Neo-nazi flags for sale on Amazon.co.uk

It seems that Nazi flags are on the world’s largest online retailers — Amazon. While texts like Mein Kampf and artifacts such as coins are of genuine historical interest, Scrapbookwonders what the target market for these items is beyond, errr, neo-Nazi extremists.

The items appear on Amazon Marketplace, which “provides a venue for you to buy and sell new, used, collectable and refurbished items”. The maxim of offering “Even more choice” apparently extends to hate-filled consumers:

Though the corporation, which saw it’s share valueincrease by a mammoth 26% in 2011, acts as a broker does not dispatch the items directly on the sales, similar items appear to be banned on Ebay.

Stay classy, Amazon.

Political Scrapbook

Germany's far right marches out of the shadows

Germans taking part in the annual march to remember the allied bombing of Dresden. The march has developed sinister undertones. Photograph: Timothy Fadek

Officially, at least, the 1,600 people who gathered in the snow on Dresden's Ammonstrasse were not attending a neo-Nazi demonstration. It was a March of Mourning, held, according to the paperwork submitted to Dresden council, to commemorate the Germans killed by allied bombs 67 years previously.

You do not have to be a rightwing extremist to question the carpet bombing that flattened Dresden during two days in February 1945. Or, many would argue, to pay respects to the many thousands who died in 1,600C heat as the city burned.

But the rally was not without undertones: the burning torches evocative of the scenes portrayed by Leni Riefenstahl in Triumph of the Will, her 1934 propaganda documentary about the Nuremberg rallies; the hooded tops with slogans such as Weisse Willen (the will of whites); the banners referring to the "bombing holocaust"; or indeed the red, white and black flags waved during the Third Reich.

It all seemed to justify the several thousand antifascist campaigners who were noisily blockading streets around the corner, or the 13,000 locals who had formed a human chain around the rebuilt Frauenkirche in the town centre.

The marchers have been clashing with counter-demonstrators in Dresden for years. But this year, tensions were particularly high following the discovery in November of a neo-Nazi terror cell calling itself the National Socialist Underground (NSU) whose members, with apparent impunity, killed nine immigrants and one police officer during 11 years on the run.

On Thursday, Angela Merkel attended a memorial service for the victims in Berlin, calling the murders a "disgrace for our country".

In the three months since the news broke, there has been ample evidence to suggest Germany's far right has been celebrating rather than condemning the NSU's killing spree.

At a fascist march in Munich in January, demonstrators blasted the Pink Panther theme tune from loudspeakers, a reference to bizarre videos featuring the cartoon characters which the terrorist cell produced.

Just a few weeks after two core members of the group were found dead in a camper van after an apparent double suicide, football supporters in Zwickau, the eastern town where the NSU members had been living under false identities, chanted "Terrorzelle Zwickau – ole, ole, ole". A footballer from FSV Zwickau was fined after responding to shouts of "Sieg!" from the crowd during the same match with "Heil!".

By the German government's latest estimate, from 2010, there are 9,500 rightwing extremists in Germany who are "ready to commit violence". That year, 16,375 "rightwing-motivated" crimes were recorded.

The perpetrators are not as easy to spot as they were in the late 1990s, when Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, two of the key NSU trio, were photographed at neo-Nazi marches with shaved heads, wearing bomber jackets and boots with white shoelaces, their trousers held up with red, black and white braces.

These days, the easiest way to spot someone with far-right leanings is if they are wearing something from Thor Steinar, a Nordic-inspired German brand whose shops are constantly picketed by anti-Nazi campaigners.

Previously, German neo-Nazis favoured the British boxing make Lonsdale, largely because if the logo was partly obscured beneath a bomber jacket, only the initials NSDA were visible – one letter short of Hitler's Nazi party, the National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei.

Lonsdale has long gone out of fashion among rightwingers after the brand produced an advertising campaign featuring black footballers saying "Lonsdale loves all colours" in an explicit attempt to put off its most loyal customers.

At the march earlier this month, everyone the Guardian spoke to said they were not a neo-Nazi and would not be named for fear of being labelled as such. "I'm a patriot," said one 29-year-old who had his hood up and had covered his face with a scarf.

