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Letter to Ian Blair by George Galloway

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

I write in connection with the police operation surrounding the President George W Bush to Downing Street today. I am not a habitual complainer about the police, as a scan of the public record and my history of cooperation with Tower Hamlets police and the Muslim Support Unit will quickly show. But I must say I witnessed scenes today, some of them inches from my face, which were both deeply shocking and completely unnecessary.

I was asked by the chairman of the Stop the War Coalition as the only member of parliament present at the demonstration in Parliament Square to march to the police barricade in Whitehall symbolically to demonstrate the outrageousness of the government’s decision to forbid marchers to enter Whitehall . As one of the leaders of the Stop the War Coalition I felt it was my duty to comply with his request, although it was Fathers Day, I had my children with me and had intended to leave Parliament Square shortly after my speech.

I made my way to the front of the putative march and purely by chance found myself in the hottest spot of the confrontation which followed. I was trapped there for the best part of an hour and a half, unable to move forward, back or sideways. Consquently, I was both closer to and for longer exposed to the events as they unfolded.

A considerable line of uniformed officers were in full control of the situation for a substantial part of this time. Most of the officers were impassive throughout. Some did their best to defuse the situation, which was clearly the proper tactic in the circumstances. But a number of your officers behaved with a viciousness and lack of control such as I have not witnessed since the miners strike of 1984-85. Batons were drawn at least prematurely and were used with a level of aggression which frankly took my breath away.

These were not hardened trouble-makers they were facing who’d come for a fight with the police. They were young, peaceful, allbeit frustrated and angry anti-war protesters. You will know that there has never been any trouble on the score of Stop the War marches that London has scene hitherto. One particular officer, I will not give his number at this stage as I intend to make a formal complaint about his conduct and I am releasing this letter to the press, was quite simply out of control. He assaulted a young woman; he deployed his metal baton in a frenzied way; he ripped placards from the hands of several demonstrators when I can assure you the demonstrators in question were not using these cardboard placards in any improper way. He was standing next to a sergeant, whose number I also have, who if he tesitfies truthfully will bear out what I am saying.

A senior officer - I could see no identifying number, but I know he was senior because he was giving out orders - was actually taunting the demonstrators, including me in a display of political partiality such as I have never witnessed.

But the most serious mistake is one I believe you have a duty toinvestigate, and that was the tactical decision to deploy the black-boiler-suited riot squad - when there was clearly no riot. This decision, however, was one which appeared designed to start one. Given the small number of demonstrators involved - far less than the number of revellers on an ordinary Friday night in Romford - it was an unnecessary and provocative overreaction and served as nothing other than a provocation compounding the protesters’ feelings about the denial of what they and I regard as their rights as citizens in a free country.

This squad behaved intolerably. It was as if they were facing a dangerous crowd of molotov cocktail throwing, pike wielding insurrectionists. It was a scene redolent of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and cannot possibly be justified by the scale of this incident. This squad proceeded to deal out a shocking level of violence against unarmed civilan protesters, overwhelmingly young and many of them female. I have no doubt the large number of press photographers present and taking pictures of the scenes will bear this out.

This was not the Metropolitan Police’s finest hour, Commissioner. It was a sledgehammer to crack a nut and did harm to the reputation of your officers and their commanders, and I believe you have a duty to investigate it.

I look forward to a swift reply,

Yours sincerely,

George Galloway MP

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19 Responses to “Letter to Ian Blair by George Galloway”

Aldo
Posted: Jun 19th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

Way to go George… A true KING amongst Government wankers… Civil war in the UK is not far away, Get your OUZI 9mm on line.. It might just save your life.

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Martin
Posted: Jun 19th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

Pleased to see George Galloway is holding the police accountable for there actions. Too many of them are power hungry fanatics, that love superiority.
As ever, George isn’t letting this pass unoticed, thats why i like him, he has principles and morals that are rigid and are expected with consistency.
He’s great.

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Harold
Posted: Jun 19th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

George is himself under investigation for assault.
And unfortunately has a history of “witnessing” “incidents” which never come to court.
Glasgow Airport Assault.
Held Hostage by Islamists.
Numerous mysterious break ins at War On Want etc

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3 year old kid
Posted: Jun 19th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

I have 7 inch butchers boning knives, 4 axes, one 2 kg axe.

Do you suggest I need any Grenades?

