EDL in Manchester, March 2nd

[dazdon]

I would rather have the likes of the EDL in the public eye than being banned and driven underground. The only attention they get is from the lot who turn up to oppose them. Its a bad path to go down by denying someone free speech it only results in bombs and bullets.

That in my opinion is 100% the right way to think about it.<br /><br />-- Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:35 pm --<br /><br />

You claim the UAF are hypocrites, I dare say they are but the EDL are fascists.

Now, I've been a bit of a hypocrite from time to time as has everyone I have ever known. I've never been a fascist though.

I DO think that some members of the EDL are fascist and they are not right minded people.

But the way these tossers follow the EDL around like lapdogs preventing them from spreading their word is also worthy of disdain.

You're perfectly within your rights to be a hypocrite as long as you don't use violence to support that hypocrisy. The UAF are not holier than thou and they should allow the English public the right to make their own decisions without them policing it.

Most English people would shrug and mutter "nutters" in my opinion.

Most English people don't really care for the EDL either.

You seem to be focussing on the far lesser of the two evils.

I am because.....to be better than them you have to show yourselves to be better than them.

 

[tidyman]

I would rather have the likes of the EDL in the public eye than being banned and driven underground. The only attention they get is from the lot who turn up to oppose them. Its a bad path to go down by denying someone free speech it only results in bombs and bullets.

Whilst I agree that they should be entitled to voice their opinions in the name of free speech, I'm not sure exactly what driving them underground means?

I reckon if you took away the people whose sole interest in the EDL is an excuse for bit of a piss up and a chance to sing Engerland at passing foreigners on an otherwise boring Saturday afternoon, you'd be able to hold their rallies in a phonebox.

Is there a reliable figure to the sort of numbers that are actually members?