I smell another Marmite moment

You’d think that Nick Griffin and the BNP would learn their lesson regarding copyright infringement, wouldn’t you?

Following from the BNP’s ill fated decision in 2010 to use an image of a jar of Marmite in one of its party election broadcasts (which saw Marmite’s parent company Unilever launch High Court proceedings against the BNP for breach of copyright,) you’d think the last thing that the BNP would want is another controversy regarding their ignorance of copyright law?

In 2010 the BNP was taken to the brink of collapse, forced to shell out a rumoured £170,000 in compensation in an out of court settlement with Unilever, the company that manufactures Marmite.

Maybe the BNP like spending their members money on compensation? Hope not Hate can reveal that the BNP has knowingly breached the copyright of one of the UK’s most popular recording artists.

Heather Small is the lead singer with the Manchester based band M People. She has also seen success recording as a solo artist. In 2000, Small released her debut solo album “Proud” and a single by the same name, which is closely associated with the British Olympics team.

In 2008 she performed at the London 2012 Party to celebrate the handover to the host city of the Olympic Games from Beijing, to London. Small sang “Proud”, which was the unofficial anthem of Team GB at the Athens Games in 2004. It is now the official anthem of the London 2012 Games.

Small attended an anti racism ceremony for “Show Racism The Red Card” hosted by the Prime Minister and attended by leading sports men & women at 10 Downing Street.

So it might come as a surprise to Heather when she hears that the BNP are currently using her flagship song “Proud” to promote their far racial hatred.

The BNP has been using the song on a number of their own videos hosted on the BNP website.

Now we doubt very much that the BNP have had the decency to ask Heather’s permission for use of her music, which I would have thought she would have flatly refused.

So we have contacted Heather Small’s management company “Bandana Management” and have passed the details on of the likely breach of copyright by the BNP.

So we invite Heather Small to study the details we have sent her and hopefully she might be having her very own “Marmite” moment, courtesy of BNP TV.

Simon Cressy – Hope not Hate

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Racist Who Allegedly Threatened Obama Faces Gun Charges

A detention hearing will be held Monday for a self-described racist from Virginia who allegedly made threats against President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder before illegally taking possession of a machine gun.

Douglas Howard Story, 48, of Manassas, Va., was arrested Wednesday by the FBI in a shopping mall parking lot, after taking delivery of a semi-automatic AK-47 assault rifle that he had paid $125 to have converted to fully automatic, officials said.

At the detention hearing in Alexandria, Va., federal prosecutors are expected to argue that Story poses either a flight risk or a danger to the public, or both, and that he be detained in custody until his federal trial in the Eastern District of Virginia. He has worked for the Virginia Department of Transportation and lived in Virginia for several years, according to court documents.

Story, who was active on several white nationalist websites including Stormfront, Vanguard News Network (VNN), and New Saxon, has a long history of vocal racism.

He made national news in April 2010 when a photo of his pickup truck, its rear window plastered with a full-color sticker featuring a photo of the Twin Towers in flames and the slogan, “Everything I ever needed to know about Islam I learned on 9/11,” went viral, and viewers noticed that his custom license plate read “14CV88.” Fourteen and 88 are potent numbers on the racist right – the first a reference to deceased terrorist David Lane’s 14-word slogan, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children”; the second a code for “H.H.,” or “Heil Hitler” (H is the 8th letter in the alphabet).

Despite Story’s protest that the numbers were references to his favorite NASCAR drivers and that “[T]here is absolutely no way I’d have anything to do with Hitler or Nazis,” the Virginia DMV recalled the custom plates. Reportedly, Story’s boss at the Virginia Department of Transportation forbade him park in the lot with the anti-Muslim sticker on his rear window.

In a November 2008 comment on Stormfront, where he posted as “Confederado,” Story describing his AK-47 as a potential “homeland defense rifle should I need to protect micelf [sic] and my wife from rioting neeegroes [sic].” The same month, he described the president as “brown-filth mulatto,” and wrote, “Now I’m not advocating violence against him, I’m just saying there are White folks out there that are none to [sic] happy with his ‘election.’

Though his work at the Virginia DOT required him to assist stranded drivers, the Anti-Defamation League reports that Story in 2007 wrote on a white nationalist website that, “if I see an accident involving a negro or other kind of brown filth, I just drive on by. Screw ‘em, let ‘em die.”

