The deputy leader of the British National Party has denied allegations of racism after branding the Archbishop of York an “ambitious African” and accusing him of being “derogatory, condescending and arrogant”.
Simon Darby said comments made to a local newspaper and on his online blog in which he made “spear-thrower” references to people from Uganda – Dr John Sentamu’s country of birth – were not a bigoted blast. But the senior figure in the far-right organisation has been condemned as “disgusting “ and “poisonous” by anti-fascism campaigners after alleging the Archbishop – a vociferous critic of the BNP – was trying to rob English people of their identity.
In a blog entry dated April 23, Mr Darby – second-in-command to BNP chairman Nick Griffin – wrote: “As if the responsibilities of being the Archbishop of York were not enough, the ambitious African has apparently used his power and influence to kindly bestow upon the world the right to be English.”
He also labelled Dr Sentamu – who recently supported making St George’s Day a public holiday to promote English unity – “a professional anti-British zealot” and said: “If I went to a Ugandan village and said the people there were genetic mongrels and that they had no right to their Ugandan identity, I would be picking out spears for days.”
But defending his comments, Mr Darby said: “I stand by my quotes – I don’t see how that is offensive or racist. It can be twisted or distorted to look that way, but what I am saying is factual. There are lots of indigenous people there (in Uganda) and in the bush they have spears – that is their lifestyle.
“I am not implying that all Ugandan people use spears at all. I was speaking specifically about the indigenous people. The spear is an integral part of their culture and lifestyle. I wouldn’t dream of denying Ugandan tribespeople their identity, but the contrast is that that is what he (Dr Sentamu) is doing. If I went there and preached to those indigenous people in the same way that Sentamu does to us, then I’d be attacked.
“If I was derogatory, condescending and arrogant – because that’s what John Sentamu is – I would be attacked. And rightly so.”
Last month, the Archbishop slammed the BNP for trying to define “Englishness” and said its suggestions that a “bloodless genocide” was taking place in the UK were “beyond belief”, having previously pleaded with people not to vote for the party at the 2007 local elections. His office was unavailable for comment on Mr Darby’s views.
A spokesman for anti-fascism campaign group Searchlight said: “These disgusting threats and thinly-veiled racism from its senior leadership exposes the real face of the BNP. Even somebody as internationally respected as Dr Sentamu is not immune from their poisonous slurs.”
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I don't know whether Archbishop John Sentamu or one of his advisors reads this blog, but I hope he exposes the hypocrisy of the many BNP neo-nazis who express their supposed Britishness and pro-Christian values through belief in hate-driven, anti-Christian pagan Norse gods such as Odin.
Lee Barnes, the fascist party's self-styled "legal beagle" recently on his poisonous blog described Christianity as being wrong, and expressed devotion to Odin.
It sounds bizzare, but it's true. The BNP's racism has weird pagan roots based around a cult of Norse gods.
I hope the Archbishop can condemn the Odinists in the BNP as being spiritually sick and evil, if not, Satanic!
Perhaps it's worth reprinting the following archived article, Ketlan/Denise, the one in which the BNP's leading member Lee Barnes denigrated Christianity, and expressed his love for Odin!
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2008/08/bnp-claim-christianity-is-racist-anti.html
August 04, 2008
BNP claim Christianity is a racist anti-White religion
Posted by 'Save our Lee Barnes' campaign
BNP legal director Lee Barnes claims that Christianity is a non-White religion forced upon Britain and Europe in order to destroy the White race!
This article was submitted by one of our readers, Hexapla. We welcome any contributions from our supporters (as long as those contributions conform to the law and are in reasonably good taste). Please send your articles to us via email.
Christianity is dead!
Prima facie it seems that the BNP stands up for Christianity as an indelible aspect of British identity. But, nothing could be further from the truth. Writing on the BNP website, BNP candidate and Uruguayan immigrant Carlos Cortiglia (we exposed him as admitting to have fought against Britain during the Falklands war. See link) claims that:
“I welcome this wake up call of the Church of England and I hope that from now on the British National Party will be welcomed in every husting organized by the Church of England. We [the BNP] have been saying all along that Christianity is being eroded and we are fighting to keep Christian values alive and well in Britain”
But, several days ago, BNP legal director Lee Barnes published yet another rambling article attacking Christianity as responsible for the decline of the White race and Britain. In that article, Odin, Yggdrasil and the death of Christianity and Liberalism, BNP Lee Barnes condemns Christianity as a non-White religion responsible for all the ills of the White race:
“Christianity is a semitic religion, it is creature of the deserts of the Middle East not the forests of the Northern Europe and its symbol the cross is an instrument of torture not of living redemption.”
