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The Celtic Cross has been co-opted by Fascists since WWII.
Nick Griffin, head of the far-right British National Party (BNP), faced a hostile crowd on the BBC last night, as he appeared aside members of the mainstream British parties to answer questions posed by show hosts and audience members.
Griffin said today that he says he faced a "lynch mob." Who does he think he's fooling? Andrew E. Mathis
First of all, for Griffin to make reference to lynch mobs is offensive on its face. To liken himself to a black American man hanged for merely looking at a white woman is to say he is a victim of prejudice that is equivalently irrational. But is it? For one thing, the BNP is a racist party. This isn't just a baseless charge; Richard Edmonds, a BNP deputy leader, responding to the question of whether the BNP is a racist party, said, "We are 100 per cent racist, yes."
But Edmonds said that in 1990, some may argue, and it's nearly 20 years later. Surely if they are contending on a national level, the BNP must have changed, right?
Wrong. In 2002, the BNP expelled a party member for having an Ecuadoran girlfriend. Still not recent enough? Griffin himself, this year, stated that a black soldier in the British Army received the Victoria Cross only because of his race.
What about anti-Semitism? Griffin and the BNP have thrown it off in recent years for violent anti-Muslim rhetoric instead. They even have a Jewish member who won a council seat in Essex in 2004.
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS, once said, addressing the SS in occupied Poland and urging them to continue the slaughter of the Jews that, of 80 million Germans, each of them had ein prima Jude — a singular Jew that should be spared. Patricia Feldman Richardson (the Jewish BNP) is nothing more than another prima Jude.
And the BNP reaching out to Hindus and Sikhs? It's only in the interest of uniting against Muslims in the U.K., most of whom come from Pakistan.
The final question is this: Why, after the BNP being around on the fringes of British society since 1982, is Nick Griffin suddenly sharing a stage with Labour, the Conservative Party, and the Liberal Democrats? It has to do with Griffin having one a seat in the European Parliament. They got as many seats as the Scottish National Party and the Green Party.
As the Lisbon Treaty nears ratification and the EU gains strength, the BNP, by virtue of having a voice within the European parliament, will be heard by more people than ever before. It is, thus, the duty of everyone who knows what the BNP really is to make sure it isn't forgotten.
Fascism is fascism, no matter how telegenic you make it. Fascism tore Europe apart in the 1930s and 1940s. Don't let it do it again.
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