Archive for June, 2007

Is nobody else making the Gay Pride connection?


Okay, so there were two bombs discovered yesterday, not one. But while the media is dragging in the usual glut of ‘experts’ and politicians theorising as to who might be behind these devices, we hear that the bombs contained huge quantities of nails. Al Qaeda has been name-checked lots of times. But wait! Doesn’t the news about the nails make anyone else besides me and my beloved think of that twisted bastard David Copeland, the London nailbomber? He’s behind bars but the annual London Gay Pride march and festival takes place in the city centre today (Saturday).

Copeland, a former member of the British neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement, became known as the London nailbomber after a 13-day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at London’s black, Asian, and gay communities. Over three consecutive weekends, this evil creep planted home-made bombs, each one containing up to 1,500 four-inch nails, outside a supermarket in Electric Avenue, Brixton, an area of south London with a large black population; in Brick Lane in the east end of London, which has a large South Asian community; and in the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho’s Old Compton Street, the heart of London’s gay community.

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Saturday, June 30th, 2007