Rubbish Police attempt to frame climate camp "weapons stash"
Miss Marple | 05.08.2008 12:08 | Climate Camp 2008 | Climate Chaos
The Police have tried to pull the oldest trick in the book and claim they have found knives, ninja stars and other nasty tools.
What a really rubbish and transparent attempt by the Police to frame the climate camp with their supposed uncovering of a weapons stash in woodland near the climate camp.
Whoever carried this out really doesn't deserve a bonus. Police used to be much better at framing people than this. The Keystone Cops strike again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7542592.stm
Whoever carried this out really doesn't deserve a bonus. Police used to be much better at framing people than this. The Keystone Cops strike again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7542592.stm
Miss Marple
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The "stash"
05.08.2008 13:37
The police showed off the "stash" on the television. They are being coy about whether they found it all together or it is what they have stolen over past days.
It included rubber gloves (I have some in my house), a D-lock (I use one to lock my bike with), the now famous board games, a lifejacket, a wetsuit and other things which were undoubtedly not for maiming horses, dogs or even police officers.
There were also some large knives. I have two large knives in my house and I take them with me when camping. Very useful for cutting things. Presumably the vegan meals are being prepared with the use of knives.
They didn't have the guy ropes on display. Perhaps even they are embarrassed by the theft of those.
That leaves the "death star". Not a particularly useful weapon to use against horses, dogs or police officers, as it is generally a one shot device.
Quite possibly the "death star" was planted by the police or some other organ of the Labour Party. There is no independent oversight of the whole process. If it was really found by the police near the camp then that proves nothing. It could well have been left by a local, either to smear the camp or as part of some gang battle.
The police are trying to smear the campers, just as they have done elsewhere.
It included rubber gloves (I have some in my house), a D-lock (I use one to lock my bike with), the now famous board games, a lifejacket, a wetsuit and other things which were undoubtedly not for maiming horses, dogs or even police officers.
There were also some large knives. I have two large knives in my house and I take them with me when camping. Very useful for cutting things. Presumably the vegan meals are being prepared with the use of knives.
They didn't have the guy ropes on display. Perhaps even they are embarrassed by the theft of those.
That leaves the "death star". Not a particularly useful weapon to use against horses, dogs or police officers, as it is generally a one shot device.
Quite possibly the "death star" was planted by the police or some other organ of the Labour Party. There is no independent oversight of the whole process. If it was really found by the police near the camp then that proves nothing. It could well have been left by a local, either to smear the camp or as part of some gang battle.
The police are trying to smear the campers, just as they have done elsewhere.
A N Other
mud sticks
05.08.2008 13:59
Mud sticks that's the problem - while the BBC article does say the police confirmed that they had no evidence that the weapons were connected to the camp, or that anyone at camp had any intention of using them - Kent Online runs the following headline:
"Weapons, including throwing star, seized at climate camp"
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=45897
"Weapons, including throwing star, seized at climate camp"
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=45897
mp
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I thought the clashes with the protestor was about safely?!?
05.08.2008 12:52
Whatever next...
loppy
Sorry, who would get away with stabbing a horse or dog?!
05.08.2008 12:59
I hope people realise how stupid the cops are by saying that a vegan camp would end up killing a horse or dog. They're even smearing it badly...! Maybe they forgot that capitalism is responsible for the "sacrifice" of animals, not ARAs or environmentalists.
Another day - another lie against the global liberation movement...
ARA
Piss poor! LOL
05.08.2008 13:07
durruti
moon23
05.08.2008 13:15
moon23
It's not really your sort of case Miss Marple, or even your patch.
05.08.2008 13:29
Ergo - you are off your patch in Kent.
Furthermore you have never had any experience with oriental weaponry. If some of the vegan climate campers or plod had come down with taxine poisoning, you could have cited a pocketful of rye and pointed out the presence of yew berries on site. For poison is your speciality, is it not? Three Cyanide murders, two stranglings after sedatives, two stabbings, two hangings and a few shootings top up one killing with a blunt and heavy instrument.
But no ninja throwing stars.
Not even your rival Hercule Poirot with his interest in all things orientalist has come across the Shuriken or shuriken-jutsu. Nearest thing he had was the Royal Standard of Ur used as a heavy blunt instrument in "murder in Mesopotamia". hardly a creative use of what was an imperial relic.
Ergo - you're not even qualified.
