London man who opposed construction of basketball venue believed to be first to receive wide-ranging ban from Olympics
Peter Walker
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 17 April 2012 14.12 BST
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An activist who took part in a protest against the construction of an Olympic facility says he has been handed a court order banning him from approaching any Olympic venue, activity or official.
The interim antisocial behaviour order (asbo) given to Simon Moore, 29, is believed to be the first pre-emptive Olympic asbo requested by Scotland Yard to prevent protests at the Games. It also bars Moore from going near events to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee, the trooping of the colour and the state opening of parliament.
Perhaps the most restrictive clause decrees that "trespassing on, or without the permission of the owner to interfere with, any building or land" would also contravene the asbo. Since breaching the order can result in jail, this section effectively criminalises all trespass, generally a civil matter.
Moore was among a group of residents and people associated with the Occupy movement who attempted to stop the construction of a basketball practice facility on Leyton Marsh, a green space near the Olympic park in east London. Protesters and their tents were removed from the site last week after the landowners won a court order.
Moore, who lives in west London but formerly spent time at the Occupy protest camp near St Paul's Cathedral in central London, said he was charged with a public order offence after refusing a police officer's order to leave the site. He admitted the offence in court and was briefly jailed.
On leaving Thamesmead prison in south-east London on Saturday, Moore said he was met by an officer from Scotland Yard's public order division, CO11, who handed him an envelope containing the asbo, approved by Westminster magistrates court.
"Just as I got out of custody a detective sergeant appeared out of nowhere and said, 'This is for you,' " Moore said. "It was unexpected. I'm already subject to two injunctions relating to Leyton Marsh, so I thought that would be pretty solid. I then looked at the prohibitions and yes, they're pretty extensive.
"I've got no intention of disrupting the Olympic ceremonies, the sporting events, the torch, let alone the diamond jubilee, the trooping of the colour, the state opening of parliament, any of them. It's like a pre-crime thing – they're suggesting that that is my intention. I imagine I won't be the last person to receive one of these."
The asbo, which will be either confirmed or overturned by magistrates at the start of May, prohibits Moore from going within 100 yards of any Olympic-related venue, "route" or the home of participants, officials or spectators, or approaching any road where the Olympic torch will pass that day.
More wide-ranging clauses bar "any activity that disrupts the intended or anticipated official activities of the Olympic Games or diamond jubilee celebrations", and obstructing the movement or passage of Olympic athletes, officials or spectators.
Moore said he believed the final clause, making any trespass a breach of the order, was intended to stop him taking part in any Occupy-style protest involving the pitching of tents.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said it was not known whether any similar orders had been applied for by the force.
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excerpt from: Formal complaint: Fake campaigner Simon Moore being used to "test" Olympic asbo
by Babs Tucker, BrianHaw.tv, 17 April 2012
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This is reminiscent of the run up to the Royal Wedding....
The authorities are getting desperate to have additional powers above and beyond the Public Order Act, which is flawed anyway.
However, since when could they use a law that no-one has even heard of and doesn't even exist yet ?
It is interesting to begin to realise that they must use fake activists more often than we realise to try and make case law, to then screw it up for everyone else.
It's obvious that it has got close to the Olympics and they have got desperate, because the Guardian story doesn't really add up/make much sense if one knew anything about the laws relating to protest, or even ...the law itself.
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:16 pm Post subject: Olympic Legacy: a tale of corporate greed and doublespeak
The 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India, was a terrible tragedy that understandably continues to evoke strong emotions even 27 years later. In the wake of the release, Union Carbide Corporation worked diligently to provide immediate and continuing aid to the victims and set up a process to resolve their claims – all of which were settled 20 years ago at the explicit direction and with the approval of the Supreme Court of India.
Meredith Alexander, who sits on the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, has quit her unpaid role over the controversial £7 million deal with the chemical giant, which has angered human rights campaigners because of Dow’s links to Union Carbide, the company responsible for the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984.
THE fishing bans in Sydney Harbour will have to stay in place for decades due to high levels of dioxins, despite an expensive clean-up of Homebush Bay, the original source of the contamination.
Although the clean-up of the former Union Carbide site is due to finish early next year, new figures obtained by the Herald under freedom of information laws show dioxins from the former pesticide factory have washed more than 10 kilometres up and downstream.
So how much compensation has this 'reputable' company, a central sponsor of London 2012, which will not doubt play some role in our Olympic legacy? Well, let's compare:
For the BP oil leak there was a $20 bn compensation fund.