The FBI opened its weapons investigation last August after learning Story was posting comments on an Aryan Nations Web site and asking about how to convert a semi-automatic assault rifle to a fully automatic machine gun, court documents say. As the investigation unfolded, an FBI informant engaged Story in various conversations on white supremacy websites. According to an affidavit, “The conversations and posts were reported to the case agent and show the propensity for hatred and violence toward African Americans, Jewish Americans, other minorities and a number of political figures.”

The affidavit also quotes Story as having written, “I think there’s one way Obummer would be proven as a mere mortal … if someone puts a 30.06 round into the base of his skill [sic], huh ya think?” In a post referring to the attorney general, Story predicted, “Holder will likely be removed when the administration changes in 2012. Although, personally, I’d prefer removing him from office with a 30.06.”

In a later E-mail, court documents say, Story also boasted “that he was planning on ambushing and murdering any law enforcement officer that stops him on the street if and when martial law is enacted in the United States.”

The informant told the FBI “that Story believed martial law would be declared under various scenarios to include President Obama being assassinated.”

In March meeting, Story asked the FBI informant if he could help modify Story’s AK-47 “from semi-automatic to fully automatic.” The informant later introduced Story to “Ricky” who claimed to have been an armorer in the U.S. Marine Corps and could easily modify the weapon. In the conversations that were secretly recorded by the FBI, Story acknowledged knowing that possessing a fully automatic weapon that wasn’t federally registered was illegal.

After a number of follow-up discussions, Story met with “Ricky” and the FBI informant on May 9 in Chantilly, Va., and turned over his AK-47 and $125 cash to have it converted to full automatic, the affidavit says.

The FBI modified the weapon to full automatic and “Ricky” delivered it to Story on Wednesday in the Bull Run Shopping Plaza in Manassas. Story was arrested as he walked across the parking lot with his newly modified machine gun.

SPLC

Euro 2012: Ukraine’s festering football racism

Victim of abuse says Sol Campbell is right – black fans should stay at home

In a crumbling corridor in a university in Ukraine, a Nigerian student nods in agreement as he listens to Sol Campbell’s comments that black football fans should stay at home rather than join the crowds at Euro 2012 matches in the eastern European country.

He should know. The student, known as J, plays amateur football in Lviv, one of eight host cities for the tournament which starts next Friday. He said spectators sometimes come armed with bananas even when the game is for fun and played in front of a crowd of a few dozen. “It has happened to me – the monkey chants, racist comments and the fruit. I try to ignore it or turn it into a joke by eating the fruit.”

Black and Asian students in the city told the Guardian that racism here is rarely challenged and racist violence lies just below the surface. There are random beatings, pepper spray muggings and a liberal dose of insults – as well as an unsympathetic response from the police.

The students leave their campus for home before dark, seldom go into the city centre unless in a group and stay away from gangs of men.

No-one supports them from Ukraine’s authorities, J said. “It is difficult to stop racism here because the police are corrupt, the authorities don’t want to know. We try to be invisible.”

The biggest sporting event in Eastern Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall appears to be in crisis over reports of racism within the host countries of Ukraine and Poland.

In Lviv, allegations that the authorities have allowed racism to fester have prompted incredulity and soul-searching among councillors and government officials.

Few in the city believe that the tournament will experience high profile racist incidents – each match will be heavily policed and monitored while many hardcore hooligans show little interest away from club football.

The authorities admit, though, that they have previously given little thought to the concept of racism until prompted to do so by intense media scrutiny.

A BBC Panorama programme on Monday broadcast brutal footage of “fans” on the terraces of Ukrainian and Polish club teams involved in criminal, racist acts. Hooligans were filmed attacking non-white fans as police stood by; others unfurled giant anti-Semitic banners; some fans including those of the local team Karpaty Lviv whooped monkey noises at black players while others appeared to give Nazi salutes during matches.

Before Campbell’s comments, the families of two of England’s black players Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain said they would probably not attend the 16-team tournament, fearing abuse or violence in Ukraine, where England will play their first three matches.

Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovych on Friday was forced to release a statement defending the tournament and saying there would be no racism from the terraces.

J, a second year student, was one of five minority ethnic students who spoke to the Guardian anonymously, for fear of reprisals. Each, while quick to praise most Ukrainians as well meaning and polite, had personal stories of unreconstructed racism that have had a long-lasting effect on their lives.

