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Home | Friday 28th November 2008 | Issue 657

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DEDICATED FOLLOWERS OF FASCISM

BNP's Annus Horribilis continues... After last week's leak of their entire membership list on the web (See SchNEWS 656), the flak has continued...

 

* In our previous issue we linked to a website publishing the membership list, but this has since been withdrawn due to personal threats of violence to the webmaster. But don't worry you haven't missed out, it is still online at www.wikileaks.org
 

* This week the BNP were evicted from their merchandise warehouse. Rented by Excalibur - the trading arm of the BNP - it stored such lovely merchandise as replica military medals, Enoch Powell t-shirts, 'Great White' records and Union Jack mugs. Their ex-landlord made this statement: "Evans Easyspace was aware of renting a property to Excalibur, but were not aware of its links to the BNP. We have now terminated their agreement and they are moving out at the end of November." In response the BNP have announced that they actually decided to move to better premises.
 

* While the BNP membership list revealed a litany of police, prison officers, soldiers and even vicars, it also contains two paedophiles - who were jailed last week for sexually abusing two fourteen-year-old girls.
 

* In desperation over the disclosure of their membership list the BNP has been forced into hiding behind the much-hated Human Rights Act. They've also been firing off dubious legal threats to the likes of Indymedia. The letter sent to Indymedia by Lee John Barnes LLB (hons), from the "BNP Legal Affairs Unit", threatens to take legal action, on the basis of theft, data protection and contempt of court, unless the list of members is removed. For more of LJB's hilarious antics check out http://weloveleebarnes.blogspot.com
 

* This week, all but two of the thirty-three anti-fascists arrested at the BNP's Red White and Blue Festival in August this year (See SchNEWS 643) have had their charges dropped. Over twenty were arrested for violent disorder after the group tried to blockade a road into the fascist's knees-up. Others were arrested for failing to comply with police directions on the mass demonstration.
 

* For more Fashwatch info see www.searchlightmagazine.com , www.antifa.org.uk



 

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