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Stop the English Defence Leaguein Blackpool next week!

anon | 23.07.2010 06:21 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The English Defence League are an Islamophobic and racist organisation with links to UKIP, the BNP, Blood and Honour, Combat 18 and the National Front. The EDL have marched on Mosques, pulled off women's hijabs, placed a pigs head on the walls of Dudley Central Mosque and have rioted in Luton, Stoke, Dudely, Bolton...and they intend to go to Blackpool next week and ruin people's holidays. The EDL have made children cry.



The EDL have made children on trains cry while travelling to EDL events. The majority of EDL events end in violent riots. Next week the seaside town of blackpool will be hit by the racist thugs who have been photographed giving Nazi salutes.

Details of the actual day and times to be confirmed. The event has been confirmed on EDL facebook.

anon

Additions

links to Charlene Downes story

23.07.2010 23:30

Charlene Downes went missing in Blackpool in 2003 and there was a bizarre rumour that she was murdered by the owner of a fast food joint, and her body was minced up and made into kebabs.

But it turned out this was complete bullshit, the main witness was a complete fantasist, the police made major fuckups, and an innocent man, Mohammed Reveshi, spent two and a half years in prison before the prosecution dropped the case:

 http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Charlene-murder-case-39built-on.3967466.jp
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220815/Police-disciplined-blunders-murder-case-girl-turned-kebabs.html

Now the scum of the EDL want to use this girl's disappearance as a tool to further their own racist agenda.

anon


Even the EDL don't have faith in this demo

24.07.2010 12:06

The first thing we all have to say is that our hearts go out to the family of Charlene Downes. This was an extremely serious case and the EDL are all the more disgusting for trying to exploit the suffering of this family for political gain. However, the Blackpool demo is being promoted by convicted knife-criminal Jeff Marsh's one-man-and-his-dog outfit "Casuals United" but isn't even mentioned on the official demo calendar of the EDL website, so the fact is even the EDL don't have enough confidence in Marsh's cynical shit-stirring to promote the Blackpool demo as an official EDL event.

As the Daily Star is the ONLY national newspaper ever gullible enough to have given the EDL uncritical coverage, Casuals United are jumping up and down with anger that (not surprisingly) now even the Star have refused to take an interest in this, and CU are encouraging EDL supporters to phone and e-mail The Star to pressure them to participate in this bullshit. If you want to set the Star straight the contact details CU are advertising are  news@dailystar.co.uk and 0208 612 7373 - be polite.

CU have said the Combat 18 supporters who made Nazi salutes at their Swansea demo won't be turning up in Blackpool, but that's what CU said when the EDL protested in Cardiff, and Combat 18 and other Nazis (eg - people with tattoos of the Nazi rock band Skrewdriver etc) still turned up in Cardiff. Either way the EDL was formed by known BNP activists, so it's a moot point either way - they're still Fascists. Nonetheless my suggestion is that Anti-Fascists sit this one out as in all probability very few people will turn up anyway, but most importantly because the last thing we need is the EDL circulating photos of Anti-Fascists allegedly "opposing" a demo against an alleged child-killer. Focus on Bradford instead.

Astro Combat


Comments

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You do know...

23.07.2010 10:50

That this demonstration is about getting justice for a girl murdered by pedofiles, a case where there was no arrest despite all the evidence towards the man who killed her don't you?

The girls family is going to be there and I personally find it disgusting that idiots like you are going to go and mess up the day for them just to pick a fight with the EDL.

Mel Gimp Suit


This is sick

23.07.2010 11:16

I know Indymedia is against the EDL but do you have to protest an event that is for a child murdered by pedophiles, Charlene Downes, look it up. The demo wants justice for her because her killers were not jailed, even though they confessed.

Charlene downes was butchered and her family are involved in this EDL demo and you lot are going to scream "Nazi scum" at them. You lot make me sick.

Does it matter


Go away

23.07.2010 12:40

Why don't you stop using IM to advertise and publicise the EDL. Your fraudulent attempts to farm outrage are pathetic, childish and completely unconvincing.

IM didn't post this, you the EDL did.

For the last time, GO AWAY. Nobody cares about you. Skinheads are boring.

Joshua


Yep.

23.07.2010 13:28

Posting your own opposition. No wonder the LED are crap and nobody shows up anymore!

Michael


open publishing and closed minds

23.07.2010 14:23

It's open publishing so anybody could have published it, including the racists from the EDL. If the EDL is a non-racist body set up to combat 'Islamic extremism' then why are they attending this rally - this is nothing to do with Islam, and everything to do with racism. White victim and allegedly asian killer (who 2 juries failed to convict) and a case that has received long term support from the BNP.

Can't see how it helps the EDL dispel the claims that they ARE a racist body.

fukEDL


Would EDL be turning up if the murderer was white and non Muslim? No.

