08.30.07 - 08:43am
A video which has found its way onto YouTube shows three plainclothes police officers at the protest with bandanas across their faces. One of the men was carrying a rock. In a glorious irony, the video captures protest organizers ordering one agent provocateur to put the rock down, accusing the three men of being police instigators and trying unsuccessfully to unmask them. The three police officers were then, hilariously, put on the ground and arrested by their own, presumably unaware, colleagues for trying to get through a line of riot police to escape.
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08.21.07 - 09:23am
Newspaper reports, and to a lesser extent the television news, breathlessly parroted the police line that the camp had been “infiltrated by troublemakers” and was being taken over by monstrous “anarchists”, who cared little for the stated cause but were simply out for a fight with the police. All of it was nonsense.
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08.07.07 - 02:03pm
Antiwar protester Brian Haw has won the latest round in his determined battle with the authorities, which have waged an ongoing campaign against his six-year Parliament Square demonstration. According to news reports today, the High Court has thrown out an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against an earlier ruling that conditions, imposed by the police under the Serious Organised Crime Act, on his peaceful protest against the Iraq war were unlawful.
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07.14.07 - 09:27am
The Metropolitan Police squandered £111,000 of public money on a massive raid against a peaceful antiwar protest outside Parliament, it has been revealed. Brian Haw, 57, has staged a peaceful six-year vigil outside the Palace of Westminster, using a megaphone to signal his opposition to the war in Iraq. But following a legal crackdown, police moved in to remove most of his 40m of banners and placards, part of ongoing establishment attempts to stop his demonstration.
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