Tommy Robinson dressed up in a Rabbi disguise to avoid being arrested for breaching his bail conditions. Listen to how he describes the disguise... the Jewish Division must be delighted.
After 2 and a half years of 'progress' they managed to get a couple of thousand from the whole of the UK. If they had half a clue they'd be embarassed. The fact they didn't even make it to Tower Hamlets is even more embarassing for them, but they're so fucking thick that such matters don't matter. Still they wouldn't be extremists if they listened to reason.
*note - there was violence from the EDL against police later in the evening. And one coachload of the scum apparently tried to attack locals, but I've not got any more details of that yet.
EDL London march halted by police Anti-fascists stage counter-protest in London's East End chanting 'they shall not pass' amid angry confrontations
Mark Townsend
guardian.co.uk,
3 September 2011
Large crowds assembled in east London to oppose a demonstration by the far-right English Defence League on Saturday. There were frequent angry confrontations. At one stage EDL members chanted "You're scum and you know you are" to foreign tourists, while an Asian man singled out for abuse shouted back: "I'm as English as you are."
Hundreds of residents and anti-fascist campaigners converged on Whitechapel Road close to the East London Mosque, a target for members of the EDL, amid a police presence of around 3,000 officers, some in riot gear. Muslims accuse the EDL of fostering hate against them through claims that a gradual "Islamisation" of Britain is taking place. As he began his speech, the EDL's founder, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, 28, who uses the name Tommy Robinson, appeared to be led away by police. He is under court restrictions after being convicted of leading a fight at a football match in Luton earlier this year.
At one stage, staff at King's Cross station in north London closed the entrance to the tube, preventing the majority of the EDL supporters who had gathered outside from travelling to the demonstration close to Aldgate tube station for around half an hour. Around 1,000 people assembled near the east London tube station – 10 minutes from the mosque – at what had been billed as a "static demonstration" to circumvent a 30-day ban on political marches imposed after the recent riots in England by the home secretary, Theresa May.
It is the first time since the Brixton riots 30 years ago that the police had sought powers to stop marches in London, where tensions are still running high. The EDL decision to go ahead with a demonstration was also controversial following the recent massacre of young Norwegian political activists by anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik. Along Whitechapel Road, scores of anti-EDL protesters waved placards carrying portraits of Brievik and Tommy Robinson. Most carried the slogan: "Different faces, same hatred."
Some in the crowd drew parallels with the Battle of Cable Street, several minutes' walk south, where the local community rallied in defiance of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists almost 75 years ago, refusing to let them pass through the East End. The same chant, "They shall not pass", echoed down the streets on Saturday.
Jamie Pitman, who had travelled from Oxford to show solidarity with the residents of Tower Hamlets, said: "Cable Street showed that, in times of austerity and a poor economic climate, fascism and racism can flourish. We need to beat fascism by turning out in bigger numbers than them – not resorting to violence but providing a bigger show of strength." The mood was defiant, with a number of people dancing to a sound system erected on a parked lorry.
The Rev Alan Green, of St John on Bethnal Green, one of the organisers of United East End, a coalition of groups opposed to the EDL entering Tower Hamlets, said: "The vast majority of the population are very happy to live together in diversity. We need to show the extent of opposition to the EDL and how the things they say about the area, their rhetoric, is so wrong."
In the afternoon, as more EDL supporters arrived to drink and chant at Aldgate, Martin Smith, of Unite Against Facism, was among those demanding that the EDL should not be allowed into the borough, but be contained by the police at Aldgate, on the eastern periphery of Tower Hamlets.
Dave Wainwright, an organiser of the Unite Against Fascism wing in Leicester, said he had expected violence despite the ban. "In Leicester, the EDL were also banned from marching but that had little effect in terms of minimising their violence," he said. "It stems from their ideology and a culture of heavy drinking."
Disturbances in Tower Hamlets continued as a coach carrying EDL supporters was allowed to travel through the borough. By 7pm, police had made a total of 12 arrests.
Tommy Robinson has been arrested for Breach of Bail and is in court tomorrow morning. If he's not sent to jail considering the way he bragged about his contempt of court, then I'll be surprised.
It doesn't matter what you say, if you insult the system while you're under its command, you will be made to pay for it.
it turns out they somehow persuaded the driver of the coach to take a detour past the main mosque and they then started trashing the coach. the window that was put in was actually put out by the EDL. So they were all nicked for, I'm guessing, criminal damage.
theres a lot of misreporting about this incident, i've read about it in a few places, and none of them have fully explained what happened and all are running with kids attack bus, edl arrested - none of them mention what the edl did that led to them being arrested. lots of the reader comments - understandably - are saying why were the edl on the coach arrested when it was the kids throwing the stones?
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 2:57 am Post subject:
The EDL should all be blown up ...... As far as I am concerned they were there to incite hatred and violence .... they are all bastards and should be hung !!! jmho ....
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