4 August (Part 2) - Starmergeddon looms. Blood flows
After
another shredding session
occasioned by my refusal to pay Bexley Council’s garden waste collection tax I
put on the TV and fired up YouTube to see if there were any live streams of the
promised anti-knife protests. I began with one coming from Manchester and it became so addictive that I watched
several videos for almost nine hours until after midnight. It is the only way of being reasonably sure of what is going on.
The BBC is going on with its far right narrative and even that least woke of
radio stations Talk Radio is pursuing a less than honest agenda. The presenter claimed to have watched
the live streams but in a later segment admitted being glued to the Olympics all day. Everyone lies.
This is what I saw streamed in real time with me catching up later in many cases. No editing except where noted.
In Manchester two groups were kept well separated by the police, some were
helpful to the camera people and some were most definitely not. The left wing,
pro-immigration people were shouting “Nazi scum” which as we shall see, seems to
be their insult of choice. Anyone who didn’t agree with them was a Fascist.
At least a quarter of a mile away the group taking the
opposite view were to be found. In between were ordinary people going around
trying to do their Saturday shopping. Not huge numbers but just getting on with life.
There were not many people in the protest group, by no means a crowd, just a variety of people
standing around either singly or in pairs with dogs on leads and interspersed with mums with
pushchairs. There was a group of Venezuelans trying to attract attention to what
is going on in their country. A very few placards were being waved around and
after more than an hour of broadcasting their video the photographers became
bored and decided to go to nearby Stoke instead.
I understand that things got livelier later.
In Belfast two groups were separated by a line of armoured Land Rovers. The
commentator described the left leaning side as well dressed middle class people
and the anti-knife side as working class people. His
camera didn’t get close enough for this viewer to form an opinion. The former was chanting about
immigrants being welcome and the mandatory “Nazi scum”. The opposing group could
be heard shouting “peados out” occasionally and the Irish, being good at
marching, that is what they did. All orderly with the Irish Tricolour and the
Union flag flying side by side, the Nationalists and Unionists walking with
their arms around each other’s shoulders.
A contingent had come up from the Republic to add their support. Who would have
thought some ill-chosen words by an incompetent Prime Minister could bring peace
to Northern Ireland?
In Aldershot things were very different. A large number of oppressed residents,
most waving large banners standing alongside the A325 road which runs by
the
Potter’s immigrant Hotel. All calm and civilised and not even particularly
noisy. If the police sought to antagonise them by being there in force in full
riot gear and dogs, they failed miserably. I have a friend who is a retired Aldershot
police Sergeant, I wonder what he thinks about them now.
At the other end of the county things were much the same. A few hundred people
gathered in front of Portsmouth’s Guildhall. There were no police visible
although it was said that a few were standing discretely in the corner of the
square observing events. However they must have missed the only incident.
Two men who from their appearance one might assume to be Muslim yelled out “Fuck
the English”. When challenged by a group of locals they pulled out their knives
so that was the end of that. This was one of two edited videos so it is
impossible to say if things were peaceful from that point onwards but what
evidence there is suggests that the protest was over before mid-day.
It is perhaps noteworthy that the
Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire
has decried two-tier policing on her website and even more
noteworthy that she had to delete it later.
In Liverpool the left wing gang was waving a Communist flag, holding banners
welcoming immigrants and, you’ve guessed it, chanting “Nazi scum” through a megaphone.
The police dressed in full riot gear complete with shields stood in a line to
protect them. I suppose Nazi scum cannot be considered to be hate speech when
the language has been borrowed from the Deputy Prime Minister.
For reasons that were not obvious to me the police decided to charge the opposing
faction which ran away. An old man who was not quick enough on his feet was
soundly beaten with batons. The protesters regrouped and pushed the police line back and
produced a few water pistols and a pink smoke flare.
The cameraman decided it was time to get out.
In Stoke things were very grim. There were not many protesters, not a crowd by
any means and sporadically populated by young girls wearing not a lot and older
men who would be well advised to go on a diet and maybe give up smoking too.
Many of the protestors were sitting on the kerbstones enjoying the spectacle and
a couple of them had found somewhere to buy an ice-cream. Then things became
more interesting while the spectators continued to spectate.
Quite what caused it was not shown but it seems likely that Agents Provocateur
threw bricks at a mosque. A considerable number of Muslims emerged armed to the
teeth. Knives, machetes, bats, iron bars and hammers. A police officer asked
them to return their weapons to wherever they store them. They did not.
The video didn’t show how it happened but one group of Muslims ran towards the spectators and hammered two
heads right under the noses of the police who did nothing to apprehend the
attackers. One victim was bleeding profusely while surrounded by police. He left
a large pool of blood on the ground. When one bystander asked a policeman why they weren’t calling an ambulance he was
barged with a shield and told “if you don’t like it fuck off back to Manchester”.
A bystander called an ambulance which eventually took the victim away. He was
able to stand but had lost a lot of blood as the large red pool on the road
testified. Hopefully it looked worse than it is.
A group of Muslims went off in the opposite direction and in another video can
be seen on a green mound taunting the police with their weapons. The police just
stood there and in the face of a gang of swordsmen perhaps there is no other
choice. A small group stood on an adjacent road bridge waving a Palestinian flag
and throwing bricks. A woman was hit on the head and the commentary said a
St. George’s flag was burned although it wasn’t obvious on the video.
Allegedly that group stabbed one or two (reports vary) youngsters playing in the park.
Two of the group that had run towards the protestors stood opposite them
brandishing knives. Several police officers approached them but what happened was obscured by a police van.
Then things got really serious. The two separated groups of Muslims made a
two pronged (pardon the pun) attack with knives and machetes. All the protestors,
cameraman included, ran for their lives.
In Blackpool things were quieter. A lot of people unhappy with the PM and
a great deal of police activity but nothing particularly untoward. This was
another edited video.
I am beginning to lose track of what happened where so if there is more to come
I need to do a bit of revision. In one (name forgotten) Northern town a long
line of modern coaches emblazoned with Arabic script were lined up waiting to
take the swordsmen to another battle ground.
Please don’t be drawn into law breaking, it is not worth ruining your life for.
A video shot in Blackburn showed the police arresting alleged rioters in their homes. They
don’t bother with door bells, it is an immediate boot through the front door.
As my friend said yesterday, “animals’. Do not stoop to their level.
Donְ’t give them the excuse they are looking for.
