Police Mistake Bath Climate Camp 4 National Camp & Waste £100,000s

[munkeeunit]

This is just such a ridiculous example of the lack of any kind of intelligence within our Police forces (even though they are apparently busy tapping people's phones), that I thought it well worth reposting here.

"Police also confirmed their use of phone tapping to one activist: 'Acording to your phone calls, you only expected 10 people at your meeting, but when we there you had 100.' It seems that the police had confused our camp with that of the coming national Climate Camp, this summer - and wasted 100,000s of pounds in the process. The head of this over-zealous policing operation is probably sweating round about now."

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http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26210

State Clamps Down On Local Events:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26202

[AnnO'Neemus]

Bristol Indymedia, they're the ones who got their server seized aren't they? In that context, it wouldn't at all surprise me that the local police are a bit heavy-handed when it comes to protests.

[llantwit]

Funny as. Though I'd imagine the 30 or so who turned up to the camp to find it pigged to fuck found it a bit odd!:D

[munkeeunit]

Bristol Indymedia, they're the ones who got their server seized aren't they? In that context, it wouldn't at all surprise me that the local police are a bit heavy-handed when it comes to protests.

Most groups in Bristol (and as far as I'm aware) stopped asking police for permission to hold protests about 6 years ago (as the anti-war movement took off). I'm not sure how far this ethos, of just protesting regardless, has extended into Bath, but as it's the same police force which cover it, they do seem to feel the need occassionaly to show who they think is boss.

But this looks more like sheer incompetence.

I can just picture the confused copper who gave the game away by both revealing that they've apparently been tapping phones, and that they thought they were policing a National event.

Another classic keystone cops quote:

"meanwhile, the highly trained police were overheard arguing with each other, throwing out blame for their lack of control, right in front of the shoppers and tourists."

As for any connection to the Bristol Indymedia server seizure in all this...

No comment :)

[Isambard]

Hello Munkee, long time no see! :)

I was just thinking about the Servergate over the weekend and I'm not going to comment either.

[fractionMan]

Nuts. There were several riot vans in the park and the roads were closed. I had no idea why until now.

[munkeeunit]

Hello Munkee, long time no see! :)

I was just thinking about the Servergate over the weekend and I'm not going to comment either.

Hello Isambard :)

We were all suprised to recently discover you'd made the pillars of the suspension bridge hollow, what a fascinating engineer of bridges you are :D

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People may be interested to know that Colin Port, the Avon & Somerset Chief constable, was drafted in in Jan 2005. So any policing decisions over the last 2 and a bit years are ultimately this man's responsibility.

More mysteriously still, Colin Port, is also widely suspected of protecting the killers of Rosemary Nelson, who was murdered in a car bomb in 1999, while investigating the cases of murdered republicans.

A new inquiry began in 2004, but has been stalled since 2006 when the MI5 became involved.

So this is still very much an ongoing and murky hot potato.

No apparent links between any of the other events mentioned, or not commented on, but added together, Colin Port doesn't exactly come across as your friendly neighbourhood copper.


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