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BNP candidate boasts of fighting Britain and about his pro-Nazi and slave-owning family
Daily Telegraph Part Deux
Many people have been outraged by The Daily Telegraph providing the BNP’s only London Assembly member, the Mein Kampf-reading Richard Barnbrook, his own blog in their My Telegraph section.
However, Richard Barnbrook isn’t the only BNP acolyte with his very own Daily Telegraph blog. Carlos Cortiglia, a BNP member who stood as a BNP London Assembly candidate in 2004, has had his own Daily Telegraph blog for roughly a year. Proudly boasting on his Daily Telegraph blog that “I am a BNP supporter”, Carlos Cortiglia’s blog sometimes reads as an online BNP propaganda sheet crowned with the seeming legitimacy of the Daily Telegraph masterhead. And, Carlos Coriglia’s writing activities don’t stop here. Quite recently, in an article for the London website of the BNP, Carlo Coriglia told us of his attendance at a meeting of the notorious anti-Jewish Croydon branch of the BNP.
Fighting against Britain, support for the Nazis during World War 2 and slave owning
In an interview with The Nation newspaper about Argentinean immigrants to England (though he was born in Uruguay) , Carlos Cortiglia admits to volunteering to fight for the Argentinean military dictatorship against Britain during the Falklands war. We provide Carlos Cortiglia’s original Spanish interview with the English translation:
Original from here.
“Soy argentine oriental, o dicho de otro modo, uruguayo de nacimiento, y me siento muy ligado emocionalmente a la Republica Argentina. En 1982 me ofreci como voluntario par ir a las Islas Malvinas”.
Translation:
"I am Argentine East, in other words, Uruguayan by birth, and I feel very emotionally linked to Argentina. In 1982 I volunteered to go to the Falkland Islands”.
So, here we have Carlos Cortiglia admitting in his own words that he fought against Britain. So, why is he in the UK as a BNP member, writer and past candidate? In 1982 Argentina was under the tight grip of a fascist-supporting military dictatorship. Desperate to shore up its nationalist credentials, the military junta invaded the British Falkland Islands, claiming them as Argentinean territory. 258 British soldiers and sailors lost their lives in the recapture of the Falkland Islands. Another 777 British soldiers and sailors were wounded, some of whom died of their injuries after the war. Yet the BNP fielded Carlos Cortiglia as a candidate for the London Assembly and to this very day permits him membership of the BNP. If it is true that Carlos Cortiglia fought against British forces, then there is the possibility that Carlos Cortiglia killed British soldiers and sailors. This aside, Carlos Cortiglia would have been involved in the illegal armed occupation of British sovereign territory.
Not only this, but Carlos Cortiglia tells us how his family in Uruguay supported the Nazis during World War 2 in their fight against Britain and that his family owned slaves! He further recounts how he met in the 1970s former Nazi officers, including SS commanders in Montevideo, Uruguay. This is one hell of a BNP member!
The mind of Carlos Cortiglia
And, we have some interesting snippets from the mind of Carlos Cortiglia as it pours out of his Daily Telegraph blog. He tells us that the attack on the Stephen Lawrence building (named after the Black teenager Stephen Lawrence, murdered in a racist attack by a pro-BNP gang) was a “prank”. Claiming to be a Catholic, he accuses the Church of England of being “a backwards organisation”. He also accuses British Hindus of “inbreeding”. Not only this, but incredibly Carlos Cortiglia argues for the racist re-colonialisation of Africa, arguing that “Africa would be much better off under European rule” (I guess this is why his family owned slaves!). He also seems to have a latent anti-American streak, peppering one of his postings with terms such as “American stupidity” and “American incompetence”. Further, many of his postings are obsessed with the British government and media being involved in some great anti-Russian conspiracy (interestingly, he questions the genetic relevance of Anglo-Saxon identity, which will no doubt get Carlos Cortiglia into a lot of trouble with his BNP mates). In another posting he complains that, given his name, people mistake him for an Italian or Spaniard, not recognising that he comes from a White Uruguayan/Argentinean background).
Join the campaign!
Anti-fascists have launched a campaign to get The Daily Telegraph to stop hosting Richard Barnbrook’s racist BNP blog. We urge that this campaign be expanded to removing Carlos Cortiglia’s BNP blog also hosted by The Daily Telegraph.
Some of us are trying to put pressure on The Daily Telegraph to reconsider. You can join that campaign by emailing your protest to telegraph@blj.co.uk, telegrapheditorial@telegraph.co.uk or the Letters page at dtletters@telegraph.co.uk joining the Facebook group and spreading the word about the Telegraph's irresponsible behaviour.
