Richard Barnbrook's blog on the Daily Telegraph - British fascists upping the stakes

[Zurdito]

ok, firstly, I believe anyone can make a blog without the Telegraph's position...thoguh it begs the question, will they remove it?

Secondly, this "article" is notable because it's a long time since I've read something this agitational openly come out of a BNP councillor (as oppsoed to them being exposed), Barnbrook has dropped the "soft" iamge and here is basically calling for street combat. read it, it's important to know.



Blame the Immigrants
Posted by Cllr Richard Barnbrook at 22:25 on 25 May 2008
I have had enough of political correctness. I have had enough of people being afraid to actually say what they really want to say. Yes....It is the immigrants. Labour closed down free speech and criminalised people for telling the truth. Well Labour are in a state of total collapse.

Soon they will be finished and not a moment too soon. Nobody needs to listen to them anymore. The Police chiefs should simply ignore them and not follow orders to boost statistics by criminalising motorists. The real crime is on the streets, and it is the young people who are being attacked every day now by knives and guns.

Well let me tell you that times are changing. This is our city and we are going to take it back. We are going to take all the weapons of the streets even if that means sending in the Army to do it.
The do-gooder liberal human rights lawyers can scream all they want. Human Rights to me, means people being safe to walk down the street. Liberalism to me, means being free from knife and gun attacks. A free society is one where the police can do their job the way they want to do it.

Today I went to Sidcup and spoke to all the young people there who were attacked on Friday night outside the Metro Bar. It was a blood bath. This will affect them for a long time no matter how tough they are. Even SAS men get affected by Post Traumatic Stress. But our British young people are a resilient lot. They will get over it and the best thing they can do is supress it and move on. The last thing they should do is start going to those disgusting lefty therapists for counselling to relive the trauma. Look at that word "therapist" the rapist....and that is what they do....the rape of the mind.

I have invited all of the young people there to come down to City Hall this Tuesday for 9:30 in the morning. This knife crime has to be stopped. If I have to bring a 100 young people into Boris's office then that is what I will do. He has made a promise to get the knives off the streets. Well we want action Boris. We don't want fancy words or soundbites. I also want any mother and fathers who have been affected to come down too. It is time to start listening to the people again before some other family's life is wrecked.

You can call me on 07869 243 129 and if I can't take your call then leave a message and I promise I will call you back so that you can come down to City Hall this Tuesday for 9:30

[Kropotesta]

In my politics class we pranked him. He's such a moron.

[The Feral Underclass]

That read like some 10 year old had written it. I'd be embarrassed.

[Zurdito]

That read like some 10 year old had written it.

or, indeed, a BNP councillor. ;)

in any case, embarrassing puns aside, it does mark a quite sharp shift in BNP language...be interesting to see if they can hold together their current national party as it stands whilst trying to appeal to "the kids" with this combative, direct action, street-fighting style talk...my guess is no.

[invocation]

Has anyone from here actually called him?

[Philosophical Materialist]

or, indeed, a BNP councillor. ;)

in any case, embarrassing puns aside, it does mark a quite sharp shift in BNP language...be interesting to see if they can hold together their current national party as it stands whilst trying to appeal to "the kids" with this combative, direct action, street-fighting style talk...my guess is no.

It's logical for them to tone down their true agenda until they feel powerful enough as a political force to be open about fascism. Mind you, the bourgeois media are doing their work. The Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Sun, Daily Star are all pushing fascist-talking points but yet add the addenda that they don't support the BNP. This is an untenable position since if you push fascist talking points say over traditional Tory ones, then the recipients of the propaganda are going to drift to the main fascist party.

Luckily for the rest of us, BNP fascists are of such temperament that it's difficult to keep their hateful agenda under the surface for too long. But they are well organised, and the bourgeois parties and the media have accommodated their talking points instead of exposing them as untruths.

[Espanol Battalion]

Richard Barnbrook isn't the only BNP twat with a Daily Telegraph blog.

Carlos Cortiglia, a former BNP London Assembly candidate and prolific writer for various BNP websites, has his own Daily Telegraph as does Sid Williamson (formerly with the BNP, now with the BPP).

Here's Lancaster Unity's article on Carlos Cortiglia (you'll have to read the original article to access the links embedded in the article):

Daily Telegraph Part Deux

BNP candidate boasts of fighting Britain and about his pro-Nazi and slave-owning family

Many people have been outraged by The Daily Telegraph providing the BNP’s only London Assembly member, the Mein Kampf-reading Richard Barnbrook, his own blog in their My Telegraph section.

