Channel 4 news covered the protests against Npower's dumping of toxic power station waste into an Oxfordshire lake tonight.
I wasn't able to find the record button soon enough to include their intro to the piece so you may want to read the background to this story here:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2007/01/360848.html.
Channel 4 picked up well on the outrageous injunctions being served on anyone photographing or filming the destruction of the environment going on there - risking injunction themselves. They also emphasised that everyone watching the report could be injuncted too. The only irritating point was that they blanked the face of the scumbag pinstriped lawyer who was marching around the lake shore thrusting injunctions at everything that moves. So apologies for reposting a mainstream media report here but I thought I'd see if I could get these corporate shitheads to injunct myself and everyone browsing indymedia. Go on you corrupt bastards!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2007/01/360848.html. Channel 4 picked up well on the outrageous injunctions being served on anyone photographing or filming the destruction of the environment going on there - risking injunction themselves. They also emphasised that everyone watching the report could be injuncted too. The only irritating point was that they blanked the face of the scumbag pinstriped lawyer who was marching around the lake shore thrusting injunctions at everything that moves. So apologies for reposting a mainstream media report here but I thought I'd see if I could get these corporate shitheads to injunct myself and everyone browsing indymedia. Go on you corrupt bastards!
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Dump mpower
21.03.2007 07:56
Gum
Good article
21.03.2007 09:06
Gregor Samsa
Corporate Police State!
21.03.2007 14:20
This is outrageous, these restrictions are ludicrous and completely over the top! They are treating NPower's eco vandalism as if it were a top level state secret and vital to the defence of the realm!
Let us hope that this disgraceful court decision is overturned by one of our more sensible judges in a higher court before it needs to go all the way to European Court. Of course if it goes that far this vile injunction will inevitably be shredded, since liberty and the freedom of the press to keep the public informed are still better respected there at least, even if that is no longer the case in our sorry excuse for a 'democracy!
Of course by then it will be too late and NPower's evil work will be complete.
BB. Onion.
John Pullin
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Corporate Police State
21.03.2007 21:42
A multinational can get an injunction on a load of anonymous statements with absolutely no cross examination whatsoever and limit the right to protest and the rights of the media. And if you don't like it tough - the police will nick you and lock you up!
I'm astonished that this thing happens, but also i'm not astonished companies like Npower can do what they want - the government, police and lawyers will back them up and the mainstream media does not give a shit - well except Channel4 in this instance!
Its all too depressing...
Not Astonished
lawyer
22.03.2007 01:22
tipobarra!
getting injunted
22.03.2007 01:38
you have to be physically served with an injunction before you are bound by it. it simply has to touch you!
my advice is to make it hard to be served with an injunction.
also, injunctions CAN and HAVE been defeated and no protest i believe has been found guilty of breaching an injunction!!!!
Anti Police State
full report
22.03.2007 01:41
tipobarra