Report complains about Police Dogs

Any guesses as to why a report might complain about the use of police dogs? Exposing dogs to unwarranted danger? Long working hours for dogs? Inadequate dog pension plans? Well, no, none of these. Apparently, it has something to do with allergies to dogs, or more correctly speaking, cultural ‘allergies’ to dogs. To borrow the words of the great Rolf Harris: ‘can you guess what it is yet?’ Why of course, it’s our old ‘friend’ Islam rearing its covered yet prominent head again, this time in the context of the policing of an anti-EDL demonstration in Leicester on 4 February this year!

An organisation calling itself Netpol – the Network for Police Monitoring – found the handling of policing in Leicester on the day in question unacceptable, for in its report into the operation it criticises the police for attempting to persuade young Muslims not to demonstrate against the EDL, and for using dogs to help hold them at bay (that last phrase not being found in the report). The key findings of the report are worth quoting, for they betray the innate bias of the compilers:

‘The report was launched at the Highfields Centre in Leicester on Monday 11th June by community youth worker and Netpol campaigner Saqib Deshmukh, who presented the findings to local activists, journalists and a representative of Leicestershire constabulary. Saqib has also helped to train community based legal observers in East London, as part of the initiative to monitor the policing of the Olympics by Netpol partner Newham Monitoring Project.

Key Findings:
• Police, working with Leicester council, put significant resources into a campaign aimed at persuading local people, particularly the youth, to stay away from counter demonstrations.
• The use of the Children Act, which allows police to take under-eighteen year olds to a ‘place of safety’, was unacceptably used as a ‘scare tactic’ to further dissuade young people from attending demonstrations
• Police maintained control over the movements of local people, making Leicester effectively a ‘no go zone’ for young Muslim men.
• Police used substantial force to control groups of Muslim youth, including the use of kettles, baton strikes and police dogs, leading to one young man sustaining dog bite injuries.
• Stop and searches were carried out under s60 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, a police power that does not require suspicion of an individual. Although the number of such stop and searches was not high, all reported searchers were of people of Asian appearance. Powers to remove face coverings and scarfs also appear to have been disproportionately used against Muslim/Asian young people.
• The facilitation of the EDL appeared to take greater priority than the facilitation of counter demonstrations.’

The clear thrust of the report seems to be that the police in England should not be permitted to use English policing methods. Most peculiar. Do you find it reassuring that Saqib Deshmuq has some involvement with the forthcoming Olympics?

The observers involved in the data gathering exercise can hardly be adjudged to take an impartial position, given that they were drawn from TREC (The Race Equality Centre) and something called the Highfields Centre. The Highfields Centre, founded in 1974, hides behind an innocuous enough name, but take a look at its website and you see that it is linked to 44 groups, 15 of which are specifically Muslim, and a number of which cannot be classified owing to their existence only as acronyms. Some of the names of affiliated organisations will I am sure warm the cockles of your heart: Al-Islamia Institute; Ansaar; Bangladesh Youth and Cultural Shomiti; Brit Bangla Progressive Society; Federation of Muslim Org; Leicester Khalifa Highfields Cricket Club; Saracen Archery Club; Somali Development Services Ltd.

The findings of this Netpol report can thus be dismissed as tendentious special pleading on behalf of a section of the Leicester population that neither wishes to acknowledge English law nor wishes to see its implementation continue. The police operation worked well, and there appears to be nothing in this report to contradict this conclusion. However, although The Leicester Mercury referred to the report's findings, it also drew attention to the fact that both Leicester's Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby and the Chief Superintendent Rob Nixon who was in charge of the operation have defended the manner in which it was handled. 

Videos and Commentary: EDL Leicester Demo, 4 February 2012

The phrase “no news is good news” possesses much merit, and the absence of “news” about arrests in Leicester yesterday must surely be adjudged to be “good news”. Congratulations are therefore in order for the organisers of the EDL demo and their supporters, as well as for the police in ensuring that this protest passed off peacefully, contrary to the shrill propaganda that emanated from UAF, the SWP and kindred groups in the run-up to the event. 

