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Protest against asylum seeker centre

Dave | 10.06.2002 19:28

The BNP and 1,500 residents gathered to protest against an asylum seeker centre at RAF Newton.

"Protest against the illegal immigrant centre near Bingham, Nottingham on 6th June 2002, estimate of over 1,500 present.

When I first arrived, a left wing extremist woman was screaming and waving a placard at someone wrapped in a union flag. She nearly hit him with it so he grabbed it off her and it broke. She went off in a huff shrieking, "that ladies and gentlemen is **** for you!".

The event was shown on the ITV Central News and BBC1 Local News

Apart from the minor Socialist Worker scuffle, the protest was completely peaceful as expected."

Dave
- Homepage: http://www.rafnewton.org/

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Protest hijacked by nazis!

11.06.2002 06:13

I dont want detention camps in the English countryside either, and I would protest against one near me. It is unjust for both refugees and local residents alike. Refugees should not demonised, treated like criminals, and kept behind barbed wire - that's not a decent thing to do. Its disgusting. People don't want mass barbed wire detention camps for fellow human beings. Its sinister. Where will it lead?
I have nothing against refugees, they are not a big problem. The real problem is that council housing in my town is being privatised and that the railways are messed up. Refugees should be treated with compassion. So should the majority of people in this land - at the moment we are being robbed of the pensions, healthcare, education services and everything that we won after the war.
The refugee thing is a media scare, encouraged by corrupt politicians of all parties looking for easy scapegoats for their failure. Loads of people can see this. Loads still have compassion in this world.
The BNP and groups like them have no sense of human decency. Behind their new 'respectable' veneer you will soon find their sicko Hitler loving core ideology. I know this from experience.
So what? A few Nazi perverts try to hijack a community protest. Its about time the community told them to sling their hook.

Alfred