In the early hours of Sunday morning, we entered and occupied Canton Police Station. We did not ask for permission, as it is our legal right to do so. Given Cardiff Police abandoned the building over a year ago, kindly leaving twelve different open windows for us to choose our entrance from, permission seemed a bit of a formality anyway.
We squat because we believe that corporations and landlords have
no right to hold property empty for their own profit while people less
lucky are homeless, that people should not have to sell their freedom to
employers or jump through government hoops to put a roof over their
heads, and that the police should not be allowed to act as hired muscle
for the rich and powerful, consistently ignoring, abusing and outright
breaking the law to maintain the interests of the ruling classes.
We are squatting here to show our disgust at the way the police use their power to oppress others for their own ends. Since the murder of Lynette White shone a light on the corruption of Cardiff Police, the people of Cardiff have seen for themselves that the police don't protect the public only themselves: while innocent people lost years of their lives in prison, the three cops who set them up - to protect the real murderer - walked free, pardoned by the IPCC in a move that made it clear just who the police care about. We squat here to show Cardiff Police not everyone is afraid.
To have a home is a basic right, not a commodity to be exploited as a resource by landlords for money and by the state to keep us in our place. Taking the building we act as individuals in a community we have made for ourselves, showing our defiance of the culture of fear the police maintain, and our will to resist oppression and support ourselves and on another.
We are squatting here to show our disgust at the way the police use their power to oppress others for their own ends. Since the murder of Lynette White shone a light on the corruption of Cardiff Police, the people of Cardiff have seen for themselves that the police don't protect the public only themselves: while innocent people lost years of their lives in prison, the three cops who set them up - to protect the real murderer - walked free, pardoned by the IPCC in a move that made it clear just who the police care about. We squat here to show Cardiff Police not everyone is afraid.
To have a home is a basic right, not a commodity to be exploited as a resource by landlords for money and by the state to keep us in our place. Taking the building we act as individuals in a community we have made for ourselves, showing our defiance of the culture of fear the police maintain, and our will to resist oppression and support ourselves and on another.
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If you don't like it, you're very welcome to leave western civilization. If its capitalism you have a problem with, I'm sure there are many countries that would harbor your views. To me, you're just trying justify your own lazy undisciplined lifestyles in the guise of protest because you can't or aren't willing to find work or make yourself useful.
ReplyDeleteOf course they have the right to hold their own properties empty if they so choose. you wouldn't let a stranger drive your car when you weren't using it. they paid for it, they can do what they like with it.
The problem with people like you is that you think you're owed something, you think this country has to look after you, it doesn't have to, but it does. there was no universal law that says you are entitled to human rights, you just happen to have been given some by a man or a group of people. you should thank your lucky stars. don't like the police? Somalia has a very minimal police force, they're all really happy and safe over there, you'd love it.
I'd rather be at the lowest point of the corporate cog than be at the top of a vagrant hippy bullshit agenda
to put it bluntly, Pay your way or fuck off.
Blah blah corporate cocksucking blah
ReplyDeleteHi. Genuine question here: I've seen it reported elsewhere as being the Gremlins from SPIN that have occupied the police station. Is it them or ACAB or are those related groups?
ReplyDeleteAlso, do you know if there are still Gremlins in SPIN or have they left then? Hope you can help, thanks :)
A blessing on your home good comrades! I know it shall be put towards a much better purpose in the hands of such lusty blades as your selves and I believe that you will fill this building, once full of bad memories, head crushing paper work and fuckin pigs instead with stout hearted humans and beasts who wage the war for humanity, folks fighting for freedom, new songs, old songs, old socks and hash bongs! And dont forget the curries! may all your meals be feeling that are cooked among your flames and pots, and may the corporate scum's heart be made heavy by the state of their own drudgery when they pass your fire breathing abode.
ReplyDeleteCapatilism is not restricted to 'Western' civilisation (you American spelling fool), capitalism is the flawed method of exchanging goods and services that we have rooted ourselves in.
ReplyDeleteThey do have the right to hold properties empty, just like the bank in USA that took over a supermarket when it went bankrupt had the right to withhold and then destroy ALL the edible food and other products that the poor in the region had desperately hoped would be given over, they had that RIGHT but should they have exercised it? NO. The reason banks, businesses and corporations do these kind of things is because of the main way capitalism works; supply and demand. If they withhold products, housing etc then they can charge extortionate prices with no fear.
The problem with people like YOU, sie germanischen dämonischen dick, is that you think that because you've managed to get a mortgage, a mediocre job, that everyone should do as you do and no-one should rock the boat for fear you'll lose your little bit.
To paraphrase, 'A man who gives up his freedom for temporary security, deserves neither'. We have rights because some people in the past have thought it okay to treat others as if they were less than dirt in a field. You like the police? You think the police is a fair, just, racially, sexually equal? You think they are bastions of society that are as straight and law abiding as they demand we are?
You'd rather be a faceless, right-less, unknown and undervalued cog than attempt to make the world a little bit better for everyone? The best thing anyone can do, is to try and make the future a little bit brighter.
So, to put it in terms you may be able to comprehend, stop being a media-brainwashed, non-asking, thoughtless husk and try reading, educating, and informing yourself.
Get a job/set up a business and get your own houses you lazy good for nothing bums
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