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The BNP, or more hilarious, some BANDS, LOL!!! are "Bad" so they get less freedom than others.
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The BNP, much to my dismay, are an entirely legal political party. They can say anything they want as long as it does not contravene laws regarding incitement to racial hatred and violence. Laws were brought in to ensure that people did not have to right to incite racial hatred and violence, because we had a very large problem with racist violence and disturbances. We still do, but not to the same extent as we did under the older system, in which the NF (BNP's predecessors) led a reign of terror against the ethnic minority communities in Britain, as well as against any non-mainstream, left-leaning political group.
Even now, with our supposedly draconian laws, BNP speakers can whip up a rally of supporters, referring to 'ethnics' as 'cockroaches who should be wiped out, cleared out' do not actually face any sanction. The BNP has a paramilitary wing. It acts both within and without the law.
What happens, when the freedom they enjoy, extends to shouting 'Paki' and 'suicide bomber' through the letter box of a 67 year old widow, daubing 'SS' on her front foor and throwing rocks at the back window? Unless you can catch 'em at it, you can't prosecute. Incidents like that and worse are a daily occurrence in some areas. Racial tensions are a major factor in many of our towns and cities.
We had a lull, in this sort of stuff, for about a decade and a bit, things calmed down and the movement towards multi-culturalism was quite strong. That was when the NF had been effectively stomped down and (because any revolutionary movement necessarily runs out of steam as its supporters realise the revolution is not around the corner) before they had rebranded themselves as the BNP.
The American political paradigm, seems to be the strength or weakness of the rightwing, religious lobby. The European paradigm seems to be more to do with the strength or weakness of the far-right, nationalist, supremacist movements.