One football lover went to watch local team Karpaty Lviv play Seville in the Europa League in October 2010. He was forced to run from the ground after a black player scored and he was threatened by fellow Karpaty supporters.

Another had a cigarette flicked into his eye as he walked to McDonalds in the city centre. He fought back and was beaten to the ground by a gang of five men.

Last year, two men, an Indian and a Moroccan, were assaulted with pepper spray before being beaten up outside their accommodation.

J, his friends and a growing influx of non-white workers know they have a tough task to change attitudes in this beautifully preserved city, known as “little Paris” because of its curved, cobbled streets and baroque architecture.

The city’s ruling party, Svoboda, whose slogan is “one race, one nation, one fatherland”, has been variously described as fascist, neo-Nazi and extreme. Members prefer to say they are nationalists and friends of Marine Le Pen’s Front National.

Andriy Khomytskyy, 29, a Svoboda councillor in Lviv, said that there are no issues of race to confront within the city because there are so few foreigners.

“There is no problem here, not like other Ukrainian cities. In Kerch [in eastern Ukraine] they have a problem because of illegal Chinese and Koreans.

Khomytskyy, a one-time regular on the terraces of Kapaty Lviv, is now a lead member of the council’s economic and foreign affairs committee.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, he remains resistant to confronting racism either on the terraces or on the streets where students have been beaten. He said of the fans at Kapaty: “They are patriotic, not racist.” Of the apparent Nazi salutes filmed by Panorama, he said: “It [the salute] is not from the Nazis, it is from the Roman empire.”

A father of one who teaches at a college, Khomytskyy said he bears no ill will towards people for the colour of their skin. When told of how black students said they feared for their safety, he shrugged and said that racist incidents are difficult to prove: “It is nuanced. It is difficult to say if it is racism if a black man is attacked. Often, it is just banditism.”

Khomytskyy said that the best way to limit racist incidents is to limit immigration and ensure that the resident culture prevails, adding that he has spoken at length about race “problems” with his associates in the Front National.

“They tell me that they cannot go to certain [Arab] areas in France because you would get beaten and they might take your white girl,” he said.

The profile of Svoboda, which now has more than 50 councillors in Lviv, has risen as the Orange revolution and its peaceful protests failed amid recriminations and allegations of corruption. There is a groundswell of anti-semitism, which campaigners said could be seen on walls around the football ground before a pre-tournament clean up. Some commentators have claimed that the right here have successfully linked anti-semitism and anti-communism.

For the more thoughtful members of the city council’s administration, the allegations of casual racism in the media and on the terraces are an embarrassment which they are now trying to confront. Citizens who have volunteered to help fans during the championship have been given race relations training.

Oleh Berezuk, who is head of the mayor’s office, said that the city and the country were trying to develop strategies to educate local people and allay the fears of immigrants.

“Lack of knowledge presents a problem for us. One has to remember our history – the Nazis killed or deported most of the Jewish population in the 1940s and we were under Russia and the Soviet Union until 1991. These issues are relatively new for us,” he said.

Some have swung towards the extreme right because of a belief that the left let them down during the Soviet era, he claimed. Ukraine has not had the benefit of experiencing what it is like to adapt to a generation of immigrants in the same way as Britain and France.

“The brutality of the Soviets was something that we were told about by our parents and grandparents. We still feel it, in the same way that people in the west still feel the lessons about race. We need some time and understanding as we learn,” he said.

One experienced anti-fascist campaigner believes cities such as Lviv are taking their first steps into the tricky area of race relations and are having to do so in public. Rafal Pankowski, of the Warsaw-based Never Again Association and co-ordinator of the anti-racist programme for Euro 2012, said it should be remembered that this is the first major football event to be held in eastern Europe in the modern era.

“These countries are beginning to talk about these issues . We have started a dialogue. We have already achieved something before the tournament has started,” he said.

The Guardian

Tory Councillor:- force seriously ill people out to push up house prices

A Tory councillor on Surrey’s health committee has called for seriously ill people to be forced out of the county. John Butcher has suggested those with “self-inflicted morbidity” should be “encouraged” to “move away from Surrey” – in the name of pushing up house prices.