But German neo-Nazis are not always so circumspect. Well-publicised internet "hitlists" target leftwing politicians, pubs and social projects. There have been at least 182 murders motivated by rightwing extremism since German reunification in 1990, according to the Antonio Amadeu foundation pressure group. The government put the figure at just 47 in December, though some states are now increasing their own numbers after going back through their files.

Among the general population, intolerance is on the increase. A long-term study by the sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer in 2011 showed that every second German believes too many foreigners live in Germany, and 53% would have a problem moving into an area where lots of Muslims lived, an increase of 6% from 2004.

Against this backdrop of tacit racism it is no wonder that detectives did not bother to investigate rightwing extremism as a possible motive for the NSU's 10 killings, according to Katina Schubert, an expert in race relations from the leftwing Die Linke party.

"It's clear the police and intelligence agencies were racist to the core," she said. "They assumed right from the start that the eight Turks and one Greek man were killed by members of their own immigrant communities. The police briefed that these men were embroiled in drug smuggling plots or other crimes, when really they were systematically killed by rightwing extremists."

Until the cell was uncovered in November, the killings were known in Germany as the "doner murders", which incorrectly gave the impression all the dead men were kebab sellers, reinforcing the stereotype that that's what Turks in Germany do.

In Berlin on Thursday, Merkel apologised to the families of those killed by the NSU. "For years, some relatives themselves unfairly faced suspicion that is particularly oppressive," said the chancellor. "I ask for forgiveness for that."

The police in Germany are "blind in the right eye", say critics. "A 17-year-old in Nuremberg, where I live, was almost beaten to death by a neo-Nazi and the police didn't take it at all seriously," said Idil, a 19-year-old student, attending an anti-Nazi counter-march in Dresden earlier this month. The boy, a Kurdish friend of hers, was left for dead in April 2010 after remarking on a Thor Steinar accessory carried by his attacker's girlfriend.

Extreme rightwingers are not only operating in the shadows – some of them sit in state parliaments as representatives of the National Democratic party (NPD). Interior ministers at local and national levels are looking at the logistics and possible consequences of banning the party after two former members were arrested on suspicion of helping the NSU during their 11 years on the run.

The NPD's top brass deny all links with terrorism. But they do not try hard to hide their Nazi sympathies: a recent report in Der Spiegel noted that the Germanic Elhaz rune, the symbol of the Third Reich's "Lebensborn" programme, which supported the production of racially pure Aryan children, hangs above the entrance of their office.

It is not hard to find brazen neo-Nazis in Germany if you know where to look.

It was just gone seven on a recent night in Berlin when half a dozen drinkers summoned an American man over to their table in a Berlin pub. It had been happy hour since 5pm: €1.50 (£1.25) for half a litre of pilsner. "Hey New York, komm her!" said one black-clad customer in Zum Henker (To the Executioner), a windowless pub in the eastern district of Schöneweide.

After a bit of chit-chat, glasses were raised. "Prost!" said the American. He clinked his stein against his neighbour's, expecting the German man to respond in kind. Instead, his new acquaintance raised his right arm and bellowed "Sieg Heil!" to much amusement from the crowd of men, all in their late teens or 20s.

Zum Henker is often described as a key meeting place for rightwing extremists in Berlin. Its British owner, Paul Barrington, a well-spoken, portly skinhead, welcomed the Guardian to his establishment in a T-shirt advertising Combat 18, the British neo-Nazi terror organisation. There is no suggestion any of the NSU terrorists ever visited Zum Henker or had connections to it, or that Barrington, who grew up around Plumstead in south-east London before moving to the German capital 20 years ago, was linked in any way to the terror cell.

But the confidence with which Barrington and his customers display their Nazi sympathies is evidence, say campaigners, that Germany's far right no longer hides in the shadows but is swaggering into clearer view.

Take the landlord himself. Eight years ago, Barrington was prosecuted after posting a picture on his website of an undercover policeman and captioning it with "this bullet is for you". Barrington now says the caption was simply a quote from a "well-known song".

Today he still likes playing with words and numbers. A popular cocktail on sale at his pub is the Himla, made with raspberry rum, and paying homage to Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi police chief. The numbers on his T-shirt translate as Adolf Hitler (A=1, H=8). On 25 February Barrington will host one of his most popular parties, where drinks cost just 88 cents. It's just a "promotion for people with not so much money at the end of the month", he said.

