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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Nick Griffin
Nick Griffin (born 1959) is the National Chairman of the far-right British National Party (BNP).
Griffin was born in 1959 in north London and grew up in rural Suffolk, England.
Griffin's mother, Jean, was the BNP candidate against Iain Duncan Smith in the 2001 Election.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ni/Nick_Griffin.html   (425 words)

  
 BNP leader Nick Griffin
In August 2001, Edgar Griffin was expelled from the Conservative Party for being "linked" to the BNP (he answered the BNP hotline on behalf of his wife, the BNP membership secretary, when she was unavailable).
On 14 December 2004, Nick Griffin was arrested on suspicion of incitement to racial hatred, relating to a BBC documentary aired in July 2004.
Griffin was the 12th person to be arrested following the documentary and the second high profile arrestee in this case after BNP founder John Tyndall, who was arrested on 12 December.
www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/nick_griffin.html   (1026 words)

  
 Andrew Anthony meets Nick Griffin | Magazine | The Observer
Griffin, a veteran of the far right, is confident that he has learned both lessons and, by taming his rhetoric, aims to become the acceptable face of nationalism.
Griffin is adamant that the changes he has made to the party are genuine but adds the intriguing rider that it could only be someone with his political background who, if necessary, could convince the party to adopt the 'ruse' of reform.
Griffin claims to be gaining support from members of groups, such as trade unions, that were pre viously the preserve of the left, while still pulling in disaffected conservatives - as well as, presumably, straight-forward fascists.
observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,783675,00.html   (4520 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Nick Griffin: Right-wing chameleon
Griffin is media-friendly, even though he accuses the media of being complicit in what he calls the liberal establishment conspiracy in the creation of the multicultural society he despises.
Nick Griffin's involvement in far-right politics is said to have begun when his father, a right-wing Tory councillor, took him to a National Front meeting at the age of 15.
Nick Griffin lives with his wife and four children on a smallholding near Welshpool in mid-Wales where he raises pigs and chickens.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1412785.stm   (849 words)

  
 Nick Cohen: Nick Griffin and the BNP | Special reports | The Observer
Nick Cohen: Nick Griffin and the BNP
Nick Griffin, its leader, surveyed the political landscape in 1999 and concluded that the BNP had a chance to become 'the focus of the hopes...of the neglected and oppressed white working class'.
Griffin himself was once a member of a group called the International Third Position and now says he is 'a moderniser'.
observer.guardian.co.uk /race/story/0,11255,604018,00.html   (1523 words)

  
 Nicholas John Griffin - Uncyclopedia
Nick Griffin’s appetite for Neo-Nazism was whetted by his father’s work for the Happy Hitler party.
Griffin continued his political growth at university and used the emerging Punk scene to promote nazi values by forming the ‘Racy Mixers’.
Nick decided to accept the position of power so he could corrupt the other idiots in Densa which his racist idea's, and further his cause of wiping out all ethnic minorites.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Nick_Griffin   (806 words)

  
 Andrew Cusack: Nick Griffin's Coming to Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, will be speaking next Wednesday in Parliament Hall at the University of St Andrews.
Griffin was invited to speak on the motion "This House Believes the Multicultural Experiment Has Failed" at the University of St Andrews Union Debating Society (f.1794).
Griffin and the BNP are – let there be no doubt – odious, I question whether it is the job of the University to be saying so, especially without giving any sort of epistemological basis for their condemnation.
www.andrewcusack.com /blog/2005/02/nick_griffins_c.php   (566 words)

  
 Nick Griffin's Long March   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nick Griffin: I became involved with the British National Party out of desperation at the fact that no-one else was doing anything in Britain to stand up for the survival of Western culture, Western values, British independence in relation to the European Union, and a number of similar, closely related issues.
Griffin: We are particularly concerned about the very rapidly growing Muslim population in Britain, and the associated problem of the way in which our establishment bends over backwards to favor anything Islamic over anything Christian, but also over anything traditionally secular that Muslims decide to find objectionable.
Griffin: We are not “anti-capitalist” in that we do not believe that the state should be the dominant force in running the economy, but we believe that the state has the right and also the duty to create the overall framework within which private enterprise works.
www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=9223   (1176 words)

  
 Nick Griffin arrested for racial hatred   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nick Griffin, 45, was arrested at his home in mid-Wales last December by West Yorkshire Police as part of a long-running investigation into the BBC programme The Secret Agent.
Griffin made the victory sign to more than 250 supporters, draped in Union and St George’s flags, who had gathered outside Halifax police station today as he answered his bail.
Griffin told reporters he had no regrets and would continue to tell the truth even if he had to go to jail.
www.cabalamat.org /weblog/art_526.html   (977 words)

