Who protects the nazis?

Caught the scum of the Met tweeting this earlier. Note the use of the #freetommyrobinson hashtag. Kind of gives the game away. Unsurprisingly, they've since deleted the tweet. ACAB.

[edit] The offending tweet has now re-appeared in its entirety.

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Speaking of police and anti-fascist demos. Two police officers have been summonsed by York Magistrates on a charge of perverting the course of justice:

Insp Robert Cantrell, 39, a member of Greater Manchester Police’s elite Tactical Aid Unit, was praised for his bravery after last year’s riots. But the M.E.N can reveal he has been summonsed to appear before magistrates following an investigation into policing of a demonstration by the far-right English Defence League.Pc Alan Glover, 31, a member of the same TAU team, has also been ordered to appear at York magistrates court to face a charge of perverting the course of justice...The IPCC probe, which lasted 16 months, investigated ‘the apparent difference between the footage and the account given by officers which resulted in criminal charges’ as well as the level of force used in Mr Clough’s arrest...A CPS spokesman said: "Both have been summonsed to appear before York magistrates court on charges of perverting the course of justice."The footage - shot by Granada TV - emerged after Mr Clough was charged.Police admitted that the video ‘appears to show a man being inappropriately struck during his arrest’.

The footage appears to shows an officer taking hold of Mr Clough by the neck.A second officer wearing a riot helmet and uniform, apparently hits him once in the jaw.

Yep, and this is the footage:

It's good to have the cops on the back foot but don't hold out too much hope, this is the British 'justice' system we're talking about. These are coppers. Odds are they'll be back on the streets and beating people up before you can say "there's no intelligence to suggest the EDL march will result in violence".

Breivik

Anders Breivik has been found to be mentally competant during the vicious rampage he carried out last year. He wanted to be judged sane, and smiled when the verdict was announced. Despite the urge to confound the nazi bastard, it is right that he has been judged responsible for his crimes. 
 
Now begins the job of making sure something like this never happens again. It starts with why it happened in the first place. 
 
Breivik is a fascist (amply demonstrated here). That was his motive behind killing 77 innocent, defenceless people, many of them children. Judging him criminally insane would have depoliticised the atrocity, turned him into the 'lone wolf' he is sometimes portrayed as. Even if he somehow managed to fund, plan and carry out his atrocity all by himself (he didn't) Breivik emerged out of an environment of mainstream racism and bigotry, which, on its fringes, has grown ever more violent (in rhetoric) as the years have passed. Breivik simply transformed words into action.
 
We must take on the racists and the fascists wherever they emerge. In Britain they are currently gathered round the EDL, an organisation Breivik says he admires. On September 1st the EDL want to riot in Walthamstow. Be there to stop them.
 

That's master race not mastermind

The Bristol EDL organiser says he is getting death threats for wanting to hold a march on the same day as Bristol LGBT Pride (here's details of the counter-demo). Something about the claim sounds like bollocks to me... but hey ho. In other news this is him giving a nazi salute.

Gumbies on cocaine

Tory MP Aidan Burley wants to get rid of trade union facility time. Facility time is an agreement between unions and employers whereby some members of staff can devote some or all of their time on union activity. It cannot be emphasised enough these are negotiated agreements, an essential part of collective bargaining, without which union organisation, the only strand of democracy in the workplace, is made just that bit more impossible.

Tory MP Aidan Burley goes to parties where people dress up as SS Officers, toast the third reich and belting oh-so humorous chants about the holocaust. A Tory MP toasts the Third Reich but (presumably) will keep his job... He'll probably use the Top Gear Defence. In fact, why didn't Hitler think of that when he killed those millions of people? It's all just a joke, like on Top Gear.

We might as well be ruled by Gumbies on cocaine.

You pay his wages - he advocates your murder.

And in the topsy-turvy Land of Chocolate most right-wingers inhabit that's fair exchange no robbery. If Top Gear is Britain's cultural expression of fascism I suppose we have to comfort ourselves it's ironic fascism (it's all just a joke you see, can't you take murder fantasies with a pinch of salt?). If Clarkson and co get the upper hand we'll have ironic jackboots, kitsch swastikas and self-reflexive zyklon B.

[Extra note] The point about Jeremy Clarkson's statement is not that it shows him to be a violent minded idiot, there are plenty of those in the world. Clarkson and his Top Gear cohort consistently push aggressive, bigoted language from a public platform into everyday life, acclimatising people to violence. Where does it all end? One example is Anders Breivik, the Utoya mass murderer, who was inspired and encouraged to do what he did by over a decade of bigoted mainstream language and attitude directed against multiculuralism and immigration in general, muslims in particular. Amongst other things Breivik was a Clarkson fan.


It's a small thing in the long run but you can make your complaint here.