razor blades under fascist stickers - myth or not?

[Grump]

Hi tec version, no razor blades, just wire a sign to tha mains.

 

[keybored]

Hi tec version, no razor blades, just wire a sign to tha mains.

That looks painfully faked.

 

[Grump]

I don't think it is, apparently a lot of Trump supporters did the same thing.

 

[Serge Forward]

In the mid 80s I removed a fash sticker with a razor blade from the subways near Aldgate tube. The thick cunts had stuck it on a light panel so you could actually see the silhouette of the blade underneath, for fuck sake.

 

[Grump]

Sounds more like a piece of modern art than a trap for an unwary anti fascist.

 

[Serge Forward]

You'd think... what with the Whitechapel art gallery nearby. But similar booby traps were found in the area without the atmospheric backlighting. So my money says it was a thick fascist wot dunnit.

 

[PaulOK]

Found a reference to it occuring in 1976.

Fascist activist Joe Owens was once convicted of sending letters with razor blades under the envelope flap to prominent Jewish people. This was in 1983 when he was in the BNP and he served 8 months.
Heard a rumour that the NF, BM and BNP did it with stickers on the street but doubt it was widespread. I used to tear down stickers all the time without incident . As a sideline Tony "pavement kisser" Lecomber once attacked someone at a railway station who he spotted tearing down a BNP sticker. He served time for it.

 

[Idris2002]

Just seen this handy tip on chitter:

 

[4eyes]

This cropped up again on twitter today as part of a discussion about NF stickers appearing around Camden.

Basically the story goes that one should be very careful when removing fascist stickers from lamp posts, walls, wherever, because they might have razor blades underneath them.

It was suggested that the best thing to do is to carry around your own stickers to put over the fascist ones.

I have to say, I've been removing fash stickers since the mid 80s and my fingers are very much still intact.

Has this ever happened to you, or someone you know?

Heard that it happened in Blackpool some years ago, if that's any use to you.

 

[Sweet FA]

Just seen this handy tip on chitter:

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Interesting to see this claim updated for the faultlines of 2018:



No photo, sadly.

 

[Patteran]

Funny, that.

I wonder if the story originates with soldiers talking about the danger of booby-trapped porn mags/republican posters in the North of Ireland, & was distorted as it filtered through the far right?

 

[leno]

Funny, that.

I wonder if the story originates with soldiers talking about the danger of booby-trapped porn mags/republican posters in the North of Ireland, & was distorted as it filtered through the far right?

Finally a question I can answer (I generally only speak when I need to know something). This rumour is an old NF one when posters were tacked up - and I didn't believe it then (it'd take too many to be effective). During AFA BNP B&H, everyone went back to paste when it wouldn't work and I can't see how it would work with posters.

My grandfather who never said he wasn't at Cable St said it was rumoured back then which is more likely but he didn't beleive it. I always thought it was an anl type's excuse for getting a paper cut.

 

[Patteran]

Response from Mcr Transport Police. Twat.

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyway if you use keys to deal with stickers you won't get cut

 

[Fozzie Bear]

If you click on the twitter link I posted, the account has been suspended too.

If I'd had more time I would've done a screenshot but I expect one exists somewhere on the internet. Hey ho.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

2021 remix:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

When I had to do post opening as part of a job many years ago, we always used letter openers and never, under any circumstances, used our fingers to open the envelopes.

 

[ddraig]

2021 remix:

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Shit, will warn people, thanks for this!

 

[hitmouse]

I'm never a fan of "grassing as activism", but I suppose it's probably worth reporting the pages advertised on that shit?

 

[klang]

2021 remix:

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shows how concerned about the wellbeing of their fellow human beings they really are

 

[klang]

Shit, will warn people, thanks for this!

cunty as it is, i don't think it's too common. too much of a faff when a sticker blitz has to be fast and high dens to be effective.
(still, good to be safe and to expect the worst)

 

[Throbbing Angel]

When I had to do post opening as part of a job many years ago, we always used letter openers and never, under any circumstances, used our fingers to open the envelopes.

Ditto.

We've had blades in recent postal vote envelopes

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I find a table knife useful for removing stickers. A scraper is handy too. But I've never encountered razor blades under the various far-right stickers I've removed in my area or anywhere else. Yet.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

2021 remix:

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What absolute cunts

 

[hitmouse]

Ditto.

We've had blades in recent postal vote envelopes

Who the fuck does that? I can understand the mentality of "I want to harm whoever tries removing this shitty propaganda", but what's the logic in "I wish harm on whoever... tries to count my vote?"

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Who the fuck does that? I can understand the mentality of "I want to harm whoever tries removing this shitty propaganda", but what's the logic in "I wish harm on whoever... tries to count my vote?"

I suspect they hadn't voted tbh - thankfully no harm done

 

[klang]

broken glass in wall paper glue is another classic to make sure the opposition feel it when pulling down posters.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

When I had to do post opening as part of a job many years ago, we always used letter openers and never, under any circumstances, used our fingers to open the envelopes.

We've had blades in recent postal vote envelopes

I had a temporary job in a local DVLA office a few years back (just before the cameron government shut them down) and there was a machine to x-ray the post for suspicious objects

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ditto.

We've had blades in recent postal vote envelopes

We had a jiffy bag full of shit once, and the most memorable was someone sending in what they said was a haemorrhoid they'd had removed. As you do.

People are strange.