US chemical company, Union Carbide, in the state of Madhya Pradesh; according to the Indian government, 3,500 people were killed outright: subsequent deaths raised the toll to 15,000. It took 17 years for the Indian government to obtain $470m compensation on behalf of the victims.
Of course, to the British public we don't need to focus too heavily on all of this. So long as our transport hub gets a necessary upgrade and local businesses feel the economic benefit....ah, well, let's just just hope it is as painless as possible!
The company in charge of security at the Olympics failed to stop plastic explosives being smuggled into Aintree.
An amount of Semtex was driven on to the Grand National site by an undercover cop in a covert test before the big race last week and was missed by a G4S sniffer dog.
A security source said: “The amount of Semtex that got on site could have killed scores of people in the hands of terrorists.
“It’s hard to believe a multinational company responsible for this summer’s Olympics security has allowed this to happen.”
The Merseyside Police operation will embarrass G4S, which won a £130million contract to protect the Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, and will employ 10,000 guards across all venues.
The springer spaniel had previously worked at the Olympics site but G4S has now removed it from all security work.
A G4S spokesman confirmed the dog had failed the test but said three others identified the Semtex soon after.
He added: “The dog concerned had previously had a very good track record and had passed a number of Metropolitan Police assessments, its regular monthly test and a training test earlier that day.
“Dogs play an important role in the overall security measures used to protect the public at events.
"However, dogs can make mistakes which is why they are only one of the measures we use.”
_________________ JO911B.
"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12
The chilling (and balaclava-clad) face of modern British policing: London siege reveals armed-to-the-teeth team preparing for the Olympic Games
By David Williams, Colin Fernandez, Arthur Martin and Ian Drury
PUBLISHED: 19:16, 27 April 2012
Bristling with guns, his face masked, a police officer moves in on a suspected suicide bomber.
Just 91 days away from the start of the Olympics, the dramatic scene gave a foretaste of what can be expected this summer after a man threatened to blow himself up in a busy office block.
Thousands were evacuated, Tube stations were closed and streets locked down over a wide area of London's West End.
Snipers, bomb disposal squads, nuclear biological and chemical warfare specialists and dozens of armed police were scrambled to the building on Tottenham scrambled to an office block on Tottenham Court Road, one of the city's busiest shopping streets.
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:42 pm Post subject:
trousers and trainees from "George" of ASDA
Lara Croft eat your heart out.
Makes you wonder with all that technology how the poor Brazillian electrician got executed "by mistake" on the tube. _________________ JO911B.
"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12
'The Army is set to station soldiers and high velocity surface-to-air missiles on top of a block of residential flats to ward off any airborne terror threats during the Olympics.
Residents in the private, gated flats in Bow, east London, have received a leaflet warning them that a team of 10 soldiers and police will be stationed at the building - home to 700 people - for the duration of the Games.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) leaflet says the missiles will only be fired as a last resort, said 28-year-old resident Brian Whelan, a journalist.
He said: "They are going to have a test run next week, putting high velocity missiles on the roof just above our apartment and on the back of it they're stationing police and military in the tower of the building for two months. It's a private, gated community with an old watch tower which is now a lift shaft.
"We have an MoD leaflet saying the building is the only suitable place in the area. It says there will be 10 officers plus police present 24/7. I'm not sure if they are going to live in the building. We have a gym and a pool and people have seen them there so it makes you think it will be some sort of Army base - it's not ideal.
"The property management company which runs the place put posters and gave out the leaflets today. The general tone of it all was 'Great news, aren't we lucky', but that's not normal, it's not something people should have put on them.
"I've looked these (the missiles) up and I don't think they're the kind of thing you can fire over a highly populated area like Tower Hamlets, think of the debris. It says the missiles will only be used as a last resort. It's totally unsuitable."
It is unclear who was responsible for liaising with the residents, but it is understood the MoD and the Metropolitan Police were working together with community groups over the issue. It is also unclear if the building's owners would be paid to have the missiles stationed on the roof - or whether the decision was made under the Emergency Powers Act.
An MoD spokesman said: "As announced before Christmas, ground-based air defence systems could be deployed as part of a multi-layered air security plan for the Olympics, including fast jets and helicopters, which will protect the skies over London during the Games.
"Based on military advice we have identified a number of sites and, alongside colleagues from the Metropolitan Police, are talking to local authorities and relevant landowners to help minimise the impact of any temporary deployments. As part of our ongoing planning, we can confirm site evaluations have taken place. However, no final decision on whether or not to deploy ground-based air defence systems for the Games has been taken." '
(It seems to me the buildings in question are the flats in the converted 'Bryant & May' match factory in Bow - outsider).
