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English Defence League demo. Proof why mephedrone should be banned.

anon | 04.04.2010 23:56 | SOCPA | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Terror War | Birmingham | World

Yesterday the EDL English Defence League "Counter Jihad" movement held a protest in Dudley, cordoned off in a car park while the UAF [United Against Fascism] held a counter protest nearby. The EDL demo turned into a riot as EDL youths & grown up men went crazy on mephedrone. Mephedrone is a legal stimulant similar to an ecstacy & amphetamine mixture labelled as "plant food".

The EDL [English Defence League] say that they are a non racist movement against Jihad. They have said that they are not against the sort of Muslims that they "go down the pub with" but are just against bombers and Jihad [Holy War].

Yesterday they held a protest against the new mosque planned for Dudley. They will be holding protests against other mosques too elsewhere in the UK.

On the journey to Dudley the EDL consumed vast amounts of the legal drug mephedrone. [Some have said that they were "snorting cocaine" too but we won't comment on this]. Mephedrone is a legal stimulant drug the effects of which are similar to ecstacy and amphetamine. It can cause users to behave in a way that is childish, inappropriate and "out of character" and causes paranoia.

During the EDL demo men and youths in EDL tops charged at the railings that had been put there by EDL stewards and the police, pulled them up, turned them over and then jumped up and down on them as if they were trampolines like naughty children. They were making silly noises like "Yeeeeee!!! Hee Haaaa hee haaa na na na na!!" while jumping about on the railings. The police asked them to stop saying "This is the police. Get off of the fences" causing the men to do it all the more. The police did in the end develop a sense of humour over this as the grown men of the EDL looked stupid doing it.

On the other side of the car park, grown men and youths in EDL tops got hold of other railings, pulled them apart, made them into a climbing frame and played a game on them, like naughty boys...seeing who could stand on top of them the longest.

Another man climbed up a pole and hung EDL posters on it upside down while EDL stewards tried to pull him down.


During the protest some UAF were said to have "ran at the protest" causing nearly 800 people to fly into a panic and try to escape from the demo whil other EDL people inside the car park yelled that "The Pakis are coming!"
They [EDL] ran at the fences, pulling more down and ran away from the protest while a high and paranoid Guramit Singh was yelling into a microphone "Stop it! Stop that! Don't go with them! Come baaaacckk!! Nooooo! Don't run awaaaaay! Oh Nooooo! What are you doing?! Don't go with them! They're, they're..they're the UAF!"
Then he and other EDL turned around and realised that the press was filming everything and taking photos...the paranoid EDL then charged at them sparking another mini riot.
Guramit didn't like the look of the locals who were watching the EDL protest either...he said "They keep looking at me. Look..they're all looking" causing other EDL to tell the locals to "Fuck off" and telling them to "Go home and fuck off and mind your own business". A girl of around 11 or 12 had a camera and was called a "fat cunt" and told to stop taking photos outside the cordon by EDL from inside of the cordon.
Guramit Singh is concerned how "The Muslims" perceive him and his EDL. He did tell off the EDL who were singing the "Allah Song" [Allah. Allah. Who the fuck is Allah]. He said "Stop singing that fucking Allah song. I mean it. The Muslims already think we're stupid. They are laughing at all of us and singing that fucking Allah song just gives them all the more reason to think we're stupid. Look up there. They're all standing there looking at us and thinking we're fucking stupid".
At this point he decided a disco was a good idea and put on a song called "You've Got The Love". He was very pleased with himself for this and said that crowd "loved him for it". The EDL danced to this while the other EDL men trampled the fences while off their faces.
At the end of the demo at 4pm [the time agreed that the demo would end] the EDL and local youths decided that they were not going to leave by the prearranged route and tore what was left of the fences up in the same way that most of the locals got in. [The local youths thought that they they had to pay to get in so pulled up the railings, charged their way in and then ran into the crowd of around 2500].
The police eventually ordered the fence jumpers to disperse so they did...straight at and through the police lines while others threw bricks and bottles at the police. What made this look sillier still was the EDL man holding up a placard that stated "We support our police" while people threw bricks at him and the police and jumped all over the fences.

A great day out. ; )

anon

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