This EDL demo marked something of a shift in tack for the protest movement, insofar as that its focus was not on Islamisation but upon “anti-White racism” and the neglect of this phenomenon by the judiciary and the mass media, sparked of course by the recent furore surrounding the Rhea Page case and the failure of the Judge to classify the attack upon Page and her boyfriend as a case of anti-White racism. As almost all mainstream media coverage of the EDL tends to be highly negative and Leicester yesterday proved to be bitterly cold, the EDL turnout can be adjudged to be a modest success. Estimates as to the numbers as ever vary, with their opponents in the SWP providing the lowest at 450, whereas Suzy at the pro-EDL Casuals United blog gave the highest at 1,200. The BBC and Capital FM cited figures of 800 and 700 which, being in the middle, are probably closer to the mark. What is clear however is that claims by the SWP that UAF protesters outnumbered those on the EDL side are false. UAF did not draw 700 “activists” as claimed, but somewhere in the region of 200.

Trotskyist agitator and leading ‘light’ of the SWP and UAF – Martin Smith – made a risible speech in which he made the following comment: 

“The EDL are David Cameron’s monkeys. The Tories are cutting our wages and pensions, and to do that they need someone else to blame.”

Poor Martin Smith appears to live in an alternative reality in which when it comes to Islamism, Islamisation and anti-White racism his motto appears to be that of the three wise monkeys: “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” What had the EDL’s protest to do with cuts to wages and pensions? Nothing. Perhaps as a riposte to Smith’s inapt characterisation the EDL might wish to start singing “Hey, Hey We’re the Monkees!” on their marches? If they did so however, UAF could well start demanding a ban on Monkees show reruns and their ‘racist’ psychedelic pop. 

Martin Smith's Three 'Wise' (Brass) Monkeys

 

The EDL is coming up to the third anniversary of its foundation, and in the time it has existed it has certainly succeeded in generating media attention, which has unfortunately been almost exclusively hostile in tone. To have sustained itself for this time is thus something of a feat in itself, but it does seem that in terms of the numbers of protesters that it can get out onto the streets, the peak appears to have come and gone. A shift in focus and re-evaluation of tactics is thus required to propel it forward and to ensure that momentum is not lost. The recent protest against the sale of halal meat at a Rochdale Asda involving supporters of the EDL and other concerned members of the public seemed to be on the right tracks, although an Asda spokesman seemed perplexed by the protest and missed the point altogether. Whilst the Tommy Robinson endorsed tie-up with the British Freedom Party was backed by some EDL members, it did not win universal assent, and although it appears that there has been some crossover in personnel in recent months with a number of EDL joining the BFP and contributing towards its organisational structure, the two organisations remain very much separate entities, which is probably right for both of them.

Returning to yesterday’s demonstration in Leicester, the main speaker was leading EDL member Kevin Carroll. However, from what can be seen in the video of his speech below, for some reason he chose not to focus upon anti-White racism, but instead upon sending a message of support to British forces in Afghanistan and directing criticism at the Government for cuts to military expenditure that have left us without an aircraft carrier. David Cameron was singled out for personal criticism for  “dismantling our armed forces whilst we’re at war.” Although valid points in themselves, it seems odd that this occasion was chosen to make them. As indicated earlier, the EDL needs to be more focused with respect to its campaigning. Tomorrow’s EDL demonstration in Liverpool appears to be an example of this more specific approach, one which could help in winning the movement a more sympathetic hearing from the public. The EDL states:

On Monday 6th February eleven men will appear at Liverpool Crown Court charged with operating a child sex ring.The men, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, targeted exclusively local white girls in what is becoming an all-too-familiar pattern.

Shockingly, an anti-English hate group calling itself ‘Liverpool anti-fascists’ is planning to counter-protest against the EDL tomorrow. It shares the anti-democratic inclinations of the trades union funded UAF, Searchlight and Hope Not Hate, that together function as the semi-official enforcers of Britain's contemporary controlled 'democracy', in which certain topics that threaten to reveal the truth about the diversity dogma are deemed taboo. The EDL is breaking such taboos, which is why its supporters and activists have been targeted by these groups. I wish its supporters in Liverpool a peaceful and successful demonstration tomorrow. 

