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The police have decided, on the instruction of the Crown Prosecution Service in London, not to charge 13 BNP activists arrested in Liverpool on 22 November for distributing the Racism Cuts Both Ways pamphlet. We understand the CPS considers the pamphlet is not racist.
This perverse ruling makes your action in support of our campaign all the more urgent. The decision will spur the BNP on to distribute the pamphlet to an even wider audience. Already the BNP is trying to raise more money to keep the Racism Cuts Both Ways campaign on the road.
Stop the Peddlers of Hate
Searchlight is calling on the authorities to investigate whether the BNP's Racism Cuts Both Ways campaign is an incitement to racial hated. We believe that the BNP's 12-page glossy magazine and the accompanying website are a clear attempt to whip up racism through lies and selective reporting.
The BNP campaign claims to highlight examples of anti-white racism. In an introduction to the website section devoted to this campaign, party leader Nick Griffin calls it the "silent epidemic of racist targeting of indigenous Britons".
To back up his claims the BNP has released the names of 167 people who it claims are the victims of anti-white racism. In addition, it has published 200,000 copies of a glossy 12-page pamphlet, which it is distributing to every councillor and MP in the country. The party also claims that copies are being sent to all 18-year-olds in 50 key parliamentary constituencies.
The BNP claims that 167 white people have been the victims of racist murder over the past years but its evidence is totally inaccurate.
- FACT In only a handful of the 167 cases is there any clear indication of a racial motive.
- FACT In several cases the perpetrator was in fact white not black.
- FACT In other cases the perpetrators were part of mixed race groups, including whites, but the BNP only focuses on the white victims and black perpetrators.
- FACT The list includes several supposed racial murders where the alleged perpetrator has not actually been convicted.
- FACT Much of the BNP research was copied directly from the National Front website.
The BNP has twisted facts to make them fit its warped racist agenda. It doesn't care that it causes distress and anger to the families.
The BNP clearly sets out to whip up racial tensions. It hopes to make young people in particular angry and vengeful. It hopes to get people to join the BNP but it could just as easily be unleashing racist violence.
The BNP campaign is quite simply dangerous and the fascist party should be held to account. It is time for the authorities to act.
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Searchlight will be writing to the Home Secretary and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police demanding action be taken against the BNP, and we need your support.
- Please sign our petition to demonstrate the strength of feeling about the BNP's incitement.
- We are also urging you to contact your own Assistant Chief Constable.
Click here to access a model letter (Word file) | (PDF file)
Click here find your local police authority
If you have received the pamphlet, we encourage you to include in the letter details of how and where you received it and, if relevant, your reaction to it and to the fact that you received it. Such details will strengthen your complaint. You may also wish to send a copy of your letter to your local Police Commander and MP. - Spread the word. The more people who complain the greater the chance that the authorities will take it seriously. The BNP must not be allowed to get away with whipping up racism through its lies. Please click here to tell five friends about this campaign.
