Posted on 10/22/2009 8:28:34 AM PDT by gura
BNP is the only party willing to oppose Islamism.
Love it. ;-)
The article sounds like one group of fascists protesting another group of fascists. And of course as we learned in WWII, one group of statists whether fascists or socialist has no problem slaughtering thousands of other groups of statists whether fascists or socialists. Statists are statists.
Not everyone does. They got over 6% of the vote last election.
The question here is who gets to control the microphone. The antidote to unpopular free speech is more free speech, not censorship.
Exactly. Wouldn't the only way to oppose fascism be to allow the BNP to express their beliefs without interruption or protest? Because suppression of free speech by a collective IS fascism.
BNP also opposes “Jewishism”, and anything but whiteism. They are racist, anti-semetic freaks.
Not worth selling your soul for. That’s literally like aligning with David Duke’s freaks here because they oppose Shari’ah law.
“I don’t like the sound of ‘ese ‘ere ‘Boncentration Bamps.’”
I’m just using my free speech to call it like it is. The protesters are using their free speech to drown out the BNP freaks. I don’t see people calling for government censorship, I see protesters going to the media to stop it, not the government.
Yet, they've won a couple of seats on the European Parliament. So obviously not everybody hates them, at least in the privacy of the voting booth.
We're seeing the phenomenon where more and more people in Britain are getting concerned about rising Islamism, and losing their country to a rising tide of immigrants. If the more "legitimate" parties do not address their concern, then they WILL vote for a party which DOES, without regard for other considerations.
So you are for suppressing the BNP’s opponent’s speech instead? The protests are speech just as much as the BNP being on the air is. These protesters aren’t going to the government demanding silence, they are protesting the media..
..and that's how you hand your freedom and soul over to those who are just as truly evil. It is the proverbial making a deal with the devil.
Then you're not paying attention.
The BBC is the government approved/operated/subsidized broadcasting agency in the UK. The protesters are leaning on the Beeb to shut off the BNP's access to broadcast. I may not like what the BNP or even David Duke has to say. But they can say what they please anywhere, anytime in the United States. And that's the way it SHOULD be.
That’s hilarious. I imagined the whole scene with Charlie (What ACORN scandal?) Gibson in place of Cleese.
Here’s the story from the BBC of what happened:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8321157.stm
But this isn't the United States we are talking about- the UK has no First Amendment freedoms and, as you pointed out, the government controls the media. - thusly, you have to fight harder for your voice.
Let the opposition protest as much as they want. But the title of this thread IS "HUNDREDS OF ANTI-FASCIST PROTESTERS BREAK INTO THE BBC", with the implication of the protesters using violent tactics to prevent the BNP from being heard.
The protesters can PROTEST all they want, as long as the form of protest does not involve using force to shut down the other side's ability to speak -- a tactic the Left prefers to use.
I suppose the difference is that with the BBC, since it is run by the government with money from the taxpayers, would you want your tax dollars to have these people on?
Now if it is a private television network, I would have no problem allowing these people to exercise their right to free speech. But if I'm paying for their airtime with my taxes, I might have a different view on that.
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