An 'interesting' new report on.... well, it's rather hard to explain!

[Paul Mobbs]

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Hi all,

What's the relationship between the recent 'authoritarian' crack-down on 
"protesters" in Britain, the current economic crisis, the debate on growth, 
the economy, climate change and resource depletion? Perhaps not that 
obvious?... A new report from the Free Range Network ties these issues 
together to try and find a deeper motivation behind the recent authoritarian 
shift against protest and dissent in Britain -- yes, the threads are there if 
you look for them!

NETCU, WECTU and NPOIU: Britain's Secretive Police Force
"Politicising the Policing of Public Expression in an Era of Economic Change"
The Free Range electrohippies Project, April 26th 2009
http://www.fraw.org.uk/download/ehippies/q02/index.shtml


The report looks at:

# the recent enactment of repressive laws on protest and dissent, even BEFORE 
"11/9";

# the role of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) in their 
implementation and the intelligence agenda on "domestic extremism"; and

# the events surrounding G20 (although this report was in preparation a few 
weeks before G20) that illustrate how this process is working.

In particular we examine the role of ACPO, it's secretive and private 
investigative organisations (NECTU, WECTU and NPOIU), and the way in which 
these groups are leading a politicised agenda against any form of non-
representative (that is, anything beyond voting, petitions and letter 
writing!) public pressure in Britain.

Why is this? Well, on its own the "threat of terrorism" just doesn't encompass 
the scale and depth of the changes that we see. However, when you look at the 
wider implication of present economic trends, and then factor them into 
present policy changes, the reasons become more obvious. It's not a "plot" or 
a "conspiracy", but rather a "coalescence of views" between those parts of the 
State involved in this process.

- From Herbert Marcuse to Ian Blair, from energy efficiency to peak oil, from 
climate change to renewable energy, and from Athelstan Popkess to the Stasi, 
in this report we try and make clear the complex trends that are shaping 
Britain today and why, in the coming era of dramatic economic change, the 
State is osmotically developing an ad-hoc agenda to restrict our freedoms to 
complain about it.

The report is 68 pages long, contains 215 references, and nearly all of those 
references are "clickable" so that you can investigate the background 
information on which the report is based. The report is also released under a 
non-commercial open license, so feel free to copy, distribute, extract, quote, 
etc. (for non-commercial purpose -- if not, just send us an email).


Finally, as part of this report we've also created a facsimile version of 
NETCU's infamous booklet for police officers, "Policing Protest: Pocket 
Legislation Guide" as we discuss it in the report --
http://www.fraw.org.uk/download/ehippies/netcu/index.shtml


P.

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nor are we for this party nor against the other but we are
for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom,
that these may be exalted in our nation, and that goodness,
righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace and unity with
God, and with one another, that these things may abound."
(Edward Burroughs, 1659 - from 'Quaker Faith and Practice')

Paul's book, "Energy Beyond Oil", is out now!
For details see http://www.fraw.org.uk/ebo/

Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations
3 Grosvenor Road, Banbury OX16 5HN, England
tel./fax (+44/0)1295 261864
email - mobbsey at gn.apc.org
website - http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/index.shtml

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