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Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction.
Q: But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
A: That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.
Q: And that's why we invaded Iraq?
A: Yep. Invasions always work better than
inspections.
Q: But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
A: That's because the weapons are so well hidden. Don't worry, we'll find something, probably right before the 2004 election.
Q: Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass destruction?
A: To use them in a war, silly.
Q: I'm confused. If they had all those weapons that they planned to use in a war, then why didn't they use any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A: Well, obviously they didn't want anyone to know they had those weapons, so they chose to die by the thousands rather than defend themselves.
Q: That doesn't make sense. Why would they choose to die if they had all those big weapons with which they could have fought back?
A: It's a different culture. It's not supposed to make sense.
Q: I don't know about you, but I don't think they had any of those weapons our government said they did.
A: Well, you know, it doesn't matter whether or not they had those weapons. We had another good reason to invade them anyway.
Q: And what was that?
A: Even if Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator, which is another good reason to invade another country.
Q: Why? What does a cruel dictator do that makes it OK to invade his country?
A: Well, for one thing, he tortured his own people.
Q: Kind of like what they do in China?
A: Don't go comparing China to Iraq. China is a good economic competitor, where millions of people work for slave wages in sweatshops to make U.S. corporations richer.
Q: So if a country lets its people be exploited for American corporate gain, it's a good country, even if that country tortures people?
A: Right.
Q: Why were people in Iraq being tortured?
A: For political crimes, mostly, like criticizing the government. People who criticized the government in Iraq were sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Isn't that exactly what happens in China?
A: I told you, China is different.
Q: What's the difference between China and Iraq?
A: Well, for one thing, Iraq was ruled by the Ba'ath party, while China is Communist.
Q: Didn't you once tell me Communists were bad?
A: No, just Cuban Communists are bad.
Q: How are the Cuban Communists bad?
A: Well, for one thing, people who criticize the government in Cuba are sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Like in Iraq?
A: Exactly.
Q: And like in China, too?
A: I told you, China's a good economic competitor. Cuba, on the other hand, is not.
Q: How come Cuba isn't a good economic competitor?
A: Well, you see, back in the early 1960s, our government passed some laws that made it illegal for Americans to trade or do any business with Cuba until they stopped being Communists and started being capitalists like us.
Q: But if we got rid of those laws, opened up trade with Cuba, and started doing business with them, wouldn't that help the Cubans become capitalists?
A: Don't be a smart-ass.
Q: I didn't think I was being one.
A: Well, anyway, they also don't have freedom of religion in Cuba.
Q: Kind of like China and the Falun Gong movement?
A: I told you, stop saying bad things about China. Anyway, Saddam Hussein came to power through a military coup, so he's not really a legitimate leader anyway.
Q: What's a military coup?
A: That's when a military general takes over the government of a country by force, instead of holding free elections like we do in the United States.
Q: Didn't the ruler of Pakistan come to power by a military coup?
A: You mean General Pervez Musharraf? Uh, yeah, he did, but Pakistan is our friend.
Q: Why is Pakistan our friend if their leader is illegitimate?
A: I never said Pervez Musharraf was illegitimate.
Q: Didn't you just say a military general who comes to power by forcibly overthrowing the legitimate government of a nation is an illegitimate leader?
A: Only Saddam Hussein. Pervez Musharraf is our friend, because he helped us invade Afghanistan.
Q: Why did we invade Afghanistan?
A: Because of what they did to us on September 11th.
Q: What did Afghanistan do to us on September 11th?
A: Well, on September 11th, nineteen men - fifteen of them Saudi Arabians - hijacked four airplanes and flew three of them into buildings, killing over 3,000 Americans.
Q: So how did Afghanistan figure into all that?
A: Afghanistan was where those bad men trained, under the oppressive rule of the Taliban.
Q: Aren't the Taliban those bad radical Islamics who chopped off people's heads and hands?
A: Yes, that's exactly who they were. Not only did they chop off people's heads and hands, but they oppressed women, too.
Q: Didn't the Bush administration give the Taliban 43 million dollars back in May of 2001?
A: Yes, but that money was a reward because they did such a good job fighting drugs.
Q: Fighting drugs?
A: Yes, the Taliban were very helpful in stopping people from growing opium poppies.
Q: How did they do such a good job?
A: Simple. If people were caught growing opium poppies, the Taliban would have their hands and heads cut off.
