Anti-Islamic group blamed for St George's Day 'riot' in Ruislip

Martyn Harris

THE English Defence League, a far-right anti-Islamic political group, have been blamed for 'hijacking' a St George's Day parade in Ruislip and rioting in the street.

One of the police officers who dealt with the trouble outside The Bell pub in West End Road, on April 23, told a court today (Wednesday) that many of those causing trouble were seen to be wearing polo shirts emblazoned with the English Defence League (EDL).

At the trial of a 24-year-old man, charged with assaulting a police officer and with a public order offence during the incident, Uxbridge Magistrates Court heard that between 70 and 80 people were involved in disrupting the parade from RAF Northolt.

Martyn Harris, 24, from Greenford, pleaded guilty to using threatening and abusive behaviour but denied assaulting PC Williamson. The officer said: "Mr Harris's behaviour was consistent of the entire crowd.

"There were a lot of people claiming to be from the English Defence League, that had hijacked the parade."

Up to 500 people had gathered to enjoy a barbecue, live music and the arrival of the parade outside The Bell when trouble began and a group began fighting. There has not been any violence at the event before and the pub landlord said at the time that 'outsiders' were to blame.

PC Williamson continued: "The [EDL] organisation have a politicial stance in defending England from the threat of the Islamic movement. Their numbers are often swelled by football hooligans, as happened here when they started singing football songs."

Harris' defence lawyer, Robert Patterson, denied that his client was a member of the EDL.

Judge Deborah Wright said: "This sounds like it was a riot. A very serious matter where police were struggling to control the crowd."

It was heard that Mr Harris had been one of the aggressors in the violence. Prosecution lawyer, Nikki Onuma-Elliot, said: "Mr Harris lunged toward PC Williamson, f-ing and shouting. He continued this behaviour and was warned to stand back.

"But he kept pushing the officer and swinging arms, trying to provoke violence. He was pushed back but kept advancing. As he was being arrested Harris was being extremely violent and said 'f-ing mug' and 'I'm f-ing going to do you.'"

The charge of assault on a police officer was dropped prior to the trial after Harris agreed to plead guilty to the public order offence, while still denying that he punched PC Williamson. He will be sentenced on July 21, with a jail term likely.

The EDL was set up in 2009 with the aim of opposing Islamism and Sharia law in England.

Uxbridge Gazette

BNP heavyweight supports Eddy Butler leadership challenge

Eddy Butler, who is challenging Nick Griffin for the BNP leadership this summer, has announced that Nick Cass, the popular former Yorkshire BNP organiser, will be his running mate to become deputy chairman of the BNP in the event of a Butler victory.

In a “BNP TV” video posted on YouTube and some BNP-supporting websites, Cass explains that Griffin does not have the time to be BNP leader because since his election to the European Parliament he is focusing his attention “across the water”. Party members feel that the leadership has become detached from them, he adds.

Cass, 36, says that Butler is asking sensible questions to which members want to know the answers, but the party leadership is ridiculing them. He has been “shocked” by the campaign against Butler. He expected the party, in which he has been an activist for 20 years, to be “straight-talking and honest”, not to come out with smears against Butler.

Cass is helping Butler in the hard task of obtaining the signatures of 20% of BNP members of two years’ standing. He says every senior BNP officer in Yorkshire wants change in the leadership. The BNP’s Liverpool branch, a centre of activity in the region in which Griffin is an MEP, also supports Butler.

It did not take long before Griffin’s supporters went onto the attack on one of the most extreme nazi web forums with a thread –withdrawn after a few hours – titled “Nick Cass Scum Traitor”, in which commenters suggested that Cass might be a Searchlight agent, state asset or, worse from a nazi viewpoint, Jewish.

The insult was ironic. Cass with his wife and three children have appeared on many BNP election leaflets as the typical wholesome white family that votes BNP.

It was also highly unlikely. Cass sports a prominent “tree of life” tattoo on his right arm, between shoulder and elbow. This symbol, also known as the life rune, is a favourite among nazi groups worldwide, several of which have adopted it as their logo. Under Hitler it was the symbol of the SS Lebensborn project, which encouraged SS troopers to have children out of wedlock with “Aryan” mothers and kidnapped children of Aryan appearance from the countries of occupied Europe to raise as Germans. To white supremacists today the tree of life signifies the future of the “white race”.

The tattoo was pictured in Sky TV’s BNP Wives documentary. The same programme revealed that Cass had instructed his wife, Suzy, to insist on a white European midwife when giving birth to their children, which reveals his attitude to women as well as his racism.

This is not the first time that Cass has fallen out with BNP colleagues. It was widely reported in 2007 that Cass was sacked from the job of BNP party manager two minutes before a meeting, after he had been given a role for which he was unsuited. Cass disputes this, saying that he resigned so that he could spend more time with his family.

The announcement of Cass’s support for Butler put paid to malicious rumours from the Griffin camp that Butler was putting forward Lawrence Rustem as deputy leader. Rustem, a former BNP councillor in Barking and Dagenham, suffers from the fatal flaw in the eyes of the BNP’s racist members that he is of part Turkish Cypriot descent.

Griffin supporters have also tried to link Butler with Sharon Ebanks, a former BNP activist who fell out with the party after Griffin reneged on a promise to meet her legal expenses for a challenge to a council election result in Birmingham that the party encouraged her to mount. She is widely derided in the BNP because of her West Indian father.

Meanwhile the anti-Butler blog run by Paul Golding, the BNP’s national communications officer, has listed reasons why Butler is unsuitable to lead the BNP. Butler is accused of being “bland and boring and grey and colourless”, “rude and arrogant”, having “no intellectual ability whatsoever”, “pure repellent”, “defeatist”, a “raging control freak” and, horror of horrors, “arranging the most disgusting food ever served at a BNP event”, a feat that takes some doing, judging by the reports we have received of typical BNP catering.

Griffin, in contrast, has “heaps of charisma”, is an “accomplished writer and intellectual”, “affable”, a “visionary” and “able to command respect and loyalty”. Unfortunately for Griffin, a growing number of BNP members are rejecting Golding’s sycophancy.

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Adair in line for neo-Nazi leader role

Nick Greger and Johnny Adair

EXILED terror boss Johnny Adair is plotting to become top dog of a violent race-hate group, it was warned last night.

Anti-fascist organization Searchlight said the ex-UDA chief has been in talks with a notorious fascist pal over plans to seize control of the English Defence League (EDL).

It was reported in this month’s Searchlight magazine that ‘Mad Dog’ Adair is being lined up by his old Neo-Nazi mate ‘Mad Nick’ Greger as one of the new leaders of the far-right group.

When Sunday Life spoke to Adair last night about the EDL links he refused to comment.

But the former terror thug did confirm he had recently been in touch with Greger - who is also known as ‘Nazi Nick’ - and was planning to meet him in a fortnight.

Speaking from his bolthole in Troon, Scotland, Adair said: “I just can’t comment on anything to do with the EDL at the minute. I have been in close contact with Nick Greger.

“I’m going to meet up with him in two weeks when he gets back from holiday in Malta .”

Searchlight said in its June mag that Greger had recently helped issue a “notice of expulsion” to the EDL leadership, along with a demand for control of the group’s websites.

They added he’d also posted a video online which declared: “Another well-known man will soon appear within the new leadership [of the EDL], a man from Ulster, currently in exile”.
Searchlight spokesman Matthew Collins said: “This is almost certainly a reference to Greger’s friend Johnny Adair.”

Adair struck up a bizarre friendship with convicted Nazi leader Greger in the mid- Nineties when he was banged up for directing terrorism.

Tattooed skinhead Greger idolised Mad Dog and on his release made him the boss of a Neo-Nazi cult in Germany.

