Posted on 12/14/2004 2:42:53 PM PST by swilhelm73
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, has been released on bail after his arrest in connection with an investigation into inciting racial hatred.
It follows a television documentary exposing the extent of alleged racism in the organisation.
Nick Griffin Earlier it was revealed that the party's founding chairman John Tyndall had been held on Sunday.
The 70-year-old from Brighton was arrested on suspicion of the same offence following a speech he made in Burnley in March, a BNP spokesman said.
Parts of the speech were covertly filmed and shown in a BBC programme.
West Yorkshire Police said that as part of the same investigation three Bradford men, aged 29, 33 and 23, have been charged with racially aggravated intentional harassment.
The three men will appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
Mr Griffin, 45, was arrested by West Yorkshire Police on suspicion of incitement to commit racial hatred as part of an investigation into the BBC programme Secret Agent.
Father-of-four Mr Griffin has been chairman of the BNP since 1999.
A BNP spokesman said: "At 0700 four non-uniformed police officers awoke the Griffin household from their sleep at their family farmhouse in mid-Wales.
"He is believed to have been arrested on suspicion of incitement to commit racial hatred."
The documentary, screened in July, featured covertly-filmed footage showing BNP activists allegedly confessing to race-hate crimes and party leader Mr Griffin condemning Islam as a "vicious, wicked faith".
Twelve people have been arrested in connection with the programme.
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Nonetheless, the BNP are still a bunch of racist arseholes.
Nope, different article.
This whining by people to lazy to verify the veracity of their whining is tiring.
I'm not whining, otherwise I would have whined.
I know the BNP. I know what they seek; I know their links to the NF; I know their past and I know their recent attempts to give themselves an acceptable new image. I have read the leaflets they've pushed through my door and it's the same old rhetoric behind the spun phrases.
They're racist arseholes. They may fool some people, they don't fool me.
Drat.
The traditional "Its a dupe" when its not a dupe whine.
All you do is waste FR posters' time.
Oh well, as a Conservative, I'm all in favour of upholding tradition.
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