Yes, he conceded in an email later, the Himla "could be seen as a provocation, but people remember it and it has turned out to be one of the most talked about drinks in Berlin. Do not forget we are a pub and not a party political headquarters. We do not have to be politically correct." As for the Sieg Heil-ing, perhaps we had misheard. Could they not have said "schmeckt geil!" (tastes great!)?

In an email, we asked Barrington if he condemned the murders carried out by the NSU. His answer: "No comment."

Illegal under German law

• Saying/shouting/writing any of the following slogans: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" (Nazi slogan meaning one people, one empire, one leader); "Blut und Ehre" (Hitler Youth slogan meaning blood and honour); "Meine Ehre heisst Treue" (motto of the SS)

• Displaying a bust or picture of Hitler, unless used for the purposes of education, in a history book or museum

• Swastika tattoos or graffiti

• So-called Doppelsigrune, the symbol of the SS

• Waving the Reichskriegsflagge, the red, white and black flag with a swastika used during the war

• Giving the so-called Hitlergruss of an outstretched arm, saying "Sieg Heil!", or "Heil Hitler!"

• Singing Nazi songs or having them as your mobile phone ringtone

• Owning copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf

Legal

• All the illegal symbols, greetings and slogans can be used legitimately if for "creditable purposes". For example, an anti-Nazi T-shirt showing a swastika being crossed out or put in the bin, or if used in the context of a museum exhibition, history book, art or satire

• The following neo-Nazi symbols or shorthand: FG – Fuhrer's Geburtstag (The leader's birthday); 18 – Adolf Hitler (A=1, H=8); 88 – Heil Hitler; 192 – Adolf is back (the 1st, 9th and 2nd letters of the alphabet).

• Having pictures, busts or sculptures of other Nazi figures, for example Rudolf Hess or Heinrich Himmler

• Goose-stepping without the outstretched arm

• Singing the Nazi national anthem, Das Deutschlandlied – it is still the German national anthem today, but now only the third verse is used, omitting the most famous "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" stanza.

The Guardian

Leeds anti-racism gig: 12 charged with affray

Five men including a serving soldier and seven juveniles will appear in court tomorrow charged in connection with a disturbance at an anti-racism concert.

The 12 will appear at Leeds Magistrates Court charged with affray in relation to fighting which interrupted the “Rage Against Racism” event at The Well bar in Chorley Lane, Leeds, on June 18.

During the concert attended by around 150, a group of people allegedly chanting support for the English Defence League attempted to enter.

It was reported rocks and bottles were thrown and one person suffered a serious facial injury and others minor injuries. Damage included broken windows.

The event, staged to raise funds for the Unite Against Fascism group and local projects, was able to continue.

Police launched a major investigation – Operation Damask – to identify those involved. Appeals involving the release of CCTV images were made through the media.

It was discovered plans to disturb the concert had been posted on line.

Those at court are an 18-year-old soldier from Huddersfield, a 19-year-old, 18-year-old and 17-year-old from Leeds, a 30-year-old man and 20-year-old man from Huddersfield, two 17-year-olds and three 16-year-olds Huddersfield.

Yorkshire Evening Post 

Rival groups clash during Irish march in Liverpool

RIVAL groups clashed during an Irish march which was halted by police on the edge of Liverpool city centre.

Liverpool Friends of Ireland, The James Larkin Society and Liverpool Irish and Republic flute band were part of a parade which began in Kirkdale on Saturday.

Opposing groups including the English Defence League, Combined Ex Forces, the British Legion and ex Royal Marines and paramililaries attended to voice their disapproval against the march.

It resulted in a tense stand-off which had been predicted by Merseyside Police who had organised a supervising operation.

The dog and mounted section joined officers in protective helmets who attempted to keep the groups apart.

Opponents of the march met at St George’s Hall before moving to Derby Square to demonstrate.

Police said they dealt with disorder on Leeds Street before the march began and monitored the parade as it moved from Kirkdale to the city centre.

Following trouble on Fleet Street, the Irish marchers agreed to curtail earlier than planned and convened for a function at a venue on Vauxhall Road.

Rumours of smashed pub windows and coach windows bricked in Kirkdale were wide of the mark, police said.

A spokeswoman said just one arrest was made, a man, 46, in Liverpool city centre for breach of the peace.

He was later released without charge.