“the organic religion of the West was replaced with the theological dogma of the East. European Man at that moment became seperated from his roots, and the insane fratricidal wars that have destroyed the West in the name of the various christian cults began.”
“christianity could only be implanted in the West via force, the forces of chaos at war in the world are the way that the archaic spirituality of the West will return.”
“Christianity took power through violence in the West, and as it rotted away its shadow image of Liberalism unleashed through its toleration and promotion of evils such as Islamic extremism, crime, degeneracy and filth the same violence that once empowered christianity.”
“The religion of christianity that preached of peace conquered with war, blood and death. It had turned the natural, organic religions of Europe based on the symbolism of the tree, a living and growing symbol of perpetual life with the dead symbol of the cross - a symbol of horror, violence, torture, obedience and the brutality of Rome and the betrayal of the Jewish Pharisees.The symbolism of the cutting down of the tree of life is a symbol found throughout Europe wherever christianity killed its way to power.”
“Christianity despises the planet - and this is why we are facing the ecologicl crisis of today.”
One of Lee Barnes’ conclusions is that “Christianity is dead”. Can we really believe the BNP when it says that is ’fighting to keep Christian values alive and well in Britain’?
Only through violence can the West be revived pronounces Lee Barnes
In a recent article we noted that BNP legal director Lee Barnes previously condemned Britain as a “sick society” that must be destroyed by the god Odin to make way for a BNP order (see link). It is clear that Lee Barnes has not changed his views. Lee Barnes carries on his fascist-Odinist interpretation when he claims that:
“Today the violence we see in our society is the prelude to a rebirth of the West, a rebith based on ancestral cultures, values and an organic religion of nature.
The violence in our society is the unleashing of the chthonic forces of nature as represented by Nidhoggr, who exists beneath the world tree Yggdrasil. This is the dark side of mans unconscious released on the earth with no moral or social constraints, for with the fall of christianity and liberalism no moral order exists to control European Man.”
Lee Barnes carries on his previous themes advocating the replacement of Christianity with a fictitious pagan religion, Odinism, as the means to revive the White race:
“Odinism on the other hand offers European Man a way to spiritual wholeness in LIFE”.
“In Odinism the God Odin is crucified like Christ to a tree. Unlike Christ whose redemption is found only after his death, Odin SURVIVES his torment on the tree and gains the wisdom of the Runes and thereby unlocks the secrets of the universe ...The roots represent our descent from the Gods and our connection to the Earth, the trunk represents our shared European racial heritage, the main branches of the tree our nations and tribes ...
The death age of christianity and liberalism has led to the age that William Blake regarded as Ulro - the lowest stage of human life possible where mans innate value has been replaced by his utility value. Just as Christianity grafted itself upon the hewn oaks of our heathen past, the new religion that is starting to sprout upon the stumps left behind by christianity and its pimp sister liberalism is a return to an organic and natural religion.”
Conclusion
In light of racist and sectarian nonsense we read above, can anyone with an adult, rational and sane mind ever contemplate voting for the BNP? If people think that Lee Barnes’ anti-Christian madness is a one off occurrence, then they are sadly mistaken. Anti-Christianity is hardwired into the BNP’s ideology. We will be publishing further articles that demonstrate the BNP’s sheer ambiguity towards Christianity. But, we leave the reader with the following statement from the BNP’s founder and leader, John Tyndall in his September 2003 article, Some Definitions: A sample from the 'Politically Aware Vocabulary' series:
“What passes for Christianity in this country today can only be described as superstitious sociology; a bland doctrine of welfare-mongering with guilt, humility and self-abasement as its cardinal principles. We can only have contempt for a Church which, in the name of Christianity, facilitates the Islamic occupation of whole neighbourhoods, condones homosexuality, promotes multi-racialism and will forgive everything.
Our race is our religion, and the nation is our church”.
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If the truth about BNP members worshipping Odin, and hating Christianity came out, this would most surely kill off the BNP's chances of winning in the European elections.
