British neo-Nazis launch National Illiteracy Strategy
Back in March, I reported on a new group on the UK Nazi scene called the ‘English National Resistance’. An oddball group, to put it mildly, the ENR tries to borrow the ‘anti-Zionism’ and revolutionary pretensions of the far-Left and mix this with hatred for ‘race mixing’ and style tips seemingly borrowed from the grime scene:
Well, now they’re back with a new poster campaign, and this time they seem to be turning their attention to the worrying (no doubt Zionist influenced) phenomenon of spell checking:
Looking at ENR websites, the group’s devotion to illiteracy comes across very clearly. Good to see not everyone these days is brainwashed by Zionist spelling conventions!
Comments
| 8 July 2009, 7:25 pm |
Bunch of weirdos explicitly out to copy the ‘Autonomous Nationalists’ they’ve seen on the continent. Weird kind of patriotism and defense of the ‘indigenous English’ when you have to import your ideas from abroad. Oh well, that’s multiculturalism and globalisation in action for you I suppose!
When I first clicked on the link to their blog you provided a popup with an image of German girls from Nazi Germany appeared. I think it was an advert or something for Nationaal-Socialistische – Dutch nazis. Anyone else get this?
| 8 July 2009, 7:31 pm |
Hmm, the hatred of race mixing plus the statement in their FAQ section “We aim to maintain standards within ENR and so the following people are NOT welcome – Drug abusers/dealers, Homosexuals, bi-sexuals, Alocoholics, brawlers and people who think its OK to cheat on a partner” makes me wonder whether this all boils down to someone being pissed off because his girlfriend left him for a black man.
| 8 July 2009, 7:34 pm |
Their anti drink/drugs stance makes me wonder whether they are associated with “straight edge” – which has had some odd offshoots I think.
| 8 July 2009, 7:38 pm |
“England awake” reads like an overliteral translation of Deutschland erwacht. A professional translator would probably have gone for “Wake up, England!”
| 8 July 2009, 8:32 pm |
maybe they are lefties!
wrap-around is not unheard of
| 8 July 2009, 8:57 pm |
makes me wonder whether this all boils down to someone being pissed off because his girlfriend left him for a black man.
Yes, I got that impression too (see my first piece on the group). Seeing as they’ve got a small group together, I’m guessing it’s a group of guys pissed off because they can’t get girlfriends and black guys on their estate/s have white girlfriends.
| 8 July 2009, 9:16 pm |
A professional translator would probably have gone for “Wake up, England!”
Or “Forza Italia”
| 8 July 2009, 9:37 pm |
Griffin says “Don’t tell then you with the BNP” http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/BNP-Leader-Tells-Members-To-Avoid-Owning-Up-To-Supporting-Controversial-Party/Article/200907115331663?lpos=Politics_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15331663_BNP_Leader_Tells_Members_To_Avoid_Owning_Up_To_Supporting_Controversial_Party
(gotta be the longest URL on record!)
| 8 July 2009, 9:37 pm |
Or “Forza Italia”
Speaking of which, I chuckled over this line from Gideon Rachman’s blog the other day:
Many Italians find their prime minister’s behaviour acutely embarrassing. One commentator on the BBC this morning groaned that it is like “having Benny Hill as prime minister”.
http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/06/berlusconi-and-his-women-problem/
| 8 July 2009, 10:04 pm |
Look at the picture slide show on that Sky News report: there’s a nice one of a BNP supporter with KKK tattooed on her fingers!
I saw a fella on the tube yesterday with a swastika tattooed on his arm. I wanted to confront him and force him to come to the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust exhibition with me.
But then you just know that anyone with a swastika tattoo on them is going to be mental. Dangerously so.
| 8 July 2009, 10:10 pm |
Utterly appalling public statement from Griffin here…
| 8 July 2009, 10:42 pm |
Griffin says sink the boats carrying illegals from North Africa to Italy (Alex Ross’s link). There was something about “boat people” in Australia a few years ago, when the Australian navy was accused of causing the death of would-be illegal immigrants by turning their boats back onto the high seas. There was an inquiry, I think, but I don’t remember what came of it.
| 8 July 2009, 11:23 pm |
OT The questionmark and everything after it can safely be left out of any url Spec… Iirc all the stuff after the qm just goes into the servers logs to provide statistics about where you clicked onto that page from.
| 8 July 2009, 11:41 pm |
Title’s wrong, given the name of the group.
| 9 July 2009, 1:41 am |
Look, if that is the sort of fascist we have there is little to worry about. They have only just worked out how to laminate am A4 leaflet and cable-tie it to a lamp past. F’ing muppets.
| 9 July 2009, 2:02 am |
The word awake is in my mind strongly associated with the Jehovas Witnesses, and they don’t seem any nearer converting the nation despite having those lovely psychodelic magazine covers of rainbows, waterfalls and lambs and lions coexisting peacefully.
Pretty common for crank groups to believe that everyone else is brainwashed, asleep, suffereni from false consciousness etc and just needs to be shouted at a bit in order to come round to the crank way of thinking.
| 9 July 2009, 2:42 am |
It has occurred to me that these racist nutcases maybe getting some inspiration from seeing Jihadi Videos. I can almost imagine this lot shouting “Allah Ahkbar” in unison before beheading some poor soul on film. The one in the bottom right-hand side even appears be wearing a burqha.
| 9 July 2009, 7:12 am |
“I saw a fella on the tube yesterday with a swastika tattooed on his arm.”
