{"id":1334,"date":"2008-09-11T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2014-05-28T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T05:40:27","slug":"nick-griffin-bound-for-botany-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Nick Griffin Bound for Botany Bay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><strong>Update<\/strong>: Nick was scheduled to speak at an &#8220;Anti-Islamisation Congress&#8221; in Cologne, Germany over the weekend of September 19&#8211;21 but has now withdrawn (possibly in order to avoid arrest under Germany&#8217;s strict laws on Holocaust denial). &#8220;Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, had been on the guest list but after German anti-fascists, with help from <em>Searchlight<\/em>, published his comments denying the Holocaust, his name was withdrawn just before Cologne city council and the German Interior Ministry condemned the congress.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/oreaddaily.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/fascist-racist-anti-islamisation.html\">Racists gather for Cologne anti-Islam rally<\/a>, Hans-Peter Killguss, <em>Searchlight<\/em>, September 2008).<\/ul>\n<p><em>Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ad-di-ty,<br \/>\nSinging too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ay,<br \/>\nSinging too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ad-di-ty<br \/>\nOh we are bound for Botany Bay<br \/>\nOh we are bound for Botany Bay<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/04QolIvfQEw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/news\/local\/news\/general\/farright-british-politician-plans-tour\/1269359.aspx\">Far-right British politician plans tour<\/a><br \/>\nPhilip Dorling<br \/>\n<em>The Canberra Times<\/em><br \/>\nSeptember 11, 2008<\/p>\n<p>A leading British far-right politician is planning a controversial speaking tour of Australia. The Chairman of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, has confirmed his intention to visit Australia in December. Mr Griffin&#8217;s tour is sponsored by the anti-Asian [read: <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1050#comment-205277\">fascist<\/a>] Australian Protectionist Party which was formed last year by <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=855\">breakaway<\/a> members of the Australia First Party.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing Mr Griffin&#8217;s visit, the president of the Australian Protectionist Party, Andrew Phillips, said that the British National Party leader would speak to Australian audiences &#8221;on the experiences of the British National Party in their fight to protect Britain and its people from the demographic genocide that is threatening their homeland, caused by the large-scale immigration of people from the Third World&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Phillips is one of two public figures belonging to the APP; the other is <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/darrin-hodges-is-proud-to-be-infidel.html\">Darrin Hodges<\/a>, who will be <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1293\">contesting for a seat<\/a> on the local council of Sutherland Shire this weekend. A former member of the world&#8217;s most popular white supremacist website <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1191\">Stormfront<\/a>, Hodges has since disavowed both his anti-Semitism and his admiration for Hitler, and transferred his hatred and resentment from Jews to Muslims, the latter of which is now identified as belonging to a more general wave of Third World &#8220;filth&#8221; and &#8220;scum&#8221; threatening to overwhelm White Australia. Hodges is also a supporter of the fascist New Right\/&#8217;national anarchist&#8217; grouping, <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=953\">appearing<\/a> as a member of their &#8216;black bloc&#8217; at the APEC demonstrations in Sydney last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Griffin joined the neo-Nazi British National Front as a teenager and has led the British National Party since 1999. Like the anti-Semitic historian <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=132\">David Irving<\/a>, he has disputed whether the Holocaust took place, calling it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopenothate.org.uk\/The_politics_of_the_BNP\">&#8221;hoax of the 20th century&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to HOPE not Hate: &#8220;Nick Griffin is one of the biggest deniers of the Holocaust, describing it as the &#8220;hoax of the 20th century&#8221;. He has even criticised the far-right writer and Holocaust denier David Irving for daring to suggest that some people might have been killed.&#8221; According to Danny Ben-Moshe: &#8220;Both [Frederick] Toben and [David] Bennett regularly attend <em>IHR<\/em> conferences, but the more active of the two through these networks is Toben, who has extensive contacts with deniers across the globe. His European contacts are well documented in his travel diary of a 1998 trip to Europe which was devoted to meeting deniers, visiting concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and delving into archives where his findings reaffirmed his beliefs. In London he met Germar Rudolf where they discussed the involvement of Adelaide Institute Online in an English language publication Rudolf is planning, and he stayed with Rudolf on the farm of British National party leader Nick Griffin.&#8221; <em>See <\/em> : Holocaust Denial in Australia, Danny Ben-Moshe, <em>Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism<\/em>, No.25, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 2005 (<a href=\"http:\/\/sicsa.huji.ac.il\/acta25.pdf\">PDF<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZCJ39dveHFQ&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In recent years, however, Mr Griffin has sought to &#8221;mainstream&#8221; the British National Party, avoiding overt anti-Semitism and instead focussing on immigration, especially attacks on the Britain&#8217;s Muslim communities.<\/p>\n<p>The British National Party has enjoyed modest but significant success in British local government elections, claiming more than 100 elected representatives, though some of these have reportedly split from the party. [<em>See<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchlightmagazine.com\/index.php?link=template&#038;story=233\">Where now?