Thanks to Capella for spotting this:
In Police issue hate crime warning after hundreds gather in Glasgow street, today, eight paragraphs down:
Chief Supt Stevie Dolan said he believed there are individuals outwith the local communities and probably outwith Glasgow or central Scotland who are seeking to “influence” the actions of local members of the public.
Is there further evidence to support this?
Police Scotland overall position: The disorder over several nights was “clearly been orchestrated by individuals who are not from Glasgow.” A further protest planned for the weekend was based on “entirely false information.” https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/police-warn-against-protest-misinformation-113938000.html
Assistant Chief Constable Alan Waddell (speaking on BBC Radio Scotland): Misinformation was being spread online by “bad actors, often from outside Glasgow,” who were “tapping into fears within the community about perceived sex offenders… of an ethnic background.” Much of the information was “factually incorrect.” He noted that in “almost each of these protests, information that’s been put out has actually been factually incorrect,” with communities being “scared, rising up” due to misinformation “put out by somebody that’s probably not been local to that community in the first place.” People were being “manipulated” and “used,” and he warned against attending events generated online with a focus on disruption or violence. https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/police-warn-against-protest-misinformation-113938000.html
David Kennedy (General Secretary, Scottish Police Federation): The events were “clearly been orchestrated. It is not coincidental.” He described them as “disgraceful,” with participants being “manipulated” by “outside influences,” and stressed that hate crime and disorder are not legitimate protest. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/anonymous-social-media-accounts-tapping-094844523.html
In short, Dolan’s view reflects the force’s broader assessment of external orchestration and online manipulation influencing local actions.
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It is plausible that what you say regarding the provocateurs is correct. However, the mainstream media amplify the message using exaggerated terminology. They phrase it in such a way that they cannot be accused of being in sympathy with the provocateurs, but they rarely or only nugatorily report the views of counterdemonstrators or local people who oppose those actions.
However, the unionist media and commentators use these actions to argue that ‘Scotland is not the decent and welcoming place nationalists (sic) claim it is’. This is the straw man argument – setting out as a ‘fact’, something which is untrue and using this lie to attack supporters of self determination.
At the recent large demonstration in support of asylum seekers in Buchanan St in Glasgow, the media headed reports with a large photograph of a ranting balaclava clad racist. The racist group was, literally, ‘penny numbers’ in the midst of thousands opposing them. They had been penned into one side of the street by the police, so, the photographer(s) had actively sought them out.
For the unionist media, their enemy’s (I.e. the ‘Nats’) enemy (the racists) are their friends.
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Where were these ”protesters” when Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was jailed for 18 child sex abuse offences ? Where was the alleged ‘community anger’ and the rent-a-mob masked rioters ?
Is it OK when a white , UK born individual commits these crimes ? No need for groups of violent neanderthals to gather in the street threatening the peace as he was one of their own !
But it is far worse when someone of a different colour is ALLEGED to have committed some unspecified ( and unproven ) crime .
”To the barricades !”
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Exactly!
John
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The only people fooled by hard right rhetoric are closet hard right wingers.
They believe what they want to believe and the agents provocateurs just give them the required excuse.
If they’re involved in violence, criminal damage, threatening behaviour or racist taunts (hate crime) they should be carted off to the nearest police station and dealt with appropriately.
Addresses should, in that case, be taken and if they are travelling in from “outside Glasgow”, or from our southern neighbours’ patch, that should be presented in a police statement to all news channels LIVE so the unionist / right wing press can’t apply their usual tedious Scotland bad spin on the report.
I’m thoroughly sick of the unionist media and the British State TV news broadcaster.
we’ve all seen “older, peaceful” demonstrators jailed for holding up little cardboard signs.
John Lawson.
Mr Angry from Edinburgh.
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They should also be transported by the police back to whence they came so they can be dealt with there. Why should Scotland have to spend vital resources on getting these people to court etc. Drop them off at an English police station, and ban them from entering Scotland.
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Good the police are stating their concern that htese are outside ops creating fear and hate in Scotland.
Be interesting to know if they are paid ops as well…
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