by Dreams End » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:41 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>And here I was hoping this was a place that wasn't mesmerized by convenient group think labels that the elites use.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I'd say a pretty good majority of us here are anti-fascist. Sorry if that disappoints you. I'm sure BNP has a good discussion forum.<br><br>Here's an image for you of John Tyndall, founder of the BNP. He's on the left, (in the picture). Below that, in case anyone thinks we're just picking on you, a brief history of the BNP.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stopthebnp/uncovered/images/JohnTyndall02.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Formed in 1982 by John Tyndall, one of Britain’s foremost post-war nazis, the BNP spent much of the 1980s in the shadow of the larger National Front. The NF was to split quite dramatically, and, torn by internal conflict, left a space on the far right for the BNP to fill.<br><br>In 1985, one of its main activists, Tony Lecomber, was sent to prison for trying to blow up the offices of a rival organisation. He was also caught with hand-grenades. Despite his attempted terrorism, he remains number two in today’s BNP.<br><br>During the early 1990s much of its activities were focused on East London, where, in 1993, it secured a council by-election victory in the Tower Hamlets ward of Millwall. The price to pay was a massive rise in racial attacks. In the three months after the election, racial incidents rose by 300%.<br><br>At about the same time the BNP spawned the violent Combat 18 as its security force. . C18 later emerged as a nazi terror group, responsible for a letter bomb campaign and a series of murders. C18 thugs, made up of football hooligans and nazi skinheads, protected BNP meetings and minded BNP leaders during party marches<br><br>In 1993 the BNP became increasingly embarrassed by Combat 18 violence. After its victory in Millwall it decided it no longer needed the street thugs and banned dual membership. However most BNP members ignored this plea. In September 1995 four of the five London BNP branch organisers attended a C18 meeting.<br><br>The Millwall seat was lost eight months later. The BNP lost momentum, with younger members going over to C18. Tyndall reversed the slide by adopting a more hardline strategy, which included bringing veteran US nazi leader, William Pierce, to London.<br><br><br>William Pierce<br>Pierce penned the evil tract, The Turner Diaries, which inspired the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and the London nailbomber David Copeland. Copeland learnt his politics in the BNP.<br><br>After Nick Griffin became leader in 1999, the BNP began to adopt a more respectable image. It campaigned on rural issues and, publicly at least, watered down some of its more racist policies. However most of the key BNP personnel have remained the same. And it was only one year before Griffin became leader that he received a suspended prison sentence for inciting racial hatred.<br><br>In 2002 the BNP won three council seats in Burnley and averaged 28% of the town-wide vote. In Oldham, the party came second in four of the five wards it contested and took an average 27%. Across the country the BNP averaged 16% in the council wards it contested, easily its best election results in its history. It is important remember that it challenged less than 1% of all seats up for election. But since then, they have added two more council seats and this looks set to grow in May.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stopthebnp/uncovered/pg02.htm<br>Way to fight groupthink there, Thumper. <p></p><i></i>