Police state: Britain to deploy 10,000 officers at NATO summit

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Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:12 UTC

Britain is planning to deploy 10,000 police officers to shut out anti-war protests during NATO's summit in the Welsh city of Newport, documents reveal.

The Police Federation briefing documents released on Friday showed that there will be one officer for every protester at the Celtic Manor Hotel, which will host the NATO summit on September 4 and 5.

"To ensure the safety and secure passage of the event a mutual aid authority has been agreed to secure the deployment of nearly 10,000 officers," it said.

This would be one of Britain's biggest police operations since the 2012 Olympics and the biggest in Welsh history.

Peace activists, who have pledged to descend on the summit venue to express their outrage at NATO's warmongering policies, criticized the British government's decision, saying it is spending millions to protect NATO leaders from peaceful protesters.

"Together with billions spent on war and nuclear weapons we will now see vast sums being wasted on 'protecting' politicians from peaceful protesters," said Kate Hudson, the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

She said the deployment of large number of police forces at the venue is yet another example of public money being spent on the wrong priorities by the government.

"Our message is clear. End wars, disarm our nuclear weapons. And spend our money on meeting people's real needs: education, jobs and the NHS," she added.

In November last year, the CND blasted the coalition government for hosting the NATO summit in Wales, saying neither Newport nor anywhere else in the UK should host a summit of the NATO.

Comment: While cutting wages, ignoring mass unemployment, reducing social services and fleecing the populace with ever more taxes, the UK government is spending millions to "protect" corrupt politicians from peaceful protesters - that is, if they don't deploy their own troublemakers to "heat" things up, to give them an excuse to clamp down violently on protesters. All the while military spending is going through the roof and banks rake in record profits ... The "people" they are supposed to represent are an impediment to their plans, we are their enemy!

Reader Comments

Mariama · 2014-07-01T03:59:18Z

A rather modest number of police officers for a summit, wouldn't you say?
When Holland had their blissful nuclear summit last March 16,000 police officers were deployed, not including the army. As the Emperor wanted to visit a museum in Amsterdam people were not allowed to stand on their balconies or even open their windows. But that's normal. Everybody knows how wild a city Amsterdam is, so anything could happen, right?

Newport will probably experience the same kind of invasion. I don't know how many choppers will be flying over, certain streets will be a no-go area for the public and so on.
And still people will wave to the Emperor and take pictures of him. Maddening.

osher · 2014-07-01T04:17:23Z

"one officer for every protester"

"That sounds exactly like a thinking of a machine to me."

lilies · 2014-07-01T06:18:16Z

Cheap labor

About 6 months ago Britain lifted travel restrictions for Romania and neighboring countries resulting in a sudden inflow of cheap wage-slaves. All Bus tickets in those super-poor countries were sold for days in advance.

Guess Brits are only willing to work for higher salaries so PtB and psychopaths were looking for more profit importing new slaves this way.

pivoine · 2014-07-01T07:30:12Z

Rubbish! All cheap tickets are sold out well in advance from any country. Bulgaria sent a reporter to a London airport to interview people arriving from Romania and Bulgaria 01/01/2014 (one day after the ban lift) and he found out only one of the passengers was not previously living in the UK. You do apparently believe the PTB edited news that millions have moved to your country since lol

Mark07 · 2014-07-01T06:50:28Z

Holland spent between 150-250 million euro! for the security costs only on the Nuclear summit in march this year.
And it was like a POLICE STATE RUN.
The highways was closed, whole The Hague city districts was closed policemen, army everywhere etc.,
It's obvious PTB are afraid of people very much.
Not to mention this whole meeting was a nonsense.

And when god and the emperor came people was making photos, even Dutch Minister made a selfie with the Master and post a comment on Twitter.
The god came with two airplanes, three helicopters, 200 security men, three limousines, six cooks, own food, own water, 100 staff workers,own mobile hospital with 6 doctors, own x-ray generator, and of course anti-spy tent.
The god's car was a Cadillac named 'The Beast' titanium made with machine guns built in.

glardu · 2014-07-01T08:13:20Z

Lmao!! Just to put things in perspective, if memory serves at one point gas prices shot up and there was large rioting in place. A heated topic like a nato meeting, likely regarding the Ukraine, will bring out 'similar heated feelings'. They know themselves well enough to be prepared as theyve seen it, many in the UK have seen it, denying its a likely possibility is pointless.

Now, come riot over the price of gas in Canada. We make this shit and its damn pricey, and far too many Canucks are too easy going to take a stand on something they deem acceptable or is simple "the way it is."