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TIME: The March to the Far Right
time.com ^ | 08.15.09 | LASZLO BALOGH / REUTERS

Posted on 08/16/2009 5:09:10 AM PDT by VU4G10

Ideologues can parody themselves more effectively than any satirist. Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, is sipping sparkling water in a hotel lounge and comparing himself to Mahatma Gandhi. The BNP aims to send nonwhite Britons "home." At private BNP rallies, Griffin, convicted in 1998 of incitement to racial hatred, warns adherents that Muslim men are plotting to defile underage British girls, peppering his invective with concocted statistics such as this one: "The average racist murderer in this country is 40 times more likely to be a member of an ethnic minority than the other way round."

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bnp; europe; islam; right

1 posted on 08/16/2009 5:09:11 AM PDT by VU4G10
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To: VU4G10

Clueless Time prints more manure. Today’s headline.


2 posted on 08/16/2009 5:13:49 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: VU4G10
I’m sure this will be followed up by Time with a piece about the spread of socialism and the far left. That will then surely be followed up by an open and honest assessment of the role of Islam and radical Islam in terrorism and human rights violations. Right?
3 posted on 08/16/2009 5:14:39 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: VU4G10

“Far-right parties are attracting applause in many corners of Europe these days.”

....Far-right is code for white Europeans.


4 posted on 08/16/2009 5:18:00 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: VU4G10

Has anyone wrote an article yet on how the Democrats are grossly overplaying their hand?


5 posted on 08/16/2009 5:26:08 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: VU4G10

The ridicule and dismissive tone from rulers in Washington and their enablers in the state-run media (adding insult to injury) only serve to magnify the anger and frustration ordinary people are feeling. Not a good strategy.


6 posted on 08/16/2009 5:29:25 AM PDT by Genoa
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Over the years, far-right fortunes have surged, only to ebb as the parties have shot themselves in the jackboot with internal feuds and rickety organization.

Far right? Sounds like the left to me.

7 posted on 08/16/2009 5:32:07 AM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org/)
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To: VU4G10
The average racist murderer in this country is 40 times more likely to be a member of an ethnic minority than the other way round.

Am I to assume that the execrable writer provided the TRUE statistics to back up his "concocted" assertion?

8 posted on 08/16/2009 5:37:54 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: VU4G10

In America, under the House bill for health care reform the Democrats have the audacity to propose to cover 9 million illegal aliens, with money from US taxpayers. Legal Americans will wait months for an MRI while illegal aliens waltz in and get free medical care.

Then they wonder why people are up in arms at these town halls.


9 posted on 08/16/2009 5:38:32 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: Genoa

“The ridicule and dismissive tone from rulers in Washington and their enablers in the state-run media (adding insult to injury) only serve to magnify the anger and frustration ordinary people are feeling. Not a good strategy.”

Then there’s the implication that public discontent with our enlightened liberal government results in fascism and violence and therefore must be avoided. This approach will not work.


10 posted on 08/16/2009 5:40:28 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: MortMan

Precisely! If the assertion is false, then prove it, dismiss the moron as a liar and move on. But you see, it is a true statement and so Time just throws it out the so-called “racist” statement to let it fester, meanwhile they cannot refute it but only show liberal umbrage at someone who had the audacity to bring it up.


11 posted on 08/16/2009 5:44:31 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: MortMan

Precisely! If the assertion is false, then prove it, dismiss the moron as a liar and move on. But you see, it is a true statement and so Time just throws it out the so-called “racist” statement to let it fester, meanwhile they cannot refute it but only show liberal umbrage at someone who had the audacity to bring it up.


12 posted on 08/16/2009 5:44:58 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: VU4G10

Does Time do exposes on Islamist groups who want to make Sharia law-of-the-land in much of the Western world? No—that would be racist. Of course, in their mind, the British wanting to keep their country British is also racist.


13 posted on 08/16/2009 6:00:49 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: VU4G10

I guess they’re militia members too? Seems to be in fashion with the media these days. /sarcasm>


14 posted on 08/16/2009 7:03:06 AM PDT by GVnana (Sarah for America)
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To: VU4G10

Is TIME still in publication?


15 posted on 08/16/2009 7:03:57 AM PDT by PGR88
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Wow are the Brits finally taking the queeranus cerially?

Mad Moe (Pigs be inseminating him) wasn't kidding about all the murder, mutilation, and misogyny!

16 posted on 08/16/2009 7:05:39 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Ifanationexpects tobe ignorantandfree,inastateofcivilization,itexpects whatneverwas andnever will be)
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To: VU4G10

I thought Time had gone under. Oh, wait, almost but not quite.


17 posted on 08/16/2009 8:16:24 AM PDT by catnipman
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To: STONEWALLS

I thought they were an endangered species...


18 posted on 08/16/2009 9:19:01 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
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"warns adherents that Muslim men are plotting to defile underage British girls"

Whoever saw THAT coming ?

19 posted on 08/16/2009 1:03:09 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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