The Liverpool Echo

Guardian wins CPS info battle over Griffin race-hate trial

The Crown Prosecution Service has been told it should disclose information it holds about a 1998 race-hate trial involving British National Party leader Nick Griffin, a tribunal has found.

In its decision the Information Tribunal emphasised the fact that the request was made under the Freedom of Information Act by Guardian investigative journalist Ian Cobain.

It also stressed that restrictions on disclosure which were apparently imposed by the FOIA had to be read in the light of decisions by the European Court of Human Rights over the right to freedom of expression - the right to impart and receive information - under Article 10 of the Convention on Human Rights.

The Tribunal's decision suggests that journalists seeking information might find it worthwhile making clear who they are when they first make a request under the FOIA.

Cobain had asked the CPS for information about Griffin's trial at Harrow Crown Court in 1998, the year before he became leader of the BNP.

At the trial Griffin was convicted, fined and given a suspended jail sentence, while an associate, Paul Ballard, who had pleaded guilty, received a shorter suspended sentence.

In 2009, Cobain started researching the case. The court said it no longer held any records about the trial and he made a FOIA request to the CPS for information it held.

The CPS said the material was covered by exemptions under the Act

The Information Commissioner's Office upheld the CPS's refusal to disclose the material and Cobain appealed to the First Tier Tribunal.

The Tribunal said it seemed "very odd that in an open society there could be any lawful obstacle to any member of the public obtaining access, for example, to the indictment on which Mr Griffin was convicted, the records of interviews, which he offered for sale before the trial or the witness statement of a French associate who gave 'expert evidence' in support of the political defence which Mr Griffin chose to mount".

It was clear that a significant amount of material held by the CPS was not Griffin's personal data.

The Tribunal said: "We do not doubt, nor was the point seriously contested, that disclosure is necessary for a legitimate investigative purpose of journalism. Given his position and his own attitude to such publicity, we find no prejudice to Mr Griffin`s rights and freedoms or legitimate interests."

Some sensitive personal data, and some personal data within the scope of the request had already been made public as a result of steps taken by Griffin himself.

"Disclosure of the sensitive data would be 'in connection with the commission of an unlawful act (hence the conviction), seriously improper conduct and arguably Mr Griffin`s unfitness for political office," the tribunal said.

"It would be for the purpose of journalism, Mr Cobain`s occupation, and would be intended for publication in his newspaper and possibly thereafter, in a book.

"Given the issues involved, namely racial and/or religious hatred and the right to express even extreme views, we find that disclosure would be in the substantial public interest."

The Press Gazette

Neo-Nazi charged over murder song

THE lead singer of a suspected neo-Nazi band has been charged in Germany for writing a song about a series of racist murders.

Authorities in the northwestern German city of Osnabrueck said they had charged the 42-year-old lead singer of the band "Gigi and the Brown Town Musicians" with incitement to racial hatred.

Prosecutors are also investigating two other songs on a CD entitled "Adolf Hitler Lives". One calls for all Turks in Germany to be deported to Istanbul, the other denies any Jews died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Alexander Retemeyer, a spokesman for prosecutors, said: "We have pressed charges of incitement to racial hatred at the local court in Meppen."

So far, only the singer, who has not been named by authorities, is under suspicion because he wrote the lyrics.

Germans have been shocked at the recent discovery of a small far-right group believed responsible for the unsolved murders of eight men of Turkish origin and a Greek between 2000 and 2006 as well as a German policewoman in 2007.

The killings had long been called the "kebab murders" because some victims ran snack shops.

Two members of the so-called National Socialist Underground claimed responsibility for the 10 deaths as well as a 2004 bombing in predominantly Turkish district of Cologne which wounded more than 20 people.

The two were found dead in November in an apparent suicide.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to lead a service commemorating the murders tomorrow.

The Daily Telegraph

EDL 'outsiders should not come to Hyde'

A council leader has said he does not want "outsiders" in a Tameside town for a planned march by the English Defence League.

The group has formally notified Greater Manchester Police it plans to hold a demonstration in Hyde on Saturday.

Councillor Kieran Quinn said Tameside Council could not allow the march.

"This is about a hate-filled group wishing to come to Hyde to try and incite hatred and we will not support that," he said.

The BBC has made repeated attempts to contact the EDL, but has not yet received a response.

