“Not in Our Name”–BNP Leader Denounces Racist and Sectarian Vandalism
Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Nick Griffin in Constituency News
“It’s disgusting.” That’s how British National Party leader Nick Griffin MEP responded to the news of an outbreak of sectarian vandalism in a Belfast cemetery, which followed hot on the heels of a wave of equally reprehensible racist attacks against the homes of Romanian gypsy immigrants in the city.
“Desecrating gravestones – whatever the opinions and even crimes of those who they commemorate – is beyond the pale. Even the guilty dead have innocent relatives, and this most cowardly and spiteful manifestation of sectarianism can only tend to sustain the cycle of hatred that has brought so many tragedies to Northern Ireland and beyond.”
Like the cemetery vandalism, the attacks on Romanians have been ‘claimed’ by the neo-Nazi group Combat 18. This was set up by a man who later confessed to having worked for the Special Branch and, contrary to common media lies, far from being some kind of sympathetic ’spin-off’ from the BNP, was bitterly and even violently hostile to the party from the very beginning, and has always remained so.
With the jailing of several key members some years ago, Combat 18 ceased to exist in all but name, although thanks to sensationalist media attempts to use it to smear the BNP by association, there is enough public awareness of that name for it to be used from time to time as a flag of convenience by others.
In the case of the deplorable racist violence against the Romanians, those ‘others’ will probably turn out to be a little gang of ill-educated teenagers reacting in a totally inexcusable way to problems caused within their area by the foolish immigration policies of the professional politicians.
The unusual and unprovoked cemetery attack, on the other hand, is according to Mr. Griffin “more likely a black propaganda job by a small group of hardcore Marxists, a team from the intelligence services or dissident Republicans trying to whip up ‘ back to war’ hysteria in the Irish nationalist community. These are the only people with enough of a motive to take the considerable risk involved in targeting those graves – the motive, of course, being to stir up hatred against British nationalists by dint of the media repeating the false accusation that C18 and we are in some way connected.”
“Judging from various blogs and websites, it does appear that no-one on the ground in Belfast is being fooled by this attack, although that does not make it any the less unpleasant or cynical.”
“If by chance those responsible are genuinely from the loyalist community and mistakenly believe that spraying graffiti on gravestones or hurling bricks through windows in any way advances their cause, we appeal to them to think again. The British National Party condemns the use of violence, vandalism and intimidation and will have no truck with those who believe that such tactics have any place in British politics. Do not take our name in vain or use us to cloak your bigotry.”
