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Stoneleigh on March 9, 2007 - 1:46pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Inside the BNP: papers and tapes reveal election strategy

The British National party believes its efforts to sanitise its public image have brought it to the brink of an electoral breakthrough, according to unpublished documents and tapes uncovered by the Guardian.

The clean-up, ordered by the leader, Nick Griffin, to rid the party of its hooligan stereotype is, according to the documents, aimed at legitimising the BNP in the eyes of a wider electorate....

....BNP leaders believe they need to increase the number of potential supporters, convinced that many would consider turning to the party at a time of deep economic crisis. Mr Griffin is convinced that the support of just 18% of the British electorate would put the party just "one crisis away from power".

This strategy was laid out by Mr Griffin in a speech to a closed meeting of American white supremacists and European far-right party activists in New Orleans last year. In a recording of the speech obtained by the Guardian, he tells his audience to prepare now for "an age of scarcity that will be a once-in-200-years opportunity".

He not only believes that an economic crisis of catastrophic proportions would present a great opportunity for the BNP: he appears to be convinced that such a crisis is inevitable, the result of global warming, fuel shortages and mounting debt....

....Attempts to launch a recruitment drive in some of the most affluent areas of the capital were compromised, however, when the party unwittingly appointed an undercover Guardian journalist as its central London organiser.

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klee on March 9, 2007 - 1:52pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Exactly Stoneleigh - economic, environmental or energy crises are situations provide and "opportunity" to be exploited to achieve the party's racist and nationalistic goals.

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HeIsSoFly on March 9, 2007 - 2:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Dangerous and smart.

They've had a peak oil section on their website for years. How many other political parties anywhere in the world have that?

They know there's a huge crisis coming, and all they have to do is wait.

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Sterling on March 9, 2007 - 2:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

an age of scarcity that will be a once-in-200-years opportunity

The opportunists will be out in force and the unthinking will want someone to blame. Such a temptation to make a resource grab in the dream of not having to give up our non-negotiable way of life. Think how easy it will be to demonize those of us who want to fix the mess to those who do not want to do the hard work.

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TrueKaiser on March 9, 2007 - 11:34pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

exactly.
people will always want the easy way out, power will always flow to those who seem to provide that 'easy way' even if it is a racist party.

though on the subject on xenophobia and racism, in a purely academic sense. did not these now negative quality's serve a positive purpose back in the days of hunter gatherer tribes?
i am looking at this a purely natural point of view, ie nature has no concept of morals or right and wrong. only traits that let organisms survive and traits that don't. i don't buy the common view that these things are abnormal quality's, even evil. no this doesn't mean i am a racist, though i am sure a few of you will think that now. my view is that these behavior traits, more or less kept the population disperse enough that they do not over-tax the environment around them leading to everyone's or close to everyone's death. this is not to say this trait was not overcome when say one tribe needed fresh blood to prevent from in-breeding. i also do not view these traits as very strong. if they were civilization would not of formed.

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Cid Yama on March 9, 2007 - 11:48pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

In other words, Kill the Poor, Kill the Disabled, Kill the Weak, Kill anyone not like us. Survival of the chosen few is all that matters. I believe Germany had a philosophy like this back in the 1930's and '40's. It was called Eugenics.(actually the Eugenics movement was worldwide in the early 20th century.)

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Samsara on March 10, 2007 - 1:13pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

A lot of their play book they got from the US.

For example, in the 1930's a Respectable, Rightous, Upstanding, Man of the Community, yada yada P

Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 stands out among anti-miscegenation laws that can be traced to eugenic advocacy. To fashion a successful legislative strategy, three local Virginia eugenicists – John Powell, Earnest Cox and Walter Plecker – consulted with Madison Grant and Harry Laughlin. Powell, a celebrated pianist and composer, was the founder of the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America, an elitist version of the Ku Klux Klan dedicated to maintaining "Anglo-Saxon ideals and civilization in America." Like The Passing of the Great Race, Cox's book White America emphasized white supremacy and the dangers of racial mixing. Plecker was registrar at the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Virginia Board of Health. His ideas on racial interbreeding as the source of "public health" problems appeared in state-published pamphlets distributed to all who planned to marry.

When The Racial Integrity Act became law, it included provisions requiring racial registration certificates and strict definitions of who would qualify as members of the white race. It emphasized the "scientific" basis of race assessment, and the "dysgenic" dangers of race mixing. Its major provision declared: "It shall hereafter be unlawful for any white person in this State to marry any save a white person, or a person with no other admixture of blood than white and American Indian. …the term "white person" shall apply only to such person as has no trace whatever of any blood other than Caucasian; but persons who have one-sixteenth or less of the blood of the American Indian and have no other non-Caucasic blood shall be deemed to be white persons…."

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay7text.html

Goto this 4 page article and read the first couple paragraghs. Couldn't copy paste it. It's a Small 4 page PDF.
http://www.weyanoke.org/pdf/plecker2.pdf

He writes "I sometime regret that we do not have the authority to put some these measures in practice in Virginia". That was in a letter to the German official that wrote the German Eugenics laws. He was appaulding the german's sterlizing 600 children(and why) in Algeria.

A good backgroud read.

Sorry for going out on a tangent. But this was only a while ago. 1-2 generations. The feelings have not had er... 'Closure' yet.

Financial collapse will bring these feelings to the for front in Peak Oil times I fear.

I hope I am wrong and my fellow man will 'Help" each other

John

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