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Thread #121535   Message #2654981
Posted By: Little Hawk
12-Jun-09 - 01:25 PM
Thread Name: Billy Bragg and incitement to violence
Subject: RE: Billy Bragg and incitement to violence
Fear is what drives people to violence.

Remember the conversation between the Jack Nicholson character in the movie "Easy Rider" and the two bikers ("Billy" and "Captain America")?

The bikers are complaining about the hostility they're getting from southern rednecks as they travel through the American South.

Nicholson says, "They're afraid of you."

Billy says, "It don't make them run away, though..."

Nicholson (a local boy) says with his usual sardonic grin, "Nope. It makes 'em dangerous." In a scene shortly following that one a group of rednecks attack the sleeping trio in the middle of the night, and Nicholson gets his skull smashed in with a baseball bat.

The thugs in the BNP are deeply afraid of foreigners. They're afraid that they'll lose their jobs and their neighborhoods to foreigners. They're afraid of anyone who's "different" from them. That makes them dangerous.

You people who are venting your bile here at the BNP are afraid of the BNP. You're afraid of them because they aren't like you.

That makes some of you dangerous.

I would do my best to avoid being around either you OR the BNP thugs. You're both bloody dangerous, and you're both perfect potential fodder for serving a fascist course of action...under whatever righteous label you choose to stick over top of it.