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Gambler Griffin bankrupts the BNP

Eddy Butler, who is challenging Nick Griffin for the leadership of the British National Party, has accused Griffin of wasting donations given by the party’s hardworking supporters. According to Butler, Griffin’s incompetence has landed the party with the following liabilities:

• £35,000 owed to Mark Collett, Emma Colgate and Eddy Butler, illegally dismissed in March 2010
• £15,000 Michaela Mackenzie employment tribunal costs
• ? Michaela Mackenzie settlement
• £50,000 Equality Commission case costs
• £25,000 new Equality Commission case costs
• £75,000 Kenny Smith, Ian Dawson, Steve Blake case (dismissed at the end of 2007)
• £40,000 Unilever case (over use of Marmite image)
• ? Reuters case
• ? Margaret Hodge case

And that’s only the ones he knows about, Butler adds.

Butler accuses Griffin of creating “innumerable opportunities” for the Equality Commission to take further legal action over the party’s racist constitution, because Griffin insisted on amending the old constitution “in a typically long winded, turgid and over complicated manner” to enable him drastically to increase his powers.

Griffin’s recent statement that he is prepared to go to jail rather than give in to the Equality Commission is a “disingenuous gesture of bravado”, according to Butler.

“Every single penny we are paying out in court costs and unfair dismissal settlements is as a direct result of his bad judgement,” he continues. “It is almost certain that by the end of July the Party will be insolvent. We will not be able to pay our debts as they arise.”

Referring to the BNP’s recent appeal to equip a “Communications Command Centre” in “that empty office in Stroud which we have been paying for all year”, Butler says “that Command Centre was a non starter from the word go. It was a typical fund raising ploy.”

In Butler’s view, all these liabilities are due to Griffin’s personality. “If he had the slightest degree of common sense he would settle out of court in every single case listed. Unfortunately he is a gambler. He’s also a bad gambler but then he is gambling with other people’s money and that makes for reckless gambling.”

The good news for anti-fascists is that a change of BNP leadership could only reduce some of these liabilities – “most are already set in stone now”, Butler admits.

The BNP’s accounts for 2009 are due to be published at the end of July, provided the party submits them to the Electoral Commission on time, something it failed to do last year. We will examine them with interest.

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BNP faces financial turmoil if found in contempt of court

Fresh from its disastrous showing at the ballot box on 6 May, the British National party now faces financial turmoil with its assets threatened by court action. The high court is to decide whether Nick Griffin and two other BNP officials should face contempt of court proceedings in which their assets could be confiscated under a "writ of sequestration". The assets include Griffin's MEP salary, investments and pensions and any property that they might own. The case shows that no political party is above the law

The contempt proceedings were brought by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) after the BNP was accused of failing to remove potentially racist clauses from its constitution. The BNP had been in breach of the Race Relations Act 1976 by admitting only white people to the party, but it revised its constitution in February to say it would allow people of any descent or origin to join, but only if the individual "agrees with or supports or does not oppose or does not disagree with the principles of our party".

However, the principles of the party in this amended constitution are still in terms of promoting indigenous over non-indigenous interests, including maintaining the "integrity of the indigenous British" and "restoring and maintaining" the indigenous British as "an overwhelming majority" (indigenous being defined by those that settled in these islands between 11500BC and 6 July 1189).

It is not difficult to see how this is contrary to the Race Relations Act 1976, because by signing up to the principles, any non-indigenous member would have to give up their racial and cultural identity. The BNP has also not changed its rule preventing new members from attending any party meeting until they have been interviewed by two BNP officials. A court in March ruled that this was intimidatory and directed against non-indigenous applicants.

If the high court rules that the BNP is in breach of the March order and gives permission to the EHRC to issue the writ, then it will appoint four commissioners. Two to three of the commissioners will be "authorised and commanded" to take possession of the BNP's assets. These assets will be kept in the hands of the commissioners until the BNP complies with the order to make its constitution free of racial discrimination.

Not only would this be a bitter pill for the BNP to swallow ideologically, it would also be financially punitive. A commissioner can cost up to £1,000 a day, and if the BNP has its assets confiscated, it will cost them up to £3,000 a day for those assets to be held. The BNP faces a period of financial turmoil.

Ed Williams is a barrister at Cloisters Chambers

The Guardian

Petty nastiness continues in BNP leadership fight

Jennifer Matthys: Is Nick Griffin grooming his daughter for the top job?

Despite an appeal by Lee Barnes, the BNP’s legal officer, for the coming BNP leadership election to be “fought in a way that brings honour to the party and nationalism”, factionalism and dirty and illegal tactics continue.

Dr Andrew Emerson, who has stood as a BNP candidate in numerous elections since he joined the party in 2005, has written to the BNP’s South East regional organiser, Andy McBride, complaining about his exclusion from a BNP meeting on 24 June.

Emerson says the new group organiser had not informed him about the meeting of the party’s Arun, Chichester and Worthing group, in Aldwick parish hall, Bognor Regis, but he found out about it. When Emerson, who lives in Chichester, turned up he was “met by Steve Bolton, who told me that I was not to be allowed into the meeting, by your [McBride’s] orders, and furthermore that if I attempted to enter the meeting he would physically prevent me from so doing”.

Emerson continues: “Controlling my sense of outrage at this monstrous, arbitrary, and oppressive denial of my constitutional rights as a fully paid-up member of the BNP, in good standing, I showed Mr Bolton my party membership card, as visible proof of this, and also pointed out to him that I was innocent of any action which could possibly justify my exclusion from the meeting. I further informed him that no disciplinary action had been taken against me, that I had neither been suspended, nor expelled, from the party, and was consequently fully entitled to exercise every right of a member of the BNP – such as attending the unit meeting in question, at which, incidentally, it has always been the practice to permit the attendance of interested non-members.”

Mr Bolton told Emerson he was “only following orders”, but when Emerson asked to speak to McBride, McBride refused to come out of the meeting as it had already started.

Emerson’s only “crime” is that he wrote an article on the blog run by Eddy Butler, who is challenging Nick Griffin for the BNP leadership this summer, criticising several aspects of Griffin’s leadership.

McBride has previously threatened to expel any members that support Butler from his regional party units. The fact that he does not have the power under the party’s constitution to do that has not stopped him using his minions to threaten violence in Griffin’s service.

Griffin has said he will step down as leader in 2013, though many believe he made the promise only in an attempt to deflect a challenge this year. Others believe he is grooming his daughter, Jennifer Matthys, to take over, copying his 82-year-old French Fascist ally Jean Marie Le Pen, who has ensured his daughter Marine is in pole position to replace him as head of France's National Front. He would then remain the power behind the throne, a fact that will be obvious to all those members who want to see real change at the top of the BNP.

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BNP LEADER GROOMS HIS DAUGHTER FOR TOP JOB

Who ate all the pies Jennifer ?

Bnp leader Nick Griffin is grooming his eldest daughter to take over when he quits.

Party insiders say Griffin has quietly boosted 24-year-old Jennifer's role, giving her huge influence over membership and finance.

But they believe Griffin has no intention of relinquishing his vice-like grip on the party he has led since 1999 - despite his pledge to step down by 2013.

They expect him to copy his 82-year-old French Fascist ally Jean Marie Le Pen, who has ensured his daughter Marine is in pole position to replace him as head of France's National Front.

Last year Jennifer was appointed a director of Adlorries, a company that controls a substantial proportion of the BNP finances, under her married name Jennifer Matthys.

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She was also given a crucial role as party membership secretary, working in the BNP's main call centre in Belfast, where she lives.

Jennifer, who was leader of the BNP's youth wing as a teenager, has been at her father's side at important party events. Earlier this month she was used as the public face of the party in a promotional film.

