English Defence League: the (white) pride of the UK

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > English Defence League: the (white) pride of the UK

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Anti-Jubilee Protester Set Alight At Newcastle EDL Demonstration

quote:

A teenager was taken to hospital when his hair was set alight by English Defence League supporters who attacked an anti-Jubilee party in Newcastle.

The 18-year-old, who does not wish to be identified, was hit by a burning firework thrown during the clash at Grey's Monument between more than 100 English Defence League and National Front members and anti-Jubliee protestors.

Footage captured by our reporters show firecrackers and missiles thrown into the crowd, fights, and EDL members making apparent Nazi salutes.

The teenager was taken to Newcastle Freeman Hospital for treatment to burns suffered when the explosive hit his face and landed in his hood.

He was with friends at a "Stuff The Jubilee Party" which was organised on Facebook and due to start at midday.

Members of the EDL carrying banners arrived shortly beforehand.

A line of around 25 officers separated the two groups.

Link has video.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2012 20:34

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 22, 2024 06:37

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Cerv posted:

Video broken for anyone else?

Works for me in Chrome. v :shobon:

v

I like how they use the impact font for their 14 words banner, it makes it look like a lovely meme. In the video you can also see them give the Nazi salute.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2012 20:49

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Calling the antifa Jews and Homosexuals as an insult does kind of show people your political affiliation :ssh:

# ¿ Jun 9, 2012 03:25

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

They also sometimes come to the Netherlands to support our local racist politician:

(his name is Geert, not Gert :geert:

)

# ¿ Jun 27, 2012 22:19

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

# ¿ Jul 16, 2012 16:30

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Serotonin posted:

Vice magazine have done an article on the Bristol demo.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/edl-fascists-antifa-police-lgbt-bristol-gay-pride

The videos of the EDL are hilarious and terrible all at once.

Is that a black guy on the left there, carrying the EDL banner? :stare:

That must be uncomfortable, being black and EDL.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2012 21:09

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

quote:

The British National Party�s subtly-named �truth truck� ground to a halt in Sunderland, after becoming wedged under a low bridge.

Members of the far-right nationalist party were returning from a lunchtime demonstration outside a branch of sandwich chain Subway this weekend, to protest against their use of halal meat.

But as the truck, emblazoned with the party�s slogans and heart-shaped Union Jacks, headed towards the store, it became jammed under a bridge in the Sheepfolds area of the city.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2012 16:41

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Baracula posted:

Tsk tsk. A gendered slur?

and fatphobia :qq:

# ¿ Sep 2, 2012 12:36

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

KayTee posted:

And then, well, this happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLoTXU_ZvB0

28 arrests (most after the demo) and a whole sheadload of pics of skinheads spurting claret.

Seeing racists and cops fighting is always nice, because you can cheer every time anyone gets hit :allears:

# ¿ Sep 29, 2012 21:46

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

drat that evil government, leaving pubs open so we had no other choice but to go get shitfaced :argh:

It's entrapment plain and simple!

# ¿ Sep 30, 2012 21:16

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVhpoM4V0c

A hilarious look at some of the beautiful people who were protesting at the last EDL protest.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2013 03:57

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Saw this on facebook :v:

# ¿ Mar 5, 2013 17:48

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

DesperateDan posted:

♪♪ If it wasn't for the coppers you'd be dead ♪♪
♪♪ If it wasn't for the coppers you'd be dead ♪♪
♪♪ If it wasn't for the coppers, those dirty rotten coppers ♪♪
♪♪ If it wasn't for the coppers you'd be dead ♪♪

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdphlxmB1Hk

:allears:

# ¿ Apr 22, 2013 15:13

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

To quote the song Piranha's Club by Man Man, "And if you gotta punch your dad in the face, I say think about it. Do it."

Zero Gravitas posted:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oCFu4MXoeKFDJBVMfPegvQqiDL91Q8jg_ZOyhe7VgV4/edit?pli=1

Is a nice list of EDL convictions. It is 35 pages long and only goes back to 2011.

