Liverpool police postpone Everton match in reaction to communist threats
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http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6139 in that city in response to threats from an extremist Communist demonstration scheduled for March 14.
“This is a huge insult to Everton fans and to the BNP,” said Simon Darby, BNP deputy leader and press spokesman, in his response to the news.
“It is a massive overreaction. Why can these two events not co-exist?” Mr Darby wanted to know.
The initial BNP event – a leaflet distribution in the town centre and a memorial service at the city’s cenotaph – had been planned and approved for weeks. The police were fully aware that it was taking place on the same day as the Everton home match, and had no problem with it at all.Threats of a counter demonstration by a tiny group of extremist communists – who in their last turnout in Liverpool could only muster some 50 or 60 tramp-like bodies, has now been used by the police as an excuse to order the postponement of the Everton match by twenty four hours, massively inconveniencing supporters who have already pre-booked accommodation and travel arrangements.
“The media are of course trying to make out that the match has been postponed because of the BNP, when in fact it is the fault of the anti-BNP extremists,” Mr Darby continued. “The fact that the police in that city are probably still smarting from their humiliation at the hands of the BNP’s Liverpool 13 has probably also played a role in their gross overreaction.”
In that incident, Liverpool police arrested thirteen BNP members for leafleting in the city centre, and were forced to hurriedly withdraw all charges and allegations after being told by the Crown Prosecution Service that the BNP leaflets were perfectly legal.
Everton fans are reported to be angry with the move, and so they should be, Mr Darby said. “They should remember that Merseyside police were informed about the BNP leafleting plan in mid January, and it is only the threats of the radical leftists which are being used as an excuse by the police for their actions.”
http://bnp.org.uk/2009/02/liverpool-police-postpone-everton-match-in-reaction-to-communist-threats/