The leaflet indicates that the army plans to use Rapier missiles developed by Paris-based MBDA (formerly Matra BAe Dynamics UK) and the Starstreak HVM (High Velocity Missile), which the army says "is designed to counter threats from very high performance, low-flying aircraft and fast 'pop up' strikes by helicopter attacks...
Wot!! Don't Londoners rate a ring of Patriot missiles, already?
Are we some kinda 'second-class citizens??
And how's about Anthrax shots and iodine pills? _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:42 am Post subject: British police rehearse for the 2012 Olympics
Daily Mail, 28 April 2012
The face of modern policing: This picture shows the specialist combat gear worn by the armed police units
responding to the siege in central London yesterday (Daily Mail, 28 April 2012)
Armed police officers walk in Tottenham Court Road in central London
April 27, 2012. (REUTERS/Luke MacGregor)
Suicide bomb drama gives glimpse of paramilitary-style Olympic security
(*) title of the print edition
by David Williams, Colin Fernandez, Arthur Martin and Ian Drury, Daily Mail, 28 April 2012
Bristling with guns, his face masked, a police officer moves in on a suspected suicide bomber.
Just 91 days away from the start of the [London] Olympics, the dramatic scene gave a foretaste of what can be expected this summer after a man threatened to blow himself up in a busy office block.
Thousands were evacuated, Tube stations were closed and streets locked down over a wide area of London's West End.
Snipers, bomb disposal squads, nuclear biological and chemical warfare specialists and dozens of armed police were scrambled to the building on Tottenham scrambled to an office block on Tottenham Court Road, one of the city's busiest shopping streets. [...]
Members of the [London] Metropolitan Police's CO19 firearms unit – several of them former soldiers – covered the windows and entrances with their weapons while others covertly entered the block. […]
Special forces soldiers based in London including the SAS had been put on alert while members of the RAF's [Royal Air Force] nuclear, biological and chemical warfare group was dispatched to the scene. […]
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related news:
Missiles stationed on residential roof for Olympics
The Army is set to station soldiers and high velocity surface-to-air missiles on top of a block of residential flats to ward off any airborne terror threats during the Olympics.
Revealed: Police plans to fire rubber bullets in London
Scotland Yard authorised the deployment of rubber bullets ready for use on the streets of London 22 times in the past two years, The Independent can reveal.
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: British police rehearse for the 2012 Olympics
cem wrote:
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The face of modern policing: This picture shows the specialist combat gear worn by the armed police units
responding to the siege in central London yesterday (Daily Mail, 28 April 2012)
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I think is a candidate for photo of the year 2012.
'Sonic weapon' deployed in London during Olympics
By Gavin Thomas BBC News
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed a device which can be used as a "sonic weapon" will be deployed in London during the Olympics.
The American-made Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can be used to send verbal warnings over a long distance or emit a beam of pain-inducing tones.
The equipment was spotted fixed to a landing craft on the Thames at Westminster this week.
An MoD spokesman said it would be used "primarily in the loud hailer mode".
The piercing beam of sound emitted by the device is highly directional. Some versions of the LRAD are capable of producing deafening sound levels of 150 decibels at one metre.
But the device, which was used this week during Exercise Olympic Guardian, can also be used to broadcast verbal warnings, such as ordering crowds to disperse.
The San Diego-based LRAD Corporation has previously sold the device to the US Army, which deployed them in Iraq for crowd control.
The London 2012 Olympics have barely anything to do with sport. Not only is Britain continuing pagan/Nazi traditions and symbolism, the event is also a police state showcase and a psychological warfare attack on the people.
Published on 11 May 2012 by RussiaToday
As London prepares for the Olympics, bureaucrats and law-makers have been busy too - enacting a range of rules and regulations. Draconian measures are already excluding some people from the country, while a number of residents have been banned from the games -simply because they've objected to the construction of Olympic facilities near their homes. RT's Laura Smith has more.
RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
Good to see Simon still at it _________________ 'Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!'
“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”
Syrian official has said the UK "has no right" to deny their athletes access to the London 2012 Olympic games.
Mowaffak Joma, chairman of the Syrian Olympic committee, said the Olympic charter forbade host countries from banning athletes.
Deputy PM Nick Clegg has said Syrian delegation members with connections to the regime will be denied entry.
His comments came after Syria denied any involvement in the massacre of 108 civilians in Houla.
The United Nations (UN) say 32 of those killed, allegedly during and after clashes between Syrian security forces and "armed terrorists", were children under 10 years old.
