Patreon Supporters

Become a Patron!
Evan Balgord, A supporter from Ontario, Helmut-Harry Loewen, Maureen Hurley, "Uncooperative Palindrome", Yellow Vests Canada EXPOSED, "No Name", "The ARC of the Moral Universe", Eric Weiss

Saturday, August 08, 2009

An Enemies List to Actually Be Concerned About

BigCityLib posted an article yesterday concerning a freedom of information request for Jennifer Lynch's "enemies list." What the speechies got was in reality a collection of media clippings. And they were sooooo hoping to be on an enemies list, as if that would somehow bring some sort of meaning to their lives.

Well never you fear speechies. There is, in fact, at least one enemies list that has been created. This list contains names, photographs, email addresses, work and home addresses, phone numbers, and a great deal of other information.

And where can you find this enemies list?

The hate website Stormfront:

Ms. Lynch and a host of other CHRT and CHRC members, both past and present, are listed here. The check marks signify that information has been gathered and posted on the site. In addition to the publicized professional and personal information, other Stormfront members have posted comments. A selection:

....It's already been conceded by our government that employment equity is the unequal treatment of Whites. The government has has to take the position that White males are less equal than other people or else employment equity would be unfair.....

....This database will be valuable when they truth comes out and all of the criminals can have their day in a REAL court for the violation of our right to free speech, and the expression therein....

....She believes that "not accepting diversity" is tantamount to hate. She believes the refusal of any indentifiable groups into our communities is hate as well. Therefore, your freedom of expression to oppose your community being flooded by AIDS infested Africans are outweighed by the right of those AIDS infested immigrants to live without "hate". Therefore, your opposing this suicidal immigration policy will result in you being punished by the CHRC/CHRT....

....People with the last name "******" are allegedly direct descendants of Muhammed. So we know she's a race traitor....

And so on. OdinPatrick even later references, "The Lynch Mob" blog and the alleged Jennifer Lynch enemies list that doesn't exist:

And why, exactly, should we be concerned about this particular enemies list on Stormfront? Oh, we don't know.....

And so on....

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Klown Power

Because sometimes you just have to laugh at the jokers.

Monday, July 27, 2009

A Blast from the Past: Levant's and Ander's Apology to Ron Ghitter

Okay, so BigCityLib already wrote about this on June 26, but we thought it was so much fun that it warranted another look:

Debates of the Senate (Hansard)

2nd Session, 36th Parliament,
Volume 138, Issue 46

Monday, April 10, 2000
The Honourable Gildas L. Molgat, Speaker

Apology to the Honourable Ron Ghitter

Hon. John Lynch-Staunton (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, I should like to read to you a statement that will be published in the Calgary Herald, The Calgary Sun and The Edmonton Journal on Friday, April 14. It will be entitled, "Apology to Senator Ghitter from Rob Anders, M.P., and Ezra Levant."

In September of 1998, we unfairly and inaccurately described the character, statements, commitment and work of Senator Ghitter in a fundraising letter circulated to 31,000 Albertans in connection with the Alberta Senatorial Election. The letter was prepared by Ezra Levant and signed by Rob Anders on behalf of the Reform Party of Alberta.

The letter was insulting and demeaning of Senator Ghitter who has dedicated over 30 years of his life to public service both as an elected member of the Legislature of Alberta, a member of the Senate of Canada, a spokesman for minorities, and a volunteer in many capacities.

On September 25, 1998, Senator Ghitter requested that we retract our statements and donate $2,500.00 to the Alberta Cancer Society. We refused to do so, and instead made further inaccurate and demeaning public statements about Senator Ghitter through various media outlets. On October 21, 1998, Senator Ghitter commenced a defamation action against us.

Our attack on Senator Ghitter was unfounded and we now admit having defamed Senator Ghitter. We further acknowledge that some of our statements were based on facts that were false and on out of context interpretations.

We regret preparing and sending the letter and wish to apologize to Senator Ghitter and his family for our lack of civility and our inappropriate actions and comments.

Rob Anders, M.P.