Griffin's manoeuvring risks sparking further revolt among the party faithful, who have openly questioned his leadership since the BNP was humiliated in May's national and local elections.

Simon Bennett, the former BNP webmaster who quit his job on the eve of the election in a row over alleged corruption and incompetence, said: "He knows his days are numbered and installing his daughter is the perfect Plan B.

"She would be the nominal leader but he would be the real power behind the throne."

Sunday Mirror

Boy made nailbombs with chemicals bought on eBay

A boy with an "unhealthy interest" in explosives and right wing politics made gunpowder and nailbombs with chemicals bought from his mother’s eBay account.

Police found a pipe packed with nails and screws and charged with powder in the 16 year old’s bedroom, and a pipe with a firework inside hidden under a waste oil tank at a nearby petrol station.

The youngster also had literature from the right wing groups the British National Party and the English Defence League, together with Nazi emblems.

Officers were tipped off by the eBay seller who was concerned about the commodities being bought. The family's house in Tamworth, Staffs, was immediately evacuated while explosives and firearms experts searched the property for three days.

They found the device, loaded with nails, in his bedroom. It was examined by the Defence Laboratory and found to be capable of producing a "lethal shot". Two days later they found the device with a firework inside.

Stafford Crown Court heard internet conversations from a chat room dedicated to explosives and firearms had been found on a computer in the house.

Malcolm Morse, prosecuting, added that the mother of one of the boy's friends had handed in a video clip from a mobile phone camera showing an explosive device being detonated in a tree. The clip was labelled with the boy’s name and claiming ownership of the device.

The boy, who cannot be named, admitted possessing a firearm without a certificate – the only charge that could be applied to the device found in his bedroom, said Mr Morse. He also admitted having an explosive substance and making an explosive substance.

Judge John Wait made the boy subject to a three year controlling order for public safety. He told him he was a danger to the public and added that he found it hard to believe that his parents had let him carry on making explosive substances and not seen the danger of the combination with extreme politics.

Defending, Darron Whitehead, said: "It would be very easy to simply infer that this young man is a terrorist with hidden agendas. They don't exist in this case.

"There was never at any time, any positive intention to make any aggressive use of the items strewn about his bedroom.

"There is nothing in this case to suggest there was any intention to cause harm to human life."

He said the boy’s interest began with fireworks before developing into a wider interest in pyrotechnics.

Mr Whitehead said the boy’s parents and his neighbours all knew about his interests and were not concerned about him.

One of the boy’s friends, Jason Cunningham, 27, from Tamworth, admitted making an explosive substance and perverting the course of justice. He was jailed for 12 months.

The Telegraph

The BNP past of the EDL leader

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Nick Lowles and Simon Cressy expose Tommy Robinson

Searchlight can exclusively reveal that the leader of the English Defence League is a former British National Party member who has served 12 months’ imprisonment for assaulting an off-duty police officer.

Self-proclaimed EDL leader Tommy Robinson is really Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, from Bedford.

In 2004 he joined the BNP with a family membership. In the same year he assaulted an off-duty police officer who intervened to stop a domestic incident between Yaxley-Lennon and his partner Jenna Vowles. During the scuffle Yaxley-Lennon kicked the officer in the head.

He was convicted on 18 April 2005 for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, for which he was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment, and assault with intent to resist arrest, for which he received a concurrent term of three months.

Vowles, also a BNP member, was cautioned for possession of cocaine. She told the court that the she found two empty bags in her house and was taking them out so that her parents did not find them.

Yaxley-Lennon attended Putteridge High School in Luton and moved to nearby Bedford more recently. Robinson also claims on his Facebook site that he attended Putteridge school.

The revelation that Robinson had been a member of the BNP explains why so many of the initial EDL activists also attended BNP meetings in the Luton/Bedford area.

More importantly, it dispels the myth that the roots of the EDL are not in hard-core racism.

It destroys the protestations by the EDL leadership that, “They aren’t the BNP and they aren’t Nazis,” made at their phoney press conference held last September in a disused Luton warehouse, where they unfurled a swastika flag and proceeded to try to set it alight for the cameras.

It also explains the real reason why Robinson felt the need to hide his face.

Robinson’s reaction on Facebook to his exposure

Apart from his BNP membership and his convictions for violence, Robinson told a BBC film crew that he lived in a part of Luton where Islamic fanatics lived and that he feared for his safety. The reality is somewhat different as he lives in Wilstead, a relatively leafy village on the outskirts of Bedford.

The exposure of his identity follows a split in the EDL that is mostly being fought over the internet.

Paul Ray, self-styled spiritual guru of the EDL, has posted a series of messages on his Lionheart blog, in which he and his friend Nick Greger announce their intention to take control of the EDL. Ray was the original mover in creating the EDL, although he quickly fell out with the other leaders and moved abroad to Malta. Ray has focused his efforts on making Crusader-themed anti-Muslim promotional videos, and he and Greger have just issued a notice of “expulsion” of the EDL’s leaders, together with a demand for control of the EDL’s websites.

In one of their videos Greger goes on to say “another well-known man will soon appear within the new leadership, a man from Ulster, who is also currently in exile”.

This is almost certainly a reference to Greger’s friend Johnny Adair, a prominent loyalist terrorist who now lives in Scotland following an intra-loyalist feud. Adair’s friendship with Greger was the subject of a television documentary in 2006, when Adair met Greger while in prison for plotting acts of terror and was then the head of a nazi group in Dresden, Germany.

It is thought that Ray and Greger were responsible for the appearance of a video on YouTube that unveiled Robinson as Stephen Yaxley along with a series of photographs, following outlandish claims by Ray that the EDL led by Robinson threatened to kidnap and harm members of Ray’s family.

Robinson later confirmed on his Facebook page that the photographs were indeed of him, saying, “Hey at least people can see my hansome [sic] face now”.

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Burned girl a symbol of Roma hate and hope

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Natalka Kudrikova is a bright-eyed, three-year-old girl recovering from the severe burns she suffered when far-right extremists threw a Molotov cocktail into her home.

Her family and authorities say she was targeted because they are Roma, or gypsies. Natalka lost 80 percent of her skin, two fingers (a third was later amputated) and spent months lying in an induced coma following the attack last year in Vitkov, in the Czech Republic. She is still recuperating after 14 major surgeries.

In May, Natalka returned to Ostrava Hospital for rehabilitation sessions so that one day she may be able to get around without support. "I'd rather not take her back to the hospital," said her mother, Anna Sivakova, "but if she must return, my dream is that she learns how to walk without any help."

The very next day, four young men accused of attacking Natalka, filed into Ostrava District Court to hear the indictment: a racially motivated attempted murder.

According to the prosecutor, the attack was planned for the 120th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth. Court experts confirmed swastikas and other Nazi memorabilia were found in the defendants' homes.

In court, Ivo Muller and Vaclav Cojocaru described their coordinated Molotov cocktail attack. Their only excuse -- they said they thought they were attacking an empty storehouse of stolen goods.

Under cross-examination, Muller and Cojocaru admitted attending anti-Roma demonstrations organized by right wing extremists.

The other defendants, Jaromir Lukes and David Vaculik, did not take the stand. Lukes is accused of being the ringleader, a claim his defense counsel strongly denies although he concedes Lukes drove the getaway car. His lawyer also vehemently denies there was any racial motivation to the attack.

An anti-fascist website published a photo of Lukes walking next to the leader of the far-right Workers' Party. Another photo showed Vaculik wearing the armband of the Workers' Party, the public face of the Czech far right.

The leader of the now banned Workers' Party, Tomas Vandas, denied any involvement.

"Yes, we may have used those people as organizers of our public meetings but how could we know they would commit a crime?" said Vandas. "I hope Natalka gets better soon," he added.

