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I have received an urgent request from one of the producers of The Agenda, a Press TV weekly current affairs programme broadcast worldwide by Sky.  On Thursday 13th August, at 2.30pm in London they will be recording a programme titled “The spread of the far right in Europe and economic climate”.  It will be a studio discussion among a four-man panel overseen by Yvonne Ridley, which is a name to conjure with.  They are seeking a serious contribution from our side.

I imagine the show will have a Muslim-centric, Al Jezeera feel to it.  The usual hostility may be in the offing.  Still, I would be tempted to accept the invitation myself, if only to make sure that the argument for our people’s survival is expressed in my own terms for a change.  However, I am on family duty this week and cannot get up to town for the day.  That said, MR is a broad church, and there are highly competent and trustworthy people on our slate and in our commentariat who might like to engage in this exercise.  Please contact me through the button under the header if you are interested.

You will need to be quick about it, though.

If you have twenty-five minutes to spare over the next couple of days, please take a look at this BBC i-player replay of yesterday morning’s The Big Questions.  I don’t watch much TV, and the Sunday religious hour is not required viewing.  But when I read Simon Darby’s blog this morning I had to take a look at the cause of his ire.

The Big Questions is a pretty poor quality studio-audience product.  It sits in the BBC’s Ethics and Religion genre, meaning “difficult issues” are supposed to be debated.  The debating point this time was: does the BNP have the right to be heard?  Apparently, by no means a no-brainer for the democratic and freedom-loving people of Birmingham.

We are all very used to the media nose-holding that goes on when the BNP is debated.  But the behaviour on display here, particularly from the three panellists and the host Nicky Campbell, goes far beyond that.  In fact, beyond anything I have seen before and into the realms of Salem.  Here is what Simon Darby had to say about it:-

Before I review today’s The Big Questions, which you can see by clicking on the image below, I want to tell you something that you will not know. Originally this debate had been set up behind my back with two local BNP councillors. Knowing that this was just going to be an ambush orchestrated by the wise-cracking wannabe left-wing comedian and TV presenter Nicky Campbell, I immediately pulled the plug on it.

Not that our two guys they had lined up would have been a push over, it simply wasn’t fair to put them through what was tantamount to a criminal trial. Talking to the two girls from the show, who I will not name, even at a late stage they were begging me to go ahead with the original plan trying to convince me that the programme would need local politicians in order to work. However, I was adamant that if it was going ahead at all it would not be loaded against us and as a consequence Andrew [Brons] and Rev West found themselves in the hot seats.

Fittingly, on a day when the Sunday papers were quite literally dripping with hate, lies and hysteria towards the BNP, this programme, at least initially, typified the mood. I found myself at first angry, frustrated and towards the end enormously proud of our representatives. Throughout their childish, emotive and almost ritual baiting they kept their dignity and made their points concisely and articulately.

Hate, lies and, now, hysteria sums it up.  It all has the ring of a morbid psychological condition about it.  It is plain that for all who speak the BNP has been built up as some spectre of immanent evil.  Even with war psychosis at its height I doubt if my parents’ generation experienced such feelings about genuine National Socialists.  But these folks have lost all touch with reality.  One wonders in the case of the whites whether it is a consequence of sublimated anger, as David Hamilton maintains.  Are they merely striking out to ward off their own exposure?

The panellists, by the way, are Benjamin Zephaniah, a Rastafarian dub poet and, apparently, a great man, Louise Bagshawe, an author and Conservative Party candidate at the next election, and Jonathan Bartley, who runs the Ekklesia think tank and who is a pacifist and advocate for “the full participation of gay and lesbian people in the church as an outworking of the Christian gospel”.

The latest anti-BNP smear from the Daily Mail:

Family of Winston Churchill slams BNP over far-right party’s attempt to hijack wartime leader’s legacy

Relatives of Sir Winston Churchill have denounced as ‘monstrous’ an attempt by BNP leader Nick Griffin to cloak himself in the mantle of Britain’s greatest wartime leader.

The far-right British National Party’s election broadcast, which is screened nationwide this evening, features Mr Griffin quoting from one of Churchill’s most famous speeches.

The BNP chief uses the broadcast to argue that modern Britain, with its record of welcoming immigrants, has betrayed the ‘the blood, sweat, toil and tears’ of those who fought for freedom in the Second World War.

... They have no right to use Churchill’s face in this way. It causes tremendous offence to people of the wartime generation.

‘They were a generous generation. They weren’t a mean-spirited generation. It is deeply offensive to his family and if the law were different we would take steps to stop it. To suggest that he would have supported something as wicked as the BNP is beyond the pale.’

