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Thread #121535   Message #2655097
Posted By: Jim McLean
12-Jun-09 - 03:48 PM
Thread Name: Billy Bragg and incitement to violence
Subject: RE: Billy Bragg and incitement to violence
I saw Billy Bragg on Question Time a while ago when he said ' .. if Scotland wants its Independence/government then we should give it to them' and I thought what a nice man!
No I didn't, I thought what an uninformed, patronising shit! Who were 'we' to decide what a people wanted?
If the BNP are to be marginalized and discredited it has to be done through democratic methods, the government of the day has to adopt policies, more jobs and housing, which will undermine the BNP's vile propaganda. Giving individual members a 'duffing' (a slap, a kicking, a stabbing?) is not the way in a civilised society. We have evolved a society wherein one's feeling of rage or revenge has to be curbed by democracy or through the courts. Can one really demonstrate anti-fascism by attacking individuals in the street?