Stop the War

Lenins Tomb has video of the speeches at yesterdays anti-war un-banned rally in London yesterday. View here...

Craig Murray is back up and running and comments: “Just in case people thought Brown's promise to repeal these SOCPA provisions signalled an end to New Labour's rollback of liberty, the police blew the dust off the Vagrancy Act (1824) instead. I couldn't miss the chance to be arrested for "vagrancy", it sounded so deliciously Dickensian, and I think it would give me a rock solid case for putting "Occupation: vagrant" in my passport. But half an hour before the march started, the police backed down and unbanned it.

Nevertheless, they had a trick up their sleeve. They split the band of 3,000 demonstrators up into three parts, on College Green, Parliament Square and Whitehall, where they confined them to pens, with a wildly excessive number of policemen herding them like cattle. People were kept crushed in small fenced areas for up to two hours and not allowed to go to the loo. When people sat down (understandable in the circumstances) they were arrested.
What a depressing country.” Read more here.

Also, Media Lens has an nteresting report on death count from the carnage: "The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death toll. " That'll be that feral media again?