Friday 22 February 2013

REACTIVE ACTIVISM

I heave recently been thinking about some of the activities I've been involved in, hell some I even organised. I have been to demos arranged weeks or even months in advance, with hundreds of participants in attendance, and the flags of our nation flying proudly in a sea of red white and blue. But the more I think of it, the more I believe that the hastily organised flash demos with only a handful of hardcore White Nationalists, were so much more fun. I remember a good friend and comrade phoning me one Thursday afternoon. There was to be a march through Redhill in Surrey, by Muslims celebrating the birthday of Mohamed. On Easter Sunday of all days!

We put word out that we were going to hold a peaceful protest, and asked for others to attend. Unfortunately this being a bank holiday and such short notice, there was but a handful of us. But we had plenty of banners, and a nice big flag, which was tied to the barrier the police had insisted we stood behind. 

Pretty soon, led by the local imam and his good mate George Galloway, about five hundred Muslims marched past us on the other side of the road. The police told us that as there were only two of them and we were so terribly outnumbered, they couldn't "guarantee" our safety. Like they ever could huh?

Later I was interviewed by the local paper, the reporter promising not to slag us off if I put our side forward, which I did. Low and behold we actually got a good write up in the 'Local Rag'. The only thing I wasn't totally happy with was that he called us " The far right".

The point I'm trying to make, is that it doesn't matter how many people turn up, or how many of the snooty types scoff at our lack of numbers. Standing out in the rain on a Sunday afternoon, being sworn at and threatened by five thousand Muslims and their assortment of unwashed white friends, made an impact, and that is all we needed to do that day, it is all any of us ever need to do.

There was never going to be a lot of us in Redhill that day, for many reasons, and only one chap braved it from London.  But the fact we were there, they could see our banners and flags, and they could see that we had our heads held high. Of course members of other groups, along with various red organisations scoffed at our efforts, but I wouldn't change a thing. That was real reactive activism, I'd do it every week if I could.

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