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As some of you will know from reading Simon Darby’s blog there was an incident with the Truth Truck in Coventry this week. Taking his turn driving at the time was Coventry and South Warwickshire British National Party organiser Tom Gower with Regional Organiser Alwyn Deacon in the passenger seat.
The occasion for the visitation of the Truth Truck was the MP’s surgery of Bob Ainsworth. Secretary of State for Defence and member of parliament with the distinction of having claimed the maximum amount possible in second home allowance in the year 2007-08 making him the joint highest claimant that year. The very same Bob Ainsworth who, when questioned at a public meeting by Tom Gower, admitted that Tony Blair lied over the reasons for the war in Iraq. In fact he went further by claiming that parliament had been fed lies by Tony Blair and that was the only reason that he voted for the war.
Armed with nothing more offensive than a compact disc containing festive Christmas carols and a microphone the freedom loving pair drove past the building announcing over the speaker system that the surgery of Bob Ainsworth and the Labour Party who have the blood of our soldiers on their hands as they took us into a war which they knew to be illegal was currently in session.
At the fourth time of passing Tom had to stop at traffic lights whereby the team were swamped by police and ordered to turn the music off. The West Midlands Police then went on to threaten that if the team did not get out of Coventry they would be arrested for breach of the peace.
Alwyn protested the innocence of the lovers of liberty and pointed out quite correctly that they were doing nothing illegal. The police then advised Alwyn that someone had phoned them and said that they were driving around ‘calling Bob Ainsworth a murderer!’ Fancy that. Alwyn then asked for the policeman's own telephone number so that he could be contacted directly to rush to the defence of the defenders of free speech in the event that someone should call them ‘racists’ of ‘fascists’ so that he could arrest them for breach of the peace.
The police team followed the Truth Truck out of Coventry but were unable, because they were doing nothing wrong, to object to them stopping for these pictures outside the Ricoh Arena on the outskirts of Coventry.
This is another small victory for those who place a high value on freedom of speech, expression and the right to roam unmolested the highways and byways of this nation.