Ezra Levant

Friday, July 24, 2009

More Making Fun of Boneheads

We're really don't understand why boneheads continue to subject themselves to the humiliation that results when they try to form coherent sentences. Yes, dear readers, it is time for yet another installment of "Illiterate Bonehead Theater."

This time we'd like to thank Rolang for writing the commentary on each of the bonehead messages that we received over the past month:

i personally think your a fucken idiot and you need to get a life and stop talking about eric like that yu fucken pieces of shyt what yur gunna "try " and stop everyone from being racist people have there own way of dealing with things and your little fucken crew or whatever you wanna call it aint gunna change a difference in this world so really you need to get a fucken life all of you cunts what you do sit infront of a computer and wire your little fucken comments as if people are really gunna sit there a listen to you you have no fucken life so get over it and suck a dick

We were going to try to respond to this but we got distracted by your mastery of the run-on sentence and gratuitous use of the word "fucken". But evidently even you didn't think you got the point across effectively and decided to try again:

what is wrong with you fags what do you do sit there and write comments about people as if your comments are really going to change a person you people need to grow up and stop talking bout eric like that really what are you going to do .. hes racists so what .. so are half this world and do you plan to stop people out in this world... its a world of hate as if black people dont hate on us too it goes both ways and if he dont like black people thats his thing not your problem .// so get a life this is so stupid omggg hahahaha

We appreciate your attempt to use punctuation this time, although we'll have to consult Strunk & White to determine if that's the proper placement of ".//".

You guys have way too much time on your hands. Just because you got A's in gr. 8 spelling bees doesn't change the fact that you are all keyboard kommandos. We walk around Toronto without fear and I've never in my experience ever been approached by any "antifas". Unless of course there were at least 10 and I was alone.

You walk around Toronto without fear because your existence is absolutely irrelevant to the 2.5 million people who live there, minus maybe 6 or 7 of your buddies. We actually feel kind of sorry for you. You live in Toronto. One of the world's most multicultural cities. A city with the official motto "Diversity Our Strength". It must just kill you to have to walk around every day and bear witness to the rampant cultural and ethnic diversity, the flagrant disregard for racism and exclusion.

And the race mixing - oh, the race mixing! Italians getting it on with Chinese. South Asians bumping uglies with Jamaicans. Kenyans knocking boots with Swedes. All day, every day. It must be too much for you to bear.

Our point is, we ridicule you because it's fun for us. Frankly, we assumed you had a sense of your own unimportance and would be grateful for the attention.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. We're here all week. Try the buffet and remember to tip your waitress or waiter.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

July Show and Share 2

Though it's a bit old now, we found this to be an interesting article worth sharing with our readers:

The Hatemongers' New Tool: The Internet
Christopher Wolf: Internet Hate Is What Kept James Von Brunn's Hateful Lunacy At The Boiling Point

By Christopher Wolf
Special to CBSNews.com
June 17, 2009

Before the Internet, James Von Brunn, the self-proclaimed white supremacist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier who stands accused of murder at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, was relegated to using the mail to communicate his rage with like-minded haters. The only place for him to have his benighted views applauded was in sporadic clandestine meetings.

The Internet changed all that. Like his fellow bigots, Von Brunn found the Internet a boon to his warped causes. His maintained a hate Web site, "Holy Western Empire," where he touted and provided excerpts from his book that denied the Holocaust and praised Hitler. And online, in chat rooms, on bulletin boards and through links to other haters’ Web sites, Von Brunn had a virtual fan club, who cheered him on and legitimized his vicious thinking.

We will never know whether Von Brunn’s rage would have burned out but for the Internet, but we do know that he found validation for the rage he harbored on the Internet.

At the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where Von Brunn unleashed his hateful rage by killing Security Guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, there recently was an exhibit on the power of Nazi propaganda. The exhibit showed how the Nazi propaganda machine skillfully spread lies about Jews and perpetuated centuries-old anti-Semitic stereotypes, setting the stage for the Holocaust.

