What does this mean for white nationalism?

My thanks to Bo Sears for the link to this Washington Times piece, Al Qaeda eyes bio attack from Mexico.

Last October, Bo picked up on Joe Biden’s warning of a nation-shaking event.  Now we get one from “U.S. counterterrorism officials” who have:

authenticated a video by an al Qaeda recruiter threatening to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border, the latest sign of the terrorist group’s determination to stage another mass-casualty attack on the U.S. homeland.

The video aired earlier this year as a recruitment tool makes clear that al Qaeda is looking to exploit weaknesses in U.S. border security and also is willing to ally itself with white militia groups or other anti-government entities interested in carrying out an attack inside the United States, according to counterterrorism officials interviewed by The Washington Times.

The officials, who spoke only on the condition they not be named because of the sensitive nature of their work, stressed that there is no credible information that al Qaeda has acquired the capabilities to carry out a mass biological attack although its members have clearly sought the expertise.

The video first aired by the Arabic news network Al Jazeera in February and later posted to several Web sites shows Kuwaiti dissident Abdullah al-Nafisi telling a room full of supporters in Bahrain that al Qaeda is casing the U.S. border with Mexico to assess how to send terrorists and weapons into the U.S.

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So in Britain it was election day.  Has the world changed?  That’s the question.  Have these European elections signalled a new phase in the development of the BNP, and for the rights of native Britons to their own land?

Well, we shall know all over the next three days, starting with the results of the local authority elections tomorrow morning.

This campaign certainly has been a unique episode in British politics.  By midnight last night, most of the media had stood down from operations against the BNP.  Almost.  Even The Times’ Fiona Hamilton had found another way to make the MultiCult a better and browner place.  Among the party’s campaigners all was anticipation, and a quiet satisfaction that everything that could be done was done.

The only discordant note was sounded by our wonderfully cultured Culture Minister, David Lammy - a man who was in no way chosen for his very important post because of the colour of his skin.  He managed to get his BNP-mugging done at 3.30pm this afternoon.  “Vote to keep out the BNP threat” it said.  Apparently, it’s not enough for Mr Lammy just to keep out the BNP.  That “threat” has to be kept out too, you know.  Don’t worry, though, because nobody pays a blind bit of attention to this entirely pointless person.

That said, Mr Lammy will probably be kept around in Alan Johnson’s new cabinet of superdiversity, given that Gordon’s departure has been guaranteed by the shock news this evening of another ministerial resignation.

As I said, a completely unique episode in British politics.

The result of it all will appear in the form of updates to this post.

And yes my wife and I voted for the BNP in the Europeans.  But we had to vote for Cameron’s crowd in the locals.

John de Nugent has circularised this LA Times article, published yesterday, about the incarceration and legal processing of Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle.  Dana Parsons did a fair job with it, one has to say.  He resisted the very tiresome temptation to demonise them.  Instead, he treated them with some sympathy as people who naively thought America was “the beacon of free speech in the Western world”.

Men bedeviled in bid for sanctuary

... Sheppard and Whittle were convicted in England for a string of essays and other published material on Sheppard’s heretical.com website, which uses a server based in Torrance. Sheppard was convicted on 11 counts, Whittle on five. In January, Sheppard was retried in absentia and convicted on five more charges.

Their online entries follow the well-traveled path of other nationalist polemicists, with particular emphasis on decrying the influence and power of Jews in the world.

“People are entitled to hold racist and extreme opinions which others may find unpleasant and obnoxious,” Mari Reid, a lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service’s Counter Terrorism Division in England said in a prepared statement earlier this year about the case.

“What they are not allowed to do is to publish or distribute those opinions to the public in a threatening, abusive or insulting manner either intending to stir up racial hatred or in circumstances where it is likely racial hatred will be stirred up.”

The vast majority of the material in this case concerned Jewish people, Reid said, “but there was also material relating to black, Asian and non-white people generally, all described in derogatory terms using offensive language.”

... In denying asylum, Peters ruled that the men hadn’t shown they had been persecuted in the past or likely to face future persecution.

Sheppard and Whittle had hoped their story would attract media attention, but that never materialized.

“I think it has very wide ramifications,” Leichty says of their convictions. “I don’t share their views or the way they communicate their views, but I certainly don’t think we should be incarcerating people for what they did.”

Sheppard said he and Whittle are merely waiting for a middle-of-the-night wake-up and a quick trip to the airport.

“We’re not cowed and we’re not repentant,” Sheppard says. “We have the right even to make mistakes. We could be wrong, it’s not inconceivable. We have a right to be wrong. All we’re doing is speaking our minds.”

Whittle says he isn’t keen on making a career out of being a political prisoner in England. “Simon is from Yorkshire,” he says. “People from Yorkshire are strong-willed. I’m not from Yorkshire. He sticks to his guns. I don’t have his willpower and tenacity.”