23.07.2010 16:15

They are doing this to reinforce their propaganda that "all Muslims are peados". Nazi scum...leave the little girl's family alone.

anon


To Rowan "88"

23.07.2010 19:17

Rowan (first comment) - your protest about the use of a picture of an EDL member giving an stiff-arm salute is undermined by the "88" in your email address - would that be 88 as in HH as in Heil Hitler? You EDL trolls need to get more clever!

88 is a very common numerical device used by neo-nazis, for those who don't know - the below is taken from wikipedia:

As a Neo-Nazi symbol

Eighty-eight is used as code among Neo-Nazis to identify each other.[2] H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, so 88 is taken to stand for HH which in turn means Heil Hitler.[3] For example, the number is used in the song "88 rock'n'roll band" by the neo-Nazi group Landser. The late convicted Order terrorist David Lane wrote "Fourteen Words" and 88 Precepts, and the numbers are often found in combination (1488, 14/88, etc.). This form of the number has inspired the naming of the groups Column 88, Unit 88, White Legion 88 and Barselc88.

Zorb


This protest is a TRAP set by the EDL

23.07.2010 19:34

A protest related to the Charlene Downes case is bound to provoke very strong feelings, which is exactly why the EDL chose this issue, as an attempt to provoke. If anyone bothers to check the facts a child called Charlene Downes disappeared, it's alleged she was murdered by pedos, but the case is (surprise surprise) considerably less straightforward than the EDL's opportunist propaganda tries to imply. A takeaway owner in Blackpool was reported to police as having confessed to killing her after making incredibly tasteless and offensive jokes about having had sexually abused her, killed her, and fed her body into a meat processing machine. There is NO physical evidence is this case and a "confession" of this nature, no matter how offensive, is no more proof of actual guilt than the "evidence" Colin Stagg was encouraged to give to an undercover police plant about the death of Rachel Nickell - and, as we all know, Colin Stagg was proven to have been innocent.

In this case the police bugged the suspect, recorded hundreds of hours of speech, but the recordings were of such poor quality that even forensic speech scientists who analysed the evidence couldn't agree with the cops who'd recorded the conversations what the recordings actually said - and, to cap it all, it turns out the guy who gave the cops the original tip-off was an ex-crim with a long record for extreme dubiousness... therefore, no conviction. Our sympathies go out to the girl's family for this terribly tragegy, but their anger is being cynically EXPLOITED by the EDL

The EDL have latched on to this case for one reason and one reason only - because the suspect was a MUSLIM. It would be the mother of all understatements to say that the football thugs, BNP activists, closet Nazis and career-hooligans of the EDL have absolutely no experience that's even remotely relevant to the subtleties and complexities of forensic speech analysis, and that the EDL"s only knowledge of legal process is derived from they times they themselves have been prosecuted and jailed for savage violence of eg - the sort that saw EDL organiser Jeff Marsh jailed twice for STABBING rival football fans.

This protest is a trap set by the EDL to try and trick Anti-Fascists into a position where we can be misrepresented by them as having "supported" an alleged child-killer, so Anti-Fascists are strongly advised to leave this one well alone.

As for the broader issues, thousands of kids have been sexually abused by clergy of both the Catholic and Protestant churches, but when the fuck did ANY of these EDL idiots EVER protest outside a Christian church?!

Sherlock Holmes


EDL Nazis, here's the PROOF

23.07.2010 19:44

The only people who claim the person in this picture was a UAF infiltrator are the EDL themselves, and the EDL also pretend this guy (which was taken on one of their Birmingham demos last year) was beaten up by them after making the Nazi salute, in fact photos posted on Flickr prove he was still with the EDL, un-harmed, later on when the EDL were kettled in an underpass. Even if he wasn't however, that still wouldn't explain the DOZENS of other photos and videos of EDL supporters giving Nazi salutes, or explain minor embarrassments like EDL leaders Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and Chris Renton's BNP memberships, or explain EDL protestor Mike Heaton's conviction for Nazi terrorism, or explain EDL protestors burning Anti-Nazi flags and making Hitler salutes...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HrS8Fmx2ho

Bob Skate


Why this is a disgrace

26.07.2010 16:37

Its a disgrace because Charlene Downes family will be there and you lot are going to be screaming "Nazi scum" at them, and for what, just because the EDL are beside them.

Does it matter


Charlene Downes and Funny Boyz

28.07.2010 14:11

Some information from a Blackpool resident for both the EDL and their opponents:

1) The main 'evidence' in the murder case came from a highly unreliable police informant with a grudge against Albattikhi who attempted to get the kebab shop owner (who knew the missing girl) to go along with sick jokes that he had killed and cooked the girl. There was no pro-muslim conspiracy as to why the trial collapsed - simply incompetent police work, a complete lack of solid evidence and the institutional racism of the cops. Sad to see the EDL exploiting Charlene's parents for their cause.

2) One result of the case was seismic levels of unrest in local social workers and CCTV going up in nearby alleyways as it became apparent that takeaway owners in that area were regularly exploiting underage girls for sex. Anti-fascists should remember that dodgy paedophile twats come in every colour and creed.

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