Since London Bridge Attack, London Police Arrest More People For "Hate Crimes" Than for Terrorism

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Police "Hate Crime" Table, June, 2016

The London Metropolitan Police announced today that they had arrested 25 people for "hate crimes" since the London Bridge attack. That's far more than they have arrested for terrorism.

Indeed, they state that they have "increased the number of officers on the streets and in communities" for the purpose of identifying hate crimes, as well as directing more resources to encourage mosques and other Muslim bodies to report them.

They do not state the nature of these hate crimes, nor do they confirm that they were all or mostly directed at Muslims. Logically, they could be anything from yelling a racial slur at someone before beating them up to making a Muslim/goat joke on Facebook, or even merely claiming in public that, say, Islam is a dangerous and wicked ideology - the official position of this blog, by the way.

A few days after the Manchester attack, police broke up a garden party. A policewomen called in reinforcements (including a helicopter) after hearing an anti-Osama Bin Laden played on the stereo. Not an anti-Muslim song, but an anti-Bin Laded song.

Needless to say, this is more evidence that the official response to the recent terror attacks in the UK is more of the same thinking that brought on the bloody crisis in the first place - coddling hostile Muslim communities while attacking those who rightly perceive Islam as a threat.

It's as if after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt had bragged about how many people he had arrested for harboring anti-Japanese thoughts.

Statement from Chief Superintendent Dave Stringer, Head of Community Engagement for the Metropolitan Police, about hate crime in the Capital:

“The Met is committed to tackling hate crime in all its forms.

“Year on year we are seeing an increase in all areas of hate crime. This is due to a range of factors - a growing willingness of victims to report hate crime, an overall improved awareness of staff in identifying these offences, and work with partners to support victims. However, we also know world events can also contribute to a rise in hate crime.

“Since Saturday evening's attacks, we have increased the number of officers on the streets and in communities to reassure local people that they are able to go about their daily lives in peace and without fear of harassment or intimidation. Dedicated ward officers have also made contact with their local places of worship to encourage them to report hate crimes and to reassure those who congregate there that the police will take these crimes seriously. The Metropolitan Police has made 25 arrests for hate crime offences since Saturday. 

“Following the terrorist incidents in Europe in recent years, we have anticipated that similar incidents in the UK may lead to a greater need to support those communities that are more vulnerable to becoming victims of hate crime, and we have taken action accordingly.

“We have increased the number of hate crime liaison officers who are a single point of contact for all those who need support after reporting a hate crime and we have introduced an Online Hate Crime Hub to tackle hate crime on social media.

“All hate crimes are reviewed by a Detective Inspector and the MPS has also increased specialist investigators within the 32 London borough community safety units by 30 per cent, with more than 900 specialist members of staff dedicated to investigating all hate crime and domestic abuse crimes.

“We have long since recognised the impact of hate crime on communities and the hidden nature of this crime, which remains largely under-reported. The MPS stands together with policing partners, colleagues and groups to investigate all hate crime allegations, support victims and their families, and bring perpetrators to justice.

“We would appeal to anyone who witnesses or suffers any hate of any type to immediately report it so that action can quickly be taken and catch those responsible.”

Hate Crime can be reported through 999 in an emergency, by dialling 101 in a non-emergency, directly at a police station, through the MOPAC Hate Crime app or through community reporting methods such as Tell MAMA, Galop, or the CST.

Fear, Confusion and Charity (but not Panic) During London Attack - "Hey man, go get me something tough, get me that bat."

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H/t: Vlad Tepes.

So many pictures and videos of the recent spate of terrorist attacks feature people running away, often in what seems to be panic. Of course, simply running is often the best option.

But this new video shows people near the attacks remaining in place (with at least one trying to arm himself), in part, I assume because they don't know which way to run, but also to make sure that others can be warned. A few of the men look almost nonchalant, as if they still don't quite understand what's happening. Or perhaps they feel relatively safe, as they're standing at an intersection of alleys where they might have a clear view of any possible attackers.

We do see a man (a policeman?) trying to quickly move an injured man out of danger, as well as two other policemen tearing down an alley with guns drawn. "Dad, are you alright?" someone shouts. "Are you alright, luv?"

