Media Watch: Sinister Weapons Cache, or Fun Family Game?

From The Independent (UK):

One side claims they are “sinister” weapons intended to attack police officers, horses and dogs. The other says they are nothing more dangerous than kitchen utensils, to be used for cutting up vegetables. The confrontations between the police and protesters at the climate camp in Kent continued yesterday, after officers paraded knives and other weapons which they said had been confiscated and found around the camp near Kingsnorth power station....

The protesters also pointed out that other items confiscated included a board game and wax crayons. Isabelle Michel, one of the campaigners on the site, said: “Yesterday we were disappointed with the police, now we are disgusted.

The game in question is, of course, War on Terror, whose mere presence condemns anyone owning it as a rogue and malfeasant. Click through to the complete article and you’ll see the game included in the pic showing the confiscated items.

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Some credit to the police here. Looks like the pic contains half a dozen bolt cutters. Surely those people camping next to a power station were innocently carrying around bolt cutters. Grabbing the boardgame was silly, of course. Posted by Frank Branham on Aug 7, 2008 at 08:37 AM | #

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