Demonstrators in Brighton and Hove see off an assortment of racists and fascists led by the King of Conspiracy Theorist, Piers Corbyn
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Bigots & Piers Corbyn Demonstrate Against Drag Queens Reading Stories to Children
There was a demonstration by hundreds of people on Thursday
at Brighton’s Jubilee Library against an assortment of fascists, cranks and conspiracy
theorists who were attempting to prevent drag queen Aida H Dee from reading
stories to children.
They were led by Piers Corbyn who seems to take pride in his idiocy.
Leading chants of ‘your parents were
straight’ and speaking of the New World Order it is clear that Corbyn has become
gripped by a pathology that prevents all rational thought.
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The pervasive idea that gripped the counter demonstrators was
that by being read stories by a drag queen the ‘innocence’ of young children
was being compromised and that they were being groomed.
Hove Bigots Demonstrate
These people have a fear of any sexuality which isn’t
straight and believe that by coming into contact with those who are gay or
transgender children will be contaminated and converted. Simply as a matter of
fact children are sexual beings. They are inquisitive about their own bodies
and that of other children. They will often play ‘doctor’ and play with
themselves. That is a normal part of
growing up. For fascists and racists, children are innocent until they
reach puberty. See Child sexuality.
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The idea that children might experiment with different gender
roles is a threat to those who cannot envisage anything other than male and
female stereotypes. Anyone who has actually had children knows that they like
to experiment in for example dressing up as the other sex or playing different
roles. But for the fascists and the assorted
nutcases who gathered in Brighton and Hove this is a threat, not least to their
own identity.
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Not all those who demonstrated in Brighton and Hove were
fascists but a good proportion were. I received an email a week ago from the
outright neo-Nazi Patriotic Alternative boasting
that
‘Patriotic Alternative has led the
charge to oppose this clear attempt to introduce children to sexualised
material.’
We were accused by them
of being paedophiles (a favourite accusation of neo-Nazis), grooming children and
we were otherwise subject to abuse from these low lives. The irony is that it
is the far right which has always contained within it numerous child abusers and
paedophiles.
Hove Paedophile Woman
This
should be no surprise since authoritarian political movements are a magnet for
those who want to dominate others, including children. It is the Right and
far-Right which have always supported beating children. Of course that was for their
own good! Nothing to do with child abuse or their own sexual proclivities.
The woman in the video
who accused us of paedophilia, was repeating a standard fascist trope belies
the evidence. Below are a few examples.
Child abuse, paedophilia and the far-right
Despite
his claim to campaign against child abuse, no one has been friendlier to
paedophiles and child abusers than Tommy Robinson. Robinson has repeatedly equated
Muslims with child abuse yet the statistics are quite clear. The actual
data shows that the ethnic origins of those convicted of sexual contact
with children are pretty much the same as the ethnic mix of the UK.
What is
clear though is that fascists and neo-Nazis are over represented amongst those
who are convicted. Below are a few examples:
1.
In 2010 Tommy Robinsons friend Richard Price was convicted
of making 4 indecent images of children. Far from condemning Price a campaign
was launched by the EDL for his release. Robinson wholeheartedly
supported Price, claiming he had been “stitched
up” and that “Price has no idea how
they were on his computer.”
Since its formation, there have been at least 20
members and supporters of the EDL convicted of child sexual exploitation
offences. At least 10 of these were active while Robinson was still leading it.
2.
The most shocking case was that of Robert Ewing, who murdered
schoolgirl Paige Chivers. He was later prosecuted for abusing
two other children.
3.
Leigh Mcmillan, a senior EDL figure was sentenced to
17 years after abusing
a 10 year-old schoolgirl 100 times in the mid-1990s.
4.
In 2010, EDL supporter Brett Moses was given a
12-month suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to sexual
grooming.
5.
In 2011 John Broomfield, an active EDL supporter, admitted
20 counts of making indecent images of children. The police found 236 indecent
images depicting children and babies on his computers.
6.
Also in 2011, Michael Coates was charged with a series
of sex offences, including two attempted rapes. He was active
in the EDL splinter group the North West Infidels.
7.
In 2011, a gang of racists attacked Redbridge Islamic
Centre. Elliot Jones, one of the attackers on that day, was convicted
of trying to incite a child into sexual activity.
8.
Mark “Archie” Sleman was an EDL supporter who was active
in London and Exeter. He was imprisoned
for nine years in 1994 for the kidnap and rape of a ten-year-old girl.
9.
In 2012 EDL member Matthew Woodward was charged
with possession of images of children as young as 10.
10.
