edl draw attention away from politicians a bristol tv debate
bristol indymedia | 22.04.2010 20:54 | Anti-racism
The fact that the Police allowed them to do this for at least two hours, wandering from pub to pub...trying their best to start a fight was a bit of a mystery. ..Did they have a no arrest policy? I'm no lawyer but its clear they could of easily got nicked for 'breach of the peace', if not 'threatening behaviour' on a number of occasions. This sometimes happens when the police are told not to arrest as it makes more of a news story. Eventually things came to a head and there were fights around the fountains. around 4 EDL got arrested...and a couple of people got minor injuries. Then theire is the conspiracy theory that they were allowed to kick off to distract us lefties. Not convinced about that one myself.
I know that their has been a bit of a debate whether we should treat the edl as nazis...this was my first face to face confronation with them.... and they were pretty much your average bonehead hooligan...one had an SS (waffen) tattoo...they wanted a fight not a debate...if this was the whole "bristol division" then it seemed less then impressive...
As for the politicians...i didn't even see them arrive...i would say i was disappointed if i had any expectations of what was going to happen...the last I saw of the demo were some fathers 4 justice people dressed in their usual super-hero costumes. I went home after that.
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Snub them
23.04.2010 02:40
Snub them. Do it visibly and do it so that the Police and the EDL are left alone to show just how law abiding the tanked up pawns really are.
Antonio Gramsci
STOKE-STYLE POGROMS
23.04.2010 09:41
THEY NEED TO BE CHALLENED, SADLY!
ANTIFASH
Whispering Grass
23.04.2010 09:44
The EDL leadership are police grasses.
Wish I knew what happened in that Sheffield Police Station.
Pannich
EDL Battered In Bristol -The Tide Turns
23.04.2010 09:54
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Eye reed der sun!
23.04.2010 20:49
Here here
And while your about it original poster stop giving them the publicity they crave by posting EDL posts here on IM.
The EDL are not fascists, they are just little Englanders upset that the 'terror wars' didn't turn into everything they had hoped.
As for them rioting let them, our friends at the mosques can fight for themselves. They are more than a match for the EDL.
So please, enough with publicising the antics of badly educated drunk and foul mouthed football hooligans. We have more important things to be getting on with.
WE JUST DON'T CARE.
Bob de Geezer
Bristol Result
23.04.2010 21:14
But remember, we've chased the NF off the streets, we've chased the BNP off the streets, we've chased the BPP off the streets, these wankers are no different. They may have the numbers, and after a certain grassing session in Sheffield, even more police protection than your average fash outfit (can't wait for the World Cup, I reckon the truth will out then when the OB come knocking on certain people's doors in large numbers) but that doesn't mean we have to take these scumbags marching round our streets.
If this report is true then a big well done to the Bristol anarchos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IHTF
I also reed da Mirru
23.04.2010 21:35
They are on the streets with the express aim of getting a reaction from you. They need it to drive up numbers and to get you to post publicity here at IM, which further drives up numbers.
Has it not occurred to anyone here that you might, by publicising the EDL, have helped them get the numbers that they now have?
Dump them. Do it now.
Bob de Geezer.
Perhaps if we all closed our eyes
24.04.2010 01:53
We need to be serious about this.
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no pictures
24.04.2010 23:37
proof?
whers the proof
25.04.2010 10:40
wheres the proof
EDl got done, just live with it
25.04.2010 11:52
EDL trolls know this which is why they are calling for photo evidence to worm out of the fact that everyone knows you got done.
IHTF