Coming Soon: BNP Eats Belgian BabiesAccording to the Sunday newspapers the BNP are thugs, thieves, racists, rapists, crooks, con-men, drug dealers, drug users, gun runners, gang-bangers, fencers, fraudsters and, of course, nazis and fascists.With the election campaign barely a week old, hacks on the popular press are in competition to see who can conjure up the most gruesome expose of the British National Party. It's a no holds barred contest where the truth plays little or no part, and where the most grotesque revelations concerning the BNP wins the day. What worries me is that there are still 18 days to go till polling day and we are already at the rapists, drug dealers and gun-running level of expose. This doesn't leave much for the last two weeks of the campaign, does it. It will be BNP murderers next week, but what will that leave for the final run in? May I suggest, for the Sunday before Polling Day, a story with the headline 'BNP Eats Belgian Babies'. This story worked very well in the First World War when the British Government were trying to rally the population for the fight against Germany. The original campaign depicted German soldiers throwing Belgian babies in the air and catching them on their bayonets. As horrific an image as this was, Whitehall thought it was too modest, so they went one step further by stating that the Germans then went on to eat the babies. This appalling story definitely rallied the troops, and young men from our northern towns went willingly to their own slaughter in the battlefields of France to defeat this vile enemy. This is what the Labour supporting Sunday Mirror and Sunday Mercury are trying to do. They seek to rally Labour supporters by demonising the BNP. Well is it working? In Burnley, last week, an old soldier answered the door to one of our canvassers. "You're not a politicaian are you?", he inquired. "That's not what they call us," was the reply. "What do they call you then?" he ventured. "Nazis and fascists", came the response.
The wrinkled face broke into a broad grin, So a man who fought in the last war against nazis and fascists was not only voting for, but was willing to make a cup of tea for someone that the press have labelled a nazi and a fascist. How can this have happened? The answer is that the constant use over the last thirty years of the term 'nazi' and 'fascist' to besmirched British Nationalism have rendered the label meaningless. This campaign, to criminalise and put 'beyond the pale', that has been waged against the BNP since the General Election is falling into the same trap. The nature of its over-kill is making it meaningless.
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