National Action: The Truth will shock you

NATIONAL ACTION: THE TRUTH WILL SHOCK YOU

In the early days, Jack Renshaw was like any other guy of his age. He had a healthy interest in politics and he had a career to show for it. He like many others joined the so called Far Right because he believed in the Nationalist spirit. He like many others was feeling increasingly angry against the so called political establishment that he and others saw as giving preference to outsiders in spite of very pressing needs of Britons that were not being met. What he heard from speakers like Richard Edmonds from National Front and others convinced him that he was on the right path. At the time, what was defined as British Nationalism was very much linked to Racial Politics and World World Two. There was nothing about violence but there were very well defined boundaries in terms of political activism, of the notion of us and the others. The preferred way was political and everything was about winning elections.

Jack Renshaw was made by Hope Not Hate, the UAF, the BBC and also by the Labour Party and its para-political branches. Everywhere the British National Party went, its supporters were called Nazi, Fascist and Racist to the point that instead of being offended by such labelling many got to the conclusion that whatever they did they would still be called Nazi, Fascist and Racist. Things got to a point when the stereotype created by those who were against the British National Party created a public image that attracted individuals that admired the Dritte Reich and its policies. 

British Security Services infiltrated the British National Party pretending to be genuine supporters and acted as agent provocateurs promoting loose talk. British Security agents went around inciting people to talk about the Dritte Reich, Adolf Hitler and making salutes while pretending to be British National Party Members. The Police had no interest in protecting the public. All they wanted was to compromise the British National Party for political reasons reinforcing existing stereotypes. 

British Security Services have for a very long time being involved in criminal activities and in this case it was about criminal activities with a political purpose. We tracked down British agents when they were not pretending to be political activists i.e. some of them were working at the Home Office in Croydon when the Croydon Branch of the British National Party was rising.

British agents had no limits. They identified vulnerable people - including those with health issues - and used them to spy on the British National Party and to create internal dissent. This combined with internal differences were the seeds of what happened years later despite big electoral successes.

The planned agenda was to bring down the British National Party and attacking individuals was a way to do it. If you were a British National Party member you were banned from certain jobs in the state sector. Much more than that, if you were a known member of the British National Party you would not be employed or you would lose your job also in the private sector. This continues to apply even when the British National Party is not even one per cent of what it used to be in terms of political success. This form of political discrimination that seriously undermined personal lives and family lives contributed to create the feeling of being hunted and pushed many over the top making them believe that this is was not just political. It became a fight for survival and in a fight for survival you kill or you are killed. It is an issue of Us or They.

Extremism has been promoted by political parties, para-political organisations like Hope Not Hate and the UAF, the mass media and the Security Services. People were becoming disenfranchised not just from politics but also from society as a whole that they saw as the enemy that had to be eliminated.

People like Jack Renshaw went from being healthy youngsters with political ambitions to being people frustrated and angry that no longer saw the point of trying to engage in the democratic process. The idea was then 'they hate us, they are ruining our lives, let's stand up and fight.'

Discrimination, persecution, harassment and bans will promote extremism. When people feel that they are being hunted, for a while they will withdraw and when they feel that there is nowhere to go they will turn around and kill.

We need open debate but not just debate. We need plural debate. We must not push people underground to the point that they no longer believe in democracy and fairness. When people become disenfranchised, they will be dangerous. If they are isolated from the rest of society, they will see society as the enemy.