BNP case adjourned
The trial of Nick Griffin and Mark Collett for speaking the truth adjourned was adjourned until Friday. The usual assorted red freaks tried to disrupt the trial by trying to tamper with potential jurors by giving them leaflets about the ‘evilness’ of the BNP.
The hypocrites of ‘anti-fascist’ brigade got their students to pass the BNP lines en masse chanting. "Nazi scum - get off our streets"
I thought we were the Nazis? Aren’t the BNP the ones supposed to be telling certain people to get off the streets?
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I think the BNP stand for us British, I do not want my country turned into an Islamic state.
No self respecting brit wants our country turned into an islamic cesspool.
For info, insofar as I attended the Demo today. We had about 8-9 there from our overall region, so that was good.
Leeds Demo
You will have seen these items by now, probably. What a contrast! I hope the police have absorbed the lessons. (Note the Beeb appears to have been very quiet about both events.)
Media Coverage
http://news.sky.com/skynews/
article/0,,30100-1239381,00.html
http://news.sky.com/skynews/
article/0,,30100-13549924,00.html
(Simon Darby reported after the adjournment that Nick's minders were simply doing their job of preventing unknown individuals from getting too close to him. Nick and Mark both received many handshakes and good wishes from the BNP supporters as they were conducted to the court.)
And you will most likely have logged onto the BNP site but here is the link nevertheless.
http://www.bnp.org.uk/
news_detail.php?newsId=1222
Weather
Excellent! A cloudless day in Leeds, not a factor directly influencing the trial but helpful for Nick and Mark's 'walkabout' before and after the hearing and for supporters standing in the open.
Demonstration & Demonstrators
Most on both sides were gathered behind their respective barriers well before the scheduled start at 10:00 a.m.
The BNP had an estimated 700 present, according to one event organiser I spoke to. They had come from all over and had the trial date not been changed, the numbers attending could have reached 1,000. (I spoke to Nick Griffin briefly afterwards, when many of the BNP supporters gravitated to the White Rose Inn on Elland Road. He thought that at least another 100 could have been there if trial date had not been changed.)
The anti-free speech gang had possibly 50-80 present. Many appeared to be students, possibly Leeds University Students' Union activists and hangers-on. If so, they would have had greater flexibility for attendance than the BNP supporters. Sadly, most were white, i.e. ethnic minority members were few, apart from one group - see below - and the whites included many vociferous female students. (They always seem to prominent in NUS shindigs.)
As you can see from the BNP report, the BNP displays consisted of national flags and placards urging the defence of free speech. No-one's head was demanded by any of the slogans. Remembrance poppies were on sale and virtually everyone had one. When vocal, the BNP crowd were mostly singing patriotic songs - new and old - cheering for the defendants and protesting their innocence. Some taunts were exchanged with the other crowd but the most aggressive display by the BNP supporters was a chorus of boo's aimed at a group of about 6-8 young Asians who walked between the groups carrying a 'Stop the BNP' placard (as I recall).
The anti-free speech gang were much more provocative, both vocally and with their displays. The opposition voices consisted of persistent chants of "Racist BNP!" "Nazi BNP!" "Six million, Never again!" The latter expression, an outright slander in my opinion, was also prominently displayed on a placard, backed up by red, i.e. Communist, flags and placards demanding 'Stop the BNP' - see above - on pink backgrounds. Maybe they were from the 'gay rights' or LGB component of the Students' Union - all SUs have one.
At one point I talked with a BNP member from Bolton who introduced me to the lad from the YBNP who, together with a young lady friend, infiltrated a left-wing student group last year. (I seem to recall an article about this on the website.) It appears these YBNPrs had supplied the lefties with a lot of their ideas and slogans for an anti-BNP protest, so that was kind of a psychological coup.
One thing seems certain. We will never get anywhere with that group. They all seem to be dedicated 5th columnists.
Not one of them was prepared to display any of our national flags. That was also noticeable.
Speech by Cllr Barnbrook
Richard Barnbrook gave a speech outside the courthouse stating he intended to run for mayor of Barking and Dagenham and that a Day of Action was planned during which 75,000 leaflets would be distributed. Any members would be welcome to participate and his group would organise accommodation for overnight stays.
Finale
After the adjournment, Nick and Mark thanked the supporters profusely - they do appreciate you being there, as does Jackie Griffin and all their families and close friends.
So it will be worthwhile if anyone can get down there for any of the remaining days of the trial.
The BNP group finished with a loud and unanimous expression of thanks to the members of the West Yorkshire Police, "who have protected us so well" in the words of the organiser leading the thanks.
I think about 30 or so police officers were on duty - fewer than last time for the opening day, I understand. I can't help wondering what they must think, the younger men and women amongst them especially, on comparing the BNP supporters who are clearly proud of their national emblems, with the riff-raff across the way, who couldn't be bothered even to display them, while mouthing off "Racist!" "Fascist!" "Nazi!" against those who do, who were also displaying Remembrance poppies - how can this group be called by any of the above three epithets, especially when the poppies commemorate the fallen of all races* who fought for Britain and the (then) Empire?
*Including Muslims of the British-Indian Army's Punjabi and Baluch battalions, for example. They were of course loyal to British-Indian Army discipline in WW1, 2 and did not truly exercise their 'faith' in the way that the Bosnian and Kossovan 13th and 21st Muslim Waffen SS Divisions did, with their bestial behaviour towards unarmed civilians - but I digress.
I hope the contrast is not lost on West Yorkshire's finest - and I use that term with a degree of sincerity. (Most of the police officers were white Britons. Only a couple of ethnic minority officers were visible. The local force does not seem to reflect the current ethnic mix of the city, which is noticeable to an outsider from these parts (where I live).)
When I spoke to Nick afterwards, he thought the jury seemed fairly reasonable, with a couple of members wholly pro-BNP, a couple totally anti and the rest fairly ordinary Yorkshire folk. He reckoned that the trial would go on until towards the end of next week and thought that the most likely outcome would be another hung jury, with the result that the case will be terminated and Nick and Mark walk free.
I only spoke with Mark for less than a minute - he had to go find his lass (priorities!) - but he said that it would be Monday when they would start giving evidence and facing cross examination etc.
We can but hope that the astounding disclosure in tonight's Crimewatch of Pakistani, i.e. Muslim, 'honour' killings and beatings, often by family members, can be strategically used in our colleagues' defence - along with the concurrent terror trial - see Sky News above. Sky gave the terrorist's supporters several minutes of air time to sound off publicly. They gave Nick and Mark a few seconds of visual with no broadcast statement at all, though I believe Nick was interviewed by the media after the adjournment - they told us all to quiet down for that reason, at any rate.
At the White Rose Inn afterwards, I saw copies of a leaflet featuring Kev Hughes's plight, contrasted with killers from ethnic minorities who got sentences roughly equivalent to or considerably less than Kevin's.
It is good that this can be kept to the fore.
Sounds like a fun day. I would have went but I didn't have ride and I didn't know the phone number or the name of the man that said he would take me. lol.
It turned out to be fairly straight forward to get there by train. The court house is about 10 minutes walk from the station - there is a useful map on the BNP Forum under the BNP News topic about Nick and Mark.
A standard return ticket costs about £30.
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