  
 Nick Griffin and the Right to Offend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nick Griffin has undergone two trials - the first failed to reach a verdict - since the BBC's under-cover exposé of the BNP leader's views about Islam and Moslems was shown in July 2004.
Some of Nick Griffin's pronouncements on race and religion, for which he was arrested yesterday morning, are extremely stupid and nasty.
Nick Griffin's first trial collapsed after the jury failed to agree a verdict.
www.democraticdeficit.org.uk /nickgriffin_righttooffend.html   (1358 words)

  
 Nick Griffin, Mark Collett Freed!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Both Mark Collett and Nick Griffin were found NOT GUILTY on half the charges with a hung jury on the remainder.
Nick Griffin faced a total of 4 similar charges of using words and behaviour likely to incite racial hatred.
Mark and Nick are the heroes of free speech lovers across the land and we wish them a truly happy celebration this evening.
www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=7751   (387 words)

  
 The Crap Public Schools Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Griffin was first educated at Woodbridge School, Suffolk, but then won a sixth form scholarship to St Felix in Southwold.
Griffin claims that there were a couple of fl pupils there, but doesn’t mention is that he was one of only two boys in the school at the time.
We can only assume that his aggressively nasty public career was prompted by the fact that, despite this almost unbelievable slice of luck (how many teenage boys would want to be in that position?), he still couldn’t get a girlfriend.
www.crappublicschools.org /alumni/g/griffin.html   (339 words)

  
 VDARE.com: 12/14/04 - Then They Came For Nick Griffin
At dawn Tuesday December 14, four British plainclothes detectives from the West Yorkshire Police in the north of England arrested Nick Griffin, the head of the anti-immigration British National Party.
Griffin is not under investigation for an actual crime, such as conspiracy to commit terrorism, but for criticizing Islam.
When Griffin said that he could “get seven years,” he was referring to Britain's anti-free speech Race Relations Act, one of the many anti-“hate” provisions of British law.
www.vdare.com /fulford/041214_fulford_file.htm   (933 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | West Yorkshire | BNP duo to face race hate retrial
After the end of two-week trial, Mr Griffin was met by supporters and said the outcome was a "tremendous victory for freedom".
Mr Griffin said the verdicts were a "fantastic day for the people of this country".
He was acquitted of one of each charge in relation to one speech, but the jury failed to reach a verdict in respect to a second speech in which he called Islam a "wicked vicious faith".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4672792.stm   (472 words)

  
 The Truth is No Defense - In today's world free speech is being threatened.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nick Griffin, Chairman of the British National Party.
Nick is to go on trial January 16, 2006 for “speech to incite racial hatred”.
Nick Griffin only days before his trial on bogus "hate speech" charges, January 16th in Britain.
thetruthisnodefense.com   (307 words)

  
 RTE DISGRACE. Nick Griffin interviewed live - Indymedia Ireland
He slammed Griffins lies and indeed pointed to the fact that the BNP was responsible for the burnley/oldham riots and wants to suppress workers rights.
Griffin was also allowed an oppertunity to "distance" himself from his comrades in combat 18.
Griffin is a clever bloke and therefore quite dangerous, he knows how to manipulate ideas and different situations.
www.indymedia.ie /article/5989   (6030 words)

  
 Nick Griffin on Peak Oil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Griffin’s article is one the best I have read on this subject.
It seems Griffin is hoping for economic havoc and a prolonged depression a la Weimar Germany, which is wishful thinking and suggests to me tough times in the BNP.
And if deep recessions are what it takes to curb demand then aren’t we really in the scenario set forth by Griffin and other peak oil commentators.
majorityrights.com /index.php/weblog/comments/nick_griffin_on_peak_oil   (4960 words)

  
 Nick Griffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Griffin has publicly expressed his distaste for homosexuality.
After David Copeland's 1999 bombing of the Admiral Duncan gay pub in Soho, London, Griffin wrote: "The TV footage of dozens of 'gay' demonstrators flaunting their perversion in front of the world’s journalists showed just why so many ordinary people find these creatures so repulsive."
Martin Webster, for whose ousting from the NF leadership Griffin was partially responsible, published on the internet in 1999 a leaflet, "Come for an 'Outing' Down Memory Lane", claiming that he and Griffin had a 4-year homosexual relationship that ended in 1981.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nick_Griffin   (2311 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Nick Griffin": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was also, I later discovered, where BNP leader Nick Griffin had been born.
Patrick Harrington, Nick Griffin, and Derek Holland, traveled to Libya as guests of that country's foreign office.
Nick Griffin Interviewed by Rooftop -- Listen to RooftopComedy's recent interview with comic Nick Griffin live from Rooftop's Green Room.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Nick-Griffin   (557 words)