¡No Pasarán!
See also here and here.
Blimey Hexapla, you're prolific.
ReplyDeleteIt should also be noted that Carlos Cortiglia, like a lot of other BNP members, posts on the neo-nazi forum Stormfront. If one wasn't a fascist, then why post on such a hate forum??
ReplyDeleteAnother nazi has just opened a Daily Telegraph blog. This time it is Sid Williamson (calling himself ‘White Cliffs of Brighton’), formerly of the BNP, now with the ultra-insane BNP breakaway faction, the BPP. Here’s his Telegraph blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://my.telegraph.co.uk/white_cliffs_of_brighton/may_2008/me_and_what_i_am_.htm
On the blog, Williamson describes himself as follows:
I am a British White Nationalist, and believe that our nation is in a real mess, indeed I believe it is turning into a sewer. I have never harmed anyone
The last line is a bit odd: ‘I have never harmed anyone’. Strange. Is he afraid that members of the public might make the automatic connection between fascists and violence?
And, I’m not surprised to see that one of the first people to post a message of support on Williamson’s blog is none other than the BNP’s sole invader and occupier of the Falkland Islands, Carlos Cortiglia himself! Though I don’t think Cortiglia should be hanging out with the BNP’s sworn enemy, the BPP.
Carlos Cortiglia has another article on the London BNP site today – quite the up-and-coming London BNPer. I suppose they had to find someone to replace the discredited Nick Eriksen, whose blog was too abhorrent even for the BNP, and they don't have a lot of people who can string more than two words together.
ReplyDeleteSo much for griffinite bnp patriotism.
ReplyDeleteThey're fucking traitors!
Nick Griffin's BNP are scum
ReplyDeleteRupert Murdoch's times are just as bad, in so much as justifying Nick Griffin's supposed success at the polls: -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4023454.ece
The usual sickening pro-griffin letters follow the article, as Lee Barnes and friends put fascist fingers to keyboards.
Nick Griffin is a friend of the establishment for his anti-Muslim stance which is admired by American neo-cons.
So much for British Nationalism, folks!!!
All these south Africans, Argentinians and half Amenian-turks immigrants in high positions in the party how on earth can call themselves the BRITISH national party. They don't see ethnic minorities as British no matter how far back their roots go yet are willing to accept failed white supremacist exiles.
ReplyDeletePlease Note: Not long after we published the article, BNP candidate and ex-fascist stormtrooper Carlos Cortiglia responded to our exposé of him with an entry on his Daily Telegraph blog entitled 1982. In a truly fascist BNP response, Carlos Cortiglia warns us:
ReplyDelete“Be patient, boys. We are busy now, but the day will come when you will be brought to justice, will have a fair trial and will be clearly unmasked so that people can see who you really are”.
(http://my.telegraph.co.uk/carlos_cortiglia/may_2008/1982.htm)
Thanks for the warning Carlos Cortiglia - you just can’t help but expose yourself as the fascist and racist that you are. In that same post Carlos Cortiglia claims he was tricked into fighting Britain by the propaganda of General Galtieri, the Argentinean general who invaded the British Falkland Islands. Interestingly, Carlos Cortiglia doesn’t address the issue of whether or not he killed British soldiers or his family’s pro-Nazi support.
Congratulations goes to ‘Blueplanet’ who responded with the following post entitled Poor Carlos on Carlos Cortiglia’s propaganda blog:
“You were mislead in 1982 (Galtieri I ask you?), and you are being mislead in 2008. If Chavez was on the right, you'd probably fall for him as well. It is sounding increasingly like you are the kind of person who put Mussolini and Hitler into power”.
Along the same lines, we ask what is going to be Carlos Cortiglia’s next excuse: that again he was misled by yet another group of fascists – this time not Argentinean generals but the BNP. It is true what they say: ‘A leopard cannot change its spots’. And, we can all see this fascist’s spots from a mile away. But, we wish good luck to Carlos Cortiglia in his attempt to twin the BNP branches of Port Stanley and Montevideo.
Since we ran our article exposing the fascism and racism of Carlos Cortiglia as well as his admission that he once fought against Britain, the BNP have published five of his articles on their London website (we can't help but feel that Cortiglia's latest burst of articles for the BNP is perhaps an act of overcompensation on his part - perhaps he's trying to prove to himself, us, and his fellow fascists and racists in the BNP that he is both bona fide BNP and British).
ReplyDeleteIs shows that the BNP, despite knowing of Carlos Cortiglia's past as well as his current ramblings, are more than willingly to host and embrace this South American-born fascist. Ahhh well ...