Love Music, Kick Police Officers
Posted on September 9, 2010One of the worst threats to the campaign against fascism and racism is the thuggish and totalitarian nature of the hard left activists who squat at its core. Where you should have a mass movement refuting the BNP’s absurd arguments in a public forum, you have a minority clique like Unite Against Fascism who repel the general public, campaign for censorship and – ironically – have political views on economics and state power that are remarkably close to the fascists they claim to oppose.
Sadly, they show no sign of cleaning up their act.
Take, for example, the case of Martin Smith (pictured right, and yes he really did dress like that on Newsnight).
Smith is heavily involved in UAF and is the organiser of Love Music Hate Racism.
On Tuesday, Smith was convicted of assaulting a police officer during protests outside the BBC against Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time. A Magistrates’ Court found that he had kicked a policeman who was there to make sure the protest didn’t turn violent. As the Ian Tomlinson case showed, some police officers certainly can be violent themselves but there have been no such allegations in this case – this was a thuggish protester lashing out with no good reason.
The remarkable thing is that instead of condemning such violence and thuggery, Smith’s colleagues have rallied round to suggest the courts are somehow biased in favour of neo-Nazis. Even Mark Serwotka at the PCS Union has suggested that conviction in a free and fair court of law will “provide encouragement for the abhorrent views of racist and fascist organisations” and represents “the unequal way in which anti-fascist campaigners and activists are treated in comparison with racist and fascist thugs.”
The simple fact is that the UAF and their mates are just as totalitarian and unpleasant as the BNP – Smith’s aim is to secure the censoring political parties that he doesn’t like. Brands like Love Music Hate Racism are designed to suggest the UAF are mainstream, ordinary people – but how ordinary is it to go around kicking coppers because of production decisions on Question Time?
Tags: assault, BBC, BNP, Love Music Hate Racism, Martin Smith, Nick Griffin, opinion, Politics, protest, Question Time, UAF
Categories: Opinion
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09.09.2010 14:58
“..“the unequal way in which anti-fascist campaigners and activists are treated in comparison with racist and fascist thugs.””
So, the way to deter speech you don’t like is not with more speech, but banning those whose speech you don’t like?
And if anti-facist campaigners get airtime on the BBC, that’s fine, but their opponents must never be seen?
And if someone points out that the BBC is a public – service broadcaster and so cannot go along with your request, the thing to do is to hold a noisy protest and assault a policeman in an effort to show how dangerous to society your opponents are?
Wow! Left wing ‘logic’ sure taxes one’s brain, eh?
09.09.2010 15:21
And keep repeating: the BNP is a LEFT WING organisation, in favour of nationalisation etc
09.09.2010 16:35
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