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Nick Griffin To attend Sheffield BNP meeting

Adrian Mole | 07.02.2005 00:29 | Sheffield

The BNP will be launching their campaign in Sheffield with a big meeting on the 18th of February.

Anyone interested in attending please contact Roy James Sheffield organiser for details on 07941528561. Local speakers include the three prospective Sheffield parliamentary candidates and guest speaker of the evening is BNP chairman Nick Griffin. All welcome.

Adrian Mole

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Re: "All Welcome"

07.02.2005 12:41

I'm black. Can I come?

Dave


Say it loud: "I'm Black & I'm Proud!"

07.02.2005 13:43

Best phone him and check beforehand - it would be the polite thing to do ;o)

Best catch him when you know he'll be in - about 4am should do it.

James Brown


why go?

07.02.2005 15:56

It's my birthday on that day and I can't imagine why anyone would want to go to something so obvoiusly outdated when they can join me at my birthday bash.

Kath Holliday


Split the BNP

07.02.2005 17:41

Read an interesting satire that said the best way to Stop Al-Queda would for everyone to join it and therefore make it ineffective.Certainly more anti-BNP in Sheffield then pro BNP, if we all joined up we could vote to change party policy cause a massive split, just a thought not a very serious one.

Will this meeting be the subject of a protest?

Splitter


I will be attending! - You bet!

07.02.2005 18:06

I know one thing is for sure, i will be attending the meeting, but i shall be attending as a member, yes i am in the BNP, come on!! I am their because i am proud of what my forebears have fought and died for - DEMOCRACY and freedom of speach, this is worth defending. Our government are attempting to wash away our history, i will do all i can and that has to be through the BNP!

For my nation!

sarah
- Homepage: http://www.bnp.org.uk


I am black and want stricter immigration controls

07.02.2005 18:58

I would like to point out that me and alot of people in the back community want stricter immigration controls and stricter aslyum controls. It is lack of immigration control that leads to racism! You left wingers going round putting up posters saying abolish all immigration controls which encourages people to vote for and join the BNP! If youleft wingers would just piss off and stop trying to help then the BNP and racism would quickly disappear!

Haree


BIG DEAL

07.02.2005 19:04

Why give them what they crave,publicity .

NOT AMUSED


Well said Sarah

07.02.2005 20:03


Here here,

If these left wingers exisited during world war 2 they would be in the anti war camp opposing the battle against the Nazis!

James


No Borders!

07.02.2005 22:59

Haree raises a few points I think deserve answering.

"It is lack of immigration control that leads to racism!"

There is basically free movement of people now within the EU, any EU citizen is free to live anywhere within the EU. Want to live on a Greek Island? The Spanish coast, the Alps? Fancy spending a few years somewhere else, well you can now, within the EU, this is a good thing, perhaps you might want to retire somewhere warmer?

Has this lead to a increase in racism? I don't think so. Has it resulted the the UK being flooded with people from other EU countries? Nope. Has *any* EU country become overwhelmed with people moving there... What about small islands in sunny places like Malta... well no, there hasn't really been a problem with this...

"You left wingers going round putting up posters saying abolish all immigration controls which encourages people to vote for and join the BNP!"

Well *some* left wingers do raise rather stupid slogans, the SWP specialise in this...

There are far better slogans to raise, a more radical "no borders", "for free movement of all people" and such like.

For a great read and critique of the left's crap response see the No One Is Illegal Group's web site:  http://noii.org.uk/ and especially this document, it's an essential read and answers many of your concerns about the left:

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!
For a world without borders! No immigration controls!
 http://noii.trick.ca/OurManifesto

Also for other no borders news see the no border network:  http://noborder.org/

"If you left wingers would just piss off and stop trying to help then the BNP and racism would quickly disappear!"

Well sadly this is not true at all, it's not the left that perpetuate racism, it's just another divide and rule tactic that the small number of people in this society with almost all the money and power use in order to keep those at the bottom at each others throats so that they bey continue to rule.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, nationalism, religion etc, all this things are stoked up as divide and rule tactics to ensure the continued rule of the rich, destruction of the planet, perpetual war, permanant starvation for millions - capitalism really sucks.

A far better world is possible, clearly the BNP have no role to play in us getting there, sadly much of the left is also probably a hinderance most of the time.

Lastly for the fascists who have posted comments, did you ever hear this Dylan song? Listen to it, think about it. Are you not Pawns.

Bob Dylan: Only a Pawn in Their Game

A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood.
A finger fired the trigger to his name.
A handle hid out in the dark
A hand set the spark
Two eyes took the aim
Behind a man's brain
But he can't be blamed
He's only a pawn in their game.

A South politician preaches to the poor white man,
"You got more than the blacks, don't complain.
You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain.
And the Negro's name
Is used it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.

The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid,
And the marshals and cops get the same,
But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool.
He's taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
'Bout the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.

From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks,
And the hoof beats pound in his brain.
And he's taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide 'neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't got no name
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.

Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught.
They lowered him down as a king.
But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
That fired the gun
He'll see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain:
Only a pawn in their game.

Copyright © 1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

 http://bobdylan.com/songs/pawn.html

i18n


Wrong James!

08.02.2005 16:40

James, if the nazi's were around today the BNP would be fighting against them, fighting to make sure that our country wins!!! We love our country far too much to let it be invaded!!!

Sarah
- Homepage: http://www.bnp.org.uk


Sorry!

08.02.2005 19:20

Bad wording on my part! Say if we were at war today from a foreign force say the invading French, these left wing muffins would be opposing our own efforts to repel them! Hope that is clearer.

James


Thats better!!!

10.02.2005 19:20

That's alot better James, we need to fight for those children who are not yet born, we have a nation with an amazing background and a heritage that can only be envied by foreign nations, let us fight for the rights to be free, this is what we and our children dererve. NOT censored newschannels!

Sarah
- Homepage: http://www.bnp.org.uk


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