Mr Quinn said the council would write to the home secretary seeking a ban on the demonstration, which he said would be "the right thing".

"Hyde is a diverse and peaceful community and we don't welcome outsiders coming in whose only intention is to incite hatred.

"We are not against peaceful protest, but people need to understand this is about a hate-filled group wishing to come to Hyde to share that hate and try and incite hatred, and we will not support that regardless of what group that comes from."

He said that the march was "too big a risk to the Hyde community and the Hyde town centre".

'Increased police presence'

Chief Constable Peter Fahy said the force would discuss the possibility of supporting a ban application with Tameside Council, but added "the home secretary only uses this power to ban marches on very limited occasions".

Assistant Chief Constable Terry Sweeney said the force had received formal notification from the EDL it intended to demonstrate in the town.

He said the force supported the council in promoting community cohesion and said it understood the "distress" a procession may cause the local community.

"GMP respects everyone's right to peaceful protest, while at the same time ensuring minimal disruption to our local communities."

He said that if the march did go ahead, there would be an increased police presence in the town centre and surrounding areas to manage the demonstration.

The protest follows an alleged attack by Asian youths on two white teenagers in the town earlier in the month.

Two youths were allegedly attacked by a gang of Asian youths in Market Street on 4 February.

Police have said they are treating the incident as a hate crime because the teenagers believe it was racially motivated.

The EDL said on its website the march was a national protest against extremism.

It said groups with a history of racist ideas would not be welcome at the demonstration.

BBC

National Front seek permission to march on Hitler's birthday

The National Front has applied for permission to march through the heart of Aberdeen on the birthday of Adolf Hitler.

The far right party hopes to march through the city on April 20, the birth date of the Nazi leader.

The National Front insists that the march is being planned as a protest to the SNP.

A spokesman said the date had been chosen as it is the founding date of Scotland's leading party, set up in 1934, and any relation to Hitler was "pure coincidence".

Permission is being sought for 100 National Front members to march from the Adelphi in the city centre to Union Terrace Gardens.

An Aberdeen City Council spokesman said: "A notification application for a public procession on part of Union Street has been received for April 20.

"The application will be considered in due course having gone through the appropriate licensing channels."

STV

EXPOSED: The vile racist rants of Liverpool EDL coordinator Kurtis Cawley

 

A SECURITY guard and English Defence League activist was sacked after he left pork scratchings outside a Liverpool supermarket – in a bid to deter Muslim customers.

Kurtis Cawley will no longer be stationed at Tesco Metro, in Kensington, after his racist rants were revealed.

The Liverpool EDL co-ordinator showed no quarter in vile online proclamations against minority groups.

He was suspended by bosses following his sick diatribes and dismissed for gross misconduct last Friday.

Today, the ECHO can reveal how Cawley, who also masqueraded under the name “Kyle Huyton”:

• Boasted about “the P*** gym around the corner” calling him “the Nazi from Tesco”.

• Crowed about all the supermarket staff, “apart from the black manager” knowing and tolerating his racist views.

• Posting a mock online “advertisement” for an “anti- Islamic protection system” that showed pork scratchings attached to the door alarm podiums of the Prescot Road store.
• Claimed he used to hang his English Defence League flag in the Tesco canteen.

Today, the supermarket giant told the ECHO that Cawley, a Liverpool EDL co-ordinator, was no longer stationed at their store.

The former Sir Thomas A Becket Catholic High School pupil and St Helens College student was employed at the premises through the contracted firm, Advanced Security UK Ltd.

The north London-based company confirmed Cawley had been suspended immediately after the allegations came to light in mid-January.

In response to the controversy, the Liverpool English Defence League issued a statement denying the allegations.

It suggested Cawley had left the EDL last year and the profile of Kyle Huyton had been instead established as a “divisional gimmick” to deliberately distract their opponents and critics.

But that explanation was at odds with evidence online which saw Cawley accidentally referring to himself and Kyle Huyton as one and the same person.

The same Kyle Huyton and Kurtis Cawley also openly talked about his blatant racist attitude at work at the Tesco in Kensington.

He posted: “Work’s a ******* joke.

“Shop’s getting a refurb and there’s 20 workmen on site so as you’d imagine the toilets’ a no-go as it’s always in use.

“Never mind the 17-foot banner sayen were closed, the P****s, and gooks walkin’ in sayen ‘we no understand.’