Who, except the mentally ill, would vote for a party which worshipped and prayed to Norse gods?
Think about it!
All those bnp members and followers online with the Norse and Viking imagery, talking about going to Valhalla when they die, are the BNP's achiles heel.
I've never seen any articles in the tabloids about the BNP's Odin worship, nor has Searchlight to my knowledge bothered to mention it, and yet, if their racist, perverse and outlandish religious beliefs were publicised to potential BNP voters, this most surely would spell the end of the BNP.
If there's any newspaper editors reading this, get scribbling about the large number of anti-British Odinists in the British National Party!
I strongly suggest Simon Darby himself is a paid-up member of the Odinist Religious Cult.
One of the regular contributors to his blog and that of the poisonous Griffinite mouthpiece Green Arrow blog plainand simple calls himself "Odin".
http://simondarby.blogspot.com/2008/07/another-economic-barometer.html
Red Squirrel, BNP nutzi, publicity creep and friend of Green Arrow, is a confirmed Odinist. I unbelievably found this post online at her sick Islamphobic blog, a prayer to Odin>
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http://acornsoftruth.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post.html
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Here's the official post that Red Squirrel posted on her blog:
"Thursday, 10 April 2008
My Ancestral Path!
The Skald The Völva and the Berserker
"Your hair is grey," a youngster bold said to one unmet before,
"The harp betrays you as a Skald, but though you’re versed in lore:
What gain is yours beside the hearth? No land you hold; your bread
is earned each day, as witty words win rings – or cost your head."
"Odin touched me, God of Poets, that verse should be my life,
more dear to me than riches' loads, as I for beauty strive.
My lips flow with Odhroerir's flood, for war-time and for Thing;
to fight I need not spill my blood, to serve my folk I sing.
"And you, fair Seeress ", spoke again the young man, "What of you?
Such strange-garbed woman will not fain a husband ever woo.
When you in swooning madness reel and talk to shades from Hel,
distrust is always at your heel, though you help all those who ail.
"Odin touched me God of sight, that I should walk alone
I wander hidden ways at night, and talk to tree and stone
Hroptr’s ecstasy is more sweet than man’s in Middle-Earth,
Seeking wisdom is more meet than foolish peoples mirth
"You Warrior, why you rage and roam I'll never understand.
Whilst others seek a peaceful home, you fight on foreign land.
What drives you to the dance of spears until you die or win?
Both friends and foes will shun and fear him who wears
Berserker skin.
"Odin touched me, God of War that I may never rest.
His battle-rapture makes me roar, his fury fills my breast.
Into the fray I lead my men and leave a bloody wake,
and when the frenzy takes me, then I fight for fightings sake.
Then all went on their different ways; the young man stood in
thought.
Years later he heard, in a lay, what fate to them had brought:
The Warrior was remembered by all, he died at the height of his
fame.
The Seeress saw him on his way to Valhall
And the Skald, made immortal his name.
Posted by Red Squirrel at 12:10, Thursday, 10 April 2008.
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It's time for the Church to publically condemn Odinism as being a cult of evil!
And for the likes of the News Of The World and the sun to expose the BNP for its weird beliefs!
If Joe Public knew the BNP were a cult of Anti-Christian Odinists, the casual racists of the lower middle classes would no-longer vote for them.
It's time to publically expose the BNP as being a cult of Odinists.
Many people won't vote for racists, some people won't vote for anti-democratic Griffinite stooges, but nearly everyone would not vote for a party which offers up prayers and devotions to non-existant Norse Gods.
Britain's people tend not to warm to such mentally ill fanatics.
Most damning of all, one of the most insulting and racist pro-(Nick Griffin) BNP blogs that pokes hate at the Archbishop, and slags off Christainity calls itself "Odin's Raven".
You really couldn't make it up. The Odinists have taken over the BNP, turning it into a looney pagan religious cult.
http://allfathersknowledge.blogspot.com/
The weird "poem" at the top of the Odin's Raven blog talks of Odin's wolves devouring everything that stands in its way.
These are the words of confirmed
BNP madmen. If only the public knew what nonsense the BNP believed in!
The Red Squirrel also has one of her most prominent links to "The Odinist Library", a site which claims its not racist, but contains many anti-Semitic, racist and totally unhinged pagan scriptures, including those Adolf Hitler revered.
