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Ryanair invite avowed Nazi to celebrate new Anglo-Austrian route! Strange world

@lex | 17.06.2002 22:54

Ryanair invite avowed Nazi to celebrate new Anglo-Austrian route! Strange world

Stop Haider in London!
Thursday 27 June 2002
Demonstrate! 5 p.m., Royal Horseguards Hotel, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1 (Embankment, Charing Cross)
Anti-racists have reacted with fury and disgust at the news that Jorg Haider is to host a press conference in London to launch Ryanair's London-Klagenfurt service.

Haider is Austria's leading Nazi politician: he describes the Waffen-SS as "decent people", praises Hitler's policies as "orderly" and consorts with violent neo-Nazi thugs.

He is also a virulent racist who claims black people are "naturally aggressive" and advocates apartheid in Austria's schools.

Haider is coming to London's The Royal Horseguards Hotel on Thursday 27 June to launch Ryanair's new service. When Haider came to London in 1999, he was chased away by anti-Nazi protestors. Let's make sure the same happens on 27 June!

COMPLAIN to Ryanair, the Austrian National Tourist Office and the Royal Horseguards Hotel:

Ryanair headquarters: tel +353 1 812 1212, fax +353 1 844 6625
Ryanair press office email:  otoolee@ryanair.ie
Austrian National Tourist Office: tel 020 7318 1671, fax 020 7499 6038; email:  helm@anto.co.uk
Royal Horseguards Hotel: tel 020 7839 3400; email:  RoyalHorseGuards@Thistle.co.uk

@lex
- Homepage: www.anl.org and www.ryanair.com

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its up to them

17.06.2002 23:25

Joerg Haider is a prominant politician in Austria so why shouldn't they invite him. Whether you think he is a "Nazi" or not doesen't matter, he was democratically elected by the people of Austria. Then again, the ANaL are notoriously anti-democratic, advocating that the 10,000 people who voted BNP in Burnley don't deserve representation.

Your bully boy anti-democratic tactics belong in the 70s where the ANaL also belongs.

Dave


its up to them

17.06.2002 23:25

Joerg Haider is a prominant politician in Austria so why shouldn't they invite him. Whether you think he is a "Nazi" or not doesen't matter, he was democratically elected by the people of Austria. Then again, the ANaL are notoriously anti-democratic, advocating that the 10,000 people who voted BNP in Burnley don't deserve representation.

Your bully boy anti-democratic tactics belong in the 70s where the ANaL also belongs.

Dave


Stick it Dave

18.06.2002 07:22

You can take that democracy bullshit and stick it up you arse, you fascist. Democracy does exactly what it says; it gives power to the group which will best represent the majority (which will always consist of all types, including loads of verminous racists in this country) and the minorities will always suffer. Hitler's National Socialists were democratically elected too, but that doesn't make them any good for anyone who didn't vote for them.

Andy


Cheap an nasty

18.06.2002 08:35

with or without the nazis contax, Ryan air sucks big time.
The attitude of the (untrained staff) is pretty horrible.
They cancel planes and fuck you about as they please, if you miss a flight, tough shit.They have taken air travel back to the DAN DARE /DAN AIR days of the 1970's.
The prices are usually cheap but often when you have complicated route , you find one leg of the journey costs a fortune, then the plane is cancelled or turns up hours late and your stuck in brussels south where there is next to no decent food, and ryan air don't even check to make sure your still alive, which is great for familys with kids and old folks on board. if you can avoid ryan air ...

cattle


politics is a profession

20.06.2002 16:56

the members of which should be acting in the best interests of its people NOT pandering to their delusions and hatreds. If (as is claimed in the comment above) 10 thousand idiotic white workers voted BNP, then they are sabotaging their own interests as well as the people they hate so much. 'listen to us' seems to be the pathetic, baleful slogan of the age for the bigoted plebian masses, in austria, france, holland, spain, italy and here too. so what ? i have no intention of listening to their scummy, ill- thought- out collections of second- hand wisdom gone sour ! people can, and often are, wrong en masse. by definition, public opinion must always gravitate around an agregate, and as capitalism doesnt encourage creative, original thinking, it tends to end in the old 'lowest common denominator'.
its nothing but a perversion of democracy to pretend that a mistaken viewpoint somehow becomes 'truth' just because thousands believe it. far from it, it rather raises the point bertold brecht made, that if the people just arent up to it, perhaps the government should abolish them and appoint another.

W S Derfty


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