trendy pub regulars joined in with thé abuse and threats.
ber i Eventualh Liz and Jo were Kings Cross police on making statements against their awackes. Only to find that Liz was being arrested for being drunk disorderly on orange juice!
Jo was told that she couldn't prosecute the bloke who her black eye, and when she persisted she was told by nysenea inspector that she would have to exchange adresses will him first! Presumably that he could finish the job off.
They were eventually released at 5.00 in the This is just one example of the narassment that lesbians face day in and day out for having the affrontery to be open about their sexuality, and refusing to conform to 'normal' heterosexual olalua ts, WUHCI should boycott the Three Wheatsheaves and make sure their sisters do the preferably letsallic ting the manager know (Helen MacDonald) DRIVER. Send contribu- Compiled HILARY tions to reach us a week before publication to Male Order, Socialist Action, 328 Upper Street, London N1. THE & 4 A1 Frie* IS TUSE I SHINE E the the suffis! of dee onginal Pick ae.. i to grass no: rampags like the Vewham a. Burue want to make sure it's not based just on local, grass TOOL involvement, but also national vlcansalon. like the unions the NCCL (Secretary, National Campaign Against the Police Bill)
Reading the bourgeois press one gets the impression that major changes have been introduced in the new Bill. This is not so The police discretion searches remains.
Bill gives the state the right peruse confidential records for the first time Far regulating defining police powers, as Metropolitan Police Commissioner plays tck T plays a trick. police wollL co sone oo sall or some obscure common law which allows police to do something everyone knows is wholly inappropriate It ney argue that since the law is ill-defined and contains such minor outrages, should be regularised. The following an example from the Home Office report justifying the Bill. In areas surIn preT Bail to nez In IMpeR I iDIOter sotlar.d there are provs rigorous searc:. o: Erode found there. io protes: ine eggs.
The Home Office tries say since such powers exist, they should be extended to the streets of our major cities!
everyone blacks, unionists, Greenham omen are as, nationalists groups most at risk For example, the Bill links a provision for arrest search to the 1936 Public Order Act. This will take place if a person organised demonstration at which a breach of the taken place, or is organising which such a breach of the peace might take place You don't need mucl imagination to see that any event might be said by some ungenerous police officer to be such an occa sion. There is no limit to the people who might be affected given the powers and direction of the Bill.
Commissioner Newman's point of view, the Bill fits nicely into his overall policing policy. He's developed certain ideas Lolliull! policing - the notion that the police should be assisted by the communities themselves Trade unionists, blacks, Irish nationalists, gays, Greenham women - these are the groups most under theat from the Police Bill and argued that govern ment departments. like th Department of Education and local social services departments, should also be involved in spying on the community. All this would be done simply on police needs as they define them.
In all these ways, the Bill extends state encroachment into the rights ordinary citizens. must be fought every inch of the way.