Today, the Internet Von Brunn used is a powerful and virulent platform for anti-Semitism - hate toward Jews that has a direct link to the deterioration of civil society, violence, terrorism, and - as we now know - murder. Hitler and the Nazis could never have dreamed of such an engine of hate.

The Internet as the new propaganda machine for anti-Semites is not under the central control of a political party or group. It gains its power by being viral in nature. Everyone can be a publisher, even the most vicious anti-Semite. Hate begets hate, and its common appearance makes it seem acceptable and normal. Internet hate is what kept Von Brunn’s hateful lunacy at the boiling point.

And, perniciously, Internet hate speech serves to mislead and even recruit young people to become the next generation of anti-Semites and, perhaps, murders.

Since its advent, we have been concerned about the incredible power and reach that the Internet has given anti-Semites and bigots. What has developed in the past few years, however, is much more dangerous. We are now in the world of what is called "Web 2.0,"transforming the way the Internet is being used. Any hater and propagandist can reach a mass audience, even an audience that didn’t think itself receptive to such hateful ideas. With the users of Web 2.0 comprised largely of younger people, the impact of the information posted there may persist for generations to come.

Blogging and social media sites are changing the way people communicate their reactions to events in the news and interact with each other. Those who harbor anti-Semitic beliefs are comfortable expressing themselves in cyberspace, where they can provoke a reaction from others or find like-minded individuals to affirm their beliefs.

In the aftermath of the Madoff revelations, the comments section following ordinary news stories contained rages against Jewish people for controlling (and ruining) the world’s finances. And YouTube frequently is the home of hate-filled replays of Nazi propaganda films.

The perniciousness of anti-Semitism on today’s Internet is that the more one sees it, the more one is likely to consider it normal, and acceptable. Good people are numbed by the proliferation, and daunted by the task of responding. Others consider it a reflection of what is acceptable in society. And then there are those on the fringe, like Von Brunn, who use such content as justification for murder.

The First Amendment protects essentially all hate speech, except that consisting of direct threats against specific people. But that does not mean we should throw up our hands and simply accept hate on the Internet as something that will always infect the Internet. There is a role for Internet users, for Internet companies and for educators. We should speak up when we see hate sites, explain to our kids what they are seeing, and counter the vicious lies.

Those offering Internet services with terms of use that prohibit hate speech should enforce those terms and remove offending content. And it is time for Internet education as a requirement in all schools, to teach kids how to filter what they are seeing and to reject hate online. (The epidemic of cyberbullying alone should inspire such attention to kids using the Internet.)

A fitting memorial to museum guard Stephen Johns would be for society finally to address hate on the Internet in a meaningful way, to prevent the next Internet-inspired murder.

Christopher Wolf, an attorney in Washington D.C., is Chair of the Anti-Defamation League’s
Internet Task Force and Immediate Past Chair of the International Network Against Cyber-Hate.

In light of the effort to gut or completely dismantle the CHRC and CHRT, this article is certainly food for thought.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Ouwendyk Libel Payments

Hey, look what we managed to get a hold of:


Above is a copy of what we believe is the latest payment from Jason Ouwendyk courtesy of his bankruptcy trustee. Our readers may recall Ouwendyk's bankruptcy trustee accepted the full claim for damages from Mr. Warman’s libel suit against him when Ouwendyk sought bankruptcy protection:

At some point in the fall of 2005, the website of the London, Ontario white supremacist group Northern Alliance (www.northernalliance.ca) went down for reasons that remain unclear. Although still too early to herald the group’s demise, there are suspicions that the financial woes of leader Jason Ouwendyk, who sought bankruptcy protection in December of 2004, may be the cause. At the time of his bankruptcy protection, Ouwendyk owed approximately $50,000 to creditors, including $12,500 owed to the author of this article. This was after his bankruptcy trustee accepted the full claim for damages and costs in a small claims libel suit against Ouwendyk as a result of comments made on the Northern Alliance website.

