UK’s Metropolitan Police have denied the Stop the War Coalition from marching along a route they’ve traditionally used for demonstrations.
You can go here and send an e-mail of protest to those with the power to reverse this decision.
The Independent published a report Nov. 13th with this in it:
Sir John Stevens, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, insisted that he had not come under any pressure from the American Secret Service to hide demonstrators or set up an exclusion zone around the President.
Today the Observer has published a story about the Bush administration’s non-demands. The article includes this:
The issue of immunity is one of a series of extraordinary US demands turned down by Ministers and Downing Street during preparations for the Bush visit.
These included the closure of the Tube network, the use of US air force planes and helicopters and the shipping in of battlefield weaponry to use against rioters.
In return, the British authorities agreed numerous concessions, including the creation of a ‘sterile zone’ around the President with a series of road closures in central London and a security cordon keeping the public away from his cavalcade.
The immunity mentioned in that excerpt was requested for Secret Service who ‘accidentally’ shot and killed a protestor[s].
The ‘mini-gun’ they wanted to carry along has the capacity to kill dozens of people at a time.
‘Due to the small calibre of the round, the mini-gun can be used practically anywhere. This is especially helpful during peacekeeping deployments.’