UKIP forced to cancel Freepost address after far-Left bombard them with blood/faeces

To be honest, a lot of far leftists are either chavs or people who are just "anarchists" and turn up at protest marches to cause trouble.

Sending disgusting bodily fluids such as blood and fences is not non violent

Sending disgusting bodily fluids such as blood and feaces is not non violent

I would describe myself as far left and I wouldn't say I was a disgusting person. In fact, everyone in my politics classes has been left/far left and I would never describe them as such - disgruntled? Yes. Disgusting? No. The far right on the other hand...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ukip-forced-cancel-freepost-address-3495376

I wonder what political arguments these "disgruntled members of the public" have to offer.

Violence: "behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something."

What they did was not savoury, I grant you, and I wouldn't have chosen bodily fluids to send, but it wasn't violent since it didn't involve physical force.

Brainwashing is going well then.

The legal sense of violence is an act that causes alarm or distress. Sending blood and feaces in the post to someone is an act of violence and I am disgusted that you think that this is non violent

I only know what my dictionary tells me.

I would rather be brainwashed to hold beliefs that endeavour to support the poorest and most vulnerable in society than to be solely interested in self-advancement and money.

These actions are illegal and defined under british law as An act of violence. It only takes someone with half a brain to regard this as an act of violence as blood and feaces or a biohazard and is is legally defined as serious assault


spitting in someone's face will see a court of law come down harder on you than if you were to punch someone in the face due to the risks associated with bodily fluids being biologically hazardous agents

I would describe myself as far left and I wouldn't say I was a disgusting person. In fact, everyone in my politics classes has been left/far left and I would never describe them as such - disgruntled? Yes. Disgusting? No. The far right on the other hand...

I'm somebody who would identity myself as left-wing, but sadly there are a lot of left wing supporters, who often fit the "Vicky Pollard" stereotype. To be honest, a lot of far leftists are either chavs or people who are just "anarchists" and turn up at protest marches to cause trouble.

That well known illegal act the serious assault, I'm assuming you mean normal assault here? The serious ones are ABH and GBH, neither of which is relevant here.

The law on assault requires there to be the use or apprehension of imminent physical force.

Under 'Ireland;Burstow' this could be construed as such if it were believed UKIP party workers genuinely believed the sender was outside and imminently to use physical force on them as a consequence of receiving this package. That seems unlikely but not impossible, it's hard to say without seeing statements from those workers.

This is probably caught by some other statutory law though.

I do support the Freepost protest. It's a legitimate form of protest in the same way occupying their offices or blocking their road off would be.

I do however feel people took it too far with faeces/blood. I hate parties like UKIP with a passion but putting their health, and the Royal Mail staff's health, at risk isn't appropriate.

Is it really legitimate protest, though?

It sounds to me more like "I don't like what you have to say, so I want to disrupt your activity".

There's a long history of this kind of thing, and it's usually from the trot-anarchistic axis. Come off it, it's the May Day bank holiday, and it wasn't so very long ago that civilised people around the world were treated to an annual orgy of destruction and barbarity from people with nothing better to do than wreck the product of other people's work.

So you "hate" UKIP. Ok - they're not my cup of tea. Why do you feel it is legit to disrupt their activity? If it were not a political party, the kind of activities that people here are celebrating would be considered harassment at the very least.

You don't hear of this happening in reverse. You don't see Greens or Respect politicians getting egged in the streets, or people trying to disrupt their activity. To me, this is an insult to the democratic process.