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BNP got in...

The Knowledge

10:57 / 03.05.02

It's not that big a deal, because they only won 0.001% of the available seats, but I'm surprised that there hasn't already been a thread started on this. Personally, I'm not comfortable about it. At all. Surely it's a sign? I.e. the right-wing agenda that started in the good old US of A two years back is now beginning to reverberate around the world in small but indicative ways of things to come? (Pen in France for example - Need more info? Click here.) Of course we live in a democracy, and the BNP candidates won fair and square in their respective local elections. So overall my questions are: Is this a good thing for democracy? Is it healthy for us to allow extreme viewpoints into our governing consciousness? And if so, should we be allowing our leaders and news agencies to broadcast the 'anti-propaganda' that they have been concerning Pen's and the BNP's recent victories? And if it's not a good thing, what are the arguments that the system as it currently functions needs changing, how could it be changed, and what are the possible repercussions of implementing these changes? Phew. Oh, and if you want to talk about voting, click here for the thread which Nick is running on the subject.

gozer the destructor

11:21 / 03.05.02

Dont forget the comedy element of democracy, and I wouldn't be that worried about the BNP...Nick Griffin had a front page magazine article written about him in the Independent the other day and he couldn't canvas any more votes, the Nationalist parties in this country have never been more than a minor nuisance (in respect to the country as a whole not on an individual basis)even when Moasley's black shirts were running wild round the east end...

01:28 / 04.05.02

Right wing victories in Europe are a victory for irony, especially from where I sit, because without places like France and Britain coming along and taking over entire countries, and in a more vicious and exploitative way that they could ever accuse any immigrant of being, without this happening, I wouldn't very likely exist.
And you know what else it says? it says that people from India and Pakistan and all the other places where immigrants come to Britain from are some sort of inferior branch of the human species. Sometimes I hear people talk, and it's like there's this little evolutionary chain:

homo sapiens britannicus
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homo sapiens otherwhities
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homo sapiens etcetera

Morlock - groupie for hire

07:32 / 06.05.02

The thing with the extreme right is that it appears to offer simple solutions by way of oversimplifying or just plain misdefining the problem. people like easy solutions, so if you go around claiming the problem is due to the immigrants, or the jews, or whatever the minority of the week is, people can follow the logic all the way to the 'solution' without firing up more than half a dozen braincells. people like simple solutions. People like having someone to blame.

I don't think we can suppress the extreme right and still call ourselves a democracy. and besides, if we suppress the extreme right, what do we do about the extreme left?