Q: So, when the Taliban cut off people's heads and hands for growing flowers, that was OK, but not if they cut people's heads and hands off for other reasons?
A: Yes. It's OK with us if radical Islamic fundamentalists cut off people's hands for growing flowers, but it's cruel if they cut off people's hands for stealing bread.
Q: Don't they also cut off people's hands and heads in Saudi Arabia?
A: That's different. Afghanistan was ruled by a tyrannical patriarchy that oppressed women and forced them to wear burqas whenever they were in public, with death by stoning as the penalty for women who did not comply.
Q: Don't Saudi women have to wear burqas in public, too?
A: No, Saudi women merely wear a traditional Islamic body covering.
Q: What's the difference?
A: The traditional Islamic covering worn by Saudi women is a modest yet fashionable garment that covers all of a woman's body except for her eyes and fingers. The burqa, on the other hand, is an evil tool of patriarchal oppression that covers all of a woman's body except for her eyes and fingers.
Q: It sounds like the same thing with a differentname.
A: Now, don't go comparing Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are our friends.
Q: But I thought you said 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia.
A: Yes, but they trained in Afghanistan.
Q: Who trained them?
A: A very bad man named Osama bin Laden.
Q: Was he from Afghanistan?
A: Uh, no, he was from Saudi Arabia too. But he was a bad man, a very bad man.
Q: I seem to recall he was our friend once.
A: Only when we helped him and the mujahadeen repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back in the 1980s.
Q: Who are the Soviets? Was that the Evil Communist Empire Ronald Reagan talked about?
A: There are no more Soviets. The Soviet Union broke up in 1990 or thereabouts, and now they have elections and capitalism like us. We call them Russians now.
Q: So the Soviets - I mean, the Russians - are now our friends?
A: Well, not really. You see, they were our friends for many years after they stopped being Soviets, but then they decided not to support our invasion of Iraq, so we're mad at them now. We're also mad at the French and the Germans because they didn't help us invade Iraq either.
Q: So the French and Germans are evil, too?
A: Not exactly evil, but just bad enough that we had to rename French fries and French toast to Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast.
Q: Do we always rename foods whenever another country doesn't do what we want them to do?
A: No, we just do that to our friends. Our enemies, we invade.
Q: But wasn't Iraq one of our friends back in the 1980s?
A: Well, yeah. For a while.
Q: Was Saddam Hussein ruler of Iraq back then?
A: Yes, but at the time he was fighting against Iran, which made him our friend, temporarily.
Q: Why did that make him our friend?
A: Because at that time, Iran was our enemy.
Q: Isn't that when he gassed the Kurds?
A: Yeah, but since he was fighting against Iran at the time, we looked the other way, to show him we were his friend.
Q: So anyone who fights against one of our enemies automatically becomes our friend?
A: Most of the time, yes.
Q: And anyone who fights against one of our friends is automatically an enemy?
A: Sometimes that's true, too. However, if American corporations can profit by selling weapons to both sides at the same time, all the better.
Q: Why?
A: Because war is good for the economy, which means war is good for America. Also, since God is on America's side, anyone who opposes war is a godless unAmerican Communist. Do you understand now why we attacked Iraq?
Q: I think so. We attacked them because God wanted us to, right?
A: Yes! You finally understand how the world works. Now close your eyes, make yourself comfortable, and go to sleep. Good night.
Changed priorities On the news today there was a big fire in an industrial estate on London's East End.
Loads of blokes in suits were highly agitated as a bunch of art works from "top british modern artists" had all gone up in flames and they belonged to a rich collector and a management company (who are suposed to look after all this stuff).
Whilst I'm no philistine, I looked at the list of destroyed artworks.
Stuff by sell-out "shock" artists like Damian Hirst and Tracey Emin - - overpriced tat which only gets recognition because those who made it kiss the right arses whilst far better work from other young artists (such as that shown at randomartists etc) is completely overlooked. It may sound harsh but I wasn't particularly bothered it had burned, apart from the environmental pollution. And why the fuck keep compressed gas cylinders in the warehouses next to the rare art? People complain at free party crews because of fire safety and legit businesses do stuff like this.
Then I saw the pictures of wrecked buildings, fire engines - and started thinking....
Its s shame about those big warehouses being burned and made unuseable though...........
Spiderman vs Scotland Yard This chap protested not being able to see his kid by climbing a huge crane in London, England whilst dressed as Spiderman; he stayed up there six days!
