by Krullix

Created on: January 04, 2010

I am a great advocate of freedom of speech and an opponent of censorship. I believe that everybody is entitled to their opinion and that the freedom to hold personal beliefs without fear of persecution is the mark of a civilized society. Everybody should be allowed to live their lives exactly how they wish without interference from anybody else. However, if an individual's actions impinge, or have a negative impact, on other people's lifestyles and happiness then this cannot be accepted. Views which have no basis in morality must always be challenged. Tolerance of intolerance is not ethically compatible.

To use the argument of ‘Freedom of Speech’ as a justification for inviting this hate-mongerer on to BBC's Question Time is disgusting. And why? Because this scumbag and his party already exercises freedom of speech in the most perverse and sickening fashion. With every addition to the BNP website, with every detestable blog their supporters publish, with every candidate that stands for election, with every Combat 18 Blood and Honour gig and with every media opportunity that comes their way, these Nazis already have freedom of speech every single day of their nasty and spiteful lives.

For those who may have been unfortunate enough to read a BNP manifesto and find themselves sympathizing with some of their policies, let me be the first to puncture your balloon of political ignorance. The BNP has attempted to deceive the electorate by portraying itself as a more moderate party, yet this image is dropped when speaking at events abroad. At a private Nazis meeting in America in 2001, Nick Griffin admitted that his party's new-found respectability was simply a tactic to con the British people. Addressing an audience of racists, he said: “My politics have not changed. I still believe in fighting for this”, at which moment he pointed at his white skin.

It is said that you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. This is certainly true of Nick Griffin and his British National Party, with a cursory glance at the BNP’s international contacts revealing its true identity. The party has links with the National Alliance, the foremost nazi group in the US, with its members regularly coming across the Atlantic to speak at BNP meetings. The NA’s founder, William Pierce was the author of ‘The Turner Diaries’, a fictional account of a race war. The book inspired the Oklahoma bomber, Timothy McVeigh, and the London

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