Posts tagged EDL

By Janie Jones

“Not racist, not violent just no longer silent” We’ve all heard them say it. We’ve also all heard the EDL claim they kick out the racists. So what happened to Arthur Disbury? Disbury has a long, long record of racial hatred.http://exposingon.tumblr.com/post/3232274761/edl-tommy-robinson-considers-supporting-anti-muslim . his Twitter account @dizzy99 has always been full of hate filled bile but the last few days he seems to have upped his game. http://twitpic.com/9oxtoy he claims to be a Christian straight after saying a pregnant woman should be “Exterminated” http://twitpic.com/9oms4d . Then calls for “Islamascum to be eradicated”. 

Now of course we all know the EDL hate racists and are only against extremists don’t we? So, with Disbury being a prominent EDL member we thought we should inform the leadership, who would, of course, take swift action. And here is there response http://twitpic.com/9oxydj come on EDL, time to do what you say you do, boot him or admit that race hate and genocide are ok with you.Just for fun, here’s Disbury with BNP leader Nick Griffin http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&rlz=1C1AVSW_enGB365GB365&biw=1280&bih=677&tbm=isch&tbnid=R6OKTkyYr9IvpM:&imgrefurl=http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/1480/nick-griffin-and-the-drug-smuggler&docid=gqRxLCVjjO1bBM&imgurl=http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/images/1480_1210.jpg&w=500&h=332&ei=_Sq_T8b6N8qe6QGDpNDSCg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=644&vpy=171&dur=354&hovh=176&hovw=257&tx=146&ty=75&sig=100604890640048652169&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=187&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:75

EDL, for anyone that has watched Disbury he is a worrying man, if you do nothing and he kills or hurts someone it is on the head of your whole (dis)organisation. Kick him out.

*Update, PA to Tommy Robinson, Hel Gower claims Disbury has been booted from the EDL. We await an official statement  http://twitpic.com/9oy7bx

Strangely gower is still on his facebook friends list though  http://twitpic.com/9oyxd3
since this was pointed out she has removed him  

http://twitpic.com/9ozk8h official statement that Disbury has been removed from EDL so we won’t be seeing him on any more demos then. 

By Tony Harrison

I was recently at the annual child protection meeting that I attend as part of my job. We were informed that child exploitation was on the rise and that it was important to be aware of the signs. Children suddenly having expensive items that would normally be beyond their means, talking about “parties” with “boyfriends”, changes in behaviour that seemed out of character in the young people (not just girls). 

This reminded me of a girl I went to school with, who often boasted of her sexual antics while we sat in mute, goggle eyed silence. She was 15 like us and her boyfriend was about 7 or 8 years older. She told us with glee about this relationship and all its sordid details. This was not a healthy teenage relationship and I remember at the time feeling massively uncomfortable and in the next English lesson, discreetly sitting elsewhere. 
New technologies and social networking have contributed massively to the rise in awareness of this nasty sordid crime. Groomers can give their victims mobile phones and use them as tools to facilitate this abuse, and run under the radar of parents. The offence itself is as old as the hills.

Then the meeting moved on to extremism, and how to be aware of young people who were involved with this. Not just religious extremism, but the threat from organisations like the EDL. The person sitting next to me nudged me and whispered “Who are the EDL?” Who precisely.

So back to this week. What a lot we have heard about demonstrations by the far right splinter groups against “Muslim paedos”. Personally, I am totally willing to accept that there is a massive cultural issue about this. Not only the culture of the perpetrators, who prey on the vulnerable and see them as easy and fair game, but that of the victims, who may have endured inadequate parenting, or been exposed to sexualisation at a young age. There is NO EXCUSE whatsoever for these crimes but there are a wider series of issues that society needs to accept responsibility for. These victims are totally innocent and blameless. They are still children, and we have a duty of care to protect them. The recent cases in the media demonstrate a massive failure by many different agencies and changes need to be made. However I do not believe, and I cannot stress this enough, that religion plays any part in this activity at all. 

In the past couple of days, there has been a massive reaction to Tommy Robinson’s tweets to an underage Muslim girl who defended her faith on Twitter. As a committed atheist, I can only imagine how offensive it is to constantly have your religion derided and to be dehumanised by the EDL. Someone really ought to stop Robinson from tweeting, he has gained a large army of followers who pour disdain on his every tweet. He has opened himself up to a whole new world of ridicule on a forum where everyone can see him. If you can’t believe that the #creepingsharia was the least embarrassing thing to trip from his keyboard, then you really need to check out the complete unadulterated bollocks that spews forth with every tweet. It is a fine portrait of a very stupid man who listens to no one but himself, believes his own hype and has no interior monologue.
Tommy has refused to believe that this girl is 15 despite her birthdate being on her twitter profile and a picture of her and several friends in school uniform emerging. None so blind as he who will not see.
And this morning I logged on to Facebook to find an additional dubious incident involving another EDL splinter group and their support of a 25 year old member who has a 15 year old girlfriend. This brought back the memories of the girl in my class and I was horrified by the response of his fellow extremists. “He is in a relationship with her” “She is his girlfriend”. Which is exactly what the child groomers lead their victims to believe. Please note that I will not name this individual as we are not in possession of all the information in this case, much of it seems based on hearsay and conjecture. 

And this brings me to my final point. What exactly is the point, at the end of the day, of protesting outside court when the criminals are being tried for their crimes? You had nothing to do with their arrest, they are being dealt with by the courts and the media are doing the job of raising awareness. You have achieved nothing at all. You will not change what has already happened, nor will you affect the outcome of the trials in anything but a negative way. Causing a mistrial and allowing appeals that would not otherwise have been made is not an achievement. Go home and get involved in a positive way. Teach your daughters the values of self-respect and self-worth. Be there for them. Volunteer to help in something positive, projects that build bridges within communities. Your methods are not working. It’s time for you to evolve and join the rest of society, and stop dressing up your racism with false concerns for the girls who are damaged by this disgusting behaviour.

By Tony Harrison

By Janie Jones

Funny old thing Twitter, moves fast as hell and can spread info like wildfire. As many celeb and wannabe has realised it is really a good idea to watch what you say on there, it can come back to bite you in the arse, eh Tommy? Might be seen as not a great place to, for example, attempt to chat up a 15 year old girl http://twitpic.com/9lebsm. of course, when Tommy found out he instantly apologised 

http://twitpic.com/9lejj0 , or just became a beligerent twat. http://twitpic.com/9lf6dt

since when the 15 year old girl in question has taken sick abuse from edl supporters http://twitpic.com/9lf72i

quick pointer Tommy, live what you preach, bang on about dirty paedos but don’t then try chatting up kids. It’s not a good look. Full apology needed NOW, if it was a simple mistake, after all you are a simple guy, then have the decency to say sorry. If not you better cancel Rochdale, people who make dodgy comments to kids  holding demos doesn’t look good. 

http://twitpic.com/9lfde9 still won’t just say sorry.