On Wednesday night the BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze devoted 45 minutes to consideration of whether BNP members should be employed in public services.  7 minutes 40 seconds was given over to the (decidedly) cross-examination of Mr Lee John Barnes, who these days goes under the title of National Coordinator of the British National Party legal department.

His performance was nothing if not combative, and earned him and the party some level-headed and fair praise from one panel-member, Michael Portillo.  For breaking the BNP taboo, he will no doubt receive the due amount of contumely and criticism from former friends and colleagues.

The programme can be heard for the next few days here, with Barnes’ contribution starting at 11 min 56 sec.

Barnes answered (rebuffed, really) the less than neutral questions of panel members Melanie Phillips and Clifford Longley.  The first question, though, came from the programme’s presenter Michael Buerk:-

Michael Buerk: Do you accept that some people want limitation on who should be allowed to be BNP members is because your party is widely regarded as racist?

Lee Barnes: Erm, there’s a lot of people in society who are very ignorant of what our party stands for.  Our party isn’t racist.  Basically our party has a positon which is on immigration ... it’s on ... it’s ... primarily our focus is on space more than race, erm, and if you check most of our literature you will find that’s true. There’s isn’t a real racial issue in there anymore.  If anyone is in this country illegally or unlawfully we’re gonna ‘ave ‘em out regardless of race, colour, creed.

Spacist not racist!  Does anybody really believe that?  Probably not.  But, obviously, the party has not been able to defend itself against the charge of racism.  I’m not constrained by the minefields of the political world.  I’m interested in developing an argument that thoroughly nukes the “r” issue.

Towards the end of last week I spent three or four days picking up not one, not two but three Guardian bans while defending the BNP membership against the deracinated hanging judges of the Comment Is Free website.  That takes my CiF bans to sixteen, assuming I haven’t forgotten any of my earlier dramatis personnea.  Does it get me in the Guinness Book of Records?  Probably.  Shouldn’t I be ashamed of this obsessive desire to force innocent liberal backs to the wall?  Er ... erm ... aaah ... nope.  I’m just shameless like that.

Besides, this really only mildly obsessional effort is devoted to a perfectly noble cause: to test the intellectual quality and rhetorical strength of my current ideas against the best, generally, that the other side has to offer, and to refine them further in the light of that experience.  This, in other words, is a work in progress.

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“Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

So if we depend on Samuel Johnson’s rule, what are we to make of reports that:

Even as it gasped for breath, American insurance giant AIG was lobbying the United States Congress hard to get the Indo-US civil nuclear energy deal cleared, reports ProPublica.org. Business, it would appear, runs politics in the United States.

American International Group, or AIG, is supposed to have spent over $5 million lobbying in favour of the nuke deal. AIG deployed its own in-house lobbyists, but also employed five lobbying firms, to influence bills and other policy matters in Washington, claimed the ProPublica report.

The signing of the bill by President George W Bush in October signalled a new chapter in Indo-US ties. With the clearance of the deal, India has been released from the 30-year-old sanctions during which it was not given any civil nuclear technology to ramp up its energy needs. The ban was imposed soon after India first tested a nuclear bomb at Pokharan, Rajasthan in 1974.

So why was AIG so keen?

Or, as Samul Johnson might ask:  “So why was AIG’s mind so wonderfully concentrated on India’s nuclear capabilities by its imminent bankruptcy?”

Here’s a plausible explanation that also tends to explain the current terror attacks on Tata Group’s assets in Mumbai:

As has been previously reported, international fraud rings have penetrated the financial centers of the US and we should expect that along with the rest of the Fortune 1000, AIG’s main vulnerability to such international fraud rings is via India’s takeover of US financial information technology.  Those of us who have seen the information industry in the US sold down the river know that Israel has played no minor part.  Indeed, it is entirely plausible that it was the historic feud between Hinduism and Islam that made USrael sacrifice the uppity US technologists on the alter of an alliance between USrael and India in the middle East.  It seems unlikely that any major-league financial con could be pulled off by the Indians without the knowledge if not consent of the Mossad.

