Below is a transcription of the images. And the letter Farage wrote.
cornwallresists Cornwall Resists response to Nigel Farage:
Oh dear, we seem to have rattled Farage the fascist.
We’re going to celebrate that as a win!
According to Farage, we’re domestic terrorists who should be proscribed, describing us as “a very violent and dangerous organisation”.
He also claims hundreds of people contacted the venue asking them to cancel his conference, and that we prevented 100 people from attending altogether. If this is the case, we’re very happy with that result. We hope that Carn Brea Leisure centre will think again next time Farage wants to use its premises as a breeding ground for hate. We do not tolerate hate, especially on our turf.
Like most people, we aren’t pacifists - we will defend ourselves and our communities when under attack. As we saw in Plymouth last summer when fascists attacked us for hours with bricks and fireworks, the police do not protect us. We - the people - protect us.
But let’s also be clear - the violence that occurred on Monday night was instigated by the police, Reform-hired security and Reform supporters.
On Monday afternoon we were able to block one of the entrances to the conference. We didn’t try to storm it, we simply stood in the way. Reform supporters didn’t have to walk through us - they could have gone back to the main entrance, which many did. However instead of redirecting Reform supporters back to the main entrance, the police and Reform security tried to get them through our blockade by violently assaulting people, punching people and throwing them to the floor.
Reform supporters were deliberately provoking protesters, getting in their faces and even punching one person in the face. The police did nothing to stop them, so it was down to us to protect our friends and allies. Across the road a Reform supporter spray-painted “Islamism is Nazism”.
Cornwall police: We don’t arrest until a crime has been committed.
Farage: Policing should be preventative, these masked thugs were intent on causing harm.
If they didn’t cause actual harm, sounds like the police did their job. Can’t really prevent your idea of someone else’s intent.
Edit: If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that when a right wing politician rages against “violent protests” with vague language like “someone has had their tooth knocked out”, it’s always one of the protestors who is the “someone” and the police did the knocking.
The QAA podcast (qaapodcast.com) had a good ep on UK politics that discussed Farage last week or the week before. I can’t remember if it was the free ep or the Patreon ep. Worth a listen.
Fascism everywhere, folks. That’s what’s happening.
Good for them
But this really is just them openly admitting to a crime.
The Leisure centre is private property. So they have absolutely no legal right to protest upon that land. And no right to block other access to any land public or private they do not own or rent exclusively.
So they are openly stating that the police had legal rights to remove them and prevent them blocking the fascist sup[porters from entering.
After openly stating that they as non pacifists will prevent political free speech on their turf.
Their accusations against “police, Reform-hired security and Reform supporters.”. Are at best an accusation of undue force in protecting the legal rights of fascist supporters.
While openly declaring a willingness to “we will defend ourselves and our communities” from entirely legal action. So using the threat of force to apply a political motive.
While I openly support the actions. Writing this response seems like documenting their intent to meet the definition of “domestic terrorists”. Openly providing the fascists with all the evidence they need of the orgs attempt and intent.
Your opponent is an arsehole is far from a valid legal defence.
Revolutionary times call for revolutionary action.
And the revolution should not be telivised.
or to screw the quote more. Should not document the evidence to make shutting it down easy.
This might be true, but the legality or otherwise of any particular action is irrelevant, given the unjust nature of the law and its prosecution.
(What, you might not be allowed to associate with other people, attend multiple protests or cover your face, and the police insist upon being allowed to be violent and you can’t respond??? And attempting to stop the rise in fascism, or trying to get somebody to take action on what is unequivocally going to be devastating climate change makes you a domestic terrorist??? I thought I was in a civilised country?)
Your post is so off the mark that it is probably best classed as energy-sapping support of the far right.
Your post is so off the mark that it is probably best classed as energy-sapping support of the far right.
Only if you scan read without paying any actual attention to the comment.
My post is saying posting this response to Far rages attempt to label it as domestic terrorism was stupid. Not the act. I never criticised the actions.
I pointed out documenting the attempt and intent as a nose snub. Is giving Far rage all the ammunition he needs to convince parliament your intentions are to use threat to stop his political opinion.
Being too innocent to recognise when you are giving fascists rope around your own neck is also support of the far right.
Nonsense.
I read your post carefully.
You repeatedly claimed that what people opposed to Farage did was illegal, thus wrong.
One characteristic of fascism, its appeal to the strength of the core group, rather than logic or reason, absolutely underpins the content of your post.
Your post was time and energy wasting support of the far right. Trump does something similar. Throws out a hundred claims that require a huge amount of energy to refute.
Well done, But you won’t waste any more time or energy or mine.
Everything they do keeps getting banned. First you can’t be violent, which is fair. But then you can’t protest certain things, and then you can’t hide your identity, and then you can’t associate with certain people, and then you can’t protest at all and disagreeing with the party in power becomes illegal.
It’s a slippery slope, and not the fallacious kind. The slipping is already happening, and at some point the only way to fight back is illegal.
All true, but none related to this article. As, we have never had the right to protest on private land or block others access. Nothing these people are doing has ever been legal. And nothing the supporters they are stopping is illegal.
Edit: Also, I was not saying don’t do. I was saying, don’t publically document admitting you are doing it. So Far rage has you providing evidence on his behalf.
