The danger is that we will become everything we hate. Once a friend, incensed by the BNP, said to me that, “All fanatics should be taken out and shot”. He spoke without thinking. The danger of the BNP is not that they will gain power, they won’t, but that our reaction to them will be so severe that they will gain unspoken support and we will no longer be the good guy.

The danger is that we will become everything we hate. Once a friend, incensed by the BNP, said to me that, “All fanatics should be taken out and shot”. He spoke without thinking. The danger of the BNP is not that they will gain power, they won’t, but that our reaction to them will be so severe that they will gain unspoken support and we will no longer be the good guy.

i found this article and the ensuing debate very interesting, quite similar to other discussions i have had with you previously…

just some points i thought may help..

the bnp party scores every time they get any publicity. it doesnt matter whether they get good press or bad. every time anyone prints, posts, airs or discusses anything, you raise its public profile, so in essence, even with this post, you are helping to support the bnp… sorry.

( by the way, they actually came to my door campaining… was the funnyest thing ever, there were 2 of them, a very severe, yet modern looking 20 something woman, who actually held very astute postions on morality and economics and is clearly the new ” face ” of the modern party…. she was in fact very convining… it was how ever spoiled by her handler, a fifty something guy, in a cheap suit, who suffered from bnp tourettes. every time the lady made a point, he chimed in with a lovely bark, some thing along the lines of ” send em back where they came from” and i swear once, a muffled ” kill them all..” the fun parts was listening to all this while my normally placid dog attempted to chew through the wall to savage them…

i found this article and the ensuing debate very interesting, quite similar to other discussions i have had with you previously…

just some points i thought may help..

the bnp party scores every time they get any publicity. it doesnt matter whether they get good press or bad. every time anyone prints, posts, airs or discusses anything, you raise its public profile, so in essence, even with this post, you are helping to support the bnp… sorry.

( by the way, they actually came to my door campaining… was the funnyest thing ever, there were 2 of them, a very severe, yet modern looking 20 something woman, who actually held very astute postions on morality and economics and is clearly the new ” face ” of the modern party…. she was in fact very convining… it was how ever spoiled by her handler, a fifty something guy, in a cheap suit, who suffered from bnp tourettes. every time the lady made a point, he chimed in with a lovely bark, some thing along the lines of ” send em back where they came from” and i swear once, a muffled ” kill them all..” the fun parts was listening to all this while my normally placid dog attempted to chew through the wall to savage them…

As for “economics as politics”, I took the idea out because it needs explanation to some and was confusing the issue, it is actually a well known idea in academic circles and my expression of it merely required more than the space allowed.

I agree that “post human” is misnamed utopian wish fulfilment. However, I also get the point that it is far enough from us now that a new name would be necessary.

As for “economics as politics”, I took the idea out because it needs explanation to some and was confusing the issue, it is actually a well known idea in academic circles and my expression of it merely required more than the space allowed.

I agree that “post human” is misnamed utopian wish fulfilment. However, I also get the point that it is far enough from us now that a new name would be necessary.