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razor blades under fascist stickers - myth or not?

That tweet (the N3KOCardiff) one is from a serial fantasist called Layla Stokes who probably has pretty major mental health problems and makes a lot of shit up. I wouldn't rest too much of your personal credibility on anything they say.

But it’s almost as if some people come to this thread with preconceived ideas and are so blinded by their defence of a particular ideology that they can’t engage with reality on this subject.

LS is almost certainly the person who reported Jenni Swayne to Gwent police and claimed there were razor blades under the stickers.
Can you take you transphobic shite and fuck off back to that shrinking toxic corner you usually inhabit?
 
Whitechapel BNP in the 80s? Who would I report it to? Leman Street cop shop? :D
thats what I thought. My considerations on such an event would not even contemplate contacting authorities (as you say who to contact) but at the same time have you any contemporaneous accounts of the occurrence. It feels as if we are so close to the source of an urban myth that we must pursue it a little further. If it were me, I would have been telling everyone who would listen. Maybe you are the source of the entire subject genre. (I did not say myth because i think it is untrue, rather that is how it is referred to)
 
I did tell everyone. I'm still telling them now :D

No, I haven't any more recent examples.
I am not asking for recent examples. I am asking for contemporaneous back up of what you say happened, and if as you say you told everyone, then everyone can back up your account
 
thats what I thought. My considerations on such an event would not even contemplate contacting authorities (as you say who to contact) but at the same time have you any contemporaneous accounts of the occurrence. It feels as if we are so close to the source of an urban myth that we must pursue it a little further. If it were me, I would have been telling everyone who would listen. Maybe you are the source of the entire subject genre. (I did not say myth because i think it is untrue, rather that is how it is referred to)
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thats what I thought. My considerations on such an event would not even contemplate contacting authorities (as you say who to contact) but at the same time have you any contemporaneous accounts of the occurrence. It feels as if we are so close to the source of an urban myth that we must pursue it a little further. If it were me, I would have been telling everyone who would listen. Maybe you are the source of the entire subject genre. (I did not say myth because i think it is untrue, rather that is how it is referred to)
Fwiw, here are some earlier posts from the thread, that seem to pre-date Serge's account:
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.
As far as I can tell, everyone seems to agree that it seems to be something that has happened, but is extremely rare, so I'm not quite sure why this is such a controversial thread?
 
Original testimony/accounts are so important as once they have been percolated through someone else, they are not the same.
My interest was piqued because someone claimed to have witnessed something that I have been aware of for many years but had always happened to a friend or friend of such. Now here was someone claiming to be an original source. I asked for verification. I thought that I asked in a polite, reasonable and non judgemental manner.
On being asked if I could verify things from forty years ago or not, then some I could and some not depending on the importance of the situation.
 
Original testimony/accounts are so important as once they have been percolated through someone else, they are not the same.
My interest was piqued because someone claimed to have witnessed something that I have been aware of for many years but had always happened to a friend or friend of such. Now here was someone claiming to be an original source. I asked for verification. I thought that I asked in a polite, reasonable and non judgemental manner.
On being asked if I could verify things from forty years ago or not, then some I could and some not depending on the importance of the situation.


it's not all about you
 
There is also this blog:


Which includes a number of references to press reports:

National Front posters at Warwick University (Cov Ev Tel, 25 May, 10).
In 1983 razors were found behind racist posters in Liverpool (Liv Ech, 31 May, 3).
Then in 1986 a student at Brunel University was accused of putting razors behind ‘right wing posters’ (apparently pro-South African: Ux Gaz 7 Aug, 14).
 
Also a few references of fascist scumbags sending razors through the post (which is not the same thing, but does demonstrate the lengths they will go to and tactics they will use):

In 1983, National Front activist Joe Owens was convicted of sending razor blades under the flap of envelopes to prominent Jewish people in Liverpool. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison. [Joe Owens – Action! Race War To Door Wars (self-published 2007)].

Graham Paton of the fringe National Socialist Action Party was convicted in 1986 for sending a concealed razor blade to an anti-apartheid activist.

Something similar seems to have happened during the Bolton Council elections in 2007, when a candidate from the far right Veritas Party was sent a razor blade by an anonymous dickhead claiming to be a BNP supporter Probe into razor blade hate mail

Combat 18 in 2007: Anti-semitic attacks hit record high following Lebanon war
 
Fwiw, here are some earlier posts from the thread, that seem to pre-date Serge's account:


As far as I can tell, everyone seems to agree that it seems to be something that has happened, but is extremely rare, so I'm not quite sure why this is such a controversial thread?
I think people like to be very certain and black and white about these things? Either someone told them about it happening and they think it is "true" (and widespread) or they refuse to believe it because it's an urban myth?

As you say, it's not difficult to reach a more nuanced position on this, especially if you have spent more than five minutes actually reading this thread. :D
 
Fuck me, I was at the Lanch in Coventry in 1976.
I do remember our Student's Union telling people to be "very careful" when removing offensive [fash] posters ...
I wonder what an NF disciplinary tribunal was like, and what kind of punishments were meted out?
 
Also a few references of fascist scumbags sending razors through the post (which is not the same thing, but does demonstrate the lengths they will go to and tactics they will use):

In 1983, National Front activist Joe Owens was convicted of sending razor blades under the flap of envelopes to prominent Jewish people in Liverpool. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison. [Joe Owens – Action! Race War To Door Wars (self-published 2007)].

Graham Paton of the fringe National Socialist Action Party was convicted in 1986 for sending a concealed razor blade to an anti-apartheid activist.

Something similar seems to have happened during the Bolton Council elections in 2007, when a candidate from the far right Veritas Party was sent a razor blade by an anonymous dickhead claiming to be a BNP supporter Probe into razor blade hate mail

Combat 18 in 2007: Anti-semitic attacks hit record high following Lebanon war

And nails in bombs from Copeland.
 
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