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James Cook
Prisonplanet.com
Monday, April 7, 2008
As somebody that is politically aware but not politically
active, I understand the tyranny of the Chinese government
& sympathise with the Tibetans as I do with any oppressed
people. I don’t have any particular affinity with the
‘Free Tibet’ movement though as to me it is just one
of so many things that are wrong in the world.
As someone that was initially pro Iraq war, I was fortunate
enough to have been woken up from my mainstream media
induced hypnosis by happening on Alex Jones brilliant
website www.prisonplanet.com. I now focus my awareness
on the larger picture of the gradual and ever more obvious
emergence of the tyrannical, psychopathic world governing
elite which of course includes the Chinese governing
elite, playing the bad cop role to great effect and
in lock-step with western governments as they smilingly
play the ‘good cop’, whilst at the same time advancing
the police state global agenda, menacingly towards the
Chinese model.
It is with this knowledge that I saw on TV Sunday that
the Olympic Torch journey through London had been disrupted
by demonstrations. It was making its way towards my
home town of Greenwich so I went to take the 20 minute
walk to where the crowds were to witness the occasion.
There were literally thousands of police, many hundreds
throughout and around the crowd but also so many hundreds
more filling transit vans too numerous to count, in
case they were needed!
This didn’t particularly bother me, as I have never
personally been in trouble with the police & my own
perception, until now was that they are generally nice
to the public but maybe awkward if you are difficult
in the first place, but generally professional and not
often unnecessarily brutal. Today that changed. I was
getting some nice photo’s of the Tibetan flags with
the backdrop of the Dome, wandering around, a little
video here and there when I heard a fence behind me
fall over. I looked over to see that it was and saw
three police pinning one person to the ground.
I pointed my camera in video mode at the scene from
a 30 metre distance, I gradually moved forward for another
10 metres and continued filming at which point a policeman
made an aggressive, flippant remark to me about putting
the F#*ing camera away. I’m not an aggressive person
but I do stand my ground so told him ‘I’ll film what
I like’. I then pointed towards it to his badge number
for a second before carrying on filming elsewhere. Then
about 15 seconds later he barked an order at me to ‘get
behind the police’.
Now I hadn’t walked through any police lines to get
where I was, there were quite a few people in my proximity
but I wasn’t aiming to be awkward so intending to do
as instructed, I looked behind me & saw a tight line
of Police. They were facing away, with their backs to
me so in the confusion of the moment, I remember thinking
‘I AM behind them!!??’ but had started to take a few
steps away from the general scene. Then, without any
time to move, roughly 10 seconds after the first barked
order, I suddenly found myself literally ambushed by
over 10 police officers.
Two on one arm, three on the other, two in front of
me, one or two behind and another couple in very close
proximity ALL but two manhandling me, shouting orders
& abuse. I was shocked & can categorically say I did
not resist at all, not one iota and to my absolute amazement
I received a punch to the back of the head & a knee
in the thigh. I was forced with my head on the ground,
heavy force bearing down on me, camera snatched and
handcuffed behind my back.
I have never been cuffed before & don’t expect it
to be a pleasant experience but my hands were really
twisted & it was so tight that my hands are genuinely
still numb, whilst writing this over 9 hours later,
at the time it was excruciatingly painful. I was lifted
up and despite never once struggling, manhandled with
the force you would imagine is needed for a crazed killer
& marched, stumbling over to a police van.
See picture below for the cuff marks.
I attempted to say to passers by that ‘I’ve been arrested
for filming and taking photo’s’ but my head was then
forced right down & I was told I had ‘breached the peace’.
Inside the police van I was told to sit down by the
arresting officer, I was awkwardly trying to do so in
the cramped conditions, with my hands cuffed behind
me in desperate pain when a second officer shouted right
in my face to again ‘sit down’! Still trying, I calmly
told him ‘shut up! Who do you think you are?’ He made
no further comment and I then realised that the original
arresting officer was in front of me looking through
my camera.
I told him to give it to me & that I’d committed no
crime. His accompanying female officer said the film
would be used as evidence to which I replied, ‘I’d be
glad of that because it would very clearly show I’d
done nothing at all wrong and was attacked for no good
reason’. I suspected the officer was deleting video
so I told him not to and he replied with a smile ‘I
just have’ and put the camera into my inside jacket
pocket.
I was then marched out the van, over to a fence & asked
for my name & ID. I said I had done nothing wrong so
would not tell my name & had no ID which was true (There
is no law to carry ID in the UK ). Helpless with the
cuffs on, the arresting officer searched through my
jacket & trouser pockets for ID to no avail then made
it clear that I could either cooperate and they were
looking to de-arrest me and let me go home or I could
spend the next 12 hours in a police station.
The threat of such inconvenience worked so I told them
my details. While they checked out my background and
asked about my political affiliations & leanings (of
which I have none – I am an individual!), I tried to
have reasoned debate & establish the facts of the situation
but the two officers literally and knowingly bare faced
lied to me about what I did & what they did. They were
honestly like a couple of school bully’s trying to shut
the conversation down with primitive, but I guess normally
effective tactics of talking over me without addressing
any points, threatening & shouting down my very calm
voice in a trained repetitive manner.
It was 100% obvious from the start from my dress, manner,
speech & general demeanour that I was never a threat
in the slightest but this officer didn’t like being
questioned. The weasel that he was, along with his thuggish
friends knew he was NOT there working FOR the public
good but to implement the agenda from on high & that
I needed to be taught a harsh lesson about the balance
of power & who the real boss is in the police – public
relationship!
Shouting, swearing, kneeing, punching, threatening,
searching pockets without permission, purposefully issuing
massively disproportionate pain & attempting to humiliate
an innocent witness to events!! That is the new British
bobby….The Chinese would be proud!
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