Four Guilty MenLike Millions of others around the country, The Erics - Paul Sam Phil and Dave did not vote in the recent local elections.
As a band we regard Morley as our home base - Sam and Paul grew up there Dave and Phil have gained an affinity through the great support we have always enjoyed at gigs in the area.
All of us are shocked and dismayed at the recent election of a BNP councilor in the area. We agreed when we set this site up that we would not use it to push our own political agenda's (those who know us well will realise that this would be impossible as we can fall out with each other over virtually nothing!).
However this issue is too important to ignore.
You can't have listened to and performed the music of The Clash, The Jam, Tom Robinson, The Specials, Greenday etc etc over all these years without being educated by the ideas and principles which underpins much of their writing and music.
We like the music we have always played are essentially anti-fascist and therefore anti-BNP.
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For those in any doubt, make no mistake - the BNP are straight from the pages of Mien Kamph, they will try to use the democracy which was saved from Hitler in WW2 to first gain credibility and then to overthrow it and carry out their real agenda of white supremacy and dictatorship (with the likes of their leader Nick Griffin as Fuhrer, god help us!).
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Obviously there are issues which the BNP are exploiting which are of genuine concern to all of us - Immigration chaos (real or imagined), Islamic fundamentalism (could say Christian as well), areas perceived as modern day ghettos where crime and employment and education are real everyday problems.
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Yes we have been badly let down by our politicians on these things, but is the answer really going to be a neo-Nazi one??
As the greatest English anti-fascist Winston Churchill said "Democracy is far from perfect, but it is preferable to the alternatives".
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So if and when there is a movement in Morley to reverse this political disaster The Erics will support it, even if its just with our votes
next time!
next time!Here are some links if anyone wants to get more info:
Lets vote for Hope not Hate
posted by The Erics at 10:18 am
4 Comments:
Hear hear,
Irrespective of political affiliations to the 'respected' parties, the barely disguised hate and bile that the BNP peddle should be recognised for what it is. Let this tragedy be a lesson to all of us. You may not think any of the major parties are electable countrywide and you may not think that the BNP stands a chance of getting their feet anywhere near Downing Street, but just remember the apathy the German people had towards their politicians post WWI that allowed Hitler and his National Socialists (how right-on that sounds when spelt out!!) to gain such power.
Make sure you exercise your given right to vote before it is taken away from you. Just remember, the Erics wouldn't have had a voice in Nazi Europe, nor any of the musicians they champion on their site.
Rock!!
11:40 pm
What do you know about the BNP?
All you have done is demonstrate the rumours about what people think we are. Have you ever discussed this or visited a BNP candidate? Most of the anti BNP have never ventured outside their front door to find out what we are about and have got it totally wrong. British people are British but there are too many non original British people who would have us turned into their own country and our government has let it get out of hand. Let us not forget that these people came here for a better life but now they expect us to allow them to live by their own rules. We would not expect to do that if we left our homes to set up in their country. For those with a non Christian back ground, this is Primarily a Christian Country with Christian values. Respect this and we will begin to respect you. Recognise us the way you expect to be recognised yourself, fit in and we may begin to welcome you. Until then it will be difficult to live alongside each other. If you don't like it here, GO HOME.
That is why people voted us in in Morley. That is why we are making ground. There is no other Party that will confront this head on. It is not racism it is common sense.
5:34 pm
apart from the obvious idiocy and blinkered view of the world, what strikes me about the BNP supporter and the rest of us is that we are not afraid to put our names on our comments! Also we most certainly do know what the BNP is about because instead of spending our time stirring up racial hatred we actually read/watch/listen to what is going on in the world and as I knew someone many years ago who had survived Auschwitz and had the tattoo on her arm as a permanent reminder I find the denial of the holocaust a disgusting insult to her memory.
5:38 pm
You lot have been busy. Where do I start?
To your other anonymous caller I would say that my point about this being a Christian Country has nothing to do with the percentage of people who actually believe or not. It is more a case that Christian Countries and the Western way of life is being targeted just because it is the dominant force in the world. Remember 911 anybody? or 07/07 perhaps? Terrorism by extremists and non Christian religious nuts.
Yes the BNP are extremists too but this is not religious based. It is my right as a British Citizen to protect this Country by any means possible. If this means get rid of those people who come here and can't live by British Law then so be it.
By non British people I don't just mean black people, I mean who ever it happens to be but actually the main problem is the Asians who won't even have English taught as a first language in their schools. The other problem is illegal immigrants who can be white people. So you are wrong I don't just mean black people.
I don't pretend the British are perfect, you only have to look at what our hooligans do when they go abroad to see that. The difference though is that other countries won't tolerate this behaviour so why should we? Bradford Riots any one?
You may say we don't tolerate it but there is too much political red tape here that simply doesn't apply over there and it is this sort of thing the BNP will sort out whilst others sit round and discuss it.
As for Mr Sam Hirst, well I don't have an argument there. My only comment is to reverse it and say the same applies to the fundamentalists who teach and preach on our very streets the kind of terrorism we are expericencing today. So what we have is the opposite ends of each extreme fighting it out whilst everyone else sits on a political fence neither falling one side or the other. That is as just as bad in my view.
I think it's a little unfair to quote a hidden agenda at me. What was the Iraq war all about? removing the political power I think. So even our Mr Blair & Bush have their own hidden agenda and maybe they're as racist as you make me out to be. How come only the allied counrties are allowed to develop nuclear weapons? It's because our governments don't trust (lets face it) the ethnic countries who develop them. They are too much of a threat.
As for Linda there the view of the world is definately blinkered if it thinks this problem is not going away.
What do you all suggest? Personally I think the democratic approach is all but exhausted.
2:34 pm
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