Miroslav Mares, from Masaryk University in Brno, is the leading academic specialist on Czech extremist groups.

He thinks it's unlikely that the Workers' Party was directly involved in the arson attack, but he says they were responsible "for inflaming anti-Roma sentiment."

"Maybe some youngsters from the neo-Nazi scene said to themselves, 'If the whole population is against Romas we are justified in carrying out such attacks,'" he said.

And surveys do show anti-Roma sentiment is widespread. The European Union EURoma website says Czech Romas endure extremely high unemployment rates, low educational standards, isolation, and the prejudices of the majority population.

"In regions with high unemployment and poor social conditions, the rise of extremism is popular with unemployed young men but we can see more and more women on the neo-Nazi scene," Marek said.

Lucie Slegrova, 20, is a flag-waving militant of the now renamed Workers' Social Justice Party. She denies her party is inspired by Hitler's Nazi ideology.

Instead, she says, they follow their own nationalist ideas. "The Czech Republic should be for people who know how to behave. If the gypsies don't want to follow the rules, they're free to leave," she said.

Only one percent of Czech voters supported the Workers' Social Justice Party in the last elections, but Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer worries that 7 percent of Czech students voted for the far-right party, according to an unofficial nationwide poll.

"A lot of people are frustrated with politicians, and have troubles due to the crisis and recession. My message to them is please think it over and don't believe these very bad prophets," Fischer said.

The far-right movement has made bigger gains in neighboring Hungary where 17 percent of voters chose the Jobbik party in the last elections.

Violence has been much worse as well. In the last two years, nine Roma have been killed in Hungary in unprovoked night-time attacks, according to the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC).

Roma bashing also became an issue in the Slovakian election campaign. The far right Slovak National Party commissioned billboards showing a dark-skinned man with tattoos and an inflammatory message: "Vote SNS so we don't feed those who don't want to work."

In eastern Slovakia many Roma live in segregated communities like the village of Ostrovany where municipal authorities spent some $16,000 to build a wall separating the Roma from their white neighbors, because of fears of "alleged Roma crime," said Stanislav Daniel from ERRC.

"To me the wall is a symbol of segregation because public finances were used to target a stereotype, not what's real," Daniel said.

The wall separates a tidy town from a rural slum. Roma, living right next to the wall, have no sewage or garbage collection and there's just one tap with drinking water for dozens of families.

Back in the Czech Republic, Natalka's father, Pavel Kudrik, has chosen to stay in the region and rebuild a comfortable home for his wife and four daughters.

After police asserted that Natalka's family were victims of a racist attack, many Czechs opened their wallets and their hearts.

Prime Minister Fischer's wife and son spearheaded a nationwide campaign to help them -- a move that led to the Fischer family having full-time police protection after they received anonymous death threats.

But the current climate is not the only reason Fischer wants to clamp down on right wing extremism.

Everyone in his family died in the Holocaust except for his father and grandmother. "Sixty-five years after WWII, the societal memory is getting weak," he said.

And Roma activists complain that recognition of their sacrifices under the Nazis has never been properly acknowledged.

Half-a-million Roma perished in what they call the "Devouring" -- Hitler's campaign to eliminate them as a people.

Last May, several hundred Czech Roma gathered at a memorial for the victims of the Lety concentration camp. Hundreds of Czech Roma children died there and are buried nearby in a mass grave.

Jan Vrba is one of the camp's last survivors. He was born there. His sister perished there.

"What happened in Vitkov made me cry", said Jan. "Little Natalka reminded me of my sister who died in this camp."

CNN

Neo-Nazis jailed over anti-Jewish internet posts

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Michael Heaton wanted to eradicate ethnic minorities from Britain

Two white supremacists who posted racist internet messages calling for Jews to be destroyed have been jailed.

Michael Heaton, 42, of Leigh, Greater Manchester, and Trevor Hannington, 58, from Cardiff, described Jews as "scum" and encouraged people to kill them.

The self-proclaimed neo-Nazis were both cleared of soliciting murder. Heaton was convicted of stirring up racial hatred - a charge Hannington admitted.

Heaton was jailed for 30 months and Hannington for two years.

Justice Irwin told Heaton his words were of the most "insulting and extreme nature" marked by "violent racism" and said only a significant jail term was acceptable.

The 42-year-old food packer admitted in a police interview that he was a founder member of the Aryan Strike Force (ASF), whose goal was "the eradication of ethnic minorities from Britain", Liverpool Crown Court heard.

The judge told him: "You saw yourself as the leader of a potentially significant and active National Socialist group.

"Your sustained racist rants were intended to bolster that group.

"You wanted to start a race war.

"You are clearly filled with racial hatred and also with violent and angry beliefs."

The court was told that Heaton had post 3,000 messages on his ASF website between January and June 2008.

He wrote: "I would encourage any religion or race that wants to destroy the Jews, I hate them with a passion."

In another posting he said Jews were "leeches" and "scum" and that black people were "less intelligent than other species".

Hannington, from Hirwaun, Cardiff, was described as a loner by the judge, who told him: "You are a long-standing racist who has never hidden your views, which are violent and vicious in the extreme.

"You are a lonely man with little in your life."

The 58-year-old builder admitted he was an administrator for the ASF website and one of his posts read: "Kill the Jew, Kill the Jew, burn down a synagogue today! Burn the scum."

BBC

No-holds-barred racism as Griffin gets desperate

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(left to right) Eddy Butler, Richard Barnbrook and Nick Griffin

“A Third World slum colonised by millions of African and Asian immigrants, facing the growing certainty of eventual civil war between an ever-growing Muslim community and everybody else”.

This is how Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, which claims to be not racist, described Britain in an email to supporters on 23 June appealing for money to help him fight the continuing action by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over the BNP’s racist constitution.

In the email, which also described Trevor Phillips, the chair of the EHRC, as an “immigrant Marxist” and a “black Marxist”, Griffin said he was “ready to go to prison” for his beliefs.

Outrageously he invoked Winston Churchill, the “heroes of D-Day” and “Spitfire pilots” in a blatant attempt to win sympathy and persuade supporters to open their wallets yet again for him.

Griffin has often referred to an impending civil war in Britain, especially after electoral failure such as in last month’s elections. After the BNP failed to win any MEPs in the 2004 European election despite gaining 800,000 votes, Griffin said the party might have to consider alternatives to the ballot box. The following year the BNP’s general election manifesto called for adults who have completed a period of military service to be “required to keep in a safe locker in their homes a standard-issue military assault rifle and ammunition”, a policy the party has never renounced.

A number of BNP members have tried to turn Griffin’s talk about civil war into action. They include David Copeland, the London bomber, and Robert Cottage, who was convicted for possession of explosives.

In raising the prospect of imprisonment Griffin no doubt also has his eye on Eddy Butler’s challenge to his leadership of the BNP, announced on 18 June. Griffin may hope that party members would hardly desert a man who was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for them.

However most BNP members are likely to see through this ploy. Growing numbers want a new party leader because of Griffin’s incompetence in producing electoral results, dubious financial dealings and his insistence on handing over administrative and financial control of the party to the “consultant” Jim Dowson, a militant anti-abortion campaigner with criminal convictions for violence.

Butler, the BNP’s national elections officer until he was peremptorily sacked at the end of March, is now trying to collect the signatures of 20% of BNP members with at least two years’ membership, which he needs to force a leadership election. Several party branch organisers are calling local meetings so that members can sign the forms.

BNP activists all over the country are beginning to support Butler’s challenge. One of them is Danny Lake, former leader of the Young BNP. Echoing the views of many party members, he describes Griffin as “a man who has brought the party far but remains stunted by a damaged reputation”. Griffin is standing “with a set of disastrous election results behind him”, Lake points out, before expressing the view that Griffin will not allow a clean fight.

