First, as will soon be required by law, here’s my declaration of interest: I am third-generation immigrant. I am white. I am male. I am heterosexual. If the BNP’s manifesto were implemented tomorrow I wouldn’t be booted out of the country. Once the first wave of cleansing was completed, they would turn to heritage – how many generations has your family been here? Only three? Out you go. I have no illusions of safety based on skin colour. I also have friends who are not white-skinned but whose families have been here much longer than mine. So I am not a BNP supporter, before all you Righteous get your blood pressure up. I don’t support them. I do support an even-handed and fair application of law. For everyone.
I also have no political affiliation. I’m not a member of any party.
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I mentioned the use of the database of the Devil’s disciples before, but there’s more.
For the BNP to allow the theft of a database of members is careless, certainly, but the publication of the database is illegal under data protection laws, therefore using that database is using the proceeds of theft, which there are old laws against. Far be it from our MP’s to indulge in such behaviour, one might think.
Ah, but the Righteous don’t regard BNP members as human beings. They are the Smokers of that terrible film, Waterworld, and of modern day Britain and like Smokers they are evil and must be eradicated, man, woman and child. The use of that database is legitimate if it causes pain, anguish, homelessness, loss of friends, loss of jobs, loss of everything to those the State have deemed unworthy of life.
Therefore, the Righteous Kerry McCarthy has no problem with retaining a copy of an illegally-obtained list, and her colleague has no problem making use of that list to write to the BNP members in his constituency. I have no idea what he’ll write but the message received will be clear: we know who you are and where you live. I haven’t commented on her blog. There’s no point. The Righteous cannot be reasoned with.
The title of her post is ‘human rights’. Since the BNP don’t like that legislation she has decided they aren’t entitled to use it. Those laws are only for use by those who agree with them. Human rights, in this instance, apply not to the BNP as an organisation but to those individual people on that list. They are, despite Righteous insistence, human. They are not all racist skinheads. They are people who are members of a legal political party and who have, like members of any other party, the right to a reasonable expectation that their privacy will be respected. Jacq the Ripper has questioned why they are so afraid for their membership to be known. They are afraid of you, Jacqui, and your Righteous baying mob. They are afraid of what their own government will do to them for not following the Righteous thought-patterns. Doesn’t it make you proud? Did you read you free book yet?
The BNP as an organisation will use data protection laws, maybe against all those who make use of the illegally-released list as well as the original squealers.
So if you’re a rapist or a murderer or a terrorist or a torturer of children, you are entitled to human rights. If you are a member of the BNP, you are not. I would prefer none of those things existed, but they do, and so the law must apply equally to them all. Why deny the members of a legal party those rights which are granted to murderers? What version of ‘fair’ is that?
Are we to assume that if a list of Labour party members were leaked, it would be perfectly fine for Tory candidates to selectively canvass them all? Or would that suddenly be illegal?
The BNP say that names have been added, that some of the people on the released list are not, and have never been, members. It’s bad enough in an alleged democracy that someone can lose their job for thinking unclean thoughts, but it seems the possibility exists that some will lose out without ever having thought any such thing. Well, that’s no surprise. An accusation is enough these days. No need for all that ‘fair trial’ nonsense. Labour have dispensed with that, along with ‘innocent until proven guilty’ because it makes trials take far too long and brings down the conviction rates. Besides, if they have been accused then they must have done something, right?
I’ll come right out and say I don’t like the BNP. Their overtly racist agenda is deeply unpleasant, and if they dropped all of that part they’d do far better, in my view. It’s up to them – if they want to limit their support base then by all means let them do so. With New Labour driving new recruits their way, they have no real incentive to change anyway.
Once the witch-hunt gets underway, once the stories circulate of BNP members victimised simply because of their party affiliations, the BNP membership will rise. Kerry McCarthy’s and her unnamed colleague’s use of their copies of the list will increase the BNP share of the vote enormously.
Because, you see, the Righteous have shouted ‘racist’ for so long, at so many people,that it is now impossible to spot real racists. Anyone disagreeing with any aspect of immigration policy or with the oxymoronic ‘positive discrimination’ is a racist by default. Witness her response to DaveA in the comments here. It’s a standard Righteous response – can’t argue, so belittle and insult instead. DaveA seems to have wisely withdrawn from the fray because the next step would be to force a reaction. Get the opponent so angry that they threaten violence, then point at the nasty Bad Man who wants to kill them and thereby claim moral superiority. It’s a game with fixed rules.
The Righteous believe that everything they do, think and say is right but in reality everything they do – without exception – backfires. Take a look at those rotten teeth on cigarette packets. Not only are they not tobacco-stained, they are not even adult teeth. Look at the idea for ‘shame’ queues for booze buyers at supermarkets. An express checkout for booze? Thanks very much. Ban guns and knives and criminals feel free to use the ones they have, knowing the rest of us don’t have any. Shout down the BNP and people notice them and their policies. Victimise people who have done no actual harm to anyone and people who have paid no attention to the BNP suddenly support them. Not necessarily their aims, but they support their right not to be bullied for them.
Call those people racists because they don’t want every BNP member in prison, and what do they have to lose? They’re already branded racist so why not join up?
Kerry, a certain Mr. Griffin will thank you one day for the boost you’ll give to his membership. The rest of us won’t.
It was careless of the BNP to lose that database, yes, but that does not mean it’s fair game to use it. Before you lefties shout ‘Well, it’s out now’, remember that databases of child-support claimants, learner drivers, military personnel and many others are ‘out now’ too. The BNP didn’t lose them.
To lose one database may be regarded as careless, but to lose as many as Labour have sounds like incompetence. (Sorry, Oscar, I know it’s wrong but it’s pretty close).
I haven’t seen the list. I’m not on it so I don’t care. I don’t care if my neighbour is a BNP supporter. It could be worse.
They could be Labour.