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06/27/2009: "On the legal challenge to force the British National Party to accept non-white members"
Even if the BNP agrees to amend its membership rules before the case goes to court, it will be reported that the party has done the "decent" thing - giving more weight to Griffin's ludicrous, though worryingly effective claim that his is a respectable and legitimate party.
And what will the commission have gained from all of this? The right for black or Asian people to join a party which spreads fear and hatred about them; which claims they can never be British; and which wants, ultimately, to repatriate them. Who does Phillips think will be signing up? Turkeys, you really can vote for Christmas.
Among large swaths of the population it is no longer shameful to speak up for the BNP, and the party has been helped by the useful idiots fighting their corner in arguments over free speech. Would these people - most of whom have no understanding of what it's like to be the victim of race discrimination - have backed Hitler? Do they not see that blaming minorities for social and economic problems appeals to a gut instinct that is not easily overcome by learned arguments? Above all, publicity, and the sense that others think like you, is what drives support for these groups.
[ I hope Americans are taking note that the BNP has never allowed non-white membership of the party. The above article shows how the enemies of the Brits are tying themselves in knots since the election of Nick Griffin MEP and Andrew Brons MEP. The BNP are emphatically NOT Nazis - I have to stress. ]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/24/bnp-race-watchdog-court-action
