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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 10:50 AM
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Read this and weep for our planet
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/465772/Angel-faced-racist-aged-12-Girl-burns-golly-at-BNP-fun-day.html
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A LITTLE girl grins with glee as she holds a golly over a fire . . . while a jeering BNP politician finds the doll guilty of BEING BLACK during a vile mock trial and execution.

The baying crowd cheers when the toy - dubbed Winston - is condemned and dropped on to the flames to "die".

Goading on the assembled adults and kids the politician, a local council candidate, yells out these chilling words: "Let's get a real one . . . in the town we'll find one or two."

Around 1,200 members converged on fields at Codnor, Derbys, for the Red White and Blue "fun" weekend. Our undercover reporter, posing as a supporter to gain entry to the members-only event, secretly filmed racism everywhere.

For £1 a go, people were throwing wet sponges at a man in a Barack Obama mask locked in stocks.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 10:54 AM
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1. All over the world, racists are having meltdowns.
Sad to say I'm not a bit surprised.
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 11:01 AM
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3. This isn't new.
BNP have been doing this kind of crap for years. They're just getting a better run at it now due to unhappiness with Labour and the recession.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 11:05 AM
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5. So Obama's election didn't energize them at all?
I'd find that rather surprising.

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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 11:09 AM
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6. Not that I've seen.
He's just the most convenient well-known public figure at whom they can direct their racism, but I don't see Obama's election pulling a lot of people into the BNP.
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Libertas1776 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 10:59 AM
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2. Disgusting
Absolutely disgusting. And the very fact that these people can actually get elected to any public office is a very sad fact indeed.
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 11:05 AM
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4. It gets a whole lot worse.
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