BNP Boss Arrested On Race Charge

Yahoo UK ^ | 12/14/04 | Yahoo UK

[TrebleRebel]

BNP Boss Arrested On Race Charge The leader of the British National Party has been arrested following a TV documentary exposing the extent of racism in the organisation. Nick Griffin, 45, was arrested on suspicion of incitement to commit racial hatred as part of an investigation into the BBC programme Secret Agent.Father-of-four Griffin has been chairman of the BNP since 1999.

A BNP spokesman said: "At 0700 four non-uniformed police officers awoke the Griffin household from their sleep at their family farmhouse in mid Wales."

The documentary, screened in July, featured covertly-filmed footage showing BNP activists confessing to race-hate crimes and party leader Griffin condemning Islam as a "vicious, wicked faith".

His arrest is the 12th in connection with the investigation into the BBC documentary.

The BNP's founding chairman John Tyndall, 70, of Brighton, was arrested on suspicion of the same offence on Sunday following a speech he made in Burnley, Lancashire, in March.

Parts of the speech were covertly filmed and shown in the BBC documentary.

Tyndall, a former chairman of the National Front, has been released on police bail pending further inquiries.

[TrebleRebel]

Meanwhile, Sheikh Abu Hamza of the Finsbury Park mosque in London called for the immediate death of every non-Muslim in Britain. Police threatend to jail anyone who disagreed with his right to freely practice his religion which allows the killing of non-believers.

[Bikers4Bush]

"....party leader Griffin condemning Islam as a "vicious, wicked faith"."

On this item he's exactly correct.

[wideawake]

Griffin and friends are not good guys, but unless he has actively conspired in a crime of violence, this is nothing but police state activity.

[Cowboy Bob]

Meanwhile, Sheikh Abu Hamza of the Finsbury Park mosque in London called for the immediate death of every non-Muslim in Britain. Police threatend to jail anyone who disagreed with his right to freely practice his religion which allows the killing of non-believers.

I guess the BNP should declare itself a religion. That way it can avoid harassment.

[bikepacker67]

Griffin condemning Islam as a "vicious, wicked faith

Looks like another case of "stopped clocks" and "blind pigs".

[Jakarta ex-pat]

"I guess the BNP should declare itself a religion. That way it can avoid harassment."

Unless it chooses Christianity

[Constantine XIII]

Ah, sucks to be a "subject," don't it?

One of these days they'll eventually figure out that people have a right to say whatever they want, as long as it doesn't involve inciting violence. They've got the right to be racist losers, if they like. I don't see how being a racist follows from calling Islam a nasty, brutish, evil cult, though.

[joesnuffy]

Arrested for the "intent" to comitt racial thinking....
We Know What You Were About To Think...

The Office of Pre Crime...Pre Thought Division...

[rogermellie]

dear yanks, griffen et al are a bunch of nasty, vicious gits who dress-up their white power fantasies in 'social' politics.

most of them have convictions for serious criminal offences - attempted murder, greivous bodily harm, robbery and conspiricy to cause explosions are the most common.

do you remember the 'war on terror'?

in the filming which preceeded these arrests, the BNP were in a meeting in a pub, one character made a reference to how he wanted to "line up pakis and mow them down with a machine gun"

they make laughable statements about "muslim men shagging white women to outbreed us" and how "white folk are unable to get social housing but blacks get five-bedroomed houses with cars and mobile phones - all for free!".

one of them was in the paper recently saying how much he admired 1930's germany - he failed to notice that his interviewer was jewish.

they are old-fashioned 'send-them-back-where-they-come-from' racist, bigoted, anti-semitic white-power deliquents.

maybe you like that kind of thing?

[joesnuffy]

Many winters ago...in Stevens Point, WI....a former WWII Polish Air Force Pilot POW once told me a funny story...

He said while riding on a train one day in Soviet Poland...a man and his friend were discussing the politics of something they had read in the local newspaper..

The man turned to his friend and said a little too loudly (and in English with thick Polish accent) : "Goverrrr'nment ees sheet"....

A Russian KGB agent was sitting withing earshot...stood up...showed the men his credentials and told the man he was under arrest for slandering the Soviet Government....

The now distressed Polish man pleadingly protested that he meant "American Government ees sheet"....

The security officer laughed and gestured for the man to put out his hands to be handcuffed and rebuffed him saying : "HA!" he said..."You don't think I know wheech Goverrrnment ees sheet".....

[joesnuffy]

maybe you like that kind of thing?

Don't get nasty...Rog :)

[ohioman]

We just happen to like our Freedom of Speech, which especially includes unpopular speech. Now shut up and brush your teeth.

[rogermellie]

i take it your freedom of speech includes saying that non-whites should be put up against a wall and shot?

but of course when a british journalist 'jokes' that someone should shoot your president, then thats waaaay different..

hypocracy is not attractive, ill-informed, knee-jerk hypocracy even less so.

[ladtx]

...suspicion of incitement to commit racial hatred ...

Is this an example of a "thought crime"?

[Ashamed Canadian]

The BNP are a nasty piece of work.

[tjwmason]

Is this an example of a "thought crime"?

No, it's a perfectly sensible criminal offence designed to extend protection to racial minorities who suffer much abuse at the hands of thugs like the B.N.P.

In Britain we are free to think whatever we like, but inciting people to racially motivated violence is banned.

[tjwmason]

Sheikh Abu Hamza of the Finsbury Park mosque in London called for the immediate death of every non-Muslim in Britain

I think you'll find he's been arrested.

As conservatives we should not defend any scum, and the B.N.P. are racist scum of the worst sort (pretty close to the K.K.K.) who have no qualms about encouraging people to violence. This activity should not be permitted.

Radical Islamists who encourage people to violence are also scum and their acts should not be permitted either.

[tjwmason]

Griffin and friends are not good guys,

This point should be made most clearly.

but unless he has actively conspired in a crime of violence, this is nothing but police state activity.

As British law stands inciting people to racially motivated violence is a criminal act. This is what is under investigation.

[tjwmason]

Unless it chooses Christianity

But if the B.N.P. were to become Christian it would have to give up the hatred and racism which are its raison d'etre.