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For for those traveling to Ireland in the next days

yogo | 14.06.2013 00:04 | G8 2013 | Repression | Liverpool

we got alot of stuff taken from us on the ferry going to ireland

One week ago at the ferry station in Liverpool going to Belfast we were interrogated for 45 minuites about our intentions on going to ireland. The police asked us if we were involved in protests, what causes we felt strogly about, where we were staying in belfast and if we were going to the G8 protests. The policeman was being very friendly the whole time, joking with us and pretending he was just curious. They searched our bags and then they cofiscated hard drives, usb sticks, camera, notebooks and maps under the Terroism Act 2000. There should not be an official record of political activity associated with us, with none of us having been convicted of a crime. They told us that we couldnt get our stuff back even if we didnt go to ireland.

yogo

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Oops wrong country

14.06.2013 06:37

You're not "travelling to Ireland"; you're travelling within the UK.

Fact checker

We Ourselves

14.06.2013 16:16

Ireland is Ireland...The occupied 'part of Ireland', is a massive proportion of Ulster, which is Ireland. So perhaps 'Occupied Ulster' is a better title than UK.

Just Saying.

and Fuck the G8

Francesca

A united Ireland.

14.06.2013 22:54

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland under English occupation. It is not part of the UK, it is part of Ireland.

Indymedia is not to be used by English nationalists to parade their nationalist fantasies at the expense of the people of Ireland.

anonymous

re: The enemy within

15.06.2013 10:50

"OK, so its pretty clear from the promotion of this addition up top and on other articles on the newswire that the muppet that is endlessly trolling Indymedia with state loyalism trolling is somebody who also has moderation privilages on IMC. "

If you knew the admin interface, you would know that it isn't difficult to promote an article instead of hiding it. But knowing nothing you can only come up with the assumption that Indymedia must be riddled with state loyalists......

It is not.

Now is your comment accurate? No
Is it news? No

Read the guidelines and operate within them or expect more of your paranoid nonsense to disappear in a puff of smoke (- unless some mod makes an error on the drop down box and promotes them by error.)

ftp

Ooops Promoted instead oh hid

15.06.2013 15:51

Doh!
Apologies

acceptance of oppression

15.06.2013 17:33

You need to learn how to do a civil claim for money, because you have legal property rights over you stuff, even if the police do have a legal right to take it off you. You are entitled to money for what they take, if you legally own it.

anarchocapitalist

Stuff

16.06.2013 19:08

In fact, if your things were confiscated under schedule 7 they have to be returned to you after seven days unless it becomes evidence in a criminal investigation (i.e they decide to charge you with something).

schedule 7