Le Pen welcomed to Cambridge!!!
Le Pen welcomed to Cambridge!!!
Le Pen welcomed to Cambridge!!!
There was no giving up, though, and after Le Pen got inside, we rushed the front gate of the Union - upsetting some posh wankers who actually tried to put in some tackles - and nearly made it to the door. We got into the courtyard, completeley filling it - a couple hundred at this point - and more or less surrounded the building. At this point, the Union debating building was locked-down, with all the rest who came to attend the speech being turned back, including Peter Hitchens. It was wicked at one point, as members of the Union were physically rushing their own people to try and force their way in.
We continued outside - yelling, shouting, playing a trumpet, banging on the windows of the debating chamber - quite effectively according to the moles on the inside. A person on the inside pulled the fire alarm, but the people inside disabled it (thereby breaking fire regulations). Apparently Le Pen proved all those right who were claiming it wasn't an issue of free speech, as he avoided all questions and used it as a political platform. After he finished speaking, he and his bodyguards retired to an inner chamber to plan their escape. Meanwhile, we had fully blocked the back gate and flattened the tires of his car, and erected barricades on the side door. They tried to fool people by calling several taxis to different sides of the building, but by the time he came out the front - he was fucked.
Somewhere between the front gate of the Union and his taxi, Le Pen was barraged with a hail of eggs - SEVERAL OF WHICH HIT HIM DIRECTLY ON THE HEAD!!! He was wiping his face and trying to get in the taxi, but the sunroof was open, and eggs, rocks, and dirt were flying in so one of his guards opened an umbrella out the sunroof. Meanwhile, everyone was trying to block the street, but being heavily manhandled by the coppers and two private guards who assaulted several protestors. At one point, the taxi driver got upset that people were bashing his car - SO HE STOPPED - nearly letting the crowd tear Le Pen out!
After he escaped, there were some tense moments, with the coppers being called scum, and making efforts to arrest for Section 5 (for calling them the 'fucking SS'). They then congratulated the hired thugs for busting heads - as several were indeed left bleeding - and went inside for a drink. Some demonstrators went into the Union in an attempt to find the thugs, confronted by drunk toffs spouting about it being a 'private party'. The police refused to even acknowledge that the assaults had occurred (while they were standing right there) and tried to get us to go home and make a complaint later (while the scumbags were sitting right there). Finally we got them questioned - expect them in court and the Union up against a lawsuit for liability!
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please remove last photo
25.04.2003 10:49
cheers
jim
gotcha!
25.04.2003 12:09
natsocnet
huh?
25.04.2003 13:34
Boly
oh crap
25.04.2003 14:11
Redwatch.org.uk is a site run by a dodgy guy in the NF who is also rumoured to work for a State agency and has been involved in anti-nazi activity too. His name's Tony White and the site has pics and details of anti-fascists, socialists and anarchists for the use of far-right and fascist groups.
Nice one to CAMSAW for giving them this...
blacknred
Hypocrisy
26.04.2003 23:53
You make me ashamed to be part of the anti-right wing movement!
Neil
e-mail: uksly2002@yahoo.co.uk
Nothing to do with CamSAW
27.04.2003 04:39
Dave
regarding Redwatch
27.04.2003 14:20
Blacknred: the bigger issue is - do we stop posting pictures on Indymedia because we're afraid of fascists? no fucking way, mate. You're giving in to them if you think that, and playing into their hands by encouraging that the ANL go underground.
geo
get real
27.04.2003 16:58
Blacknred's comments about CAMsaw just tar everyone with the same brush - never very useful.
Don't take photos of people without their permission in such situations, and certainly don't put them up on the web.
And as for geo's comment about playing into the fasc's hands and driving the ANL underground:
However literate someone is is not the point - think about it.
The ANL aint' going to go underground, and photos or none is not relevant to this.
And no, we don't stop putting pictures on Indymedia if they serve a purpose and that purpose is greater than any negative effects. But if you want your picture (& any other details, address and so on) to be available to fash who don't mind breaking your face and home, then that's your choice to post your photo/details on IMC. To post someone else's is NOT your choice. I guess you've never been so targetted by them, or driven out of towns by them, or had dog shit and burning rags put through your door everyday by them, etc etc, as people I know have. Until then, dont' make choices for other people.
anti-fa
One last point...
28.04.2003 01:42
ANaL/SWP politics can best be summed up by Tariq Ali, who is on record as stating: "If joining the National Front means broken bones then its support will be lost."
The Anti-Nazi League is really the Anti-Democratic League.
Whereas RedWatch publicly states IF YOU CAN PERSUADE YOUR FRIENDS IN ANaL, ETC. TO REMOVE THEIR PAGES NAMING OUR PEOPLE FROM THEIR WEBSITES AND CEASE ATTEMPTING TO MAKE LIFE HELL FOR THEM, WE WILL FOLLOW SUIT AND THE REDWATCH PAGES WILL ALSO BE REMOVED. WE CAN'T BE ANY FAIRER THAN THAT CAN WE?
Judge for yourselves how best to deal with all forms of political harrassment.
www.redwatch.org.uk
natsocnet