I love the way these elitist crooks inform us that we have a “record of welcoming immigrants”.  I’ve never welcomed any immigrants.

The smear-piece goes on to quote from “The Rune”, an august publication in which Mr Griffin once waxed lyrical about the courage of the Waffen SS.  I really don’t see this working for them, do you?

Here’s a more subtle one from The Times titled, “Englishness needs more than a corny festival”.

If the thought of the left-wing intelligentsia gathering to wave St George’s crosses, watch terrier racing and applaud welly-boot throwing makes you smile, you’re not alone. But the IPPR has understood finally that the BNP has its tank on the long-neglected lawn of Englishness and is capitalising on grievance- fuelled politics. It urges mainstream parties to “combat the insinuation that Englishness is forbidden in our cultural and political life”.

The research paper, by Michael Kenny and Guy Lodge, acknowledges “a growing sense that Englishness is disapproved of by the politicial elite and most public authorities”. Dislike of English symbolism and the public celebration of English traditions, they add, has become prominent in recent years.

Kenny adds: “It is imperative that we do not let Englishness be tainted by the BNP and other opportunistic far-right parties. A sense of pride in being English and a growing wish to celebrate our English heritage and culture are positive developments that should be… encouraged by the main political parties.”

Meanwhile the BNP’s “legal department”, Lee John Barnes, has provided a little more information about the alleged perpetrators of the cyber-attack on the BNP website:

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HOW BOAT PEOPLE ARE WELCOMED ...

... in Italy:-

Migrants break out of Italian camp

Hundreds of asylum seekers and hopeful migrants have broken out of a holding centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa and marched to the town hall.

Bernardino De Rubeis, the island’s mayor, said that 700 out of about 1,300 people at the centre walked out on Saturday morning.  “It is a very tense situation,” he said.

Police said the group forced open the gates of the camp and marched peacefully to the town centre to protest against their detention.  They were joined by a few hundred locals who also want the inmates transferred to bigger camps elsewhere in Italy.

The Italian interior ministry said there had been “no escape of illegal immigrants” because it was a camp for assistance rather than expulsion, “so there is no obligation to stay there”.

Many were already returning to the camp, it said in a statement.

... and in Thailand:-

Boat people claim Thai mistreatment

Thai authorities are grappling with a scandal over alleged mistreatment by soldiers of hundreds of ethnic Rohingyas refugees from Myanmar.  Details are surfacing about the plight of Rohingya boat people who were apparently beaten by Thai soldiers before being towed out to sea.

The allegations, apparently supported by photographs and witness accounts, have dented Thailand’s tourist-friendly image. Some of the migrants managed to reach Indonesia and videos of them arriving on the shore show them to be in a shocking physical condition.  Others are in detention on the Indian islands of Andaman. Two of those held there have spoken of being abused by Thai soldiers.

THE PRIORITIES OF UK EXTRADITION POLICY

From the Telegraph:-

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The Bishop and the gas man

Rumours that the Pope has signed the withdrawals of excommunication of four “Lefebvrist” bishops of the Society of St Pius X have made news in The Times and caused its religious correspondent to suffer a fit of the vapours.  The reason?  One of the four, Bishop Richard Williamson, is something of a stickler for the historical record of the Holocaust.  As a result of his outspokenness he faces, Gledhill says, ...

... possible prosecution for Holocaust denial in Germany after an interview with a reporter from Stockholm TV in which he claimed that six million Jews did not die in the Holocaust, merely a few thousand, and that the gas chambers did not exist.

... In his previous utterances which have caused repeated deep offence to the Jewish community as well as many Catholics and other Christians who have heeded the message of Christian repentance towards the Jewish community as spelled out in the documents of Vatican II and elsewhere, the Society has refused to distance itself from him.

... Now it looks as though Williamson might have gone too far, even for his traditionalist brethren, and that he might at last face some sort of disciplinary action from the society, most if not none of whose members do not share his views. This would then make it possible for the Pope to realise his dream of bringing the society back into the fold, without Williamson.

Here’s what she means by “gone too far”.

Incidentally, the Bishop has expressed other interesting opinions.

Wilders to be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred against Muslims

Geert Wilders, leader of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, which has nine parliamentary seats, has another big day coming up.  From Al-Jezeera:-

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Black Oak Media, based in Cherry Valley, IL, is a worthy example of cultural dissidence which has been publishing quarterly since winter 2007.  In the editors’ own words:-

Black Oak Media is the spearhead of a direct assault on innocuous, monolithic consumer culture, and represents an atavism of a primal, human-centered worldview that unapologetically embraces all ranges of emotion and experience.

