'Casuals United' - English Defence League

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[align=center]EDL clash with locals in Edgware Road
11th September 2011
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EDL members have descended onto one of London's most famous streets and have had clashes with locals, this evening. Around 50-100 EDL members are currently on Edgware Road, a part of London dominated by the Arab community.

Chairs and windows have been smashed and police are trying to separate the two groups. The Edgware Road area is completely gridlocked with traffic tailing back all the way to White City and the Westfield shopping centre in Shepherds Bush

A London Air Ambulance has arrived in nearby Hyde Park, which is at the top of Edgware Road at the Marble Arch crossing. Some people have said that someone has been seriously injured although this is unconfirmed.

Earlier, EDL members clashed with the group Muslims Against the Crusades outside the 9/11 memorial near the US Embassy. 4 arrests were made. The EDL alleged on their Facebook page that a member had been stabbed.

*This is a developing story*

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some unpatriotic maniac has created this INSULT TO ALL THINGS INGERLISH!!! For shame...

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The EDL posted a similar pic to this on their facebook page today - and they seemed to love it. The point that Chaudary is just as much of a fucking arsehole as they are seems to have completely flown over their heads...

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https://englishdefenceleague.org/the-sta ... -robinson/

Have you seen what they have to say now, compairing "tommy robinson" to princess diana and complaining that he got fined for encouraging football hooliganism.
(sorry about the language) BUT I FUCKING HATE THESE CUNTS

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[align=center]EDL leader convicted of assault
29 September 2011[/align]
The leader of the English Defence League is facing a possible jail sentence after being convicted of assault. Stephen Lennon launched a verbal attack on a fellow member of the far-right group before headbutting his victim, Preston Magistrates' Court heard.

Lennon, 28, founder of the EDL, "goaded" a crowd of followers during a rally by 2,000 supporters in Blackburn on April 2. The 28-year-old, from Luton, Bedfordshire, launched a tirade against a man, who was accused of putting messages on the internet about police informers and "grasses", before trouble broke out in the crowd among EDL members, the court heard.

Alan McKee, 33, from Gateshead, was pulled from the crowd by stewards for his own safety and taken away by police officers. But the court heard he later confronted Lennon about his speech as the rally continued with other speakers. Lennon, who was surrounded by his own security guards and EDL stewards, then lunged or stepped forward and headbutted Mr McKee. Lennon denied assault and claimed during his speech he had harangued another man, also called Alan, an Alan Smith, from Newcastle, who was a member of an EDL splinter group, the North East Infidels, intent on causing trouble.

The court heard from two police officers, Pc Paul Green and Pc Andrew Sumner, who told the court they were on hand when the incident happened. Both maintained they clearly saw Lennon headbutt Mr McKee.

After a day-long trial District Judge Peter Ward said he believed the police officers and convicted Lennon of common assault. Sentencing was adjourned until November 3 when police will apply for a criminal Asbo (Anti-social behaviour order) to prevent Lennon attending EDL rallies. Outside court, Lennon said: "It's a fit-up. They are fabricating evidence. I have had ongoing harassment. All this is about getting an Asbo that will ban me from demonstrations and protests. It is meant to be a democracy but this is a stitch-up."

Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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So, there's another conviction for Lennon. I wonder if he'll go on another 'hunger strike'? Here's another wee funny... the EDL really do leave themselves wide open for this stuff.

https://auntiefarr.wordpress.com/2011/09 ... -calendar/

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[align=center]Hartlepool mosque graffiti trio sentenced
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Two men who carried out a graffiti attack on a Teesside mosque have each been sentenced a year in prison. Anthony Smith, 24, and Steven Vasey, 32, of County Durham, had previously admitted conspiracy to commit racially-aggravated criminal damage. Charlotte Davies, 19, of Buckinghamshire, who also pleaded guilty to the same charge, was given a 12-week suspended sentence. They attacked the Nasir Mosque, Hartlepool, in November last year.

Smith, of Neptune Way, Easington Colliery, and Vasey, of Prior's Grange, High Pittington, pleaded guilty during a hearing at Durham Crown Court in August. Davies, of Irving Path, Aylesbury, admitted the charge earlier.

