In response to yesterday?s Irish News (Mon 20 May 2013) front page article, ?Police to
Occupy hundreds of vacant premises in Belfast during G8?, the Workers Solidarity Movement
condemned security forces scaremongering in the media. ---- A spokesperson for the
All-Ireland anarchist organisation said: ---- ?These kind of absurd and over-the-top scare
stories are aimed not so much at intimidating anarchists, but the concerned citizens,
trade unionists and others wanting to show their opposition to the offensive waste of
money on this pointless G8 charade. ---- Invoking the phantasm of invasions of ?thousands
of international protesters? and bogeymen ?anarchists bent on destruction? is really aimed
at creating a bogus climate of fear to try and intimidate ordinary members of the public
out of exercising their legitimate right to demonstrate their objections to this reckless
waste of resources.
Resources that would be better spent on preventing cuts to services and attacks on the
already penniless, like the Bedroom tax.
We find it a dereliction of civic duty and a shameful violation of journalistic ethics,
that such crude propaganda from the security forces is printed more or less verbatim by
journalists and newspapers, without any attempt to verify their veracity or solicit
alternative views.
The real forces ?bent on damage and destruction? at this grotesque spectacle, will be the
G8 representatives within their temporary battlements, planning the further ruination of
peoples lives through ever more savage austerity, and the destruction of our environment
through the unsustainable despoliation of the planet in the service of profit for the few?
source WSM ( http://www.wsm.ie/c/press-release-anarchists-condemn-g8...ering )
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