It's time Britain finally woke up to what the BNP really are, an anti-Christian, anti-British Odinist cult.
If you click on a banner on BNP organiser Red Squirrel's blogspot, you automatically say a prayer to Odin: -
"HAIL ODIN! CLICK ON THE PIC",
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Another excellent archived Odin story about the BNP found only at Lancaster Unity: -
August 04, 2008
BNP claim Christianity is a racist anti-White religion
Posted by 'Save our Lee Barnes' campaign 10 Comment (s)
BNP legal director Lee Barnes claims that Christianity is a non-White religion forced upon Britain and Europe in order to destroy the White race!
This article was submitted by one of our readers, Hexapla. We welcome any contributions from our supporters (as long as those contributions conform to the law and are in reasonably good taste). Please send your articles to us via email.
Christianity is dead!
Prima facie it seems that the BNP stands up for Christianity as an indelible aspect of British identity. But, nothing could be further from the truth. Writing on the BNP website, BNP candidate and Uruguayan immigrant Carlos Cortiglia (we exposed him as admitting to have fought against Britain during the Falklands war. See link) claims that:
“I welcome this wake up call of the Church of England and I hope that from now on the British National Party will be welcomed in every husting organized by the Church of England. We [the BNP] have been saying all along that Christianity is being eroded and we are fighting to keep Christian values alive and well in Britain”
But, several days ago, BNP legal director Lee Barnes published yet another rambling article attacking Christianity as responsible for the decline of the White race and Britain. In that article, Odin, Yggdrasil and the death of Christianity and Liberalism, BNP Lee Barnes condemns Christianity as a non-White religion responsible for all the ills of the White race:
“Christianity is a semitic religion, it is creature of the deserts of the Middle East not the forests of the Northern Europe and its symbol the cross is an instrument of torture not of living redemption.”
“the organic religion of the West was replaced with the theological dogma of the East. European Man at that moment became seperated from his roots, and the insane fratricidal wars that have destroyed the West in the name of the various christian cults began.”
“christianity could only be implanted in the West via force, the forces of chaos at war in the world are the way that the archaic spirituality of the West will return.”
“Christianity took power through violence in the West, and as it rotted away its shadow image of Liberalism unleashed through its toleration and promotion of evils such as Islamic extremism, crime, degeneracy and filth the same violence that once empowered christianity.”
“The religion of christianity that preached of peace conquered with war, blood and death. It had turned the natural, organic religions of Europe based on the symbolism of the tree, a living and growing symbol of perpetual life with the dead symbol of the cross - a symbol of horror, violence, torture, obedience and the brutality of Rome and the betrayal of the Jewish Pharisees.The symbolism of the cutting down of the tree of life is a symbol found throughout Europe wherever christianity killed its way to power.”
“Christianity despises the planet - and this is why we are facing the ecologicl crisis of today.”
One of Lee Barnes’ conclusions is that “Christianity is dead”. Can we really believe the BNP when it says that is ’fighting to keep Christian values alive and well in Britain’?
Only through violence can the West be revived pronounces Lee Barnes
In a recent article we noted that BNP legal director Lee Barnes previously condemned Britain as a “sick society” that must be destroyed by the god Odin to make way for a BNP order (see link). It is clear that Lee Barnes has not changed his views. Lee Barnes carries on his fascist-Odinist interpretation when he claims that:
“Today the violence we see in our society is the prelude to a rebirth of the West, a rebith based on ancestral cultures, values and an organic religion of nature.
The violence in our society is the unleashing of the chthonic forces of nature as represented by Nidhoggr, who exists beneath the world tree Yggdrasil. This is the dark side of mans unconscious released on the earth with no moral or social constraints, for with the fall of christianity and liberalism no moral order exists to control European Man.”
Lee Barnes carries on his previous themes advocating the replacement of Christianity with a fictitious pagan religion, Odinism, as the means to revive the White race:
“Odinism on the other hand offers European Man a way to spiritual wholeness in LIFE”.
“In Odinism the God Odin is crucified like Christ to a tree. Unlike Christ whose redemption is found only after his death, Odin SURVIVES his torment on the tree and gains the wisdom of the Runes and thereby unlocks the secrets of the universe ...The roots represent our descent from the Gods and our connection to the Earth, the trunk represents our shared European racial heritage, the main branches of the tree our nations and tribes ...