Olympic terrorism fears lead to checks on 500,000 (*)
by Nick Hopkins, Owen Gibson and Sandra Laville, The Guardian, 6 June 2012
The backgrounds of up to 500,000 people are being scrutinised in an unprecedented security screening designed to stop the Olympic Games being disrupted by criminals or terrorists, the Guardian has learned.
In what is understood to be the biggest vetting process since the second world war, the Home Office has so far refused about 100 applications for Games accreditation, mostly because of concerns about the extent of people’s criminal records.
However, some people have been denied accreditation on the advice of MI5, which has to assess whether a person might pose a significant threat to national security.
The 500,000 figure includes anyone seeking employment at the Games, as well as athletes, coaches and officials from more than 200 competing nations.
The Guardian has been told the threshold for refusing accreditation has been set high, which means some of those working at the Olympics this summer will have “come to the notice of” the police or MI5 in the past.
“To be rejected, they have to pose a significant potential threat to the safety of the Games,” said a source. “They won’t be rejected on the basis that information is held about them.
“A judgment has to be made, not on the basis that there is an official record, but does this person pose a significant threat to security.”
Police and MI5 have been taking a careful look at all those who may end up working at the Olympic sites. It is an obvious way for would-be terrorists to gain access to venues, and police are aware that terrorists may masquerade as casual workers looking for temporary jobs.
However, those involved in the security of the Games say they have found no evidence so far that al-Qaida sympathisers have tried to infiltrate the civilian workforce.
The vetting process began in earnest last October and officials are more than two-thirds of the way through the process, which is expected to be completed in the coming weeks. It has been one of the core tasks of counter-terrorism officials but the scale of the operation, and the depth of the checks required, has made it a drawn-out affair.
Among those still to be vetted are many of the 10,000 security guards who will be employed by G4S, the private firm which is contributing 23,700 personnel at the Olympic venues.
A big recruitment drive was launched by G4S when the number of guards it was expected to provide grew from 2,000 to 10,000, after it emerged that the Games organisers, Locog, had seriously underestimated the number required. The 70,000 volunteers recruited by Locog, who are considered crucial to the success of the Games, are also being screened.
Home Office officials said that many of the 10,500 athletes taking part in the Games and those accompanying them were used to travelling to international events and were unlikely to pose any security problems.
There remain outstanding questions surrounding a handful of high-profile individuals, including members of the Syrian Olympic committee with close links to the Assad regime. It is believed that discussions are continuing over whether to bar General Mofwaq Joumaa, the president of the Syrian national Olympic committee, from entering the UK.
Scotland Yard and MI5 are understood to have hundreds of investigations “live”, with the Olympic security operation likely to reach a new pitch as teams arrive for training before the event.
It is understood that the security service has not set up a separate Olympic security unit, believing it would be wrong to draw a distinction between terrorism and Olympic terrorism.
The security service is said to be bracing for a possible deluge of intelligence from foreign police forces and intelligence agencies, who will not want to sit on any information just in case it reveals a potential threat to the Games. MI5 remains confident it will be able to cope, and the Home Office said it will leave nothing to chance when it comes to security.
“We are undertaking stringent checks on all those seeking accreditation,” a Home Office spokesman said. “This rigorous process has been designed to ensure those working at the Games are fit to do so. We will leave nothing to chance in our aim to deliver a safe and secure Games that London, the UK and the whole world will enjoy.”
Corporatization of the coming Olympic games in London is under attack from all corners of the world, it seems.
While the American AFL-CIO has joined a movement to stop the alliance between the International Olympic Committee and Rio Tinto - which is to make the Olympic gold medals - and Vietnam and India are up in arms over sponsorship by the notorious Dow Chemical Company.
Both India and Vietnam are united in their desire to remove Dow, which signed a 10-year sponsorship agreement with the International Olympic Committee, from the games, but their reasons are different. For India, the problem is that Dow purchased the company responsible for the infamous Bhopal disaster, while for Vietnam the issue is the corporation's production of Agent Orange used to maim its people and defoliate its countryside during the war in the 1960's and 70's.
The chemical, dropped and sprayed from U.S. planes to kill vegetation and make it harder for Vietnamese resistance fighters to hide, brought major devastation to the country.
According to Nguen Van Rinh, president of the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin, speaking to mark the 50th year of the "Agent Orange catastrophe," the U.S. dropped about 80 million liters of chemicals on Vietnam, 61 percent - 20 million gallons - of which was Agent Orange. In southern Vietnam, a quarter of the area was covered.
Hoang Tuan Anh, Vietnam's Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee asking the agency to sever ties with the chemical giant. "Dow Chemical expressed their indifference and refused compensation for victims of the Agent Orange produced by the company, as well as their responsibility to clean up contaminated areas," Hoang wrote.
