Laughter is the best medicine

I have not seen a more true post than the one on a local bloggers website. After recent shootings in the US, she begs the question that you don’t see many shootings by far-left members.

One of the recent shooting was at a Holocaust Memorial in America by a 88-year old white supremacist called James von Brunn, interesting to note in one American article that:

Von Brunn sometimes spoke of having fought for the wrong side in World War II, Blodgett said, and the two men sometimes attended meetings in Arlington County of the American Friends of the British National Party, which raised funds for the British white supremacist group.

Interesting…. Nick Griffin has been known to speak at these meetings. Here is one such talk from youtube:

Note that he is talking about how to rebrand the BNP to get support, here’s the transcript:

There’s a difference between selling out your ideas and selling your ideas. And the British National Party isn’t about selling out it’s ideas, which are your ideas, but we are determined now to sell them. And that means basically to use these salable words.
As I say, ‘freedom’, ’security’, ‘identity’, ‘democracy’, nobody can criticise them, nobody can come at you and attack you on those ideas: they are salable. Perhaps one day, once by being rather more subtle, we got ourselves into a position where we control the British broadcasting media, then perhaps one day the British people might change their minds and say, ‘Yes, every last one must go’. Perhaps they will one day, but if you offer that as your soul mate to start with, you’re going to get absolutely nowhere. So, instead of talking about racial purity we talk about identity.

As for the comment about von Brunn fighting on the wrong side in the war, my opinion of the BNP winning seats in the European Parliament is that every single person who voted them has raped the memoryof all those who fought for our country and the Allies against the Nazis in the Second World War. They talk about their nationalism, but it is obviously just plain rascism. How can these people who voted BNP call themselves fighting for Britain or being a proud national when they shit all over the memories of those who fought for our country and fought for our freedom against the German version of the BNP.

Anyway, i have been directed towards this twitter profile. Read it, follow it, love it! As one comment said, now that they have become ‘legitimised’ now they are open to satire. Forward to the front pages of a national tabloid and there are financial rewards going for anyone who can hit Griffin with an Indian takeaway!

Going back to the original sentiment, even in Reading we face the threat of nazi and far-right terrorism. Back in November 2008 a local man from my neck of the woods- Tilehurst- was charged under the Terrorism Act, he also owned Nazi propaganda… i bet he would had voted BNP if he were able to… and you don’t have to wonder why…

Please visit this facebook group for some really interesting BNP quotes and comparisons with the Nazis.

All you fascists (are bound to lose)

All You Fascists

I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose

Race hatred cannot stop us
This one thing we know
Your poll tax and Jim Crow
And greed has got to go
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose.

All of you fascists bound to lose:
I said, all of you fascists bound to lose:
Yes sir, all of you fascists bound to lose:
You’re bound to lose! You fascists:
Bound to lose!

People of every color
Marching side to side
Marching ‘cross these fields
Where a million fascists dies
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!

I’m going into this battle
And take my union gun
We’ll end this world of slavery
Before this battle’s won
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!

Song by Billy Bragg on Mermaid Avenue II, words by Woody Gunthrie

And Human Rights For All…

I love Shami.

There it is official, I know rumours have been going round for ages, but now it is official, I am in love with Shami Chakrabarti.

The reason for this I think I hear you ask?

Well, it all started in the not so distant past, 7 November 2008 to be exact.

There was a radio talk show that has now ceased to exist that talked rubbish about a whole manner of issues. On the fateful day in question, a local councillor was called a “Nazi” live on air for his views that smoking parents should not be allowed to adopt. The perpetrator of this jibe, a one Jon Gaunt, was subsequently sacked by the radio station, talkSPORT afew days later. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/11/jon-gaunt-talksport

Gaunt defended his comment by suggesting he meant to say “Health Nazi”- a completely different kind of Nazi to the one you can see in history books trying to trick people into looking up into the sky behind them.

It could be concluded by some that Britain is now a slightly better place without his poison infecting the airwaves (calling somebody a “Nazi” is quite tame compared to some of the trash that spouts from his mouth). However, it is in this part of the story that in steps our heroine, Shami Chakrabarti.

In the past Gaunt has labelled Chakrabarti the most dangerous woman in Britain, and referred to her on occassions as ’shamy’.

However, Chakrabarti has ripped apart Gaunt’s drawn battlelines and has jumped to the defence of the former radio host.

In a press release on 25 November 2008, Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty said:

“For present purposes, we make no comment on the substance of the childcare policy in question. However we must remind you that any court must read Mr Gaunt’s contract in the light of his right to free expression under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act. Whilst this is far from an absolute right (particularly in the context of broadcasting), to be meaningful it must extend to contentious as well as consensual speech and we find it hard to envisage how your actions could possibly constitute a proportionate and lawful response to the present facts.”

Commenting on Gaunt’s views towards Chakrabarti, who tacitly said on ‘Have I Got News For You’ that even John Prescott has human rights, Chakrabarti continues:

“From a personal point of view as someone who has been on the receiving end of Jon Gaunt’s blunt polemic in print and on the radio, I believe that the airwaves of a great democracy would be the poorer for his absence.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2008/nov/26/jon-gaunt-shami-chakrabarti-talksport

And right she is to defend Jon Gaunt! For although Gaunt should not be allowed to broadcast for his inciting of racial hatred, the sacking of Gaunt for calling somebody a “Nazi” (there was no mirror present) can be seen as a breach of his human rights- a declaration that Gaunt has a distaste for- and it shows to Gaunt and the rest of the British public that human rights are not things that apply just to immigrants, terrorists and murders as Gaun suggests, but to all of us regardless of skin colour, political ideology or where you were born.

To see the press release in full click here: http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news-and-events/1-press-releases/2008/25-11-08-liberty-to-support-shock-jock-jon-gaunt.shtml