tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post7683257736534940200..comments2024-03-04T15:23:07.880+00:00Comments on Northern Voices: Shy Simon Saunders' Long GoodbyeBlanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-56394122587958501732015-09-04T10:40:19.981+01:002015-09-04T10:40:19.981+01:00More of the same old Meinke wind. Nobody protests ...More of the same old Meinke wind. Nobody protests louder than someone who knows he's screwed up.<br /><br />I've never had, asked for, wanted or been offered any protection by AFA, Red Action or any other group. But I've often been threatened and harassed by them, as have many friends and colleagues. My close protection, rarely needed, has been by professionals. Mostly it's tradecraft that keeps us safe, not the unwanted attention of a bunch of untrained fantasist goons.<br /><br />And if Freedom had felt that they had a moral case for freebies they would just have asked me for the photos (which had my name and phone number as well as a copyright notice on the back). <br /><br />Instead they took advantage of a guy with serious drink problems to steal the prints, then published them without even a credit, lied about the whole affair from start to finish and organised a character assassination spree against me to divert attention from their theft of my work, their wrecking the paper, their waste of Freedom's money and the total incompetence of the whole sad bunch of armchair anarchists.<br /><br />The building's worth a million or two. I just wish they'd get off their arses, sell it, buy a place somewhere more politically fertile and get on with some real street politics.David Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01202715611247495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-56353655954638021742015-09-01T17:28:37.964+01:002015-09-01T17:28:37.964+01:00Thanks for another credit Brian. My view on Mr Hof...Thanks for another credit Brian. My view on Mr Hoffman was that he was able to take the pictures he did because he was protected from fascists by a number of very brave people over the years and morally he should have donated the photographs to a book recording those events. Legally of course Hoffman was perfectly within his rights, that was a fuck up by the Freedom Collective. A lesson not to trust so called comrades not to go running to the state when they think they can get their grubby paws on some moneyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04666686027954534167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-15473888072593381512015-08-29T09:56:05.050+01:002015-08-29T09:56:05.050+01:00Simon, I personally have never written anything on...Simon, I personally have never written anything on Twitter. My exchange with David Hoffman was by e-mail. I never accepted his offer to converse over the phone. He for his part, only shared information with me after he had examined the Northern Voices Blog. We did our best on the NV Blog at the time, but I gather that people on the Freedom Collective were very offensive to the journalist Mr Hoffman well before I or Northern Voices got involved: much of the damage seemed to have been done by Andy. I can't, of course, speak for others who may at that time have opened a Twitter account in the name of Northern Voices and are now no longer with us.Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-64477113789123260382015-08-28T16:54:26.420+01:002015-08-28T16:54:26.420+01:00Keep guessing Brian. And a small clarification abo...Keep guessing Brian. And a small clarification about Hoffman, writing an unsolicited gossip blog about him and calling him a shitneck on Twitter in the middle of negotiations isn't "helping" or "being involved with the press."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com