For more detailed analysis of the challenge to Griffin’s leadership, see the July issue of Searchlight. You can order a copy here or take out a year’s subscription here.

Hope not Hate

Convictions point to rise of far right extremism

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Today's convictions of a 42-year-old food packer and a 59-year-old builder on inciting racial hatred brings to 16 the number of convictions connected to far right extremism in the past two years...

Trevor Hannington, from South Wales, and Michael Heaton, from Lancashire, ran their own far right organisation which promised street action to help rid the country of minority communities.

Their Aryan Strike Force boasted 350 members. Its website had tens of thousands of postings, all messages of hate like urging the destruction of Jews, describing them as treacherous scum. There were references to "chopping niggers legs off" and "kill the jew, burn down a synagogue today". Heaton was found guilty on four charges, while Hannington admitted to four terrorism charges including distributing instructions on how to turn a water pistol into a flamethrower. Both were both found not guilty of soliciting to murder.

Dr Matthew Feldman, who runs the UK's only research unit on new media and domestic extremism at Northampton University, was the prosecution's key witness in this case. He says "These are neo-Nazis, pure and simple, and consider themselves really the most extreme versions of this ideological neo-Nazism that is new. We have had some evidence, I believe, of activists from the ASF appearing on videos at the English Defence League marches and so forth."

Dr Feldman believes this recent string of convictions of "lone wolf" cases and the creation of the English Defence League point to a resurgence of far right extremism. He said: "In terms of what we might call small cell or lone wolf terrorists cases since 2008, but also other events in 2008 such as the successful election of two British National Party MEPs in the Yorkshire, Humber area, and in 2009 the creation of the English Defence League on the back of those protests by some radical Islamism groups against the return of Anglican soldiers. So I think there is a confluence of factors that do point to a resurgence in the far right."

The two convicted today actually turned up at several of the EDL rallies and used their website to praise the EDL's actions. Yet the EDL denies any links to these extremists organisation. We asked for an interview with its organisers so we could put all our evidence to them. They declined.

Does that mean EDL is infiltrated with those with a much more extreme agenda intent on more than just glorified football style violence? Police who monitor these events say no. Assistant Chief Constable Anton Setchell, national coordinator for domestic extremism, told Channel 4 News that "we have seen some individuals from the far right on the margins of EDL organised events but these are only one or two individuals. We have found no strong links between extreme groups like the Aryan Strike Force and the EDL."

Yet today's guilty verdicts bring to 16 the total number of far right extremists who have been convicted over the past two years. Among them were father and son Ian and Nicky Davison who were sent to prison last month for possessing the poison Ricin and for making and detonating pipe bombs. They were also co-founders of the Aryan Strike Force.

Dr Feldman says: "in groups like the ASF successor organisations we are seeing a group numbering in the few hundreds probably at the maximum. That's a few hundred too many because these are not people who are far right activists for the BNP and knocking doors. These are people who may very well be considering a future as we saw in the Davison case undertaking terrorists.

In fact Heaton stated publically that as part of a "rites of passage" to join, potential recruits had to carry out a serious op, meaning a violent racist attack.

The Institute for Race Relations is about to publish a report, which Channel 4 News has had exclusive access to, mapping out 600 serious racist attacks in the UK last year. Many have taken place in towns which have had influxes of a migrant workforce or asylum seekers. But it also hints at a correlation between attacks and pockets of extremism.

We found that of the 16 extremist convictions since 2008, two thirds come from towns which form a corridor across the north of England: Penwortham, south of Preston, to Leigh, west of Manchester, to Batley, to Selby, to Goole, to Grimsby, then further north to Elsdon and Durham. Privately, police sources have confirmed to us that their intelligence suggests the same. They admit there are some dangerous individuals, but overall the threat from right wing extremists has hardly changed since the days of the nail bomber David Copeland, who killed three and seriously injured 79 people in three attacks, the worst at Soho's Admiral Duncan Pub in 1999. It was the last time white supremacists were said to behind a bomb attack in the UK.

Those monitoring far right extremists attribute the recent string of convictions to a combination of "good police work", community relations and luck, rather than an increased threat. But they say what has changed is their profile boosted by a combination of the numerous convictions and the tenor of EDL marches.

Channel 4 News

Soldier backs BNP and hails 'legends' who shot 14 dead on Bloody Sunday

A SOLDIER has been carpeted by top brass after a foulmouthed internet rant claiming soldiers were right to open fire on the Bloody Sunday marchers.

Fusilier John Allison, 20, is also facing disciplinary action for drumming up support for the BNP.

The dog handler serves with Fusiliers 2 Scots Battalion and has toured Afghanistan's Helmand province.

But he's been hauled over the coals after launching a tirade on his Facebook page after the Saville Inquiry last week condemned troops for killing 14 people during a civil rights demo in 1972.

But in a message peppered with swear words, Allison wrote: "The Saville Report is a lot of s****. The soldiers were right to shoot the ***** on Bloody Sunday. Rule Britannia."

Allison went on to describe 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment, who were responsible for killing the marchers, as "legends".

Army bosses also discovered that Allison had tried to canvas votes for the BNP on his web page the day before last month's general election.

Allison, of Paisley, Renfrewshire, wrote: "Vote BNP. Keep Britain British."

Serving soldiers are permitted to be members of legal political parties but are forbidden from campaigning.

Lord Saville's report ruled all victims fired on by the Paras were innocent and condemned the troops for opening fire in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.

An Army spokesperson said: "Neither the Army nor the Armed Forces tolerates inappropriate behaviour in any shape or form.

"Instances of unacceptable social media comments brought to the attention of the Army are investigated, and appropriate action taken."

Daily Record

BNP official sacked by Nick Griffin challenges him for leadership

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Nick Griffin is facing a leadership challenge after the British National Party’s disastrous general election performance.

Eddy Butler, who until recently was a senior official in the far-right BNP, announced his candidacy yesterday and began to seek nominations from members. He accused Mr Griffin of an “authoritarian leadership style” that “inhibits new ideas and stifles debate”.

Mr Butler wrote on his blog: “Funding has dried up. Our financial liabilities are mounting. Inquiries to the party from the public have plummeted. Our electoral progress has all but halted. Our activist base has lost its enthusiasm.

“After 11 long years Nick has accumulated a massive amount of baggage which makes him less popular with the public than the party.”

Mr Griffin announced last month that he would step down in 2013 to concentrate on his European Parliament re-election campaign. The decision was widely seen as an attempt to avoid an immediate challenge, amid growing internal criticism about the party’s performance in the election.

The BNP failed to win any parliamentary seats, notably the key target seat of Barking, East London, where Mr Griffin was relegated to third place and trailed Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP, by 18,000 votes. The party also lost all but two of its council seats across the country.

Mr Butler said: “We do not have the luxury of waiting for several years before the current chairman feels it is time to leave. In bringing the party forward Nick has become more of a public liability than an asset.”

Mr Butler, prominent in nationalist politics since the 1980s, was the BNP’s campaign co-ordinator until March, when he was dismissed by Mr Griffin. For a leadership election to take place he must be nominated by 20 per cent of those who have been members of the party for two years. If he succeeds, the campaign will take place over the summer and a postal ballot held in October.

Mr Griffin will try to persuade members that he is the best person for the leadership because of his national recognition. This week The Times reported that he had been invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace, owing to his position as an MEP.

A contest would be a bitter one. A website purporting to “expose” Mr Butler has already been formed by Mr Griffin’s supporters. Mr Griffin saw off a challenge in 2007 and also faced a plot by dissidents to overthrow him during the recent election campaign.

The BNP has been plagued by internal turmoil. Members have questioned why Mr Griffin performed so badly given the party’s increased media exposure after the European Parliament breakthrough last year and an appearance on the BBC’s Question Time.

