Adolf Hitler used the freedom of the press in his attempt to destroy mankind. The BBC and commercial broadcasters must be reminded to act accordingly.
BBC1 and BBC2 are set to transmit the first party political broadcast by the BNP in the general election campaign on Thursday 21st April. The BBC is not obliged under the law to transmit the broadcast. There are precedents for restrictions being put on the fascist and racist BNP - its previous broadcasts were either stopped entirely or subject to severe restriction due to their offensive content. Wherever the BNP have a presence, racist attacks increase. Prominent members of the BNP including its leader Nick Griffin have recently been charged under the section 18 of the Public Order Act which outlaws incitement to racial hatred.
A letter will be handed in, calling on the BBC to not to broadcast the BNP's message of race hate.
You can make a complaint...
By phoning the BBC: 08700 100 222
or Textphone: 08700 100 212
or by email: Go to the BBC website complaints page http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ and click on 'email: send your complaint'
You can also write to the BBC:
BBC Complaints, PO Box 1922, Glasgow G2 3WT
You can complain to OFCOM on the content of the broadcast by emailing: contact@ofcom.org.uk
You can also call on the other broadcasters not to broadcast the BNP's election material:
ITV: dutyoffice@itv.com
C4: viewerenquiries@channel4.co.uk
C5: customerservices@five.tv
Please let us know the details of your complaint by cc'ing unite@natfhe.org.uk
For more information: www.uaf.org.uk 020 7388 4916
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Remember Redwatch
20.04.2005 22:56
NUJ members in the north of England have passed a dossier to police on these threats. They are just part of a BNP campaign to silence those who do not agree with their vile racist policies.
But there ARE journalists and newspapers around the country that do investigate and expose the BNP and their lies, and the NUJ applauds and supports them.
The NUJ defends the rights of journalists and stand with others to defend media freedom. The BNP has no respect for media freedom or trade union rights.
We will resist all intimidation by the BNP It is a fascist party. There is no place for racism and fascism in this country.
NUJ
Free Speech Incites Racial Attacks By BNP'S Combat 18 Lackeys
20.04.2005 23:22
Secondly, the right to free speech brings with it particular responsibilities, such as not violating other people's freedom. Fascism as an ideology is inherently opposed to free speech, freedom of movement and the right to live one's life without fear or oppression. Freedom of speech is very important, but so is the right to live without fear of the discrimination, hatred and violence that fascism represents. The fascists of today, such as the British National Party, do not really believe in free speech but they will be quick to exploit liberal arguments in favour of it for their own purposes. The BNP uses the mantle of free speech to stir up racial hatred and deny the Holocaust.
Let us not forget that the BNP would deny all black people not only the right to speak but also the actual right to live in Britain.
Members of the BNP have suggested in print that the party would follow in the footsteps of Hitler and the Nazis if it could, and forcibly silence all its opponents through a campaign of intimidation, imprisonment and murder. Writing in The Rune recently, Nick Griffin stated that, if in power, the BNP would execute "the politicians, those in charge of the media, police chiefs and those responsible for creating this multi-racial hellhole". Fascists will manipulate arguments about free speech but the reality is that they would welcome the chance to deny millions of people their own rights to free speech. In a free and democratic society, to allow the BNP and other nazis to cloak their genocidal hatred in the flag of free speech is to degrade and undermine the concept of tolerance.
Linda Lovelace
That's rich
24.04.2005 15:26
Incitement to racial hatred laws may prevent the BNP from saying certain things in their party political broadcast, but "pulling the plug" on them is stepping into the grey areas that US broadcasters have recently been condemned for on various independent media outlets.
pippin
leftist wankers
25.04.2005 15:36
.. oh but i forgot the left do not do any work or talk to any working class people .. they just patronise us and accuse us of being racists when we complain our wage rates and job security are undercut by cowboy firms using cheap immigrant labour
left = wankers
right = wankers
bob
Dear Bob
26.04.2005 01:56
I agree with you.
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Buckaroo
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Hitler-Worshipping BNP Neo Nazis Are Posting On Indymedia
30.04.2005 11:39
Their cover is blown.
Pingu
The National Front And The Miner's Strike
30.04.2005 12:07
Birdwood's Neo-Nazi life
Nazi activist Lady Birdwood campaigned against immigration in the 1960s and joined a string of far right outfits.
In the early 1970s she tried to set up a private postal service to break a national strike. Later, she tried to crush the striking miners, with views more hardline than than Thatcher, while in Nazi National Front. At the height of its influence. Birdwood stood as a Nazi British National Party candidate in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, in 1992.
As a Daily Telegraph obituary said, she "did not accept conventional accounts of the Holocaust". She was a Holocaust denier who tried to make out that the Nazis did not murder six million Jews. In 1994 she sent a letter to every MP claiming that Jewish people drank the blood of non-Jewish children.
Apparently her failure to ignite a race war and drive black people out of Britain left her deeply embittered. According to the Telegraph obituary, "She lived in London, in Earl's Court and then Acton. Their multicultural populations were a constant trial to her."
If the pro-fascist tosspot posters on Indymedia (really BNP media peeps), think people will believe them, they should go and chuck themselves off the nearest cliff.
THE NEO-NAZI BNP HATES THE WORKING CLASS.
You can't deny this, losers !!!!!!!!!!
Fascists Hate The Working Class
The BNP Are "Politically Correct" - It's Impolite To Label Them Nazis!!!
30.04.2005 22:57
Working class people are seen as bait, lackeys to do the dirty work of contriving, dividing minds.
It's the same with today's Neo Nazis.
Even though he doesn't act like he has any grey matter, Nick Griffin has an intelligence, which he uses to cause riots, racism, racial attacks, and he uses to make people fear their fellow man.
A thinking fascist is more dangerous than a drug-addled psycopath, because it aims to delf-replicate like a virus. We are talking serious eugenics shit, here. Have you ever heard of his friends David Duke, or the Pioneer Foundation? Or his German contacts who are SS veterans.
How can the BNP say they aren't fascists? Or has his favourite smear tactic whihc he calls political correct reporting, been twisted on itself.
The "politically correct "Rod Little" media (pioneered by the far-right favouring former BBC journalist, will call asylum seekers anything under the sun, but when it comes to "calling a spade, a spade", the BNP cannot be called, what they most definately are, old-fashioned unreconstitued Nazis.
Nick Griffin Reads Mein Kamph