[aldo_14]

http://www.burnleycitizen.co.uk/news/newsheadlines/display.var.951775.0.exbnp_man_faces_explosives_charge.php

A FORMER British National Party member has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country.

Robert Cottage, 49, of Talbot Street, Colne, appeared before Burnley magistrates charged with possession of an explosive substance.

Oh, and
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=420965

A RETIRED Grange dentist is accused of being part of a bomb plot after a record number of explosives were seized in a Lancashire town.  David Bolais Jackson, 62, of Trent Road, Nelson, was arrested on Friday in the Lancaster area after leaving his Grange practice for the last time.

Jackson was charged with being in possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose. However, it is unclear who or what the intended target might have been.  Police found rocket launchers, chemicals, British National Party literature and a nuclear or biological suit at his home.

On the other hand, the German Jelly Crisis has made the news.

[Colonol Dekker]

Curses, My Jelly plot failed...............

Whoever sold me that stuff will feel my custard wrath !

[Prophet]

Who knows what those explosives were for? Maybe he was going to blow some rocks off his potato field. Or meybe he just gets kicks of having closets full of explosives. But nooo. It must have been for murder. Or blowing up the ****ing Big Ben.

[Kosh]

So, if those people were muslim or from the middle east, that would have been front page headlines, right?

[aldo_14]

So, if those people were muslim or from the middle east, that would have been front page headlines, right?

Absolutely.

Who knows what those explosives were for? Maybe he was going to blow some rocks off his potato field. Or meybe he just gets kicks of having closets full of explosives. But nooo. It must have been for murder. Or blowing up the ****ing Big Ben.

Did you actually read the article?

[Flipside]

Actually, the trick is to set off an explosion and keep very quiet. It's obvious who will get blamed.

Makes you wonder whether that was the plan?

[Bobboau]

now here is the irony, I bet if this had been a muslim we'd be hearing all about how it didn't prove anything and how his rights were violated, but because he's assosiated with a groupe that is conservitive, he must be guilty.

[Flipside]

Well, it's an interesting point, but the reaction here is more often an assumption that the person found with explosives is guilty, no matter what colour they are, maybe that's a rollover effect from the IRA here.

The annoying part is that Terrorism is Terrorism, it shouldn't matter who the person is affiliated with, either we treat it as such or we don't.

I'm frankly amazed that the National Press isn't all over this, it's perfect front-page material in many ways, you'd get to put the words 'Terrorist', 'Bomb', 'Nazi' and 'BNP' in a single paragraph, they'd be drooling over the keyboard, I would have thought.

[NGTM-1R]

Though it seems doubtful, perhaps it slipped through the cracks.

[Grug]

Strange. Why don't you contact them and find out why they didn't?

[aldo_14]

now here is the irony, I bet if this had been a muslim we'd be hearing all about how it didn't prove anything and how his rights were violated (snip)

It'd be the first time.

Incidentally, I wasn't aware the 'conservative' political group now included white supremacists.  Someone should tell David Cameron, he's missing a vital pandering demographic.

[karajorma]

I'm sure Micheal Howard has already done a good job bringing them into the fold.

[Kazan]

Incidentally, I wasn't aware the 'conservative' political group now included white supremacists. 

in the states it does

[Nuclear1]

Incidentally, I wasn't aware the 'conservative' political group now included white supremacists. 

in the states it does

Conservatism is conservatism.  Extreme conservatism includes neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in Europe and the US, not just the US.  Kaz, if you're using this as another chance to take a shot at the apparently widespread bigoted US Christians, I would advise against it--it really does get old after a while.  Maybe a little less pathos and more logos?

[NGTM-1R]

To say Kaz has pathos at all is kind of a base canard.

[Nuclear1]

Well, pathos in the sense of making obviously impassioned statements or one-liners that are certain to be construed by his opposition as unprofessional, childlike stabs (i.e, many comments in the Sulu thread).