Far-Right Extremists Chased Through London by Women Dressed as Badgers

[generals3]

You know what, let's see what people think if a left winger gets chased away by an angry mob of right wingers. Sure their costumes were "funny" but this still warrants a nice little night in jail if you ask me.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

You know what, let's see what people think if a left winger gets chased away by an angry mob of right wingers. Sure their costumes were "funny" but this still warrants a nice little night in jail if you ask me.

worth it.

I'd actually welcome right-wingers to pull this crap more often, but they always take themselves so damn seriously.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

You know what, let's see what people think if a left winger gets chased away by an angry mob of right wingers. Sure their costumes were "funny" but this still warrants a nice little night in jail if you ask me.

If the right wing chased the left wing down the street in costumes id vote for them.

This is England mate. We dont have party lines as aggressive and violent as in America in terms of who is "Right" and "Left". Its NOTHING like the political scene in America, which at times makes me think if they were in a room and people stopped looking they would start savaging eachother and gouging eachothers eyes out, its a little scary how feral the rage is between major parties. Its true some of us show such hate toward fringe parties, but its far between and less to do with what is "Right and left" and more to do with who spouts racist/homophobic bullshit regardless of left and right. Which they have every right to say without receiving violence yes.

We dont have "Libtards" and "Tea partiers" and the vitrol between our major parties and wings seems forced at the worst of times since ALL our major parties are aligned on social issues anyway. That removes most of the hate. I mean how can we take our politics so damn seriously with people like Borris around (who is a fucking legend dont get me wrong). We certainly dont find things amusing because it happens to someone on "The other side" thats an attitude i have NEVER encountered in England EVER (Except for thatcher, but that was weird shit right there, less to do with party lines and more to do with a negative cult of personality? A cult of hate? It was really bizarre at any rate). We find things funny because we generally dont give give much of a fuck about politics until Brian May and Badgers are involved.

Dont try and draw weird battle lines in the UK between liberals and conservatives. Fuck me sideways our government is currently a liberal/conservative conjoined force today (I mean seriously thats weird and shit). The violence against the BNP is pretty terrible though. Chasing someone in a suit in my opinion isnt a crime, even if youre yelling stuff. Hitting someone most certainly is. Free speech and all that stuff, running down the street in whatever attire i see fit shouting whatever i see fit is fine as long as i dont actually start hurting anyone. And the videos ive seen dont have the badgers hurting anyone. So THAT'S still funny in my book. The people beating on the BNP? Not funny at all. Cant argue against jail for them.

The real hatred is between the majority and fringe groups. Thats the dangerous stuff. Dont equate it to right and left. Thats what i think is potentially dangerous.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

snipperdesnipperdesnip

I gotta second that, the Netherlands have about 11 major parties in parlement who fluctuate between left and right from term to term, and those are only the major ones.
On the other hand, american politics are more fun to watch, way more dramatic, bombastic even.

 

[UltraPic]

Exactly what is wrong with Britain. No rights if you are obeying the law, but we must protect the robber from the people they are robbing.

So you are allowed to torture people then?.

 

[fix-the-spade]

The EDL haven't been having the best time of it lately. Last week they were defeated in English way possible

Now they've been thwarted by massed ranks of furries, doesn't get anymore embarrassing than that.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

The EDL are ludicrous and the BNP are far worse because they actually (if somewhat hamfistedly) try to engage politically but they do have a right to march. Which is probably why 58 people, more than the entire EDL/BNP "march", were arrested. Odd that these 58 people decided to fight "close mindedness" by attempting to deny a group their right to peaceful protest.

All in all, in modern society, I am far more concerned about enforced political "left wing liberalism" and its attendant desire to censor, bind with law and bully through tax on the grounds something is the "right thing to do" that a bunch of fat, drunken would be fascists.

I dont think the majority of the public could NAME a far left group in the UK. I dont really hear of them or from them pretty much ever. They are quiet. So naturally they attract less vitrol. The UK communist party for example has almost nothing of note to talk about in the public eye. Everyone remembers Nick Griffon from question time though.

Youre right about them being less scary than people make out though. Seriously these people are not a threat, and hitting them makes you an asshole. We should be harsher on offenders, our nation should defend ALL its citizens. Im worried the idea of "If i hate something i break it" becomes more common in the UK. We already had the riots. Its not productive at all.

In all fairness i have NO love for either "wing" in the UK. Id find this equally funny no matter who was in the role of chaser/chasee because the roles are so bizarre.

 

[lacktheknack]

You know what? Story aside, the headline is just AWESOME.

This.