The party did not respond to inquiries from The Times.

The Times

BNP activist and former Liverpool Quiggins shop owner Peter Tierney found guilty of assaulting protestor

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Peter Tierney

A BNP activist was found guilty of attacking an anti-fascist demonstrator during a St George’s Day clash.

Jurors took just an hour to unanimously convict Peter Tierney, 53, of lashing out at demonstrator Nicholas Barnett with a camera tripod as the two sides clashed.

Tierney, who has long hair tied back in a ponytail and a distinctive plaited beard, showed no emotion as the verdict was delivered.

But his supporters in the public gallery moaned and tutted, while one woman said "No justice here, typical".

Earlier in the day, Tierney, of High Street, Hale had taken the stand and told the 10 women and two men of the jury: "I was in danger for my life".

Tierney claimed his BNP group, who had been handing out leaflets in the city centre, had decided to leave the St John’s Gardens area after the arrival of opposition sides, including the Merseyside Coalition against Racism and Fascism, of which Mr Barnett was a member.

He claimed he was using the tripod as a shield to protect other BNP members and because he feared for his own safety. But after repeatedly watching CCTV footage of the incident, jurors rejected his defence and unanimously convicted him of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

They accepted Mr Barnett’s account. He told how he been running past the BNP group, when Tierney "whacked" him on the head in an unprovoked attack. Mr Barnett needed the wound to his head gluing at hospital.

During his evidence, Tierney told jurors he joined the BNP after realising "there was no democracy" during a dispute with the council over his business Quiggins.

Judge John Roberts adjourned sentencing for a probation report to be prepared. The judge said: "I have not made a final decision on sentencing. That would be wrong at this stage, but provisionally I am thinking of some kind of community service.

"To decide how I should sentence you I will need a report from probation services."The judge thanked the jury and said he would ignore comments from the public. He granted Tierney bail to await sentencing on July 12.

Liverpool Echo

Police deny claims of EDL support

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BOLTON’S chief of police has hit out at claims that the division showed support for the English Defence League by accepting a petition during a protest outside a local police station.

Around 40 campaigners protested outside Astley Bridge Police Station, in Crompton Way, on Saturday over the handling of a terror suspect’s case.

English Defence League (EDL) Bolton Division members organised the protest, and EDL member Paul Lancashire handed in a letter and petition to police requesting the Secretary of State for Justice, Ken Clarke MP, reconsider the decision to grant bail to a terror suspect from Bolton.

Police say they have since been criticised by some sections of the community who accused them of “siding” with the EDL by accepting the petition.

Chief Superintendent Steve Hartley said it was not the police’s job to get involved in political arguments, but to protect the public.

He said: “Police were placed in a challenging position at the weekend, as with only 48 hours notice, we were made aware of proposals to submit a petition to police in Bolton.

“We have a responsibility to work within the law and facilitate peaceful protest.

“So, while the matter itself did not involve the force, we tailored our policing response under challenging time constraints to ensure the protest took place without threatening public safety, with minimum disruption to the local community.

“Police took receipt of the petition from protesters to pass on to the relevant agency, as we would with any other group or section of the community, and the protest passed peacefully.” He added that EDL organisers should have told police earlier about their planned protest and said: “GMP respects everyone’s right to a peaceful protest and does not favour or show bias towards any political group.”

The protest was over Mohammed Hanif Umaraj Patel who was arrested at his home in Halliwell in February.

He is accused of being involved in two bomb attacks in India, in 1993, which killed an eightyear- old girl and seriously wounded 12 others.

After his arrest, Patel, aged 49, was remanded in custody while court officials decided whether he should be extradited to India.

At a High Court hearing earlier this month, Patel was granted bail on the condition he reports to Astley Bridge Police Station daily.

Mr Hartley’s comments come a day after Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan defended the policing of the EDL rally in Bolton in March, following criticism from Yasmin Qureshi, MP for Bolton South East.

The Bolton News

BNP activist given suspended prison sentence in ammo case

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A LEADING British National Party activist who admitted unlawfully possessing ammunition and gunpowder has escaped an immediate prison sentence.


Police officers who went to a static caravan at Black Dyke Farm near Lakenheath in April last year, where David Lucas had been staying, found a plastic tub containing a small amount of gunpowder and 2,500 rounds of ammunition that he wasn’t authorised to possess, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

Lucas, 49, of South Road, Lakenheath, admitted possessing gunpowder without an explosives licence, two offences of possessing prohibited ammunition and one offence of possessing ammunition without a firearm certificate.

Sentencing Lucas, Judge David Goodin said the offences crossed the custody threshold but agreed to pass a 12-month sentence suspended for 12 months after coming to the conclusion that Lucas was eccentric rather than a danger to the public.

He ordered Lucas to pay £250 towards prosecution costs and ordered him to reside for 13 weeks at his mother’s house.

He told Lucas that in the wrong hands the ammunition was potentially dangerous and warned him to take more care in the future.

Jonathan Davies for Lucas said his client’s attitude had been “negligent and indifferent” rather than a flagrant disregard for the law.

He said the small amount of gunpowder found in the caravan was used to set off traps on the farm and he had collected the ammunition over a number of years and planned to display some of the cartridges in picture frames in hunting and fishing lodges.

Mr Davies said Lucas had led a law-abiding life and had been made bankrupt after losing his transport business because of the foot and mouth outbreak in the county in 2001.

He said Lucas helped local people by being a parish councillor and was well-respected locally.

EADT

'I wish Cumbrian murderer shot illegal immigrants' says BNP election candidate Charlotte Lewis

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A BNP election candidate advocated the murder of illegal immigrants in the wake of the recent Cumbrian massacre.

Right-wing activist Charlotte Lewis, from Thornton Heath, wrote on her Facebook page that mass-murderer Derrick Bird should have come to London and slaughtered illegal immigrants rather than his "fellow British people".

Her tirade is the latest in a string of hate-filled rants and calls for violence against "pakis" through her Facebook page. The latest post reads: "Ok, so I may well get in to trouble for saying this - but I've got to get it off my chest. I wish that Derrick Bird could have come down to London & shot dead some illegal immigrants, rather than killing his fellow British people. If that offends you then tough; it's my opinion and I'm entitled to it."

Her comments refer to taxi driver Derrick Bird, who went on a killing spree in west Cumbria on June 2, shooting dead 12 people and injuring 11 others.

Her latest Facebook rant was highlighted by website Hope Not Hate, Searchlight's campaign to counter racism and fascism in elections and beyond. Gerry Gable from Searchlight said: "I think anybody advocating the murder of illegal immigrants should be prosecuted. People may view Charlotte Lewis as being a bit potty, but the overwhelming interest in firearms of the BNP tells a much more serious story."

When contacted by the Croydon Guardian Miss Lewis, 37, questioned why her "innocuous" comments were being treated so seriously. In a bizarre rant she flip-flopped repeatedly over whether illegal immigrants should be murdered or not, before asking why her love of Chandi the dancing dog in Britain's Got Talent was not being treated as a story.

She said: "It would be preferable to kill illegal immigrants than fellow British people, because they shouldn’t be in this country."

Miss Lewis' true face was revealed in April after pictures were discovered of her swigging from a bottle of alcopops while clad in a burqa during a Halloween party. The Carshalton and Wallington parliamentary candidate, who also ran for Croydon Council’s Shirley ward in the May elections, was snapped revealing her contempt for Muslims by hitching up her costume to reveal her underwear.

Your Local Guardian

Knifeman arrested during 'Vikings' protest due in court

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A SUSPECTED knifeman caught up in violent clashes with Muslim extremists during a homecoming parade is due in court.

