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BNP under police scrutiny after BBC report

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  • 16-07-2004 11:41am
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    Sleipnir
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    Did anybody catch this on BBC2 last night?
    Quite sickening and also worryying considered they have quadrupled their vote in the past few years.




    POLICE in Yorkshire will consider what action to take today against members of the British National Party after a TV documentary showed followers of the right-wing group admitting violence and racism towards Asians, writes James Burleigh.

    The BBC film 'The Secret Agent', broadcast last night, pictured the BNP chairman, Nick Griffin, condemning Islam as a "vicious, wicked faith".

    Mr Griffin also claimed he would face seven years in prison if he made the comments in public.

    Footage of a meeting in Keighley, West Yorkshire showed Mr Griffin saying: "You've got to stand up and do something for the British National Party because otherwise they (Muslims) will do for someone in your family."

    A police spokeswoman said it would be investigating the programme's claims to find out if any offences had taken place.

    The hour-long documentary was filmed by Jason Gwynne, a reporter who spent six months undercover with the BNP before local the elections in June.

    The documentary also showed Stewart Williams, a BNP candidate in the elections, saying: "All I want to do is shoot Pakis." (© Independent News Service)


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    #2
    Big Ears
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    I say ban the BNP ,(me thinks to that annoting add on tv elephant . co.uk = its simple its easy its fast , although simple and easy are very similiar words . )


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    arcadegame2004
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    The BNP is evil and racist. However, if you ban them then they'll probably do what Batasuna did in Spain and re-establish the party under infinite new names. And although I despise the message of the BNP, I feel uncomfortable with the idea of banning any political-party, irrespective of how much I deplore their ideologies. After all, Communism has been responsible for even more deaths than fascism (Stalin is thought to have had between 20 million and 40 million murdered, while the Chinese Communist regime is believed to have worked to death/executed 100 million on collective-farms, not to mention the murder of 2 million Tibetans), so should we ban the Irish Communist Party? Note that the Communists in France were in Government with the French Socialist Party from around 1997-2002. Let's have some consistency here.


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