In case you’ve not already seen, the British Nationalist Party’s membership list (*edited to add link to new source*) has been leaked online. For non-Brits, this is a White Supremacist “political” party in the UK. Everyone on that list stands for everything I stand against.
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Alex
Taken down already!
Nov 19th, 2008
Doogly
Lol this is hilarious, I so wanna see the list but I cant find it anywhere? anyone want to help?
Nov 19th, 2008
O
It’s still available from wikileaks:
http://www.wikileaks.org
/wiki/British_National_Party_full_membership_list%2C_2007-2008
Nov 19th, 2008
giagia
Thanks, O, I’ve changed the post to include your link.
Nov 19th, 2008
cloe
The nationalists are crappin their pants and it’s soooo funny!!
the best quote is ‘I can’t believe it’s not butter’!!! fabulous!!!
http://northwestnationalists.blogspot.com/2008/11/bnp-membership-list-2008-goes-online.html
Nov 19th, 2008
3min0r
It would appear I am a little slow (obvious to all no doubt)…
Could anyone assist me in finding a valid link? Or perhaps email me a copy?? That would be marvellous
Nov 19th, 2008
Suw
Much as I loathe and abhor the BNP, I am rather disturbed by the overall reaction to the publication of this list. (Note, this isn’t a criticism of you, Gia, but a worry about the media and some other individuals’ reactions.) We can’t start having double standards about people’s right to privacy, or we’ll sink as low as the very people we despise. I think Steiny put it well when he said:
“…the moment you sacrifice the values and compromises that hold together liberal democracies (such as a presumption of innocence and a right to privacy for people who’ve not actually been convicted of crimes) for the sake of humiliating your political opponents, you’re starting on a path far more likely to result in ruination for us all than a bunch of marginal wing nuts.”
Nov 19th, 2008
giagia
Suw, one half of me agrees with you and the other half thinks that it’s actually important public knowledge to know if police, teachers, lawyers, doctors, soldiers are members of an extremist group who thinks there are biological differences between the races and believes that the Caucasian race is superior to all others.
Nov 19th, 2008
Suw
Yeah, the “public interest” bit is difficult, because on the one hand, if a person’s beliefs are in conflict with their job then it’s important that be addressed. But publishing their home address, phone number, names of their children… that’s going beyond public interest to me. Plotting all that data on a map, so people can more easily find their neighbourhood racist, is starting to verge on incitement.
It is thorny, but we have to treat these people as human beings with all the rights we would expect for ourselves, otherwise we demean ourselves through our treatment of them.
Nov 20th, 2008
giagia
I agree the publishing of home addresses etc is a bit much… but I’m finding it difficult to find sympathy for racists and neo-Nazis.
Nov 20th, 2008
Nicholas Butler
I have one question.
Can you prove beyond a shadow or doubt that 100% of the names on that list are members who voluntarily submitted and joined the BNP ?
Nov 21st, 2008
giagia
I’d say the fact that no one has come forward and made a mint out of the tabloids for their wrongful inclusion on the list means that, probably, it’s legit.
If it was the Liberal Democrats’ membership list would anyone be in a hoo-ha about it? Labour? The Greens? Conservative? Of course not. So why would members of the British National Party care if anyone knows they are members?
Nov 21st, 2008
Paula Thomas
I also find it difficult to find sympathy for racists and neo-nazis. However a society should3 be judged by its treatment of minorities. The, are, thanfully, a minority.
Would, for instance, a similar list of alQuaida suspects have been similarly received? I certainly find it difficult to have any sympathy for them either! In fact it strikes me that they are rather similar - both want their own world view to prevail, neither would allow any other competing world view to exist. Both would want me, as a transsexual, dead. If I believe in anything, besides the efficacy of science, it is democracy. As such I believe I have to allow people to hold whatever views they wish, however obnoxious.
Nov 21st, 2008
giagia
Paula, I agree that everyone should be able to think what they want. I’m not so sure that people who believe others different from them are lesser human beings worthy of fewer rights (if any) should be given sympathy. I WANT to know who stands for things like seeing someone like you killed.
Their beliefs - like those of radical Global Islamists - promote violence. The people who run the BNP are smart enough to know that their public statements cannot contain inflammatory statements, that doesn’t mean that in private they don’t hold those views.
I, for example, wouldn’t want my NHS doctor to be someone who thinks black people are not “real” human beings. What kind of care would they provide to their black patients?
To me this is important public information.
Nov 22nd, 2008
Big Man
I think it’s a bit dangerous letting this information out in public. Of course the BNP and what it stands for is totally reprehensible, but the unfortunate fact is that there are people in this country who aren’t afraid to take the law into their own hands.
We live in a country where, like it or not, people are entitled to their beliefs. Publishing details about these people leaves them and perhaps more importantly their families, open to attack. There will always be some idiot who’ll take a brick and hurl it through one of these people’s windows; what if it hits a kid?
Dec 12th, 2008
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