A liar shown up

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I hate Fascism in general and Nick Griffin in particular. Griffin is the head of the British Fascist party, the BNP, and as clever a villain as any in politics. I repeatedly said that he is the cleverest party leader in Britain - unfortunately. He has been ruthlessly positioning his party - whose core is made of unrepenentant thugs and Jew-bashers - on the right position of the culture wars, taking in a vast number of disgruntled and disenfranchised conservatives-with-a-small-c who post in conservative websites asking, if I cannot vote for the BNP, who can I vote for? Well, recent footage shows the bastard in the company of friends, making the point very clearly that he is using social conservatism as a cover to get the rubes in and win votes. Then, he said, he would start to get people around to think more and more his way. And he did not mean conservatively.

This is a fairly sickening situation to anyone who follows politics closely enough. In spite of all that is known about his past and his associates (he said he had been reading Mein Kampf since he was 13), every election, national, local or European, showed the party - originally little more than a fringe association of psychopaths who regularly got a few dozen votes per seat - becoming a more credible electoral force. They now have councillors all over England and two Members in the European Parliament. And the trouble is that every time the establishment tried to show their moral unworthiness and political fraudulency, it blew right back in their faces. To put it very simply, the whole societal leadership of the United Kingdom has no moral credibility left with anybody. Anybody. If the leadership of the Labour or Tory Parties, the press, or the churches, stand up and denounce the BNP, the majority of the public pays no mind, and a minority is actually motivated to search them out.

This time, though, they may have gone too far. Griffin may be a smart thug, but he is still a thug after all; and he has an unfortunate (for him) belief in the theory of the Big Lie. The Armed Forces are the one institution in Britain that have been gaining rather than losing respect, thanks mainly to their sacrifice in Afghanistan. Obviously, the BNP has been trying to capitalize on their reputation present and past; they even had the nerve to invoke Churchill and the Battle of Britain, obviously thinking that their public would not pay attention to the enormous absurdity of a bunch of Fascists claiming Churchill of all people for their own. But the armed forces have reacted. A group of present and past chiefs of staff, distinguished officers, and medal holders, have signed a declaration against the BNP. Griffin, who was on a hiding to nothing trying to argue against the military, has then compounded his error by telling a demonstrable lie live on screen (that wounded servicemen in Birmingham's Selly Oak hospital were forced to pay to watch TV programs). This was inevitably refuted within minutes. One hopes that Griffin has for once met something that he cannot subvert to his own odious cause.

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[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Could you link me to an article about the footage? I did a Google News search and all I saw was articles about Griffin's appearance on Question Time. I clicked on one of them read to the bottom, and then noted that in the many comments, the ones supporting the BNP, even to the point of being explicitly racist, had been recommended by as many as a hundred votes, while the anti-BNP comments have less than ten.

Racists need to STFU with their common bleat that they can't be racist because they think that Asians/Jews/Indians are more intelligent than whites. For one thing, because what they DON'T say is what they believe these "others" use the intelligence FOR (crafty sneakiness and inscrutable greed); for another, I've heard one particularly loathsome individual say that blacks have the biggest genitalia and the smallest brainpower, and Asians were the opposite, while whites were balanced. He also stated that any man would naturally feel attracted to an Asian female and any female would naturally feel attracted to a Black man. Imagine what I have just said in coarser language times 100 and you'll get the idea.

In a way it all goes back to what you said before, about how when you said that Griffin was intelligent, people attacked you for praising him. It honestly seems like many people cannot recognize that saying someone is smart could be anything other than approval.

Edit: I decided this icon was better.

Mademoiselle, vous voici

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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33721_The_Fascist_Strategy_of_Entryism

Re: Mademoiselle, vous voici

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I should be comforted by the fact that the comments there are sane, but that just makes me think that the BNP have done too well in rebranding themselves to the average Brit, who simply don't know about their racism, or worse, know and shrug, because they've given up on the other parties and they think this racism is a price they're willing to pay. "Salvation through Leviathan by any means necessary" as Mark Shea puts it.

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[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I loved this quote from comment #67:

The only good thing about the BNP is the fact that they are as dumb as a bag of hammers. Their sneak skills, as this video shows, are pathetic.

"Here on this video, which will be broadcast all over the world for years to come, we reveal our super-secret plan to trick everyone into thinking we arent really racists anymore. It is a very clever and completely foolproof plan...."

Re: Mademoiselle, vous voici

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Ah, but then Hitler said pretty much everything he intended to do in Mein Kampf, sold it by the million of copies, translated it in several languages - it made him a millionaire - but people still would not believe that he meant it. When the psychic drive is strong enough, significant numbers of people can blind themselves to virtually anything - your mother could probably say this more technically than I can, but it's true. Look at the last US election: what, except the desperate drive to have a black president at all costs - motivated by a devastating centuries-old and not unjustified guilt complex - could have led millions of Catholics and moderates of all kinds to vote for Barack Obama, whose views were all too well known? I am NOT, repeat NOT, comparing Obama to Hitler; except in that the willingness of many if his moderate supporters to blind themselves to the obvious is equally clear.

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[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

A sad quote from that original article I linked had a BNP supporter crying out for another Churchill.

Oh, my dear, can you not see that you have not got hold of a Churchill but rather a Mosley?

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But that is the problem. When people do not have clear water, they will drink brackish and fermenting liquids. The societal leadership of the United Kingdom have forsaken their role en masse. It's a weird world when the clearest voice one hears for freedom and decency is that of Sir Paul McCartney. A significant sector of the public are willing to shut both eyes rather than be forced to choose between the three immoralists, relativists, modernists, who lead the three parties, and between whose worthless opinions you could not slip a cigarette paper. I can see where the anger is coming from; it is just tragic that they have no other outlet than this swindler.