The death age of christianity and liberalism has led to the age that William Blake regarded as Ulro - the lowest stage of human life possible where mans innate value has been replaced by his utility value. Just as Christianity grafted itself upon the hewn oaks of our heathen past, the new religion that is starting to sprout upon the stumps left behind by christianity and its pimp sister liberalism is a return to an organic and natural religion.”
Conclusion
In light of racist and sectarian nonsense we read above, can anyone with an adult, rational and sane mind ever contemplate voting for the BNP? If people think that Lee Barnes’ anti-Christian madness is a one off occurrence, then they are sadly mistaken. Anti-Christianity is hardwired into the BNP’s ideology. We will be publishing further articles that demonstrate the BNP’s sheer ambiguity towards Christianity. But, we leave the reader with the following statement from the BNP’s founder and leader, John Tyndall in his September 2003 article, Some Definitions: A sample from the 'Politically Aware Vocabulary' series:
“What passes for Christianity in this country today can only be described as superstitious sociology; a bland doctrine of welfare-mongering with guilt, humility and self-abasement as its cardinal principles. We can only have contempt for a Church which, in the name of Christianity, facilitates the Islamic occupation of whole neighbourhoods, condones homosexuality, promotes multi-racialism and will forgive everything.
Our race is our religion, and the nation is our church”.
¡No Pasarán!
Labels: anti-Christian, BNP, Carlos Cortiglia, Christianity, John Tyndall, Lee Barnes, Odin, sick society, White race, Yggdrasil
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July 30, 2008
BNP legal director Lee Barnes calls Britain a “sick society” that must be destroyed by the god Odin to make way for a BNP order
Posted by 'Save our Lee Barnes' campaign 17 Comment (s)
By Hexapla.
He also claims that the 7/7 bombings were committed by the British government, that actor Heath Ledger died because he unleashed the powers of Odin and launches a racist tirade against Barack Obama.
BNP legal director Lee Barnes wants Odin to destroy the UK!
A few days ago BNP legal director Lee Barnes published his fascist-Odinist interpretation of the newly released Batman movie, The Dark Knight, entitled 'Batman and the Odinic Archetype'. Now, Odinism is a fictitious religion expounded by many fascists, such as Lee Barnes, as the spiritual means to revive the White race, corrupted and weakened by Christianity. In that article, Lee Barnes reads Heath Ledger’s character, the Joker, as the prime embodiment of the god Odin. But, Lee Barnes’ interpretation takes on a starkly disturbing twist when he argues:
“Just like Odin the Joker is an agent of chaos, a force unleashed to destroy a sick society and to make way for a new order”
It is undoubtedly clear that BNP legal director Lee Barnes sees and condemns British society as ‘sick’ which needs to be destroyed by the force of ‘Odin’ to make way for a new BNP-imposed order.
Lee Barnes claims Heath Ledger died by unleashing the powers of Odin!
But, Lee Barnes plunges to even greater depths of fascist intellectual depravity when he asserts that Heath Ledger (who died shortly after the filming of The Dark Knight) died because by playing the Joker character, he took on the forces of ‘Odin’ and as such couldn’t control those powers:
“Heath Ledger by unlocking this arhcetype unleashed a darkness within himself he was unable to control.
In order to control the archetype he needed to understand the 'Sun' side of the archetype, that of the Odinic veneration of nature and the love for folk, family, the forests and the fields. The shadow of Odin is just one aspect of his divine nature, for the other aspect is personified by the wandervogel movement of the early 1930's and the Hippie movement of the 1960's established by the scions of the German wandervogel movement in California after the war.
Heath needed to purge himself of the shadow of the Joker, but he did not know how to do that.
Heath never knew he was channeling an archetype, and therefore he was swept away by it.
He needed to get into the countryside, camping and just commune with nature.”
Lee Barnes claims the 7/7 bombings were an 'inside job'
Thumbing his yellowing dictionary of wild conspiracy theories (again), Lee Barnes accuses the British government of carrying out the 7/7 bombings in another recent article, ‘The Shadow Government attacks its own Citizens’:
“7/7, like 911, was an inside job - that the government used its assets in islamist terrorist groups to work with islamist terrorists to assist in the creation and planting of bombs ?”
