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13 31st March 2018
1.
Do you know who these two
co-leaders are? Well they are a couple of weird birds, they are British, and I
don’t doubt they may have relations here in New Zealand and especially in
Australia, but I hope not because I wouldn’t recommend these two. In fact all
five in the picture look like the types you wouldn’t want to meet on a dark
night on a back Street in London. They do look a little bit spooky don’t you
think.
They lead a Party named “Britain
First”, it’s a sort of an alt-right wing version of a modern day Nazi / fascist
party and they are much beloved by sociopathic Donald [fingers] Trump, so much
so that he tweets about them being heroes. This report from the Guardian:
Facebook has banned
Britain First from its platform, saying the far-right group has “repeatedly
posted content designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority
groups”.
Britain First’s
Facebook page, which had more than 2m likes, and the pages of the two leaders,
Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen [pictured], has been banned from the social
network.
“We are an open
platform for all ideas and political speech goes to the heart of free
expression,” Facebook said in a statement. “But political views can and should
be expressed without hate. People can express robust and controversial opinions
without needing to denigrate others on the basis of who they are.”
“We have community standards that clearly
state this sort of speech is not acceptable on Facebook and, when we become
aware of it, we remove it as quickly as we can,” the company added. “Political
parties, like individuals and all other organisations on Facebook, must abide
by these standards and where a page or person repeatedly breaks our community
standards we remove them.” The group will also not be allowed to set up any
further pages in future.
Facebook did not
confirm which specific posts were responsible for the pages being removed, but
the Guardian understands that they included one comparing Muslim immigrants to
animals, another labelling the group’s leaders “Islamophobic and proud”, and
videos created to incite hateful comments against Muslims.
Last week, Fransen
and Golding were
jailed for a series of hate crimes against Muslims. The pair, who received
36 weeks’ and 18 weeks’ imprisonment respectively, were arrested in May 2017 as
part of an investigation into the distribution of leaflets and online videos
posted during a trial at Canterbury crown court in the same month. Britain
First was deregistered as a political party in November 2017.
Its sizeable social
media presence, particularly on Facebook, has been a key driver in the group’s
growth. It achieved international notoriety in
November 2017, when Donald Trump retweeted a handful of videos posted on
Twitter by Fransen, then Britain First’s deputy leader. The president shared
them without further comment, but his perceived support was received warmly by
Fransen, who posted a video of herself celebrating his retweets shortly after.
The group has
employed novel tactics to drum up support on social media, frequently enjoying
viral success with simple memes designed to encourage people to like or follow
their page through appeals to patriotism and nationalism.
A report released
earlier this month by the anti-fascist organisation Hope Not Hate, suggested
the far-right organisation had the “second most liked Facebook page in the
politics and society category in the UK – after the royal family”.
The report said
Britain First had nearly twice as many as Facebook likes as Labour, which it
said was the mainstream party with the most likes. Despite that, in 2014, when
Fransen stood for parliament in a by-election, she lost her deposit, receiving
just 56 votes.
“More than any other
group, Britain First overstepped the mark, even going as far as to show Isis-style
beheadings,” Matthew Collins, the head of research at the charity Hope Not
Hate, told the Guardian: “The group became the real ‘Facebook fascists’ and
there may be reason to believe the group could even fold if Facebook stays
strong and follows up on the mirror and back-up sites Britain First has.
“With Paul Golding
and Jayda Fransen jailed, there are already significant problems behind the
scenes over access to the group’s social media, website and bank accounts. It
could very well be all the way downhill for them from here.”
The mayor of London,
Sadiq Khan, said: “Britain First is a vile and hate-fueled group whose sole
purpose is to sow division. Their sick intentions to incite hatred within our
society via social media are reprehensible, and Facebook’s decision to remove
their content is welcome.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/14/facebook-bans-britain-first-and-its-leaders
Fighting for people
over profits…The World wide activists organisation ‘Sum of Us; are calling for
further action by Face-book to prevent money being transferred to
racist-fascist and hate organisations. Read the following it is very revealing:
I don’t think we have
any organisations like the Britain First racist-fascist party but we have the
possibility of so-called anti-separatist operating and teaching a bunch of lies
to restrict our democratic right to follow our agreed procedures that ensure
political representation of our indigenous [Maori] and Settler population [The
rest of us]. It’s taken us a hundred years to develop it and it’s still a work
in progress. Now a group of English First type followers have grown up out of
failed National Party types and those who would rewrite NZ history.
People like Don Brash
failed leader of firstly National and then the Act Party and failed National candidate
David Round, failed anti MMP funder Peter Shirtcliffe. I don’t believe that
this newly developed pressure group in any way would condone or support the
behaviour of the Britain First crowd that absolutely condones violence. They are far too
rich to need to get their hands dirty via criminal behaviour. No they simply
use their wealth to recreate history in a manner that maintains their overall
belief of white supremacy. Are they racist? Are they bigoted?
These are of course just a few of the leading
lights and I will leave you to seek out information regarding each one of them
if you feel so inclined. You can go on line and read for yourself and make your
own mind up.
Here is a group of
mainly elderly white males who feel that here in New Zealand there are no
indigenous people, why because there are no full blooded Maori left, therefor
Maori don’t exist…but that is so obviously stupid.
Here in NZ we’ve
developed over many years’ two electoral rolls, one is called the Maori Roll
and the second is called the General Roll. You can be on one or the other BUT
NOT BOTH. If you opt for the Maori roll because you have Maori links you cannot
appear on the general roll at the same time. This means that each New Zealander only gets one
electorate vote. Since the introduction of MMP all voters can vote for the
party of their choice, this decides the number of list seat available to each
party.
Conveniently
organisations such as the Don Brash led ‘Hobson’s Pledge’ crowd ignore the
electoral law by pretending that Maori get special privileges, which they
don’t. This very same group use an embedded
racist law in our local government act to keep Maori from participating in the
local government arena. http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2018/03/time-to-repeal-this-discriminatory-law.html
To show you how they
twist the truth I refer you a blog I wrote sometime back. You’ll see how they
used false images to pretend that they have followers from various ethnic
backgrounds. They don’t… they have hired expensive overseas owned public
relations companies that pump out bullsh** read this…5000 people read the blog
in 2016.
Since they preach one
thing but practice another, for example they preach we are all one people! But
at the same time ignore the treaty that saw the birth of our nation.
Just as in many other countries
money here in NZ rules the roost, money buys media time, money buys news. Money
plus lies led directly to the War in Iraq, remember their weapons of mass destruction
line, which was later proven to be a complete fabrication and now a decade or
two later and after the deaths and displacement of millions of innocent lives
we learn that it was simply done to control the oil supply to the West.
We need to stop creating
falsehoods to justify despicable behaviour such as that shown by groups like
the KKK or Britain First. Good heavens even the National Party have given up
the dream of removing the Maori Electoral seats; we as a nation have embraced
the MMP system of Government. We are light years ahead of the US and Russia in
the manner in which we elect our representatives. Britain expels Russians so
the US follows them, even after Donald Trump says how much he admires their
leader, Trump of course admires dictators who murder their populations and
Britain helps to supply the arms for them to carry out this mass murder
programme of death by drones.
We should as New Zealanders be
proud of our peaceful political development as we move toward a non-violent
future, and a national and local governance system based on power sharing via
the ballot box.
Peter J Wheeler