We are beyond Left and Right.  We stand against Nihilism and the corruption, pollution, decadence, and fragility of the modern world.  We stand for the farmers, artisans, small businesses, artists, entertainers, entrepreneurs, and hard working men and women that once made this country great.

We believe that folk culture must replace “popular culture,” since popular culture is no longer produced by the common people but produced for us?brightly packaged and neatly trimmed?by elites who live over a thousand miles away from their constituents.

Life isn’t an airbrushed model on a glossy magazine cover.  Los Angeles and New York City do not represent our culture.  Here at Black Oak Media, we believe that the people who live in “Middle America” have something to contribute.  Our culture is not something that is marketed to the public from distant boardrooms; it is the artistic expression of our hopes, dreams, and fears. It is something meaningful that does not ride waves of trends or conform to market interests.

Black Oak Magazine is published on-line and can be downloaded for free.  The Winter 2009 edition (pdf) features a four-page interview with Tom Sunic.

Today, in its campaign to present the negro Maclaren driver Lewis Hamilton as a national icon, the Telegraph finally came to the point.

... he is a hero to be emulated.

I demurred on the thread.  However, my brief if somewhat uncompromising comment was removed by the Telegraph moderators.

There are three fundamental reasons for admiring sportsmen. One is that they reflect some glory on one’s own people.

Hamilton is not English. I am, and I would prefer any Englishman, and indeed anyone of European lineage, to win anything before a Bantu, half or full.

The next reason for admiring a sportsman is that he or she has such a peerless talent, one is bound to applaud.

Hamilton has been silver-spoon fed by his Dad’s friend, Ron Dennis, since he climbed into a kart.  In F1 anyone can win in the best car - remember David Coulthard’s introduction to F1 in the all-conquering Williams.  Further, uniquely in Hamilton’s case, his team-mate is subtly disadvantaged and, last year, was outrageously regarded by Dennis himself as someone “we are racing against”.

So for now the peerless talent issue remains moot.

The third reason for admiring a sportsman is his or her moral nature.  All sport involves a tremendous struggle against the body, and it also offers a stage for the play of moral characteristics and the making of moral choices.  Men such as Michael Johnson, Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore, Don Bradman and Garfield Sobers brought dignity or modesty or a purity of sporting passion that elevated them to the status of the genuine hero.

Michael Schumaker, in contrast, was a very great driver but morally he failed the test, and he was unloved in consequence.  The signs are that Hamilton will never be ranked among the heroic.

Finally, and unrelated to the admiration issue, I am very tired of the “Poster-Boy” element in the press’s treatment of Hamilton.  There is something political in it which I am bound to reject outright.  I don’t like having my views on race prescribed by the media, which is what most of the Hamilton kerfuffle is about.

Well, it was surely the second paragraph, and that too naked truth, “Bantu”, that did it.  The view that Lewis Hamilton is a negro living in the wrong country, like all negroes living in Europe, is problematic for a Judaised mind.  It cannot process the withholding of legitimacy from African populations in the ancient European homeland without experiencing a fit of the vapours.  The resulting censorship is only the latter-day ammonium carbonate for a correct-thinking MSM moderator.

In fact, over the last twenty months or so I have posted the simple thought that “Lewis Hamilton is not English” on a wide variety of MSM threads and even on the Autosport forums, almost always in response to journalists’ casual description of him as an “Englishman”.  Where my correction posted automatically it was almost always subsequently removed.  On the rest it never made an appearance at all.

There is something here that needs bringing out.  I know perfectly well that a claim that some rap artist in the news, or a black poet, is not actually one of the English people will sail through unremarked.  A white mother won’t make any - or enough - difference.  Nor should it.  Genetically, the English are a northern European people.  African admixture ends this.

But Hamilton is a media-created special case.  We have to believe the media story.  They want us to believe the story.  It is as if the arising of a potential black hero is too rare and, by its rarity, too precious to them to have the stark and uncompromising truth of his inalienable alienness pointed out.  And this, lest you failed to notice, is the racism of the Establishment.  This is the untrammelled desire to meddle in our sense of self, to engineer in us “higher feelings” and an end to racist ones.  The unspoken assumption that we are racist in this way, instead of merely human, and the sheer affrontery that these people have the right to alter us, is the endemic racism of the modern age.