In my (limited) experience of people with Swastika tatoos, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are Nazi’s…I used to know a Hell’s Angel ( or was he a Satan’s rat?…anyway), who had several swastika tatoos. Weirdly he was known as “Rabbi”. I don’t think he had one single primitive political idea ever float around his head. Unfortunately I can’t ask him if he was a Jewish Nazi as he was shot dead.
| 9 July 2009, 7:31 am |
“England Awake” is from Blake’s Jerusalem… I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a heavy element of stoner/Illuminati/paranoiac thinking behind this.
Interesting that they emphasise that their meeting was alcohol-free. It might well be that – like the Islamist run boxing gyms and youth clubs in areas awash with heroin – they are exploiting a vacuum in social care to provide a semblance of discipline and structure to the 3rd generation unemployed.
| 9 July 2009, 7:35 am |
Hmmm, that flag is batik dyed too by the looks of it. Yes, I definitely detect the hand of the pot-smoking conspiracist behind this.
| 9 July 2009, 9:51 am |
I doubt if these folk have read any Blake. And “England Awake” is certainly not a quote from either Blake’s poem “And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time” or Parry’s version of it in the beloved-of-football-crowds hymn “Jerusalem”.
It looks to me as if it’s directly based on the Nazi slogan “Deutschland Erwache!”=”Germany, awake!” which was one of Hitler’s most ubiquitously used slogans.
They’re presumably seriously confused about the grammar of using “will” and “shall”. It looks as if they meant to express determination, for which “will” is the appropriate choice. But using “shall” implies that they’re been compelled by some other actor to meet brainwashed “existance” (whatever that is) with resistance.
Wake up at the back, there!
| 9 July 2009, 10:12 am |
Jako “Bunch of weirdos explicitly out to copy the ‘Autonomous Nationalists’ they’ve seen on the continent. Weird kind of patriotism and defense of the ‘indigenous English’ when you have to import your ideas from abroad.”
Autonomous Nationalism, or National Anarchism has its origins in England..
| 9 July 2009, 10:31 am |
Well, you live and learn.
I now know that these ‘Autonomous’ style in neo-Nazism has UK origins, and someone with a swastika on their arm is not necessarily a fash.
Genuine thanks for the knowledge, people.
| 9 July 2009, 1:16 pm |
Now that’s what I call extreme Right Wing.
Not much like the BBC meaning, which starts with the Tory party & ends with the BNP.
What a repellent bunch. Be fun to put them in a stadium with Islamists, the Respect lot & assorted nasties & see who survives.
| 9 July 2009, 2:19 pm |
@Judy, it’s from the epic poem ‘Jerusalem’ by Wm Blake
England! awake! awake! awake!
Jerusalem thy Sister calls!
Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death?
And close her from thy ancient walls.
Thy hills & valleys felt her feet,
Gently upon their bosoms move:
Thy gates beheld sweet Zions ways;
Then was a time of joy and love.
And now the time returns again:
Our souls exult & London’s towers,
Receive the Lamb of God to dwell
In England’s green & pleasant bowers.
————
These people might not have read Blake but you often find his words bastardised in hippie and anarchist screeds…
| 9 July 2009, 6:50 pm |
Given all their endorsement of so many Nazi sentiments and slogans, of one of which “England Awake” appears to be a direct translation, and that the Blake poem goes on about Jerusalem and “sweet Zion’s ways”, my money’s on the Nazi rather than the Blakean source. Can’t see much of their stuff having come from hippie and anarchist sources…..
| 10 July 2009, 6:12 am |
I doubt if these folk have read any Blake.
Is that because you’re some ridiculous middle class pillock with no idea of how young working class men live? Plenty of autodidacts have come out of our estates, thankfully not all with such a shite race analysis. Some even started fop-haired pop bands to parade their erudition.
| 10 July 2009, 12:12 pm |
Jim, Judy didn’t make any comment about these people being working class. I think it’s a fair assumption that the kind of people who would have a membership strategy like “We aim to maintain standards within ENR and so the following people are NOT welcome – Drug abusers/dealers, Homosexuals, bi-sexuals, Alocoholics [sic], brawlers and people who think its OK to cheat on a partner.” are not exactly cultured. Nothing to do with what class they are from.
| 10 July 2009, 2:45 pm |
But I’d say those things point to exactly the sort of self-educated thinkers I recall growing up – and they were reading Nietzsche and yes, English mystics like Blake and all that. Some ended up combining that with some terrible politics picked up from white power music and the rest 9(just like I have to admit coming from a similar background it was probably punk and soul that got me thinking about the world). That they’ve come up with a warped take on self-discipline points to an ability to think for themselves and not just go along with a wider peer pressure to “‘ave it” with drugs, drink and women.
My point being, I think to dismiss them as ignorant, as opposed to wrong with objectionable politics, is to miss what’s going on and also that there’s a lot in the appeal of right-wing youth movements that is actually admirable, just as it was with the footie hooligan gangs we had – loyalty, courage and the rest. My feeling is the liberal left and its hand-wringers have little to say of relevance to young men like this (like me as I was) and I wouldn’t want crackers fascists to be the onlly ones speaking to young white men who actually are thinking about what it means to live in this society today.
Hang-on! Isn’t this supposed to be read in a fake Jamaican/Black American Rap voice:-
“Exist-ance is Resis-tance”