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Thread #122789   Message #2699468
Posted By: Fred McCormick
13-Aug-09 - 12:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Folk against Fascism @ Codnor
Subject: RE: BS: Folk against Fascism @ Codnor
I strongly suspect that livication is a troll attempting to stir things. Since the camp is on private land, I doubt they need the permission of anyone to hold it. And the BNP would just love a load of trouble from our end. They would revel in it. It would be playing right into their hands.

What's more, if you go into Google Maps and look for Codnor Denby Lane, Ripley, Derbyshire DE5, you will see that the only access to the farm is down an easily blockable narrow lane and the police are not going to let anyone near it.

However, a peacful protest in Codnor will help to alert the country to the danger of the BNP. It will also confine the BNP to the site for the duration of the protest. What's more some of their members will be staying bed and breakfast in the area, while others will be going down just for the day, and still others will be looking to eat out in Codnor or Ripley. Therefore, by using sensible tactics we stand to cause the BNP a major inconvenience.

On the other hand a non-peaceful protest will simply alienate people. Turn this thing into a punch up and the good folk of Codnor will simply end up wondering what the difference is between the BNP and us.