"The BNP is facing a wave of co-ordinated attacks, both
administrative and propaganda. The aim is to disrupt our campaign to
turn the thousands of inquiries we received during the election
campaign into members, and to criminalise the party in the eyes of a
sufficient proportion of the public to 'justify' the temporary
internment of senior BNP officials in the event of a major Islamist
terror strike against the UK.
> "The liberal-left establishment will want to make such a move
for two reasons: The first is that, despite the fact that their
gerrymandering campaign stopped us making a big breakthrough in the
last elections, they are still worrying about the warning last year
from their top strategist Brian Gould that 'the BNP could take the
entire white working class vote from Labour.'
> "The second is that, following such a strike - which Blair,
Blunkett and Co have repeatedly warned is not a question of 'if',
but 'when' - the authorities will come under intense public pressure
to arrest and expel or intern large numbers of radical Muslims. The
last time internment was used in the UK, the fact that it was
directed at only one community - Northern Ireland's
Catholic/nationalist population - meant that the perceived 'one-
sidedness' of the action turned the extremists in their midst from
being isolated outcasts into popular heroes. One-sided internment
effectively created the IRA.
> "The lesson will have been learnt, so when Islamist bombs force
raids and arrests among the Muslim community - complete with mosque
doors getting smashed in by armed riot police - the government will
want to be able to reassure moderate Muslims that they're being even-
handed by arresting 'white extremists' as well.
> "The propaganda is therefore designed to delegitimise a party
which obtained a million votes on June 10th, because without doing
that they won't have any 'white extremists' to arrest."
>
> This was a key part of the main address by BNP leader Nick Griffin
to a top-level meeting held on Sunday near Mansfield. Organisers and
Fund Holders from BNP branches and groups from all over the country
attended. Despite the meeting having been called at relatively short
notice and in holiday time, the turnout of around 160 was composed
solely of these local officials, national officers and regional
organisers, and thus represented a defining majority of the people
who "make the BNP tick."
> Having given his warning of "tough and historic times ahead," Mr
Griffin went on to reassure those present that such an action - which
he stressed he believes would probably only happen after a serious
attack, and probably only if it led in turn to a significant number
of communal clashes in multi-cultural areas of Britain - would blow
up in the government's face:
>
> "What are ordinary people going to think? We warn about the dangers
of Islamic extremism. Islamic extremists blow up central London. And
BNP leaders get arrested and carted away. If they really want to go
down that road, that's fine by us. It might be inconvenient and
uncomfortable for a while, but Blair & Co would be making a huge
mistake."
>
> The meeting dealt with a wide agenda, which was headed by a brief
outline of the party's proposed response to the discrimination action
by the Commission for Racial Equality. The way in which deliberate
lies in papers like the Observer (and subsequently in Monday's
Guardian) are being used to try to create internal disruption was
pointed out. Although a major reason for calling the meeting in the
first place had been to discuss this issue, there was clear, near or
totally unanimous agreement that, with the pressure of external
attacks such as those by Barclays, the BBC, various national
newspapers and a number of employers' organisations, the leadership's
statement concluding the debate was not only the right thing to do
but also very welcome.
>
> Other subjects which were very well received by the entire audience
included the announcement of the steps which are to be taken to make
life harder for future provocation operations by the likes of
Searchlight and the BBC, and to educate or weed out people whose
experiences of the multi-racial society have left them so scarred
that they have become hate-filled liabilities to our cause. The need
to find ways to inculcate a positive pride in our own culture as a
way of combating such negativity was also covered, and received a
particularly enthusiastic response.
>
> Plans to concentrate on selected local council by-elections, the
introduction of our new and expanded Treasury team, announcements of
improvements laid on for this year's Red-White-and-Blue (14th - 15th
August), a concerted drive to turn Freedom newspaper into the fund-
raising and organisational hub of the party, and an outline of a
number of new recruitment/publicity campaigns being planned for the
autumn, all added to the determination and optimism of a very
constructive conference.
>
> Those present saw for themselves the clearest evidence that
Searchlight-inspired media reports of low morale and divisions are
baseless - just another part of the hysterical Establishment campaign
to stop a movement and an idea whose time is at hand.