RiF,
Thanks for your report of this event.
When I first heard details of what had happened, I was rather critical of AO for following the guards onto their property. After reviewing the photos and having viewed various videos of the event, I can see that I was wrong.
The property is not clearly marked and there is no obvious boundary to delineate where the cult’s property starts and public property ends. I don’t see how anyone who was not intimately familiar with the layout of the property could be expected to know that they might be trespassing. In any case, the correct thing to do would be to ask them to leave. Having 3 people jump on one person, put their knees in his back and force his face into the dirt while twisting his arms behind his back to apply restraints is a flagrant example of brutally excessive force. And when Barb attempted to retrieve AO’s camera which contained evidence of the attack, she was clearly assaulted as well. This was captured on video, so there is no disputing this.
Obviously the laws are not necessarily the same, but in the UK, doing this to someone who had strayed onto your land would be assault and a criminal offence. The persons carrying out such an act would be arrested by the police, not the victim.
What is also clear from the photos and the video, is that the cults thugs attempted to provoke this incident by hanging around the van and then withdrawing when approached. There is no other conclusion that any rational person could come to, after seeing the evidence. Placing a traffic flare behind the vehicle is totally unnecessary as the van is clearly not parked in a manner that would pose a danger to road traffic.
This whole incident reinforces the need to stay in groups where someone can watch your back and always have videos cameras ready to go, and lots of them!
I would like to say a “Well done!” to all the protestors, you showed remarkable restraint and composure. It is obvious that the cult’s thugs were attempting to provoke a violent response. Well, I have no doubt that their actions will rebound in a big way. They have been exposed for what they are now. Desperate scheming cowards
Oh, and a little message for any OSA operatives reading this. If you try to claim that the use of violent force was justified, then you can have no complaints if any of your protestors set a foot on someone’s private property and they get jumped on and tied up, can you? Or hadn’t you realised that every action has a consequence?
That’s the trouble with you cultists, you are totally unable to break out of your cult mentality and see the bigger picture. Your dead leader says “Attack!” so you robotically attack anyone who disagrees with you. You cannot see that you are creating more enemies for yourselves. Anonymous started because you blindly attacked, and now you are creating more enemies by attacking them. Even though I am pointing this out to you, you still won’t learn until it is too late.
I don’t expect you to last much longer and good riddance.
Axiom142