UK police chiefs are expecting more riots during the Olympics. There is large military personnel stationed in London. And still the media do not wish to dwell on why London must become a war zone.

This is John Robles, you are listening to an interview with Tim Summers – a political activist and the former national campaign’s officer of the Green Party of England and Wales in the UK. He is also a former political cartoonist.

Hello Tim! How are you today?

I’m very well, thank you John.

It’s a pleasure to be speaking with you. What can you comment about scant coverage by the BBC and the British media regarding unrest in the country and in particular about the riots of last year?

Well, rather grim news about that, really John. The riots started early August last year in Tottenham of London when the local riot spread of the shooting by a police of a young unarmed black man Mark Duggan on the 4th of August. And even today as I speak the 31 police involved including the gunman are refusing interview with the circled Independent Police Complaints Commission. And the media has largely ignored that whole origin of the August riots. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is already a notorious cover-up crimes organization regarding its cover up of the murder by a police of Jean Charles de Menezes.

So, when 31 police refuse an interview with the IPCC it really does not looks good for them, and particularly when riots are expected again this summer. Last August it broke out from London, it spread all over London and then all across England, a lot of places. There were market towns circled, Croydon was the worst hit. And riots became awesome and militant as they tend do but this followed not with a careful examination but with a huge crackdown and very heavy jailing sentences to create a sort of moral panic by the Government and by the media in intention.

And the causes which I think I’ll go into have not been addressed. Several weeks ago six rioters in eastern Birmingham had shot handguns at police and were jailed for totally 124 years, that’s over 20 years each. That’s a measure of how serious the riots were and how serious the sentencing is. But instead of them asking the obvious political and economic questions a huge sycophantic media coverage of the monarch’s diamond jubilee party fortnight ago or the coverage of this great sensational Olympics showcase that diverts the masses consciously from all kinds of questions of social policy.

Unemployment for example is up, particularly regarding youth and black people. The gap between rich and poor has widened and continue to widen wiht years. Private rents, house prices go up, wages stay static, the Government’s austerity cuts (20% so far) have removed grants to formers, cut housing benefit, cut mental health services, huge amounts of public sector jobs, cut social housing, all this is causing very deep grief beneath the surface not reflected in the corporate media’s reporting. Particularly the relations between the youth and police continue to deteriorate. Many young people hate the police because police are the only interface between them and the Government they have come across. And these increased complaints of police racism, hardly twelve have been investigated. Homelessness has risen by 13% just during the first three months of this year.

So, it is becoming very hard social conditions and therefore the police chiefs are expecting more riots during the Olympics. They are stationing a huge national police force in London throughout the Olympics. But the Olympics charter of the young elected International Olympics Committee declares no kind of demonstrational political or religious propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas. But what are these other areas the media won’t tell us. This is a recipe for absolute chaos.

The London Olympics has deliberately gone out to invite the sponsorship of major corporations – McDonald’s, Coca Cola and even Dow Chemical whose chemical pollution caused 25 000 deaths in Bhopal in 1984. And now Dow Chemical are making wraps for the Olympic Stadium and there is a ban on demonstrations. This is really absurd. Protests are inevitable and are already planned. So, the police have stockpiled 10 000 plastic bullets ready for their forces in London. The mass media and the corporations are related and allied to the British Government. This is coming out every week in the Leveson Inquiry where Rupert Murdoch’s News International Corporation is being exposed for its links with the Government and its direct influences.

Are they similar to the BBC, I mean Murdoch’s coverage, was it in line with the BBC coverage in the country?

Murdoch’s line is even more harsh, particularly in terms of warmongering of the Iraq war, he really tells governments what to do. And the BBC hasn’t been so exposed yet but there is something really bland about the BBC which just blanks out all the important questions and just gives you daily echoing of very sort of sycophantic coverage.

They won’t tell you why the London Olympics has become a war zone, why there is 3 500 military personnel stationed in London over the Olympics, snipers in helicopters. Listen to this – six ground-to-air anti-aircraft missile bases are around London. Typhoon jet fighter planes at Northfield Airbase. An unknown force of American armed paramilitaries will be around in London plus 10 400 G4S Private Security Guards, 3 000 students to it, a whole navy battleship packed with marines more than London's pool, 8 000 volunteer systems raised by Mayor Brois Johnson. And still the media do not wish to dwell on why London must become a war zone.

And why is that?

Well, I think we must assume that some retaliation for Britain’s recent resource wars and war crimes is imminent but that could mean Afghanistan or Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Uganda and recently Britain supplied arms to Syria via Saudi Arabia and Qatar. That’s possible retaliation of these deeds but you find them listed in the corporate media in Britain which as I say is so absolutely embed with the Government.

So, if you add all this together – you have the riots, the war retaliations as expected, the protests, the war zone, add to that 11 million extra visitors. Many of London's main roads are being closed as VIP lanes, overloaded public transport all for the huge over heated, vain, glorious, unsustainable spectacle and you have one thing apart Olympics signifying and showcasing the whole global decline of the Western powers. Please take my warning because you won’t find it in Britain's media.

Alright! Thank you very much Tim for agreeing to speak with me.

It’s really been my pleasure, any time John.

Ok, thank you Sir. We appreciate it.

You were listening to an interview with Tim Summers – the former national campaign’s officer with the Green Party of England and Wales in the UK and the former political cartoonist and a political activist.