Ouwendyk seems to be out of the picture for the most part, however David Ruud appears to have taken up the mantle of Northern Alliance spokesperson. And considering the work he's done in that regard, it really does look like the Northern Alliance is pretty much kaput.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Andrew Benson Wants to Join the Army



A while ago, we noticed that Toronto bonehead Andrew Benson was keen on joining the Canadian Forces:


Naturally, we dismissed this as fantasy. After all, this is a man so lacking in body mass that he requires both a belt AND suspenders to secure his pants to the assemblage of bones otherwise known as his body. A meth habit (should he choose to partake in the drug) may get Benson through the trivialities of his depressing existence, but we’re pretty sure it won’t get him through basic training.
Nonetheless, we decided to humor him and pretend that we take seriously the delusional boastings of a 25 year old neo-Nazi so desperate for attention and validation that he hangs out with teenagers and posts pictures of his friends committing crimes on his Facebook profile. Trust us, he needs this. And the latest news from the wonderful world of Benson is that he has joined the National Socialist Movement Party.

Oh, and the Army. Unable to hide his elation, he reported both in the same breathless status update on Facebook. Unfortunately fellow bonehead Craig Flemming then had to go and be a Negative Nancy, pointing out that membership in a neo-Nazi hate group might be a problem for those P.C. thugs over at the Canadian Forces. Which Benson promptly ignored. We’d like to applaud him for his frankness, which will surely mean more to the military than his lack of character. The military doesn’t care if you belong to white supremacist organizations. Or if you’ve immortalized your white supremacy with racist tattoos. Or (as anyone who has seen Benson’s Facebook profile can attest to), if you continuously post pictures of you and your creepy friends giving Hitler salutes, wearing Nazi uniforms and doing drugs with minors in your apartment.






So, Benson - if anyone tries to tell you that racist attitudes are not compatible with military ethos and with effective military service” because such conduct “impairs military effectiveness by…creating an impression with the public of Canada and other nations, that the Canadian Forces cannot be relied upon to perform peacekeeping and other international commitments, or to provide assistance to Canadian authorities in handling internal disputes fairly and impartially, without regard to the race, national or ethnic origin, colour or religion of the parties involved – well, you just don’t worry your tiny little head about it and keep on being the flamboyantly bigoted moron that we’re sure the Army will come to know and love. There’s absolutely no reason the military would refuse to admit a known racist to their organization. In fact, we pulled the following quote completely out of our ass:

We encourage you to continue to flaunt your racist extremism and above all keep on following your dreams. Because we know you’ve been dreaming about this since 2004:

We also know that before you ventured into the world of racist loserdom you were a rave kid and a self-proclaimed Trotskyist. We’re very curious as to the nature of the traumatic event that could explain your transformation from this:


into this:

Oh wait:

You hate your parents. That explains it. Disaffected kids will do anything to piss off mom and dad. And admittedly, we don’t know all the details of your upbringing or family life - we just wish we could say that you were a kid when you wrote that and not 20. We calculate that at the current rate of devolution by the time you hit 30 you’ll be turning tricks behind a dumpster in Vaughn and blaming it all on the ZOG. In the meantime, good luck in your pursuit of that “Army” career.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Harry Abrams Isn't a Liberal

One of the posters on Free Dominion provides a theory regarding Mr. Abrams' complaint against Mr. Topham and his comments regarding the FreeDom crew:

In response, Mr. Abrams authorized us to post this:

Not that we really think that it will matter. For many of the FreeDom crew, the Harper Conservatives really aren't conservative either.

Now, let the recriminations begin.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Try To Keep Up, Junior

Canadian Stormfront moderator OdinPatrick has posted the latest on Ciaran Donnelly:

Of course, OdinPatrick fails to mention that this mediation occurred over a year ago:
Man wins rights case against B.C. neo-Nazi 
Don Butler, Canwest News Service
Published: Saturday, June 21, 2008
 
