He wants to know why the white race is worth preserving. Really.
by J. Edward Tremlett (right)
While the American press continues to purl and knit about whether it’ll be Obama or Clinton, a momentous occasion took place in England. The rightly-controversial, whites-only British National Party (BNP) scored promising electoral victories in the most recent election, most notably electing a member to the London Assembly Seat, and holding a total of 100 council seats for the first time ever.
This has been a while in coming. For the past few years, since Nick Griffin took control of the organization, the BNP has drastically reworked its image.Gone were the obvious links to racism and violence that plagued it in the past. Word substitution and careful rephrasing of ideas became the new way, and the more boisterous members were told to leave and join the National Front. Recent world events — most notably 9/11 and an increased understanding of the dangers of radical Islam — have made some of their less-changed messages seem much more palatable, even sensible. And, given the short memories of the electorate, that’s been more than enough to gain the BNP support and votes from people you’d think would be more sensible.
On the surface, it seems as though the BNP have risen from a questionable past to a better future. The truth is not too deeply hidden, though; if you know where and how to look, it’s clear that the party has only changed its language, and not its heart. It remains to be seen if the BNP’s remarkable — but still modest — gains will pave the way for future successes, or give them a chance to shoot themselves in the foot in front of the cameras, rather than behind them. But no one should be fooled by the hype — past the propaganda, this is still your father’s BNP.
These days, the BNP packages itself behind a slick — if overly busy –web page that has just about every answer you could want, except for the truth. The real face of the party leaks out, though, thanks to undercover work by The Guardian(in 2006) and the occasional embarrassing photograph from David Duke’s European American Conference (in 2005). So much for learning from errors of the past!
In fact, the most ironic thing about the BNP’s much-vaunted page proving they’re not racists or White Supremacists is that it proves them, by their arguments, to be White Separatists, which is also a racist philosophy. (It also shows they can’t debate worth a damn, which is why they may have so many problems getting elected, until now).