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    Police include Occupy movement on ‘terror’ list

    City of London Police have sparked controversy by producing a brief in which the Occupy London movement is listed under domestic terrorism/extremism threats to City businesses.

    Picture- Occupy LSXThe document was given to protesters at their “Bank of Ideas” base on Sun Street – a former site of financial corporation UBS. City police have stepped up an effort to quell the movement since they occupied the building on 18 November, with the document stating: “It is likely that activists aspire to identify other locations to occupy, especially those they identify with capitalism.

    “Intelligence suggests that urban explorers are holding a discussion at the Sun Street squat. This may lead to an increase in urban exploration activity at abandoned or high profile sites in the capital.” The Occupy movement is listed alongside threats posed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), Al Qaeda and Belarusian terrorists. 

    “Just the words themselves are enough to deceive the public opinion and this is what we see at the moment,” Occupy spokesman Spyro Van Leemnen told Yahoo! News. “We are clearly nothing to do with extremists or terrorists, we are a peaceful group and we do use direct action to raise our point but definitely not terrorism.

    “The building has been abandoned for a good few years now and we think it is crazy for a bank to have it empty and not used when we know at the same time there are so many family homes that have been repossessed. Occupying that building and giving it back to the community is definitely not a terrorist act,” he added.

    Commenting on the document, City of London Police said: “[We] work with the community to deter and detect terrorist activity and crime in the City in a way that has been identified nationally as good practice.

    “We’ve seen crime linked to protests in recent weeks, notably around groups entering office buildings, and with that in mind we continue to brief key trusted partners on activity linked to protests.”

     

    719 comments

    • Biboy  •  2 months ago
      We have a lot of this kind in the Philippines long time ago!!! Terrorists even in the congress and senate houses!!!
    • DAVID  •  2 months ago
      bring back george orwell!!
    • mateusz  •  2 months ago
      All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
    • Cheggo  •  2 months ago
      What about corrupt politicians, criminal bankers and corporate vultures, are they on the list?
    • Slayer Sarah  •  2 months ago
      Since when did peaceful protesters become terrorists? Is anyone who voices their opinion on the state of the country and stands up for what they believe in, peacefully, now a terrorist? Is Britain now a police state?
    • anon  •  2 months ago
      This is creeping totalitarianism. However, the public are as much to blame for it as the government. The old soviet bloc countries would have marvelled at the levels of public compliance, without the need for outright intimidation. Mind you, most peoples idea of democracy is putting a tick in a box once every five years, and doing little else. Those who do not move, fail to notice their chains.
    • beamer1  •  2 months ago
      They have been eroding our rights over many years..now peaceful demonstrators are being labeled as terrorists. think government just asking for trouble going down this path as people of this country will take to the streets and it will not be peaceful, You can see this has the hallmark stamp of the government all over it.
    • Khalboash  •  2 months ago
      The same style of the American Gov’t that labels freedom fighters as terrorists! Some governments’ actions are more of terrorists than actual terrorists’ themselves!
    • steve  •  2 months ago
      Maybe people will start waking up eventually to what's going on in this country, this place is getting more like a police state everyday, since when has practising the right to protest meant you're a terroist? More CCTV then any country in the world. I't more & more draconian every day & unless people stand up for there libertys & freedoms you're all gone be slaves of the police state.
    • Chris  •  2 months ago
      This is becoming absurd. Whats next, anyone who does not like or believe the Government is doing the right thing will be arrested and put on the Police Database (Oh no that will be me as I have more respect for a piece of dog s*** than this government) ......... anyone who has seen V for vendetta, this is what it will turn out like, The government spying on every single person..... Welcome to the Dictatorship of the UK. MP's, Money Pigs gorging from the trough as others suffer.
    • Lua31  •  2 months ago
      According to all this we all are potential terrorists labeled criminals before we do something wrong and classified as suspects to the eyes of all cctv. It's a JOKE our politicians see us all as Enemies of the State when we vote and put them where they are living off our tax. These people are PEACEFUL doing a thing equal to Human Rights. We all need Shelter Food and the right to a dignified life. If the Estate do not do its homework then these pacific occupiers are Right to occupy empty buildings as refuge. They are not stealing excepting few cases or usurping anyone's usable property save for those belonging to big corporations doing nothing but speculating. We live in a Capitalism System where some live better and better than the rest that live poorer and poorer. Where is the balance? And yet we call these innocent people Terrorist. What's next? Shall we call them parasites? Where did we lose our human moral values for a dignified life? We are using the wrong words just for the sake of criminalizing anyone stepping on the shoes of the wealthy. Great idea. I love this world but actually I hate it even more.
    • Tom  •  2 months ago
      UK society is becoming more paranoid by the day! So many protests against greed and corruption in this country. The 'powers that be' are running scared!
    • Russell  •  2 months ago
      if this is so, i see it as disgusting, this is the worst example of the powers that be rewriting definitions of terrorism in order to crush any kind of peaceful demonstration that may arise in the future. If you take away an individuals right to protest, you leave them no other choice than to pick up the sword and drop the pen. Tyrannical oppression will then actually create an armed movement. Look to your history, it is littered with examples.
    • Charley 130  •  2 months ago
      'Occupy' a terrorist organisation? That is absolutely absurd, My word, that is a very controversial statement indeed - were they perhaps "Instructed" to present that view by the Government? a definite possibility I would say from the Chairman of the Dictatorship.