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[align=center]EDL founder Stephen Lennon fails in appeal over Luton brawl
14th October 2011
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The founder of the English Defence League has lost an appeal against his conviction for leading a brawl involving 100 football fans. Stephen Lennon, 28, led Luton Town supporters as they clashed with Newport County fans in Luton, the town's crown court heard.

Lennon, from Luton, was convicted in July of using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour in August 2010. His claim that he was not in the group was dismissed by a High Court judge. A confrontation began ahead of the evening game on 24 August when Newport supporters made a mass exodus from the Bedfordshire Yeoman pub just as 50 Luton fans approached. The trouble involved chanting, missiles being thrown, assaults and damage to property, the court heard.

Lennon was at the front of the group, with others looking to him for leadership, and it is alleged he was chanting "E ...E...EDL" the court was told. Lennon told Mr Justice Saunders: "I was not with the group. There was a lot of shouting and screaming and some fighting but it looked more like 'handbags' to me." He claimed it had all been about England and Wales and that, while he may have made "sheep" insults, he had never mentioned EDL. "It is ridiculous to suggest that, it is just not relevant."

In dismissing the appeal Mr Justice Saunders said: "It must have been a very confusing scene and we are not making any detailed finding on exactly what happened and whether he was the leader of the group or not. We are not saying whether he was shouting about the EDL but on his own admission he was shouting something which was intended to be insulting to the Welsh and he was waving his arms about.

"It is impossible to accept any other intention than to provoke them into fighting. It must have been a frightening scene for anyone to observe."

Luton magistrates had sentenced Lennon to a 12-month community rehabilitation order, a three-year ban from football and ordered him to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work. Lennon is due to be sentenced in November for an assault on an EDL member at Blackburn, Lancashire, in April.

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Once a lying football hooligan criminal, always an EDL twat.

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Fascist EDL thugs attack Occupy Newcastle protestors
30 October 2011
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Fascist thugs attacked Occupy Newcastle protestors camped in the city centre last night. Supporters of the English Defence League, its splinter “Infidels” group and the National Front had gathered in Newcastle city centre earlier in the day in an attempt to harrass and threaten the protestors, who are part of the worldwide Occupy movement campaigning against corporate greed and inequality.

A group of around 20-30 fascist thugs then returned to physically attack the protestors in the small hours of the morning, at around 4am. The protestors were punched and kicked, one was stamped on and bricks were thrown. UAF understands that one protestor was hospitalised.

The attack on peaceful protestors against corporate greed shows the increasingly fascist direction of the EDL and its splinter groups. They are best known for vicious anti-Muslim racism. But in recent months, EDL supporters have attacked trade unionists, socialists, anti-cuts campaigners and other other traditional targets of fascism as well as members of ethnic minorities. EDL thugs even inaded the News From Nowhere radical bookshop in Liverpool.

UAF national officer Martin Smith, who today spoke about the EDL at OccupyLSX outside St Pauls, in London, said the attack showed the danger that the fascist EDL street thugs represent. Martin will speak about the EDL, and how we can counter the racists and fascists, at the Tent City University set up outside St Paul’s between 1pm and 3pm on Sunday. He said: "We need to unite and defend each other from the racists and fascists of the EDL and its splinter groups. They target Muslims and members of ethnic minority groups, left-wing groups, anti-cuts protestors and workers’ organisations. We should all stand together against the EDL – it is the enemy of of us all."

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the true fascist identity of EDL, indeed

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EDL members arrested for planned attack on Occupy protest
Mark Hughes,
11 Nov 2011
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The group of 172 were held inside the Red Lion pub near the Cenotaph in Whitehall after detectives discovered intelligence that they planned to head to the London Stock Exchange occupation. They were arrested shortly after the Armistice Day ceremony and taken to central London police stations in order to prevent a breach of the peace.

The EDL website says that the group planned to travel to London to demonstrate against a proposed demonstration by Muslims Against Crusades. Last year MAC members set fire to poppies. However, MAC was listed as a banned organisation by the Home Secretary Theresa May earlier this week, meaning any MAC demonstration would result in arrest. But many EDL members made the trip to central London anyway. Protesters campaigning against inequality and corporate greed have occupied St Paul's since last month. It is not known why the EDL would want to attack them, however a police source said this was the intelligence officers had.