While this list is hilarious, the UK is like a creepy, dystopian police state sometimes:

quote:

Peter Jelley was caught on CCTV gesturing and shouting at a line of police in Walsall as trouble broke out at the rally last autumn. He was sentenced to 20 weeks in custody, suspended by a year, and given a Criminal Anti-Social Behaviour Order at the town�s magistrates court.

Twenty weeks in custody for yelling and gesturing at the cops :stare:

ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Jun 1, 2013

# ¿ Jun 1, 2013 00:09

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Ah ok, less creepy then.

edit: only four pedophiles on the list, I thought there'd be more.

ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jun 1, 2013

# ¿ Jun 1, 2013 00:21

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Some facebook updates from the protest:

North East Anti Fascists posted:

Anti Fascists Mass Arrested for nothing - gently caress the Police

North East Anti Fascists encouraged all available anti fascists to head for East London today to confront the EDL, and in many respects it was like some other demonstrations; cops in charge, UAF doing nothing, racists being drunk etc.

Today's London demonstration looks different however due to the scale of petty arrests of anti fascists, possibly for a number of reasons we will now outline. Anti fascism looks like one of the ways the secret state plans its social control of radicalism, pro and anti.

In South Shields recently, for what from the outside looks to be a fairly insignificant moment in politics, actually saw the entire forces of the state deployed in planning the containment of what was happening. The chief and deputy constables of Northumbria were involved and present, special branch, public order policing unit, the police commissioner and local politicians in a full public order control room & on the streets - and that's only what we know about. Similarly, the events in London today show that there is more at stake both for us and our fat controllers.

The New Departure

The direct action anti fascists left the UAF static protest at Altab Ali Park in Whitechapel, to try and achieve something outside of the pacified space of the 'official protest', as any anti fascist progress can only be obtained outside of that space.

After attempts to get towards the fascists, in a pre-planned mass arrest operation the filth announced that a whole kettle was about to be arrested "for breach of Section 12 of Public Order Act". This lead to a truly ridiculous scale of arrests, close to 300 after 6 hour of kettling. All of them totally needless and a large waste of police time and resources. Suddenly, when there have been loads of such viral demonstrations previously, they decided to impose their (Cartmen South Park accent) 'authoritay'.

This is total policing, total domination and a pathetic abuse of their positions. Wankers. They are trying to gather intelligence on anti fascists by this scale of arrests, but they arrested innocent members of the public and journalists, so as usual they will have to shell out cash (we wish it came out of arresting officers pockets and the officer in charge) for their crap policing.

They are also trying to scare and intimidate anti fascists off the streets, which is clear from the bail conditions imposed on protesters (see photo), but we say "gently caress You pathetic bastards, you only do it cos you're well paid and well protected, we do it cos we mean it". The intent of the mass arrests is to clampdown on the progressive social movements, and the only answer we have to this, is to encourage all those enraged by this, those we don't know, our supporters, new contacts, old friends etc to come out with us on anti fascist and other activities. We simply have to redouble our efforts, and make what they are trying to do impossible & counter productive.

To the EDL, we say, you lot were looked after by the police in South Shields very well, the police used kid gloves on the fascists (ignoring the pissing on walls and graffiti) and the oppressive policing was aimed at anti fascists (arrests for trying to protect a photographer from EDL aggression etc). The cops looked after you again in London, while anti fascists have the mass arrests, not the EDL numpties. The '2 tier policing' is clearly aimed at anti fascists.

TO the Left we note that the UAF claimed a victory, again. Ridiculous, again. How? The EDL had their rally without encountering mass opposition, while those who tried to confront them were arrested. Victory, as defined by any reasonable standard, would have been visibly confronting EDL and getting in their way, not standing in a park all day listening to Councillors and priests making well meaning but impotent speeches.