Butcher wants groups such as smokers —  referred to as the “self-inflicted” — to be offered slower NHS treatment so that they will be forced to move:

“This factor would attract more ‘other’ patients to come to live in Surrey – and that would push up house prices here.”
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more sick, he ventures that this would benefit the Tories in elections:

“any political party that seeks to pander to the needs of the self-inflicted unhealthy, and to win their votes, will suffer twofold … mortality will ensure that its voters will be much fewer in number than the ‘others’”

Councillor Butcher’s email, which went round Surrey Council like wildfire before being leaked, is reproduced in full below:

1 Please pass on my apology for absence from the Surrey HOSC meeting on 24 May 2012, but I have a hospital appointment that day, and it has already been postponed once.

2 Because of the economic catastrophe facing the capitalist world, the NHS, that is a Marxist organisation, is bound to fail – like Greece.

The government’s efforts to ‘improve’ it are merely a postponement of that failure, which will arise from ever-increasing demand for, and the unit costs of, healthcare and the ever-decreasing national wealth available to afford those demands and costs, through taxation or otherwise.

Politicians who support the diversion of increasingly scarce fiscal resources into propping up the NHS, without taking measures to curb demand, not only accelerate its eventual demise but allow more important demands on the public purse to go unmet, with serious adverse consequences to the people. It will be the people who suffer from the collapse of the NHS – but they will have only themselves to blame – for voting in politicians who promise to improve the NHS regardless of other factors.

3 One way of saving the NHS is to encourage patients to take very much more care of themselves, with penalties on those who won’t do that. If the NHS in Surrey were to be run on the basis that patients with self-inflicted morbidity (mainly – smoking, alcohol, narcotics, obesity) and injury (dangerous activities) are, following due warning, placed in a much slower-moving queue for healthcare than ‘other’ patients, this would encourage the self-inflicted to move away from Surrey, to areas where there is no differentiation between patients on the grounds of their contribution towards their condition.

And it would deter the self-inflicted from coming to live in Surrey. Over time, that would result in the healthcare for the ‘other’ patients in Surrey being significantly better than the average national level for all patients, as the resources deployed to the self-inflicted would be very much reduced.

This factor would attract more ‘other’ patients to come to live in Surrey – and that would push up house prices here – assuming that planning controls remain similar to now.

4 Eventually the self-inflicted patients would end up living in ‘equality’ areas that are dominated by politicians who pander to their needs, thus driving more ‘other’ patients out of those areas, as healthcare there will be badly affected by the over-dominance of the self-inflicted.

These ‘other’ patients would move into areas, such as, hopefully, Surrey, where ‘other’ patients are not nearly so adversely affected. Eventually the country will be sharply divided into two types of area:

4.1 the ‘equality’ ones, where the self-inflicted unhealthy are treated the same as all patients, and 4.2 the ‘others’, such as, hopefully, Surrey.

Average life expectancy will be substantially lower (by, say, 20 years) in the ‘equality’ areas than in the ‘others’. This may mean that ‘other’ patients moving out of ‘equality’ areas may have to live in a less desirable dwelling, because of house price differentials, but that is a trade-off, that they can choose, with healthcare differentials between the two types of area.

Such house price differentials already apply for schooling, with houses on one side of a catchment boundary being worth a lot more than houses on the other side of it.

Indeed, the perception that the gap in those prices between those two types of healthcare area will grow substantially will encourage the ‘other’ patients in those ‘equality’ areas to move out of them sooner, lest they see their dwelling there becoming worthless.

5 Thus, any political party that seeks to pander to the needs of the self-inflicted unhealthy, and to win their votes, will suffer twofold: 5.1 mortality will ensure that its voters will be much fewer in number than the ‘others’, and

5.2 by concentrating its voters into particular areas, that party will never be able to win enough seats to dominate Parliament.

Regards John Butcher

Political Scrapbook

Stephen Lawrence: Theresa May orders review into police corruption claims

Home secretary announces review a day after the Met police released its own review giving itself a clean bill of health.

The home secretary has ordered an independent review into allegations that police corruption shielded the killers of Stephen Lawrence.

EDL man in court drama

Bernard Holmes

The sentencing of a group of English Defence League (EDL) supporters was adjourned for a second time after the man dubbed their “commander” collapsed in court.

Judge Norman Wright postponed the Preston Crown Court case after being told Bernard Holmes was lying “semi comatose” in the public gallery yesterday.

