-:Undertaker:-
01-05-2010, 05:05 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270230/Pensioners-red-white-blue-election-protest-poster-branded-racist-police.html
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A pensioner who put up a red, white and blue election poster telling voters to kick out MPs was accused of racism by police. After being inundated by canvassing politcians, Roy Newman, 74, decided to tell other voters: ‘GET THE LOT OUT.’ But 90 minutes after he put up the homemade sign up in an upstairs room at his house, two police officers arrived and threatened with arrest. They said the Union Jack-coloured lettering on a white background could be considered 'racist'. He was told there had been a single complaint and he was ordered to remove it or change it otherwise he would end up in court .
But the former Tory councillor, from North Anston, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, said police had misunderstood his message. He said : ‘My sign is up there because the MPs and council leadership we have in place at the moment are a load of rubbish and I want them out, nothing more. ‘The police told me that due to the fact that the words were written in red and blue and the background was white, my sign had racist connotations. ‘What a load or rubbish - it certainly wasn't my intention to come across as racist. I'm not racist.’ And the furious pensioner , chairman of his local history society and a former Samaritan , slammed police for wasting their time. He said : ‘Three years ago vandals put a brick through my window and when I called the police all they offered me was a crime reference number.This is the sort of country we now live in under this Labour government which has eroded civil rights and liberties, and only allows freedom of speech provided that it fits with their views. Even if this sign had meant to be in relation to immigrations I dont see why or how the police have anything to do with this because its not their house, its a private property which has a sign in its windows which is not rascist at all because it doesnt refer to skin colour (which of course is cheap of the police anyway because they have a Black Police Officers Association). The police have become poilitical now and dont solve real crime, they serve the government to impose the way the government thinks we should run our lives/what we should say.
I've always noticed;
The Police call people like this man racist, yet have Black Police Officers Association.
The Labour Party call the BNP racist, yet have all-black/asian candidate shortlists.
The Conservatives call UKIP racist, yet also have all-black/asian candidate shortlists.
The UAF calls the BNP fascist, yet wants the BNP to be gagged/banned.
Anybody else see the hypocrisy in all of this(?), add this to the fact from what Hitman posted before which is a case about a Muslim man writing on a war memorial 'Islam will dominate the world' yet is let off the hook by the ever-increasingly political courts.
Thoughts?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/01/article-0-095F4403000005DC-83_468x623.jpg
A pensioner who put up a red, white and blue election poster telling voters to kick out MPs was accused of racism by police. After being inundated by canvassing politcians, Roy Newman, 74, decided to tell other voters: ‘GET THE LOT OUT.’ But 90 minutes after he put up the homemade sign up in an upstairs room at his house, two police officers arrived and threatened with arrest. They said the Union Jack-coloured lettering on a white background could be considered 'racist'. He was told there had been a single complaint and he was ordered to remove it or change it otherwise he would end up in court .
But the former Tory councillor, from North Anston, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, said police had misunderstood his message. He said : ‘My sign is up there because the MPs and council leadership we have in place at the moment are a load of rubbish and I want them out, nothing more. ‘The police told me that due to the fact that the words were written in red and blue and the background was white, my sign had racist connotations. ‘What a load or rubbish - it certainly wasn't my intention to come across as racist. I'm not racist.’ And the furious pensioner , chairman of his local history society and a former Samaritan , slammed police for wasting their time. He said : ‘Three years ago vandals put a brick through my window and when I called the police all they offered me was a crime reference number.This is the sort of country we now live in under this Labour government which has eroded civil rights and liberties, and only allows freedom of speech provided that it fits with their views. Even if this sign had meant to be in relation to immigrations I dont see why or how the police have anything to do with this because its not their house, its a private property which has a sign in its windows which is not rascist at all because it doesnt refer to skin colour (which of course is cheap of the police anyway because they have a Black Police Officers Association). The police have become poilitical now and dont solve real crime, they serve the government to impose the way the government thinks we should run our lives/what we should say.
I've always noticed;
The Police call people like this man racist, yet have Black Police Officers Association.
The Labour Party call the BNP racist, yet have all-black/asian candidate shortlists.
The Conservatives call UKIP racist, yet also have all-black/asian candidate shortlists.
The UAF calls the BNP fascist, yet wants the BNP to be gagged/banned.
Anybody else see the hypocrisy in all of this(?), add this to the fact from what Hitman posted before which is a case about a Muslim man writing on a war memorial 'Islam will dominate the world' yet is let off the hook by the ever-increasingly political courts.
Thoughts?