With lame-duck Bush leaving office, the prospect that the US might not be as reliable an ally of Israel in the hands of a protean Kenyan and Iran ramping up its enrichment capability to 500 centrifuges, now would be the time to close the deal with India:  arming it to the teeth with nuclear weapons.  This will require money—not a lot in the whole scheme of the financial catastrophe—but enough to be noticeable without such a cover.

India has population to burn and a lot of urban areas in serious need of new infrastructure—and a Brahman caste traditionally more tied to the rural areas than are the current elites in the West.  The deal:  600 million Muslims for 600 million (lower caste urban) Hindus.  USrael gets to sit out the nuclear conflict, wringing its hands with furrowed brow.

If this money—less than $100 billion but probably more than $20 billion—were being funneled to India via AIG, how would it become observable?

One way might be for AIG’s primary partner in India to suddenly undergo a terrorist attack in the financial center of India.  So who is AIG’s primary partner in India?

The Tata Group

And what might be the Tata Group’s asset most vulnerable to terror attack while likely being currently involved in the the laundering of tens of billions for nuclear arms buildup?

Here’s a reasonable candidate:

When violent attackers besieged the Taj, as it is universally known, on Wednesday night and embarked on a murderous rampage, they targeted one of the city’s most sumptuous buildings and best known landmarks.

But they also went after something larger: a hulking physical embodiment of India’s deepening involvement with the world.

The Taj is where privileged Indians come when they want a world-class meal. It is where pinstriped foreign investors come when deciding whether to invest in India or outsource jobs here. It is where Mick Jagger, Liz Hurley, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt come to make their homes away from home.

And it is owned by a conglomerate, the Tata Group…

Oh, and don’t forget the Israelis.

Drudge and Bloomberg but no major US news gatherer has covered the impolitic opinions of Prof Igor Panarin, a leading Russian political analyst who was interviewed yesterday by Izvestia.  This is a guy who predicted in 1998 that the American economy would collapse and America itself would be torn apart by conflicting regional ambitions.

He is reported by Drudge as saying:-

“The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse.”

... Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: “A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse, and this means that whole cities will be left without work. Governors are already insistently demanding money from the federal center. Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles.”

He also cited the “vulnerable political setup”, “lack of unified national laws”, and “divisions among the elite, which have become clear in these crisis conditions.”

He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.

So, is there a serious chance that Panarin is right - at least about a break-up of some kind?  Is perhaps white secession an opportunist gambit requiring rapid racial assortation rather than a grand and long-deliberated plan?  If so, an internal volition would drive the process of white decision-making, and largely do away with the work of raising racial consciousness.  And the problem of an all-powerful, jealous and malign Federal bureaucracy spiking every attempt to jump-start a secessionary process also falls away.

Some planning there would still need to be, of course.  But under immeasurably more propitious circumstances for a clean and quick outcome.

Well, I guess it’s something to talk about over the winter evenings.

By David Hamilton

Gordon Brown and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson went to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states in the first week of November 2008 to ask them to fund our faltering economies by putting billions into the International Monetary Fund.

In return they offered them some control over Britain and the West. The Saudi regime is the motor behind Islamisation of the West. It is Saudi’s Wahhabi form of Islam which, together with the Shi’ites in Iran, aims to make Islam dominant in the world. Saudi money has financed the spread of Wahhabi mosques, preachers and educational institutions in this country promoting holy war and converting thousands of British Muslims.

Saudi Wahhabism seeks to conquer the West through a pincer movement comprising violence on the one hand and cultural infiltration on the other, and our Prime Minister is colluding with them. Lord Mandelson admitted that the Saudis and other Gulf states would get more influence in global institutions in return:-

“The Gulf is open to business but they’re also signing up as keen partners to help the rest of the world to get through the international financial crisis,” he said.

“Specifically, it means that they will contribute to the IMF fund… but they will also contibute as partners to the decision-making that we need to make to build up the institutions, the new practices.