Infidels Nationalist Demonstration in Rochdale: 4 February

Whilst the EDL will be taking to the streets of Leicester this coming Saturday, the EDL splinter group Northwest Infidels is planning to mount what it is billing as a nationalist demonstration in Rochdale between 12:00 and 6:00pm. As in the case of the EDL Leicester Demo, its focus on this occasion is not upon the problems presented by Islamisation. In Leicester the cause will be justice for Rhea Page and drawing attention to anti-White racism, and in Rochdale the demo will be “against immigration, EU membership and multiculturalism.” The organisers preface their description of the event with the following:

“We are an alliance of various right wing nationalists, patriotic and loyalist groups from different parts of the UK. Every one of us has slightly different views, some are against all non-white immigration, someare against Islamists and Zionists, some just against Islamists etc. The common ground we share is that we care about our people and our country.”

The Infidels split from the EDL some months ago, and in this instance there appear to be links to Bolton BNP. Another Infidel protest in Leeds last October failed to attract many supporters, but as ever, a group of counter-protesters marched elsewhere in the city and thankfully the two groups did not meet. On this occasion however, an MDL Facebook page entitled ‘Counter the Racist NWI/EDL in Rochdale’ has been set up with the intent of persuading people to confront the demonstrators on Saturday. From amongst its violent and inarticulate mix of MDL supporters and sundry ‘antifa’, there have issued many unpleasant threats (unpleasant both in terms of their content and the violence that was done to the English language in their ‘writing’). One particularly vociferous although scarcely literate let alone articulate contributor goes by the name of Awais Khan. One of his marginally more ‘polite’ contributions runs as follows:

“u fukin muppit cnt w8 to c ur face der im gna smash ur face in till i fukin rip every 1 of dem teeth of urs u wanka”

I can just about decipher that this means that he is threatening to do something disagreeable to someone whom he disagrees with. Yet, despite his illiteracy Khan does display a flicker of self-perception on his Facebook page, where he lists his primary activity as “Being a bit of a twat”. Quite.

How many will support the Northwest Infidels Demonstration? I haven’t a clue. How many of Awais Khan’s charming MDL will be out looking for trouble? Indications are that 174 claim to have pledged to ‘confront’ the Infidels, and a further 57 are said to be considering the ‘invitation’. I do hope that the police will take the necessary precautions to ensure that the MDL do not unleash violence upon the streets of Rochdale this coming Saturday. Feel free to post any accounts of what happens here.

Bizarre MDL Banner: V for Palestinian Vendetta?

Leicester’s Rival Marches: EDL and UAF

For all of the febrile and frenzied attention that the EDL attract from their opponents in UAF, Hope Not Hate and Searchlight, one could be mistaken for thinking that these three letters possess some kind of extraordinary magical power capable of inducing a state of mystical ecstasy amongst the ‘elect’ of the ‘anti-fascist’ sect. The sectarians apparently share a belief in a demoniacal presence, to which they give many names and perceive to be at work in many places; and in their conviction that this is so, they take to the streets and solicit public professions of faith in, and support for, their cause, the absence of which is taken to signify infection with, or sympathy for, the ‘devilry’ that they seek to drive out. As such, the self-styled ‘anti-fascist’ and ‘anti-racist’ movement is not so much founded upon reason, as upon a delusional fantasy in which a potential Nazi or Breivik lurks around every corner and behind every white smile.

So it is that yet again the highly predictable decision has been taken by UAF to congregate in Leicester this Saturday to chant their limited liturgy: “Whose streets? Our streets!" "Nazi scum, off our streets!” “Black and white, unite and fight!” etc, etc. It is boring and meaningless of course, serving no other purpose than to engender a sense of commonality amongst the self-righteous, revelling in their public display of politically correct piety and hatred for the anathematised within the EDL. How do the UAF organisers profess to see this though?

Leicester UAF has produced an article eliding a number of popular leftist pietistic clichés within its heading: “Holocaust – Never Again – Racist Murders – Never Again: Stephen Lawrence – Never Again – Anders Breivik – Never Again.” Quite why such a title heads an article about the EDL protesting against the racist attack on Rhea Page and other analogous cases is beyond me. It may come as a surprise to the UAF propagandist who penned the piece that both I and the vast bulk of EDL members and supporters would agree in full with the wishes expressed in the headline, for we roundly condemn genocide, murder and the pathological contempt for human life displayed by Anders Breivik. 

