Booby-trapped Trans tape on Edinburgh lampposts injures council worker during removal

Do you think Bashback are a false flag op? Because I've often wondered. See also GLP.

It’ll have been the GC black ops team. It all fits if you think about it. One side covers their faces in public, wants everything done in back room deals and threatens violence if their wants aren’t handed to them, whereas the GC welcome press coverage and transparency and gather peacefully with their faces on view. Oh wait…

I wondered if this was TRA related - a bollard nearby had pro-trans graffiti scrawled on it in recent weeks, and there is other pink/blue paint stripes nearby. Seemed weird to have a 'chemical spill' as it was described on a lamp post.

False flag operations have occurred: yes.

So have false claims of false flag operations, especially from those whose knee jerk reaction is “but my side would NEVER”.

So it’s not very useful as a means of distinguishing in any specific case.

But very useful for those who want to go on claiming “but my side would NEVER.”

Looking at the probabilities: nothing’s impossible, but one side

• has previously committed multiple acts of violence (mostly on property, some on people),
• made far more threats of violence,
• has a tendency to dwell on violent imagery,
• justifies its violence by whipping up hysteria & hyperbole about non-existent “genocides”
• seems to be losing.

But obviously: we don’t know.

I hope the workmen are recovering & the person was caught.

Edited to add: I first heard the “razor blades under posters” story in the 70s, when my mates & I used to scrape National Front posters off walls.

It was a lot of posters, but nobody I knew ever found any sharps (in fact I used to wonder if it wasn’t a story made up to encourage you to leave them up…)

More recently a TRA councillor round my way got into the papers, claiming he’d found razors under “hateful stickers”.

I know he was lying because a) he published his photos of the stickers with not a shred of a blade to be seen b) they were on curved surfaces & I have no idea how you’d manage it, & c) I’d put them there myself.

The moon is made of cheese, Morgan the Moon confirmed it decades ago, it's Caerphilly cheese. 😁

That seems like a massive over reaction from the authorities, unless they've been on standby to react to a perceived threat, is there something going on that the authorities aren't telling us about.🤔

or we could just assume that the men who have been issuing violent threats are starting to follow them through, rather than Middle Aged women have sudden become a violent demographic

false flag operations have a long history, but if you want to forget all that then go ahead and assume you know better

I'd buy that

Would that be Fred Wallace's fridge btw?

Evil TERFS obviously. 🙄

What if the moon is made of cheese and they faked the moon landing in Wallace’s fridge with two pairs of socks and a grappling hook?

What group do you imagine that would be?

Well, there's a surprise. Considering how long trans Reddit has been fantasizing about razor blades purportedly being put under GC stickers, I suppose something like this was the logical next step given their fondness of projection and DARVO.

what if someone did a false flag copyed the tape etc to pin the blame on them when it was another group, ?

The reporting does seem confused. It says two staff members were taken to hospital after falling ill, but Edinburgh Council says they were taken as a precaution which implies though doesn't state they weren't ill.

So were they actually experiencing symptoms, and if so, what were they? That's surely in the public interest.

I suppose it’s possible the substance caused some temporary irritation or made them feel unwell without being dangerous, much like, say pepper spray and various other substances can do.

It’s also odd that they haven’t said what the substance was, given that it has now been tested. In similar cases, it often turns out to be something completely harmless, such as talcum powder.

Well yes that’s the question. It’s hard to believe it’s totally innocuous. It smacks of a police ‘nothing to see here’ cover up attitude. And if it’s not a cover up, come clean with exact details to reassure.

It’s just like the way police Scotland have (apparently) stopped recording the ethnicity of those who carry out sex crimes. A cynic would say that they did this so they couldn’t be FoI’ed to find out whether the rise in immigration is driving crime higher. But surely this is important information to know by the general public when deciding how important issues like race are in the ballot box. It’s a fine line between giving meat to Neanderthal racist vigilantes and keeping the public adequately informed.

How can the substance be both harmless to the public and yet dangerous enough to hospitalise 2 workers and mobilise police to cordon off the area?
What was it?

Literally last week TRAs on Reddit were saying it still happens.

@Dooferer bored entitled middle class teenagers has always been my assumption when I've been wandering around and clocked the tape and stickers.

I might have missed something more sinister though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/comments/1vtmnoa/anyone_know_whats_up_by_morningside_station/

Hmm. Unless there's something very damning that's not being reported this seems quite tenuous.

What was the substance supposed to have been?

Why that area?

What do they hope to achieve with terrorism? Just what?

I mean trans rights all sounds sort of not totally unreasonable, to have little Johnny-I-mean-Julie attend a girls sleepover when you have known him all his life and he’s a sweet kind boy from a loving family. And then you see TRAs in marches and you immediately know that no fucking way - not a hope in hell - should these creepy, enraged men ever be allowed to set foot into women’s anything anywhere ever. But yeh, terrorism. That’ll convert minds to TRAs way of thinking I’m sure!

Not near Beira's place. But in the school catchment for several of the schools that have been discussed on this board previously for the activism amongst the teaching staff.

It's one of the few place I have actually put up some TERF-y stickers as I have a policy of only placing them over contrary material.

I know anecdotally of several cases where children were transitioned without their parents knowledge at these schools. The local demographic is similar to the kids who dropped the insects at the LGB alliance conference.