There's a lot to be said about censorship, double standards, and social protesting.

But sometimes, all you really want to do is laugh for hours at a bunch of people being chased down the street by a bunch of women in badger costumes.

Led by Brian May.

Awesome.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

In all fairness i have NO love for either "wing" in the UK. Id find this equally funny no matter who was in the role of chaser/chasee because the roles are so bizarre.

If you were being chased by a mob of what looked like the bastard offspring of a furry con and the Kiss Army you'd probably leg it, too.

I know I would. That or I'd just say to myself "Yep, you're having another psychotic break," light up a smoke and try to puzzle out why I'd be having a graphic hallucination about Brian May and a bunch of anthropomorphic badgers chasing me. I'd probably giggle a bit, too.

Also, the gauntlet has been thrown down. Now the next time the EDL and/or BNP want to hold a rally they're going to have to do it dressed as kittens or otter pups.

 

[CriticalMiss]

I had nothing to do with this. *hides badger hat* Nothing at all...SAVE THE BADGERS! *guitar solo*

Pretty cool that more people show up to save our critters than to be racist twats. But it's a shame that the government won't give a shit even if King of the Badgers Brian May promised to do a continuous Queen concert for the rest of time at the steps of Parliament.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Also, the gauntlet has been thrown down. Now the next time the EDL and/or BNP want to hold a rally they're going to have to do it dressed as kittens or otter pups.

They could dress up as Hitler cats. Or maybe Skaven.

 

[TheMyffic]

I guess from now on I'm just going to assume your illiterate. Perhaps you need to remember that violence is defined as :Violence is the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against a person.

Thus chasing someone is a violent act.

"Smash the cull! Smash the BNP"
Yes no suggestions there.

It's not assault, it's just badgering

 

[Jacques Joseph]

I saw this earlier today, and at first I assumed I was hallucinating from sleep-deprivation.

Sometimes, being British is awesome. This is the kind of craziness that makes life fun - Brian May leading a bunch of cos-playing Badger-people in a charge against bigoted idiots who turn and flee...you honestly could not make that up.

This has been a great week for awesomeness and restoring one's faith in humanity, as not only is there the above, but:

http://www.upworthy.com/a-brave-fan-asks-patrick-stewart-a-question-he-doesnt-usually-get-and-is-given-a-beautiful-answer

Yup. Awesome week.

OT and this. Two doses of awesome to make my day, week, possibly month. I thank you.

 

[Gilhelmi]

Exactly what is wrong with Britain. No rights if you are obeying the law, but we must protect the robber from the people they are robbing.

So you are allowed to torture people then?.

No. Where did that question come from? I am just opposed to any attempt to suppress the free expression of speech/religion/press. I consider myself someplace borderline independent with some views leaning both ways (hehe, I go both ways, dang it is that late).

In America, I can legally shoot someone who is in my home illegally. Everyone is armed (unless you have no arms). Some people forget that mankind was killing long before the gun, long before the sword, long before the pointy stick. Heck, an "unarmed" person can be just as dangerous as any armed robber, and even if you ban everything pointy I think the number assaults would be the same or higher (just my opinion).

In Britain, There is a man sitting in prison for defending himself and the criminal is suing that man. In America, street riots are tampered by the fact that a store owner can shoot you if you break into their store. In Britain, street riots still go on strong costing millions of pounds sterling.

 

[Thaluikhain]

In Britain, There is a man sitting in prison for defending himself and the criminal is suing that man. In America, street riots are tampered by the fact that a store owner can shoot you if you break into their store. In Britain, street riots still go on strong costing millions of pounds sterling.

Er, lots of people in the US have been imprisoned for self-defence.

"Stand your ground", for example, doesn't count if a judge decides it doesn't. There's that woman that fired a warning shot in her garage to stop her abusive husband murdering her, for example (just after Martin, when everyone was talking about "Stand your ground"), the judge said it didn't count, as she could have run away.

 

[Gilhelmi]

In Britain, There is a man sitting in prison for defending himself and the criminal is suing that man. In America, street riots are tampered by the fact that a store owner can shoot you if you break into their store. In Britain, street riots still go on strong costing millions of pounds sterling.

Er, lots of people in the US have been imprisoned for self-defence.

"Stand your ground", for example, doesn't count if a judge decides it doesn't. There's that woman that fired a warning shot in her garage to stop her abusive husband murdering her, for example (just after Martin, when everyone was talking about "Stand your ground"), the judge said it didn't count, as she could have run away.

Bad Judges happen. I would wager that she would win on appeal.

Stand your ground is still the law, Is there a law punishing judges for ignoring or changing the law?