Animal rights protesters today held a peaceful and informative protest outside Thomas Cook in Liverpool City Centre. However this protest was deemed illegal by two police (numbers 2312 and 3032) and two pretend police (Community Wardens) who deemed the pictures of monkeys being tortured offensive.
Local Thugs Causing Harassment
Thomas Cook was targeted because it is the leading seller of UK holidays to Mauritius, which is in turn one of the leading exporters of primates used in animal testing labs. Campaigners were asking local shoppers to boycott Thomas Cook and book their holidays elsewhere until the travel agent stops selling holidays there. Tourism is Mauritius’s largest source of revenue, by hitting the economy the campaigners were hoping to stop the islands monkey trade.
However this information is not deemed appropriate for weekend shoppers consumption, ‘anything which is offensive will be removed,’ so says officer 3032. Threatening to arrest protesters under Section 5 of the Public Order Act (‘Causing Harassment Alarm or Distress’) the police claimed that there had been complaints about the five protesters, their pictures (of monkeys being tortured in labs) and their leaflets. Despite the fact many members of the public (myself included) had passed by and shown support for the cause the police continued to claim that harassment was being caused.
The police then threatened to arrest me under the same act for taking photographs of her majesty’s force in action. Apparently under the Data Protection Act I was also prohibited from taking photographs without permission. I have no idea whether this is true or not, but have been arrested recently and don’t have a spare 80 quid (which is the standard charge) to find out.
The chief Executive of Thomas Cook is Manny Fontenla-Novoa and can be reached at
Thomas Cook, PO Box 2
Coningsby Road
North Bretton
Peterborough
Cambs
PE3 8SB
Tel: 01733 417 100
His PA is Amanda Humphries (
amanda.humphries@thomascook.com)
The police are protecting the public from this information in case it might upset them. I am sure that we are all grateful for this protection and will thank the next policemen we see. Thomas Cook are helping reduce the primate population of Mauritius so I am sure we will all take this into consideration the next time we book our holidays.
However this information is not deemed appropriate for weekend shoppers consumption, ‘anything which is offensive will be removed,’ so says officer 3032. Threatening to arrest protesters under Section 5 of the Public Order Act (‘Causing Harassment Alarm or Distress’) the police claimed that there had been complaints about the five protesters, their pictures (of monkeys being tortured in labs) and their leaflets. Despite the fact many members of the public (myself included) had passed by and shown support for the cause the police continued to claim that harassment was being caused.
The police then threatened to arrest me under the same act for taking photographs of her majesty’s force in action. Apparently under the Data Protection Act I was also prohibited from taking photographs without permission. I have no idea whether this is true or not, but have been arrested recently and don’t have a spare 80 quid (which is the standard charge) to find out.
The chief Executive of Thomas Cook is Manny Fontenla-Novoa and can be reached at
Thomas Cook, PO Box 2
Coningsby Road
North Bretton
Peterborough
Cambs
PE3 8SB
Tel: 01733 417 100
His PA is Amanda Humphries (
amanda.humphries@thomascook.com) The police are protecting the public from this information in case it might upset them. I am sure that we are all grateful for this protection and will thank the next policemen we see. Thomas Cook are helping reduce the primate population of Mauritius so I am sure we will all take this into consideration the next time we book our holidays.
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They're Lying About the Data Protection Act
22.10.2005 21:10
not surprised
So THAT'S what's meant by its a crazy world we live in!
22.10.2005 22:38
So...by the officers standards it is acceptable for real bodies of dead animals to be publicly displayed for the purpose of profit and unscrupulous consumption(despite this causing alarm and distress to thousands of vegetarians and vegans)but the displaying of a photograph of a dead animal for the purpose of integrity with the motivation of aiming to evoke compassion in people for a noble cause is deemed an offense.
So THAT'S what's meant by its a crazy world we live in!
An Onymous
An Onymous
Which way is the wind blowing?
23.10.2005 01:07
Think of it as a 'are things getting better or worse' weather vein. BTW, it does not matter whether today it MAY be legal to photo Blair's uniformed goons going about their thuggish duties, because in the near future it WILL most certainly be illegal. This is called HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.
twilight
Yoo Hoo, Twilight
23.10.2005 13:05
Give us a link on that, then.
Observer
Animal Abuse Extremists
26.10.2005 08:57
We have no fuckin free speech left I really feel depressed at how repressive this country has become almost over night. I look back at when the Criminal Justice Act 1994 came in and think it was a teddy bears picnic compared to the ultra right wing treatment new Labour dishes to anyone who has a gripe with their murderous fuckin system
Puppy
FUCK THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
27.10.2005 10:40
Secondly I don't give a fuck about animal rights people. I like animals and think they should be respected - but the people who claim to represent them are a joke. The aninal rights movement should sort itself out - it has too many fucked up idiots - who thinkt hey are some type of liberators and don't really give a toss about anythign else.
What does it have to say about teh animal rights person who punched a big issue seller in the face - becasue the big issue carried an advert from a company that experiments on animals. WHAT TYPE OF AWARENESS DOES THE ANIMAL RIGHTS PERSON HAVE?
FUCK THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
Donald Duckers
liverpool animals
15.11.2005 16:30
animal liberation!
j