07 July 2005 Latest News
Galloway attacks ‘violent leaders’


MP GEORGE Galloway (pictured) insisted the G8 world leaders are “the most violent people on the planet.”

Speaking as he led the G8 Alternatives march to the security fence close to Gleneagles he claimed the globe’s most powerful politicians were not welcome in Scotland.

Dundonian Galloway said, “The most violent people on the planet are the ones inside the hotel. The G8 should be meeting on an island somewhere and I believe Alcatraz is available…I hope we have made it clear that these people are not welcome in this country.”

However, Mr Galloway was concerned the G8 leaders would not heed the messages coming from those on the protest march.

“I do not think it is any more likely than it would be for the police horses behind me to sprout wings and fly,” the MP remarked.

Earlier in Auchterarder park, a series of speakers were heard before Mr Galloway took the limelight to rapturous acclaim. He congratulated everybody who had managed to “jump through the hoops” to get to Auchterarder.

He said, “When I return to Parliament I will be asking a number of questions such as, when exactly did this become a police state? Who gave the police the right to call off demonstrations in this free country?

“To whoever the policeman was who made that decision, I say, you do not have the right to cancel demonstrations here in Britain. Thousands of people have been turned away.

“Five times I was stopped and searched in my car. What did they think I was carrying? We are against violence. The most violent criminals here are in the Gleneagles Hotel. The police should go into that hotel and arrest them all.

“We will not be told when we can speak, what we can say and when we can gather. We are going to march and we will go right up to the fence and raise our voices against the dictators of this world.”