OTTAWA - Richard Warman has settled his federal human rights complaint about Internet hate posted by a Coquitlam man. 
As part of a mediated settlement, Ciaran Paul Donnelly of Coquitlam agreed to permanently close his account on Stormfront, a U.S. website through which the hate messages were distributed, and ask to have his earlier postings deleted. He has also agreed to pay $1,000 in damages for making veiled threats against Warman and posting a picture of a sign reading: "The Church of Dead Warman." 
Terms of the settlement, which prohibit Donnelly from posting further hate propaganda on the Internet or engaging in additional retaliation against Warman, will be registered with the Federal Court of Canada. 
Donnelly, who posted his messages under the user name "Der Totenkopf" -- the death's head insignia of the German SS -- is a well-known figure in the Canadian neo-Nazi movement. 
He was a leading member of Western Canada For Us, a now-defunct Alberta-based neo-Nazi group that included Glen Bahr and Peter Kouba, against whom Warman has filed successful human rights complaints for Internet hate. 
Another member was Donnelly's sometime girlfriend, Jessica Beaumont of Calgary, known as "Jessy Destruction" on Stormfront. 
She was the subject of another successful complaint by Warman, who has had 10 complaints about Internet hatred upheld by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in recent years. 
Three of Warman's other complaints, including the one against Donnelly, ended in mediated settlements. 
Warman will donate most of the settlement money to a memorial education fund for the children of Kelly Morrisseau, an aboriginal woman whose 2006 murder in Gatineau Park, north of Ottawa, remains unsolved. The rest will go to the Canadian Anti-racism and Education Society.
Johnny on the spot aren't you, OdinPatrick?

The other problem is the claim that Mr. Warman rarely enters into mediation. Also not true as we can name at least two other cases where Mr. Warman has mediated with individuals whom he has brought complaints against. However, unlike the speechies who have used their names in their attacks on Mr. Warman, we will not publish their names and put them in any danger.

July Show and Share

Hey! Look! We have fans!

Red Watch Canada

The Reason Why i created this blog. To Expose Communism and Anarchism. Well, look at here ''Anti Racist Canada'' Notice The picture, It is V from the Famous motion picture V for Vendetta, a Fairy Tale motion picture about overthrowing the ''fascist'' government in Britain in the future. V promoted Anarchism. '' People Shouldnt Be Afraid Of there Governments, Governments Should Be afraid of there people'' Well Well a ''ANTI RACIST'' Site, with the main picture promoting anarchism. This Blog, Tracks people , groups FREE SPEACH, and are against law enforcment. anyone visiting this blog im sure has been to this one as well. Hey, if i was that ugly i would hide behind a screen and a mask for that matter. This site is nothing more but commies/anarchist's succeding at getting the general public on there side, But please DONT be fooled any more. ANTI RACIST CANADA IS VERY VERY Communist/Anarchist.

Actually "V For Vendetta" is based on the brilliant 10 part series, later made into a graphic novel, by Alan Moore. Moore wrote "V For Vendetta" in response to the election and policies of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. We especially liked this description contained in the theme of "Anarchism versus fascism":

V's tactic of humiliating and ridiculing the fascist regime to destabilize it is like the ideas of the Situationists. In issue #8, the phase between fascism and anarchy is called Verwirrung, a German word meaning "confusion", but used here as reference to The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Book One of the trilogy is so titled). It also may be a direct reference to Discordian philosophy in general, as many other aspects of the series (chaos, the creative arts, anarchism, and the obsession with the number "5") draw similar parallels.

Sadly, our new fans aren't correct. None of us are communists and, despite our disappointment with the inaction of the police in some cases that we've covered, we actually are supportive of the authorities (a difference distinguishing us from some of our supporters but which doesn't preclude a fruitful and friendly working relationship).

And boys, if you're going to place us in the cross-hairs, you might want to consider running your rant through a spell and grammar check first. And your screen shoot is very clumsily put together. Take some pride in your work, just don't splash any garbage on your blog. Really, you people need to pick up your game if you want to keep up with us.

From this we move on to the speechies. As most of our readers are aware of, Mr. Ezra Levant, who has had some issues with human rights commissions, recently had a book released in which he takes these commissions, Richard Warman groups such as B'nai Brith Canada and the Canadian Jewish Congress to task. We'd like to share with our readers a fantastic review of Levant's, Shakedown:

Trial by Anecdote

A controversial polemicist takes on Canada's commitment to human rights.


