the meme that corporations are humans. We know that,
if they're humans, they're psychotic humans.
Anyway, now that corporations have the rights of humans,
and can kill countries, it's time for corporations to be
stronger than countries. Welcome TTIP international treaty.
I welcome the TTIP, because it will hasten the end of
democracy and globalisation.
There's no way that countries can keep paying ransom
to corporations.
So, to get us ready for this, people cannot protest
fracking which we know to be ruining the watertable.
No, not the choice of bottled water. The water that
we all drink, when we're not buying the bottled stuff.
checkthis: theguardian
Green
MP Caroline Lucas goes on trial over Sussex fracking protests
Lucas
is one of five on trial charged with breaching Public Order Act and wilful
obstruction of highway at Balcombe site
Haroon
Siddique
Monday 24 March 2014 17.29 GMT
The
Green party MP Caroline Lucas told police after being arrested at a protest
camp that she wanted "to send a clear message to the government that
fracking was not needed nor wanted", a court has heard.
Lucas,
the MP for Brighton Pavilion, is on trial along with four other people for
breaching section 14 of the Public Order Act and wilful obstruction of a
highway outside the Cuadrilla exploratory drilling site in Balcombe, West
Sussex, on 19 August last year.
Opening
the prosecution case at Brighton magistrates court, Jonathan Edwards said that
after her arrest Lucas answered police questions without a legal representative
being present.
"She
wanted to send a clear message to the government that fracking was not needed
nor wanted," he said. "She did not believe that she was blocking
anyone trying to get access to the site because she understood there was no
drilling taking place that day and she was not on the road."
He
said Lucas told police that a section 14 notice issued under the Public Order
Act had been dropped in her lap and she had "scanned" it. She was
aware she faced arrest but "wanted to show solidarity with the other
demonstrators".
The
court, filled with supporters of the defendants, was shown footage of the
leadup to Lucas's arrest. She could be seen with arms linked with other
protesters, singing "We shall not be moved".
At
one stage a man with whom she has linked arms was forcibly dragged away by a
police officer who had one hand on the man's forehead. Before an officer began
reading Lucas her rights, he could be heard asking: "Is there anything I
can say that will make you move away from her without arrest?"
The
court heard that one of the defences employed by the five on trial would be
"necessity", and they would also argue that they were acting
reasonably and proportionately, relying on articles 10 and 11 of the European
convention on human rights.
They
claim that the section 14 notice limiting the location of the protest was
unnecessary, unreasonable, disproportionate and excessive. They further argue
that it was insufficiently communicated and arbitrarily enforced.
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