G8 protesters accuse British cops of torture: Who's Next?

Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF - Amsterdam, July 15th - 2005 - Even knowing it's 'TGIF'; it's just for our information. So you don't get caught (security) on your way to or from home. We need the information so we recognize 'The light at the end of the tunnel'. Even if many of us 'have seen the light', (an Abraham A-1 tanks- http://tinyurl.com/ctr3l) and heard the clanking sound of the war machine before. Just have a look what Google - this strange US run and censoring - search machine has - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/asb92

So, looking in the neocon's abyss which is in store for us, are we supposed to go back to our future? After - with a certain pleasure - having lived in Scandinavia
for many years, I still thought that people's behavior - contrary to the present day mainstream media - is not not like the lemmings - http://tinyurl.com/7qjgo

I'm sorry to say however, that we are our own worst enemy, and that we are molded that way by those who want 'to use us'. Whether you are a journalist like
me, or a worker who too thinks; he or she is 'only doing the right thing'. That's what they thought too: http://tinyurl.com/8v6no

This is anyhow what is on our doorstep, as Gary Braden wrote in the Evening Times of London: of the few people (compared to the overwhelming police
force) who protested and got arrested, there have been eight which have dared to file complaints and accuse the British police of using torture. I have experienced the same in different countries as a correspondent, but most of you will never have been in foreign police cells, or have been taken into custody 'at home', yet...

WELL, HAVE A LOOK AT TODAY'S STORY, AND JUST THINK IT MAY BE YOU, YOUR FAMILY ETC.:

FOUR G8 protesters may sue police after claims they were psychologically tortured and mistreated while in custody in Glasgow. They say that officers at Baird Street woke them up every hour as a form of torture, placed them in dirty cells and fed them sub-standard food and water that left them sick.

The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland refuted the claims.

Protester Dr Martin Kraemer, from Poland, claimed he was charged with a breach of the peace for refusing to stop playing his clarinet in Glasgow. The agricultural scientist said: "The police wanted to provoke violence. In the end I was arrested for playing the clarinet. I found that funny."

He claimed he was deprived of sleep, woke every half-hour, locked in a filthy cell, stripped down to his underwear and denied water for periods of time. He has made an official complaint against the police for violating his basic rights.

Businesswoman Zahra Quadir, 24, living in Edinburgh but originally from Afghanistan, said she was dragged without warning to a police van during a peaceful
Glasgow protest. She claimed the cell she was later placed in had excrement on the wall, floor and around the toilet seat and was cold. She said: "I respected
the Scottish police but have been traumatized."

Peter Wilson, Fife chief constable and Acpos president, said officers had "demonstrated a thoroughly professional and efficient service at all times".

All the protesters denied the charges against them and are to face trials in the autumn.

[end item] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cgc3h

In the autumn?

German anti-Nazi Pastor Niem�ller we all know, and maybe every day should remember what he said:

I wasn't a Communist so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists;

I wasn't in a Union so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the Jews;

but I was a Christian, so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the Catholics;

I was a Protestant, so I didn't speak up.

THEN THEY CAME FOR ME;

AND THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO SPEAK UP".

HR, it's quite obvious: If you do not fight today, tomorrow will be too late.

Journalists are killers too - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qpny

And, for all those who - like me - do not have the English language as their mother tongue: 'TGIF' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/chvvy

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*The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during
Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

*'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* Torture Court case against Rumsfeld moves on - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/clpbf

*Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.:
http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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FPF - Amsterdam, July 15th - 2005 - Even knowing it's 'TGIF'; it's just for our information. So you don't get caught (security) on your way to or from home. We need the information so we recognize 'The light at the end of the tunnel'. Even if many of us 'have seen the light', (an Abraham A-1 tanks- http://tinyurl.com/ctr3l) and heard the clanking sound of the war machine before. Just have a look what Google - this strange US run and censoring - search machine has - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/asb92

So, looking in the neocon's abyss which is in store for us, are we supposed to go back to our future? After - with a certain pleasure - having lived in Scandinavia
for many years, I still thought that people's behavior - contrary to the present day mainstream media - is not not like the lemmings - http://tinyurl.com/7qjgo

I'm sorry to say however, that we are our own worst enemy, and that we are molded that way by those who want 'to use us'. Whether you are a journalist like
me, or a worker who too thinks; he or she is 'only doing the right thing'. That's what they thought too: http://tinyurl.com/8v6no

This is anyhow what is on our doorstep, as Gary Braden wrote in the Evening Times of London: of the few people (compared to the overwhelming police
force) who protested and got arrested, there have been eight which have dared to file complaints and accuse the British police of using torture. I have experienced the same in different countries as a correspondent, but most of you will never have been in foreign police cells, or have been taken into custody 'at home', yet...

WELL, HAVE A LOOK AT TODAY'S STORY, AND JUST THINK IT MAY BE YOU, YOUR FAMILY ETC.:

FOUR G8 protesters may sue police after claims they were psychologically tortured and mistreated while in custody in Glasgow. They say that officers at Baird Street woke them up every hour as a form of torture, placed them in dirty cells and fed them sub-standard food and water that left them sick.