Their heading amply demonstrates that UAF supporters are not being rallied to protest against a real ‘threat’, but against a fantasy construct designed to generate stigma and hate. I am sure that the EDL would welcome those considering marching with UAF on Saturday, were they to march alongside the EDL against the neglect of cases of anti-White racism such as that displayed in the attack upon Rhea Page and her boyfriend and the recent murder of Danny O’Shea.

The paranoia of the Leicester UAF propagandists is displayed in the following two paragraphs extracted from their recent piece:

“The EDL are made up of members and ex-members of the Nazi BNP, Combat 18 and other racist and fascist hooligan groups. Their members have been convicted for racist assault and arson on Mosques and are frequently photographed making Nazi salutes on their demonstrations. They do not respect the democratic rights we have all fought to uphold. This is why we cannot allow them to March through the city centre of Leicester unopposed.

Last Friday 27th of January it was Holocaust Memorial Day – the anniversary of the day that the Nazis’ concentration camp at Auschwitz was liberated in 1945. We believe it is important to remember the reality of what it means when Fascists take power – we need to redouble our efforts to drive back the Fascists. In the Holocaust the Nazis murdered six million Jews, along with millions of Roma, trade unionists, socialists, gay men and lesbians and disabled people.”

These paragraphs can best be described as odd, deliberately misleading, insulting and ignorant: ignorant of what the EDL are; ignorant of the concerns that they articulate, and ignorant of any aspect of history that is not fixated upon Nazism. These people within UAF display a peculiar obsession with Nazi Germany, yet ignore other horrors of history such as Maoism, Stalinism, Leninism and of course the birth and spread of Islam. It is probable that other than a most cursory and superficial acquaintance with tendentious histories of slavery, imperialism and the Communist movement, these people remain predominantly ignorant of the riches and instructive experiences of history.

The UAF's demonstration in Leicester on Saturday 4 February is unnecessary and wrongheaded (wilfully so). The EDL demonstration on the other hand, is sadly necessary. If only it weren’t. 

 

Anti-English Demonstration plugged by Leicester Mercury

The general tenor of journalism in the UK today can be perplexing for rational beings. For example, the Daily Mail and Daily Express put out a constant stream of stories bemoaning the negative impact of multiculturalism and mass immigration, thereby frequently getting their readerships hot under the collar about these issues, but then promptly instruct them that they should vote for the Conservative Party, a party that is committed to multiculturalism and mass immigration. It’s all heat and no light with these papers. Now, if they were actually to do the logical thing and say to their readers: “If you don’t like multiculturalism and mass immigration, then vote for a party that opposes these phenomena, i.e. not Conservative, Labour or Liberal Democrat” then I might possibly accord them a little respect. As they do not, and instead keep herding their readerships towards what amounts to collective mass self-harm by voting Conservative, I hold them in hearty contempt.

The politicisation of the press is of course largely a consequence of the guidelines on race and religion issued by the National Union of Journalists, which demand a systematic distortion and misrepresentation of any story that touches upon these themes. Thus, turning to today’s Leicester Mercury we are confronted with two contrasting headlines: one concerning the EDL’s forthcoming Leicester demonstration on 4 February, the other covering a predictable reactive protest by UAF. Before revealing the headlines, it is worth reminding ourselves that the EDL has chosen to demonstrate in the city on this day because of the lenient sentences handed out to a gang of female Somalis who engaged in an unprovoked anti-White race attack against Rhea Page and her boyfriend, and the failure of the court to acknowledge a racial element to the crime.

The Daily Mail, unsurprisingly, made a huge noise about this case and its injustice. One would therefore think, looking at things logically, that the Daily Mail and other papers would be keen to back a protest against the judiciary’s wilful discounting of a racial motive in this instance. Why wouldn’t they be keen to champion a popular, grassroots democratic expression of discontent on this score? There could be no grounds, surely, for the Mail and the rest of the press ostensibly enraged by the Page case, not to back such a demonstration? Well, the Daily Mail has to date (correct me if I’m wrong) remained mute on the EDL’s forthcoming demo, whereas the Leicester Mercury has chosen to cover it. Is the Leicester Mercury sympathetic? Hardly.

• Headline number one from today’s Leicester Mercury: ‘Street attack used as reason for EDL demo in Leicester.’

