Cyber-stalker Charlie Flowers’ English Defense League connection.

Flowers’ group (‘the Cheerleaders‘) vows to engage in vigilante intimidation campaigns against online Islamists, but of the actions we know of, he and the group have mostly harassed moderate and progressive Muslims (here at Talk Islam), and UK leftists like Tim Ireland who has written against the BNP, an even more extreme right-wing, racist group than the EDL. Ireland was also the subject of a ‘Cheerleaders’ death threat, when Flowers or someone affiliated with the group threatened a “machete to your throat.”

Here’s a photo from Flowers’ Facebook page:

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Flowers is the balding, middle-aged man at far left in the back. The date the photo was taken is unknown, but it was posted to Facebook on Dec. 2. The others in the photo are Darren Marsh, ‘Shooter Kirpachi’ and Bill Baker. Marsh, on his Facebook page, is a ‘fan’ of a number of British nationalist affinity sites such as “English and proud,” “English Democrats – Putting England first!” and “England,” the latter two being fan pages of the English Democrat Party. The London mayoral candidate for the EDP withdrew in 2008 after he found that the party had entered into an alliance with the “avowedly racist” (Wikipedia) England First Party not to stand against one another. The candidate, Matt O’Connor, described EDP members this way:

“They present themselves as respectable ‘Middle England’ with leading members being solicitors and housewives.

“But the reality is something far different.

“Social events run by the party brought out the real feelings of key members and it was very uncomfortable for me and the people I had innocently invited along, many of whom advised me to leave after what they had seen and heard.”

The flag in the picture is the St. George’s Cross, which EDL supporters fly at their rallies. The EDL is a right-wing political group with nativist/white supremacist leanings that appeared in England last year. See this Loonwatch article, “EDL hallmarks: Mosque vandilization, racism and intimidation.”

Richard Bartholomew continues to cover the latest threats and harassment activities of ‘The Cheerleaders’ with this new article about the group.