U.K. Anti-Nazi
Le Pen, St George and the TUC
April 23rd 2004: Happy St George's Day and Bonjour Jean-Marie Le Pen you fat old Nazi motherf*cker! Not only has the BBC seemingly taken the wise decision not to lead with your visit to the UK (unlike those sensationalist arses Sky and ITN), but they've cleverly chosen to lead with the report by the TUC that shows racism is still deeply-rooted in our fair Isle. The TUC report shows that whereas unemployment amongst white Brits runs at 4.4%, unemployment among ethnic minorities has reached 11.3%. Who's stealing whose jobs now, eh?
BNP sullies Lord of the Rings (again)
The neo-Nazi British National Party has produced a pamphlet based on content from the Lord of the Rings featuring excerpts from an interview with John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) in which he makes some choice remarks about population demographics in Europe and the supposed threat of Islam. The pamphlet uses material from the LOTR films including quotes and photographs, hopefully breaching New Line Cinema's copyright.
The Lord of the Rings with it's sword and sorcery imagery of a mythical Europe has been used and abused by Nazi organisations as support for their attacks on the multiracial society. In the BNP pamphlet LOTR is once again twisted to suit racist theories. Author JRR Tolkein supposedly described the evil Orcs as having "Mongoloid" features in a letter, but to say that LOTR is about European white males kicking out the "yellow peril" is to miss the point by a good fathom. LOTR is a story where people of four different races (Elves, Dwarves, Men and Hobbits) put their differences behind them and join forces to fight evil (yes, evil, not immigrants, not another race that they don't like, not Islam). Tolkein fought in the trenches in the first world war and viewed the rise of Nazism with distain. It is easy to compare the evil wizard Saruman with Adolf Hitler, both are in possession of a powerfully convincing voice. LOTR is an allegory of the dangers of industrialisation and the fight against evil (such as Nazism), not other races. The anti-industrialism of the book has endeared it to back-to-the-Earth Nazis who have a misty-eyed nostalgic view of Britain's peasant-farming past.
You can read the pamphlet here:
http://www.bnp.org.uk/pdf_files/lotr.pdf
BNP attempts to stop the rot ahead of elections
After impressive gains in the 2003 local council elections, the Nazi BNP are losing seats hand over fist due to their reluctance to give up thuggery and empty rhetoric. The far-right party, who at one point in 2003 held five local council seats, have suspended one of their own councillors (Luke Smith) from the party after a brawl at the BNP's very own "Red, White and Blue" Nazi festival. His colleague on the council, John Cave, quickly succumbed to defeat by the Lib Dems. Soon after, the BNP itself reported that a far-right Tory councillor on Calderdale Council had defected to the BNP quoting the Conservtive party's failure to take a hard-line stance on Europe (whatever the hell that means), but details were not forthcoming and the "defection" appears to have been called off. There was some respite for the BNP when Barry Cuthbertson, an independent councillor in Stoke-on-Trent, joined the BNP saying he believes freedom of speech in Britain is being "curtailed" (he told several media outlets who then freely reported his speech to the world at large). However, this victory was soon negated when an ex-BNP councillor in Burnley, Maureen Stowe, said "the time was right" to leave the BNP and that she would "probably" support the Unite Against Fascism anti-BNP campaign at the May 2004 elections. Too bad Griffin, but top marks for trying. The BBC report of BNP failures can be read here.
The Benevolent Superpower is Dead
The current US administraton has single-handedly dismantled the idea that the last remaining superpower would be a benevolent one. Donald Rumsfeld, who profited hugely from his arms sales to Saddam Hussain before the first Gulf War, Condaleeza Rice, a woman with such close ties to the Oil Industry that her name is emblazened across the prow of a US oil tanker, Richard Perle, the man who squelched arms controls under Reagan allowing weapons to flood to such hot spots as Israel and Iraq, Dick Cheney, a man whose construction companies have won the contracts to rebuild a bombed-out Iraq, and George W Bush, idiot son of a man on friendly terms with the Bin Laden family, these morally repugnant cretins have won the day. Iraq's civil administration is now under the dubious leadership of Rumsfeld's buddy Jay Garner, a retired US general with no experience in civil administration or the private sector, who (despite his lack of credentials) is chairman of a multi-billion dollar defense company. Long Live Pax Americana. You have your empire - and everybody hates you.
