Hugely positive crowd that outnumbered the racists by a vast majority. I had loads of great interactions with folks and got to pet a lot of puppers.

The PSNI were going through the crowd threatening people wearing face masks with made-up threats that they should remove them if they didn't want to become suspects in future investigations around civil unrest. There never was any unrest among the anti-racist crowd.

Meanwhile many on the racist side of the protest were fully masked – hoods up, full face coverings, sunglasses. I spoke to a PSNI officer who was asking us to unmask why they weren't asking the racists to do the same and he said they'd look into any reports. No they fucking didn''t – I pointed out 3 people I could see from my limited view on the ground with their faces fully covered. No PSNI officers going down amongst the racists demanding they take off their scarves.

They were also going through the crowd looking for an excuse to arrest anyone vaguely supportive of Palestine Action and made a number of arrests. While on the racist side of the protest there were a number of individuals who are actual members of proscribed organizations that have murdered British citizens and waged a campaign of terrorism here.

They had the armoured Land Rovers out with the roof-mounted cameras all pointing towards the anti-racist protest. I didn't see a single PSNI vehicle surveilling the racists.

I'm not some Antifa super-soldier anarchist warrior who wants to abolish the peelers. I generally feel they do their best, but lads youse really didn't come across well today.





by rebelprincessuk

10 comments

  2. Putrid enforcement orders from a supposedly left wing government across the pond.

    I’m going to point out something to everyone on both sides I’m sure you are all very aware of but every rally the van comes out with the camera and facially records every single one of you. That’s why they want your face coverings off.

    Not many countries would try to enforce this type of monitoring. It’s a disgusting breach of privacy that the government will not let you protest without recording the fact that you protested.

    As someone that’s lived overseas the majority of their life I’m not letting any government start recording who or who I don’t support. That’s putrid.

  5. lol. Trip report means a different thing in the US.

  6. What were the racists shouting?

    Just wanted to know what a racist or a nazi is now because over 2000 people attended a protest in Ballymena because nearly everyone had kids or family members that had been harassed by a Roma gang which could do whatever they want on the streets of Ballymena.

    And if that’s racist then I’ll just wait until it happens someone you all know so you become racist too.

  7. Glad it passed off peacefully. Why is the march carrying Palestine and Trans flags though? Always found this counter productive. A protest should be a single issue, not a blending of all the trendy ideologies. It removes impact from the main issue and dilutes the others. It seems that counter protests don’t really truly know what they’re protesting against. Just my opinions as an outsider looking at both sides slightly bemused. Same as people flying Israel flags at protests, it just winds up the other “side” and turns the whole thing into a laughing stock.

    What is hoped to be achieved? The opposing side are convinced that they are also right. Standing shouting at each other will have no real world impact on the things that both sides actually purport to care about. Protesting outside occupied government buildings would make more sense.

    Who pays for and supplies the branded flags, posters etc? That’s the other thing I’ve noticed again and again. Other protest use the back of an amazon box and a marker.

  8. Gotta start getting PA systems instead of hard to make out megaphones

  9. The same people who loudly preach about ‘being welcome here’ are often the first to complain when local resources—like healthcare or housing—aren’t available for themselves. The reality is that every person, whether local or foreign, is direct competition for those resources. The poor will complain, while the more mobile and well-off quietly create safe, exclusive communities—kept that way by high property prices. If this comment upsets you, that’s not my intent. I grew up in poverty myself, and I know first-hand that the only true escape from working-class struggles is to remove yourself from them entirely.

  10. Have sad acts nothing better to do on their Saturday afternoon than to bus people into a city centre they’re not from, to protest about a country thousands of miles away, which will do absolutely nothing in the broader view of things.. it’s beyond sad now.

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