Peaches and Stupid Laws (as in laws passed by government and not people who go by that name)
Speed Update, whooooosh....
Friday:
Went to see Peaches with friend_of_tofu. Woooow, Peaches rocks, it's offical. I need to purchase ear plugs tho, my ears were throughly broken by the guest band... maybe I'm getting old, but talk about a wall of sound... I think they used a wall of jumo jet engines... my ears are still making, "OOooooOOOoooOOOooOOOo" sounds. Anyways, Peaches... she was scantily clad and got scantier as the show went on. I showed a short film I took on my mobile to work buddies and they gasped, "she's naked!". The whole show was fantasitcal tho, I've never really seen anything like it... her music is a mix of rock and hip hop and is crazy and full of energy. I particularly liked her song that consisted of her singing and pushing buttons on a drum machine. I used to do that in my bedroom and it is dead good fun and fully appreciated her expertise at button pushing. Yes totally awesome fantasticalness of immense proportions, was sad that I had to leave aformentioned buddy to catch my train before the show finished... boo!
Protesting:
I receieved recieved reeseived got a letter from Superintendent Peter Terry of the Metropolitan Police. He has approved my two lone demonstrations in Parliament Square, yay! Tho I have been warned that I must not cause:
Hinderance to people entering/leaving the palace of Westminster
Hinderance to the proper operation of Parliament
Serious public disorder
Serious damage to property
Disruption to life in the community
A serious risk in the designated area
Risk to safety of the public
Going through the application process has shown me how completely barmy the SOCPA law is. I've had to fill in two forms (within seven days of my protest), have it checked, photocopied and faxed by one officer. He had to fill in the office use only section and sign and date a copy for me. Then Superintendant Terry has had to review my applications, sign a permission form and then post it to me. So now I have permission carry out two protests, "Make Fair Trade Tea Not Stupid Laws" and "Camapign For The Reincarnation Of Guy Fawkes". So why do I need to go through all that to hold a placard outside Parliament? If I had evil intend to blow up the place, would I bother getting permission to protest? Being a lone protester am I really going to be able to cause any major hinderance to people entering/leaving parliament or hinder the proper operation of Parliament... and if I was so inclined would I fecking bother filling in forms!? Maybe they want to check if my protest would be offensive? But if it was, there are laws to deal with that anyway. I'm dizzy and confused.
Friday:
Went to see Peaches with friend_of_tofu. Woooow, Peaches rocks, it's offical. I need to purchase ear plugs tho, my ears were throughly broken by the guest band... maybe I'm getting old, but talk about a wall of sound... I think they used a wall of jumo jet engines... my ears are still making, "OOooooOOOoooOOOooOOOo" sounds. Anyways, Peaches... she was scantily clad and got scantier as the show went on. I showed a short film I took on my mobile to work buddies and they gasped, "she's naked!". The whole show was fantasitcal tho, I've never really seen anything like it... her music is a mix of rock and hip hop and is crazy and full of energy. I particularly liked her song that consisted of her singing and pushing buttons on a drum machine. I used to do that in my bedroom and it is dead good fun and fully appreciated her expertise at button pushing. Yes totally awesome fantasticalness of immense proportions, was sad that I had to leave aformentioned buddy to catch my train before the show finished... boo!
Protesting:
I receieved recieved reeseived got a letter from Superintendent Peter Terry of the Metropolitan Police. He has approved my two lone demonstrations in Parliament Square, yay! Tho I have been warned that I must not cause:
Hinderance to people entering/leaving the palace of Westminster
Hinderance to the proper operation of Parliament
Serious public disorder
Serious damage to property
Disruption to life in the community
A serious risk in the designated area
Risk to safety of the public
Going through the application process has shown me how completely barmy the SOCPA law is. I've had to fill in two forms (within seven days of my protest), have it checked, photocopied and faxed by one officer. He had to fill in the office use only section and sign and date a copy for me. Then Superintendant Terry has had to review my applications, sign a permission form and then post it to me. So now I have permission carry out two protests, "Make Fair Trade Tea Not Stupid Laws" and "Camapign For The Reincarnation Of Guy Fawkes". So why do I need to go through all that to hold a placard outside Parliament? If I had evil intend to blow up the place, would I bother getting permission to protest? Being a lone protester am I really going to be able to cause any major hinderance to people entering/leaving parliament or hinder the proper operation of Parliament... and if I was so inclined would I fecking bother filling in forms!? Maybe they want to check if my protest would be offensive? But if it was, there are laws to deal with that anyway. I'm dizzy and confused.