Here are a few parts:

Levant picks his targets inclusively if predictably, given his neoconservative leanings. His ultimate target is the whole concept of equality as a human right. Although he starts and ends with hate speech provisions in human rights codes, before he is done he has taken on both federal and provincial human rights commissions and tribunals, those who work for them, those who complain to them and those who support them. Within the bounds, one assumes, of the laws of libel, he settles grudges and scores with a long list of adversaries old and new, who parade through his pages in their assigned roles of dupes, rogues, buffoons and hypocrites.

We're not sure if we'd make that assumption ourselves based on past incidents, but we digress.

Shady characters with apparent radical or totalitarian sympathies appear as human rights complainants or even investigators. A restaurant is ordered to compensate a worker for discrimination on account of a disability after she has been let go because a medical condition makes it impossible for her to wash her hands as often as the health code requires. In another restaurant incident, a local layabout insists on exercising his legal dispensation to smoke medical marijuana by toking up at the front door of the establishment. This puts the owner in the impossible position of having to choose between being found guilty of discrimination on the one hand and driving away his customers and potentially losing his licence on the other.

These and similar tales of Keystone Kommissars are meant to support Levant’s argument to delegitimize human rights regimes. According to Levant, there was a time when human rights were worth fighting for, a time when racial prejudice and religious discrimination were real. But, he says, those days are gone. The battle has been won. Today we live in a tolerant cosmopolitan society in which human rights have become a weapon wielded by feckless claimants and cynical left-wing ideologues to advance personal or political agendas that in fact conflict with the “real,” still-valid fundamental rights underlying democracy, such as freedom of property and the freedom to say whatever one chooses. In this “shakedown,” the scheming antidemocratic conspirators are enabled by “useful idiots”—the investigators and adjudicators employed by human rights commissions and tribunals—and by the unprincipled politicians who support the entire ramshackle regime in order to curry favour with special interests. For Levant, human rights code provisions dealing with “hate messages,” such as those under which the Alberta complaint against him were made, are only the extreme manifestations of a human rights regime whose hallmark is a wanton disregard of individual rights in the name of political correctness.

There is a lot wrong with large swaths of this argument. Both at its widest point, with his claim of the obsolescence of the human right of equality in an age of tolerance triumphant, and at its narrowest point, with his allegation that the regulation of hate messages is nothing more than a craven concession to political correctness, Levant’s assertions simply do not stand up to scrutiny.

On his broad claim, Levant is hardly the first to allege that all meaningful battles against discrimination have been won and that claims currently being advanced are, in fact, nothing more than reprehensible assaults on basic civil liberties. A decade ago it was gays and lesbians, having had their sexual practices decriminalized, who were advancing the “bizarre” notions that spousal benefits and marital status should be extended to same-sex partners. Twenty years before that, women, having achieved legal equality with men, were making preposterous demands for preferential treatment when they voluntarily compromised their ability to continue with their employment by getting pregnant. Before that it was the Jews, fully protected from the excesses their co-religionists had suffered abroad, who were pushily trying to subvert property rights guaranteed in the Magna Carta itself by challenging property owners’ liberty to sell or not to sell to whomever they wished. As was the case in all previous instances, it seems a bit premature, not to say presumptuous, for Levant to unfurl his particular “Mission Accomplished” banner over the present social landscape.

Levant is also wrong on the other end of his argument, in which he solicits recruits to join with him in a campaign to delegitimize, as a pernicious attempt to enforce political correctness, “hate message” human rights provisions in general and section 13.1 of the Canadian Human Rights Act in particular.

Section 13.1 deems it a discriminatory act to use the Canadian telecommunications system for the repeated dissemination of hate messages based on race, ethnicity and gender. It has been used effectively against hate-based websites, starting with Ernst Zundel’s notorious Zundelsite and, perhaps because of its successes, has increasingly become the focus of scrutiny by commentators spanning a broad range on the respectability meter as an alleged assault against expressive freedom.