LOL

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Aldo
Posted: Jun 19th, 2008 at 10:24 pm

Harold .. Piss of DICK, who do you work for????????

George Galloway is the only politician in the UK to stand up for human rights today… Now in my book that makes every politician in the UK a bunch of spineless bastards, willing to sell our arses to anyone who lines their fucking parasite pockets.

On Thursday 19th our UK MPs agreed that they will freeze their pay rise, Oh how noble are these parasites…. but three days earlier on Monday 16th these blood sucking MPs gave themselves an 18% percent rise on expenses… Now the usual expenses bill for MPs is £100,000 which in turn means a rise of £18,000 a year, more than my years wage, the dirty scum…

Now Harold what kind of prick are you to attack someone who is for the people, you look like a dis-information act to me… Like I say, who do YOU work for ????

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Spaced
Posted: Jun 20th, 2008 at 6:12 am

Whys are those who dont agreed with some people always called a disinfo act?

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Spaced
Posted: Jun 20th, 2008 at 7:14 am

You should really debate the facts instead of trying to get personal, whatever it’s about.

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Harold
Posted: Jun 20th, 2008 at 10:15 am

Grow up Aldo.
PS.
Galloway earns £250k a year on top of his MPs salary from corporate media and an Iranian TV station.
For the people?
George has always been for George.

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ajit8
Posted: Jun 20th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Good intentions G.G.

But you scarpered as soon as things got ‘interesting’. Career politicians, eh? What are they like? x

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Spaced
Posted: Jun 20th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

BTW I wasn’t trying to slate G.G. I’m a big supporter of his.

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Bob
Posted: Jun 20th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

Well done George, but I wonder if you will ever live down your appearance on Big Brother in the UK?

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Darning
Posted: Jun 20th, 2008 at 7:42 pm

Quote:

Well done George, but I wonder if you will ever live down your appearance on Big Brother in the UK?

Only If People Stop Going On About It!

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3 year old kid
Posted: Jun 22nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm

The police deliberately do not hire people with good IQ to be street cops, one reason is because they had far too high turn over of officers.

Also,Low IQ officers tend to stay in the job, so over time they all more or less end up relatively low IQ.

Now along comes the likes of “Common Purpose” who help low IQ officers into the higher ranks.

Now you know why the likes of our civil liberties are so easily taken away, and there are officers who help.

“Cerisa Dick” is just one example of a low IQ person being promoted up to top brass. The police have been well and truly infiltrated by “Common Purpose” graduates who are now the very same people who are helping the “Common Purpose” politicians steel our rights and civil liberties.

Go to Google video and type in Common Purpose to understand what is going on.

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3 year old kid
Posted: Jun 22nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm

Prior to viewing the top link:-

Go to the link

Common Purpose in Plymouth City Council

Do you suppose they are hiring the best and the brightest, or their buddies in “Common Purpose”?

If you do not watch the videos to the end you will not see the bigger picture of how our civil liberties and rights are being taken.

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Victor E
Posted: Jun 23rd, 2008 at 11:27 pm

Good post kid,

WOW, that does explain a heck of a lot.

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Posted: Jun 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am

Galloway, Fake Protesters and the Daily Mail « the void

[...] wannabe George Galloway. Around the same time as the article being printed Galloway was writing to the top cop Ian Blair complaining that the [...]

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Posted: Jun 27th, 2008 at 11:12 am

Galloway, Fake Protesters and the Daily Mail - Part 2 « the void

[...] Contrast this with what Galloway actually says happened: [...]

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Az da man
Posted: Jul 14th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

ALL DA WAY - GALLOWAY!

Welldone mate!

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Jon
Posted: Aug 11th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

It is amazing how so many people quite rightly dis-satisfied with our current crop of politicians have any admiration for this man who is so self centred as to be unbelievable. Did not these same people cringe when they heard him say to Saddam ‘I salute you sir’ Now why did he say this to a man kept in power by his military. Or Fidel Castro, another dictator kept in power by his military, as a lion. Galloway seems to have an unhealthy fascination with Dictators, perhaps he admires the fact that they can do what they like, when they like and he would like to be in the same position. If people are stupid enough to think that Galloway cares one jot about them then they are beyond help or hope. Galloway would be quite happy for the police force to act in any manner as long as it was to keep him in power - like his mates.

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