"Spending zero effort to recover their mistakes in the past, Dow continues to destroy the current living environment. In 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency listed Dow as the second worst polluter in the world."
About 4.8 million Vietnamese were affected by Agent Orange, and up to half a million children were born with birth defects due to the chemical. Even now, the nation is trying to undo the effects of the chemical.
Vietnam Women's Union President Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, writing to the International Olympic Committee, expressed dismay at the alliance between Dow and the games, saying, "Dow refuses to accept responsibility or makes compensation to tragic victims."
"We are concerned that the acceptance of Dow sponsorship will negatively influence the image and reputation of the Olympic Games," she continued. "With the functions of representing and protecting rights and interests of women in Vietnam, the Vietnam Women's Union would like to call upon IOC to reconsider your decision to accept Dow Chemical Corporation as a sponsor of the Olympic events, thus preserving the good images and reputation of the Olympics."
After the war the chemical caused illness and death among civilians in the United States. The company unloaded waste by-products from its Agent Orange production facilities and those were sold as dust control agents to municipalities in America. The entire town of Times Beach, Mo., was contaminated and had to be abandoned after the chemical was sprayed on all of its dust roads.
Many in India are upset because of the Bhopal gas leak disaster. While Union Carbide was the company that caused the troubles, Dow has been seen to inherit the guilt, because it acquired the company.
The disaster took place Dec. 2, 1984, when poisonous gas leaked from the plant, thus exposing hundreds of thousands of people. According to the government of the Indian state where the gas leak occurred, 3,787 people died from the exposure, and more than half a million were injured.
But the official estimate may be an understatement: According to The Bhopal Medical Appeal, "Municipal workers who picked up bodies with their own hands, loading them onto trucks for burial in mass graves or to be burned on mass pyres, reckon they shifted at least 15,000 bodies."
The Indian government battled with the company, trying to get the business to pay for its mess. "Dow's unwillingness to fulfill its legal and moral obligations in Bhopal represents only the latest chapter in this horrifying humanitarian disaster," says Bhopal Project. "For 26 years, the victims of Bhopal have continued to demand justice; the only question is: will we listen?"
For both Vietnam and Indian victims of Bhopal, the idea of a supposedly "green" Olympics being sponsored by a company responsible for some of the worst environmental and humanitarian disasters in history is reprehensible.
On this side of the Atlantic, the AFL-CIO's demand that Rio Tinto be barred from sponsorship is due to the company being, as the labor federation's President Richard Trumka describes it, "a union-busting global mining conglomerate with a track record of worker and environmental abuse."
Trumka sent his own letter to the IOC, saying, "Every athlete who competes in the Olympics deserves to be supported by entities that exemplify the best spirit of the games. Rio Tinto's treatment of USW members in Alma [where it locked out 750 workers] abundantly proves that it is not such an entity."
The AFL-CIO joined forces with the United Steel Workers and others in the movement to kick Rio Tinto "off the podium."
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: Syria going to compete?
Mo Kingbird wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18230869
Syrian official has said the UK "has no right" to deny their athletes access to the London 2012 Olympic games.
Mowaffak Joma, chairman of the Syrian Olympic committee, said the Olympic charter forbade host countries from banning athletes.
Deputy PM Nick Clegg has said Syrian delegation members with connections to the regime will be denied entry.
His comments came after Syria denied any involvement in the massacre of 108 civilians in Houla.
The United Nations (UN) say 32 of those killed, allegedly during and after clashes between Syrian security forces and "armed terrorists", were children under 10 years old.
The US, UK, Israel, France etc have 'no right' to do lots of stuff, like invade and occupy sovereign nations.
Clegg nails his 'flag' to the post; as a solidly 'pro-NWO' 'Apparatchik'; I don't know if he has graced Bilderburg's meetings, but he's obviously 'sold his soul' - he can sup at the Master's table.
There is ample evidence of NWO machinations re Syria (as also Libya, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, Afghanistan and so forth on other threads on this Forum (Syria - http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=20458&start=0 ).
If I were Assad, I would count my blessings, in so far as when/if a 'terrorist attack' (widely expected) occurs, Syria's athletes will be neither killed nor credibly blamed.
I don't need a 'banning order'; you won't find hide nor hair of me anywhere near the 'ZION' 'games'.
I wonder if the 'Powers' are going to stop (temporarily) the nuclear fuel trains which trundle along near the site?
Hmmm, perhaps that's what they're planning?
Anti-aircraft batteries don't stop bazooka shells, or RPG's. Or for that matter, armour-piercing machine-gun rounds. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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