A senior Met Police officer has warned that we are likely to experience a “summer of rage” caused by “known activists”.
Superindendent David Hartshorn says that “known activists” are likely to organise protests and the recession will provide them with the “footsoldiers” they need.
The “known activists” are most likely the BNP. The timing – just after the BNP trounced Liebour in a Kent by-election – is too much of a co-incidence. He also mentions banks as a viable target.
Would the BNP use the banks as an excuse to wind people up? Does a bear shit in the woods? The BNP are left wing socialists with a policy of extensive nationalisation. Most of their members are only interested in booting foreigners out of the country but the party is about more than that. The BNP want a nationalist socialist country with prison sentences for people who weaken the state and nationalisation of key industries.
But the police are wrong to be concentrating on the BNP – they should be looking at the eco-terrorists as the biggest threat. These are people that are evangelical in their belief that the world is about to end in a man-made climate apocalypse. Sensible people who realise that the global warming scam is a load of bollocks have already been labelled as worse than the nazi’s and likened to holocaust deniers and virtually nobody dares question the climate change propagandists in public. Importantly, they vast majority of eco-terrorists are also anti-capitalists and they see capitalism as the cause of the man-made climate change they’ve invented.
The eco-terrorists have a judgement in their favour that they can use to justify whatever damage and destruction they want to cause. They argued that they were justified in causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage to Kingsnorth power station because the law says you can cause reasonable damage to prevent even greater damage from happening. This was intended for things like breaking down the door of a house to turn off the gas supply in times of emergency or breaking into a petrol tanker to move it from a car fire, that type of thing. But a jury agreed that the eco-terrorists at Kingsnorth were justified in causing £30k worth of criminal damage to the power station because of the damage it causes to the environment.
That ruling gives the eco-terrorists a get out of jail free card. In fact, it gives them an avoid jail in the first place card. They’re motivated, the British government is doing their propaganda work for them and the law appears to be on their side. Rather than obsessing over the BNP where the entire establishment is working against them, the police and politicians should be more concerned about the eco-terrorists that are already on the inside.
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I wonder if this is linked to giving more of government access to email and web surfing habits ?
Have to agree with you to some point on the Eco threat. However I also suspect that the people behind the thuggish end of that, are the same as behind the old May Day riots / Poll tax riots etc. These people are a real threat, but then so is the government using them as an excuse to clamp down on the rest of us.
After all it wouldn’t take much for an interest in English Nationalism to be portrayed in the media as something nasty. Thanks to the now legal monitoring of the internet plod could be at your door in minutes.
Perhaps there are those looking for a state of emergency to suspend Parliament etc and delay the next election ?
We live in interesting times.
do we beleive that modern digital phones are untappable?
can they be tapped with big enough ‘boxes’ or will the government just ask vodaphone for a shared line agreement?
not eco terrorists, not bnp, i think, it will be a new non specific lefty anti capitalist thing, where is g8 meeting next?
street fighting and rioting is fun or it was when i was young, i’m sure it is about time that the ‘kids’ will feel the urge again, i think the weather will be a key factor, if it is nice weather there will be riots, if it is the usual dull grey drizzle, it will be murmurings in the estates, it is going to be an interesting spring\summer
So we’ve just seen huge protests on the streets of Dublin against the government there putting up taxes to pay for bank bailouts.
No doubt the UK govt is scared the same level of protest will happen here, and this warning by the police will be part of a propaganda campaign to scare people out of exercising their right to protest peacefully against the actions of the government.
It’s not about the BNP or eco-terrorists: the secret services will be targeting ordinary people who are forced by the economic crisis to protest their conditions. Remember that the phrase “enemy within” was used most memorably by Thatcher about the mining communities protesting the pit closures…
Superindendent Hartshorn also suggested in the same statement that ” middle-class individuals who would never have considered joining demonstrations may now seek to vent their anger through protests this year” http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/23/police-civil-unrest-recession
Expect a summer of Pesto bombs and the widespread looting of bottled water in the Knightsbridge area.
It sounds like a guy using scare-mongering tactics and playing to the daily mail crowd to get more cash to me. I’ve been to dozens of marches, rallies pickets and demos over the years and I’ve never once seen any trouble break out that wasn’t actually started by the police
By the way, do “Possible Wasp stings” count as “eco-terrorism”?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/15/kingsnorth-climate-change-environment-police
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7784301.stm
I quote :
Norman Baker, the Lib Dem MP for Lewes, who had called previously for an investigation of police tactics, said: “I personally witnessed unnecessarily aggressive policing, unprovoked violence against peaceful protesters, an extraordinary number of police on site, and tactics such as confiscating toilet rolls, board games and clown costumes from what I saw to be peaceful demonstrators.”
The list of items deemed potentially dangerous by police and seized from protesters included glue, marker pens, board games, cushions, carpet, wood, paint, and scissors as well as bicycle locks which could have been used to lock protesters to fences. Police also seized anything that could have been used to set up camp, including spades and duct tape, generators and hammers and nails.
Howarth said: “That the minister could defend as ‘proportionate’ a £5.9m policing operation in which there was not a single injury to police officers caused by the protesters beggars belief. The threat posed by environmental direct action is being systematically overblown by both the government and the police.
“I hope the government and the police will now stop trying to portray peaceful protesters as somehow equivalent to terrorists or violent extremists. In light of this new evidence, one has to ask, were climate campers so heavily policed because they posed any genuine threat of violence, or because they posed a challenge to government policy?”