The BNP is not a racist organization. It is a heavily slandered organization.
I have met these folks -- they are not idiots without reason.
Europe is changing and you will not be able to silence the anti-immigration movement forever.
As people might be able to tell by the minuteness of my post count and the length of my registration, I’m normally a lurker here, but this post was sufficiently imbecilic to lure me out of the woodwork, not for the content of its argument (that it is itself fascistic for current members of private organisations to deny future membership or use of facilities to neo-nazis and fascists), but for the content of its information, that the BNP is not a racist organisation. It most emphatically was founded as a racist organisation, and persists in being a racist organisation.
The founder of the British National Party and mentor of the current party leader, John Tyndall, is on record as saying, ‘Mein Kampf is my Bible’. The anti-Semitic ideology of the party has become more muted in recent years, as the party has come to realise that, while anti-black, anti-Asian and anti-immigrant racism is still relatively acceptable in British society, anti-Semitism is liable to produce a far greater backlash; they have also found that the British public is highly receptive to anti-Muslim messages, especially in the wake of the July 7th bombings. Their members still undertake anti-Semitic attacks with the blessing of the party, and the party maintains strong anti-Semitic links, especially to notable holocaust denier David Irving, who has recently proclaimed himself to be Hitler’s prophet in a suitably bizarre interview.
Although the core of the organisation of the BNP disowned terrorism and political violence in the 1990s, this does not mean that the organisation lacks the capacity to carry out attacks. It outsourced its violent activities to young members in order to preserve the organisation from prosecution and prefers to stir up violence against immigrants, native non-whites, traveller communities and homosexuals than carry it out itself. Even so, it does preserve links with Neo-Nazi terrorist organisations such as Combat 18 and the National Socialist movement. The most famous member of the latter was David Copeland, a terrorist who, in April 1999, carried out several nail bombing attacks against London’s Gay, Asian and Black communities. The bombs killed three people, including a pregnant woman, and injured 129, four of whom lost limbs. I remember widespread panic, especially given that pure luck had caused the first and second of his bombings to go awry, creating fears that any subsequent attacks would be far deadlier (fears which were well founded).
The party bans non-indigenous Caucasians from being members, and states its intention to use state and vigilante violence to expel all but indigenous whites from the UK if they ever gain power. The Party claims that they have an affinity for all peoples of the British Isles, but display a marked anti-Celtic tendency and their membership is mainly made up of Anglo-Normans living in England. The party has few Scottish members, and even fewer Irish members, which is unsurprising seeing as one of the policies of the party is to annex all of Ireland should they ever, by some absurd quirk of fate, assume national power.
I could say more on the topic of no-platform policies and the practical implications of inviting the BNP to speak, as my university had a large debate over our no-platform policy and over the speaking invitations to Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, and to David Irving that were made in late 2007 by a private members' club affiliated to the university. I could say more with regards to the ethics of providing resources to aid the speech of far-right individuals. I could say more on the relative attitudes of universities towards far-right political parties, like the BNP, and far-right religious groups, like Hizb ut-Tahrir or the Society of St. Pius X.
But I won’t, because what I really want to know is, why are you claiming that the members of this far-right political party and terrorist organisation are in fact reasonable people? Is it because you’re a liar, or are you simply too ignorant to know any better? You claim that you have met these people, and seemingly appreciate, apologise for, and sympathise with their ideology, which is something that I think anyone reading this board would find to be especially troubling; an explanation on your part is in order.