John Phillips, 55, of Rhodeswell Road in Bow, was arrested for allegedly having a lock knife after a scuffle between 60 Muslims and English Defence League demonstrators outside Barking Station yesterday afternoon.

EDL activists shouted abuse and threw sausages and British flags at members of the Muslims Against Crusades, who had called the Royal Anglian Regiment, returning from a tour of Afghanistan, "murderers" and "terrorists". Police separated the two groups.

Phillips was bailed to appear before Barking magistrates at 10am on June 30.

A second man believed to have joined the EDL protesters was given a caution for a public order offence.

Barking and Dagenham Post

'BNP suspension is against party code of conduct'

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James Fitton

Three British National Party (BNP) members from Cornwall have been suspended indefinitely for criticising leader Nick Griffin.

Parliamentary candidate James Fitton, who stood in the St Austell and Newquay constituency, has also accused the party of breaking its own constitution after he was suspended. Two other members, Peter Mullins, from Liskeard, the party's former regional organiser for the South West and Simon Bennett, from Camelford, who designed and maintained the BNP's website, have also been suspended.

In a letter from party bosses, Mr Fitton is said to have been suspended for a "serious breach of BNP code of conduct" but the letter does not state any specific reason – something Mr Fitton says is against the party's own constitution. He said: "Myself and two others in Cornwall have been suspended along with a member in Torbay and there's been members suspended in the East and West Midlands."

Section 9.9 of the BNP constitution states: "The individual member concerned should, as soon as practically possible thereafter, have in writing details of the alleged offence."

Mr Fitton also accuses the party of bending the rules to suit its own needs, after a member who joined in February became sub-region organiser for Devon and Cornwall in April. Party rules state that members are on probation for two years and are unable to attain any positions within the party during that time. All three members of the party have been vocal in their criticism of Nick Griffin in recent months and the party's attitude towards Cornish members.

Mr Bennett, a member for five years, has accused Mr Griffin of "entrenching himself" as the leader. "There's been a vast majority of members up for removal, there's a climate of fear. But the truth is more important," he said.

Mr Mullins said: "There is a pyramid structure within the party and at the apex is Nick Griffin. What he says happens. He doesn't do democracy and it's virtually a dictatorship. They've kissed goodbye to the whole of Cornwall and literally thrown us in the bin."

Both Mr Mullins and Mr Bennett recently attended a meeting in Leicestershire, where a vote was carried to support Eddy Butler, from Essex, as a potential challenger for the leadership.

Cornish Guardian

Belfast's BNP staff keep it in the family

MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY: Its Alice, the daughter of Jim Dowson

THIS is the ‘glitzy’ tour of the British National Party’s Belfast base – but right wing boss Jim Dowson is nowhere to be seen.

The promotional video tour is given by the daughter of racist party leader Nick Griffin MEP.

And we find that the Belfast BNP office, which collects membership funds from all over the UK, is a real family affair.

During the tour we meet several members of staff which include Griffin’s daughter, Jenny, her husband Angus as well as Jim Dowson’s 16-yearold daughter Alice.

All but one of the staff are from either Scotland, Wales or England with only person from Ulster in the office - and she refused to be filmed.

Secret

It marks a big change from last year when the BNP were desperate to keep the office a secret.

Jenny Matthys leads the ‘fascinating’ seven minute tour which was hastily arranged to try and deflect the mass of criticism the office has received for cocking up the election campaign.

And anyone who thought working for the BNP would be exciting and risky - should think again!

The most exciting thing at the Belfast office, apparently, is the new state-of-the-art membership card embossing machine!

Jenny takes us on a ‘whirlwind’ adventure which starts in the ‘printing section of the mailroom’ and weaves its way through to the warehouse and then straight on to the hub of the operation - the call centre - where four people are buy beavering away on the phones.

Interestingly Jenny’s husband Angus appears in the first three scenes in the background, first working in the mail-room, then working in the warehouse on a forklift and then back in another section of the mailroom.

Indeed he appears to be everywhere (who says men can’t multi-task) and probably deserves a raise.

BUSY BOY: Angus Matthys is the husband of Jenny

And in case you ever wondered how a mail-room operates, here’s Jenny: “At the very back you can see the mailing machine. It’s one of three that we have (ooh). The letters get all put through that, stuck into envelopes, bagged up and they’re ready to go to the Post Office.”

You should skip the next minute or so of the video because it’s really dull but make sure you don’t miss the call centre or “the hub of the Belfast office”, according to our host.

There we meet the staff - there appears to be three or four of them, and they tell us how great business has been.

Jenny says the staff have strict targets to meet including they must make £7,500 every week.

Then, without a chance to even get your breath back, Jenny takes us to the Administration Office.

VIDEO TOUR: Jenny Matthys, who is in fact Nick Griffins daughter

There we meet Tom Gower, who cuts a very respectable figure as the Subscriptions and Enquiries Secretary.

But here’s an exclusive picture of Tom Gower posing, rather pensively, in front of the German Iron Cross, which was synonymous with the Nazis during the second World War.

Offence

In a recent speech to BNP members in Blackburn Jim Dowson, who set up the office last year, tells us there are too many people in the UK that are too afraid to join the BNP.

He calls for people to stand and be counted blah, blah, blah, which is a bit of a cheek seeing as he took such offence at us calling him a BNP member he made an official complaint to the Press Complaints Commission!

But for some reason he chose not be in this video – however his 16-year-old daughter Alice is put on camera.

She’s the new membership secretary and among other mundane roles she reveals it’s her job to send out the birthday cards to members which have a nice subtle picture of a bulldog and a Union Jack on them.

She also livens things up by taking us to see the new “state-of-the-art” membership card embossing machine!

And Tom ‘Iron Cross’ Gower is on hand to explain how it works: “Alice saves the members on a database and then on to the hard drive, then I locate the file….and then all I have to do is press a simple button…”

The riveting video has just been posted on the BNP’s internet TV site and is designed to convince disgruntled members that the Belfast base is providing a successful service.

As revealed last month in the Sunday World, BNP members in England have been pointing the finger at the Belfast office after the party got wiped out at the general and council elections.

Scottish self-proclaimed Reverend Jim Dowson came in for particular criticism for messing up the election leaflets, which arrived in England late and with the wrong contact numbers on them.

Apparently he used a local printing firm which couldn’t cope.

Anti-fascist magazine Searchlight say the enlightening tour poses a few questions.

“The BNP leadership import hatred to Belfast by hiding the fact they are only employing family members or people drafted in from England,” says Matthew Collins.

“Griffin’s daughter revealed that they get a lot of money in the post in donations.

“We would like the electoral commission to take a closer look at how much the BNP receives in its Belfast office in cash donations through the post.”

Sunday World

BNP leader Nick Griffin invited to attend the Queen's Buckingham Palace garden party

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The leader of the British National Party has received an invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden party hosted by the Queen.

Nick Griffin has been invited in his capacity as the North West’s MEP along with his wife, Jackie, and their two daughters, Jennifer and Rhiannon.

His attendance would be controversial and may result in other guests boycotting the July 22 event.

Opponents of the far-right party have warned that his presence would risk politicising the event and would disgrace the Queen.

Mr Griffin, who has a conviction for distributing material likely to incite racial hatred, tried to attend one of the Queen’s garden parties last year as a guest of party member Richard Barnbrook.

However, he stayed away due to a public outcry.

British MEPs are given a pair of tickets to one of the Queen’s three garden parties at Buckingham Palace.

It is unclear how Mr Griffin obtained four.

A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said Mr Griffin had been sent an invitation as the MEP was eligible and the Palace would not discriminate against democratically elected representatives.
Royal reception: Queen Elizabeth hosting one of her garden parties at Buckingham Palace, which BNP MEP Nick Griffin has received an invite for

Royal reception: Queen Elizabeth hosting one of her garden parties at Buckingham Palace, which BNP MEP Nick Griffin has received an invite for

Claude Moraes, a Labour MEP for London, told The times that the move ‘deeply politicises and embarrasses the Queen’.