A source at the Red Lion said officers corralled EDL members into the pub at around 11am in a bid to keep them "in one place". But he said elements within the group later became abusive towards staff, with some allegedly leaning over the counter to steal food. Officers were called back to the premises at around 12.50pm and began to "physically push them out" of the drinking spot, he said.

"Some of the staff aren't English and they were shouting at them, telling them to say 'England is better than where I'm from', and things like that," he said. Another source at the pub said rowdy scenes broke out as supporters were removed from the venue. "They did not want to go," he added. "They resisted to the point they were throwing stools at the police and bar staff. It was not an average working day. The EDL decided to use this as a base. They were not happy that a number of our bar staff were not English." Witnesses said the group was held outside the pub for several hours before being arrested.

Earlier the Metropolitan Police were accused of a heavy handed approach after a series of messages of Twitter appeared in the run up to the 11am two minute silence. The Tweets, from an official Metropolitan Police account, warned that any disruption to the two-minute silence would be "dealt with robustly". And it warned that deliberately using abusive or insulting words or behaviour was an offence under the Public Order Act.

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ASBO Tommy, "Anti-Social Behaviour Order", got it ? Yup, you got it.

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The EDL's facebook page has been hacked by ZHC again... the foamfest is delightful!

https://www.facebook.com/EDL.EnglishDefe ... NS?sk=wall

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'I Was an Asshole'
A Look at Neo-Nazi Germany from the Inside
Julia Jüttner
29th November 2011
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Manuel Bauer was once a neo-Nazi thug, heavily involved in far-right paramilitary organizations and guilty of numerous assaults against foreigners and immigrants in Germany. He has since turned his back on the scene -- but he can still provide a unique inside look. Authorities, he says, have long underestimated its danger.
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He was saved by two Turks, of all people. Manuel Bauer was in prison in Leipzig and had hinted to fellow right-wing extremists that he was thinking about turning his back on the neo-Nazi scene. A short time later in the prison yard, the far-right inmates attacked Bauer and began beating him mercilessly. That was when two Turkish prisoners came to his aid -- and turned Bauer's life around.

Bauer, now 32, comes from the village of Torgau, just east of Leipzig, and was an avowed neo-Nazi for five years. A bear of a man with a shaved head, he was involved in an arson attack on a Turkish food stand and was also feared for his fists. He would often wear a green bomber jacket or a black Harrington jacket along with wine-red combat boots. He says he was "the walking cliché of a skinhead."

Bauer's career as a skinhead began when he was 11 years old. He became friends with a group of classmates who glorified Adolf Hitler and would rail against foreigners in the schoolyard. It was shortly after Germany's reunification, and right-wing extremism, which had remained largely underground during communism, could suddenly come out of the shadows. Across former East Germany, the extremists began finding each other -- and assembling neo-Nazi cliques. At first, they were disorganized and informal, making them largely invisible to law enforcement.

Before long, Manuel Bauer became part of one of these groups, first as just one of many before working his way to the top. His parents, deeply religious Christians, were outraged.

'I Thought I Was a Hero'

Bauer became the leader of a group calling itself "Wehrsportgruppe Racheakt" (roughly translatable as "Revenge Paramilitary Training Group"), and founded a second group with other neo-Nazis called "Association of Aryan Fighters." Each group counted around 30 members, many of them from Torgau, but also from the small town of Loburg further north. "I thought I was a hero," Bauer says today with a deep sigh. "But really I was just a big asshole."

The "movement," as Bauer calls the far-right scene, offered him a home. "I felt free and accepted. My comrades gave me strength, which I then transformed into violence." Emboldened by alcohol and pumped up by right-wing rock music blaring out of the car stereo, he and others would drive through the state of Saxony, attacking foreigners. Clothes flecked with blood were worn with pride, as a kind of trophy.

When he joined the German military in 1997, it wasn't long before he found others who shared his racist view of the world -- including two individuals who, Bauer says today, belonged to the fringes of the Zwickau right-wing terror cell which stands accused of murdering nine immigrants and a policewoman over several years. He declines to offer names. Bauer says he enjoyed his time with a motorized infantry brigade based in the Erzgebirge mountains. "It was a good environment for someone like myself," he says.

