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  • Pittsburgh Police Arrest Five Anti-War Protesters, Two Injured, in March
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joe Mandak
    PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - Police charged four people protesting the war in Iraq, two of whom suffered minor injuries from the police response, when 60 people disrupted traffic by marching the wrong way down a busy one-way street toward an Army recruiting station.
    The Pittsburgh Organizing Group planned the Saturday morning demonstration. A spokesman for that group, David Meieran, accused police of responding with "inappropriate and excessive force."
    Meieran claimed some (…)

  • G8 arrests - call out for info & witnesses
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hi, the following has been received from the G8 Legal Support group, who provided legal observers and legal info at the recent G8 protests from 2 to 9 July.
    If you were detained/arrested, witnessed a detention, or can help in any way, please read on...
    G8 & SUPPORTING THOSE ARRESTED
    At the recent G8 protests in Scotland there were some 700 people detained by the police. These are different from arrests, as the police in Scotland have the powers to “detain” for a set length of time. (…)

  • The Guardian and the de Menezes killing
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland
    New leaks from official sources in Britain have added to the evidence already brought to light, proving that the official story of how Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was gunned down was a pack of lies. In response, the liberal daily newspaper the Guardian has rushed to the defence of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, justifying the use of death squads and excusing a cover-up aimed at concealing how the police murdered an innocent man.
    De (…)

  • An Open Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Prime Minister: Not since the Christie Affair * (1862-1865) have relations between our two countries been this bad; I mean Brazil and England. Quite apart from the lies of the war which, in our cups, I’m sure we all agree, were fantastic fibs (great with the rabble, though, I must admit: they sold like hot cakes here in the US where I live), I think you would better do right by the De Menezes dossier and not try to "fix the facts around the policy" on this matter. Brazil did not (…)

  • De Menezes: Another Corpse on the Road to Globalist Fascism
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Kurt Nimmo
    The blogger Aangirfan draws a parallel between the execution of the seemingly hapless Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July in the London subway and Operation Gladio. As Aangirfan points out, de Menezes “behaved normally” when he entered Stockwell Tube station, did not run from police (or rather a “Special Reconnaissance Regiment, modeled on an undercover unit that operated in Northern Ireland,” according to the Guardian), did not jump a tollgate and used his Oyster card (a (…)

  • Chile Completes Its Transition To Democracy
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee
    In two key decisions Chile has restored her democracy lost on September 11, 1973 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet overthrew democratically elected president Salvador Allende in a bloody Coupe supported by the United States.
    On July 6, a Chilean court ruled 11 to 10 to remove Picnochet’s immunity he had granted himself when he became dictator in 1973. This opens the door to the families of those murdered and tortured by his regime to pursue legal action against him. There (…)

  • Met Chief Must Resign Or Be Sacked
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sir Ian tried to stop shooting inquiry
    by Brian Richards
    LONDON, ENGLAND — (OfficialWire) — 08/19/05 — On July 22-the same day that UK police shot and killed Jean Charles de Menezes, the 27-year-old Brazilian electrician-Scotland Yard’s commissioner, Sir Ian Blair (shown here), attempted to stop an independent external investigation into the shooting of the young Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber.
    According to a report in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Sir Ian wrote to John (…)

  • FBI Tells Enormous Lie About Nick Berg
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
    In a letter sent to me in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tells an enormous lie. They don’t admit to having ever investigated Nick Berg. Strictly speaking, they say that their "central record" files located no records at "headquarters" to indicate that Berg has ever been of "investigatory interest to the FBI." Then they invite me to check with their various field (…)

  • 77 year old harassed by police for calling Bush a Liar on Radio
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Law Abiding Ohio Resident And Korean War Veteran Has Authorities Illegally Swarm On His Property Just Hours After He Called President Bush A Liar On A Local AM Radio Station
    by Greg Szymanski
    Although Doug Stout, 77, won’t pin illegal entry on his property to his harsh comments about Bush, but says one thing for sure "I don’t smoke pot and everybody in town knows it." After hovering over his property with a helicopter, officers then swarmed on his land, looked at some shrubbery and then (…)

  • Leaked report lists ’blunders’ as police shot bomb suspect
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel McGrory and Stewart Tendler
    SCOTLAND YARD made “a series of catastrophic errors” that led to armed officers hunting the July 21 bombers shooting dead an innocent Brazilian, it was claimed last night.
    Leaked witness statements from officers who took part in the botched operation reveal that Jean Charles de Menezes was restrained by one of Scotland Yard’s surveillance team before being shot eight times as he sat on a Tube train.
    Documents and photographs from the Independent (…)