[kj] Blindness

[Change]

The police started every instanc of violence I have
witnessed at protests over the years.

They never learn.
Quite often their tactics backfire in their faces,
like the time Reclaim the Streets shut down a motorway
for an afternoon instead of the planned backroad after
the pigs tried to turn a van/soundsystem into a sty.

--- death wish <dwish2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:


> I don't remember "us" losing the right of protest.

> 

> I've witnessed firsthand the agitation the police

> themselves will use to 

> escalate a peaceful situation, so they can then

> "respond" to 

> "troublemakers". It's an old, old tactic. There are

> written rules of 

> engagement which are routinely ignored. That's not

> to say all protesters are 

> angels, but please apportion blame where it's due.

> Whoever was operating the 

> water cannon in question and whoever gave the order

> to use the water cannon 

> should certainly have their feet held to the fire,

> if not literally.

> 

> T.

> 

> 

> 

> >From: "Tim Bucknall" <tim.bucknall at googlemail.com>

> >Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke

> (the 

> >band!)"<gathering at misera.net>

> >To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the

> band!)" 

> ><gathering at misera.net>

> >Subject: Re: [kj] Blindness

> >Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:13:28 +0100

> >

> >Don't Blame the cops, blame the troublemakers who's

> stupid actions have 

> >lost

> >us the right of protest

> >

> >On 15/06/07, Change <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk>

> wrote:

> >>

> >>A LIVERPOOL man was blinded in one eye by a police

> >>water cannon as he

> >>staged a protest at the G8 summit in Germany.

> >>

> >>The 33-year-old from Aigburth spoke exclusively to

> the

> >>Daily Post of

> >>the horror and pain of being directly hit in the

> face

> >>with the

> >>powerful jets by officers he claimed were using

> the

> >>crowd control

> >>devices as weapons.

> >>

> >>The protester, a member of Liverpool's Social

> Forum,

> >>is suffering

> >>from shock and witnesses to the incident, which

> >>occurred at the

> >>protest in the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm

> on

> >>Thursday, said

> >>they saw his eye come out of its socket.

> >>

> >>Speaking last night from the Eye Unit at the Royal

> >>Liverpool

> >>Hospital, the victim, who wishes only to be called

> >>Matt, said a CAT

> >>scan had revealed he had sustained internal

> bleeding,

> >>extensive

> >>damage to his Iris and possible damage to his

> retina.

> >>

> >>Doctors have now told the keen reader, cyclist and

> >>amateur

> >>photographer, that he will face future operations,

> >>cataracts, and

> >>glaucoma.

> >>

> >>They told him that because of the internal

> bleeding it

> >>would be

> >>between six to eight weeks before they could

> assess

> >>the damage to his

> >>retina but warned that permanent harm had been

> caused

> >>and that he

> >>will never fully regain the vision in that eye.

> >>

> >>Matt said: "I went to Germany to take part in a

> >>peaceful protest and

> >>to be honest at the start of the day there was a

> very

> >>jolly, almost

> >>carnival, atmosphere.

> >>

> >>"There were three lines of police and all of a

> sudden

> >>things got more

> >>aggressive.

> >>

> >>"There were a few baton charges so all the

> protesters

> >>just linked

> >>arms and stood firm. It was all still very

> peaceful.

> >>

> >>"I have never seen water cannons before and all of

> a

> >>sudden there

> >>were eight or nine of them. The police made an

> >>announcement in German

> >>but none of us understood it and then we were

> fired

> >>at.

> >>

> >>"I was knocked to the floor at first and then when

> I

> >>got up I was hit

> >>right in the face.

> >>

> >>"The pain was incredible. My eye had come out and

> I

> >>just ran off

> >>holding it to find an ambulance."

> >>

> >>Matt was one of seven protesters and a German

> >>journalist who were

> >>taken to Rostock University Hospital with eye

> >>injuries.

> >>

> >>He said one protester had also been knocked

> >>unconscious by the water

> >>cannons and another suffered a perforated ear

> drum.

> >>

> >>Matt added: "They were using water cannons as

> weapons,

> >>which they are

> >>not supposed to do.

> >>

> >>"Their actions were deliberate and vindictive and

> >>completely

> >>unnecessary.

> >>

> >>"I went there to express my feelings peacefully as

> I

> >>am entitled to

> >>do. What they did to me was absolutely dis-

> graceful.

> >>Doctors can't

> >>believe what they have done to me.

> >>

> >>"The German activists we spoke to said they have

> never

> >>before seen

> >>the police use this type of water cannon or fire

> at

> >>people heads."

> >>

> >>Matt added that he was going to take advice about

> >>suing the German

> >>police and will campaign for a stop to water

> cannons

> >>being fired at

> >>protesters' heads.

> >>

> >>Liverpool Daily Post - June 11th

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>INTERZONE

> >>http://www.augustineleudar.110mb.com/Interzone.htm

> >>

> >>RTX, Kristin Hersh, Githead, Shellac, Michael Gira

> & the Dirty Three

> >>interviewed here:

> >>www.perfectsoundforever.com

> >>

> >>Polysics interviewed here:

> >>www.cultcargo.net

> >>

> >>

> >>     

>

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> 

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INTERZONE
http://www.augustineleudar.110mb.com/Interzone.htm

RTX, Kristin Hersh, Githead, Shellac, Michael Gira & the Dirty Three interviewed here:
www.perfectsoundforever.com

Polysics interviewed here:
www.cultcargo.net


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