Fascist Scum Attack Elderly Left-Wing Activist

[Left Leanings]

Fascist shite have attacked a pensioner, who was involved in a left-wing paper sale:

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/9678991.Pensioner_head_butted_in_extreme_right_win g_thug_attack/

Here is another link to the story:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/04/495568.html

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

Because he handed out leaflets that encouraged anti-fascism and anti-bigotry they assaulted him? What a bunch of cowards (being a Nazi is a cowardice act nonetheless) to attack a 69 year old man!

[Niall]

cowardice of the highest order

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

What a cowards!

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

...just disgusting; politically motivated violence / attacks are never pretty but to gang up on a defenceless elderly man...fucking fash bastards!!! Wish I could be articulate in my outrage but just...FUCKERS!

[NoPasaran1936]

You'd think the EDL, being y'know not fascist and all that shiz, would help them! No.

This proves they're fascist without debate. Attacking the weak first...

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Mr Smith said: "They were shouting something about Brighton and accused us of attacking women and children."

Yeah because anti-fascists are the ones who attack women and children, especially the elderly ones. :rolleyes:

[TheGodlessUtopian]

...ideological attacks: I can't say I would shed a tear if a leftist attacked an old Fascist organizer.

[Bostana]

WOW

How pathetic. This is how they're gonna prove that they're tough? By beating up some old man that disagrees with them? Just Pathetic

[Zav]

...ideological attacks: I can't say I would shed a tear if a leftist attacked an old Fascist organizer.
I really really want to agree, but I don't. Even if they're Fash, attacking the defenseless is dishonorable. We can stomp old Nazis in chess and debate, instead.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I really really want to agree, but I don't. Even if they're Fash, attacking the defenseless is dishonorable. We can stomp old Nazis in chess and debate, instead.

I am just looking at it from the perspective of activism in politically receptive areas: if you are going to spread propaganda than be prepared for anything regardless of your age,disposition,or affiliation (is what goes through my mind whenever I participate in any kind of action).

[Proukunin]

I really really want to agree, but I don't. Even if they're Fash, attacking the defenseless is dishonorable. We can stomp old Nazis in chess and debate, instead.

I wouldn't be honorable to a Fascist even if he's 90. He wouldn't deserve respect or honor.

Not saying i'd go out and look for old fascists and beat them..but if one came at me with some bullshit i'd lay one on him. Cause he's still my enemy.

[Zav]

I am just looking at it from the perspective of activism in politically receptive areas: if you are going to spread propaganda than be prepared for anything regardless of your age,disposition,or affiliation (is what goes through my mind whenever I participate in any kind of action).
Indeed one should be prepared like that, but the elderly could be senile, and then it isn't really fair.


I wouldn't be honorable to a Fascist even if he's 90. He wouldn't deserve respect or honor.
Not saying i'd go out and look for old fascists and beat them..but if one came at me with some bullshit i'd lay one on him. Cause he's still my enemy.
They might not deserve it, but they'll get it from me. I'm rigid about my honor. I understand your position of wanting to knock his dentures out, but it isn't for me.

[tachosomoza]

What the fuck, you wouldn't take action against an elderly bigot spreading propaganda supporting violence? Their ideological ancestors (Hitler, Goebbels, Rohm, etc.) didn't discriminate against whom they sent to the gas chambers or to the firing squad by age. As a matter of fact, since the elderly were less productive, they often shot them straightaway. No sympathy for old fascists, if we had sympathy, Nazi war criminals would be basking in the Argentine sun unscathed for their crimes against humanity. Fuck them.

[Zav]

What the fuck, you wouldn't take action against an elderly bigot spreading propaganda supporting violence? Their ideological ancestors (Hitler, Goebbels, Rohm, etc.) didn't discriminate against whom they sent to the gas chambers or to the firing squad by age. As a matter of fact, since the elderly were less productive, they often shot them straightaway. No sympathy for old fascists, if we had sympathy, Nazi war criminals would be basking in the Argentine sun unscathed for their crimes against humanity. Fuck them.
Action doesn't necessarily mean violence. I might threaten hir, but being that old knocking him over could be fatal. That wouldn't just blow over. "Local Anarchist Kills Elderly Man" would shout the right-wing news. I'd certainly disrupt hir campaign or issue counter-propaganda.
Also, do you expect me to stoop to the Nazis' level? Furthermore, there's a big difference between spreading leaflets and operating a concentration camp. The latter do not deserve mercy, no matter their age.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I don't think people should attack the elderly, period. I don't know.......maybe because they are old and fragile.

If a leftist knocks some sense into a young fascist, I wouldn't have a problem. But attacking any really old person is cowardly, because you know they won't really be able to fight back.

[tachosomoza]

Action doesn't necessarily mean violence. I might threaten hir, but being that old knocking him over could be fatal. That wouldn't just blow over. "Local Anarchist Kills Elderly Man" would shout the right-wing news. I'd certainly disrupt hir campaign or issue counter-propaganda.
Also, do you expect me to stoop to the Nazis' level? Furthermore, there's a big difference between spreading leaflets and operating a concentration camp. The latter do not deserve mercy, no matter their age.

The ideology is the same. The street level leaflet distributing pensioner for the EDL or BNP or KKK or ANP would have aided and abetted the concentration camp operators and violent boneheads, so there is no distinction in my mind between the two. Both are as deadly.