tere is an utterly corrupt moron like David Blunkett, and there are 10 people, people like you and me, who are digging Blunkett's grave (metaphorically speaking only).

There were no fascists in Bradford.
Most people in Bradford (including asians) think the sentences should have been harsher, only relatives seem to think they were harsh.
There was no riot on a Bradford council estate.
A riot and a disturbance are not the same.
The rioters targeted only non muslim businesses.
They tried (once again) to murder non muslims by barricading them into a club and setting it on fire.
They are the real racist thugs.
This tiny minority has made Bradford just about the worst City in the UK to live in.
Statistics proove this.
If you Bleeding heart anarchists dont beleive this please, please come and live here, come and buy a house in a Muslim area, and bear witness to the truth.
Dont sit in your middle class homes in Kent and tell us what goes on in Bradford.

Of course there were fascists in Bradford. The whole event was the result of police strategy in the face of this small threat from the NF and Combat18 in an unholy alliance with the ANL who held a meeting in the city square, providing a focus for simmering fear and police reaction
Dont class all Bradford citizens with your level of prejudice
The use of police photography and video and its publication as 'Wanted' notices in the local press changed the nature of protest and resistance forever in this country

You can call me a bleeding heart Anarchist if you like Rik, but be careful, don't patronise me because you don't even know me.

As it happens, I come from Halifax, which if you know it, has a large Asian community close to the Town centre around the Gibbet St/ Queens Rd area. Around a decade ago there was large BNP activity after a rising number of attacks by Asian youth on innocent whites. I personally, around time knew 3 people who had suffered beatings.

So why was this happening? It was due to years of 'Paki bashing'. Y'know Rik, white lads getting pissed up in town going up Gibbet St to a curry house abusing the waiters, smashing plates against the wall, doing a runner, getting into a taxi, then doing a runner again. The boys saw this and started literally to fight back, albeit in a completely wrong and mistaken way. But they had genuine anger. Why didn't cops protect their parents who suffered and took this routine abuse? Why didn't their parents react like the boys did? Why did the council do nothing? When Asians were re-housed in shitty white trash estates in north Halifax, why were they literally ran out of their homes?

I agree, there has been a lot of problems, misunderstandings and ill-feeling between the two communities; and it can be shit as a white person living an a largely Asian area, hence the white exodus from Queens Rd area. But the powers that be have done fuck all to solve them, when the people themselves cannot or will not until a riot or fash activity occurs. Then they then chuck a bit of money into the area, which only starts to heal wounds. And of course the fash like parasites they are, feed on racial unrest, hence the Bradford riot, Burnley, Oldham. Which are pretty similar towns to Halifax wouldn't you say Rik? (Bradford is similar to Halifax in it's Asian communities, perhaps with a bit more integration eh Rik?).


So why am I a bleeding-heart anarchist supporting 'Pakis' (Come on use the word, I know you want to) from Bradford, Rik? Its because the cops got a right trashing, far worse than their worst nightmare thus extremely harsh sentances were handed out, comparable to the 'disturbance' on the estate. Will this kind of 'justice' heal the wounds?

It's the cops the courts, the politicians that are the enemy of all of us. Its groups such as Asians that take it at the sharp end.

As I said in my original post, all progressive activists should be there.

I wont reply to dl same old crap.However 'be there' is more honest (sorry about the Kent jibe But you know what I mean).
Dont excuse the recent rascist violence against whites, by comparing it to paki bashing 20 years ago, if you do, you're saying "rivers of blood" bound to happen, cycle of voilence never ending ?
Actually I think Bradford is unique in it's problems.
Yes the cops got a 'right trashing', but why. Had it been you or me rioting with a few hundred others, we would have been flattened in minutes. I've been there and seen it happen, they'd have charged us and beaten the shit out of us.
This riot was different the participants were not black or white nor were they in Halifax or London this is Bradford.
Where Pakis (Dont mind using the term)abide by different rules to the rest of us.
The police have always been shit scared (and still are) of being seen wading into them.
Therefore they invented this new tactic.
Let the rioters pick their targets do what they want, we will video and arrest them later.
They were allowed (even encouraged) to comit murder as well as the most blantant rascist attacks perpetrated in this country since the war.

I dont think the judge imposed the setences for the police but for the people of Bfd. who you surely must agree support the sentences wholeheartedly.