I know the vast majority of the people on this website are American, and chances are a lot of the people who are reading this will therefore be American as well, on top of this you have people from mainland Europe and the other continents as well. This post concerns a British concern, that of the British National Party, but I will be addressing people of other nations at the end of the post.

For those of you unaware of who or what the BNP is, the fact that they have been dubbed the British Nazi Party should give you some idea of what it is they stand for. They are a political party who state that they are British nationalists and are trying to protect Britain from outsiders (immigrants ) and bring back a sense of British Pride.

To anyone who on reading this thinks that doesn't sound to bad, allow me to extrapolate on the description:

Members of the BNP have been arrested for violating race laws by disseminating racists literature in the heart of one of Britains major cities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mer seyside/7744332.stm

Members of the BNP have been arrested for possesion of weapons that are illegal in the UK, including RPG launchers and grenades.

I have sadly lost the link to this news story.

The BNP are a vile and disgusting political party who are usurping what it means to be British. Whether by hijacking the Union Flag and the flag of St George, or by trying to invovle themselves and claim traditional activities and music by claiming they are trying to help them be revivied or protect them, the BNP have been working their way into becoming an accepted face of British Politics.

This can not be allowed to happen.

They're tactics of trying to take over and support and protect folk traditions is one utilised by the Nazi's under Hitler.

They have set up a youth movement in the same vein as the Nazi Party.

I'm writing this today after I stumbled across a link on the BBC website which detailed that some of my favourite folk artists were having their albums sold by the BNP as a means for them to raise money against their will.

I am now asking you, as a decent human being that i am sure you are, that you take a few actions to try and help stop the spread of these demonic individuals who claim to represent ' the best of what is British'

1) If you haven't already done this, then Sign the Hope not Hate 'Not in my name Petition'. This has already been handed into the European Parliament as a declaration of the distaste that the British people have for the fact tht Nick griffin and his coleague were elected to the European Parliament, but the more signatures it gets, the stronger the message is.

BRITAIN DOES NOT ENDORSE FASCISM OR RACISM

2) If you want to get involved a bit more then I suggest looking up United Against Fascism and looking for their campaigns that might be taking place in and around your area.

3) Use your right to Vote and do not let the fascists in by default. This is how the BNP were able to win seats in the European Elections.

To those of you who aren't British, or for whatever reason don't want to do any of these things, then there's a very simple thing you can do. Whenever someone mentions the BNP, or Fascism to you in conversation, mak your dislike known and state *why*!

The only way to defeat this is through education and there is no stronger force on earth when it comes to altering personal opinion than word of mouth.

Through education we can end ignorance.
Without ignorance we are free of hate.

Thanks for reading.

Regards,

Steve ( Tri-Nitro-Toluene)