'She has been forced into an extremely difficult situation.

'I would expect some people to boycott the party. If people knew about this it would clearly spoil the occasion for a lot of them,’ he said.

Daily Mail

BNP activist 'delivered anti-Muslim leaflets'

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Tony Bamber

A BRITISH National Party activist delivered leaflets of "hate speech" intended to stir up religious hatred of Muslims, a court heard today.

Anthony Bamber, 54, printed and then distributed documents entitled The Heroin Trade which allegedly claimed followers of Islam were responsible for the sale of the drug on Britain's streets.

It said the trade was a "crime against humanity" and demanded that Muslims "apologise and pay compensation" for the flow of heroin from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Preston Crown Court was told Bamber,of Preston, Lancashire, targeted various people across the North West in his leaflet drops between March and November 2008, including a school in Sedbergh, Cumbria, two barristers in Manchester, and addresses in Harrogate.

David Perry QC, prosecuting, said: "The defendant distributed leaflets and letters by hand or by post which were threatening and he did so with the intention of creating or stirring up religious hatred, and the religion he directed the hatred towards was Islam.

"This case is about hate speech. That is speech designed to arouse hatred against members of a social group identified by a particular characteristic.

"In this case the social group is Muslims and the characteristic they share is religion, namely Islam.

"The objective of the letters and leaflets, the prosecution say, was to provoke hatred of Islam. The hatred was not directed just at the concept but at the followers of Islam - Muslims."

In March 2008, Bamber and another man visited Barnoldswick, Lancashire, where they delivered the leaflets by hand, the court heard.

A householder in the area contacted the police, who arrived and spoke to the defendant, Mr Perry said.

"The defendant admitted he had been distributing the leaflets and he said his purpose was to promote an organisation known as the Preston Pals," the prosecutor said.

The Preston Pals was a battalion which fought in the First World War which recruited its members from the city.

Mr Perry said: "They (the Preston Pals) have got nothing whatsoever to do with the BNP and nothing whatsoever to do with the hatred of Islam. Why that name was being used is not really known.

"The defendant also said that the leaflet was inspected by a lawyer who informed him that the material could not be interpreted as provoking religious or religious hatred."

The jury was told the leaflet said 95% of heroin traded in the UK came from the Pakistan and Afghanistan region and was a "crime against humanity".

It continued: "Before the Islamic invasion it was impossible to find heroin in our land. Muslims are almost exclusively responsible for its production, transportation and sale.

"It is a crime against humanity because it has caused far more suffering than slavery ever did. It has led to millions of premature deaths."

Taxpayers were also victims due to the cost of policing and rehabilitation for which Muslims must compensate, the leaflet added.

Muslims should be held to account with condemnation heaped upon them so that it would lead to the abolition of the trade, it concluded.

The leaflet was labelled a Preston Pals publication which was "committed to non-violent democratic resistance" and was set up in honour of the soldiers in a "campaign on behalf of indigenous communities".

Mr Perry said the real intention of the leaflet was "obvious".

"It is no doubt intended to be dramatic. It is no doubt intended to capture the imagination and say 'look at what these people are doing, they are all criminals'," he said.

The crime of drug trafficking was the collective responsibility of all Muslims - according to the leaflet - and they were all being "tarred with the same brush".

He told the jury the tone of the leaflet could be seen as "militaristic and menacing" rather than promoting a non-violent and democratic cause.

"You may think it is intolerant, bigoted and intended to be divisive. It is blaming Islam with contestable and questionable assertions of facts and stoking resentment.

"The prosecution say that the overall message is that Muslims are killing British youths and they must themselves be made to pay and it is your duty to make them pay. They are 'the invader'."

In June 2008 the headteacher of Sedbergh School received a large brown envelope which contained a number of letters addressed to individual teachers.

The letters were along similar lines to the leaflet and called for Muslims to be held to account for the heroin trade.

"We know we are asking a lot," it said. "There are many dangers with confronting the Muslim invader."

Mr Perry said: "The letter makes it clear that all Muslims are to be held to account and it makes it clear that all Muslims are culpable."

Similar material was also sent to two barristers in Manchester and addresses in Lytham and Eccleston, Lancashire, and Harrogate, North Yorkshire, the court was told.

Bamber, of Greenbank Street, who is representing himself, denies seven counts of distributing threatening written material intended to stir up religious hatred.

The trial is expected to last up to two weeks.

Yorkshire Post

BNP members plan and glorify racist murders

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“I wish Derrick Bird could have come down to London and shot dead some illegal immigrants, rather than killing his fellow British people. If that offends you then tough; It’s my opinion & I’m entitled to it.”

Who would write such a thing just two days after the terrible and tragic events in Cumbria where Derrick Bird used his guns to murder 12 people and injure 11 on 2 June? Perhaps a stupid, ignorant teenager in a desperate grab for attention?

At around the same time this comment was posted, Nick Griffin, the BNP leader and MEP for the North West, was rightly offering his condolences to the victims and their families. Given the BNP’s wish to put more firearms into the community, writers at Searchlight proffered that the BNP’s policies would probably lead to more such events as it so difficult to legislate for what makes seemingly normal people “snap” or “go postal” to use the American expression.

The writer of this bile was, however, no attention seeking teenager, but an adult woman and associate of Griffin. Charlotte Lewis is a frequent Croydon BNP election candidate, spokesperson on BNP TV and campaigner for animal rights.

“Ok, so I know I may get into trouble for saying this – but I’ve got to get it off my chest,” wrote Lewis on her Facebook page prefacing her offensive comment.

The 37-year-old who was the BNP parliamentary candidate in Carshalton and Wallington in last month’s general election is no stranger to controversy and threats of violence. Lewis received a six-month jail sentence in 2001, when she wrote threatening letters to staff at the Huntingdon Life Sciences animal research laboratory in Cambridgeshire.

During the elections she was exposed as a foul-mouthed racist who encouraged attacks on the home of a teenager, writing “I hope she gets cancer”. She had earlier caused offence by turning up at a Halloween party dressed in a burka, swigging alcohol from a bottle and flashing stockings and suspenders, an act that she described as “hilarious”.

No sooner had Lewis written her vile message than a host of other BNP members and supporters expressed their support. Dave Castle wrote of “going down to southall [sic] with a f***ing machine gun” if he were ever diagnosed with a terminal illness. In fact Southall has a large Asian and Sikh population, a community to which the BNP is desperate to reach out in its anti-Islam campaign.

But it didn’t end there. Among the dead in Cumbria was a trade union organiser, an innocent victim of Bird’s rampage. “At least amongst the innocent was a f***ing union organiser,” wrote Sam Cash, another BNP member and, at 67 years old, not a stupid teenager.

Lewis’s and her colleagues’ views are sickening. Even hardened journalists who know Lewis and other BNP members were surprised at BNP members’ openly expressed hatred. They do not discriminate: asylum seekers, illegal immigrants, Sikhs, Muslims and trade union organisers are the very people that, deep in their hearts, BNP members would wish to see brutally murdered. As we have always said, away from Question Time and BBC interviews, this is how the BNP generally feels about modern Britain and other human beings.

People like Lewis, Cash and Castle are the very people, one must assume, that the BNP would wish to see armed for their “own protection” under a BNP government. These are the “decent law abiding folk” that the BNP claims make up the membership of the party. These are the very people who Griffin and his party claim will be one day involved in a “civil war”.

Make no mistake: not only is the BNP racist, ignorant and vile, if your face does not fit, it is also potentially murderous.


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