Whilst I don't have children, a good friend of mine was having problems getting access to his son because he took him to a free party (it is not abnormal outside London for kids to come to smaller free parties with their parents) and whilst of course he looked after his son well and did not take drugs his ex-partner complained..
http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1217419,00.html
anyway the spiderman chap won his case, and set a legal precedent which could be good for us on the party scene - he proved that when the Police increase disruption by road closures to try and prevent a protest or other action happening by using "disruption" as a bargaining point they are exacerbating the situation, not the original activist..
and how many times have the Police just caused further traffic congestion in rural areas by setting road blocks to stop free parties etc?
Well done Spiderman :)
PEACE PARTY ALLIANCE Dear friends of Peace & Peace Groups
Seaside Tribe (www.seasidetribe.org) made a decision at the end of last year to begin to raise funds and awareness for organisations involved within the peace movement. Our goal like some you is to strive for world peace using powerful mediums to get our message across to the public mainstream. Creative media such as art, music, drama, visuals and dance. By building a critical mass of peace consciousness will we empower others to follow.
Remember what Bob Geldolf did during Live Aid!
Our last peace party was in December 2003 was for... www.caat.org.uk
We are holding a Peace Party Open Forum at The Brixton Telegraph, 228 Brixton Hill, Brixton, London SW1
The Meeting will commence at 8pm-10pm on Thursday March 25th
PLEASE CONFIRM BY RETURN EMAIL YOUR POSSIBLE ATTENDANCE
If you wish me to raise any ideas of yours during the meeting email maz@seasidetribe.org or 07811 260359
Our next peace party is at this venue on Friday April 23rd pls put into your calenders.
To learn more about Seaside Tribe go to... www.seasidetribe.org/about
We are looking for quality acts, musicians, jugglers, ideas, DJ's, MC's, percussionists, dancers, peace campaigners, performance artists, peace charities & organisations. UNITY is the progressive way to PEACE.
Seaside Tribe hope you can join us.
Keep building the peace
Maz
The settlements as cancer cells. November 7, 2003
Israeli Roulette
http://www.counterpunch.org/
By URI AVNERY
In the Six-Day War, hundreds of Israeli soldiers were murdered while storming the Sinai desert, the West Bank and the Golan heights.
In the Yom-Kippur War, more than 2000 Israeli soldiers were murdered in the defense of the conquered territories.
In the 18 year long Lebanon War, more than a thousand Israeli soldiers were murdered while conquering and occupying South Lebanon.
They would have been surprised to learn that they were "murdered". Perhaps they would have been insulted. After all, they were not helpless Jews in the ghetto who were killed during a pogrom by drunken Cossacks. They fell as soldiers in war.
Now we are back in the ghetto. Again we are poor, fearful Jews. Even when we are in uniform. Even when we are armed to the teeth. Even when we have tanks, airplanes, missiles and the nuclear option. Alas, we are murdered.
The application of the verb "murder" to combat soldiers who fall in action is a semantic novelty of the present intifada in the Sharon era. It was very conspicuous last week, in the wake of two military incidents.
In the Palestinian village of Ein Yabroud, three soldiers were ambushed and killed. Their job was to safeguard the road to the nearby settlement Ofra, north of Ramallah. They were patrolling the main street of the village on foot, following their regular route. On the way back, three Palestinian fighters lay in wait for them, killing three and wounding one. The attackers got away.
A classic guerilla engagement. Not terrorism. Not an attack on civilians. The action of guerilla fighters against armed soldiers in an occupied area. If it had involved German soldiers in France or French soldiers in Algeria, nobody would have dreamed of saying that they were "murdered". But on our television, military correspondents talked of the three being "murdered" by "terrorists".
A few days later, an even more shocking event took place. One single Palestinian fighter cut through the fence of Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip, entered a military camp and killed three soldiers--one male, two female. He was pursued and killed.
In connection with this event, too, the military correspondents said on TV, without blinking, that the three were "murdered" by "terrorists" in a "terrorist" action.
Murder? Terrorism? Against soldiers in uniform? Inside a fortified settlement?
It is worth analysing this incident in order to understand the current military campaign as a whole.
