Posted on 10/22/2009 8:28:34 AM PDT by gura
Headline only, waiting on full article.
Protesters have been gathering outside BBC Headquarters all day: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/22/question-time-protest, "Swelling number of protesters demonstrating against BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on show".
You and I will have to agree to disagree on this one. Whoever signs the checks controls what happens. Always. The Beeb may from time to time have little fits of independence, but when it comes down to it, they side with the collective against the individual.
David Cameron of the Tory party has been very vocal.
The BNP will not get a majority, UNLESS the "mainstream" conservatives refuse to adopt an anti-Islamic plank and actually act on it.
Who’s microphone? Oh yes, that one owned and paid for by the British taxpayer. Now tell me again why that isn’t censorship?
Then support people like David Cameron (Conservative Tory) or Geert Weilders (in Holland) who don’t sell their soul to racists while at the same time opposing Islamism and Shari’ah.
Why give one iota of energy supporting a group (BNP) who are just as bad as the Islamists you hate.
It's only censorship if the government doesn't allow other willing networks to broadcast their views.
And given what Stalin did to the Ukrainians and anybody else who did not give him full support, if the Nazis did not come to power (and result in the US coming in), Europe would have fallen to Stalin within a decade or two. The bloodbath would have been bigger. It would have involved different people getting killed, but it would have been bigger.
The current state of Britain came most clearly into focus, however, not when we visited the mosques, but when we tried to have dinner. I had an illuminating dinner with a group including the notable British author and freedom fighter Douglas Murray that turned out to offer a bracing introduction to British dhimmitude: the dinner had to be moved at the last minute since the proprietors of the George Restaurant in the aptly-named Isle of Dogs district of London didn’t like us discussing jihad and Islamization on the premises. This was despite the fact that the dinner had been planned to be on-camera and had been cleared with the George in advance.
In fact, when I returned to the George the next night with the producers of the film, we were not allowed entry because the previous night we had been discussing jihad and Islamic supremacism.
Were the proprietors of the George Restaurant hard-line Leftists who viewed jihadists as their allies in the struggle against American imperialism? Or were they frightened by the prospect of the local Muslims, who live in that area in considerable numbers, exacting revenge against the place for daring to host a meeting of the Resistance?
Most likely they were afraid of their own government, which frowns upon those who question the wisdom or viability of the multicultural paradise they are intent upon creating. For when we finally tried to assemble in another place a roundtable of concerned British citizens to discuss the problem of the Islamization of Britain, one by one the British participants dropped out. If they appeared on camera, we were told, the government could and probably would threaten their livelihood.
If the British government makes the stakes too high for its own people to speak publicly against the policies that have brought into Britain thousands of people intent upon destroying the British state and imposing Islamic law, then all is nearly lost.
It’s no wonder that British citizens are turning to noxious racist parties like the BNP: the elites have abandoned them. This is a time for the British people to summon untapped resources of courage, and for the British government to recover its vision. Otherwise all will be lost, and soon.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33268#
Well, that ain’t quite how “public” broadcasting is sold, including the Beeb. They tell us it belongs to “all the people” and so forth. Except when “some of the people” who don’t fit some particular political bent want to speak. Then the collective decides who is and isn’t “approved.”
And this is nothing new. Martin Luther was a heretic when he posted his document on the Church door. They tried to shut him up too.
I do support them. I also support the right to freedom of speech for EVERYBODY.
When a credible alternative to the BNP exists, then much of their support will drift to less-radical alternatives.
The only direct control exercised by government on the BBC is through the periodic (every ten years or so) renewal of the legislation which determines the Royal Charter under which the BBC operates. Only in the year or so leading up to that legislation does the BBC take much notice of what the government of the day thinks of it. As it happens, at the moment both major parties (for different reasons) are threatening radical changes to the BBC.
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Yep, either way Europe was pretty much screwed.
If they can enact the changes, then by definition they control it. I rest my case.
When the middle-class is afraid to oppose evil, then the job falls to street fighters with nothing left to lose.
Name one party or politician in the UK who is talking about Islamification in the UK? Give me one name of anyone with the guts to talk about it besides Nick Griffin?
Cameron? Boris?
Also name any Indians, Carib Islanders, Jews, Sikhs who go in the streets and say they want to kill people like Muslims were screaming in London the other day to kill Geert Wilders?
I know conservative Jews who have left the UK and France because they see the writing on the wall. I think Jews in the UK would be a lot safer with a bit stronger BNP, Tories and a lot weaker Labour Party.
Your argument is specious.
The BNP people are British subjects who pay taxes which fund the BBC, so it is just as much their microphone as it is those who oppose them. They have as much right to it as anyone.
“Last year the BBC collected £3.2billion from licence-payers (pg. 82). The latest licence fee settlement will give the BBC at least £20 billion from licence payers over six years.” ‘We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking.’-BBC drama commissioning controller, Ben Stephenson in the Guardian, July 16 2009
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/
That's good. And with a choice between Cameron's faction and the BNP, most people will choose Cameron. But without the BNP "bad cop", Cameron would be marginalized by his own party.
Martin Luther King depended upon the alternative to dealing with him being dealing with Malcolm X.
‘Control’ implies day-to-day supervision or management, which doesn’t exist. They can, as you say, enact changes: but only through the cumbersome mechanism of periodic primary legislation. In theory, of course, such legislation could indeed introduce a mechanism for day-to-day state control: but as yet it hasn’t, it doesn’t now, and there’s little likelihood of it doing so in future.
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