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- From: bz965@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Hatch)
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- Subject: Gritz, Populists, and Nationalists
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:51:55 GMT
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- monaghan@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (N.O. Monaghan) writes concerning the
- book _Beyond the Pale_ by Derrick Knight, CARAF Publications,
- 1982, and the British National Party (BNP):
-
- >My opinion of the book is based not just on its biased
- >political stance but also on its collection of lies, half-
- >truths, unwarranted assumptions and general smear tactics that
- >it uses - many directed against people that I know personally.
-
- >As to the BNP, I have not examined its policies in detail and
- >unable to comment on whether it follows the classical fascist
- >corporatism or not.
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- >N.O. Monaghan
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- Gritz, the Populist Action Committee, and John Tyndall
-
- In a previous article, I noted the connection between Lt.
- Col. James "Bo" Gritz and the Populist Action Committee. Gritz
- wrote of his involvement with the PAC and Willis Carto:
-
- I was asked to allow my name to be placed on the list of
- policy board members of Carto's Populist Action Committee. I
- saw nothing wrong in this, but I must tell you I have never
- received the first communication from them.
- [_The Patriot Review_ newsletter, Christian Patriots
- Association, November 1992]
-
- In fact, Gritz was listed as a member of the Populist Action
- Committee (PAC) in several issues of Carto's (Liberty Lobby)
- _Spotlight_ newspaper, prior to this claim of not having
- received any communication from the PAC. In itself, Gritz's
- willingness to serve on "Carto's Populist Action Committee" is
- revealing, given Carto's well-known politics.
-
- The PAC was launched in 1991 by the Liberty Lobby. The
- featured speaker at the kick-off meeting was "English populist"
- John Tyndall of the British National Party. [_The Spotlight_ June
- 3, 1991, page 1] The founding national chairman of the PAC,
- Robert Weems, was a Mississippi KKK leader [_Blood in the Face_
- by James Ridgeway, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990, page 131] Tyndall
- is a British "former" National Socialist who has been quoted as
- saying "The Jew is like a maggot feeding on a body in an advanced
- state of decay." [_Beyond the Pale: The Christian Political
- Fringe_ by Derrick Knight, Caraf Publications, Lancashire, 1982,
- page 47] The selection of Tyndall as featured speaker for the
- founding meeting is an indication of the politics of the Populist
- Action Committee.
-
-
- The British National Party (BNP) and Its Origins
-
- _The Other Face of Terror_ [by Ray Hill with Andrew Bell,
- Grafton Books, 1988] describes several European fascist
- organizations in detail. The material of the book was also the
- subject of a 75 minute documentary film which aired on British
- television Channel 4 and has been shown here in the United
- States. Of the BNP it summarizes:
-
- Born in 1960 out of a merger between Colin Jordan's White
- Defence League and John Bean's National Labour Party, the
- original BNP was led by Jordan and Andrew Fountaine. Pro-
- nazi and anti-semitic, it split in 1962, when Jordan left to
- form the National Socialist Movement. It was one of the
- groups which merged to form the National Front in 1967.
-
- When former NF leader John Tyndall launched a new party in
- 1982, the BNP name was resurrected. It is now a few hundred
- strong, and publishes _British Nationalist_ and _Spearhead_.
-
-
- The book also includes a photograph of Jordan and Tyndall wearing
- stormtrooper-style uniforms with the following caption:
-
- Colin Jordan and John Tyndall at a 1962 (?) camp organized
- by 'Spearhead', the paramilitary wing of the British
- National Party. Both were later gaoled for their 'Spearhead'
- activities.
-
- Tyndall also helped found the National Socialist Movement in
- 1962. Among his exploits, he was also fined for a 1964 assault on
- Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta; in 1966, he was jailed for
- illegal possession of a firearm. [_The National Front_, by Nigel
- Fielding, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1981, page 19] He split
- from the NSM in 1964 to form the Greater Britain Movement. He
- later served as Chairman of the National Front from 1972 to 1980.
-
- Tyndall has tried, much like David Duke, to explain his
- openly Nazi period as youthful exuberance. But in 1978, he still
- defended the German Nazi social and economic programs, their
- _lebensraum_ justification for war, and their race theories,
- balking only at defending their dictatorship and extermination
- policies. [_The National Front in English Politics_, by Stan
- Taylor, The Macmillan Press, Ltd., London, 1982, page 57]
- However, Tyndall still promoted the expulsion of non-whites from
- England.
-
- In fact, the National Front issued a _Statement of Policy_
- which claimed that:
-
- The NF upholds the wish of the majority of the British
- people for Britain to remain a White country and for this
- reason opposes all coloured immigration into Britain. It
- further advocates the repatriation, by the most humane means
- possible, of those coloured immigrants already here,
- together with their descendants and dependents...
-
- Pending the repatriation of immigrant peoples, their status
- should revert to that of any other aliens...Apart from
- welfare, housing and education facilities--to which British
- citizens should have prior claim--all aliens should have
- equal protection by the law as well as equal
- responsibilities.
- [_The National Front_, by Nigel Fielding, Routledge & Kegan
- Paul, London, 1981, page 67-68]
-
- The NF would have deported untold British citizens and residents,
- based solely on their race and denied them equal access to
- "welfare, housing, and education" while they awaited this fate.
-
- The National Front was opposed in Britain by a variety of
- political and civic groups. One of these groups, Christians
- Against Racism and Fascism (CARAF) formed as a result of a 1977
- meeting of the British Council of Churches. [_The National Front
- in English Politics_, by Stan Taylor, The Macmillan Press, Ltd.,
- London, 1982, page 138] The National Front eventually suffered
- serious electoral decline and Tyndall went on to form the British
- National Party in 1982.
-
-