The Ungovernable Farce
14th August 2009, 18:14
You've declared that you intend to "kettle" the BNP tomorrow. Leaving aside the question of why you see the Metropolitan Police as a good example to emulate, I'd like to know:
1) Do you actually think it's likely that the police will allow you to physically kettle the site, especially bearing in mind that they've announced "the people attending Red, White and Blue have a right to do so in peace and safety" (link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/8201022.stm))?
2) If you agree that the police won't willingly allow you to block the exits from RWB, do you intend to try and break through their lines? How likely do you think you are to succeed in this?
3) If you don't intend or expect to break through the police lines, and agree that the cops won't allow you to kettle the BNP, why have you called on people to do something that you know isn't going to happen? Isn't this both fundamentally dishonest and tactically unwise, since it's setting yourself up to fail, so when the festival remains unkettled, the fash can have a good laugh about how the reds can't even live up to our own rhetoric?
4) If you do actually manage to block the exits from the site, how long do you plan to stay there for? Surely, to cause serious inconvenience to people at a weekend-long festival, you'll need to carry on blocking the exits until people are leaving on Sunday night? Trapping people in a space where they want to be anyway does nothing to bother them, so if you only surround it when people aren't planning on leaving then you're not really affecting it in any way.
5) Seriously, wtf?
1) Do you actually think it's likely that the police will allow you to physically kettle the site, especially bearing in mind that they've announced "the people attending Red, White and Blue have a right to do so in peace and safety" (link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/8201022.stm))?
2) If you agree that the police won't willingly allow you to block the exits from RWB, do you intend to try and break through their lines? How likely do you think you are to succeed in this?
3) If you don't intend or expect to break through the police lines, and agree that the cops won't allow you to kettle the BNP, why have you called on people to do something that you know isn't going to happen? Isn't this both fundamentally dishonest and tactically unwise, since it's setting yourself up to fail, so when the festival remains unkettled, the fash can have a good laugh about how the reds can't even live up to our own rhetoric?
4) If you do actually manage to block the exits from the site, how long do you plan to stay there for? Surely, to cause serious inconvenience to people at a weekend-long festival, you'll need to carry on blocking the exits until people are leaving on Sunday night? Trapping people in a space where they want to be anyway does nothing to bother them, so if you only surround it when people aren't planning on leaving then you're not really affecting it in any way.
5) Seriously, wtf?