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A complaint to the Cornwall Police

Posted on Wednesday, 27 August, 2008 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

This is a genuine complaint to Devon & Cornwall Police Force from an unamed (here) angry  member of the public. A true email sent to the force, lengthy but brilliantly written…..

Dear Sir/Madam/Automated telephone answering service, Having spent the past twenty minutes waiting for someone at Bodmin police  station to pick up a telephone I have decided to abandon the idea and try e-mailing you instead.

Perhaps you would be so kind as to pass this message on to your colleagues  in Bodmin, by means of smoke signal, carrier pigeon or Ouija board.

As I’m writing this e-mail there are eleven failed medical experiments (I  think you call them youths) in St Mary’s Crescent, which is just off St Mary’s Road in Bodmin.

Six of them seem happy enough to play a game which involves kicking a  football against an iron gate with the force of a meteorite. This causes an earth shattering CLANG! which rings throughout the entire  building. This game is now in its third week and as I am unsure how the scoring system  works, I have no idea if it will end any time soon.

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Ordinary except they are taking place in Gaza

Posted on Friday, 22 August, 2008 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Ships set sail for Gaza | First Rafah tournament kicks off

In between The Job and The Baby, there’s been a couple of projects I’ve been helping out with a little. One is a soccer tournament in Rafah, Gaza. The other is a project for activists to sail to Gaza in defiance of the Israeli blockade at sea. The latter has been a long time in development and the former was hatched in a shorter amount of time. Both are coming into their own now and warrant wider attention. Both speak to the larger problem Gaza faces as it remains a prison due to the Israeli occupation and US foreign policies. They also seek to help remedy some internal issues such as factioning and in-fighting, both resulting from the prison-like situation.

There is no such thing as too much cynicism in analysis of the situation involving Gaza. Take your pick of topics and you can’t really go dark enough. Some of the more macabre stuff out there refers to what Israel is doing to Gaza as “The Experiment.”

Here, we look briefly at The Experiment, and at the two projects I’ve had the good luck to be a small part of:

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