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what is really fucking annoying (more so if you are British Asian) is that the politicians, particularly the last Tory Goverment quietly encouraged all these lads to move to more disciplined following of religion (possibly even against the advice of cops and MI5) because they didn’t like the way Asians were moving away from being “hard working businesspeople” and getting into drugs/partying

during the 90s I lived in Reading which was and still is ethnically as diverse as Luton, exactly the same tensions exist, only reason it doesn’t kick off is because there is more money there…

the worst part of it is the only reason some nations (particularly SE Asia) don’t have race war is because they have much more authoritarian govts, and if people don’t check themselves thats exactly where we are headed in our lifetimes (and I mean the next 5-10 years, not when we are elderly)

I never said anyone (even religious types) shouldn’t protest – simply that it should be limited to a point where it does not cause an actual massive risk of civil disturbances across communities already divided by this war.

After all that protest in your country about the mohammed cartoons (which was stirred up by a right wing Christian newspaper) caused millions of crowns of damage and divided communities – it has taken away money from your public and private sectors, encouraged the people to elect centre right wing govts more hostile to things like Ungdomhuset, was any good whatsoever achieved by this “freedom?”

the reality is in the UK it all goes back to the people, all 30 million or so who are adults – civillians, soldiers and politicians alike. Every adult in this country has blood on their hands, even the supposed “anti-war” protestors, whether or not they even agree with the war. The soldiers may not be “heroes” but the people are even worse as they are making them go there.

In 2000 people in Britain used their “right to protest” to complain because the price of petrol/diesel had gone up. The right wing legitimate parties helped organise this protest, claiming it was due to the (then) more social democratic government imposing high tax levels on fuel, despite the reality being that the tax increases were set up by the conservatives and had stopped increasing in early 2000.

The real reason for the rise in fuel prices was because the OPEC countries had raised their prices as a group. So it was really what made the UK government join with the US to go to war in Iraq, Tony Blair did lie about “weapons of mass destruction”, but TBH I feel if he had had the balls to say to the country “we are going to war to secure oil resources” the British people would still have accepted the war.

I have been in the 1990s involved myself with so called “political activism” in England and I just saw a lot of hipocrisy there – people getting involved in protesting simply because it was “cool” and better than being a football hooligan. here we get people start off as a left wing protester, then go to the right wing, then even support the radical Muslims – whichever one they think produces the best fights. Of course the protest “community” blamed MI5 (our domestic Security Service) and “infiltrators/agents provocateurs” but the reality is the cops stopped doing this sort of stuff in the 1980s – by the 90s it genuinely was burned out drug users and local thugs hijacking the protests.

Perhaps in Denmark and Europe people do not do this sort of treachery, but this is how our “activism” seems to exist in England hence why it rarely achieves anything good. (I deliberately stated England as the other UK nations seem to be better at positive activism!)

Those few activist groups what do achive positive stuff are often smaller, more equal in gender and concentrate more on real solutions (community gardens, bicycle workshops etc) than street protests – which by their very nature create conflict and opposition in the UK, often even amongst people what would normally support the cause – simply because its a small country here and blocking a road makes it difficult for people to get around.