Netzarim is a small, isolated settlement on the sea shore, in the heart of the Gaza Strip, far from any other settlement. It was implanted in the middle of a Palestinian population of a million and a quarter, half of them refugees, in the most densely inhabited place on earth. A whole battalion of the IDF defends it, and that is not enough. To reach it from Israel, one has to cross the entire width of the Gaza strip. All traffic is by armored vehicles. Up to now, more than twenty soldiers have been killed in the defense of the settlement and the road leading to it.
Crazy? The settlers themselves maintain that it was the army that had demanded to set up the settlement as a base for observation and control. The fanatical nationalist-religious founders have since disappeared, their place taken by adventurers who risk their own lives and the lives of their children--not to mention the soldiers, male and female, who have no choice. The government sacrifices them on the altar of the settlement.
The Palestinians, of course, suffer more than anyone else. Any who come near the settlement are shot. Anything that was standing or growing nearby, or along the road, has been destroyed or uprooted long ago. This week, the army demolished two Palestinian high-rise apartment blocks, each 12 floors high, some hundreds of meters from the settlement, because from there the goings on in the settlement could be "observed". This is typical: like a cancer in the body that gradually extends its malign influence, every settlement slowly destroys its surroundings in an ever-widening circle.
The process can be outlined as follows:
(1) On a hilltop, an "outpost" consisting of one or two mobile homes is set up without government permission.
(2) The government declares that it will not tolerate such illegal actions and talks about removing it.
(3) The army sends soldiers to defend the outpost, saying that it cannot leave Jews in a hostile region without protection as long as they are there, even illegally.
(4) For the same reason, the outpost is connected to the water, electricity and telephone networks.
(5) The discussion in the cabinet is postponed, and in the meantime the settlement expands.
(6) The cabinet decides to accept the accomplished fact and the outpost becomes a legal settlement.
(7) The Military Governor expropriates large stretches of cultivated land for the development of the settlement.
(8) A bypass road is build to allow for the safe movement of the settlers and soldiers. For this purpose, the army expropriates more stretches of cultivated land from the neighboring Palestinian villages. The road with its "security area" is 60-80 meters wide.
(9) Palestinians try to attack the settlement that stands on their land.
(10) To prevent attacks on the settlement, an area 400 meters wide around the settlement is declared a "security zone" closed to Palestinians. The olive groves and fields in this area are lost to their owners.
(11) This provides the motivation for more attacks.
(12) For security reasons, the army uproots all trees that might afford cover for an attack on the settlement or the road leading to it. The army has even invented a new Hebrew word for it, something like "exposuring".
(13) The army destroys all buildings from which the settlement or the road could be attacked.
(14) For good measure, all buildings from which the settlement can be observed are demolished, too.
(15) Anyone who comes near the settlement is shot, on suspicion that he has come to spy or attack.
This way the settlement sows death and destruction in a ever-widening circle. The life of the Palestinian villages in the neighborhood becomes hellish. They lose the sources of their livelihood. Hundreds of such villages find themselves trapped between two or more settlements, which close in on all sides, sometimes right up to their courtyards. Their lives and their property are at the mercy of gangs of settlers.
This process has already been going on for decades all over the occupied territories. It is a slow, continuous, day-to-day offensive, unseen by Israeli eyes. Last year, the "separation fence" was added, a monster that snakes its way deep into the West Bank in order to "defend" the settlements. It makes the life of hundreds of thousand of Palestinians well-nigh impossible.
The fence is supposed to cost 10 billion shekels (more than two billion dollars). It is impossible to calculate the cost of the settlements themselves, which certainly runs into many billions of shekels every year.
It is much easier to calculate the price in human lives. The killing of the three soldiers in Netzarim has caused a shock. Many Israelis are beginning to ask--perhaps for the first time--Why? What for?
The father of one of the soldiers killed in Ein Yabroud has called this "Israeli roulette". The mother of a female soldier killed in Hebron gave vent to her anger on TV: "She died because of the settlers!" There are many signs of a general sobering-up, even in the army command.
Is this the beginning of a change in public opinion? That could be.
Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom. He is one of the writers featured in The Other Israel: Voices of Dissent and Refusal. He is also a contributor to CounterPunch's hot new book The Politics of Anti-Semitism. He can be reached at: avnery@counterpunch.org.
Happy Days A whole gang of babylon are coming into my workplace this afternoon. Its some promotional thing. I've gotta pretend to be happy about it... just hope none of them recognise me from our various conversations at parties.
DSEi protest! 'Day of Direct Action Blockades' to shut DSEi by any means possible.
