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The last few days have been a fallow period at MR for me as for others.  But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been working away diligently elsewhere.  Aside from actively seeking material to post, I’ve planted the usual incendiary devices on various MSM threads.  Some made it on to the page, some were lifted quickly, some did not make it at all.  John Standing wrote a couple of letters to Waitrose (who, as a result of a campaign by supposed cusomers, pulled their advertising from Fox over the Beck/Obama affair).  Another Guardian ban has come my way.  It’s been, as Vinny Jones once said, emotional.

The main activity has been thread fighting at the Guardian’s CiF facility, which seems to be especially Judaised at the moment. 

During his leadership election David Cameron made a promise to the “right-wing” Cornerstone group of MPs that he would pull the party out of the federalist EPP grouping in the European Parliament.  Give him his due - he was true to his word, and entered an alliance with some pretty sturdy and loyal Poles, Czechs and Latvians in the European Conservatives and Reformists.  In the process Edward McMillan-Scott, who seems to have scarcely been a Tory at all, has wound up getting himself expelled from the party.

McMillan-Scott has been writing articles regularly about his hate-object in the ECR, Michal Kaminski of Poland’s Law and Order party.  By British political standards Kaminsky has a fine record.  In 2001 he distinguished himself by campaigning against the then left-wing Polish government’s apology for the fictional 1941 murder by Poles of a fictional number of Jews at Jedwabne.  McMillan Scott has been promiscuous in his use of the Jedwabne narrative in each missive, and I’ve tried to provide the counter-arguments in the threads.  But he isn’t the only journalistic shyster trying to nail Cameron by nailing Kaminsky.  There are at least four others at it and, on top of that, there is a second anti-Cameron front centred on the Latvians in the ECR (who, of course, are “SS apologists”, but we’ll come to that).

Today one Jonathan Friedman entered the attack on Kaminsky.  The following (now removed) comment of mine provides some background to the attack:

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Simon Darby posted this link to a news report on a BBC regional programme, Look East.  John Standing found the opening remarks by reporter Nikki Jenkins so staggeringly dishonest he took it upon himself to contact the lady’s employer:

This mail is a complaint about the journalistic standards and political bias displayed by Nikki Jenkins of Look East in the video report currently online here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8232154.stm

At this stage I am not seeking a formal process, and will be satisfied with an honest and sincere reply from Nikki to the following questions, which I put to her in good faith and out of a desire to better understand what motivates this sort of journalistic behaviour.

Dear Nikki,

You opened a video report on an attack of the police in Luton by Muslim youths with the following words:-

“Well, the Home Secretary’s ban on marching worked.  The BNP didn’t turn up.  But there again they didn’t have to.  These young men did their job for them.”

I have the following questions for you, Nikki:

1. Were you mistaken about the British National Party being due to attend the banned English Defence League march, organising it or being in any way associated with it?

2. If you knew the BNP was, in fact, totally unconnected to the banned march but you wished to make an association nonetheless, what reason did you have for doing so?

3. Would making such an association be within the BBC’s rules on journalism?

4. Did you attempt to contact the BNP to find out if it was involved in the banned march?

5. Would misrepresenting the BNP in your report be acceptable journalism?

6. Will you issue a public retraction?

7. If not, why not?

8. Why did you not identify the youths attacking the police as Muslims?

9. Was their behaviour racist?

10. Why did you not apply the moral yardstick to them that you wrongly applied to the BNP?

Now, I am loathe to place my real name and address on the contact details below this panel because of the violence of the forces opposing the BNP and its supporters.  Notwithstanding my anonymity, I wish you, Nikki, to take this mail as a serious matter that requires your earnest attention.  Would you provide me, please, with the answers I am seeking?

Ignoring this mail or attempting to answer my questions in any way other than fully and honestly will result in a formal complaint to the Corporation.

In the event of a reply John Standing will no doubt post it here.

UPDATE 09.09.09

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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.