The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland refuted the claims.

Protester Dr Martin Kraemer, from Poland, claimed he was charged with a breach of the peace for refusing to stop playing his clarinet in Glasgow. The agricultural scientist said: "The police wanted to provoke violence. In the end I was arrested for playing the clarinet. I found that funny."

He claimed he was deprived of sleep, woke every half-hour, locked in a filthy cell, stripped down to his underwear and denied water for periods of time. He has made an official complaint against the police for violating his basic rights.

Businesswoman Zahra Quadir, 24, living in Edinburgh but originally from Afghanistan, said she was dragged without warning to a police van during a peaceful
Glasgow protest. She claimed the cell she was later placed in had excrement on the wall, floor and around the toilet seat and was cold. She said: "I respected
the Scottish police but have been traumatized."

Peter Wilson, Fife chief constable and Acpos president, said officers had "demonstrated a thoroughly professional and efficient service at all times".

All the protesters denied the charges against them and are to face trials in the autumn.

[end item] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cgc3h

In the autumn?

German anti-Nazi Pastor Niem�ller we all know, and maybe every day should remember what he said:

I wasn't a Communist so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists;

I wasn't in a Union so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the Jews;

but I was a Christian, so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the Catholics;

I was a Protestant, so I didn't speak up.

THEN THEY CAME FOR ME;

AND THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO SPEAK UP".

HR, it's quite obvious: If you do not fight today, tomorrow will be too late.

Journalists are killers too - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qpny

And, for all those who - like me - do not have the English language as their mother tongue: 'TGIF' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/chvvy

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/3tro9
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl

*The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during
Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

*'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* Torture Court case against Rumsfeld moves on - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/clpbf

*Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.:
http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.:
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FPF - Amsterdam, July 15th - 2005 - Even knowing it's 'TGIF'; it's just for our information. So you don't get caught (security) on your way to or from home. We need the information so we recognize 'The light at the end of the tunnel'. Even if many of us 'have seen the light', (an Abraham A-1 tanks- http://tinyurl.com/ctr3l) and heard the clanking sound of the war machine before. Just have a look what Google - this strange US run and censoring - search machine has - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/asb92

So, looking in the neocon's abyss which is in store for us, are we supposed to go back to our future? After - with a certain pleasure - having lived in Scandinavia
for many years, I still thought that people's behavior - contrary to the present day mainstream media - is not not like the lemmings - http://tinyurl.com/7qjgo

I'm sorry to say however, that we are our own worst enemy, and that we are molded that way by those who want 'to use us'. Whether you are a journalist like
me, or a worker who too thinks; he or she is 'only doing the right thing'. That's what they thought too: http://tinyurl.com/8v6no

This is anyhow what is on our doorstep, as Gary Braden wrote in the Evening Times of London: of the few people (compared to the overwhelming police
force) who protested and got arrested, there have been eight which have dared to file complaints and accuse the British police of using torture. I have experienced the same in different countries as a correspondent, but most of you will never have been in foreign police cells, or have been taken into custody 'at home', yet...

WELL, HAVE A LOOK AT TODAY'S STORY, AND JUST THINK IT MAY BE YOU, YOUR FAMILY ETC.:

FOUR G8 protesters may sue police after claims they were psychologically tortured and mistreated while in custody in Glasgow. They say that officers at Baird Street woke them up every hour as a form of torture, placed them in dirty cells and fed them sub-standard food and water that left them sick.

The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland refuted the claims.

Protester Dr Martin Kraemer, from Poland, claimed he was charged with a breach of the peace for refusing to stop playing his clarinet in Glasgow. The agricultural scientist said: "The police wanted to provoke violence. In the end I was arrested for playing the clarinet. I found that funny."

He claimed he was deprived of sleep, woke every half-hour, locked in a filthy cell, stripped down to his underwear and denied water for periods of time. He has made an official complaint against the police for violating his basic rights.

Businesswoman Zahra Quadir, 24, living in Edinburgh but originally from Afghanistan, said she was dragged without warning to a police van during a peaceful
Glasgow protest. She claimed the cell she was later placed in had excrement on the wall, floor and around the toilet seat and was cold. She said: "I respected
the Scottish police but have been traumatized."

Peter Wilson, Fife chief constable and Acpos president, said officers had "demonstrated a thoroughly professional and efficient service at all times".

All the protesters denied the charges against them and are to face trials in the autumn.

[end item] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cgc3h

In the autumn?

German anti-Nazi Pastor Niem�ller we all know, and maybe every day should remember what he said:

I wasn't a Communist so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists;

I wasn't in a Union so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the Jews;

but I was a Christian, so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the Catholics;

I was a Protestant, so I didn't speak up.

THEN THEY CAME FOR ME;

AND THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO SPEAK UP".

HR, it's quite obvious: If you do not fight today, tomorrow will be too late.

Journalists are killers too - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qpny

And, for all those who - like me - do not have the English language as their mother tongue: 'TGIF' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/chvvy

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/3tro9
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl

*The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during
Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

*'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* Torture Court case against Rumsfeld moves on - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/clpbf

*Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.:
http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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