Disarm DSEi is a campaign to shutdown the Defences Systems & Equipment International arms fair which is taking place at the Excel Centre in London's Docklands, from 9-12 September 2003.
Please respect that this is the day of no rules/no guidelines around the Excel Centre.
For more information see http://www.dsei.org/ , http://www.destroydsei.org or contact dsei_da@london.com.
Planned meeting points for Wednesday 10th September:
* 8.00am Critical Mass bike ride. Meet in front of the Royal Exchange, off Threadneedle St. & Queen Victoria St. EC4. Near Bank Tube, in the heart of London's Financial District. Cycle to EXCEL. More information cm_dsei@reallyfast.info.
* 9.00am - Meet the arms traders. Meet inside Custom House station (DLR & Silverlink). Follow signs to EXCEL. Dress as smart as possible.
* 11.00am - Blockade the Death Fair. Meet at Canning Town roundabout, outside Canning Town station (Tube, DLR & Silverlink).
* 11.00am - Storm the Death Fair. Meet at Connaught Bridge underpass, western end of Royal Albert Way. Royal Albert or Prince Regent DLR.
* 4.00pm - Street Party. Meet at Rathbone street Market, off Newham Way, at the Canning Town Roundabout end, London E13 Nearest tube (Jubilee Line) Canning Town, also DLR and Silverlink.
* Affinity group direct action will be taking place throughout the day.
Away from ExCel:
* Women in Black vigil. Women only, dress in black, silent
vigil. 6-7pm @ Edith Cavell statue located opposite National Portrait Gallery at the bottom of Charing Cross and St. Martin's, near Trafalgar Square. Men encouraged to form solidarity vigil on steps of St. Martin's church which is within sight of Edith Cavell statue. Contact www.womeninblack.org.uk; email wibinfo@gn.apc.org or phone 020 7813 2019.
MoD’s ‘N’ Wreckers – the DSEI arms fair. This weekend, thousands of terrorists from all over the world will
be descending on the ExCel Centre in London's Docklands for the
DSEI Arms Fair.
To greet them will be one million pounds worth of security - paid
for by the taxpayer. Two thousand officers from the Met, 300
British Transport Police, City of London police officers, Ministry
of Defence police, plain clothes detectives, security guards and
specialists from the Met's marine, dogs and horse units, have all
been drafted in. Not to arrest those selling weapons of mass
destruction but to protect those same, poor, arms dealers from
demonstrators who've vowed to try and shut down this 'trade in
death.'
Welcome to the Defence Systems and Equipment International (DSEi -
pronounced dicey) Exhibition 2003, Europe's biggest arms fair.
Opening the fair will be Minister of War Geoff Hoon, while
delegations from no less than sixty countries will have their
accommodation and board paid for by the taxpayer while they shop
for weapons. Somewhat astutely, a senior officer from the Met says
they are anticipating a "major public order headache."
The UK arms industry accounts for 20% of world weapon sales and
after agriculture is the most heavily government subsided
industry. Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) say that MoD
spending on research and development has increased by 27% over the
last year. Dr. Stuart Parkinson, SGR Director said: "Much of the
MoD's research and development is geared towards making weaponry,
sometimes for export to regimes with bad human rights records. It
would be much more ethical to use the scientific expertise to
accelerate, for example, the development of
environmentally-friendly technologies."
At the first DSEi in 1999, two separate breaches of the
International Landmines Act were uncovered by journalists. And in
2001, as planes were crashing into the World Trade Centre, 14
different Middle Eastern nations were shopping for weapons at the
Excel Centre, side by side with the US, Israel, Australia and the
UK. While thousands of other events around the world were
cancelled out of respect for the dead, DSEi stayed open and arms
dealers clocked up sales to Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the US,
Colombia, China and Russia.sales to Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
the US, Colombia, China and Russia.
Poor human rights record? There are two invitation lists to DSEi,
the official MoD list, which this year includes feuding neighbours
India and Pakistan, Turkey, Russia, and 'axis of evil' state
Syria. Then there's the organisers, Spearhead Ltd.'s, own secret
list, over which the MoD has consultation but ultimately no
control.
Spearhead have invited Afghanistan, Angola, Tanzania, and Israel.
No cash for health and education? Well DSEi has something for
everyone. The whole of next Thursday (11th) is dedicated to a
conference called 'Making Defence Affordable?'
