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Class War issue 80: Quotes
"If we don't take this action, people will walk over us - but we cannot allow this to happen. The English do not strike anymore because they are cowards"
French fisherman Jose Huleux giving us food for thought in the Daily Mail, 31st August 2000. Mr Huleux was one of the organisers of the blockade of the port of Calais in protest at the French government's taxation of fuel.
"The Privy Council meeting at Balmoral...was attended by the Queen, Robin Janvrin her personal secretary, Helen Liddell, energy minister and Richard Caborn, industry minister"
The Financial Times of 12 September 2000, on the meeting that decided the authorities' strategy during that month's fuel crisis. Bear in mind that the Queen's supporters tell us she has no political power and is just a figurehead. The meeting authorised action up to and including military operations.
"Our target was to solve 9% of robberies. We investigated 2927, of which 172 were solved which is 5.9%"
The Metropolitan Police in an advertisement in the September edition of Hackney Today. Is there any point at all in Hackney's residents financing a police service that clearly does next to nothing for them?
"The court heard that Thurlbeck was a registered police source, number 281, codenamed "George" who had supplied the police, through DC Farmer, with information about criminals and their activities"
The Press Gazette (28/07/00) on the acquittals of News of the World crime reporter Neville Thurlbeck and Detective Constable Richard Farmer of Hertfordshire Police, on corruption charges. Ever wondered where the newspapers get some of their stories about anarchists?
"The anarchists are highly organised. They have been liasing in code via the pages of the Big Issue and group members contact each other with pagers."
Tim Luckett, crime correspondent of the Daily Mirror on 27 August 2000. Luckett seems to be another hack challenging for the coveted title "Who can make up the most lies about anarchists in one article". Never the less - good advice!
"The vandals must have used a hammer of something similar, because no bricks or rocks were found inside. It seems like mindless damage - nobody tried to get inside or take anything."
A spokesman following an attack on Darwin Magistrates Court in Australia, quoted in Northern Territory News 29 July 2000. $6000 worth of damage were done. The suspects...every single person who has ever appeared in the court!
"These people have no respect for anything. They are not just anti-hunting, they are anti-everything and have an absolute disregard for the law."
Mark Bycroft Kennel Manager of the Surrey and Burstow Foxhounds, after protestors smashed up his kennels on September 2nd. Mr Bycroft, who has a previous conviction for assaulting a Hunt Sab, was oddly quiet about the previous evening, when a saboteur was knocked down by a hunt vehicle which then reversed over him for good measure. Life's a bitch Mark.
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