This, and the parent thread, was not whether the BNP were OK. Theyre not. They are nasty, mixed up, SUFFERING people, hiding behind a cloak of 'speaking for others. What Adorno calls victims of the submissive/authoritarian mindset.
    These posts were about rections to a PERSON, a known and liked person, who had taken action others found reprehensible. lots of venom above, little compassion for others. Never mind historical and psychological evidence when there's good old majority prejudice around to bully people with, as the Nazi's did.
   Read some Alice Miller, who traced the childhood experiences of the Nazi leaders, an absolute catalocue of abuse, neglect and indifference.
   Hitler'e childhood was rerrible, abused and huilioated by his father and betrayed by his Mother's failure to protect him. These people should have loved him. Sadly, as Miller explains so eloquently, a youngster, or anyone, faced with this reality normally chooses to idoliose the opprressors and gain revenfe/scapegoating elsewhere.
Hug a Nazi, as one incoherent spluttering post put it. Petty more didn't when the actual Nazi leaders were kids, they could have changed the world.