Brian Haw (7 January 1949 - 18 June 2011) a British carpenter (Protestant Christian) protested continuously at London's Parliament Square, starting on 2nd June 2001 peace campaigning (to save lives prior to September 11th), for nearly ten years to 2010. This evidence clearly shows the public has awareness of atrocious policies committed before 9/11, such as the extreme sanctions against Iraq killing half a million children according to UNICEF in 1999. Geneva International Centre for Justice (GICJ) was appalled at UNICEF conclusion, which can only be seen as part of the tenacious attempts to cover the appalling crimes committed against the Iraqi civilian population under the sanctions regime. The consequences of the sanctions and subsequent acts of aggression against innocent people of Iraq continue to reverberate in the ravaged country with brute force. At the 2007 Channel 4 Political Awards "Brian Haw was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure". Haw only left his Parliment campsite to attend court hearings, surviving on food brought by family and supporters. Haw originally camped on the grass in Parliament Square, but under Blair's leadership the Greater London Authority took legal action to move Brian Haw, to the cold pavement edge of surrounding busy traffic of cars, lorries and buses circling the ringroad. In the early hours of 23rd May 2006, 78 police removed all but one of Haw's placards citing breached conditions of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. Barbara Tucker joined Brian Haw in December 2005 till May 2013 (7 years and 5 months of protesting). Both had been assaulted many times by members of the public which police would not use CCTV footage for them. Tucker has been arrested 47 times-usually on charges of "unauthorised demonstration". In 2008 Tucker served two weeks in prison for breach of police bail and in 2011 she served a nine-week prison sentence in Holloway Prison. Barbara Tucker was denied a tent, blankets, or sleeping bag since January 2012, instead sleeping in a chair until that, too, was taken away.
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Meeting Brian Haw family members : Married Kay Haw in Redbridge, Worcestershire, England June 1977 - 2003 [later buried also], living at Barking, Essex. Separation: They divorced in 2003, roughly a year and a half after Brian Haw began his permanent camp, had seven children
Father Robert William Haw (1925–1964) : There were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen
Audio digitising : Brain Haw's unique speech and tone using real life vocal cadence Sound effects : Big Ben (the Great Bell) chimes 24 hours a day, strikes the hour, while four smaller bells chime the "Westminster Quarters" every 15 minutes. The full melody and the main "bong" for the hour are struck at the top of every hour. Music : recorded prior from 1925 is all free in the public domain or the arrangement or edition used is also out of copyright. The copyright for classical music typically follows the formula of the author's lifetime plus 70 years. Public domain works: Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, and Vivaldi Video digitising : Brian Haw's conceptual real life existence in a "surreal simulation mystery" akin to a Matrix film by producing the actual film using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator. It’s akin to a hypnotic dream journey, painting-like cinematography, the timeline is choppy, with echoes of particular phrases and images returning throughout the film. The film events that walk a fine line between reality and fantasy, rationality clashing with metaphysics, strange events, but rather we ourselves are unable to separate one from the other. The world is unknowable. Screenwriting film structure : A treatise (a formal exposition) on power. An enigma (something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained / a difficult problem in complexity). It is uncertain who will gather evidence and conduct an investigation as the war criminals are protected by some higher imperial powers. A crime story : Criminology being the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement.Protagonist intent : Abandoned domestic living, lost his wife and money. Skeptical to government scheming, opposed to suppression. Protestors reduced to a bestial level are trying to return to human form demanding the war criminals responsible for mass murder are thrown into jail Character driven : The characters get lost in this reality, but so does the audience. Except that they are gradually becoming aware of being lost: the footing provided by a system of values and a social order, must be rediscovered time after time, because what seems right and constant today will one day again devolve into a pipe dream. Brian Haw's personality expressing morality / humanity, the emotional and physical journey of Brian Haw, leading to disease and death. Notes :
Westminster City Council operates a street cleaning vehicles managed by Veolia, which include mechanical pavement sweepers, larger road vehicles
Brian Haw assaulted many times by members of the public which police would not use CCTV footage for their evidence
Haw visited Northern Ireland in 1970 during The Troubles, as well as the Killing Fields of Cambodia in 1989
Married his wife Kay in Redbridge in June 1977, they lived in Redditch with their seven children until he left them in 2001 to begin his Parliament Square protest.
Most members of the public choose the path of least resistance, which is basically doing nothing. War politicians knowingly take advantage of public apathy.
Inspired to take up his vigil after seeing the images by the an "anti-sanctions campaign" Mariam Appeal, crippling Iraqi children
Starting Parliament Square protest against Economic sanctions against Iraq
Depleted Uranium as weapon of war, with side effects displayed on children
9/11 occured after Brian Haw began protesting (Raising awarenss) to injustice of foreign policy
Moved protest site off soft grass to cold pavement
Largest protest in UK history occurs in 15th February 2003
Brian Haw finding out who he is, making a statement about living in our society in the United Kingdom about either giving up on yourself (becoming part of a system), rather than staying an individual
Netanyahu promotes concept of Iraq possessing WMD
Hutton Inquiry : The Hutton Inquiry of 2003 by Lord Peter Mandelson, appointed by Tony Blair that did not investigate the death of Dr David Kelly, a biological warfare expert, UN weapons inspector in Iraq
UK and US sought a "second resolution" from the UN Security Council which was not approved, British Politicians resiging, UN did not have 2nd resolution by Robin Cook, Iraq war illegal
Misinformation and Disinformation : Pretext for Iraq war keep changing
War aims shift :
Claiming Osama Bin Laden was behind 9/11
Claiming Osama Bin Laden hated American freedom
Claiming Iraq was behind 9/11 (which George Bush himself said there is no connection between the two events)
American homeland security target propoganda on Americans (social engineering / pavlovian conditioning)
Claiming Iraq's chemical and biological weapons were deployable within 45 minutes
Claiming Weapons of Mass Destruction
Claiming Freedom and Democracy (actually replaced by plutocracy, torture on Iraqi civilians)
Claiming removing Saddam Hussein
Claiming De-Ba'athification (regime change banning the Ba'ath party)
Claiming the war on terror (hegelian dialectic)
"EDM 1180" Takeover of resources in Iraq
Wikileaks 'Collateral murder' in Iraq
Torture in Iraq
Round after round of follow up Stop the War protests
Diagnosis September 2010 of lung cancer to death in Berlin
Epstein grooming, sex trafficking children to royality and politicians, acquired internal government information from Lord Peter Mandelson connected to a network of powerful people
Weaponising Anti-Semitism brought down Jeremy Corbyn
Netanyahu is wanted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ), seated at the Peace Palace in The Hague
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Tony Benn "Brian Haw was a man of principle ... his death marks the end of a historic enterprise by a man who gave everything to support his beliefs"
Al Jazeera "unsung hero"
Mark Wallinger English artist "I admired [Haw's] single-minded tenacity. His rectitude (righteousness and honor with honesty) was a mirror that the people in the building opposite couldn't bear. ... Now that he's gone, who else have we got?"
Banksy quote from book Wall and Piece "the best inspiration in London"
anonymous "the society that we live in is usually not based on who we are as human beings, but on who we are as citizens. Constantly being reduced to the level of a citizen is a manner of dehumanising us. We need to rehumanize ourselves to restore human qualities, dignity, or individuality to people or groups who have been dehumanised, treated as objects, or marginalised"