BNP membership leaked: spot the fascists

November 20, 2008

In a piece titled Heat rises over UK's web map of fascists SMH tech journalist Asher Moses shows his colours ...

Right-wing extremists across Britain are bracing for violent repercussions after the British National Party's entire membership list was leaked on the internet.

Just pause and re-read that. Who are the ones threatening violent repercussions? Are they the ones Moses calls extremists or fascists? Does Moses condemn the violent repercussions? Nope, whilst full of judgement against BNP members, his rarefied morality does not condemn the left-liberal extremists who, unlike the BNP, are threatening violence. Silence speaks.

Ironically, the BNP is relying on Britain's Human Rights Act, which it opposes, to protect the privacy of its members.

Whatever the BNP stands for (I don't know much) it is a lawful democratic party. I suspect that even if it opposes the Human Rights Act it would be in favour of privacy laws. Ironically, Moses snickers at the privacy rights of members of a lawful party, as if they don't deserve them.

A law has been broken, but does that worry Moses? Nope, his morality does not extend to condemn the unlawful act - not with one word - but he does find the time to see the "humorous side" in it.

All he's concerned with is smearing the reputation of a lawful political party, and admiring the tech-savvy lawlessness that has British citizens fearing for their lives. What would you call someone who turns a blind eye to the law in pursuit of political gain? Silence speaks.

The Labour Party shows the same spirit...

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, showed little sympathy over the leak. She told Sky News: "It probably says something about the BNP that people don't want to have it known that they are a member." ...

Smith's Labour party is seeking to pass a bill that would make it legal for trade unions to bar members of the BNP, and she has the chutzpah to insinuate that people don't want their BNP membership known because it is something shameful, conveniently "forgetting" the fact that the group is being legislated against, members are actively discriminated against in the workplace, as well as being subject to threats from leftist thugs.

Lawrence Auster...

That's shows the spirit of the true totalitarian. The true totalitarian doesn't just oppress you and take away your freedom, like a garden variety dictator. The true totalitarian says that your fear that he will oppress you and take away your freedom proves that you have a guilty conscience.

Lawrence Auster on the BNP ...

I pay attention to them because (1) they are virtually the only organized entity in Britain that seeks to defend Britain from national suicide, (2) they have done something that no anti-Semitic organization has ever done before, intelligently argue against anti-Semitism and officially reject it within the party, and (3) articles in BNP publications such as the one I recently discussed about Israel point toward a key component in the possible salvation of the West, namely the possibility of race-conscious white Westerners defending Jews and Israel, and of Jews realizing they are on the same side as white Westerners.

All these things make BNP noteworthy, interesting, and even promising. Is there anything in the Labor party or the Conservative party that make them noteworthy and interesting, other than their embrace of British national suicide?

... Every single article has expressed caveats and cautions. I have not given it a clean bill of health. I have not endorsed it. My discussions have been cautious and have always laid out the reasons why I thought this was worth discussing, therefore I don't think thoughtful VFR readers would be turned off by my mentioning it...

I like the whole thing. I'm still leery of the BNP as people, based on what I've heard about them, but how could I not wish a party well whose platform is right on so many points, in a different galaxy from the major parties? Even if the BNP candidates are unqualified for political office, wouldn't the success of a party with such a platform represent progress for those principles?

A BNP member comments ...

... The people on that list are political dissidents; which is a novel thought. I never thought when I was young that modern Britain could see such a thing...

No one seem in the slightest bit bothered about the fact that the police are openly perusing a list which is illegal and has a high-court injunction against it, so that they can sack the people on it, that people are now being sacked in "free" Britain for being members of a legal political party. There is not even the pretence that this isn't happening, it just doesn't matter. It seems that if you are BNP, anything goes--by being "racist" we put ourselves outside the protection of the law...

The Home Secretary mockingly commented that people in the BNP are obviously ashamed of their views to be reacting with such fear. Her comment, and the comment of others I have seen on news-sites, have revealed to us that which was partially concealed, that Britain today has become a nastier, and in a Stalinist way, a more threatening place than it felt yesterday. Such stories and the way they are spun and received give a glimpse to the attuned of the likely road ahead. The Home Secretary knows very well that the reason many members are scared to admit they are in the BNP is because of the very real possibility of harassment, persecution and loss of livelihood that she and her government inflicts on us through its intermediaries in the police and Marxist trade unions, amongst others.

And from the public's indifference, it would seem most people here couldn't care less. There are many groups that will protect the rights and liberties of non-Britons, but arguably even paedophiles have more groups willing to fight for their rights. We are quite alone. Not that I am complaining ... being "excluded" from such a society is like being accused of homophobia by the citizens of Sodom.

Even non-BNP members are outraged ...