MikeTheBarber wrote:Not really suprising seeing as what happened last year.......I wasn't there last year either but didnt it go on for about 4/5 days only to be stormed by riot police at the end due to the huge ammounts of complaints from local residents?
Some of the pics and stories are quite fucking mental, and although this is way too much of a heavy response by the OB you can see why it has happened. This festival has been going on 10+ years and you can imagine how much it pissed off the authorties when 5 or 6 thousand dirty ravers turn up in thier country set up a huge amount of rigs and play dance music non stop with no regard for the local communites for days on end.........It doesnt matter if they've got the land ownder permission, the event is still not lisenced to play music so loudly.
I'm not saying that any of this is ok, cos its not, its completely fucked up, just saying I can see why this happened. Just like what happened at the Brains Kan party 2 weeks ago near fakenham........Nothing on this scale at all - but a lot closer to home........About 50 police in full riot gear and shields stormed the party on the sunday afternoon to shut it down......Few people injured including 1 girl knocked out, and they also had the same tactic as these czech police as they covered up thier numbers so they cant be idientified.....Its like theyre a fucking mob........It happened again last year the BrainsKan party at the airport industrial estate with tear gas and the full works, all cos BK are too stubborn to co-opperate with the police in anyway, which on one hand is fair enough as they are cunts but on the other hand if you do co-opperate then this shite aint gonna happen.......
OK. fair enough, it pisses off the authorities and probably unnerves the older czech population. Lots of people travel to their country to conduct seeminglgy antisocial behaviour. However, I still see this as a massive civil liberties issue - essentially this is an event being run by Czech people, in their own country, on their own peaceful terms.
There is a lot more wilderness in Eastern Europe than in England, raves like this really are held in the middle of fucking nowhere. Likewise, they do not have alcohol licening laws which as as stringent as those in the UK - assuming the contract for the land was valid, the event was completely legal. Supposing the organisers ensure that the land is restored to its natural state and ultimately the cezech economy benefits from the influx of young tourists from different countries, I cannot see any sort of a problem which is worth addressing with a quasi-army.
A section of the population have decided they don't like this activity, instead of entering into negotiations with the other section of their population they have licensed the police to deal with it in an unnecessarily violent manner. This is why it's so worrying --- they have literally decided to maim and kill THEIR OWN PEOPLE who are not breking the law because they simply do not like the way they are acting. This is how civil wars start - the former Yugoslavia is just round the corner from Czech, much of the fighting was catalysed by police brutality against people from different sections of the community.
You've got to remember what it is the police are fighting against -- its not thousands of brawling football hooligans, rioting neo nazis or gangs looting a city. It's young men and women, legally standing, sitting and dancing in a field.
So, I hear what you're saying but I CANNOT understand how a peaceful event of this nature has been greeted with such an aggressive response.
I'm not surprised the norfolk constabulary have taken a dislike to the brainskan mob, I am surprised they haven't all been locked up. I get the impression that they have less consideration for other sections of the community than the organisers of czech tek! But again, a response of this nature cannot be warranted under any circumstances.
This is why moves are being made to take the Czech police to the European Courts.
) it makes me sick the fact they've covered thier numbers up on several occasions......They might as well not be wearing a uniform and just be some random militia
