Liberals win election for the BNP

Every time a BNP leader makes a racist comment and is then accused of race hatred, the Liberal thinkers jump up and down and shout freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is all well and good so long as it does not incite hatred. In the last couple of decades there as been a growing concern over immigration, I believe the general population do not want to stop immigration, but they do want tighter controls placed on it. How many times have you heard people blame the state of the country on the (to quote: "bloody") liberals? The fear I have is the growing potential for a backlash against wishy washy policies. If the government does not address the concerns of the citizens of this country, then people will turn to the BNP who are promising to do so. We are seeing history repeat itself, just as in the 1930's in Germany people are becoming disillusioned with the ability of the major parties ability to protect nationalism. This disillusionment is is not totally rational but it is fuel for the fires that provide power to the BNP's cause.

On the 1 January Last Ditch posted:
BNP ballerina defies rising clamour to sack her

This is a comment I left on the subject:

Ms Clarke may have been lured in by the front the BNP shows in public. If you read some of their policies they do sound attractive to people who are alarmed by media hype. What these poor suckers fail to realise is that these policies are just the respectable tip of the iceberg, below the waterline there is a larger, darker, seething mass of hate.Hitler promised a very similar future for the German people at a time of social unrest. Hitler didn't promise war or mass murder, he promised work, food and a Germany for the German people. If the German people had known the outcome they would not have allowed him to gain power. Monsters don't gain power by being monsters, they gain it by being respectable and preying on peoples fears.

In reply Colin Campbell of Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe wrote:

'Monsters don't gain power by being monsters, they gain it by being respectable and preying on peoples fears.' - As do politicians like Blair and Reid. (yes true)
The BNP is being seen as one of the few parties with a difference. If it is racist, which IMO it is, then the fact that it is being chosen by many more must say something. I would not put myself down as a BNP supporter but I would vote for them as a way of putting rocks on the road for our general political parties. Who all ride in the same truck and would all feel the same impact.

This is my point, people will turn to the BNP through frustration and disillusionment. Only staunch BNP supporters (the real racists) believe the BNP would be able to run a government, these "protest" voters would soon deny they voted BNP if they actually did get in power.
All people are racist to some extent, but we live in a society where it is frowned upon so the worst of the racists are kept in check. If the BNP got in power, slowly but surely it will become more and more acceptable to behave in a racist manner. A group of men will behave in a way that a lone man will not (looting, riots, lynchings etc).

I've made some sweeping comments about the BNP, some will think my comments are unfair or too strong. That's possibly true but I have not called them Fascists or Nazi's, which I don't think they are, but I do think they a racists. The Muslims are the BNP's Jews, several times in the last couple of weeks I've read statements from BNP supporters claiming we are not anti-Semitic. The BNP claim to "Support Israel", this is a marriage of convenience, it suits the BNP's cause as they hate the Muslims more than they hate the Jews.

The picture at the top of this post is of a cover of the booklet Nick Griffin wrote, in it Nick outlined a Jewish conspiracy to brainwash the British people in their own "homeland". In 1998, Griffin was found guilty of distributing material likely to incite racial hatred, for which he received a two-year suspended sentence. In 1997 Nick Griffin announced himself as a Holocaust denier - BNP - supporters of Israel - please do not piss on me and tell me it is raining.

For those of you thinking of voting BNP please read the following poem by Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

First they came for the communists,

I did not speak out because I was not a communist.

When they came for the social democrats,

I did not speak out because I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,

I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews I did not speak out because I was not a Jew;

And when they came for me,

there was no one left to speak out.

Information about the poem