On *That* BNP List

A few points from your humble author on the publication of a membership list of the BNP:

1. It is a breach of the Data Protection Act, and people have a right to privacy regardless of their political views.

2. Anyone sending abuse or threats to those on the list are simply stooping to the level of the BNP. Their members should be laughed at and pitied for being pig ignorant lackwits - to do anything else to them is excessive.

3. I've seen the list, but ain't printing a publishing a direct link to it.

4. How idiotic does the BNP look this morning, blaming the leak in a disgruntled former employee and invoking the Human Rights Act? After all, they despise the Human Rights Act, so the irony that they are now hiding behind it makes me laugh. Gleefully.

5. This whole furore shows both that the views of the BNP are unacceptable and that their members are afraid of being linked to the very party they joined. Yeah, part of this is the threat of violence, but there are some days when I feel like punching a Labour party member. Ultimately, if you have political beliefs, you should be able to defend them. And all this incident says to me is that BNP members are not capable of defending their membership of their party.

In fact, even those who try to defend the BNP are capable of defending that party, as this wonderful comment from adam.h at Tim Worstall's place shows:

anyone white who lives in england an does not support the BNP is a complete idiot and i pitty them. i invite anyone to argue with me because i no im right.P.S the only reason we dont express our views pubilically is because we most certainly do not have the right to freedom of speech.

Maybe I'll argue you with you one day, adam.h. But I'm going to wait until you are at least able to spell basic words like "know". And understand basic punctuation.