Apart from insulting the memories of the 7/7 victims, BNP legal supremo Lee Barnes then accuses the US, Saudi Arabia and Israeli governments of setting up terrorist groups to attack Britain in order to, as he puts it, force British “citizenry into surrendering their liberty for security”!
But, then again Lee Barnes will find fellow fascist travellers who believe that 7/7 and 9/11 were, implausibly, ‘inside jobs’. Ex-BNP councillor and rabid anti-Jew hater Simon Smith writes in his latest article, 'The Enigmatic Larry O'Hara':
"I regard acceptance of the September 11th attacks as an "inside job" as the touchstone of an intelligent person's integrity in politics".
Similarly, Dissent Congress, a pro-BNP outfit, argued on the right-wing British Democracy Forum site under the thread 'The only way the BNP can attract support':
"The BNP needed 9/11 to act as a trigger by blaming it on Muslims when it was an inside job.
If 9/11 never happened and the bitter feeling towards Muslims never emerged then the EDs would probably be a bigger party and get better election results."
Lee Barnes' racist rant against US presidential candidate Barack Obama
It seems that BNP legal director Lee Barnes is angry at a Black man for being, well, Black! Here are extracts from Lee Barnes racist article, ‘The BBC, Hurricane Katrina and the Obama Effect’, in which he attacks Barack Obama over his successful Berlin rally:
“The pictures of the 100,000 german lemmings lining up to listen to a speech of Barack Obama is evidence of the utter, horrifying power of the media to influence and manipulate the minds of the public, both in Europe and America.
This Obama hysteria in the US, Europe and germany is a sign of a deep sickness in all our democracies, and also a deep sickness in the soul of the german people ...
The endless incultation of poisonous war guilt in the minds of young people in germany has resulted in the creation of a pathological germany, a germany sick, twisted and at war within itself.
The german people have a death wish. They abort their children and their future in the name of excorcising the ghost of the past ....
His [Barack Obama] black skin allows the media to trigger the 'slave guilt reflex' inculcated in white children (inserted into their minds during school) whilst his part white racial heritage means he can be sold to the public as part of the 'inclusiveness' agenda and the new advertising niche that has taken hold in the mind of the media, that of the mixed race ....
The fact that the BBC showed live the speech of Obama in Berlin was an example of the way the media has such power to influence the British public ...
THIS WAS PURE MANIPULATION - the intent was to violate the perceptions of the British public and to bolster the Obama reflex ....
The fawning, sickening, lickspittle liberal scumbag of the BBC, Matt Frei, as usual was introducing Obama ...”
In conclusion, we ask this: is this the best the BNP has to offer? The simple answer – yes.
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Postscript: The following is Lee Barnes' response to the article (we need not add any commentary as you couldn't make this up):
Hi To The Puppets
30 July 2008
To be attacked for my Odinic Archetype article first on Stormfront and then on Lancaster Unity is proof that the right targets are right in my sights.
When both the Zionists of LU and the Hollywood Nazis of SF, the puppetmasters and their puppets, are attacking you then this is complete validation of your position
Only when both the Puppetmasters and the Puppets of the Zionist-Nazi Nexus are attacking you, can you say you are near the truth.
Labels: 7/7, Barack Obama, BNP, Dissent Congress, Heath Ledger, Lee Barnes, Odin, racist rant, sick society, Simon Smith
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Hopefully Odin will help lose the European elections for the BNP.
Lee Barnes indeed heads the BNP's Official Odinist Circle, where young newbies as they are called are indoctrinated by LLB to the myrthological beliefs of Odin.
If you don't believe me, check oujt this link from the official BNP website: -
(Bullshit Warning: - contains white supremacist bulllshit about the origins of the white race )
bnp.org.uk/members/leejohnbarnes
No other political party in Britain would dare set up a weird religious cult, but obviously greedy Nick Griffin thinks it's a marvellous moneyspinning idea!
An interesting piece on Odinism and the Church of Odin, which is run as a moneymaking scheme from a jailed American nazi, from the Southern Poverty Law Centre.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/page/2/?s=supremacist
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White Supremacist Running Odinist Network From Maximum-Security Prison
Posted in Racist Neo-Paganism by Larry Keller on March 20, 2009
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Casper Crowell is a busy man. He’s the spiritual leader of a religious non-profit organization, the Holy Nation of Odin, Inc. Crowell designs some of its greeting cards, which he sells along with a host of other merchandise on his group’s website. He also recruits followers through several MySpace pages, a blog and his own YouTube channel. He’s been interviewed for a National Geographic Channel documentary. And in 2007 he endorsed the presidential candidacy of Republican Ron Paul.
