- MUGGINGS
- KNIFINGS
- DRUG PUSHING
- MURDER
WE'D ALL GOT USED TO IT. The delighted face of a TV news
reader (usually female) at the end of August Bank Holiday,
coming on the screen and telling us, with an air of joy
and triumph, what a happy, harmonious and successful event
the Notting Hill Carnival
had been. There were the usual shots of grinning policemen
dancing with black women, the usual reports that there
had been "very little trouble." It often seemed as if
the presentation of this particular news had been carefully
rehearsed. One could just imagine the producer beforehand:
"No, Fiona, you must look happier - a really big smile!
And your voice must sound as if it's conveying wonderful
news. Another take - that's better!"
The mass media's reporting of the Carnival has, for years,
been one of their major propaganda projects, all carefully
orchestrated so as to convey to us peasants the message
of what a perfect festival of fun and pleasure this is,
and how it demonstrates the great benefits to Britain
of the multi-racial society.
But this year - at long last - the truth came out. Glen
Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation,
spilled the beans. In a statement on Radio 4 at the end
of the Carnival, he said:-
‘In my experience, the level
of reported crime is far below that which really happens,
and the whole process is down-played for political reasons.
‘Police are actively discouraged
from making arrests by senior officers for fear of sparking
a riot situation, and I have seen serious criminal offences
taking place while we are powerless to act... There
is a significant criminal minority who exploit it in
the full knowledge that the police will tread extremely
lightly... The record of the Carnival is pretty appalling.’
This, of course, was just what the police top brass,
the news media and the political establishment did not
want to hear. It came out because Police Federation leaders
are men chosen by their colleagues from the ranks and
are selected because they have the respect of ordinary
coppers - as distinct from chief commissioners and constables,
who are almost invariably political appointees, promoted
because they are willing tools of the liberal establishment.
With the cat now out of the bag, the press was seized
by a rare fit of honesty. Even the Sunday Times
showed itself prepared to speak openly. Behind all the
revelry, its reporter acknowledged, drugs were doing a
roaring trade:-
‘There was no pretence about
it, no attempt at disguise. Even if the police, chatting
in shirtsleeves just 150 yards away, had been able to
see them there was no chance of arrest.’
The Standard reporters went on to describe
another - yet more horrifying - occurrence. Speaking of
a young Asian, Abdul Bhatti, heading home after visiting
the Carnival, they related:-
‘A gang of youths was "steaming"
the street. As many as 50 young men sprinted down the
road together, punching, slashing and stealing before
their victims knew what had happened. They snatched
a gold chain from Bhatti's cousin, knocking him to the
ground. Then they turned on Bhatti, punching, gouging
and stamping as he fell.
‘Seconds later
they were gone. Bhatti managed to get to his feet and
stagger a few yards, then collapsed. He
died later of brain stem injuries.’
Ironically; the two murders
taking place at the Carnival this year were both of ethnic-minority
victims - the other one being of Greg Watson, a young
Black, who was stabbed during an argument with some other
Blacks. These were just the tips
of an iceberg of crime and violence that has become commonplace
while police are seemingly impotent to do anything about
it. The Standard report continued:
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‘For the Metropolitan Police,
the annual festival represents more than a policing
challenge. With the ghost of Stephen Lawrence - the
black teenager murdered by a gang of young white men
who have never been convicted - seemingly stalking every
decision made by senior officers, the celebration of
the best of West Indian culture looms menacingly over
Scotland Yard each summer.’
Then speaking of the anger of ordinary police officers
at the softly-softly policy adopted by their superiors,
the report went on to say:-
‘Officers hate policing Notting
Hill. They don't like walking past drug-smoking or other
incidents. They can see thefts of purses and handbags
but know they can never get into that crowd, arrest
that person and get out again safely. They feel vulnerable.
It would take next to nothing for an officer to be stabbed
or shot.’
Yes, shot! The Mail on Sunday was another
paper highlighting the orgy of crime at the Carnival.
Its reporter described one scene thus:-
‘There was no mistake: the man
was holding a gun. The thump of the music was so loud
it seemed to vibrate the kidneys, the air was thick
with pungent smells and the crowd was boiling with excitement
and alcohol. But as the policeman looked up at scaffolding
at the edge of the crowd, he saw two figures clambering
upwards. And one of them had a gun.’
The Mail on Sunday then described how this
was spotted by a constable. What followed was amazing:-
‘The police officer decided
to act quickly. He told his superintendent he was going
to move in and search the man on the scaffolding. He
was going to need back-up.
‘To his astonishment, the senior
officer forbade him. In the middle of this excitable
crowd such a move would be " too dangerous." It might
spark a riot.
‘Bravely, the constable stood
his ground. He disobeyed the order and searched the
suspect but the gun was gone, presumably passed to the
other man, who had melted into the throng.
‘This extraordinary incident
was just one example of the new "softly-softly" strategy
dictated for this year's Notting Hill Carnival by Scotland
Yard's politically correct policy advisers still paranoid
over the charge of institutional racism levelled against
them in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence debacle.’
This was just one of many incidents where the police
completely abdicated their responsibility to uphold the
law. In another, a man making a home video caught a scene
where rival gangs of Blacks were brawling. One shot showed
two wielding knives. The area where this happened was
just one of many where there was no police presence whatever.
Though police photo technologymakes possible blow-ups
which should easily enable the men to be identified, it
is very unlikely that they will ever be brought to book.
The damning exposures of what happened at the Notting
Hill Carnival, beginning with the forthright denunciations
of Mr Smyth, opened a veritable Pandora's box on which
the lid has been kept down for many years. Even the ultra-liberal
The Independent newspaper, found this too
much. In a leader on the 1st September it said: .......
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big public event, the outcry
would have closed it down years ago."
It really is coming to
something when a paper like The Independent
can make such a statement.
All this amply demonstrates that
the realities of the multi-racial society are now coming
home with a vengeance after so many years of lies and
cover-up.
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