In June 2001 Brian Haw set up a peaceful protest in Parliament Square, opposite the Parliament building in Westminster. Initially he was protesting against the sanctions and bombing of Iraq by the UK and USA governments, but once the wars against Afghanistan and then Iraq began his protest has encompassed those too.

The government has tried to remove his peaceful protest by introducing legislation targeting it, and describing it as an eyesore, a nuisance, an obstruction, and 'unlawful advertising'; all of these accusations are clearly preposterous, and indeed very shameful in what is meant to be a democracy of many centuries standing. Fortunately, most of the accusations failed in the legal process, showing that they were ill-judged at best, not to mention mischievous wastes of public money.

At first the government failed, and rightly so, but on 8th May this year the government succeeded in squeezing the protest almost out of existence. In the early hours of 23rd May a disproportionately large number of police turned up and dismantled nearly all of the display of placards and banners.

These government and police actions are not only utterly unnecessary, they are disturbingly authoritarian. But because it is happening in London and is not nationwide headline news there is too little outcry about it.

At 2:45am on 23rd May Pluto was conjunct the MC in Westminster. Interestingly, Pluto was conjunct the MC in Baghdad when the USA and UK attacked Iraq in 2003. In both cases it correlated with acts of destruction from 'on high'.

But the timing of the act points directly to Neptune. On 8th May when the High Court ruled that the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) legislation could in fact be retrospectively applied to the Parliament Square peace protest. This meant that Brian Haw had to apply for permission to protest at this location, despite having been there for 5 years already. It also meant that the police could impose conditions on the protest, and they wasted no time in doing so. Astrologically, on 8th May the Sun was square Neptune, foreshadowing the Neptune station of 22nd May. The station occurred at 14:06 BST (13:06 GMT) on 22nd, and in less than 24 hrs the police moved in to dissolve (a Neptunian action) much of the protest.

Here is a list of Neptunian turning points leading up to the 23rd May '06:

Serious and Organised Crime & Police Act (SOCPA) announced - Sun conjunct Neptune, Sun at 19 Auarius 56
SOCPA passed - Sun sextile Neptune
SOCPA section 132 entered into force - Sun opposite Neptune
Government wins appeal to retrospectively apply SOCPA s.132 to Parliament Square peace protest - Sun square Neptune
Police break up the vast majority of the 5 years old peace protest - Neptune stationary at 19 Aquarius 49

To support and keep up-to-date with the Parliament Square peace protest, and also with the governments anti-democratic clamp-down on peaceful protests, these sites are useful:
http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/
http://parliamentprotest.org.uk/
http://www.freedomtoprotest.org.uk/
http://www.peopleincommon.org/