Another man tries to franticly explain what is happening. He speaks in a mixture of English and another language:

"It's a terrorist attack here. These mad people. They attacked people. Look, look at this, brothers. Man, the knife blows he gave to a guy, oh my God. My God, I think I filmed him. He put the knife in his neck. It's three of them. It's three, it's three people, no? Three. Hey man, go get me something tough, get me that bat."

Paul Weston of Liberty GB on Muslim Terrorism: "We should close down every mosque in this country which preaches Salafist or Deobandi Islamic supremacism - which means pretty much all of them."

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Three days before the British Parliamentary elections, the polls and prediction markets indicate that the Conservatives will win a small majority of seats, and Theresa May will remain prime minister.

The prediction markets give Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party a 17% chance of victory.

Other parties, including the Scottish Nationalists, Liberal Democrats and a few others will retain a small number of seats.

UKIP, the "right-wing populist" party credited with passing BREXIT may end up with no seats.

I've argued previously that while Theresa May and the Conservatives might be better than Labour on terrorism (not too hard - Labour is shot through with Marxists, anti-Semites and Islamist sympathizers) the Conservatives bear a large part of the responsibility for the current crisis. All indications are that they still don't "get it." Part of me wants them to lose. They certainly deserve to.

But then, I don't have to live in Britain.

The only party that makes sense on the Islam issue is Liberty GB, lead by Paul Weston.

Right now they have minuscule support, and are focusing on influencing the debate. Any possibility of success at the polls is years away.

Which is symptomatic of the problem. Liberty GB speaks of the "traitor class," but the vast majority of British voters supports the traitor class, at least at the polls.

Weston recently responded to the London Bridge attacks in a six minute video. I happen to agree with every point that he makes. Indeed, it isn't simply agreement but a forecast. Something like the Liberty GB program will eventually be instituted.

Or, rather, it will be instituted if Britain is to avoid civil war, or a slow-motion descent into authoritarianism or sharia, punctuated at increasing intervals by bloody terrorist attacks.

Here is the transcript of Weston's talk, followed by the video:

I've just listened to Theresa May's statement about the Islamic terror attack in London, and it's a load of cowardly, disingenuous rubbish.

She claims she wants to take up the fight against an evil ideology, but the problem is that she won't name it for what it is, which is Islam.

Prime Minister May suggests the evil ideology is Islamism, and is a perversion of Islam and a perversion of the truth.

Well, that's rubbish, Mrs May. The only perversion of the truth is what you and the rest of the Traitor Class continually peddle.

Let's get one thing perfectly clear here: Islam is a violent supremacist political ideology established by the warlord Mohammed in the seventh century, which spread across the globe via violence and terror. And millions of its fanatical followers are now in our country.

I'm not going to talk today about this self-evident truth, nor why our Traitor Class are so keen on avoiding this self-evident truth. But what I will talk about is how we can deal with Islamic terror, and I mean deal with it, rather than doing what Theresa May is doing, which is pretending to deal with it.

One. We should stop all Muslim immigration today, completely.

Two. We should close down every mosque in this country which preaches Salafist or Deobandi Islamic supremacism - which means pretty much all of them.

Three. We should tell the truth about Islam, which means identifying all the calls for violence and terror in the Koran, and then ban the Koran as a book of hate.

Four. We should remove all funding from every public Muslim organisation in Britain.

Five. We should close down every Muslim charity organisation in Britain, many of which - and we don't know how many - are just fronts for terrorist fundraising.

Six. We should stop all further Saudi Arabian funding of Islam in Britain.

Seven. We should intern the thousands of Muslim terror suspects, immediately.

Eight. We should deport all Muslim criminals with dual passports.

Nine. We should close down all Sharia courts.

Ten. We should prosecute everyone who practices honour violence, honour killings and female genital mutilation, and deport the ones who have dual nationality.

Eleven. We should close down all aspects of Sharia finance and all Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, which massively influence our political and media class via the thousands of millions of pounds they bring into Britain. As with most things in life, if you want to know why our Traitor Class behaves as the Traitor Class, it's simply a matter of following the money.

