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Arrested for Holding an Umbrella

Sunday, February 17, 2013 13:20

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Is an Umbrella a bigger crime than GENOCIDE ?

(Be The Media) – The U.K. has its own version of the Occupy Movement. The Parliament Square Peace Campaign started nine years ago by a divorced father of seven children who began his one-man protest against sanctions on Iraq weeks before the 9/11 atrocities raised the prospects of an invasion. Over the years Brian Haw’s camp has become a symbol of anti-war protest.

Labor’s 2005 Serious Organized Crime and Police Act had a clause written to remove campers from the square but Mr Haw’s legal team won a ruling that his protest predated that Act and could not be stopped by it. Westminster Council tried to evict him for obstructing the pavements but his lawyers proved that passers-by were not blocked. In recent years, attempts to enforce the law have dwindled and his camp was allowed to encroach on the grass of the square and to grow in size.

After a culmination of ongoing battles between protesters and the CIty of London, which went to the courts to argue that the camp was “becoming an eyesore” and should be cleared, the activists were ordered to leave Parliament Square on July 2010. Free speech campaigners decried the decision by the Court of Appeal last week to press ahead with an eviction, arguing that the judiciary had clamped down on free speech simply because politicians had lamented the aesthetics of the camp.

The demonstration, which moved to the pavement after protesters were evicted from Parliament Square in July, has seen about 20 tents erected next to veteran activist Brian Haw.

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The SHOCKING VIDEO below of a CRIME committed by the police state in the U.K., shows that an innocent man, Steve Jago was unlawfully arrested and violently assaulted at 7pm on Friday 15th 2013, before being unlawfully “arrested” and falsely imprisoned.