Crowell, 46, has done all of this and more while serving a life sentence for murder in a California maximum-security prison that also is home to the likes of Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan. He proclaims himself “the honorable allsherjargothi in the Holy Nation of Odin, Inc.” That’s from Old Norse meaning “the People’s (Folk’s) Priest/servant,” Crowell says. Membership is $40 a year, unless like Crowell, you’re incarcerated.
Racist versions of Odinism and its Icelandic version, Asatru, have become increasingly popular theologies among imprisoned racists and others on the radical right in recent years. Odinism features Norse gods such as Odin, the warlike father of all gods and men. The racist version advocates the ultimate triumph of a pure, white race.
So does Crowell, who calls himself “Dr. Casper Odinson Crowell” and sports a large swastika tattoo on his chest. He is a former leader in the violent and racist Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. He left that organization because it wasn’t pure enough for him.
After quitting the Aryan Brotherhood, Crowell busied himself with the Odinism organization, which lists his wife, Linda, as executive administrative director. Linda Crowell works for the Social Security Administration in Fresno.
Crowell also began another organization with a website called Vinland Folk Resistance that extols the virtues of Odinism and racism. On that website, he urged fellow white nationalists to resolve their differences and work toward one goal: “WHITE PRIDE!” His wife contributed an essay, “On Aryan Beauty.”
On the Vinland website, Crowell praised the “late and beloved Folk Patriot and Odinist, David Lane” and urged visitors to “fight for the mission of the 14 words.” Lane was the getaway driver when fellow members of the domestic terrorist group The Order murdered Alan Berg, a Denver radio show host, in 1984. He died in prison in May 2007 while serving a 190-year sentence for his role in the slaying. It was Lane who coined the “14 words” held dear by many white nationalists: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.”
Crowell’s Odinism website shows names and photographs of other Holy Nation of Odin officials. Several appear to be prison inmates, like Crowell. One of them is Richard Kemp, a “recognized gothi” or priest. He appears to be the same Richard Kemp who was the youngest member of The Order, the neo-Nazi domestic terrorist group that in the early 1980s robbed armored cars and assassinated Denver Jewish talk show host Alan Berg, among other crimes. Kemp, 46, has served 24 years of a 60-year federal prison sentence imposed after he was convicted of armed robbery, conspiracy and racketeering. He’s scheduled to be released in January 2010.
Kemp’s criminal history isn’t mentioned on the website, and neither is Crowell’s. Instead, Odinism, the holy nation’s website informs you, is an ancient religion practiced in northern Europe before the advent of Christianity. “Self-realization and empowerment are at the heart of modern Odinism” which the website says consists of ancient and indigenous beliefs “comparable … to Native American-Indian spirituality.”
To help Odinists in their worship, the Holy Nation of Odin website offers lots of merchandise for sale. A Viking sword costs $350; a Viking tunic a mere $45. Viking drinking horns range from $25 to $85.
According to the Crowells’ MySpace page, “Dr. C” is “working on a book of his thoughts, articles and prose” intended to raise money for their two organizations. But for all his entrepreneurial activities, Crowell’s confinement places limitations on just how fast he can proceed. No publication date for his tome, therefore, is mentioned.
“Everything takes time … behind the wall,” his wife explained.
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Maybe Odinism, as well as being a weird neo-nazi white supremacist religious cult, will help revive the financial fortunes of Nick Griffin.
I wander how many rank and file BNP members themselevs know that the BNP officially endorses hardcore belief in make-believe norse gods?
If they understood what the BNP party is about, would most of the sheeple resign overnight?
I am pretty sure Denis will put me right if I am wrong cos she is the history buff.
But, if my school day memories serve me right, the Vikings, Danes etc who were worshippers and ardent followers of Odin and the pagan Norse gods.
But, when Christianity was introduced to their lands they were the first and the strongest in changing their faith and spreading the word of Christ.
So i do wonder why the BNP are now turning into such ardent Anti Christians?????
or has my memory failed me and Im having a senior moment?
tulip
Hopefully the BNP will be going to their collective Valhalla fairly soon.
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