Islamic influence is spreading into our cultural life as the Arabic investors buy Western institutions. Manchester City F C is now owned by the ruling family of Abu Dhabi; Barclays Bank, has had almost £6 billion invested from Abu Dhabi and Qatar.

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So thirteen BNP leafleters were arrested by Merseyside Police on Friday in at least four separate groups.  They have been cautioned, fingerprinted and swabbed - with force, probably illegal, being applied by six constables in one case - and released on bail.

Their crime is to have distributed a rather lurid leaflet, designed by Mark Collett.  It made the case for a different interpretation of the lethal violence between native Britons and their unsoliticed guests from the one we normally hear about in the mainstream media.

Scotland Yard is also said to be poring over the leaflet looking for grounds for prosecution under the Incitement to Hatred law.  It looks and feels very like a Home Office inspired attempt to block leaflet circulation.  Can it work?

The passages in Racism Cuts Both Ways which may possibly provide an excuse to the state to legally-harrass the party appear to be these, if the Independent article is anything to go by:-

From Nick Griffin’s introductory statement on page 2 of the pdf (also page 2 of the leaflet).

... our people are the silent victims of an epidemic of racist violence, sexual exploitation and murder.

From page 5 of the pdf (page 8 of the leaflet):-

“Wherever there are large numbers of young Muslim men, groups team up to lure girls – often as young as 12 or 13 – into a nightmare world of sexual abuse, rape, beatings, drug addiction and prostitution.”

... and:-

This deliberate preying on girls from other communities - together with the refusal of Muslim leaders to condemn what is going on - show that these campaigns of sexual abuse are racist.

From page 5 of the pdf (page 9 of the leaflet):-

The average racist murderer in Britain is 40 times more likely to be an ethnic minority than a native Brit.

There are caveats in the form of a statement to the effect that the party’s beef is with the “hostile ruling class” in politics and the media, and to the effect that most ethnic minority members lead respectable and law-abiding lives.  But, legally, such caveats do not excuse statements elsewhere that may contravene the law.  It looks to me as if statements one and two above are inflammatory but it would take a very determined prosecutor to construe them as inciting hatred.  If statements three and four are supported by good evidence no jury would convict.

Politically, a trial of leafletters would be a public relations disaster for the government.  There ought now to be a period of inaction from Merseyside Police, followed by a muted statement that no further action will be taken.

So if the legal explanation is not convincing.  What about spoiling tactics?

Well, with recession hitting, the government is more nervous than at any time since 7/7.  Not a day goes by without some inconvenient news story escaping into the right-wing media.  Ethnic recruitment to the police has been hammered.  Senior non-white officers are taking the Met to the courts for its alleged institutional racism.  The Black Police Officers Association has advised minority members to look elsewhere if they are contemplating joining the force in London.  The new Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has made a complete fool of himself promising and then unpromising a cap on immigration.  We’ve just had the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government telling Guardian readers in the most shallow terms how to beat the BNP.  Jon Cruddas, the MP whose Barking & Dagenham seat is most threatened by the dratted nationalists, is off shortly to shout “fascist!” and “racist!” with the in no ways fascist and racist Holocaust Education Trust ...

It’s all becoming perfectly ghastly for them.  The government is always being advised by its own, ideologically complacent supporters to take the argument to the BNP, and rebut their claims.  This must have been considered by the Labour Party already, and rejected on the grounds that they would be defending much they know to be indefensible.  How do you tell white families in London, Birmingham, Leicester or Manchester how lucky they are to have immigrants everywhere?

So perhaps all that is left is doing nothing and letting the BNP spread its unquestionably damaging and fundamentally true message, or raising the ante for BNP activists by some uncompromising treatment at the hands of the Staatspolizei.

If it’s the latter, it will not work.  It will have the opposite effect, galvanising an already motivated membership and showing the British public early a Leviathanesque face they will one day come to know only too well.