Representing him, Jeremy Lasker said Holmes had just come out of hospital and was on painkillers for pancreatitis, as well as suffering diabetes.

The court previously heard about a day of protests the defendants were involved in on July 2 last year.

Paul Blundell, 45, of Lee Street, Longridge; Graham Smith, 48, of Draperfeld, Chorley; and Martin Corner, 31, of Corporation Street, Chorley, admitted threatening behaviour and will be sentenced on June 25.

Emma Kehoe, prosecuting, said police saw a large group gathered on a pub car park in Blackburn.

Some visited an Asda store in Accrington to protest at selling and labelling of Halal meat, before delivering a letter to MEP Sajjad Karim’s home in Simonstone.

Around 36 EDL supporters, including the defendants, later went to Brierfield.

The court heard a group of Asian people gathered to retaliate.

Leanne Thornton, 26, of Todmorden; John English, 24, of Blackburn; Jordan Lonsdale 20, of Ribble Lane, Clitheroe; and Paul Jackson, 41, of Blackburn, admitted threatening behaviour.

Four admitted racially aggravated fear or provocation of violence – Holmes, 26; Leonard Hawley, 47; David Wilson, 47, all from Blackburn; and Jason Smith, 43, of Todmorden, but all pleaded not guilty to a charge of violent disorder.

The charge will lie on file.

Lancashire Evening Post

Police told to hand over CCTV footage to violent BNP criminal showing firebomb attack.

Joe Owens

Police have been ordered to return private CCTV footage of a firebomb attack to a man with a violent past – despite fears it could help him find and kill the person responsible.

Merseyside Police had argued for retaining footage belonging to Joseph ‘Joey’ Owens, who had gangster connections, to avoid ‘indirectly assisting or encouraging’ him to carry out a revenge attack for the arson attack on his mother’s home.

But today two High Court judges disagreed with the plea from police, and ruled the force’s chief constable did not have power to retain the video from the CCTV system set up by Owens, who had shortly before the fire released a book exposing ‘wannabe gangsters’ and ‘police informants’ in Liverpool.

Two judges rejected the chief constable’s appeal against a magistrates’ court ruling that the footage should be returned under the provisions of the 1897 Police (Property) Act.

Sir John Thomas and Mr Justice King described in a joint written judgment how the mother’s house in Liverpool was deliberately set on fire in June 2008. She was alone at the time but escaped without injury.

The video footage was seized as part of subsequent police investigations. It showed a petrol can at the front door and the person believed to have caused the fire, though the images were unclear.

Despite all efforts, including enhancing the images, the police could not identity who had set the fire, and the investigation was closed.

Owens applied to Liverpool City magistrates court for the return of the tape in December 2008 but was opposed by the chief constable on the grounds that he might inflict violent injury on any person that he identified on it.

Owens, a well-known gangland figure in Liverpool, has several violence-related convictions to his name and has even been charged with murder.

In 1982 he served eight months behind bars for sending razor blades in the post to members of Liverpool’s Jewish community.

He was again jailed in 1994 for carrying CS gas and knuckle dusters while working as a clubland bouncer.

In 1998 Owens was charged with the murder of a nightclub security boss, but the charge was eventually dropped when a key prosecution witness withdrew his evidence.

Det Sgt Deborah Weir, who was in charge of the arson investigation, told the city court she believed that if Owens saw the tape he would ‘seek revenge against the actual offender or a mistaken innocent third party’, said the judges.

She believed ‘that person would be killed or seriously injured’.

Owens had earlier identified to the police a possible suspect who had threatened him and asked to see the video as he thought he might be able to recognise the offender from his stance or gait.

Merseyside Police had their claim to keep the CCTV footage rejected at London’s High Court today

But city court Deputy District Judge Andrew Meachin ruled that, although he understood Det Sgt Weir’s concerns, they did not create special circumstances allowing the police to retain the footage under the provisions of the 1897 Act, which dealt with ‘ownership and nothing else’.

Upholding the district judge’s decision, the High Court judges said that, as a matter of fundamental constitutional principle ‘the powers of the Executive to seize and retain goods’ were carefully controlled by the courts.

They had to balance the interests of society in finding out wrongdoers and repressing crime against the freedom of the individual.

