STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subj: The Loop : WEEDFEST LONDON Date: 6/17/01 2:23:55 AM Mountain Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Bunn) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] She was someone who offered to help Key and then disappeared off the scene says Hoff ------- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\| ||\____ | Opium EXPRESS | ||',""|""""""\___, | __ | ||__|'__|___|| [""(@)'(@)"""""""""""""""**|(@)(@) The most powerful lobby group of its kind on the 'net. Tony Benn, the long standing Socialist MP who stood down at the last election appeared on UK tv on Sunday the 17th of June to refute his previous leaders recent statement as to the "anarchists" in Sweden who were disrupting events at the Summit Meeting. Tony Blair, the leader of the cuddlesome left of the nation and Prime Minister, has taken a Uturn tighter than any produced by Thatcher or those Tories who recently decided than fining people "on the spot" for possession of small amounts of cannabis should become the norm. And Tony Benn is not impressed. indeed Benn made some forthright statements as t'is his way though decades of opposition to the dreaded Margaret and the lesser leading lights of Conservative rule and pro Royalism. Benn was determined to get the most valid point of all across to the Brit nation when he compared media coverage of such violent events to propaganda of the west. And he directed public attention to the strangest of facts. In that if these riots had happened in China or elsewhere on non western foreign shores, the west would applaud, instead of blaming anarchists and making statements such as Blair made in that "these types of protest have to be stopped." Whereas Blair does not want to get disturbed during his actions to link with the less vicious aspects of multi corporationism, (check out "The Silent Takeover""). Benn still states that in the world in which we live, nothing gets reported from the people "unless someone throws a brick". Unfortunately, for those who don't have anything like a brick to hand on a daily basis, Benn's statements have far more of a ring of truth that the PMs. The shooting on demonstrators in Sweden will have taken methods of mass protest up another rung on the ladder to direct confrontation with the state. And the reasons for this are not just in the hands of those with itchy state trigger fingers, but in the duplicities of and slowest of speed in, bring people friendly laws into being. Meaningful actions that will at least give some hint that parliamentarians in general are willing to link votes with power. Something that at this time, especially in such places as Florida during the last election, parliamentarians seem to have either forgotten or ignored. Hijack the state star ship in any way one can seems to be the philosophy of the elected. But as to elections themselves? Benn reminded his audience that the IMF were not elected, neither were those who make up the European Commission. And that it is not necessarily those who have been elected who are designing new laws for the people. In Brixton in London yesterday the largest pro cannabis festival in Europe was held in the pouring rain. "How can y'win?" Asked Dana Beal the proactivist from NYork. Who along with Tracey "Marijuana Barbie" had kindly crossed the Grt Pond to give "Dutch" courage to such as Chris Schmoo and Steve Pank and other Brits too many to mention in organising such a welcome event. And in fact the rain did dampen all the spirits involved in bring the weed to the people. But there is more, more to be revealed as to this particular event yesterday. And that is the big split between the New Labour policy on non legalisation and the police themselves. Two days before the event was due the press, (not the government!) issued a statement that people arrested with a few grams of pot in their possession would get a caution and let loose. No report would be filed that would infringe upon their rights when seeking employment, and having their records checked. No, these pot heads would be freed to go their way in peace. "Hello?".. "What's this?" people started to wonder, and ask. "Is this that nice Mr Blair showing a little courage to the people, those in the UK who do not possess the courage to allow basic freedoms of others to enter their frame of social activities?". But they were to be disappointed. Instead going out on a limb, the local, police chief Commander Brian Paddick had decided to find the courage to act independently of those in the UK Cabinet who entrenched in their own political self protectionism still refuse to bring legal pot to the people. To legalise cannabis use for both medical and recreational use. "A total success all round" Said the Police Press Office at Scotland yard this morning. A success for which Tony Blair and his new teams of acolytes cannot claim as their own. In fact, new labour on drugs is labouring under the impression that its policies are in any way acceptable. Wherein fact, this governments policies on drugs as duplistic and contorted as anywhere else in the west, except for Holland. Wherein on one hand the government of the UK can condone the appearance of such as the Burmese military junta and the producing nations at major sports and cultural events wherein these nations gain credence for being "normal societies". On the other, the thought of coffee shoppes freely springing up around the UK makes new labour and the Blairites throw up their hands in horror! And wobble as if stoned on their own superior knowledge and stations in life. Just before "Bunker Jim" had shown up to transport our butts to south London's Brockwell Park. The phone had rung to say "Hi Roger, We are on the march". Special Branch are the anti terrorist section of the UK police force. So one guesses than the "chaps" got just as stoned as everyone else at this interesting event. I have a few points to mention. In that, in the speakers tent, wherein apart from Dana and Barbie, Chris, Steve and a wonderful young lady who was throwing free cigarette papers to her audience and rolling metre long joint. The music lacked an educated dimension. And that the backup service from the interview team was excellent. Probably far better to get owns thoughts and words down upon video tape than it is in a tent in the rain wherein people are sometimes too stoned or too distracted to take it all in. Cannabis is a social thing. Thereby not only one member of my family attended, my daughter and her friend were also "doing their thing" in the park. Thereby, when I met an old friend whom I had not seen for decades, one was able to introduce her to her infamous "Uncle" Paddy. Oh yes, Brockwell Park 2001 was an event to remember. In that a local policeman discovered more courage than the whole of the UK government.. Roger Bunn Policy Press Office ------- The Music Industry Human Rights Association. In support of a Genuine war upon hard drugs and human rights abuse. http://www.mihra.org/2k policy.office@. mihra.org Founded at the US Embassy in London during UN50. Mihra holds the appreciations of HH the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, filmmaker John Pilger, liberation journalists and parliamentarians, Welsh rugby star Dr JPR Williams, Hendrix bassist Noel Redding, jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and many others. "Burma Out" : Contrary to a "drug free Games". The spin forwarded by US Drug Tzar General Barry McCaffrey, the International Olympic Committee, the media and the United Nations Security Council. The murderous Burmese military junta provided Australia with nearly 90% of its heroin, and the Sydney Games, the "Opium Olympiad" with an exclusively Burman racist squad. In November 2000, feigning injury, the junta, paying a fine of $28,000 withdrew Burma from the FIFA World Cup. Juntastein http://www.mihra.org/2k/burma.htm Drugs http://www.mihra.org/2k/drugs.htm Enterprise http://www.mihra.org/2k/cia.htm ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