<\/a>, Nick Lowles, <em>Searchlight<\/em>, June 2008.]<\/p>\n<p>In May 1998 Mr Griffin was prosecuted for incitement to racial hatred after he published an article that referred to non-white people as &#8221;mongrel slaves&#8221;. He received a nine-month suspended sentence and a large fine.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 Mr Griffin was again prosecuted for racial vilification, but was found not guilty in two trials.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Griffin attempted to visit Australia in August 1998. That proposed visit attracted strong criticism from the federal Labor opposition and then immigration minister Philip Ruddock reportedly banned Mr Griffin from entry. Mr Griffin told <em>The Canberra Times<\/em> yesterday that &#8221;I was formally told I would not be allowed in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Griffin said he hoped there would be no problems with getting a visa 10 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council spokesman Jeremy Jones condemned Mr Griffin&#8217;s planned visit saying his past criminal conviction for inciting racial hatred should be sufficient to ensure his exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;A visit by Griffin ought to be a matter of concern for Australia&#8217;s Muslim community, indeed by all communities here who have found that tolerance and engagement is a better path than division and hatred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Evans, said all visa applicants must satisfy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immi.gov.au\/media\/fact-sheets\/79character.htm\">the character test<\/a> of the <em>Migration Act<\/em> that includes provisions to ensure that a non-citizen will not vilify, incite discord in or represent a danger to the Australian community, or part of that community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether or not Griffin will be able able to visit Australia in December is one thing, but the previous HoWARd Government certainly acted to exclude a number of other <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1121\">undesireables<\/a>. In 2001, US &#8216;anti-globalisation&#8217; activist Doyle Canning was denied entry to the country; in April 2005, Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Negri experienced some difficulties (later cancelling on the grounds of ill-health), while Scott Parkin continues his <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1269\">battle<\/a> with Government authorities to discover why he was kicked out of the country in 2005. On the far right, two leading members of the neo-Nazi NPD have been excluded on character grounds: in 2003, Udo &#8220;Six million cannot be right. At most, 340,000 people could have died in Auschwitz\u201d Voigt, the leader of the party, was told to piss off, while two years later, in 2005, the NPD&#8217;s Gerd Finkenwirth was also denied entry. On both occasions, their tours were organised by Darrin Hodge&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=908\">&#8216;national anarchist&#8217;<\/a> comrade <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1078\">Welf Herfurth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, things change.<\/p>\n<p>In May this year, Don Black <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1150\">banned<\/a> the use of swastikas on Stormfront; and the BNP itself is now lauding the virtues of Zionism. Jews are OK, apparently, if they stick to Israel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajn.com.au\/news\/news.asp?pgID=1481\">John Safran&#8217;s guide to unexpected Zionists<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Australian Jewish News<\/em><br \/>\nAugust 25 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>White Supremacists for Zionism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THE British National Party (BNP) is a far-right group headed by Holocaust-denier Nick Griffin. They caused shockwaves in the White Power world a few years back by announcing they couldn\u2019t be bothered hating Jews anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Their rationale: there are so few Jews in England it was a bit like investing energy in loathing the Amish.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, they hated Arabs more. White European Jews were even told they could join, although you had to be assimilated &#8211; so no turning up to meetings in a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guiltguide.com\/gluck.html\">shtreimel<\/a><\/em>. And tuck in your <em>tzitzit<\/em> for God\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p>The BNP even flouted the conventional White Power wisdom on Zionism. They respected Israelis\u2019 sense of nationalism and admired its firm hand in dealings with the Arabs. On the current conflict in Lebanon, BNP legal adviser <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchlightmagazine.com\/index.php?link=template&#038;story=155\">Lee Barnes<\/a> says, \u201cIt is in our long-term interests that Hezbollah are ground into dust by Israel as that way we don\u2019t have to do it in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barnes also complains about media coverage of the conflict: \u201cThe obvious agenda for the media is to assist in ending nationalism as an ideology and the destruction of nationalist states like Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to tell anyone how to run their white-supremacist movement but when you\u2019re complaining that the Jews don\u2019t control the media, maybe it\u2019s time to go back to bonehead school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1233\">Nationale Sozialisten f\u00fcr Israel<\/a> (June 28, 2008)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MO8wHorSqrU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Nick was scheduled to speak at an &#8220;Anti-Islamisation Congress&#8221; in Cologne, Germany over the weekend of September 19&#8211;21 but has now withdrawn (possibly in order to avoid arrest under Germany&#8217;s strict laws on Holocaust denial). &#8220;Nick Griffin, leader of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-lw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36512,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/36512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}