Last Thursday night a friend of mine was pulled over, whilst driving
through South Oxfordshire, by Thames Valley Police.
He asked as to why he’d been pulled over – the sole reason given was
that his car showed up on their computer as “a party car”. This could
have been as his car registration details had been taken whilst parked
at freeparty sites, or maybe because this lad had been pulled over last
October en route to a party, to be given a lecture on “why you
shouldn’t go to raves”.
FWIW my friend has clean police and criminal records, has never even
received so much as a caution from the police in his life. He isn’t
involved in the “organisation” of unlicensed parties (just goes along
to them and has a good time – nothing illegal about that!), and is not
involved in criminal activity.
The Babylon used every trick in the book to try and find something to
bust him for. Firstly, they refused to believe that the car wasn’t
stolen – then after establishing particulars of ownership then
disbelieved that he was who he said he was (i.e. they now thought that
both the car, and every form of ID in his wallet as well, was also
stolen). They eventually gave up on this angle.
Police officer no give me producer
Yep, what they then wanted was the real sensimilla. Not only that –
they seemed convinced that he was involved with heroin (utter bollocks
I might add!) – and were asking for his needles to avoid injury to them
when searching his car. Turning over the car, they didn’t find any
ganja, or other prohibited substances.
Short of finding anything that they could pin on him – they then
proceeded to bust him for not wearing a seat belt.
Clearly, this is the usual Thames Valley Police tactic of using
intimidation and harrassment to try and dissuade young “weekenders”
from becoming involved with free parties. Nothing new there. But what
concerns me more is that they automatically assumed that he was
involved in car-theft and heroin use, just because the car he’d been
driving had been spotted at, or on the way to freeparty sites. Perhaps
this is the kind of bollocks that police officers get fed by their
superiors to make them hate us. My friend has stable employment in the
construction industry. Perhaps what we need is some positive spin to
counter the lies and propaganda – though it seems that the Babylon have
their own agenda, one that goes far beyond merely upholding the law.
Simon