However, Richard Barnbrook isn’t the only BNP acolyte with his very own Daily Telegraph blog. Carlos Cortiglia, a BNP member who stood as a BNP London Assembly candidate in 2004, has had his own Daily Telegraph blog for roughly a year. Proudly boasting on his Daily Telegraph blog that “I am a BNP supporter”, Carlos Cortiglia’s blog sometimes reads as an online BNP propaganda sheet crowned with the seeming legitimacy of the Daily Telegraph masterhead. And, Carlos Coriglia’s writing activities don’t stop here. Quite recently, in an article for the London website of the BNP, Carlo Coriglia told us of his attendance at a meeting of the notorious anti-Jewish Croydon branch of the BNP.

Fighting against Britain, support for the Nazis during World War 2 and slave owning

In an interview with The Nation newspaper about Argentinean immigrants to England (though he was born in Uruguay) , Carlos Cortiglia admits to volunteering to fight for the Argentinean military dictatorship against Britain during the Falklands war. We provide Carlos Cortiglia’s original Spanish interview with the English translation:

Original from here.

“Soy argentine oriental, o dicho de otro modo, uruguayo de nacimiento, y me siento muy ligado emocionalmente a la Republica Argentina. En 1982 me ofreci como voluntario par ir a las Islas Malvinas”.

Translation:

"I am Argentine East, in other words, Uruguayan by birth, and I feel very emotionally linked to Argentina. In 1982 I volunteered to go to the Falkland Islands”.

So, here we have Carlos Cortiglia admitting in his own words that he fought against Britain. So, why is he in the UK as a BNP member, writer and past candidate? In 1982 Argentina was under the tight grip of a fascist-supporting military dictatorship. Desperate to shore up its nationalist credentials, the military junta invaded the British Falkland Islands, claiming them as Argentinean territory. 258 British soldiers and sailors lost their lives in the recapture of the Falkland Islands. Another 777 British soldiers and sailors were wounded, some of whom died of their injuries after the war. Yet the BNP fielded Carlos Cortiglia as a candidate for the London Assembly and to this very day permits him membership of the BNP. If it is true that Carlos Cortiglia fought against British forces, then there is the possibility that Carlos Cortiglia killed British soldiers and sailors. This aside, Carlos Cortiglia would have been involved in the illegal armed occupation of British sovereign territory.

Not only this, but Carlos Cortiglia tells us how his family in Uruguay supported the Nazis during World War 2 in their fight against Britain and that his family owned slaves! He further recounts how he met in the 1970s former Nazi officiers, including SS commanders in Montevideo, Uruguay. This is one hell of a BNP member!

The mind of Carlos Cortiglia

And, we have some interesting snippets from the mind of Carlos Cortiglia as it pours out of his Daily Telegraph blog. He tells us that the attack on the Stephen Lawrence building (named after the Black teenager Stephen Lawrence, murdered in a racist attack by a pro-BNP gang) was a “prank”. Claiming to be a Catholic, he accuses the Church of England of being "a backwards organisation”. He also accuses British Hindus of “inbreeding”. Not only this, but incredibly Carlos Cortiglia argues for the racist re-colonisation of Africa, arguing that “Africa would be much better off under European rule” (I guess this is why his family owned slaves!). He also seems to have a latent anti-American streak, peppering one of his postings with terms such as “American stupidity” and “American incompetence”. Further, many of his postings are obsessed with the British government and media being involved in some great anti-Russian conspiracy (interestingly, he questions the genetic relevance of Anglo-Saxon identity, which will no doubt get Carlos Cortiglia into a lot of trouble with his BNP mates). In another posting he complains that, given his name, people mistake him for an Italian or Spaniard, not recognising that he comes from a White Uruguayan/Argentinean background).

Join the campaign!

Anti-fascists have launched a campaign to get The Daily Telegraph to stop hosting Richard Barnbrook’s racist BNP blog. We urge that this campaign be expanded to removing Carlos Cortiglia’s BNP blog also hosted by The Daily Telegraph.

Some of us are trying to put pressure on The Daily Telegraph to reconsider. You can join that campaign by emailing your protest to [email protected], telegrapheditorial_at_telegraph.co.uk or the Letters page at dtletters_at_telegraph.co.uk joining the Facebook group and spreading the word about the Telegraph's irresponsible behaviour.

¡No Pasarán!

See also here and here.