“They’re understanding, ‘get the f*** out the shop were f****** closed, read the f******* sign, alright!”

He proudly added: “The P**** gym around the corner already call me ‘the Nazi from Tesco’, ha ha ha.

“I work in a minority area so you’ll have to excuse my being a tad dubious.”

Chris Fieldhouse, managing director of Advance Security, told the ECHO: “This employee has been dismissed for gross misconduct and bringing the company into disrepute.

“He was placed on suspension while our investigation takes place, led by his general manager for the region.

“If any allegations emerge of an individual working outside of their assignment instructions or contravening them, it leads to a disciplinary process.

“Suspension was immediate when these claims came to light, as anything which potentially brings the company into disrepute is treated with the utmost seriousness.”

The Liverpool Echo 

Mother accused of racist tram rant 'had taken double dose of medication', court hears.

A mother whose alleged racist rant on a crowded tram was seen by millions online claimed she had taken a double dose of medication, a court heard today.

Emma West, 34, who allegedly hurled abuse at fellow passengers on a busy Croydon tram, claims she had been on her way back from an appointment with her psychiatrist when the incident happened.

The former dental nurse appeared at Croydon Crown Court today to deny two counts of racially aggravated abuse and will stand trial for the offence on June 11.

Around 20 supporters from the British National Party said they had turned out to support the mother, whose four-year-old was sitting on her knee at the time of the alleged offence.

She was originally charged with one count of racially aggravated intentional harassment between September 30 and November 28 last year.

But a second charge of racially aggravated fear or provocation of violence was added after tram passenger Ena-May Eubanks complained West had allegedly punched her with a closed fist after spouting a racist rant at her.

West, of New Addington, Croydon, wore a black suit and burgundy shirt and spoke only to enter her plea at today’s short hearing.

David Ewings, defending her, told the court his client denied the incident with Mrs Eubanks had ever happened.

He added there was a dispute about intention in relation to the first charge. When asked what her defence was, Mr Ewings said: ‘She was under the influence of drugs. She had taken a double dose of her medication.

‘Miss West was returning from an appointment with her psychiatrist when this incident allegedly took place.’

The defence intend to call seven witnesses during the three-day trial who were all passengers on the tram when the two minute and 20 second video clip was recorded on a mobile phone.

The Recorder of Croydon, Warwick McKinnon, ordered the defence statement and medical report from West’s doctor to be served by 4pm on February 20. Additional evidence sought by the defence from a pharmacologist needs to be served within six weeks.

He said there will be a pre-hearing review to check the case is ready on May 11 and released West on conditional bail which bans her from travelling on any tram in the Croydon area.

A video tape allegedly recording part of the incident has had millions of hits on YouTube.

The video is said to show a woman saying 'What has this country come to with all the  f****** black people and f****** Polish.'

Outside court a BNP member, who would not give his name, said people had turned out to support West.

He said: ‘Whenever one of the black or Asian community is accused of something their community turn out to support them and that’s why we’re here today to support Emma.'

The man added the case had the support of BNP leader Nick Griffin but said the group was not protesting today at the request of West’s family.

The Daily Mail 

Liverpool Losers

Scott Cowan, 

Crivvens, Jings, and Help Ma Boab! Whit a mess! The Infidels and English Defence League demonstration against alleged child groomers in Liverpool backfired spectacularly this week and was characterised by all the ineptitude, stupidity and bitter rivalry that we know and love. The much diminished local EDL turned up but no-one wanted to talk to them and they were told to go and stand on the other side of the road by their ex-chumleys who now constitute the equally tiny Merseyside Infidels. Mr Tommy had asked if he would be safe if he came to sell some hoodies but was told that if he did he ‘would be going home in a box.’ Nice!

What is left of the Liverpool BNP had a wee outing too and even Nick Griffin returned from his political Euro-crypt to try and capitalise on other people’s misery but no-one was very interested. It was nice to see Uncle Nick making the effort and we are glad he has been working out – albeit at the ‘All You Can Eat’ buffet in Brussels. It seems he has lost none of his wit and charm and basically turned up for a photo-op, glad handed a few of the seedy looking BNPers and buggered off again although not before being snapped with a ‘White Pride’ flag!

