http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/1 ... ot-curfews

Any word from our right wing friends of liberty yet? You know, the ones always on about "authoritarian New Labour" and "record numbers of new offences" and all that. We know such people don't like the European Covention of Human Rights- on the bollocks grounds that they're rights to do something, not freedom from something like Proper British Rights (they aren't). So no doubt they'll be out in force over this.

Bollocks they will. Still waiting for them to criticise police tactics in the Miners Strike 26 years ago.

To be fair the latest campaign is to protect "The Human Rights Act"

I'm wondering if it's Press coverage again.

Campaign by who? Anyone important on the right?

See also Oliver Letwin. Fuck privacy and data protection.

Conservative 'think tanks'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... CMP=twt_gu

As I said on the other thread, Paternoster Square is one of these privately owned bits of public space. Boris Johnson has in the past moaned about these.

He's not mentioned them now, when it actually matters.

I think I may have posted this before. Still funny though.

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"Emmett is able to write fairly well, he clearly isn't unintelligent overall" - Quote MALCO - Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:57 pm

Does anyone here actually think this guy is making any sense at all?

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Can't see anything?

sorry it just seemed to me that he wasn't making any sense. Actually I can see why emmett would post a link to someone who believes in 9/11 conspiracies http://www.cveitch.org/?author=2

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David Cameron at the Commonwealth summit showed Britain's lead in civil liberties by saying "we need to sort these things out quicker".

Brilliant.

Cameron also slipped in Parliament Square as the sort of place that shouldn't be sullied with tents.

Unless you've been there, you probably picture it as being like Trafalgar Square, except with better architecture (the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey).

The architecture bit is true. But apart from that it's a shithole road junction, with cars going round all 4 sides.

So I take it that making an occupy protest in parliemtn square would be difficult then?

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Only in that it would be clamped down on under (fairly recent) legislation that the late Brian Haw - the anti-war campaigner - escaped because he was there before it came into effect. Otherwise, it's quite a large grasses area that would be ideal as a campsite.

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right then so which idiot enforced said regulation and why?

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In St Paul's? The C of E own some of the land, and they've started proceedings, in a move that looks bad even to AN Wilson. As I understand it, the Corporation of London have responsibility for maintaining a public thoroughfare. They won't be happy at having to crawl out into the daylight but they're going to go after the protestors on what sounds to me like legislation designed to stop people blocking roads. They aren't on a road.

In Parliament Square? No-one's camped there yet. Would assume it would be the City of Westminster. Permanently Tory. One of its former deputy leaders, now a deputy mayor of London, today suggested turning sprinklers on the St Paul's tents.

I like a lot of this direct action stuff, but I worry a bit about what might happen if the right start doing it. Even if they were treated the same as lefties who did it, they'd be able to cause far more serious mayhem than our lot can. See the petrol blockade.