Friday, April 15, 2011

A British high court deems London G20 'kettling' illegal, thus confirming the f*cking obvious

This won't change a thing, as police are the last to get the "cut out the illegal activities" memo...

The kettling of G20 protesters in London was illegal, a British High Court has ruled in a case with sweeping implications in Toronto.

The decision Thursday by the Queen’s Bench justices said police were working “in good faith” but still overreacted when they corralled 4,500 people inside a Climate Camp in London for three hours on April 1, 2009.

“The police may only take such preventive action as a last resort catering for situations about to descend into violence,” the Queen’s Bench justices.

“The test of necessity is met only in truly extreme and exceptional cases.”

“This is groundbreaking,” lawyer John Halford, representing the claimants Hannah McClure and Josh Moos, told the Toronto Star. “Never has there been a judicial review challenging a mass use of force by a lot of officers at once.”

This was “the blunt instrument being used when a scalpel is available,” he said.

“It is not necessary to make thousands of others suffer because police can’t be bothered to arrest the ones who are responsible.”


To our younger readers: There has been a highly successful campaign by our leaders to demonize any form of protest.

"Filthy hippies..."

Having protests thus discouraged, it's a free for all for those in power.

How convenient...

If you find you're being fucked over by government etc, speak up, protest. If you don't, power will walk over you as if you were an old doormat. They will wipe their boots on you in contempt.

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