I hope Hamilton fails to finish in tomorrow’s Brazilian GP.  But I fear that his car will be too good, and he will be able to coast around to finish fifth or higher and pick up the point he needs to win the championship.  Perhaps the boy can drive, I don’t know and don’t care.  I do know that we will see more ... much more ... of this media lionisation, all of it pure culture politics.

And that I am, indeed, bound to reject.

Here we go again.

From Reuters

Law enforcement arrested two men in Tennessee who had plans to rob a gun dealer to shoot Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and “as many non-Caucasians” as possible, an official said on Monday.

An official from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said police found the men in the Jackson, Tennessee area with a number of guns, including a sawed-off shotgun, in their car.

“They wanted to go to a place where they could shoot as many non-Caucasian as they could,” the official said, noting that the men first planned to rob a gun dealer. “They also had a plot to assassinate Sen. Obama.”

The Associated Press gets the numbers sorted out.  88 for neo-nazis.  14 for the future of white children.

And, always important, the words: skinhead ... white supremacist ...

In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.

Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF’s Nashville field office, said the two men planned to kill 88 black people, including 14 by beheading.

... The men also sought to go on a national killing spree after the Tennessee murders, with Obama as its final target.

... The men, Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of Helena-West Helena, Ark., are being held without bond. Agents seized a rifle, a sawed-off shotgun and three pistols from the men when they were arrested. Authorities alleged the two men were preparing to break into a gun shop to steal more.

... For the Obama plot, the legal documents show, Cowart and Schlesselman “planned to drive their vehicle as fast as they could toward Obama shooting at him from the windows.”

“Both individuals stated they would dress in all white tuxedos and wear top hats during the assassination attempt,” the court complaint states. “Both individuals further stated they knew they would and were willing to die during this attempt.”

Something I don’t think the assassination scare in August achieved - this one makes the lead story on both news services.  Drip, drip.

UPDATE 28.10.08

From the Telegraph:-

Barack Obama plotters revealed to be small-town outcasts who met on internet

Two white supremacists charged with plotting to kill Barack Obama have been revealed to be a pair of emotionally troubled young outcasts who found each other through the internet.

Daniel Coward, 20, of Bells, Tennessee, and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, hatched a bizarre but disturbing plan to go on a racist “killing spree” with the Democratic presidential contender as its ultimate target, say prosecutors.

The pair wanted to kill “88 people and behead 14 African-Americans” before shooting Mr Obama from their car in a suicide mission while wearing white dinner jackets and top hats, according to court papers.

The pair were arrested on Friday in Tennessee for illegal possession of firearms, threats against a presidential candidate and conspiring to rob a gun store.

In the pair’s home towns,

local people painted them as odd, and even disturbed, individuals.

In Helena-West Helena, Schlesselman was described as a “troubled child” by Marty Riddell, a colleague of his adoptive father, Mark Schlesselman.

Miss Riddell said she once tried to offer Schlesselman a pet lizard but was warned by his family that “he would hurt it”.

In Bells, a conservative Bible Belt town in a traditional southern cotton growing region, local people said Cowart had been an attention-seeker at high school, once starting a bomb scare.

Although neighbours were shocked to hear of his involvement, several - including a man who worked for the sheriff’s department - said there were more skinheads in the area than local people realised.

Guns and religion are strong in Bells and most men are keen hunters, although Cowart had apparently not been one of them.

He was more likely to have been found in church, said neighbours who said Cowart had once done missionary work for one of them.

Dudley Johnson, a car technician who lives near the large white colonial-style house where Cowart lived with his grandparents, described Cowart as a “nice little fella who used to work at the grocery store”. He added: “I think this was a cry for attention.”

Mr Johnson admitted his own father had tried to raise him to be a racist but that insisted “racism is not a big problem here - we try hard to get along with black people”.

Al Overton, a local hunter dressed in their uniform of camouflage jacket and baseball cap, said his initial shock at news of the plot had given way to a realisation that “This is 2008”.

He had little time for the Illinois senator. “Omama - Obama - thinks he’ll take the guns away but the hunters are not going to let him do that,” he said.

Investigators have admitted there did not appear to be any formal assassination plan. A lawyer for Cowart said he was reviewing the charges against his client “as well as the facts and circumstances of his arrest”.

It also emerged that the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organisation, helped lead federal investigators and local police to the pair.

The ADL, which monitors white supremacist groups, discovered that Cowart was involved in the Supreme White Alliance, a racist skinhead group.

Mr Obama told the Pittsburgh television station KDKA he was unconcerned about his safety given his protection from “the best folks in the world - the Secret Service”.

He added: “You know, look, I think what’s been striking about this campaign is the degree to which these kind of hate groups have been marginalised.”