this happened this summer – I’ve had nagging doubts about posting it as I’ve posted so much other heavy stuff this year but feel it has to be discussed.
during an excellent rave in summer, in a beautiful oxfordshire location I was with a group of friends and even then we could not get away from discussing the bombs and 7/7 and what was going on in our area. I’d already noticed Reading was full of cops these days, and we all thought the only reason this rave hadn’t been busted was because the cops were otherwise occupied in towns and cities.
some of the people in our group lived in the Wycombe/Aylesbury areas and were watching at first hand the tension in the streets; one of the bombers was from aylesbury and chavs tried to burn out his former family house (fucking idiots, it was a terrace and loads of people got evacuated because of it and they also were destroying vital forensic evidence that could be used to track other dangerous terrorists)
as the flames were put out and the cordons raised, the chavs of aylesbury fought each other in the streets along racial lines. But the impression I was getting from what my friends were saying and other posts on SJ and other places is that they were fully enjoying the fight, as if every young man had been waiting for this situation to happen (not suprising as there has always been an amount of racial tension in that area)
but the worst was yet to come. One bloke at the rave said he would fully understand it if a young unemployed white lad strapped explosives to himself, went into the mosque on Friday and blew the lot to kingdom come (or Mecca?) as a reprisal for the 7/7 attacks.
Incidentally although I am Asian (but not a Muslim) I did not even find the comment in the slightest offensive; I could fully understand his emotions in discussing this – I would stress that this guy is not a racist thug (he is a very intelligent man who is a friend of mine and is anti-war / otherwise progressive in his politics), and nor was he volunteering or planning to carry out such an attack!
He did agree that the only net result would be a further deplorable loss of lives and then an escalation of a war over resources into a race war.His impression was that he clearly did not really want such an event to happen, but he wouldn’t be surprised if it did.
And all this came out at a rave where we were all friends and all in a good mood. I dread to think what sort of discussions (or even plans) are happening in less happier places of Britain – and its a stark reminder of how high feelings are running at the moment..