However it was the Infidels who stole the day as one of their members, one Mickey SDL, attacked someone who he thought was a suspect and got himself arrested. Well done. Plod came in heavy and escorted the rest of them away and told them that if they turn up again they will be proper nicked! In an extremely rare moment of perspicacity, panicky posters on the websites sent out word to stay away from the court – which is a tacit admission that they fucked it up. Again. They turned up to demo, couldn’t control themselves, plod got bothered and they have squandered another PR coup by acting like twats. Following on from the EDL’s rubbish national demo last week in Leicester and the Infidels piss-poor turnout in the Rochdale snow, this is yet another PR triumph for the far right. Not really.

It was odd that anyone from the SDL had turned up in Liverpool given that the SDL gave the Infidels the heave-ho last week and Steven Jacobs told leader Snowy ‘Cracker’ Shaw to ‘fuck off’. Read Matthew Collins account here:

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/1572/scottish-declare-independence

Scott Cowan of the SDL was at last weeks Rochdale failure in pig mask and he is none too popular up here. All of which further isolates the Infidels on the far right as do the suspicions that Snowy’s ‘frequent trips to Ulster’ in order to bang the drum are not necessarily to do with music.

There was a sizable counter-demo against the far-right of UAF and other local anti-fascists (not bussed in from elsewhere like the Infidels) who were then accused of ‘supporting pedos!’ In their feeble logic the Infidels think ‘I hate pedos, UAF hate me, ergo UAF support pedos’ and off they dance into the valley of the eejits. The EDL/Infidels see all those against them as ‘UAF’ and do not understand how many people from different walks of life despise them for trying to capitalise on other people’s misery in order to get on the front page of the Echo.

The EDL and Infidels factions are very civic minded when child abuse suspects happen to be Asian but are less enthusiastic when it comes to members of their own little grupuscules. In the EDL we have ‘Mickey Blue Eyes’ AKA Michael Coates who was jailed over sexual offences and Brett Moses who was accused of grooming a 13 year old Canadian girl and let us not forget Richard Price who was nicked for crack and cocaine possession and child porn. Despite being officially proscribed by the EDL ‘leadership,’ many members are still in contact with him.

http://www.edlnews.co.uk/edl-news/paedophile-still-active-within-edl-leadership

At last weeks Infidels fiasco some toothless charmer unfurled a British People’s Party banner. The BPP once had a certain Martin Gilliard as a member and he is currently doing big time over explosives and child porn charges. Oops!

The Infidels should also check out Liam Pinkham (known as Pino 88) who was booted out of the nutty grupuscule British Freedom Fighters (BFF) over an alleged relationship with an underage girl. This was corroborated by a poster called ‘Kim Whitenightshade’ on the Nazi VNNUKforum who confirmed that Pinkham had been having a ‘supervised and non-physical relationship’ with Whitenightshade’s 15 year old daughter but was ‘the perfect gent.’ Isn’t that ‘grooming’?

So when it comes to ‘pedos’ and ‘grooming’ perhaps the fash should take a closer look in their own ranks

Not content with exploiting child abuse cases, the BNP, EDL and Infidels are all keen to travel to Hyde in Manchester to demonstrate about the poor wee laddies who got attacked last week. And not to be outdone the Casual faction, led by ageing soccer hooligan Jeff ‘Stabber’ Marsh, has announced another Charlene Downes demo which will no doubt be as well attended as the Rochdale washout. Charlene’s brother was arrested last week for assaulting one of the previous suspects in the case so the Casuals are going to support him which will no doubt do wonders for his case.

11 members of the EDL were jailed this week after they attacked some Turkish workers in Carlisle. One of the EDL eejits had just come out of prison for burning a stolen Koran and is now back in again. He obviously prefers porridge to hummus and kebabs. This doesn’t set a good precedent for the Plymouth EDL goons who are up soon on similar charges after a drunken assault on a Kurdish joint. Michael Rafferty, the Ex-Combined Ex-forces own Captain Mainwaring, and Hayley ‘Trouble at the’ Mills are no doubt worried. The delectable Miss Hayley is currently expecting so it could be a case of going from ward to warden in a short space of time. Silly girl.

So, it’s onwards and downwards for the EDL and the Infidels as the BNP desperately try to revive their public image so that Griffclops can try to extend his Euro MP gig. Be seeing you!

Malatesta