During his military service, Bauer learned how to handle weapons -- knowledge which he later passed on to neo-Nazis at a training camp in Ústí nad Labem, a town in the northern Czech Republic. For a year, he taught right-wing militants how to shoot and construct bombs and drilled them in survival techniques. He says that the camp where he worked is far from an anomaly -- there are others in Hungary, Poland, Russia and Romania. They model themselves, Bauer says, after the former camps belonging to the "Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend" (or "Patriotic German Youth"), a right-wing extremist group that gave children and young people military and ideological training until it was banned in 2009.

Support of Sponsors

At the time, Bauer lived almost entirely from welfare, but managed to "earn" a bit of extra cash through his right-wing activities. Extortion was one method. He also became involved in a right-wing group called the "Help Organization for National Political Prisoners and their Families," one of the largest right-wing extremist groups in Germany. It provided assistance to far-right inmates both during and after their prison terms, until it too was banned in September of this year.

But Bauer also says that the right-wing scene enjoyed the support of sponsors. He says that a German brewer "helped finance our political struggle for years" and also supplied them with vast quantities of alcohol. When it came to weapons, only those who had been involved in the scene for years were able to gain access. He claims the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) helped in arms procurement. At the time, the weapons mostly originated in Eastern Europe, says Bauer.

The relationship between paramilitary groups like the ones he was involved with and the NPD party was deep, Bauer says. "The NPD is the company and the (paramilitary members) are the employees," he says. Bauer claims to never have been a member of the NPD himself, but says he got to know many groups associated with the party that excelled at outwitting the German authorities with diversionary tactics.

"The state underestimated right-wing extremism and only focused its attention on the leftist, anti-fascist scene," Bauer says. "But the right is much better organized and structured than the left." And it follows a clear strategy, he says. In an effort to confuse investigators, he says, fictional identities are established as are imaginary mail-order companies and the like -- created for the sole purpose of misleading the authorities. He says that the state likely doesn't know how many paramilitary groups there actually are, nor is it aware how many right-wing radicals operate in the underground. "There are several neo-Nazis whose names are known to the authorities, but who haven't been heard from for years," Bauer says. "They are often pulling the strings in the background."

'Crazy Campaign'

And he himself? Can one spend 15 years as an integral part of the militant neo-Nazi scene and suddenly see the light? Bauer doesn't always have pat answers, and he himself understands the doubts. "My worldview changed eight years ago, but it wasn't until three years later that I was able to succeed in leaving the scene." He says that is now a "convinced Social Democrat," referring to Germany's main center-left party.

His circle of friends, he claims, now includes many of those who he once hunted down: Jews, lesbians, immigrants. "All people who I fought against back then," he says. "Today I am happy and lucky to have such friends." They all know his past, he insists, and they know that, for a time, there was a €10,000 ($13,300) ransom on his head in the extremist scene. Even still, he says, there is a "crazy campaign" against him in right-wing Internet forums.

These days, Bauer lives in southern Germany and helps neo-Nazis find their way out of the far-right scene, just as he was helped by the Berlin-based group EXIT, which for years has sought to assist people who want to leave extremism behind. "Without the people there, I wouldn't have been able to do it," Bauer says. "They clearly showed me that, no matter what happened, they wouldn't leave me on my own."

'Difficult Encounters'

He says that five neo-Nazis in eastern Germany were moved to emulate him and turn their backs on right-wing extremism. It is hard to miss the pride in his voice -- and the yearning for acceptance which led him astray so long ago. Bauer's police record is long -- assault, battery, extortion, the creation of unconstitutional groups, vandalism and property damage. He was sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison. Since his release, he has tried to establish contact with some of those he once assaulted. Many rebuff his efforts whereas others listen to his apologies but find it difficult to accept them. Only very few say they can forgive him.

Just recently, he met with an Indian teenager who was just a child when Bauer brutally attacked him 10 years ago because he didn't look German. He also arranged a meeting with a homosexual businessman who he had extorted and threatened to kill. "They were difficult encounters," Bauer says. Both of them asked him a host of questions. But Bauer was unable to answer.