Total Wall St. Bailout: $2.56 trillion
Total Consumer Debt: $2.59 trillion

President Elect Barack Obama wants to run a Web 2.0 collaborative government.  The transition team has a website up soliciting input from citizens.  OK.  I’m a citizen.  Here’s my submitted input:

To immediately fix the economic crisis while solving the longer term problems with entitlements and medical care, call up Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute and ask him to construct legislative language implementing his plan as described in “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Wefare State”.  Murray’s credentials guarantee very little Republican opposition if the Obama administration advances the idea.

Pres. Elect Obama says he wants ideas that will work and he’s not prejudiced by their source.  This is his chance to prove he’s serious.

Murray has proposed $10,000/year in monthly direct-deposit payments to every US citizen age 21 or older, possibly with $3000 of that withheld for health insurance.

For reasons I’ve previously outlined I don’t believe he is serious enough to legislate a citizen’s dividend:

The closest we are likely to come to stability is if Obama is elected and imposes a net asset tax.  But this will merely trade private sector rent-seeking for public sector rent-seeking as there is no way Obama will let working whites have any of their patrimony back without walking hat-in-hand into their local government offices and/or precinct political meetings to genuflect appropriately.  Even then it will be very grudging and selectively doled out only to the most obsequious and “non threatening” of whites—which immediately disqualifies almost all working whites who don’t have biracial children.

I hope he proves me wrong about his supposed seriousness as a leader of a mutiracial society.  If he does implement something like Murray’s equivalent to a citizen’s dividend, not only will it expose immigration as the dilution of carrying capacity that it is, it will let lower income Euroams, including young people, migrate much more freely.  For many will this will mean flight from diversity or what I’ve called “assortative migration”.  Even though this is handicapped assortation—since there will be others who will pursue Euroams (particularly young Euroam women) wherever they flee—the existence of true freedom to migrate will make obvious the most fundamental human right of all—freedom of association—is directly attacked by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

So the affair of the leaked BNP membership list has already led to a Merseyside policeman being investigated and the Talksport DJ Rod Lucas getting the sack.  But worse will likely come to some:-

If that info gets a bit more public, this could be the end of the BNP - home demos, leafleting neigbours, alterting workplaces etc - we could seriously fuck the BNP up!

Come on, do the right thing - give us those addresses

(A) Sab x

The list itself is of dubious currency.  Excluding family members under eighteen, there are 12,215 names on it, many of whom are lapsed members.  The latest entries are June 2008, but most relate to the 2007 membership (apparently there is a very fast turnover of the BNP membership).

So, who did it?

Theory One: The list was leaked by a former party-member

Actually, a “hard-liner” who, according to Nick Griffin, “didn’t like the direction the party was going and broke away, taking the list with him”.

But EnoughisEnough has issued a rapid and firm denial, together with a demand for an apology to former Head of Administration, Kenny Smith.  There was a report that Griffin is now backing away from this theory, but I can’t locate the link.

Theory Two: The list was leaked by another left-wing mole in the party

The workaday explanation.  Well, we’ve had Jason Gwynne.  We’ve had Ian Cobain.

Theory Three: The list was leaked by an agent of MI5 within the party

The rationale here is that the BNP is on the verge of a “national breakthrough”, and could well grab a seat in the election to the European Parliament next June.

Just yesterday we heard how the party was planning an assault on the first direct elections for police authorities.

“We will be having a real go, there’s no doubt about that,” said Simon Darby, deputy leader of the BNP. “We have a staunch core of voters who are guaranteed to turn out and they could be enough to win us seats in these circumstances:-

“Crime will undoubtedly rise in the recession – burglaries go up, car theft rises, there will be problems with drug pushers. People don’t want to put up with that and they’ll want something done about it.

That reference to an increase in popularity as the recession bites was a major point of interest at last week’s BNP national conference in Blackpool, and might also be weighing on minds in high places.

This would be a good moment, then, to release sensitive information that could starve the party of membership and members’ party fees.  But ... why would an intelligence agent use an old list?

So, I favour Theory Two for now.  But the police have been called in, so perhaps we shall eventually learn who is the guilty party.