sweetlad86 Wrote:REAL Celtic pride ANTI-NAZI
Enough Said!
Sorry if I'm being thick, but I'm not sure how that helps the discussion along. I don't understand how you see it ends it :confused:
National pride does not have to equal racism. The BNP seems to have grown out of the roots of the obnoxious National Front and, like the NF, they hijacked concepts and symbols of national pride and recognition for their own ends.
The BNP must not be allowed a foot in the door. We have a responsibility to understand what their policies would lead to, just as other political parties have a responsibility to deal with those areas of concern that dupes ordinary people into thinking that the BNP have the answers to their problems.
I, for one, am very grateful that the National Front is allowed a small counter-demonstration presence at Pride marches. Seeing those jackbooted, paramilitary, skinhead thugs reminds me of what lies at the heart of all those clean-cut, suit-wearing leaders of the British National Party and it makes me shudder to my very core.
I don't fully subscribe to Woolfe's assessment of acceptable fallout from publishing details of rank and file membership. Everyone has at some time in their lives been guilty of an error of judgement. Most of these have not led to any criminal act. We should all have the opportunity to recognise our mistakes and move on. Those guilty of breaking the law should be pursued with as much force as it takes. However, I do think that those in positions of leadership and authority (within which I include those employed in public service, some of whom have contracts forbidding membership of political parties [I had such a job for several years]) should be made accountable for belonging to a political movement that has the destruction of our way of life at its very heart.