Reality check

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/12/breaking-tommy-robinson-attacked-by.html


Tommy Robinson, head of the English Defence League, was waylaid and severely beaten by a group of Pakistanis shouting, "Allahu akhbar" and "Merry Christmas, Tommy." He was in the hospital for a brain scan and has been released. Gates of Vienna has the story and photos of Robinson's badly bruised face, though details are still scant.


Despite the fact this would probably constitute whatever equivalent we have for a hate crime and this is an individual of nominal political significance he media is unlikely to even run a story on it. Goes to show this is serious business doesn't it? People keep saying that this is the sort of thing that gets people to sympathise with us; Tommy seemed like such a nice chap with his protestations of peace and his condemnation of this that and the other. You have that incident when an EDL woman was set upon by a group of antifascists alighting a bus that had bricks thrown at it - all passengers arrested. Many are under the impression that mounting injustice is what is needed to win, this has been BNP policy for a long time.

you are all wrong. Being a victim never helped anyone -it is sad, but not inspiring, and have we all not heard the story before that the British people would be receptive to a non extremist far right party- low and behold this arrives in the form of the EDL and that line was quickly dropped.

You need to face facts that nobody will ever like what you do until the shoe is on the other foot. Being a victim is nothing to be proud of, it is an embarrassment, it is a representation of weakness. As a christian organisation the EDL should know that an enemy cannot be defeated one handed; that the Shield arm the martyrs of Christ only have meaning because the strength of the sword arm made all that suffering and resistance a means to obtain an end.

Gandhi was able to wage his programme of non-violent resistance because he was able to offer a human wall of flesh - the only weapon available to him against the bullets, to make his people suffer like christ on the cross and run the streets with their blood until the moral weakness of the British establishment tired of the slaughter. The challenge we face is that not only does our enemy consider us non-humans fit for genocide and and secretly applaud when one of our own falls, - to degrade a great people when there are hardly any of us, and just send them like goats to the slaughter is not an option, and goes against our whole mentality.

Only a movement of strength lives in appreciation for the task of survival and the victory that will come. Only when you establish a power relationship with your enemies do you exist in a state of struggle and have any bargaining power.

Our people don't think emotionally or spiritually in that way, for us, strategy is a matter of constitution, of numbers, opportunities, and most of all strength in relation to the adversary - what I propose is coming to the game with a game plan to inspire the confidence we need.