British Nazi Party Exposed

[Bazza]

Activists in the British National Party have confessed to committing racially-motivated crimes - including an attack on an Asian man - in an undercover documentary to be broadcast tonight.

The film shows BNP leader Nick Griffin condemning Islam as a "wicked, vicious faith" - and claiming that he would face seven years in prison if he made the comments in public.

A BBC reporter who spent six months undercover with the BNP recorded another of the far right group's members, Steve Barkham, confessing to taking part in a racially-motivated attack on an Asian man during the 2001 Bradford riots.

Another BNP member, Stewart Williams, tells reporter Jason Gwynne that he wants to "blow up" Bradford's mosques with a rocket launcher and to machine-gun worshippers with "about a million bullets".

Mr Griffin says in footage that was recorded secretly at a meeting in Keighley, which was called to discuss a spate of child sex attacks: "You've got to stand up and do something for the British National Party because otherwise they (Muslims) will do for someone in your family. That is the truth.

"For saying that, I tell you, I will get seven years if I said that outside, if I said that in front of people who go and report it to the police."

He tells his audience that the Koran encourages followers to "take any woman you want as long as they're not Muslim women", again adding that expressing such views in public would land him in jail.

Mr Griffin goes on: "That's the way that this wicked, vicious faith has expanded through a handful of cranky lunatics about 1,300 years ago until it's now sweeping country after country."

The BBC reporter was helped to infiltrate the BNP's West Yorkshire branch by former local BNP organiser Andy Sykes, who became a mole for anti-fascist group Searchlight two years ago.

Programme producer Karen Wightman said the BBC had put security measures in place to protect Mr Sykes and Mr Gwynne from reprisals by BNP members.

[Bazza]

Well, since the undercover BBC documentary was aired 5 bnp members have been arrested. The five men aged between 23 & 51 were from Bradford & Keighley. One was held on suspicion of possessing a firearm. While the others were questioned over offences including racially aggravated public order and conspiracy to commit criminal damage.

Also Barclays Bank have closed down 5 accounts that had links to the bnp.

[Bazza]

THE BNP's website has been shut down by hackers protesting about the party's far-right politics.

The group, calling themselves Hackarmy, set up a program that bombarded the site with hits, blocking access for others.

The campaigners closed the site last week and have vowed to continue their protest.

In a statement issued to the Daily Record, a spokesman for Hackarmy said: 'The British National Party is a disgrace.

'It has been decided that their online existence will now be put to an end.

'We have started a distributed denial of service attack on their main website.'

The news comes days after the Record revealed a mole in the BNP had wrecked their operations in Scotland.

Names, addresses and phone numbers of leading members of the movement have been passed to antifascist groups.

A spokesman for antifascist magazine Searchlight said: 'These leaks have seriously damaged the BNP's image in Scotland.'

[VenusInFurs]

The one time where hackers actually serve some purpose.

[Bazza]

RACE hate BNP leader Nick Griffin was today arrested by police on suspicion of incitement to commit racial hatred.

The 45-year-old was arrested today following a BBC TV documentary exposing the extent of racism in the organisation, the BNP said today.

West Yorkshire Police held Griffin as part of an investigation into the BBC programme Secret Agent, aired in July, which featured secretly-shot footage of BNP activists confessing to race-hate crimes. Griffin was taped condemning Islam as a "vicious, wicked faith".

Yesterday John Tyndall, 70, founder of the British National Party and known as the Godfather of far right politics in Britain, was arrested on suspicion of race-hate crimes believed to be in connection with a speech he gave in Burnley in March.

Father-of-four Griffin, chairman of the BNP since 1999, became the 12th person held since the BBC TV programme, Secret Agent, was shown in July.

A BNP spokesman said: "At 07:00 four non-uniformed police officers awoke the Griffin household from their sleep at their family farmhouse in mid Wales.

"Mr Griffin was arrested and is currently in transit to a station in West Yorkshire.

"He is believed to have been arrested on suspicion of incitement to commit racial hatred."

Tyndall, from Brighton, was taken in custody on suspicion of incitement to commit racial hatred on Sunday and later released on bail.

Yesterday, West Yorkshire Police arrested an another man, aged 24, from Leicester.

Another nine men have already been bailed in connection with suspected racially aggravated public order offences, conspiracy to commit criminal damage and possession of a firearm.

Tyndall, who founded the BNP in 1982 after splitting from the National Front, has been jailed three times.
In 1962 he got six months for training a group of neo-Nazis called Spearhead.

Four years later, Tyndall was jailed after being caught with a gun and bullets, and in 1986 was sent to prison again for publishing racist attacks on Jewish, Asian and black people in the BNP paper.

He has recently been expelled from the party after a power struggle with Griffin.

But a message on the BNP website yesterday wished him well with his case.

[VenusInFurs]

Bazza said:

That's part of the "master race"?

[Bazza]

British National Party leader Nick Griffin has been charged with four race hate offences, police said.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed that Mr Griffin, 45, of Welshpool, was charged at Halifax police station on Wednesday.

He will appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Thursday accused of using words or behaviour intended or likely to stir up racial hatred.

Earlier, founding chairman John Tyndall was charged with inciting racial hatred during a speech in Burnley last year.

BNP activist Mark Collett, 24, has been charged with eight offences of inciting racial hatred.

Mr Griffin's arrest followed a West Yorkshire Police inquiry after the BBC's The Secret Agent was aired last July.

Mr Tyndall was arrested in December following a speech he made in March 2004.

He was charged with two offences of using words or behaviour intended or likely to stir up racial hatred.

An estimated 130 people draped in Union and St George flags had gathered outside the West Yorkshire police station on Wednesday.

The BNP leader claimed after being released that his arrest had been "politically motivated".

He told supporters he had been charged for telling the truth and would use any trial to defend his party's beliefs.

Mr Tyndall, Mr Griffin and Mr Collett, of Leeds, are all due before Leeds magistrates on Thursday.

[Bazza]

British National Party founder John Tyndall, 71, has been found dead at his home in Hove, Sussex police have said.

A veteran of the right-wing fringe of British politics, John Tyndall chaired the National Front, leaving in 1980.

John Tyndall founded the BNP in 1982 and was replaced by Nick Griffin in 1999.

He was due to appear in court this Thursday in Leeds alongside BNP leader Nick Griffin on race hate charges resulting from the BBC undercover film.

Sussex Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding Mr Tyndall's death which was reported at 08:15 BST on Tuesday.

[ijthomas7]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - The only good fascist is a dead fascist.