From: cwarren@peg.pegasus.oz.au
Newsgroups: aus.politics
Subject: Private censorship=corrupt cops.
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:47:00 GMT
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Nf-From: peg.pegasus.oz.au!cwarren    Oct  5 13:47:00 1992








            WHAT HAPPENS UNDER CENSORSHIP - BRIT COPS KILL & MAIM
            
            
            For those who think private media magnates should be
            allowed to taint the information flow into the public
            arena by their private censorship, the following is a
            salutary lesson in the real world:
            
            
            
            
            From: harry@harlqn.co.uk (Harry Fearnhamm)
            Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
            Subject: Violent bust of rave goes unreported.
            Message-ID: <HARRY.92May6152338@watson.harlqn.co.uk>
            Date: 6 May 92 15:23:35 GMT
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            Does anyone have any more on the following?  It sounds
            reminiscent of
            the Battle of the Bean Field in 1984, except this is
            much, much worse,
            as there seems to have been a total media blackout:
            On Friday 24th April, the Spiral Tribe (a group of
            Travellers) held an
            impromptu Rave Party in a disused warehouse in Acton Lane
            London.
            According to eye witness reports, they were attacked by a
            police riot
            squad with batons and shields but without ID numbers on
            their
            uniforms.
            After sealing up the building with people inside, the
            police drove a JCB excavator through one wall and charged
            the hundreds
            of young people attending.
            In the ensuing panic one person was beaten and thrown to
            his death
            from the roof, another was paralysed down one side,
            witnesses claim
            600 people were injured and received severe beatings.
            One person lost an eye.  Everyone who attended was
            searched
            then pressed to the floor and had the back of their head
            sprayed with
            ultra-violet paint.  Girls present complained of being
            indecently
            assaulted whilst being searched and one girl who was five
            months
            pregnant lost her baby.
            Even though only passive resistance was met,
            police destroyed the stage equipment and lighting and, as
            many of
            those attending were travellers, vandalised their buses
            and vans
            parked outside.  No warning was given by the police and
            no arrests












            were made.
            According to those present, ITN were there and videoed
            the
            police brutality, but this action was so over the top
            that a blackout
            has been imposed and ITN have not been allowed to use the
            film or made
            any reference to the tragedy.
            ITN news have refused to give a copy of
            the film to the Travellers' Trust legal advisor who has
            requested it.
            
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            Is this what we want to happen in Australia?
            
            Obviously there are some who are willing to countenance
            such censorship.  But not me.
            
            
            CHRIS WARREN