British National Persecution
23/10/2009
I along with 8million others and a studio audience of 1000 watched BNP party leader, Nick Griffin, on Question Time – or as it has been said ‘The Nick Griffin Show’. Personally, it was less the Nick Griffin Show and a lot more like he was in the stocks.
I’m going to try and keep this short. I am not siding with BNP politics but I couldn’t help feel sorry for Mr Griffin. In the last week he has been hot topic amongst the media and has been rapidly become one of the most, if not the most, hated man in Britain. He has been deemed a devil and a rat and is often caricatured as Hitler (lets just remember that Hitler, one of the most hated men of all time, was a mass-murder). Again I’m not agreeing with his politics but I feel that the BNP’s ‘campaign of hate’ should not be met, addressed or overcome by hate – and this seems precisely the way politics, the media and society at large are dealing with it.
On Question Time, Nick Griffin was ‘jeered and ridiculed’ (Daily Mail headline), he was constantly talked about as if he wasn’t in the room, was laughed at and shouted at by the audience, one of which, who was offered to voice his opinion, did nothing more than lay into Mr Griffin. He was often cut off and people seemed little interested in listening to him, instead they were quick to ‘read between the lines’ and cut him off.
I can understand that people are angry toward him but is it right to fight fire we fire? Do we have the right to lynch those who lynched our ancestors, friends and family? Can hate be overcome by more hate?
“If you want rid of griffin and his sad brood ballots are not the answer bullets are” say one on the facebook group ‘1,000,000 united against the BNP.
The message of yesterdays Question Time for me was clear, we will not tolerate racial prejudice and discrimination, but we will happy persecute and alienate those with differing ideologies. Is this fair in a land of democracy and freedom of speak?
Dehumanized: Is Nick Griffin nothing more than a sewer rat?
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setyoursights | 23/10/2009 at 2:07 pm
I have to agree….it feels odd to defend him, but I think the other panelists took it as their chance in public to ensure that everyone knows that their party disagrees with the BNP, which resulted in every oppourtunity to speak turning into a bullying session. What they were saying was mostly correct, but the manor in which it was carried out seemed fairly barbaric!
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matthink | 26/10/2009 at 9:02 am
Yeah I totally agree. It seemed to me that the three other members of political parties just used the exercise as a way of scoring political points and completely failed to address the issues that Nick Griffin brought up. To be fair, this probably wasn’t helped by the fact that four of the five questions were exclusively about the BNP… I think they should have had one or two about the BNP and then moved on (postal strike, banker’s bonus’ and blair for EU president were disgracefully ignored despite being hot topics).
Needless to say, I completely disagree with his politics, but I think the other parties need to accept that Griffin does represent the thinking a small but substantial minority of white working class families across country, very few of whom I would imagine would have been convinced not to support the BNP by the political snobbery on display last Thursday. On that note, I struggle to understand the viewpoint that he should not have been allowed to appear… considering he is (sadly) and elected member of the European Parliament.
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matthink | 26/10/2009 at 9:04 am
*When I said failed to “address” (3rd line), I think “failed to properly engage” would be a more accurate way of phrasing it.
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Tim Maundrell | 11/11/2009 at 12:35 pm
To be honest I kinda surprised that people have agreed with me here, but that is good.
I think David D did try and move away from exclusively BNP focused questions but they ran out of time…
On a seperate I find it very Ironic that the leader of the British National Party is a member of the European Parliment…hmmm…how about Nick Griffin for the EU presidency?