Michael Kinnear, who was active in the EDL was gaoled
in 2015 after police found images on his mobile of a primary school aged girl
“performing a type of striptease” and in a state of undress.
11. 47 year old Paul Whiteside was given a 10-month jail sentence suspended for two years for abducting a school girl. Whiteside had previously campaigned against ‘Muslim grooming of young girls in Lincolnshire.’
12.
Other EDL child abusers and sex offenders include Bradley
Daniel Alford, Alan
Boulter, Pete
Gillett, Luke
Atkinson, Dean
Chambers and Bruce
Cordwell amongst many others.
13. More recently, Robinson once again found himself allied with a sex offender. In June 2017, he shared a stage with William Charlton at a rally in Sunderland at an event where the sexual abuse of children was the key theme of the speeches. It later transpired that Charlton was found guilty of distributing an indecent photograph of a child.
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I could go on but as I said, fascism attracts people who love
uniforms and worship authority. Children are their ideal targets because of
their vulnerability which is why their accusations of paedophilia are a means
of projecting their own inadequacies onto others.
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However there is also another aspect to this fear of people
who don’t conform to ‘normal’ gender stereotypes.
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As people will know from previous blogs, I do not agree with
much of transgender ideology when it comes into conflict with women’s demands
for autonomy. In particular I find it difficult
to accept the claim that a transwoman is a woman sexually when that clearly isn’t
the case biologically. Likewise I can’t
accept that mere self-definition without more therefore means that a man can
claim to be a woman.
However I have always been clear that we should not countenance
prejudice or discrimination against transgender people. I find it strange that
this debate focuses primarily on transwomen and not on transmen even though the
majority of trans people are the latter. I have no doubt that a section of
transwomen are imbued with what might be called masculinist ideology. For
example the attack
on a group of feminists by transwomen in 2017 in Hyde Park.
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What has though shocked me is that someone who I know as a
gender critical feminist posted to me an article critical of the drag
queen story telling and when
I pointed out the far-right connections she was nonchalant about this.
Last year the Institute of Race Relations published an article
by Sophia Siddiqui arguing that gender critical feminists were peddling a
far right agenda. I wrote
to them at the time saying that they might find that they were embarking on
a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Feminists around Womens Place UK and other gender critical feminists
have a responsibility to clearly and explicitly dissociate themselves from the
fascist inspired demonstrations in Reading, Brighton and Hove and other
places. Otherwise their gender
critical ideology will be seen as nothing
more than an attack on trans people per
se.
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Piers Corbyn
I have a few words to say about Piers Corbyn who I have just
unfriended on Facebook. I sent him a message:
After today I am removing
you as a friend. You have come a long way from a squatters leader and member of
the IMG to someone who demonstrates alongside Patriotic Alternative and
assorted fascists and bigots. I have no idea what has taken hold of you but you
are working with an assortment of cranks and conspiracy theorists. Clearly
socialism and a class analysis play no part in your world outlook or analysis.
From always being an eccentric you have made idiocy your byword.
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I first knew Piers over 40 years ago when he was the leader
of the London Squatting Union as well as a member of the International Marxists
Group. Now he comes across as a deranged conspiracy theorist, a climate denier
and anti-vaxxer who happily works with fascists and other freaks. He has now decided to join these people in ‘protecting
children’. It is true that children do
need to be protected but primarily from Corbyn and his fascist friends.
Hove Paedophile Woman
The irony is that it was the parents of the children who were
taking them to the story time, so it was they who were being accused of being
paedophiles and groomers by these misfits and bigots.
This was undoubtedly distressing to the parents which was why
it was necessary that we outnumbered them. CNN quoted
one parent who had to
pass through a Patriotic Alternative demonstration in Reading:
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Rosie said she was unprepared for the vitriol she
encountered at the library, where protesters waved signs reading "Stop
grooming children" and a line of police officers ushered parents into the
building. At least one mother was crying inside as protesters played the theme
song to British TV show "Jim'll Fix It," whose late host was a notorious child sexual abuser, on loudspeakers outside the
library.
"It was just horrible. I was expecting it to be
a joyous thing, considering it had been Pride a couple of weeks ago in
Bristol." Instead, she said the harassment by protesters was "very
backwards and (I feel) naive to think there's been any progress."
Bigots and fascists chant 'Antifa Out' - an obsession of Trump loyalists and assorted White Supremacist groups
At least one person chanted ‘antifa out’. Antifa being
an anti-fascist organisation that Trump demonised in the United States. These
are the people that Corbyn has decided to link up with. He should remember the saying about those who
lie down with dogs get up with fleas!
Tony Greenstein
