There has been a lot of debate about this subject the packets have been flying all over the internet regarding it. First off the BNP have upset the military by using iconography of great British achievements such as the "Spitfire" and struggles that our nation has faced and won through.... the irony is that the BNP are closer to Nazi's than most people realise......
which in turn has upset the top brass. They aren't too happy about the BNP trying to bask in the glory of days gone by......even if it is through a wrongly perceived association and nothing more......
which in turn has upset the top brass. They aren't too happy about the BNP trying to bask in the glory of days gone by......even if it is through a wrongly perceived association and nothing more......
BUT then to add insult to injury they have been invited onto "Question Time" at the BBC.... I can see the BBC's point of view on this that they have to be impartial and they are right in making their decision.... but the decision isn't really in their hands.... The government (pah) should decide if a Fascist and openly racist party should get any airtime....fascism and racism are never acceptable even if they are elected by the voting public.... and Nick Griffin's attempt to alter the perception of his party by allowing ethnic groups into his party is laughable..... first off who in their right mind would consider joining the BNP if they were non caucasian or non British (as they put it), and indeed who in their right mind belonging to an ethnic minority or not would want to join a party that has such disgusting ideals ? ....so opening up the party to the very people they revile proves nothing, except dotting the legal I's and crossing the legal T's...
Personally I think the BNP should be given the same air time as any other party, if only to expose their sinister and racist views to the wider public, because the only public reaction to such obvious hate and revulsion is to marginalise their political standing.... Of course the BNP will always have some kind of following because there are people out there who are so narrow minded and set in their ways to even consider the wider view or the feelings and rights of other people and they will remain that way .....lost in their own ignorance and misplaced fear, I fear..... but that's why we fought the last war to free the world of fascism's grip on some societies, which we succeeded in doing but at great cost.... the flip side of that coin is that in a free and democratic society there is room for everybody even fascists and racists, the trick is in not letting them have any power or the right to exercise their views in public..... EVER !!
I remember once whilst I was serving in Germany my then wife and I had to go to the NAAFI, so I parked up the car nearby and we had to walk through a large crowd to get there, I didn't think anything of it, but once we had finished shopping and we were on our way back we noticed the streets were wet, which was pretty strange for mid summer in Germany, we found out later that we had walked through a pro neo-nazi rally/demonstration and it had been dispersed with water cannon !!! another 10 or so minutes and we would have been in that !! The only other time I noticed a slight tinge of Nazi like tendencies was when a friend called Paddy McGaughy (my ex should remember him...lol) and I decided to stop off for a pint at a lovely gastatte in the woods, we walked in, in our uniform and you know that sinking feeling when you walk into a place and everything goes quiet.... almost along the lines of a western saloon when the honky tonk piano player stops playing and dives for cover ? Well we could see exactly why.... plastered all over the walls were portraits of Himmler, Hitler, Arian figures and yes even swastika's .... needless to say we didn't stop very long and neither did we think we would be served...... ahhhh memories .... ;¬)
I remember once whilst I was serving in Germany my then wife and I had to go to the NAAFI, so I parked up the car nearby and we had to walk through a large crowd to get there, I didn't think anything of it, but once we had finished shopping and we were on our way back we noticed the streets were wet, which was pretty strange for mid summer in Germany, we found out later that we had walked through a pro neo-nazi rally/demonstration and it had been dispersed with water cannon !!! another 10 or so minutes and we would have been in that !! The only other time I noticed a slight tinge of Nazi like tendencies was when a friend called Paddy McGaughy (my ex should remember him...lol) and I decided to stop off for a pint at a lovely gastatte in the woods, we walked in, in our uniform and you know that sinking feeling when you walk into a place and everything goes quiet.... almost along the lines of a western saloon when the honky tonk piano player stops playing and dives for cover ? Well we could see exactly why.... plastered all over the walls were portraits of Himmler, Hitler, Arian figures and yes even swastika's .... needless to say we didn't stop very long and neither did we think we would be served...... ahhhh memories .... ;¬)
addendum :-
I've just seen Nick Griffin being hammered on "Question Time" on a BBC leaked video .....just as I thought the man has no scruples or honour and has the morals of a dog ....
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