Now I have no use for the British Nationalist Party – indeed, I agree with the assessment of Sting and The Police regarding its so many of its members.

Billy's joined the National Front
He always was (just) a little runt
He's got his hand in the air with the other cunts
You've got to humanise yourself.

That said, IÂ’m always disturbed when those engaged in legal political activity are fired or blacklisted for that activity, whether by the Left or the Right. ThatÂ’s why I find this news report from the UK to be somewhat troubling -- and in keeping with the stated goals of too many on the Left in this country.

TalkSport radio said this morning that it will "no longer use" chat show presenter Rod Lucas, who covered late night shifts for the station earlier this year, after he was listed among more than 12,000 BNP supporters on an internet blog posted on Sunday night.

His name and contact details were included alongside his profession: 'media: radio/TV production'.

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Lucas, a Sony Award winner who once worked for Radio One, had eulogised on his website how much he had enjoyed working for his "favourite" radio station, but this morning TalkSport bosses were swift to distance themselves from him.
A spokesman said: 'We won't be using him again. We had no knowledge of his association with the British National Party.'

Now why would I shed any tears over this sort of action against members of a party that verges on fascist in its outlook? How about because you would never see similar actions taken against folks who were members of far-Left groups. Indeed, doing the same to Communists and Socialists would be seen as the creation of a blacklist and would be deplored internationally by the liberal intelegentsia.

And lest you think this couldnÂ’t happen here, consider the blacklist being developed by members of the gay Gestapo following the passage of CaliforniaÂ’s Proposition 8 earlier this month.

So keep in mind the old piece by Martin Niemöller:

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

And so in the case of Rod Lucas, as well as of those targetted for their support of a ballot initiative approved by a majority of Californians, those of us who love liberty (of every political point of view)need to speak out – not to mention talk radio hosts targetted for censorship under some resurrection of the so-called Fairness Doctrine – because we are potentially next on the list.

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