Liverpool’s IRA Jamboree called off

Northwest Infidels, Casuals and Combined Ex Forces

 

Although part of Liverpool’s population possesses strong links with Ireland, the idea of allowing the city to host an IRA march jars excessively, to put it mildly. Having got wind of the planned parade, a coalition of various nationalists, army veterans and casuals came together to bring about its cancellation in a vociferous protest (see video below). Even the Liverpool branch of UKIP issued an official statement condemning the planned Sinn Fein/IRA Parade, stating:

“The UK Independence Party, Liverpool branch, is dismayed by the decision by the Labour council to allow a parade through the streets of Liverpool, on 18^th February, by militant Irish Republicans.

The prospect of seeing seven Irish Republican Flute Bands, and their supporters, walking the streets of this city is an affront to all decency, and all who love our country.

We do not accept that this parade is an acceptable expression of “Irish Culture”, and we call upon all peace-loving Irish people in Liverpool to disassociate from this outrage.”

One of the many atrocities perpetrated by the IRA in Britain occurred in Warrington in 1993, when two separate bombings left two people dead and a further 56 injured. It is this incident in particular that opponents of the IRA celebration were asked to remember today. It is indeed an affront for the Liverpool Labour Party to have given the seal of approval to this IRA event, in which it was planned to allow 7 or 8 Irish Republican bands to march through the city, followed by political speeches. Typically, the misnamed Liverpool ‘antifascists’ turned up to object to the protest against Irish Republican terror, but thankfully they were heavily outnumbered. The Casuals United blog reports that approximately 250 demonstrators took to the streets and successfully managed to prevent the IRA celebration from taking place. The report states:

Over 250 Patriots are there now, many British Legion and ex Army are there also. Some Warrington people who haven’t forgotten the bomb that killed their children. Police have been told they will not allow the IRA to march and if they attempt to there is going to be trouble. Hopefully they will prevent the march happening as nobody wants a riot to occur. In two separate incidents Commies and Anarchists carrying flags of support for the IRA have been badly attacked by unknown persons and some arrests have been made.

A later update reported rumours that a number of coaches carrying the marching bands had been trashed. Corroboration has yet to be forthcoming. 

Northwest Infidels

Coming as it does hot on the heels of Florence Anderson’s call for the IRA to bomb the annual Conservative Party Conference, shouldn’t the police be considering what to do about the potential ‘extremist’ threat emanating from within the Labour Party and the SWP, rather than taking a swipe at patriots within the EDL and various nationalist groups and parties? The Labour Party has long been a home to IRA sympathisers, and the SWP has shown unwavering support for Irish Republican terror. At least for those who got to hear about these events in Liverpool today, it should now be clear that the so-called ‘antifascists’ are nothing of the sort: they are in reality dangerous anti-British and anti-English militants. 

Florence and the Killing Machine

Florence Anderson, it would seem, has been a little intemperate in her language. The Sunderland Labour Councillor has received a rap over the knuckles (in fact, she’s been suspended from the Labour Party – so no real concern for either side really) for calling upon the IRA to bomb the Conservative Party Conference. Why? She doesn’t like the Conservative Party. Well, neither do I, but I’ve a feeling that I probably wouldn’t get along too well with ‘Flo’ either, for if she’s called for IRA bombings against Conservatives, she’d probably request that I be knee-capped then summarily shot. 

From what platform did Anderson issue this call? Why, from Facebook of course! Her precise phrasing was as follows:

“We are appealing to the IRA to find it in their hearts to bomb the next Tory conference”.

It could, feasibly, have been nothing more than light-hearted japery on the part of Anderson, who also happens to belong to a Facebook group named “Margaret Thatcher doesn’t have to be dead before we give her a funeral.” However, Florence also saw it fit to ‘good-naturedly’ append a comment to this page stating that she hopes Thatcher “burns in hell”. So, overall it looks as if any comedic intent upon the part of the suspended Labour Party member was probably lacking, and to be honest, IRA members have not exactly been renowned for their sense of humour, having had something of a track record with bombing, killing, maiming and all of that other stuff that Anderson would appear to be at ease with. Their members aren’t that well known on the comedy circuit, so far as I’m aware, and I don’t recall them having had any input to Father Ted.

Does Anderson’s comment actually constitute incitement to a terrorist act? Arguably, it might do, yet we do not know whether her tongue was held firmly in her cheek or otherwise when she posted this comment (looking at the picture below, I am not so sure. Any thoughts?).

Although the Labour Party moved quickly to suspend Anderson, can you imagine what would have happened if a member of a nationalist party or the EDL had said something similar? Do you think that they would suffer the mere indignity of suspension from their organisation accompanied by a few angry press articles, or are you of the opinion that a serious police investigation would be launched post haste? I incline towards thinking that the latter would be the most likely eventuality.

Now, although I am no fan of the Conservative Party and am of the opinion that it has done, and continues to do, great harm to my country and its people, my opposition will forever remain within the civilised bounds of disagreement, counterargument and electoral contest. Some, at various times in history in the name of many divergent causes, have however preferred to impose their will through the bullet and the bomb. In our age, we are surely all painfully aware that there are many real threats from violent individuals and groups, predominantly of an Islamist disposition, which would seek to impose their views upon us through just such means. It is to the credit of the security services that they have been so effective in interrupting and thwarting many plots of this type in recent years, yet of late the mass media has been playing up the phantom "threat" of "far-right terrorism". As commented previously, this is a manufactured threat, designed to cow individuals and political organisations opposed to globalism and the consequences that it brings.

Given the unreality of the so-called “far-right” terror threat, should we conversely put any credence upon the existence of a “far-left” terror threat? Well, there are certainly many far-left groups that advocate and instigate violence and which routinely align themselves with Islamists, and the far-left has a long history of using and claiming legitimacy for such violence. The IRA itself is a Marxist-Leninist organisation, and it is not that far back in history that the Red Army Faction and the Red Brigades unleashed their violence upon German and Italian civilians.Why then, do we not see shrill media headlines about such potential threats?

Taking into consideration the above, particularly the recent bloody history of the IRA, was Anderson’s comment a throwaway remark in bad taste; indicative of genuine malice, or perhaps, a real incitement to violence? Does it not, as Cygnus points out, also serve as a rather glaring contrast to the treatment of Emma West, who has been “charged with two counts of racially-aggravated public order offences, one with intent to cause fear”? In England today, it would seem that you are permitted to call for the bombing of your political opponents provided that they are on the ‘Right’ of the political spectrum, but if you desperately blurt out your frustrated emotions over the consequences of mass immigration on a tram, you will be put in the dock. Emma West threatened nobody with violence, whereas Florence Anderson seemingly did. Where is the justice in the disparity between the treatment of these two incidents, both born of contemporary social media?

Florence Anderson: Malign?