Protests break out at Guildhall Square, Portsmouth: part 2
Protests break out at Guildhall Square, Portsmouth: part 2
Transcript
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00:17Why can I talk louder than you Jesus!
00:21And we do know that many of the protests that have taken place are being based on dishonesty
00:27You're a bloody traitor! You're a bloody rapist and a murderer! You're a whore!
00:42Our group were due to actually have our event at 9.15 and I think we got there about 10.05-10.09
00:52and a group of us went on to the Guildhall steps. There was none of the far-right protesters there at that point.
01:00They started coming later but we didn't have a huge turnout for our side, we only had about 50 people.
01:08At a certain point I got the megaphone out and started talking about, you know, we need to focus on the victims
01:19of these three young girls who were killed and I did a thing about, you know, naming them
01:27and giving respect to the community there that actually behaved with such dignity
01:34and announced that we were going to have a one-minute silence.
01:39People started shouting from the far-right groups at me and I actually three or four times said,
01:47you know, if we can have a one-minute silence, please respect it, blah, blah, blah.
01:51And as soon as the one-minute silence started, a number of them started saying things like
01:57we forced them into silence or something, they claimed it was a victory.
02:01And then it was just a torrent of obscenities, you're rapists, you're paedophiles, you're etc, etc.
02:08Every kind of obscenity was being screened at us and specifically at me and this just went out.
02:16I mean, we observed the silence.
02:18There wasn't really anything we could do except we could actually observe the silence, which we did.
02:25And afterwards I tried to point out that when I was speaking that the person who was in custody
02:34was not an immigrant, he's, you know, British born and bred, he's from Cardiff,
02:40that he is, you know, there's no question that there's any kind of Islamist terror association with him, etc.
02:51And we don't actually know what the situation was with him,
02:57although I think most people think it might be some kind of mental health issue,
03:01but there's certainly no evidence to actually associate it with the Muslim community.
03:07And I pointed out that this is being used by people to attack the Muslim community.
03:26Very sad day.
03:28I haven't actually felt that uncomfortable since 1980s when a group got chased out of Dagenham by Combat 18.
03:37And so, you know, really, really miserable experience.
03:43If I walk down Fracken High Street today, I am a foreigner in my own country.
03:49This is my country.
03:51If I go to India or Sri Lanka, I will bow down to their rules.
03:55I respect those people.
03:57They do not respect us.
03:59They do not respect us.
04:00So what have you seen that was disrespectful from them?
04:04Disrespectful? They've taken over the high streets.
04:09We can't have this going on and on in Portsmouth because I think it could actually be very, very dangerous for the city.
04:18The city has always been very good at actually standing up to bigots and racists and Nazis.
04:24And we've got to actually have a call out from community groups, trade unions,
04:31anti-racist activists that I think a number of people in this town just thought the Nazis have gone away and they haven't.
04:38They've just gone underground.
04:39I mean, this is happening up and down the country.
04:42And, you know, it's the old saying about all that is necessary for evil to prevail is that good people do nothing.
04:48And good people have got to get off their butts and get down there and actually say they do not speak for Britain.
05:02We don't care about colour, right?
05:05We don't care if you're black, pink, whatever.
05:08Whatever. We don't care.
05:10We care about our beliefs and how we treat people in public, you know?
05:16Not people's colour.
05:17People come out here thinking we're racist.
05:19We're not racist at all.
05:21That's what people want.
05:23We are not racist at all.
05:25OK?
05:27Do they have a knife?
05:29You know what the police are like.
05:30They worry about us more than them.
05:32They let them go and then we're back here now.
05:36To have a good time, have a peaceful time.
05:38That's what we're here for.
05:39We're here for peaceful protest.
05:40We're not here for violence.
05:41I think the problem with a lot of the people on these protests and that woman
05:45is that they've been getting their information off dodgy sites on the internet.
05:49And that's why, I mean, it's impossible to debate with these people.
05:52You can't have a discussion with somebody whose head is stuck down a rabbit hole.
05:57And this is the problem.
05:58A number of those people on those protests are convinced that the killings of those
06:05three girls were done by a Muslim and the entire media is conspiring to conceal that fact.
06:12And you can't really have a...
06:14It's like trying to have an argument with people who believe in werewolves.
06:17You know, if you actually believe that everybody is telling a lie except people
06:21like Tommy Robinson, there's not a lot you can do.
06:25All we can do is to actually try and stop them in their tracks,
06:29because we can't really have a debate with people like this,
06:32because they're incapable of listening.