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Anti-War protest at Downing Street: pictures

Jonathan | 28.07.2006 22:47 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | London

Called by Stop The War Coalition

Today saw a protest at Whitehall, opposite Downing Street, where a group of delegates handed over a petition of 8,000 signatures to Downing Street. This was to call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon, and to ask Tony Blair to stop listening to George Bush.

Pictures of the protest, including video clips, can be seen here:

 http://moonbatmedia.com/downingstreet_280706/

Jonathan

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Not one explicit image of an atrocity visible at the demonstration

29.07.2006 03:50

-NOT ONE PLACARD SHOWING ANY OF THE SICKENING IMAGES OF VIOLENCE THAT BLAIR GREEN LIGHTED AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF LEBANON

-NOT ONE OFFICIAL PLACARD ATTACKING BLAIR

Rather like protesting the nazis, without showing images of their death camps, or hitting at Hitler, don't you think.

Blair's people head the 'stop-the-war' coalition. Their first order of business- ban ANY images showing atrocities in Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon etc. Their second order of business- all directed attacks in the UK must be against Bush, ***never*** Blair.

Blair's people are experts. In peace time, their skills are directed toward corporate PR and advertising. In times of war, these same people move their skills into the area of psychological manipulation and control.

In so-called democracies like ours, protests are inevitable, and completely predictable, especially when the protests will occur because of events that Blair has yet in the planning stage. The vast majority of the work of the internal secret services lies in infiltration of protest movements, and when those movements are large enough to potentially threaten the government, to take actual leadership control.

'Martyr' operations are staged to create the reputation of potential figure head politicians. For instance, one of Blair's agents may be 'expelled' from the party when he runs for mayor, or another agent may have a crude frame-up operation fall apart with the greatest publicity, when he moves to head an 'anti-war' party. The tactics are so childish, that they are even found in the plots of kids' TV shows, but the sheep are always too cowardly and passive to find their own genuine leaders. The sheep have been carefully trained from school onwards to NEVER think for themselves, but to seek out the authority figure that most seems to represent their views.

NO MONSTER FEARS THAT WHICH HE CONTROLS. Blair is preparing for the greatest demonstrations in Human history, those that will occur when he begins his genocide of Iran. Blair is aware that the time of greatest threat has long passed, and that these demonstrations will be under his explicit control.

SOCPA and the like have been mostly about one thing- getting people to request the rules, and then willingly follow them. Blair has ZERO interest in banning demonstrations. However, he intends that there will NEVER be any significant demonstration ever again that reflects the desires of the individuals taking part.

ALL FUTURE DEMONSTRATIONS ARE TO BE ABOUT THE RULES, BLAIR'S RULES.

I look at the pictures of the demo at Downing Strret, and I feel physically sick. A whole nation turned into one giant DEATH CAMP by the depraved actions of the Israelis, and this is how people allow themselves to be controlled. Looking at the placards, and I could be watching a scene from the movie '1984'. This isn't a protest, this is a CELEBRATION OF THE POWER OF BLAIR, BUSH, AND ISRAEL.

Best of all is the sweet sweet linking of Lebanon with Syria and Iran in the placards. Still, I suppose it saves on always having to rely on Rupert Murdoch for black propaganda.

Final score 1000000 to Blair, zero to the Human Race. I guess its lucky for the poor people of the Lebanon that they are not Blair's real target. He'll probably be satisfied with tens of thousands of them murdered, and most of what they own destroyed. For Iran, however, it is to be nothing less than genocide.

twilight


Totally agree with twilight

29.07.2006 14:12

I was there. Very depressing. A complete waste of time. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the whole thing was so utterly stage managed we were humiliated by the state. They were pissing on us; laughing at us; we were pathetic.

Keith


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