• Headline number two from today’s Leicester Mercury: ‘Anti-facism group bids to counter proposed EDL march in Leicester.’

Do you notice anything telling about the manner in which the two stories have been prefaced? What of that first phrase – “used as a reason for EDL demo”. What does the paper mean “used as a reason”? This phrasing seems to imply that the Rhea Page case is simply being used as a pretext to demonstrate in Leicester rather than being the real reason for the demonstration. Journalists are generally assiduous in choosing the words that they employ in headlines, so whoever wrote headline number one would have carefully structured it in such a way as to generate a particular intended impact and insinuation in the minds of readers. Whilst not being supportive, the headline also failed to be neutral: it was hostile to the EDL and their cause on this occasion.

The words in headline number two may also have been carefully chosen, but they were not carefully checked for spelling errors. What is ‘facism’? Is it some species of ‘lookism’? Discrimination against people with less than average, that is to say, ugly faces? Are the ‘anti-facists’ thus a group of ugly people with a chip on their shoulder regarding their looks? Leading ‘anti-facists’ such as Weyman Bennett and Martin Smith? I couldn't possibly comment. The author of the second headline was evidently attempting to write ‘anti-fascist’, which, to be fair is also another mistake. Let me correct their headline for them so that it is both correctly spelt and factually rather than politically correct: ‘Anti-English group bids to attack proposed EDL march in Leicester.’ That is what the leaders of UAF are planning to do: mount an anti-English, anti-White march in the hope that they will manage to generate a violent confrontation with supporters of the EDL and other people marching against anti-White racism.

UAF is a deliberately provocative and violent campaigning organisation whose followers have in recent years staged a number of anti-English attacks, but scandalously these have not been highlighted by the mass media and the objects of their attacks – the EDL – have been vilified in their stead.

Unlike the idiotic and unnecessarily aggressive stance of UAF, the Leicester Mercury mentions the rather more level-headed reaction of the Leicestershire Federation of Muslim Organisations which the paper states:

“is advising people not to participate in counter demonstrations or to attempt to tackle the EDL.

Its spokesman, Suleman Nagdi, said: "Our message will be the same as last time. We are urging people, particularly the young, to refrain from going into the city centre to oppose the English Defence League out of some misguided idea that they are protecting their city.

"We are best to leave everything to the experts – in this case the police.””

Mr Nagdi has offered some sensible advice and evidently has a sounder head upon his shoulders than either the luminaries of UAF or its supporters. There’s no reason why there should be any violence at this protest, and I hope that it is both peaceful and successful. Good luck to the police in containing the thuggish element within the emotionally overwrought ranks of UAF. Readers may view an EDL video highlighting the reasons for their Leicester demo here.

EDL Promo Video: Rhea Page Leicester Demo

Below is the latest video release from the EDL publicising their forthcoming demo in Leicester on 4 February which will be highlighting the judiciary's unwillingness to acknowledge the reality of violent racist attacks directed against the indigenous white population, as exemplified by the lenient sentencing of Rhea Page's attackers who yelled racist abuse at her during the assault. The video also draws attention to other cases of anti-white race attacks where our legal system has deliberately chosen not to classify them as such, even when the evidence conclusively points to them as being motivated by hatred of whites. Amongst those featured in the video is the attack upon Wiltshire schoolboy Henry Webster by a Muslim gang which left him with severe head injuries. Good luck to the EDL with this demonstration. Let's hope that it attracts a very large turnout.

Sadly, yet predictably, an anti-English and anti-democratic protest is being planned by the Leicester offshoot of the totalitarian group UAF, whose members are intent upon whipping up an atmosphere of hatred and violence against the English. It is groups such as UAF which deliberately foster an atmosphere in which anti-English and anti-White race attacks are swept under the carpet and held to be insignificant, whereas any crime against someone who happens to be black or Muslim is held up to incriminate the whole of English society and every English person. This is straightforward anti-English hatred and should not be seen as acceptable. If you are a trade unionist who has been harassed into declaring your support for this anti-English group masquerading as an 'anti-fascist' organisation, please make it known to them that you do not agree with their anti-English campaign and support neither its aims nor its methods.

The second video below articulates a message not often heard. Not a bad track. Controversial? Make up your own mind.