BNP and free speech
Political correctness is more important than free speech in one Scottish university:
STUDENTS at Prince William’s university yesterday withdrew their invitation to the leader of the British National Party to speak at a debate, after a storm of protest.
Nick Griffin had been invited by members of St Andrews University Debating Society to take part in a debate on the shortcomings of multiculturalism.
The National Union of Students in Scotland had sent a fax to all student associations in the country calling on the society to withdraw the invitation.
The society said it had cancelled the debate because of "serious security concerns involving the personal safety of the student body".
But Mr Griffin said: "This is yet again an example of the violent and intimidating type of leftism towards the patriotic people of the BNP.
"This is how they manage to intimidate the population into this politically-correct leftism."
Robina Qureshi, director of the anti-racism campaign group Positive Action in Housing, welcomed the U-turn.
Apparently, the liberal war against free speech is continuing on both sides of the Atlantic.
posted by Adam Lawson @ 3:00 PM
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1 Comments:
Hi Adam,
Good posting.
I happen to have the audacity to be an active member of the British National Party (Shock Horror!).
I'm a national staff officer and so that's why I wish to remain anonymous here so I can't be quoted. But please be assured I am a genuine member of Party staff and not someone pretending. If I could prove it without revealing my identity, I'd be more than happy to.
The St. Andrews University incident was just one in many issues of preventing equal rights, free speech and even human rights.
If you wish to know more about what we have had to face up to over the last 12 months, feel free to access our website and read the news stories.
My wife is American (from central Indiana) and she often wonders what happened to the Country that gave the world free speech and from which America took its lead.
If it weren't for me she would have moved back to America a long time ago.
It's frightening what we have had to endure. Members have ben sacked from employment numerous times (read particularly the news item http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=167
and been expelled from trade unions (where it's a law now that unions can legally sack members of the BNP from trade unions with no legal recourse) and we've been threatened with numerous court actions and been told by ranking police oficers and government officials that they intend to shut our Party down - by financial and legal measures if possible.
Still we remain defiant in the face of adversity. As one of your countrymen (Samuel Adams) once said: "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." And finally, as Voltaire the famous French philosopher once said: "So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
Best Wishes,
BNP Member of Staff
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