      But only the other day I was personally subjected to intimidation and threatened with 'Tut-tut' from the Falmouth Womens Knitters Guild, all of them waiving their zimmer frames at me in a very frightening and extremist way - my dog cowered in abject fear behind me - I was in fear of being asked if I wanted one lump or two!. Absolute Terrorists to a Tee! (or should that be - Tea?) Should they be on the list?

      Many years ago I faced the feared Country Hikers - the Walkers who exercise their right to fearlessly walk the country paths and footpaths of Britain - talking fearlessly amongst themselves and waving their Ordnance Survey maps in a very extremist manner in the air! - having to cower in the bushes as they fearlessly passed - terrified that one of them may scare me witless and say "Good Morning - a nice day today, isn't it?" what could possibly be more extremist than that for heavens sake? Should they be on the list?

      In Eastbourne a long time ago I was faced with what could be an extremist group who called themselves "The Morris Dancers" - they caused the local drinkers out the front of the 'Buccaneer Pub' to break into a frenzy of smiling and friendly chatting - Smiling, I ask you?surely that is against the law now isn't it? - dancing around on their wooden horse and banging sticks together in a display of their terrible power, all wearing the uniforms of their ilk, bells on their ankles too - terrifyingly extremist.
      Surely they must be on the list?

      Then there was the time I was in extreme danger of being attacked by a Herd of Bloodthirsty Wild Howling and Snarling Hedgehogs, no doubt this herd of heinous creatures had been indoctrinated into extremism by an undercover covert terrorist lone hedgehog vising from some Spiky Al Quada Terrorist camp in Afghanistan. Should they be on the list?

      No insult intended to the Woman's knitting guild, nor the hikers and walkers who are the very people to talk to if you want to know something about their area, as for Morris Dancers, a tradition that is as enjoyable as they are amusing ans good, long may they all continue - I merely used these as an example of the stupidity and sheer arrogance of stating that the 'Occupy' movement is a Terrorist group - have they planted any bombs? taken up arms? for that matter, is Blair and Bush on the list?.
      This has clearly only been done as an act of intimidation against anyone who feels the need to protest peacefully about their held belief of Crass Greed destroying this country from within.
      Do I from this now see the UK as a Police State? Yes, quite frankly I do!
    • James  •  2 months ago
      So in effect the whole population of the UK is classed as terrorists if they do not agree to be willingly exploited. The establishment are backing themselves into a corner now. Democracy and Liberty my ++se!
    • Big Jim  •  2 months ago
      What Planet is our Police on??? This just shows that the police do work for the elite? And not for the public at large?. Why do so many of todays young Police Men and women? But mostly men? Think that they can strutt about as if they are in the gastapo?. When you say hello to them? they ignore you as if they think that they are better then the rest of us???. Im an X-serviceman and i think that the way that some Police act is a discrace?.
    • Anna  •  2 months ago
      On the day of the national workers march, Wednesday Nov 30, police surrounded the Bank of Ideas, so that no one could get out to peacefully demonstrate. They harassed, stopped and searched or arrested anyone that tried to leave.
    • Steve B.  •  2 months ago
      If everyone TURNED DOWN the offer of CREDIT, on everything except the purchase of a house or car, and even then only accepted a low multiple of their disposable income, then wages would have to go up and prices have to come down in order to generate growth! The loosers of course would be the financial institutions that would rather keep us all 'just getting by'. By our continued hunger for credit, we are only extending our own misery and raising prices artifically.
    • Tim  •  2 months ago
      Discussing 911 conspiracies is can put you on the U.S. terrorist watch list. Any one that thinks other than what the government general line is a terrorist.

      Really it just makes the Police look absolutely out of touch with reality.
    • Marty  •  2 months ago
      It's the people thats writing these terror lists that are the extremists and terrorists!.
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