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> On Sun, 4 May 2008 14:58:29 +0100, "Col"
> wrote:
>>
>>As much as I loath & detest what the BNP stand for, they
>>are a legitamate and legal political party.
>
> Are you sure that your loathing and detesting is based on what they
> actually stand for, rather than what everyone says they stand for? I
> don't have much opinion on them one way or another, but I don't loathe
> or detest them just because most people seem to think they're a bunch
> of bigots who hate anyone who isn't a white Anglo Saxon. If I were to
> look into what they do stand for, and found that most people's
> impressions were correct, then I'd be loathing and detesting them
> along with everyone else, but I'd want to satisfy myself that that was
> the case first.
I am perfectly able to come the conclusion that the BNP are
a nasty, bigoted lot.
If you don't know what they stand for, well that's your problem.
Do your own research.
>>And as such should be afforded the same conditions as any
>>other party.
>>Not to do so would be 'undemocratic'.
>
> Quite. But these days, democracy seems to mean "electing the group of
> people that I approve of". That isn't the way democracy works. You
> don't get to say, "Nope. Wrong. Back to the polling booths and try
> again." There's a word for that kind of government, but it isn't
> "democracy".
Agreed 100%.
--
Col
Steal a spaceship and head for the sun,
Shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
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