The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is stunned: "Following
controversy about the UK licensing a Ā£28million military air
traffic control system to Tanzania, which it neither needs nor can
afford, it is disturbing that Tanzania - one of the very poorest
countries in the world - has been invited to buy yet more arms."
Martin Hogbin, of CAAT underlines the obvious hypocrisy at work at
DSEi: "If the UK was serious about developing a lasting peace
between Israel and Palestine, we would not promote sales of more
arms into the region."
Companies exhibiting, alongside weapons giants Lockheed Martin and
BAE, include Bulgarian small arms firm Arsenal Company which is
reported to have sold Ā£5-6 million of arms to Chad and Angola, as
well as supplying arms to Sierra Leone in breach of the UN
embargo. "Many of these companies have been fingered for shipping
arms, sometimes illegally, into regions of terrible conflict like
the Congo" says Hogbin. Others manufacture some of the most brutal
and indiscriminate weapons in the world, including landmines and
cluster bombs. At least two producers of depleted uranium shells
will be exhibiting this year.
In a half-arsed attempt at political correctness, Spearhead have
asked exhibitors not to display cluster bombs at DSEi! According
to UNICEF, more than 1000 children have been injured by cluster
bomblets and other unexploded weapons since the 'end' of the war
in Iraq. Of course, cluster bombs can still be bought at DSEi,
just not displayed, and like everything else on sale there they
will not be subject to UK export controls.
In the run up to DSEi activist groups have been targeting
exhibiting UK companies, such as Fluent in Sheffield and Cambridge
Consultants. Two weeks ago Spearhead's head office in New Malden
was occupied, and on Monday protesters - bound together by arm
tubes - blockaded the gates to the ExCel Centre for five hours,
preventing tanks being delivered to the exhibition. Police used
cutting equipment to remove the tubes and a number of people were
arrested under charges of obstructing the highway.
The police have promised to treat demonstrators "in the same sort
of way as the May Day riots" and have been issued blanket stop and
search laws under the Terrorism Act 2000. That's obviously because
people protesting about weapons that kill and maim are just bloody
terrorists that need to be stamped on - whereas those poor souls
trying to earn an honest living by selling weapons that kill and
maim - well, they need all the love, affection and money we can
throw at 'em.
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One For All, All For One, Unity is Our Strenght!!!! hi all, czektekk was simply veery amazing. we have partied for over a week in a very good location, with friendly village people. only few verbal complains, nothing major. for those interested here is a map of it all: http://www.hypno.cz/czechtek-2003-map/ . we counted over 90 sound systems...almost double of CT 02. even though all this good, the whole scene has been badly hurt by an accident which hapened a little while ago. our friend, Migel, from komatsu sound system is now imprisioned in hungary. we all are doing all we can to help him. we ask you, dear ANYONE, if you can do anything to help, him, us, you be better. here is more info: http://mb.freetekno.cz/english.php . i will be soon back to lodnon where i will do a few steps to help you to help him.
thank you to all
UK: Illegal rave organisers succesfully prosecuted – Q2 2003 Illegal rave organisers succesfully prosecuted
Published by Chelmsford Borough Council - Monday 21 April, 2003
Copyright: Chelmsford Borough Council
CHELMSFORD Borough Council has successfully prosecuted two Earls Colne men for their involvement in an illegal rave at Montrose Road, Chelmsford on 20 and 21 April last year.
Mathew Clague and Mathew Moore pleaded guilty at Witham Magistrates Court yesterday, Wednesday 19 February, to the offence of ābeing concerned in the organisation or management of a public entertainment event without a public entertainment licenceā. They were each fined Ā£750 and ordered to each pay Ā£750 costs.
Chelmsford Borough Council decided to prosecute after receiving evidence that the conditions in the premises were totally unsafe. Essex Police and Essex Fire and Rescue Service, who went to the warehouse (formerly occupied by A-Z Supplies), found that there was no lighting in the premises, no lit means of escape, no staff to supervise an emergency evacuation and no first aid facilities. In addition, the mezzanine floor, which was in the process of being dismantled, was found to be unbolted and completely free standing.
Chelmsford Borough Councilās Commercial Services Manager, Dawn French said: āWe took this action to protect public safety. The event could so easily have ended in disaster. If something had gone wrong, like the mezzanine collapsing, revellers could have been killed.ā
http://www.chelmsfordbc.gov.uk
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