blessed britons

I went to see Kifah Taha, who had been so badly beaten by British troops ... that he had terrible wounds in the groin. He told me how the soldiers would call their Iraqi prisoners by the names of football stars - Beckham was one name they used - before kicking them around the detention headquarters in Basra. There were stories of Iraqi prisoners being forced to kneel on sharp stones, of being kicked and punched in the groin, the kidneys, the back, shoulders, forced to sit with their heads down lavatory holes.

— Robert Fisk

mad world

All over Latin America, there is disillusionment with the policies that the United States and the IMF had pushed. Growth under liberalisation is just over half of what it was under the old pre-reform regime... Unemployment is up 3 percentage points; poverty... is up even as a percentage of the population. Where growth has occurred, the benefits have accrued to those at the upper part of the income distribution.

protest

how many razor blades, Officer?

Submitted by antarchi on August 12, 2008 - 11:29.

I've been living in a cage in rural England. The cage was a field was a camp site for concerned environmentalists, and had barricaded gates and sentinels inside and out.

no marching allowed

Submitted by antarchi on October 5, 2007 - 01:54.

Sessional Orders are passed at the beginning of every Parliamentary session under an 1839 law to ensure free passage for MP’s to arrive and depart from Parliament. Similar Orders apply to the House of Lords. Under the 2005 SOCPA legislation any march / demonstration in the vicinity of Parliament must be allowed to take place so long as a minimum of 6 days notice is given to the police.