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Phew, I thought this was about Quakers.

This is how an American Holocaust denier distanced himself from Von Brunn:
http://seismicshock.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/michael-hoffman-distances-himself-from-james-von-brunn/

more on those American Friends of the BNP:

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=326

“Mark Cotterill grew up in a world of ethnic turmoil. A Protestant reportedly born in Northern Ireland in 1961, Cotterill later moved to England, where he distributed illegal literature for the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association.

From 1978 to 1992, as the South West England organizer for the neo-Nazi National Front, he was very close to Britain’s racist Skinhead movement during a period of sustained international growth and wild street violence.

Cotterill’s first attempt at “entryism” came in 1992 when he joined Britain’s Conservative party, comparable in views and stature to the U.S. Republican Party. Even with the Tories, Cotterill continued for months to campaign for the National Front.

A Loyalist magazine he edited during this period ran a cartoon advocating “ethnic cleansing” of Catholics in Northern Ireland. The next year, Cotterill was photographed laughing with neo-Nazi Combat 18 leader and convicted murderer Charlie Sargent.

Nonetheless, Cotterill was actually elected to a local council seat — until the Conservatives dumped him and prevented him from taking office.

Crossing the Ocean
Despite this radical history, Cotterill has been successful precisely because of his ability to build consensus. His networking in the United States began in 1993, when he visited neo-Nazi William Pierce at his National Alliance headquarters in West Virginia.

“I managed to talk to Dr. Pierce in depth,” Cotterill wrote later. “I had 3 of the most interesting and enjoyable days of my life there, and I hope to make a return visit in the near future.”

In 1995, Cotterill moved to the United States. He was the U.S. distributor for the British far right publication Right Now! and corresponded with future BNP leader Nick Griffin. He developed a friendship with former Klansman David Duke.

And using the pseudonym Mark Cerr, Cotterill served as the youth organizer for the Council of Conservative Citizens until he resigned following the December 1998 exposure of his identity in a special edition of the Intelligence Report.

A Party is Born
It was just after that incident that the AFBNP was born. In the Summer 1999 issue of Heritage and Destiny, Cotterill explained that the publicly owned British Broadcasting Corporation had recently raised the minimum number of districts in which parties must run candidates in order to receive free air time.

“The new conditions mean that the BNP must redouble its efforts, particularly with regard to fundraising,” wrote Cotterill. “To help the BNP reach its target, an American support group for the party has been set up. ‘American Friends of the BNP’ was formed in January by a number of expatriate Britons.”

Cotterill later indicated that one of the inspirations for the AFBNP was Noraid, the Irish Northern Aid Committee, which has reportedly raised millions of dollars from Irish-Americans for the Republican cause.

In any case, the AFBNP was successful from the beginning, quickly becoming a nexus for cooperation between American extremists. At several AFBNP meetings, donations were split with other hate groups.

Meetings have even featured speakers from foreign political parties besides the BNP, including Germany’s neofascist NPD party and the Danish Racial Nationalist Movement. Cotterill also has met privately in the United States with top officials of France’s neofascist National Front. “

Is there no end to this kind of meddling in British politics by the Yanks? I still just about remember people coming round collecting for the Good Old Cause on a childhood holiday back when it was fashionable for ‘Irish’ Americans to fund the IRA.

Do British people back American political causes like that (other than by giving up their time to go and annoy people on the phone during Presidential elections)?

Aren’t there rules about british parties accepting foreign donations?

There are intermittently recurrent rumours that there was Saudi funding for the Tories in John Major’s time, just as there was Saudi funding for the Republicans in Nixon’s day.

Possibly all lies, of course.

Cotterill’s first attempt at “entryism” came in 1992 when he joined Britain’s Conservative party, comparable in views and stature to the U.S. Republican Party

You and the person who wrote this are full of shit, ModernityBlogNutJob.

FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they’d found the magazine’s address

A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to discuss it in detail. An FBI spokeswoman, Katherine Schweit , also declined to comment on the investigation.

Two other sources said two FBI agents arrived shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday at the 17th Street offices of the magazine. They told staffers that they had found the address of the magazine on a piece of paper associated with the shooter, James von Brunn, and asked whether the Standard had received any threats.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/Weekly_Standard_may_have_been_shooter_target.html?showall

anyways, readers with a long memory will remember David Duke, one-time grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and new best buddy of that fine hero of many “anti-imperialists” the Iranian Prez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met in December 2006.

