Headline in the local paper after I joined one of the patrols in Corsham‘Private police’. The rich have hired and uniformed security guards for their gated communities and leafy boltholes. The Jews have their Community Security Trust, complete with uniformed officers and even their own Shomrim ‘police’ cars. The Muslims have team which turn out to protect their mosques, and recognised ‘community leaders’ with whom the real police consult before undertaking ‘sensitive’ policing operations. They all have this added layer of security, and good luck to them all. The problem is not that the rich, the Jews and the Muslims have this extra reassurance and community spirit, but that our people do not. Readers with an above average understanding of real power relationships, and of the special pressures on indigenous Britons as second-class citizens, may be inclined to raise objections here, along the lines of “the Power That Be will allow it for minorities, but they’d come down on us like a ton of bricks if we did anything similar”. It is a very reasonable concern, and we will examine this issue in the next part of this series. For the time being, however, please park any such worries. The purpose of this section is to set out realistic possibilities for constructive and wholly legal Community Action and, please believe me, this is one of them. The only further thing to say with regards to legality right now is that readers should not – under any circumstances – finish reading this chapter and immediately rush out to set up such an operation. It is absolutely vital that the forthcoming next section is read, digested and fully taken on board before a single step is taken towards this end in real life. That said, here’s an actual example of such an operation is practice because, here is in many other things, the much-abused activists of the old British National Party were way ahead of the times.
Our experiment with local security patrols took place in Corsham, a town of about 13,000 in the west of Wiltshire, where the main employment is provided by nearby military bases and by quarrying and working Cotswold stone. It has a historic centre (pictured above), with some fine architecture from the mediaeval wool trade and its position on the old London-Bristol road, but there is nothing notable or unusual about the couple of ex-council estates and newer private developments which cluster around it. The only thing different about the place when budget cuts closed the town’s police station in 2006 was that Corsham already had an active BNP unit, headed by an ex-soldier, Mike Howson. With a couple of local taxi drivers among his activists, Mike quickly became aware of growing public concern about bored youngsters making nuisances of themselves. It was nothing really serious, but the withdrawal of the police presence left local people, especially pensioners and families with young children, feeling insecure. Complaints to the police about the marked lack of the promised regular vehicle patrols produced empty reassurances, but zero action. Mike and his team sat down to discuss the situation, and came up with a plan. They all chipped in a few quid to get a batch of yellow high-viz vests printed with the words “Community Observation Patrol” on the back. The letters COPS were much larger than the rest so they stood out clearly. Each of their three or four man patrols also had at least one camera phone (at the time, that was a gadget which was still possessed only by a minority of people), a couple of big Maglite torches and a notebook. That was it. They had a slightly more extensive wish-list, particularly for walkie-talkie radios, but they decided that stab-proof vests were not necessary and that it would better to start straight away with what they had, rather than waiting until they had everything. A simple leaflet was produced to hand to local residents they met as they began their patrols, and a copy was sent to the local paper and to be county police headquarters. It took a few weeks but, inevitably, the proverbial duly hit the fan. This, after all, was the work of one of the most demonised and controversial political parties in the whole of British history. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?Well, this is part of the chapter I’m working on right now, dealing with concrete Community Action proposals. I hope to finish this tomorrow, so you can learn the rest of the story then - as well as reading other practical ideas for serious nationalist activists who are fed up with the diet of fantasy solutions or hysterical defeatism on oofer form most so-called nationalist spokesmen and armchair warriors. If you agree that this is important work, please support it. Restacks and Comments help the reach and algorithms, but there’s no support like a gesture of concrete solidarity, so PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS are as important and appreciated as they are easy to set up.Than you! Become a free subscriber to Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
