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On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing

• Saturday, October 31, 2009 - Previous content: Originally posted under the title 'Coming soon'


[31/10/09 I was surprised to find that this was missing from the blog. Strangely seems somehow appropriate that it's posted today.]




Web access is disrupted and intermittent once again.

There were large anti-war marches in London and Glasgow with a colourful and diverse attendence. It's good to see those Samba bands. I hope that they will forgive me for not attending but I have attended many less well attended demonstrations - we even had a protest march of about only six people once after being abandoned by the few union reps that turned up. We still marched.

I've been holding back two stories about protest marches for some time and I know that they will be of interest to some of my readers.

One protest was the "Bush Scum Not Welcome" protest against a fundraising rally by Daddy Bush for Dubya's re-election campaign on Marylebone Road. I haven't recounted this before have I?

We had attended an earlier protest that day at Parliament Square - it was while expressing opposition to government policies there was still legal. At Marylebone Rd I managed to squeeze the minibus onto a parking meter. We were asked by police to join the pen around the back of the hotel where nobody would see us. We ignored them and set up on the corner of Marylebone Road. I remember saying something like "I have the right of free expression and I want to express myself to the traffic."

We were very close to the banqueting hall where daddy Bush was talking. I settled on the chant and repeatedly chanted "Bush Scum Not Welcome". People attending the fundraising event were visibly shocked. Many things can be read into the fact that the police did not ask me to refrain from this obviously insulting chant. I think that the main one is that it tends to confirm that I was an outlaw - that there was a RIPA order on me but there are other issues which I have realised since.

We were cordoned in by police. At about five or five thirty I needed to move the minibus off the meter. The police refused to let me do this - they also took the piss by making clear that they knew about the minibus needing to be moved. There was a parking ticket on the minibus when we returned to it later. I consider that I was unlawfully detained since I could not challenge them in court since I was under a RIPA order.

I forget the exact time fiveish or five-thirty-ish (although it may be quite obvious if you know where to look) one of the coppers measured the sound level I was shouting at. He said that it was about or above 130 decibells and it could affect the officers hearing - he actually said it was a health and safety issue. There are correspondences to the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. The police cleared a space immediately in front of me. I don't have trouble with my heart but immediately after they had cleared out of the way I had a huge blow to my heart. I was seriously winded but I didn't fall. I have experienced the same thing once since at my home address.

The Met bastards arrested Margaret Jones on some pretext and kept us waiting for her while she was at the nearby high-security police station for hours. We waited in a pub. We were repeatedly calling at the police station to inquire when Margaret would be released. I was on one of these visits to the police station when police burst into the pub and violently arrested a barman for reporting a crime on his way into work.

Then there was the time when five of us managed to have our own SOCPA-illegal demo by accident at a SOCPA-legal demo that was passing Parliament Square, but that's another story.

 3 mobile are going to get a serious slagging soon for their useless mobile so-called broadband service and their atrocious customer relations. It appears that their web use accounting software is crap so that they are counting every request as if it was delivered.

16/3/08 later.

From recollection, I would say that I was refused to leave the detention at approx 4.50 p.m. and the health and safety incident happened between 5.15 and 5.40 p.m. This is without doing any further research.

We were very close to the banqueting hall being just the other side of a narrow side-street. It is very unlikely that I could not have been heard there. I am pleased that I provided balance to daddy Bush's speech.

22/3/08 Images of us on the corner of Marylebone Road. Images from http://piombo.org/wnjr/pho/180504/

Protest at Bush fundraising dinner, Marylebone Rd, London. Image hosted by http://uploadandgo.comProtest at Bush fundraising dinner, Marylebone Rd, London. Image hosted by http://uploadandgo.com


25/3/08

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_May#Holidays_and_observances

26/3/08

At the earlier protest at Parliament Square, some people would try to insult us. It's often quite entertaining since they expect us to unquestionably accept their abuse. Being militant protestors we answer back. Americans are often incensed that we dare question their presumed right to engage in brutal, genocidal invasions. My stock answer which I used that day is "Are you really that ignorant?"

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