“SNOW (voice-over): Meet Iran’s new American friend — David Duke, the former politician and ex-grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He’s applauding Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for assembling a conference of Holocaust deniers. Duke says it’s all about free speech. Many see it another way, with one headline in the U.S. reading: “Cringing At Iran Kookfest.”

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/13/sitroom.01.html

Alec is thinking of the American Friends Service Committee and Friends of the British National Party, an ugly mouthful of an amalgamation like SmithKlineBeecham.

No surprise about von Brunn. Look here:

Registered Democrat (needs confirmation)
Christian hater
Jew Hater
FOX News’ O’Reilly hater
Weekly Standard hater
Bush hater
Neo-con hater
9-11 was an inside job nut
Socialist
artist
Stated that “SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West”
Stated that the Apostle Paul destroyed Rome by undermining its pagan virility.
Hated corporations

Just another Nazi nutcase.

“Aren’t there rules about british parties accepting foreign donations?”

It’s perfectly within the law if the donation is limited to £200 per individual donation.

Part of this is also an argument about racism is. You are saying its an opinion. I’m saying its a threat. I would say by treating it as an opinion just like any other your already conceding half the argument. Of course I don’t mind if someone wanders around muttering vile obscenities under their breath. People are welcome to do it in private. Not in public spaces though. I’m not in favour of allowing people to be threatened and intimidated and frightened on the street in an organised way. At least not without having the right to frighten them righht back.
johng | 11 Jun, 18:48 | #

Again racism is not an ‘idea’ and it is not therefore open to the power of ‘logic’.
johng | 11 Jun, 18:49 | #

But the fascists have to be fought. And we need as many forces involved as possible. Part of what we stand for is a tradition of understanding why fascism must be confronted. And part of what we stand for is a tradition of understanding the importance of unity in fighting fascism. Hence the United Front against Fascism.
johng | 11 Jun, 23:40 | #

You be complacent Mike. After all your Party has been (has been in every sense of the word). yeah but wedge you throw in all these hidious stereotypes about the left which make it difficult for people to keep their temper.Particularly when you won’t acknowledge direct rebuttals, even to disagree with them, but just carry on regardless: I’m thinking in particular of the repeated canard that we gave ‘Griffin publicity’ which Lenin has on two occassions rebutted. I think its better that he had to slink away then that he got half an hour being treated like a normal human being: what do you think?
johng | 12 Jun, 00:33 | #

Yes typewriter kittens. My only problem was the idea that we stand alone making our points and everyone comes to join us. I think we do need to make alliances with people, and these alliances will involve their principles as well as ours.
johng | 12 Jun, 00:23 | #

well how wide do you want the net to be Wedge? The letter does not exclude anyone at all.
johng | 12 Jun, 00:51 | #

Excellent piece Lenin.

It baffles me why so many on the left are so concerned for the rights of Griffin et al, even going so far as to publicly criticise the UAF’s actions.

I just can’t see the left ‘uniting’ around this issue at all.
Tiberius Leodis | Homepage | 12 Jun, 02:16 | #

I get the impression that they are New Labour left haters of HP variety. What is so odd is that, outside their own minds, there has been no backlash at all.
johng | 12 Jun, 02:55 | #

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2009/06/look-who-wants-free-speech.html

“In 2001, CNN reported that the BNP raised more than $100,000 from the American Friends organisation.”

Talk about twisting the facts. The BNP DID NOT raise funds from the AFBNP, the AFBNP raised funds independently of the BNP. If you and Charles continue to spread lies and slander then prepare to face legal action.

The AFBNP were created by Cotterill in the USA to help the BNP, this was not created by the British National Party.
Cotterill was kicked out of the BNP and the AFBNP disbanded in 2001 when Cotterill was deported from the USA.
The BNP have gone on the record denouncing cotterill and his views in 2001.

VonBrunn has absolutely nothing to do with the BNP, the British National Party operate in the UK only and cannot, it’s impossible, to stop local American nutters from attending fund raising events in another country.

Lastly, please keep your American psychopaths away from British Nationalism as we are sick and tired of so called white supremacists, survivalists and your white trash from polluting our democratic, legal political system.

“Heritage and Destiny” magazine is not a publication of the British National Party, this is run by the English First Party run by Mark Cotterill who was kicked out of the BNP.

But don’t let facts get in the way of your lies.

http://www.efp.org.uk/page17.html