If all of these suggestions were in place in the future and we still suffered from Islamic terror, then the only, and logical response, should then be to deport all Muslims.

Now, liberals would be upset about this, but I think asking Muslims to move to a Muslim country is infinitely more moral than asking the native British to put up with murder and terror on a daily basis, in perpetuity.

After the Manchester bombing Dominic Grieve, the politician in charge of our national security, told us there is nothing we can do to stop every terrorist act. Well, there is actually, Mr Grieve, it all depends on whether you are genuinely serious about halting Islamic terror today and total Islamic subjugation in the future.

It's a trade-off. It's whether or not you want to trade lots of dead Brits against being called a racist and asking Muslims to go back to Islamic countries. You have chosen dead British people rather than be called a racist and rather than deport the people who kill us.

That's your choice. That's why you're a member of the Traitor Class. That's why Theresa May is a member of the Traitor Class. That is why all you do is talk and have words. You need to start putting things into practice. There's no point talking about something that you won't even name as the problem.

We will name it, Liberty GB will name it. If you want to do something about this, then join Liberty GB, because unless you know of another credible party or another credible person who's actually going to stand up and can talk about these things - and one day put them into effect -, then you need to follow us, you need to support us.

So please do support us, because our Traitor Class are simply betraying us, and their words are just words, made all the [more] worse because they still, even now, cannot even name what the enemy is.

They cannot even - and this is so important -, after yet another terrorist attack, you'd think that one of them would stand up and say, look, is there something about Islam - not Islamism, about Islam - that is behind this terror? Is there something in the Koran that suggests or promotes this sort of behaviour?
Well, yes there is, and unless you're prepared to identify it, you're wasting everyone's time, and while you're doing that, everything is getting worse.

Which is why you're called the Traitor Class.

"They stabbed the girl maybe ten, 15 times. She was saying 'help me, help me'."

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Police burst into a pub, shouting at patrons to crouch on the floor

The current death toll from the Muslim ramming and stabbing attack on and around London Bridge stands at 7, with 48 people injured and taken to hospitals.

There are now a number of videos of the attack. Most of them show people fleeing or crouching on the floor at the command of the police. Witness reports also tell of people running in panic and confusion. This witness report is notable in that the speaker claims to have attempted to resist the attackers by throwing items at one of them - pint glasses, bottles, stools and chairs.

From The Telegraph:

One eyewitness, named only as Gerard, told the BBC: "I saw a geezer lying on the floor saying he'd been stabbed

"I saw these three Muslim guys run up and started stabbing this girl. They attacked her and stabbed another guy.

"They started running up the road, stabbed the bouncer at the Tavern.

"I was throwing bottles at them, pint glasses, stools, chairs, but I was defenceless.

"They were running up saying 'this is for Allah'.

"They stabbed this girl maybe ten, 15 times. She was saying 'help me, help me'."

He claimed he had hit one of the attackers on the back of the head by throwing things at him, and was chased, but escaped unharmed.

Gerard Vowls told The Guardian newspaper that he saw a woman being stabbed by three men at the south end of London Bridge. He said he threw chairs, glasses and bottles at the attackers in a bid to stop them.

"They kept coming to try to stab me . they were stabbing everyone. Evil, evil people," he told the newspaper. "I want to know if this girl is still alive. I've been walking around for an hour and a half crying my eyes out. I don't know what to do."

Bartender Alex Martinez said he hid in a garbage bin for a half hour when a man stormed the restaurant where he worked, which was nearly full.

"I saw that man with a knife in his hand and after that a man started screaming so I knew something wrong was happening," he said.

Medics treated the injured near the market as shocked people cried and shouted around them. Police officers yelled at people to run from the area.

Simon Thompson told Sky News that he was just outside Borough Market when he saw crowds fleeing.

"We ran for like 100 meters and then saw loads of police cars turned up and there was kind of a period of quite intense gunfire," he said. "I hid in a restaurant basement for about an hour. ... Police told us to get out and then there was more gunfire."