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EDL’s North East boss Spence jailed for attack on left meeting
2nd December 2011
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The English Defence League’s North East regional organiser Alan Spence has been jailed for his part in an attack on a socialist meeting, along with several of his racist and fascist cohorts. Spence is a leading figure in the EDL – and a key link between the EDL and the British National Party: he stood as a parliamentary candidate for the BNP at the general election .

He was sent down for seven months today, following the attack at the Tyneside Irish Centre, where the Socialist Workers Party was holding a meeting last September. His son, Steven Spence, a former BNP local council candidate, was jailed for eight months for his part in the same attack. In a post on Alan Spence’s Facebook page, his partner Tracy King said: “just letting u no alan got 7 month our son steven got 8 month other 5 lads got jailed aswell”.

Other sentences for the attackers reported on relatives’ Facebook pages include 10 months for Peter Duffy and eight for Barry Keddy. Duffy, part of the same band of EDL thugs, later left to become a well known member of the Infidels/NEI splinter group.

The attack on a socialist meeting shows the thugs are not just racists but fascists too – and that there are few serious differences between the EDL and the NEI, both of whose members were involved as one group at the time. Spence’s record also shows how porous the dividing line between the BNP and the EDL is. He joined the EDL’s forum in September 2009, several months before he stood as BNP candidate in the Newcastle upon Tyne East constituence in May 2010.

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That's good they got reasonable sentences - over christmas too... awww.

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CCTV appeal to find Irish Centre EDL thugs
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THESE six suspects are wanted for a violent attack on political rivals. It happened at The Irish Centre, on Newcastle�s Stowell Street, when the right-wing extremists forced their way in. It turned out their targets, members of the Socialist Workers Party, were not even in the building when the English Defence League were spotted in a nearby pub and officials called the meeting off fearing trouble. But that did not stop a pack of thugs, many wearing EDL hooded tops, from forcing entry, attacking door staff and setting off a fire extinguisher inside the Irish Centre in scenes captured on CCTV.

Northumbria Police released images of the suspects and, as a result of coverage in the Chronicle, nine of those caught on camera were arrested and charged. As reported in Saturday�s Chronicle, six of the gang have been locked up after appearing at Newcastle Crown Court, while three others received suspended jail terms.

However, police are still trying to find six people suspected of being involved in the fracas. Today they renewed their appeal. Det Sgt Rob Ridley led what has been a lengthy inquiry. He said: �We received a good response from the public when we released the images of the men we needed to speak to originally. There are still some outstanding people we need to speak with, and I�d urge anyone who recognises them to get in touch with us.�

He added: �I�m pleased these people have been sentenced for their part in this incident. They all stormed into the Irish Centre, scuffled with two people inside and then left. As a big crowd it was intimidating, and it has been a lengthy enquiry to identify those involved and get them to this stage. There�s no place for any kind of violent conduct, threatening or intimidating behaviour in Newcastle, and we�ll always do all we can to get those involved before the courts. I hope this sends out the message to others that we take this sort of offending extremely seriously and anyone involved can expect to be dealt with robustly by police.�

As previously reported, Peter Duffy, 44, of Elgin Avenue, Seaham; Colin Bell, 36, of St Oswalds Road, Hebburn; Anthony Burn, 48, of Lecondale Court, Leam Lane, Gateshead; Michael Garriock, 23, of Gibson Street, Wallsend; Barry Keddy, 34, of Deneholm, Wallsend; Alan Spence, 46, of Gerald Street, Benwell; Steven Spence, 27, of Wickham View, Denton Burn, Newcastle, and Paul Starr, 45, of Telford Street, East Howdon, North Tyneside, all admitted affray. Nicholas Mills, 25, of Drumaldrace, Blackfell, Washington, and Colin Burton, 28, of Woodhave Court, South Shields, admitted public order offences.

Duffy was jailed for 10 months, Keddy got eight months, Garriock eight months, Steven Spence eight months, Alan Spence seven months and Burton seven months. Burn and Bell were sentenced to three months� imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, with four-week curfews. Starr was sentenced to four months� imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, with a similar curfew. Mills� case was adjourned until later this month.

Robert Adams, defending, said the EDL had targeted the meeting after it was advertised on the internet under the heading �smash the EDL�. Judge Roger Thorn said he was not sentencing the men for their membership of any political party but for the premeditated violence.