We say the street fighting Anti Fascists from Cable Street would shake their heads & laugh at the UAF, and would recognise in the attempts at direct action and civil disobedience against the fascists the real militant anti fascist tradition.

Solidarity to all arrested, and watch this space for more developments. The North East Anti Fascists will have probably had people arrested today as we had some activists there, we will try to let you all know what support is needed, we give notice that your active support is necessary, and we will publish eye witness reports when we get them.

*No Pasaran* - *They Shall Not Pass!*

Also this:

# ¿ Sep 8, 2013 01:54

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Good to see the Selfridges facebook page full of support for the employee.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2013 00:08

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

"Selfridges have lifted a suspension on a member of staff who refused to serve EDL leader Tommy Robinson at the upmarket shop." :toot:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/507072/20130918/e-english-defence-league-selfridges-musims-suspension.htm

# ¿ Sep 18, 2013 14:33

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

glitchkrieg posted:

Oh look, Vice have written a piece about the Selfridge's incident that completely misses the point.

Ah yes, hide your whiny liberalism in weak attempts at humour:

quote:

That said, however tempting it may be, try not to be like that sales assistant in Selfridges, who � when confronted with "a friend of Tommy Robinson" just trying to get through life by buying an Armani sweatshirt � refused to serve him. Because that is not helping anyone's anything. Robinson, who was there to watch his friend buy an Armani sweatshirt, recorded the stand-off on his phone. "I could tell he was a Muslim," the EDL leader is reported as saying, "because he had a 'Mo' in his name."

It is everyone's civic duty to continue to serve people who aren't being actively hostile towards them, because the alternative � that the societal group "friends of Tommy Robinson", narrow though it may be, are now excluded from all shops � lays down a worrying principle. Should we refuse to serve the friends of all EDL hierarchy? To the point where they're unwelcome in every supermarket and so end up starving, reduced to prowling common lands in feral packs, foraging for edible mushrooms? Ask yourself, is that the Britain you want your children to grow up in? With packs of truffle-pig skinheads in mud-matted England shirts grazing through Epping Forrest? Not so Rosa Parks now, are we?

# ¿ Sep 19, 2013 13:10

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

# ¿ Oct 5, 2013 20:19

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tesseraction posted:

"English Disco Lovers" is a Googlebombing campaign that took off earlier this year and briefly was the second result for "EDL" - this guy's probably deliberately using the term to pull it back into Google's rankings.

e: oh he might be an EDL guy complaining about UAF holding an English Disco Lovers event.

The English Disco Lovers are still going strong (and not UAF or SWP related as far as I know) and they are having a disco party. Casuals united, PR-geniuses that they are, decide to counter-protest a disco-night because it's hosted by people that don't like racists.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2013 00:50

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

I stumbled upon this old footage of the EDL coming to the Netherlands to support Geert Wilders. It features this beautiful scene where Ajax-supporters steal Tommy Robinson's EDL flag, before chasing him into a police van.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG7orFuoO_E

# ¿ Mar 3, 2014 17:41

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tias posted:

Are we even sure those were antifa? Ajax fans come in all stripes, might as well be a turf spat.

An Ajax fan-club put out a call to oppose racism and fascism in their city by protesting against the EDL, so they were there as anti-fascists.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2014 15:40

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

KayTee posted:

Fake Edit:

Now, That's a well-disguised swastika :v:

# ¿ Jul 29, 2014 03:14

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

# ¿ Sep 2, 2014 21:20

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 22, 2024 06:37

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmb36nV_cZY

A really interesting and extremely biased British documentary about Anti-racist, and anti-fascist organisations. With great quotes such as "Anti-Nazism had won over anti-racism" (when people try to attack the BNP, instead of marching peacefully :psyduck:

), and an anonymous silhouetted interview with someone who claims to be scared of reprisals by the SWP, of all people :v:

# ¿ Sep 21, 2014 01:34

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > English Defence League: the (white) pride of the UK