BNP Candidate in Chemical Weapons and Rocket Launcher Raid While the Press Obsess About Clothing
BNP Candidate in Chemical Weapons and Rocket Launcher Raid While the Press Obsess About Clothing
By Josh Fenton-Glynn
On Thursday 28th of September police raided two houses finding in one a rocket launcher and in another the largest quantity of chemical weapons of their type found in any raid in this country. Both houses had extremist literature.
These were not Muslim terrorists which the press would so readily have you believe. These two men were supporters of the Nazi British National Party. One man had stood as a candidate for the BNP in the last elections.
The former BNP candidate has been charged under the Explosives Substances Act 1883. His alleged co-conspirator has been charged with similar offences after a being found with a rocket launcher, a chemical and biological suit and BNP literature.
The BNP are currently on a charm offensive to present themselves as a legitimate political party, however these actions show them for what they really are - a party who like Hitler’s Nazis will claim respectability on the one hand and threaten violence and terror on the other. In 1993 Nick Griffin leader of the BNP himself put this succinctly when he said of their successes in east London’s Isle of Dogs;
“The electors of Millwall did not back a post modernist rightist party, but what they perceived to be a strong, disciplined organisation with the ability to back up its slogan ‘Defend rights for whites’ with well directed boots and fists. When the crunch comes power is the product of force and will not rational debate.”
The BNP was then and is now a Nazi party and behind all the niceties and suits of Nick Griffin and their Barking & Dagenham leader Richard Barnbrook there remains an undercurrent of terrorism and violence which we see expressed by these raids and the increase in racist attacks by over 70% year on year since the BNP were been elected in Barking and Dagenham.
What is strange is that the media have said nothing of this terror raid when, for example, the police not finding anything in the botched Forest Gate raid warranted so much attention. Over the last few days there has been near Islamophobic hysteria over comments made by Jack Straw about the wearing of the veil by Muslim women, followed by a front page of Saturday’s Sun saying “HOUNDED OUT hero soldiers’ home wrecked by Muslims”. This article at many points displayed out and out racism toward the British Muslim community. The story, based on events at a house where the above mentioned soldiers didn’t even live, included a racist quote from Conservative MP Phillip Davis who said “This is outrageous. If there is anyone who should f*** off it’s these Muslims who are doing this kind of thing.”
This comment has drawn no condemnation or scorn from any mainstream press.
The problem with such articles is that they don’t arise in a vacuum. In today’s London Metro was a report of two Asian men attacked in Leicester this week, one of whom is in a critical but stable condition in hospital, as well as another Asian man in “his fifties or sixties” who was stabbed in North London. On Friday we saw a young Muslim woman have her veil torn off at a bus stop in Liverpool. The hysteria fuels the kind of firebombing of isolated Muslims in places like Windsor where this week the Medina Dairy was attacked.
Where have the outraged press statements about this been? Why are we not told to be on the look out for suspicious looking white men on trains. The role the media has played around these issues has been a disgrace and when this racism is legitimised support for parties like the BNP will only increase. The fascists must be exposed as the thugs and terrorists they are, and it’s up to us to ensure that people are clear that the BNP do not represent a democratic and legitimate political party - and so should not be given legitimacy as such by the media.