What is needed in these circumstances & pretty sharpish too - is the advice of Sir Denis Nayland Smith, the former commissioner of the Burma police and undoubted nemesis of Fu Manchu. If he doesn't figure out who planted the gear, then his lovely wife, and ex-slave of Fu Manchu, Karamaneh (or Kâramanèh with accents) will at least come up with a good suggestion.
She hates the filth.
Meanwhile It is in my humble opinion quite probably best to lay the blame on a band of lascars trained in the devilish arts of lamaism.
boilerplate cyberpunk detective consultant
To any kids
05.08.2008 13:32
responsible parent
Kent Mob!
05.08.2008 13:57
Its an easy thing to go into the woods, bury a small bag, then have a couple of plod dig it up in the morning. Amateurish to say the least and certainly what you would expect of a rural police force involved in a national 'event'.
I'll be going down on Saturday for the big day. See you all there.
Mr Plodski
Death stars do have their uses.
05.08.2008 13:57
All this wet suit, ropes, gloves, nicknacks for taking grit out of horses hooves &c. stuff sounds like harmless fetish & BDSM kit. You should complain about invasion of privacy.
Lady Karamaneh Nayland Smith
Mud sticks
05.08.2008 14:11
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Most of the things described by the police are no more weapons than people's hands are. Almost anything can be used as a weapon, but that does not mean it is a weapon. It only becomes a weapon when it is used as a weapon.
The newspaper article includes a vote on the activities of the police. Vote early.
Me
It's a setup
05.08.2008 14:18
Vegan camper
Camp PR.
05.08.2008 14:27
But if a reader is only going to read a headline and take note of that, then they are the type that have only bought the paper for the small-ads at the back or the telly listings in the first place.
The majority of newspaper readers in local areas will put their local rag down after its delivered and will return to it in the evening to read through it properly. Local papers are not the same as national papers.
If there is a danger its that national journalists will trawl through the locals to find a way to 're-angle' a local story for a national audience....and will note that local plod in Kent appear to be out of their depth and are playing 'Hollywood games'.
All good stuff!
Mr Plodski
it's horizontal media............so manipulate it.
05.08.2008 15:40
The gazette grew (wikipedia tells us) from the Maidstone Telegraph founded in the county town of Kent in 1859, and passed from subsequent owners, the Masters brothers in the 1880s when it was acquired by Barham Pratt Boorman, and it has remained in the Boorman family ever since. It then became the Kent Messenger........blaa blaa.....
The Boorman family have a little local media empire and count several titles and radio in their fold. Their reporters of the "medway Messanger" title avow that they are moving close to 24/7 coverage on their timeline rolling blog. Perhaps they should be searched for speed.
Comment fields and phone-ins would be good thing for people to make use of.
newsdesk on 01634 227847. To send pictures or video email
as would the little "vote" thing which i can't find right now-
Oh yep - if you go to the "work in progress" teenagers website of Kent called ToGoGo you'll see their logo is suspiciously like a Ninja throwing star :-
something in that. & the opinion formers of Kent know it. Before the Climate camp came along their most popular online community voxpop chinwag was on indiginous autochthonous native & homegrown Kent youth violence and knives. Which is why they used a ninja star as their youth website logo. no?
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Vote early
05.08.2008 15:47
Vote early.
Me
Pics of "weapons"
05.08.2008 17:50
knifeblock
replica throwing star (with unconnected items)
For note the police officer at the press conference said the knife block was found in a copse, hidden up a tree... Well, couldn't have been very well hidden then could it, or are the police searching every tree in the area?
pete b
The knife block. An answer...
05.08.2008 18:34
Anyone matching this description should be pointed out to the Police. This individual is dangerous and should not be approached.
imwatchingyou
Sky News and Pig Maths
05.08.2008 20:53
"Police said they were "very worried" that the items indicated that around 150 hardcore campaigners intended more than a peaceful protest."
Yup - if you (plant and then) find 4 kitchen knives and a "replica throwing star" (whatever that might be) - of course you'd see an indication that 150 people were going to use them. And if you were sick enough to sell your soul to the Murdoch empire, you wouldn't even begin to suspect that there is something a bit dodgy about it all, would you?
Murdoch Muppet
Even a Board Game is considered "Sinister"...
06.08.2008 08:48
Yes the board game, neatly into the picture with wires cutters called the "War on Terror!".
Laughable!
Can someone scan it in for all of us to laugh at?
It's unbelieveable.
loppy
don't you mean "vote early, vote often'?!
13.08.2008 01:33
"
The newspaper article includes a vote on the activities of the police. Vote early."
camper