The British Nationalist

So you get a phone call from some journalist wanting an interview. You agree to participate because after all you know that what you are saying is right, and surely your beliefs are strong enough to counter any arguments that are thrown against you.

Then the interview gets published.

Oh dear, they have heavily edited it and placed you in a really bad light! All of a sudden the friendly, bubbly journalist, who convinced you they were  a nationalist supporter / voter / sympathiser, has turned on you completely.

Does not sound fair, does it?

Well that’s the way it is I’m afraid. The challenge we face is how to get our points across without leaving room for the reporter to edit and twist. After all, the reporter is looking to sensationalise the story in a bid to earn his/her crust. And because the majority of media outlets (the papers, television channels etc) are run by the ruling elite, the only way for a journalist to sell a story on the BNP, is if it depicts the party and its members in a negative light. In fact it is part of the NUJ guidelines to report on us in a negative light (see here http://bnp.org.uk/2008/03/the-media-reporting-on-the-bnp/ )

So what to do about this? Firstly we could just refuse to do any sort of interviews whatsoever, as it nearly always will be a hatchet job. The problem with this is it then suggests that we have things to hide. We could insist that we get full editing rights before we give the interview. This again suggests we want to hide something, and completely goes against our core values of freedom of speech. My personal favourite is that only selected people speak to the media. The positive aspect of this is that there is little risk the interviewee will make huge blunders, as they are fully trained by the BNP press team, and any negativity can be honestly truly blamed on the biased editing of the reporter/editor. The problem with this method is that it is always the same people and again gives off the impression that all other members are incapable of holding their own. Also sometimes it is good to get varying angles on the same point.

Remember however hard we try the press will always find some radical halfwit who claims to be “a normal BNP member” sat in front of his swastika, burning his gollywog!

However things may be starting to look better. The general public’s faith in the trustworthiness of the media has been dwindling for some years now. More and more people are reading between the lines, and drawing their own, more accurate conclusions. Look at the media response to Nick Griffin’s appearance on question time, compared to the public response. Whilst the general media attitude was that Nick “crashed and burned”, the majority of the public who watched decided that it WAS a hatchet job, despite the mass media telling them different.

So to close, my advice if you are approached for an interview. If you really feel capable go for it, but remember it’s not just your reputation that is on the line, it’s the reputation of all your nationalist brothers as well. Can you handle that responsibility?

By Joey Smith

In a recent online edition of News Shopper, Gerry Gable was quoted saying that the British National Party’s election strategy has “Shades of Nazi Germany.”

GERRY Gable, the publisher of anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, says the BNP’s “bullying tactics” had “shades of Nazi Germany”.

He said: “The BNP is very good at organising people to email local newspapers in protest, but those who do email are largely not from the area.

“The first thing they want to do is silence the media.”
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Just a minute! Firstly, It is the UAF with their Muslim attack dogs that bully BNP supporters and activists only when they have superior numbers, isn’t that a hallmark of  bullying? Secondly, 90%+ of the communist street army are non-residents of the areas they invade, in fact, they’ve been known to bus them into London from as far away as Glasgow. Thirdly, the anti-democracy blogs organise ‘the troops’ to threaten and abuse the owners of hotels and pubs where the BNP is planning on holding a meeting. And finally, it isn’t the BNP that is planning on surrounding the BBC’s studios because they don’t want them to abide by their charter, who wants to silence the media? It’s not us.

So how would he describe the actions of UAF ,AntiFa and other fascist style left wing groups who also use similar tactics to silence those of us who seek to speak out against what we see as an attack on our liberty.
When the BNP membership was leaked on-line various Newspapers were quick off of the mark to print the list in their pages, some left wing groups exhorted their members to email, phone and otherwise harass people whose names appeared on the list, not content with just launching such attacks against the persons involved some even contacted the employers,neighbours and family members of those on the list.

Most trades unions bar people who belong to the BNP, some professions are denied to them, they are attempting to bar those in the teaching profession from being allowed to teach, but assert it is ok for children to be taught by rabid Communist and Islamic adherents.

Gerry Gable writing in ‘ The Independent‘ on Thursday 11th June 2009 states:
“The template for tackling and defeating the BNP is in place – at its base is a dynamic, broad-based coalition put together by Searchlight. A new politics of “Hope not Hate” has been created that reaches outside the Westminster beltway via unions, churches, voluntary groups, students and local political parties.
We will be confronting the BNP in every neighbourhood, on every estate and every street between now and the next critical showdown, the general election, which is less than 12 months away.

Nick Griffin has had his day. Now it’s our turn.”

You’re kidding no one Gable, you had your day back in the 60’s, and you failed to get even 5% of the vote when you stood as a Communist Party candidate in 1962. The heyday of the left is long gone, it’s about time you joined it in the wilderness.

by Alley Cat