Business is Business
In the April
7th 1987 issue of Red
Rag:
150 officers, 20 vehicles and nine months of planning and undercover
work go into a raid on Mandela Court which seizes a paltry amount of
soft drugs; one local person comments that "...at the moment cannabis
is virtually impossible to get hold of", but adds "almost every other
drug is available". The Police and Criminal Evidence Act's
authorisation of prolonged detention of up to 96 hours for questioning
until the suspect breaks down is in flagrant contradiction of the
right to silence; Reading students protest about government cuts in
arts education, a block to any kind of education which encourages
questioning, analytical thinking and curiosity; how handing out
anti-fascist leaflets gets you branded a fascist yourself; and under
the powers of the Public Order Act (only three weeks old) the police
have can control the size and route of marches, and the CND footslog
through London later this month will be their test case. What will
happen?
On being challenged to reconcile his position as a trustee of the Vegetarian Society with the promotion of meat products he retorted that the Society's existing rules allow a butcher or even a slaughterman to serve on the Council. |