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Eye witness report on Walthemstow EDL demo

Reporter | 03.09.2012 13:00

We had a bad feeling about this demo, could not understand how the MET were allowing us to march through the streets of Walthamstow and we KNEW it was going to be a massive stitch up. For this reason my sister and me decided to travel to Walthamstow on our own and wander about to see what was what. There were gangs of pyjama wearers on every street corner, eagerly awaiting the chance to attack the EDL.

Some of them even started praying in the street such is the grip of the brainwashing they have had imposed upon them. We sat on a wall and watched as lefty gimps who looked like schoolteachers ran around rabble rousing and trying to sell Socialist Worker papers LOL. Town Square was totally infested with Commies and Muslim youth were running around excitedly. We wandered through the streets and could see Muslim youths staring at us suspiciously as we innocently walked around. Knowing that if they knew who we were they would have murdered us was a whole lot of fun. What a buzz. A town called Malice.

When the EDL march appeared in the distance that was it. We were barged out of the was as Somalis and Muslims rushed from every side street to attack with stones and bottles. Fair play to the police they were battling it out with them in the backstreets and there were a lot of angry scenes in the streets away from the march. We could see the EDL fighting to get out and have a go back and police steaming into them with batons. We got into a park and hordes of Muslims were running along throwing eggs and stones. This was heavy now. The EDL were near the demo area but it was infested with Muslims and Commies. They had sat in the road with their kids and were refusing to move. Tommy and co were being bombarded with rocks by the crowd of about 500 hysterical Muslims and their Antifa pals. The police started marching the EDL back as they couldn’t get them to the demo area as the Commies were so close there would have been a full on riot. This was bad public order planning and you have to think it was deliberate. Cars full of young Muslims started turning up and the Commies Social Worker types started to drift away as the atmosphere was becoming positively nasty. We felt like some of the Muslim youth were looking at us and some Commies suspiciously, no doubt they weren’t truly happy to stand next to Kuffar while defending “their area”. Weve got a lot of pics and will sort them out shortly.

We decided to “do one” and flanked the EDL march back down to Blackhorse rd. They again came under sustained attack and in the back streets hordes of Muslims and some blacks were on the rampage, fighting the police. The EDL were still chanting and trying to have a go back and we were totally proud of them. At the end of the day, patriots had marched through an area which is basically a multicultural hell hole, come under a massive attack and were walking back out with heads held high. Well done everyone who attended.

Back at Blackhorse road a smaller group of lefties were there screaming and shouting and talking about “Cable Street” YAWN. They had obviously decided this was safer than further up the road where if they had stayed any longer they would have probably been attacked by angry Muslims who were fuming that they couldn’t get at EDL.

Police then decided that they were going to arrest the whole EDL demo, it looked like approx 350-400 people for a suspected “breach of the peace”. If they had just put them straight back on the tube the whole situation would have been diffused. Instead they kept them there for hours. We heard a coppers radio say that hundreds of “youths” were on the rampage an d that a bus had been set on fire. We decided it was time to get away.

I notice that the police have not told the media about the vicious rioting we saw, or that they unlawfully arrested possibly 400 people. They were heavily criticized after arresting 172 on Armistice Day and I expect they’d like to cover this one up. Not on our shift. Becki is working on a complaint letter and advice on making complaints and on suing for false imprisonment, watch this space. Police have apparently told the EDL they can expect the same treatment on any future London demos. They also admitted they cant use dogs against Muslim rioters as they find the dogs offensive. I find police dogs trying to bite me offensive, and I found Somali and Pakistani youths attacking my friends pretty offensive too.

Well done everyone who made the trip. What is the point of liason when this is how they treat you? Whoever made the decision to detain the EDL at this stage has made a serious error of judgement.

Reporter

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