Farooq Siddique - Let us follow Churchill, not the BNP

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
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In two days time, it will be time to make our voice heard in the European and local elections on Thursday.

I fear that in our disdain for our current crop of politicians, we will end up boosting the British National Party, abdicating our collective responsibility to our society.

In October 1990, the BNP was described by the European Parliament's committee on racism and xenophobia as an "openly Nazi party".

The BNP wants to end non-white immigration, and would "persuade" the non-whites of the UK to leave. The BNP believes in biological racial differences that determine an individual. Its membership is restricted to "Indigenous Caucasian".

It wraps itself in the Union Jack, encouraging people to celebrate St George's day. Yet, if the BNP were in charge back then, today there would be no such thing as St George's Day. St George was born in Nocomedia, modern day Izmit in Turkey, which has been Muslim since 1337. His father was a Roman army official from Cappadocia, again in modern day Turkey. His mother was from Palestine. St George died in Lydda, in Palestine.

I believe the BNP has always been anti-Semitic.

In 1996 BNP leader Nick Griffin said that he did not believe that six million Jews were "gassed and turned into soup and lampshades". In 1997, Griffin referred to the gas chambers in Germany as "nonsense" and a "total lie".

I believe the BNP is blatantly anti-Islamic. The principle of hate remains the same.

In a channel four documentary in 2004 BNP Youth Leader Mark Collet said AIDS is "a friendly disease because blacks, drug users and gays have it".

I think the BNP is characteristically opportunistic and hypocritical. If they secure any seats in Thursday's European elections they will have access to European funds.

One of the heroes of the BNP is Winston Churchill. But he was certainly no fan of theirs.

In 1941, Churchill, declaring war on Nazi Germany, said: "We know it will be hard; we expect it to be long, we cannot predict or measure its episodes or its tribulations. But one thing is certain, one thing is sure, one thing stands out stark and undeniable, massive and unassailable for all the world to see. We cannot see how deliverance will come or when it will come, but nothing is more certain that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, corroding fingers will be sponged and purged and, if need be, blasted from the surface of the earth."

The problems that Churchill had hoped would be wiped out, are rising again not only in Europe but in the UK.

On the 68th anniversary of that speech, in our current apathy, let us not elect BNP candidates to the European Parliament.

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    by Jonathan, Montreal, QC

    Wednesday, June 10 2009, 12:16PM

    “Tony, you're talking absolute nonsense. You're also repeating yourself, which doesn't help your cause.

    I'm going to ignore you from now on and hopefully you'll go away. Who's with me...”

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    by Tony, manchester UK

    Tuesday, June 09 2009, 6:36AM

    “I notice that there was intimidation of voters during the Euro elections and this was brought to the attention of the Police who did nothing

    Not unlike the intimidation during the recent American elections,where again this serious breach of election laws was not acted upon by the American authorities.

    Why?

    Yet again we see the deterioration of British democracy and democratic process as it is interfered with by the political elites establishment as the illusion of a democracy is wearing thin in the UK. This is getting like Zimbabwe style democracy at every turn.”

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    by T Trebilcock, Manchester UK

    Tuesday, June 09 2009, 6:35AM

    “I notice that there was intimidation of voters during the Euro elections and this was brought to the attention of the Police who did nothing

    Not unlike the intimidation during the recent American elections,where again this serious breach of election laws was not acted upon by the American authorities.

    Why?

    Yet again we see the deterioration of British democracy and democratic process as it is interfered with by the political elites establishment as the illusion of a democracy is wearing thin in the UK. This is getting like Zimbabwe style democracy at every turn.

    The BNP are vilified because they seek to expose the increasing lack of democracy in this country.”

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    by Mike, Bristol

    Sunday, June 07 2009, 6:09PM

    “I answer to the question can a black person who has lived in this country all their life and was born in this country join the bnp.

    The answer is no.

    Do you all think that's racist?

    I cannot join the black workere union.

    I can't join the black police officers union.

    I can't ger help from sari if I suffer a racist incident.

    Is that racist as well.”

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    by David, Bristol

    Friday, June 05 2009, 3:43PM

    “"Well, I think that is one argument put to bed, at least in Bristol. Shame there is no councillor Chris burning crosses at the bottom of Park Street but never mind"

    Or Uncle Joe cruising round in his black Zil, reporting to the Commissar and Politburo people having the temerity to believe in something that Uncle Joe doesn't approve of Are you fluent in 'Newspeak', Uncle Joe?

    Is that a black Zil just pulling up outside my door?

    Dasvedanya, Comrade.”

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    by Shannon, Bristol

    Friday, June 05 2009, 2:39PM

    “The word 'British' also refers to each of us as an individual. I am British, you are British, most of the people you meet every day are British, and most of us cannot affect , and are in no way responsible for actions of the British Government in the present, let alone the past.

    I can't understand why you are singling out the British anyway. Throughout history regimes have been engaged in imperialism, often far more brutally than British governments and corporations. Given the chance, probably most ruling classes anywhere in the world will commit atrocities and do whatever they can to get and keep their power and wealth.”

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    by david, bristol

    Friday, June 05 2009, 2:00PM

    “Well, I think that is one argument put to bed, at least in Bristol. Shame there is no councillor Chris burning crosses at the bottom of Park Street but never mind....”

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    by soarer, bristol

    Thursday, June 04 2009, 4:37PM

    “Where exactly did I blame myself or any individual for our actions abroad? You are just inventing things. But when you use the collective 'British' you are encompassing the actions of the country, which are quite frankly horrific and certainly nothing to be proud of and no wonder people want to blow us away, again as a collective, just like our actions have blown millions of others away in our bully boy tactics. You dont get other countries behaving in such way towards other countries although it is not just us.
    Shannon, do you not think or mind that we have a massive problem with people who are labelled on this website everyday as 'scum' and are more often that not 'white'. White scum that make peoples lives misery. I would want them sorted out. they seem to cause the most misery to most people.”

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    by alan, bristol

    Thursday, June 04 2009, 3:45PM

    “yes i,m up for following chuchill he wanted to follow darwins theory didn't he parliment voted against him the yanks done it for a while but hiltler really went for it”

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    by Shannon, Bristol

    Thursday, June 04 2009, 3:30PM

    “Well said Martin in Knowle.

    Soarer, you come over like a sad and intolerant piece of work, with your ranting about ¿home grown white trash scum who claim benefits, legally or not. the culture of teenage girls on sink estates getting pregnant early¿yobs on the street causing problems¿. These are the scum of our land. the filth which I would happily put on a boat and remove ¿. a lot of the rubbish that lives in Bristol.¿ However, you have got it right when you say that ¿it is white, guardian reading , public sector middle classes who cause these problems and divisions.¿ Maybe it¿s these middle classes that we need to put down, because it is they who are the ones really responsible for making this country the mess it is today.

    As to Mesopotamia, I wrote Mesopotamia quite rightly because that¿s what the place was called when Churchill did what he did. And as Martin pointed out so well, these actions are the responsibility of those who ordered them to be done, just as the Iraq Wars are. Blaming everybody in Britain for the Iraq War (or the British Empire come to that) is as nonsensical as blaming every Muslim for jihadi terrorism.”

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