  
 American Renaissance News: Nick Griffin’s Long March
Griffin: The respect for national sovereignty and ethnic diversity also colors out attitude to the United States.
Thank you Nick Griffin for giving millions a voice oppressed by bought and paid for (not majority sponsored) laws defending the few among the many.
I suspect Griffin is aware of this point, given the friendly informal links between the BNP and the Swedish National Democrats.
www.amren.com /mtnews/archives/2006/06/nick_griffins_l.php   (3044 words)

  
 36 Degrees Design » Nick Griffin is a moron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
One more interesting note from last nights coverage is that the BBC political correspondent, Nick Robinson live blogged the whole affair, and through the down-time kept the updates coming on his blog.
I disagree that Nick Griffin is a moron.
It’s been a while since the election, but this interview in particular stuck in my mind, and Griffin said, in reference to halal eaters, “we’d ban it”, not “they’d all be deported”.
www.36-degrees.co.uk /2006/05/05/nick-griffin-is-a-moron   (1059 words)

  
 Nick Bantock - Griffin and Sabine Print Gallery
If you are starting a collection of Nick Bantock artwork, then consider a printer's proof from the original Griffin and Sabine Trilogy.
Each image is surrounded by a coloured border, containing Nick's notations, plus his signature.
Also included is the print of each postcard back, with the handwritten notes between Griffin and Sabine.
www.nickbantock.com /original_art/Griffin_Sabine_print_gallery.html   (104 words)

  
 World Comedy Network - Database Services
"Nick Griffin let's just call him the 'Suburban Comic'.
Some comedians may be interested in a corporate advertising sponsor.
Click above to see if Nick Griffin is seeking advertising sponsors.
www.backstageservices.com /comedy-db/comedianview43663.php?key=35   (204 words)

  
 Srdja Trifkovic interview with BNP's Nick Griffin (from Chronicles) - Mootstormfront
Griffin would associate himself with a man who, according to a mainstream newspaper in Scotland, tried to organize the assassination of several of the various power brokers within the political clique presently charged with administering the affairs of the British nation.
Leaving aside the issue of just how much credence we should lend to such reports emanating from the dominant U.K. press (who count amongst their principal responsibilities the use of lies and defamation of character in order to limit the political viability of the BNP), I'm a little unclear as to what Mr.
BNP Chief Nick Griffin and writer Mark Collett may face re-trial
www.mootsf.org /forums/showthread.php?t=780   (563 words)

  
 Chronicle Books : Griffin and Sabine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
With the same romance and drama that put his Griffin and Sabine saga on the New York Times best-seller list for over 100 weeks, selling three million copies in 12 international editions, Nick Bantock presents an unforgettable story of one woman's journey to self-discovery.
Ana, a striking young dancer, is promised in marriage to a man she doesn't love.
Brimming with myth and intrigue, Windflower is sure to enchant Nick Bantock fans the world over.
www.griffinandsabine.com   (197 words)

  
 How a TV Spot Comes into Being
Nick Griffin, a genuine fount of business knowledge and wisdom, explores some of the basics that precede the spots we see on television.
Nick is the founder of our Business Practices forum and has been the driving force behind its high level of respect and success.
Today, he has built a great team and members are highly encouraged to visit.
creativecow.net /articles/griffin_nick/how_tv_spots_happen/index.html   (778 words)

  
 LA Weekly - Nick Griffin
As a recent divorcé, Nick Griffin revels in a life of dirty laundry, frozen pizza and porno.
When you’re 30 — you’re alone,” gripes Griffin.
Despite life’s woes, Griffin smirks, throws up his hands and kills the crowd with his self-deprecating style.
www.laweekly.com /stage/comedy/nick-griffin/14183   (281 words)

  
 Comedian Nick Griffin - The Improv at Ontario Mills
Comedian Nick Griffin - The Improv at Ontario Mills
Headliner Nick Griffin (Keenen Ivory Wayans Show, New Joke City with Robert Klein) appears at the world-famous Improv for an evening of stand-out stand-up comedy.
In the last ten years Nick has been invited to both the prestigious Montreal Comedy Arts Festival.
www.goldstarevents.com /ieasa/groupevents/event.pl?id=4794   (237 words)

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