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It would appear the PCC have privatised their Gestapo!

Subject: CLINT JONES CITY CENTRE MANAGER 01752 305486 mbl 0920 530866

FYFiles: the above is the person who said (March 3rd 2010) that we should have applied to his office for permission to hold our stall in the City Centre. It is a novel intervention and, to vest in a private company* the power to approve or disapprove of political activity in the City of Plymouth raises novel civil libertie's issues. Below are a few of links giving more info. From a cursory glance of the Company 'articles of association' it w'd seem that the CCmanager may have been acting ultra vires. Certainly their 'jurisdiction' does not (yet) extend to e.g. Mutley or St Budeaux. Any member with a business in the CCentre may be entitled to membership, or at least to be answered if they put a question to the Company.

Any members or supporters looking for a research project might want investigate further.

Our simplest solution may be to use an old fashioned large PRAM; plenty of room for leaflets and it is difficult to imagine that the CC Manager w'd be able to insist that prior permission to use a pram be obtained, also 'elf n' safety' might have a problem banning it.

over and out,

Adrian

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LABOUR KILL PENSIONER

All Plymouth was shocked at the recent accident to a lady pensioner on Royal Parade.
We had a perfectly good underpass there, but the 2004 Labour council decided to fill it in and force pedestrians to cross the busy road instead.
We all know the real reason why Labour filled it in, it was because the historic murals on its walls depicting 600 years of the city's history stuck in their pinko-lefty traitorous craws!

Mick

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'Terrible misunderstanding'

Below are a couple of stories from the 'Herald' newspaper that appeared on the 3rd and 4th March.

I obviously don't condone any of this violent behaviour but I was a bit miffed by the different language that the Herald reporter used in the two different incidents.

It must be a case of either my paranoid mentality getting the better of me or a terrible misunderstanding.

Peter

Attacker believed he was target of racism

Wednesday, March 03, 2010, 07:00

A MAN at a party assaulted a passer-by who he thought had racially abused him, a court heard.

Plymouth magistrates were told Jacob Clarke punched and kicked a man on the ground.

His solicitor told the court that it was a 'terrible misunderstanding' because Clarke, aged 20, and who is black, thought the victim and his friends had racially insulted him.

Clarke, of Beechwood Avenue, Mutley, admitted assaulting the man by beating on September 11.

Magistrates fined Clarke £100 and ordered that he pay £100 compensation to his victim, £35 prosecution costs and £15 victim surcharge.

Gareth Warden, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said that the victim was one of three men passing a house in Chedworth Street in Greenbank that night.

He added that he was approached by a black man and a white man who had been standing outside the house.

Mr Warden said that the black man, Clarke, accused the passers-by of making racist comments which he assumed were directed towards him. The men denied insulting him.

Mr Warden added: "The black man hit the complainant in the face and punched and kicked him with a white man. They punched and kicked the complainant as he was on the ground trying to protect himself."

He said that the victim suffered cuts and bruises on his face and grazes on his back and elbow.

Julian Jefferson, for Clarke, said that he was at a house party when he went outside to speak to some friends who were smoking.

He added: "Some men approached and there appears to have been a terrible misunderstanding. Mr Clarke perceived that they were making some racially insulting comments. If he is wrong about that he apologises.

"He apologises for what followed anyway. He should not have taken the law into his own hands physically."

Women injured in racial attack

Thursday, March 04, 2010, 07:00

POLICE are hunting a group of racist thugs who abused and then attacked three women and a man as they walked through the city centre.

The victims, four British Asians, aged in their early 20s, were in New George Street at around 1.45am on February 27 having just left a nightclub. They were set upon by the yobs, two men and two women, who began to shout racist abuse after being left angry the victims did not have any cigarettes to give them.

The victims were followed from Armada Way into the upper part of New George Street, whereupon the male victim was attacked, initially by one of the females in the second group, but later the two other men joined the assault.

The three British Asian women attempted to protect their male friend, but were then also attacked by the other two men, suffering bruising and cuts, some of which required stitches.

The first attacker was a white woman aged between 16 and 20, between 5ft 5ins and 5ft 7ins tall, of athletic build with dark hair tied back. She wore a white coat, possibly with a hood.

The second attacker was a white male, aged between 16 and 25 years, of medium build and with short black hair.

The third attacker was a white girl, aged between 15 and 16 years, about 5ft tall with very dark brown hair. She was of chubby build, and was wearing a black hooded top.

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