After 11 months in custody, Whittle is not sure anymore that he and Sheppard would have remained free even if they had quietly gone through customs, left LAX and found a lawyer to handle their asylum request. “Once they became aware of who we were and that we came to the U.S. to flee,” Whittle says, “we would have ended up in detention.”

That is how it played out. Coming to America has been a bust.

“We’ve never seen California but through bars,” Whittle says.

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Gordon Brown’s last throw of the anti-BNP dice before Thursday’s vote was an open letter to be signed, one must suppose, by a few dozen “community leaders” and “inspirational people”.  With him at the head, of course.

Here’s the letter:

Go to the polls to fight BNP hate

We love Britain precisely because of its tolerance and diversity. The British National party and its allies are a threat to everything that makes us proud of this country we love. The BNP is working hard to conceal its extremism because it knows that people in Britain totally reject the politics of racism and hatred.

But the BNP’s record is clear: its 2001 manifesto wanted mixed-race relationships to be outlawed and for any black person who commits a crime to be thrown out of the country, even those who were born here. Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, was found guilty of [blah, blah, blah - Ed]

A vote for the BNP is a vote against everything that makes this country great. We are determined to vote on 4 June: please join us in voting for a great Britain.

And here are the signitaries in all their political redundancy and total pointlessness:-

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The evolution of virulence is perhaps the greatest threat of immigration specifically and globalization generally—which is precisely why we are never allowed to hear about it from the old media.

But a ray of light broke through in a limited way last week as Medical News Today reports:

Viruses More Virulent In A Connected World

That’s one conclusion from a new study that looked at how virulence evolves in parasites. The research examined whether parasites evolve to be more or less aggressive depending on whether they are closely connected to their hosts or scattered among more isolated clusters of hosts.

The research was led by Geoff Wild, an NSERC-funded mathematician at the University of Western Ontario, with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh. Their paper was published on Nature’s Web site on May 27…

“The findings also suggest that as human activity makes the world more connected, natural selection will favour more virulent and dangerous parasites.”

Those who have followed my writings know the evolution of virulence is more important than mere prediction of microbe virulence.

But according to genocidal elites that run the old media, such knowledge is not for public consumption.  Hence, when you go to the cited paper published on Nature’s website, you’ll see this “description”:

The nail in the coffin for group selection?

Benefits to an individual and its family may be enough to account for altruistic behaviour.

Brendan Maher

A model that examines the behaviour of parasites infecting their hosts renders the evolutionary paradigm of group selection unnecessary, say scientists in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Why organisms display behaviours or other adaptations that aren’t directly beneficial to them is a question that has intrigued biologists and caused conflict between different schools of thought for generations.

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Seasoned MR readers might remember that we’ve featured a couple of posts about the English accoustic folk duo, Show of Hands.  I was much taken by the simple trust for and faith in their own English people that Steve Knightley and Phil Beer display.  But I’m posting the video of their number The Flood from the 2001 album Cold Frontier for a different reason.

A Lewes resident during the floods of 2000, I recognised straight away Steve Knightley’s descriptive account of “the Southern Chalk downland ... soaked after weeks of hard rain” and “streams that were dry since the war, they’re flowing again”.  But it was what followed that surprised me.  Here is Knightley linking the flood we saw with climate change and desertification, African boat people, the Sangatte crisis of 1999-2002 and most remarkably and presciently, the debt crisis of today.  The central theme to all of this is the “cost of the flood” that “everyone round here is counting”.

Naturally, this conjunction of folk music and protest of social issues would have moved Knightley and Beer - men of my age - in their youth.  But how refreshing to encounter it today allied to an overarching concern for the real people of this country.  The more I hear of these two guys, the more I find to agree with and admire.

How has the current Western political class come into being?

That’s the question posed to readers of that tribune of the libertines, Samizdata.net.  It’s a good question, but not a perfect one.  It could, I think, be improved by the addition of the following:-

And how has this Western political class been sustained in power?

That allows us to talk about the democratic process, its subversion by special interests and it hollowness in electoral terms.

Now, there is a certain congruency between Samizdata and MR readers.  Both are individualistic - the Samizdatista archly so, the MRer inadvertently.  Both, of course, disdain the political class as a body of men and women rigidly antipathetic to their respective primary interest.  The liberty junkies, therefore, wail as the creeping sands of the state envelop the liberties they cherish.  We, being human, spit on the soil and look to the horizon, thinking about our children and our land.

You can see what kind of fist the Samizdatistas made of answering their question here.  “Education” is a favourite resort.  Of course, none of the answers make any sense from the standpoint of a European people losing their land and their life in a politically ordered and defended genocide.  The Samizdatistas are historical dilletantes and mewling liberals who have conniptions at the slightest whisper of the word “race”, and a full-blown seizure at “Jew”.

Still, let’s see what we can put together by way of an answer to that question: how did our political class come to this estate, and what keeps them like it?