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Thread ID: 10950 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-11-06
2003-11-06 01:34 | User Profile
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[url]http://bnp.org.uk/news/2003_nov/news_nov03.htm[/url]
BNP Support in the Police - More Shocks for Blunkett! 4th November 2003
Politically Correct police chiefs in Oldham threw a fit when one of their officers handed the British National Party a videotape of CCTV and police helicopter video and infra-red footage of the Oldham riots.
Oldham BNP Organiser Mick Treacy, and BNP National Chairman, Nick Griffin, were subsequently filmed by the party's video team commenting on the footage, and the resulting BNP/police video was widely circulated in the town. The key BNP message was that the footage showed how hours of 'softly, softly' policing decisions were the main immediate cause of the riot, as trouble which could have been nipped in the bud by resolute action by a small number of officers was allowed to grow over a period of hours until the escalating violence forced the officers in charge to order their men to start making arrests.
Among the footage are scenes showing Asian rioters firing handguns and barrages of fireworks at police lines, attacks on passing cars with white drivers, the deliberate destruction of CCTV cameras by the mob, and a police informer throwing petrol bombs at officers.
Within days of the BNP releasing the video, Oldham police obtained a High Court injunction to prevent our distributing any more, and even to ban us from reporting on the existence of the video and the legal action against us.
The excuse given was that the distribution of the video could prejudice the trials arising from the riots - not in fact a justifiable reason given that any jurors should have been shown the same footage in the course of their deliberations anyway. Or was the idea to suppress the tape entirely, so that jurors would believe the politically correct fiction created by senior officers in Greater Manchester and Oldham that the riots were the responsibility of the small group of white victims of anti-white racist violence whose actions of self-defence led to them being turned into scapegoats and jailed in order to appease the 'minority' community who in fact were solely responsible for the multi-million pound riots?
Since the reason given for the injunction was the riot trials, however, the police were unable to sustain it once the trials ended. As a result, we are now free once again to release the video. The quality of the original footage - mainly shot at night - is poor, but, even so, it exposes the shocking way in which Politically Correct policing decisions by the Top Brass helped turn a minor incident into one of the worst race riots in British history, and left rank-and-file officers to face potentially deadly danger without the power or the equipment to respond effectively. No wonder that more and more decent police officers - like the one who passed us this tape - are giving up on their overpaid careerist 'superiors' and quietly turning to the BNP!