired only after seeing millions of muslims murdered first. The end is nigh... who EVER believes that. Did the 300,000+ Iraqis murdered by Blair's invasion and occupation? Did the tens of millions slaughtered in WW2 (hop on google, and remind yourself just how many humans of different nations died in that war). The destructive power available to Blair, via his proxy forces in the US, is thousands of times greater than any army of WW2 BEFORE nuclear weapons are factored in.

Imagine what it is like to be a British muslim reading about the pre-holocaust behaviour of Gilliam Parker and her police force. This film was made by a famous 'white' British director, competing and winning at a major European film festival, and on the eve of being shown on national TV. Even so, Blair's thugs in blue had NO CONCERN WHATSOEVER in targetting such a high profile, well regarded group of people. How quickly have we gone from the imprisonment of a muslim in Scotland for daring to show atrocities from Iraq to another consenting adult during a conversation about the invasion, to the sickening abuse of muslims for daring to show the truth about Blair's rape/torture/murder facility in Cuba?

Just as Hitler did with the jews, Blair has declared that any muslim that IN ANY WAY attempts to oppose ANY portion of Blair's activities, no matter how criminal and depraved those activities may be, is an enemy of the state. Today is worse than yesterday, and yesterday was worse than the day before. Tomorrow will be worse than today, and Blair has only just gotten started.

There are some of you here too terrified to accept what I say about Blair, because accepting this truth would leave you with no hope, whereas blaming everything on faceless or actual Americans seems like business as usual. How the hell do you then rationalise stories like the above. Your boys and girls in blue acting in ways that the Gestapo would have recognised in a microsecond, against a targetted ethnic group, for daring to make a film about CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY carried out against their people in another land.

Why are you foolish enough to think that things will suddenly stop getting worse, that events will refuse to be carried to their obvious conclusion? What Earthly mechanism is going to allow Blairs progress to EXACTLY track that of Adolf Hitler, and yet magically stop just before things reach that point that YOU think is unbearable? You REALLY think that Blair is just going to turn round and say "suprise, I didn't really mean it" and put things back to how they once were? You REALLY want to bet on an event that has NEVER happened once in Human history? Sorry, that is like betting on minus one in roullette- no matter how much you need to win, that number is NEVER coming up.

Hitler said that anybody that opposed him was a terrorist, and so did Stalin and Mao. From the sickening video of Blair's thugs attacking those two people in the New Reich party conference last year, to the sickening story of Blair's treatment of those muslims involved in the "Road to Guantanamo" a few days ago, Blair's intentions are crystal clear. The only difference is that Blair wields a power greater than the combined historical strength of those three genocidal monsters, and lacks even their miniscule humanity.

When Hitler persecuted jews (in the 1930's) in the same way that Blair persecuted the muslims at Luton Airport, mass murder was still sometime in the future, but the racist crime DIRECTLY connected to the mass rape (read about what the Russians did to the German women) and mass slaughter of the German population during the final phase of WW2. The German people had the greatest incentive to stop Hitler, but didn't know this until is was way too late. History will show that the British people had a vastly greater incentive to stop Blair, but chose to pretend (as so many people have done in the past) that genocidal monsters could never come to power in this land, no matter how clear cut the evidence to the contrary.

I'll say it one last time. If the events that occured at Luton airport fail to convince EVERYBODY of the terrifying situation that now exists in the UK, we are truly without hope.

twilight


Guantanamo Actors - the full statement.

21.02.2006 17:41

One of the lead actors, Rizwan Ahmed's full statement can be found at  http://www.theLIP.org/?p=129 pretty worrying stuff...

Mark Grimmer
mail e-mail: editor@theLIP.org
- Homepage: http://www.theLIP.org


It just keeps getting worse...

22.02.2006 16:28

It really is scary. This country is sinking into a police state. It really is, just look at how the police behaved at the Labour party conference last year (anyone see the programme with Walter Wolfgang on Channel 4 the other day?).
The use of the Terrorism Act is now a routine piece of police powers to harass anyone they don't like.
There's non-stop CCTV surveillance, talking about tracking all vehicle movements in the country, then ID cards are coming sooner or later...

Will


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