To justify taking an article from a person who had not been arrested or charged, it was necessary for that article to be returned as soon as a case was over or a decision was made not to go on with it.

As a result, the chief constable was not entitled to retain the Owens tape under the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act.

The judges said they were prepared to assume that a court could refuse to order the police to return property if it was established that handing it back would indirectly assist or encourage crime.

But there were no findings made by the district judge in the Owens case that supported such a conclusion.

The judges ruled: ‘It cannot be sufficient that the police reasonably suspect that (Owens) might use the tape to commit a criminal act, for that would give the Executive power to retain property without legislative or other authority.

‘It can only be if the court itself is satisfied that the use of its process would in fact indirectly assist in or encourage a crime that the court could refuse to allow its processes to be used to that end.

‘We therefore conclude that the appeal cannot succeed on the facts stated in the case for the reasons we have given. The video must therefore be returned.’

Daily Mail

A Statement

Since the rise of the BNP in the mid nineties and early noughties, many decent and able people have rallied around to defend communities and to keep the spirit of community defence and opposition to fascism alive.

This spirit goes way back to the 1930’s in Cable Street in East London, when the Jewish community organised in conjunction with the Communist Party, Independent Socialists and local workers to defend the East End from black-shirted thugs. Cable Street began a tradition of working class men and women fighting fascism. Many of those people from the 1930’s went on to Europe to either fight to emergence of fascism in Spain or were conscripted to fight Nazism in the guise of Adolf Hitler some years later.

During the 1970’s and 1980’s, the BNP and NF were physically confronted and defeated. By the 1990’s a re-emerging C18, the BNP and other state sponsored thugs were driven off the streets too. This was done by the use of intelligence, discipline and forward planning.

Rightfully, we revel in that history. It is one of not just defiance, but one of celebration of a culture that has become diverse, broad and inclusive at the same time.

At times, some have deviated while some have maintained even in the darkest of hours, the will to continue to fight the fascists either by use of justified force or by campaigning on doorsteps in the heart of the electoral beast that fascism temporarily became.

By any means necessary, Anti-fascists have always mounted a response that the conditions dictated. We have not always seen eye to eye with each other, we have often disagreed and not always agreed on the scale or the necessity of strategies. We have been diverse. However, whatever has happened, we have remained dignified and disciplined. Because of this, the fascists have never defeated us.

Even during the 1990’s when fascists took to stalking progressive people and putting their names on websites for attack, our sense of ultimate unity and dignity ensured that not only could we respond, we would not allow ourselves to be victims of fascists in our work places or homes. Our discipline was drawn from not fawning over martyrs, extremists or those who saw our broad movement as a means of promoting their own agenda, even in the moment of our most dark of hours. It was through discipline.

Now, more than at any other time in our recent history, we face a threat that is more dangerous and pernicious than many people would dare to admit or confront.
Socialists, progressives and Trade Unionists who make up the bulk of the Anti-Fascist movement are now regularly attacked and harassed by organised fascists. With the demise of the electoral threat of the far-right our broader numbers have shrunk whilst the broader movement concentrate on fighting the debilitating attacks on the working class by a government and its corporate sponsors who seek to profit by our division.

So it is with some concern that we have had to witness the rise in hot headed talk, words and egotism of one particular individual. Photographs of threatening teenagers, faces covered but not their embarrassment spared, now regularly appear without one iota of discipline or common sense on his own blog, continually driving an agenda that threatens all of us.

This individual is not a Walter Mitty, but perhaps a well meaning but historically challenged individual.

Of late his behaviour has led to decent Trade Unionists’ being attacked at work, on the picket line and at home. He knows he is in the wrong. And yet, he attacks other Anti-Fascists on his blog while crying into his internet forum that he needs police protection and worse still, the support of others whom he has attacked.

We are asking this individual to now desist with his near suicidal egotism and self promotion. Good people are being put at risk. He does not have the support of the wider movement.

In stupid desperation, he has now resorted to the abhorrent behaviour of the fascists themselves: Bravado in public, tears in private.

Militant Anti-Fascism was not born out of self made heroes. Nor is it born out of allowing other individuals to shield you from your own stupid actions.

He knows who he is. He knows he must desist. He should please do so, so that those of us who are capable, organised and disciplined to do so, can respond.

We will support any Anti-Fascist. We will not support inflatable heroes.

Democratic Anti-Fascists.