Posted on 04/13/2009 5:08:49 PM PDT by GAB-1955
Officers swooped on environmental protesters as they prepared a mass raid that could have disrupted supplies to tens of thousands of homes.
The demonstrators are thought to have gathered at night in readiness to move on Ratcliffe-on-Soar power-station, Nottinghamshire.
They were rounded up shortly after midnight on Sunday at the Bakersfield Community Centre in Sneinton, Notts, by scores of officers. Detectives later revealed they recovered specialist equipment that suggested the group represented a "serious threat" to the station's safety. Supt Mike Manley, of the Nottinghamshire force, said 114 men and women from across the UK were detained during the dramatic swoop.
They were being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass and criminal damage at Ratcliffe-on-Soar.
Supt Manley said: "In view of specialist equipment recovered by police, those arrested posed a serious threat to the safe running of the site.
"This was a significant operation, with large-scale arrests. There were no injuries during the arrests, and the police investigation is ongoing."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
See also:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/13/nottingham-police-raid-environmental-campaigners
And if the threat in the States is Moose-limbs...
Cheers!
This is not a protest. This is eco-terrorism. It would be declared terrorism if the perps were muslim. (well, pre-Zero)
And those who need dialysis......among MANY other things. But these wackos don’t CARE about their FELLOW MAN. Just the ‘earth’ and ‘critters’.
NAh.... we need to watch out for those rightwing terrorists
Bet you they’d have batteries or a generator. The eco-terrorists would NOT be caught without their own supplies onhand.
They just want to teach the rest of humanity a lesson.
Even protesting abortion clinics CONSIDERED terrorism because a handful of terrorists have bombed clinics.
The Left controls all “speech” and determination as to what is permissible.
Terrorism is never permissible. But the Left championed the riots (and arsonists) at the 2008 RNC convention.
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