As it happens, the Supreme Court of Canada examined section 13.1 two decades ago. In the course of finding that this provision does not violate the guarantee of freedom of expression contained in the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, Chief Justice Brian Dickson, one of the heroes of Canadian civil liberties jurisprudence, made it exquisitely clear that section 13.1 cannot be used to suppress unpopular opinions or offensive speech. It is only applicable to messages truly preaching “hatred and contempt,” which he defined as meaning messages that arouse “unusually strong and deep-felt emotions of detestation, calumny and vilification” based on a portrayal that “allows for no redeeming qualities” in its target. This is a very narrow definition designed to apply to extreme speech that crosses the line into becoming a danger.

Anyone doubting that extreme speech can be dangerous has not studied much history, and anyone who believes that the marketplace of ideas is an adequate regulator to defuse such danger has not thought through the economics analogy. The invisible hand of an unregulated economic free market has shown itself capable in the long run of rewarding efficiency and suppressing inefficiency, but along the way populations have had to tolerate cyclical joblessness, occasional depressions and, in extreme cases, even famines, to “correct” erroneous choices and initiatives. Similarly, the marketplace of ideas did eventually reject the ideology of National Socialism, but only after its consequences of genocide and total war had demonstrated its practical “inadequacies.”

Finally, and in response to the rhetoric that the neo-Nazi movement is not threat, we submit this article for our dear reader's:

Bomb seizures spark far-right terror plot fear

5/7/2009- A network of suspected far-right extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs has been uncovered by counter-terrorism detectives. Thirty-two people have been questioned in a police operation that raises the prospect of a right-wing bombing campaign against mosques. Police are said to have recovered a British National party membership card and other right-wing literature during a raid on the home of one suspect charged under the Terrorism Act. In England’s largest seizure of a suspected terrorist arsenal since the IRA mainland bombings of the early 1990s, rocket launchers, grenades, pipe bombs and dozens of firearms have been recovered in the past six weeks during raids on more than 20 properties. Several people have been charged and more arrests are imminent. Current police activity is linked to arrests in Europe, New Zealand and Australia. Police are examining allegations that many of the guns were manufactured or reactivated, then sold over the internet to viewers of a right-wing website. Details of the previously secret operation were disclosed by Sir Norman Bettison, the chief constable of West Yorkshire, to security officials.

Police sources say that in a recent case not linked to the current arrests, detectives seized maps and plans of mosques from the homes of suspected far-right supporters. A senior Whitehall official said MI5 was monitoring the police investigation. While the security agency did not have a brief to probe right-wing terrorism, that position was constantly under review, said the official. Fears have been heightened by the discovery of an alleged plot involving ricin, a lethal poison; two men have been been charged with offences under the Terrorism Act. Concerns that this might be part of a global trend have been reinforced by the case of James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist charged with shooting dead a security guard at the Holocaust museum in America last month. Bettison said 32 people had been arrested in the investigation, although the counter-terrorism unit in Leeds said this figure was in fact the number of people questioned. At least 22 properties have been searched. The operation had thrown up evidence that suspects were communicating online. “The internet gives it reach and scope,” said Bettison. “The big bad wolf is still the Al- Qaeda threat. But my people are knocking over right-wing extremists quite regularly. We are interdicting it so that it doesn’t first emerge into the public eye out of a critical incident like an explosion.”

Several alleged right-wing extremists have been charged with terrorism offences in the UK in the past year. In one case, a jury convicted Martyn Gilleard, 31, a neo-Nazi forklift truck driver, who wanted to “secure a future for white children” and kept explosives at his flat in Goole, East Yorkshire. He built small hand-held bombs, and among the material seized were membership cards for the National Front, the British People’s party and the White Nationalist party. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison. In 1999, David Copeland, the so-called London nail bomber, carried out a campaign against black, Asian and gay communities. His home-made devices each included up to 1,500 4in nails. In his final attack Copeland killed three people, including a pregnant woman, after nail bombing a Soho pub. He got a life sentence for murder. Far-right parties across Europe are growing in popularity. In last month’s European elections, the BNP won two seats for the first time in Yorkshire and the northwest and took 6.2% of the national vote.

The Times Online