Subject: Fw: Membership list? From: North East Essex BNP ([e-mail]) Sent: 20 November 2008 11:52:56 Dear Patriot This is e-mail from Eastern Region If you have any concerns or queries please feel free to call me on 07902730085 Take care and regards Jim Taylor ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:12 AM Subject: Membership list Dear All The attempt by the enemies of our country to disrupt our growth has failed. New members are joining faster than ever as a result of the publicity following the publication of our stolen membership list. Show the enemy what you think of their pathetic and disgusting attempt to intimidate us. Contribute now towards the Eastern Region's European Election campaign. Send cheques payable to 'British National Party' to P.O. Box 287, Waltham Cross, Herts EN8 8ZU. The following is a message from Party Chairman Nick Griffin on the Membership List Leak. A number of members have expressed concern over the 'leak' of an old BNP membership list onto several neo-Nazi crank internet forums. The list is essentially genuine, but has been slightly modified. Presumably in an attempt to cause further mischief, it appears that a number of individuals who were not at the time, or who are not and never have been members of the party, have been added. The vast majority of names and addresses on it are,however, from the November 2007 membership and skills list sent to Kenny Smith in his capacity at the time as head of admin. This is the same list that was used to send via snail mail the bogus British Nationalist members'bulletins last December and January. Detailed analysis by Tina Wingfield in our membership department proves conclusively that the core list dates from between 30th November and 2nd December 2007, and that the genuine detailson it are identical to the list sent to Smith - as was routinely done - at the end of the month for the next month's BN mailing. The confused neo-Nazi crank Sharon Ebanks phoned BNP Elections Officer Eddy Butler late last night to gloat and to claim that the list first surfaced as an anonymous comment on her blog, and was then taken from there by 'persons unknown' and put on to a separate blog. The police will shortly be investigating the possibility that she was responsible for both postings. We are certainly not fooled by her pitiful attempts to put the blame on John Walker, who she hates on account of his having very properly refused to give her BNP money to pay parts of a legal bill that had already been paid, and who at no stage in his entire time in the party has ever had access to the combined membership/skills list. We have already sent formal demands to the web hosts to remove the list,pointing out to them that the fact that the publication of this year-old list constitutes Contempt of Court because a court order preventing its release or use was made and consented to by the group of disgraced former employees who first misappropriated it. The web hosts' legal departmenthas already acknowledged receipt of our detailed analysis and demands. A solicitor has been asked to consider the implications of this for the final stages of that legal action, which is still not concluded, and we will be taking advice as to what can be done by way of enforcement of the Contempt of Court order. One good thing here is that even former doubters will now be able to see that we were absolutely right to take court action, regardless of the potential cost, in order to try to secure our members' right to privacy. While we regret that this has now failed, we did at least try, and we have since radically changed procedures to avoid a repeat of this problem in the future, as well as getting rid of the staff members behind this disgraceful act of treachery. We have also already made a complaint to Dyfed-Powys Police and will be giving formal statements shortly to support our demand for a serious and thorough police investigation into a series of very serious potential crimes, including breaches of the Data Protection Act, theft and receipt of stolen goods, and breaches of the Human Rights Act. Unless those involved have been extremely careful to cover their tracks, they are liable to find themselves in very serious trouble - and in prison. Although it is not normally our practice to either confirm or deny whether any individual is a member, in the case of any of those whose names have apparently been maliciously added to this list suffering any problems as a result we will gladly confirm their non-membership status. Genuine members who are concerned over possible problems that could arise may like to note that even the leftist bigots of the General Teaching Council accepted openly at Adam Walker's disciplinary hearing yesterday that he had every right to be a teacher and a member of the British National Party. The fire service has already accepted the same point. While the GTC's use of a technical infringement of a rule that Adam hadnever been told about is obviously motivated by political malice, the fact remains that police officers and prison warders are the only people whose jobs involve a specific (and probably illegal) ban on them being members and candidates as long as they do not bring their politics into the workplace. The recent Equality Act makes it clear that discrimination against an individual on political grounds constitutes a breach of contractual employment law. In the highly unlikely event of any individual one of our many thousands of members being 'exposed' to their employers and suffering discrimination as a result, a substantial compensation pay-out will be on the cards. We would recommend very strongly that anyone who believes this might become as issue for them joins the independent nationalist trade union Solidarity straight away. While leftist unions will turn their backs on -or even demand the persecution of - BNP members, Solidarity has already built up a great record of fighting and winning cases for its members. The time when our opponents could bully our people with impunity are now over.Regrettably, and thanks to the treachery of the now long dissipated Searchlight-linked Smith/Blake/Graham rebel faction, the entire list has not only already been bombarded with lie-filled anti-BNP propaganda, but it has also without doubt been available to the far-left for the best part of a year already. Fortunately, however, the laws brought in to prevent animal rights extremists from harassing their opponents also serve as a huge deterrent to the use of such information to harass our members. It is to be expected that the press will trawl the list for a nationwide version of the story which broke in the Guardian when their undercover journalist Ian Cobain provided them with details of BNP members in London back in December 2006. At the time this led to a huge fuss not only about lead English Ballet dancer Simone Clarke, but also a member of staff at Buckingham Palace, medical practitioners, City high-flyers and other figures of note. Once all the fuss had died down, not one of them had lost their job or suffered any other problem other than the worry to which they were unfairly subjected. The story did, however, greatly aid our credibility and helped to break down the older image of the BNP as a party mainly for the northern working class. In the end, all such attempts to bully and intimidate our people blow up in the faces of our opponents. You can reassure any members who do come to you to express concern that this time won't be any different. Seasoned observers and switched-on members will recognise a clear pattern: Every December there's a big push to try to put people off the huge 'spike'of members who are due to renew at the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Two years ago it was the Guardian infiltration leak, which blew upin their faces. Exactly a year ago, six months before the GLA election,there was a desperate attempt to destabilise the party and to hit our election war-chest by frightening people away - it failed and we made the big London Assembly breakthrough. And this December, just six months before the proportional representation European Parliamentary elections give us the chance for a gigantic leap into the mainstream big-time, we get another leak intended to frighten the faint-hearted. It was absolutely obvious that the sensational BNP by-election victory in Boston at the end of last week would spark a desperate reaction from the Establishment and their 'plausibly deniable'far-left allies. We effectively hoovered up the entire UKIP vote in that contest - in the area where they got their best result in the entire country in the last European elections. This latest attack is not really directed against our own people, who are already tough-minded and know that nothing ever comes of this sort of bluster, so much as against the thousands of UKIPers who are thinking of joining us. It probably will frighten some of them, but it's water off aduck's back to the stout-hearts of the British National Party. Let's enjoy the publicity bonus!