[IMC-UK-Features] political policing / police state feature & I quit

[iggyp imc]

Hi,
Are we happy for this article to go up now? Seems very relevant - in fact,
it probably should have gone up sooner!
Iggy.

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> Last week a report was made to parliament  [link] into the abuse of police
> powers during the climate camp protests at Kingsnorth in 2008. The report
> [link] and accompanying video [link] documented systemic abuses of power
> including blanket stop and searches, arbitrary seizure of property, and a
> campaign of phycological intimidation which included sleep deprivation
> through helicopter overflying late into the night, mock night and dawn raids
> by tooled up riot police, and the infamous 'Flight of the Valkyries'
> incident.
>
> Following the report the Kent Police voluntarily referred complaints about
> the actions of their officers to the Independent Police Complaints
> Commission [link].
>
> David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary said [link], “What
> happened at the Climate Camp was deeply disturbing and part of what seems to
> be a disturbing national trend. Political agendas have no place in
> policing."
>
> The extent of political policing was further exposed the previous week the
> Guardian revealed that the police have been building up a database of
> thousands of political activists [link] as well as harassing sympathetic
> journalists. The police also began their annual summer propaganda offensive
> against protesters in the form of 'the summer of rage' in [link] which they
> began to lay the foundations to justify heavy handed suppression of the
> right to protest.
>
> below are some of the links for the feature
>
> links:
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> https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424120.html
> Police 'turn themselves in' over abuse of power claims
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> https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424121.html
> Report into police tactics at Kingsnorth climate change protest released
>
> https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423345.html
> Summer of rage? It's a figment of febrile imaginations
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> https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/423055.html
> Senior police officer warns of “summer of rage”
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> www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423750.html
> Protest against police state
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> www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/423022.html
> Britain 2009 (are we in a police state?)
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> www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423945.html
> Right to protest under attack from state
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>
> https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424120.html
> Police 'turn themselves in' over abuse of power claims
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> https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424002.html
> Climate camp cops feel heat - piece about filming of protesters /
> journalists at the camp
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> https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/406021.html
> over-policing
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> https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423696.html
> Police maintaining special database of thousands of political activists
>
>
> why the police riot (parts 1 - 6)
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/418797.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419998.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/420982.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421761.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422077.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422683.html
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//418801.pdf
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//420000.pdf
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//420984.pdf
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//421762.pdf
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//422079.pdf
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//422685.pdf
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> part 7
> indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423404.html
> https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/03//423405.pdf
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>
> outside links:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/climate-camp-surveillance
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/06/police-surveillance-protesters-journalists-climate-kingsnorth
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