POLICE MUST CHANGE PROTEST TACTICS

As an active Racial Nationalist Party we have a reputation for street protest it is these protests that have got our messages across to the voting public and helped to increase our membership. Most if not all of our street demonstrations have passed off without violence from our members and without arrests being made. However any violence that happens in or around these street protests is caused by the great unwashed, the new anti-democratic thugs of the UAF, an organisation receiving LIEbour party funding would you believe.

The National Front has and always will exercise our right to peaceful protest which is written into British law.However when I watched the tactics employed by the Met police during the recent G20 protests I was appalled, horrified and very angry indeed. Yes I know that those opposing the police were only the great unwashed, lefty, lesbian, tree hugging, sandal wearing, yoghurt knitters but even they have the right to protest and not be attacked by the police.

The Met police actions on that day worry me as it could well be a growing trend by ACPO “a private limited company” by the way, to court reaction from normally peaceful protesters thus giving the police the excuse to bludgeon them, making it look like they have stopped a riot and controlled the rabble.Six inquiries were launched after complaints about police during two days of clashes during the G20 meeting

There was a glimmer of hope recently as the police were today told to make immediate changes to the way they control public protests after a woman claimed being kicked and pushed by officers may have given her a miscarriage. Senior officers must review public order training, warn protestors of likely police action and allow vulnerable people to leave, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said. The call was made as the watchdog released its findings from an inquiry launched after the 23-year-old woman claimed she was assaulted during the G20 demonstrations.

Officials found officers used their shields to try and move the crowd backwards, a tactic which has not been approved nationally by senior officers. IPCC officials said the woman was forcibly pushed back by an officer using a “short shield”, a method developed by the Metropolitan Police. They also found the woman was not allowed to leave the area of Bishopsgate for up to five hours despite her heavy bleeding. Deborah Glass, of the IPCC, said: “She was caught up in what appears to have been a frightening experience over which she had little or no control.

“Like many others that day, she says she had no prior warning of the police intention to use force in containing the crowd, and no prior warning of a containment tactic known as “kettleing” that prevented her leaving.” Six inquiries were launched after complaints of police brutality during two days of clashes during the meeting of world leaders in London. Earlier this week, a file into the death of Ian Tomlinson was passed from IPCC investigators to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

They must now decide if a Metropolitan Police constable caught on camera hitting the newspaper seller and pushing him to the ground should be prosecuted. The officer, a member of the force’s territorial support group, has ‘only’ been interviewed under caution on suspicion of manslaughter.

I can tell you that had an NF member been filmed doing what that police officer did he would have already been in court and would now be waiting for a cake with a file in it, quite obviously one law for one and one for another.His widow has called on the CPS to let a jury decide what role, if any, the officer played in his death.

We in the National Front hope that these two deaths will be the last caused by police or their actions. The citizens of this country have the legal right to peaceful protest and it is the job of the police to allow the protest to take place not attempt to stop it or force confrontation.

We will always support the police in their fight against crime, paedophiles, drug dealers and terrorists, but the police only police with the consent of the people and we too are the people.

Tom Linden