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British ballerina dances into political storm
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | Fri Jan 12, 2007 | Peter Griffiths

Posted on 01/13/2007 2:39:40 PM PST by Pharmboy

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To: AmishDude
You are rambling:"It isn't their position, it's why."??? The why, dude, is that discrimination is wrong. Period. Affirmative action is discrimination.

And don't put words in my mouth: the only things I am defending are the positions I see on their site, whereas I could not defend one thing on the Aryan Nation's site.

Further, there are racist elements in the Republican and Democrat parties also, so get off your high horse.

And I will take your silence as nothing more than you have nothing to say. Buh-bye.

41 posted on 01/13/2007 8:03:53 PM PST by Pharmboy ([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
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To: Pharmboy

"Somebody buy that ballerina a drink!"


42 posted on 01/13/2007 8:06:41 PM PST by Dead Dog
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To: Pharmboy
You are rambling:"It isn't their position, it's why."??? The why, dude, is that discrimination is wrong. Period. Affirmative action is discrimination.

They don't find all discrimination wrong.

The BNP supports government funded "voluntary repatriation" to reduce or eliminate certain ethnic groups' numbers in Britain.

43 posted on 01/13/2007 8:51:44 PM PST by secretagent
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To: Pharmboy
I read their site and found nothing objectionable. No white superiority stuff--just their right to maintain their heritage. Sounds fine to me (and I am not an Anglican).

If your skin is white, you're not allowed to maintain heritage. It's the classical double-standard and there is nobody on this board who can justify that. I happen to support any group that advocates throwing radical islamists out of their country.

44 posted on 01/13/2007 9:07:24 PM PST by CurlyBill (Democrats: Weak on defense, soft on crime, tough on your wallet)
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To: Pharmboy
Hmmm...if one is against affirmative action, one is a fascist? I don't think so...

This is the shameless tactic of the left.

45 posted on 01/13/2007 9:09:17 PM PST by CurlyBill (Democrats: Weak on defense, soft on crime, tough on your wallet)
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To: potlatch


Ballet Bump!


46 posted on 01/13/2007 10:36:12 PM PST by devolve ( ....shop_invest_and_hire_wisely)
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To: devolve

47 posted on 01/13/2007 10:42:29 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch


LOL!

I'm laughing (over here) my ... ...!


48 posted on 01/13/2007 10:46:33 PM PST by devolve ( ....shop_invest_and_hire_wisely)
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To: devolve

You're the one who pinged me to a ballet thread!!


49 posted on 01/13/2007 10:53:30 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: nutmeg

bookmark


50 posted on 01/13/2007 11:47:28 PM PST by nutmeg (I Support Our Troops and VICTORY in Iraq)
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To: Pharmboy

Just to clarify the various points above: the BNP started out as an essentially neo-Nazi movement, but in recent times have attempted to moderate their policies and widen their membership in a bid to be seen as a legitimate, mainstream democratic party. To what extent these changes represent actual alterations in ideology or are just changes in 'window dressing' remains a topic of debate here in the UK (the mainstream political establishment and media over here tend to treat them as a quasi-facist/racist party to be denounced or exposed, rather than as a legitimate political movement).

Even having moderated their views somewhat, they are still explicit in their position that Britishness is a matter of race, and that they'd encourage non-whites to leave the UK. So to describe them as a racist party is not unreasonable. The extent of their 'fascism' is more open to debate.


51 posted on 01/14/2007 4:23:12 AM PST by moatilliatta
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To: moatilliatta

Thank you for your information and clarifications...much appreciated. It sounds that they may have enough racialism left to make them repugnant to reasonable people.


52 posted on 01/14/2007 6:00:59 AM PST by Pharmboy ([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
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To: Pharmboy

Wow!


53 posted on 01/14/2007 11:58:08 AM PST by A. Pole (Solzhenitsyn:"Live Not By Lies" www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/livenotbylies.html)
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To: Hoplite; Kolokotronis; TeĆ³filo; x5452; Dionysiusdecordealcis; siunevada; kronos77; FormerLib; ...
The BNP is just Aryan Nations, with a cup of tea.

You do not mind the Muslim takeover of Kosovo and Bosnia, do you? What is wrong future Londonistan and EUrabia?

54 posted on 01/14/2007 12:03:18 PM PST by A. Pole (Solzhenitsyn:"Live Not By Lies" www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/livenotbylies.html)
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To: A. Pole

Get lost kid, you don't bother me enough to make it worth your time.


55 posted on 01/14/2007 12:13:24 PM PST by Hoplite
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To: Allegra

I meant to send this to you before...it just goes to show that Socialism/Leftist Lunacy doesn’t work!!! I just hope that our fellow Americans are not stupid enough to vote in one of the Socialist idiots running as “Democrats”. Are there any true Democrats left? Ha, pun intended, besides Lieberman, or are they all veering way off to the far left? Whatever happened to “Southern” or “Reagan” Democrats?


56 posted on 04/29/2007 1:28:16 PM PDT by wazoo1031
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To: ARepublicanForAllReasons; Allegra

One of my best friends over here in England is a member of the BNP, and I have told him and others in the party (as I’m friends with several of them)that they would be considered Republicans in our Country, and that there is nothing wrong with that. The BNP is a legitimate Party and is gaining ground at lightning speed, due to the dismantling of “Great” Britain by Labour. I see the frustration of Middle England etched on peoples’ faces daily, as they’ve been tipped over edge by Political Correctness, far-left party tricks and liberal elitist cronyism. I can’t believe they’ve kept their stiff upper lip for this long, but May 4 in England will politically be a watershed moment. I wish I could vote over here, just to stick it to Labour, however I would never give up my American citizenship and right to stick it to the a-holes in my homeland!! The BNP is not going to gain power any time soon, but the fact that normal, regular, blue-collar ANGLO-SAXON BRITISH people are leaving Labour in droves and switching to the BNP should be a huge wake-up call for the power elite, and I hope it works!!! Right now, they’re kind of like a Jerry Brown or Ross Pee-rot type who can take votes from the main parties, I say: Go For It! Now, I’m not a racist and I abhore anyone who denies the Holocaust, however the BNP is gaining such mainstream support that those old horrible tags placed on them are fading fast with new moderate membership and they may be one of the only hopes left to save what we Americans cherish as “Merry Ol’ England” and “Great Britain” Cheerio, Chaps!! I had to get that off my chest...


57 posted on 04/29/2007 1:59:03 PM PDT by wazoo1031
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To clarify: When I said “old tags placed upon them” I was not denying that the BNP started from a group of rag-tag Nazi thugs, however what I see over here is that it is transforming into a legitimate party that is trying to shake that image and become a true Conservative Party in Britain, (God knows the Tories aren’t), and I don’t agree with ALL of their policies, most of all stopping immigration! It’s just that Labour f-ckd up immigration so badly that it may be irreversible as far as the idiots they’ve already let in, namely idiots who refuse to assimilate and adapt to British values and blend into British society and adhere to Western values. I don’t think I have to name which group that is. I just wanted to clarify things. Emotions run high here. Sorry if I offended anyone, it was by no means meant.


58 posted on 04/29/2007 2:30:24 PM PDT by wazoo1031
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