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Blond Knight [OP]

2005-07-19 19:45 | User Profile

Compare the treatment the ministry of truth gives to a person like Mr. Tyndall, vs a piece of manure like Susan Sontag or some other culture destroyer.


[url]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5507[/url]

[url]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1700129,00.html[/url]

July 19, 2005

Founder of right-wing BNP dies at home By Philippe Naughton, Times Online

John Tyndall (PA)

John Tyndall, Britain's most prominent far-right political leader, has been found dead at his home in Sussex only two days before he was due to appear at Leeds Crown Court facing two charges of inciting racial hatred.

Sussex Police said the 71-year-old was found by his wife this morning in Hove. "His death is not suspicious," a spokesman said.

Tyndall, an inveterate schemer and plotter, was involved in neo-Nazi politics for some 50 years, first joining AK Chesterton's League of Empire Loyalists before going on to lead a succession of race-based groups and parties including the National Front and the British National Party (BNP), which he founded in 1982.

Tyndall led the BNP party for 17 years until 1999 when he lost a leadership challenge to its current leader, Nick Griffin. Tyndall's most recent brush with the law came last year when he was secretly filmed by the BBC giving a racist speech in Burnley. Both Tyndall and Mr Griffin were charged in April along with another BNP member with using words or behaviour intended or likely to stir up racial hatred.

Police said Tyndall’s death was reported by his wife at 8.15am today. A coroner’s investigation has been launched and an inquest will be held in due course.

Born on July 14, 1934, Tyndall left Penge and Beckenham Grammar School with three O levels before national service and a stint as a salesman.

He joined the League of Empire Loyalists in 1957 but soon left to form the National Labour Party under John Bean. The Labour Party forced the group to change its name and in 1960 it merged with Colin Jordan's White Defence League to form the original British National Party.

With Colin Jordan, Tyndall also led a stormtrooper-style private army known as Spearhead and left the first BNP to set up the National Socialist Movement.

Both men were prosecuted for paramilitary activities but they fell out after Tyndall, still in jail, discovered that Mr Jordan had married Tyndall's own fianceé, the French perfume heiress Francoise Dior. Pictures of the wedding showing the two of them mingling their blood over a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf appeared in the press.

Tyndall next formed the Greater Britain Movement in 1965, which was disbanded after Chesterton's formation of the National Front in 1967, by which time Tyndall had become a leading neo-Nazi ideologue. Tyndall soon rose to head the National Front and under its guidance it became the most successful far-right party in recent British politics, fielding a peak of 303 candidates in the 1979 general election.

Tyndall split from the National Front the following year to form the New National Front, which was soon renamed, confusingly enough, the British National Party. He headed that party for 17 years until losing control to Mr Griffin. He was convicted of incitement to racial hatred in 1986 and was jailed three times.

A spokesman for the BNP, Phil Edwards, said today that although Tyndall had been expelled from the party twice - in 2003, and again this year after being re-admitted - he was an "excellent chap with a keen analytical mind". Mr Edwards said that Tyndall was sacked from the BNP for criticising the party leadership after he lost his position in 1999.

"John was a great fellow who knew exactly what our movement was about. But it is fair to say that he was not able to carry that forward to electoral success. It is a pity he did not just stand down. He tried to criticise the current leadership, and he should not have done that," said the spokesman.

Tyndall remained involved in BNP activity by speaking at meetings, including the one at which he was filmed by the BBC for the documentary A Secret Agent. Mr Edwards said: "He was a marvellous speaker. He could hold a room and mesmerise them, but he did not have the answer to the problems. I am sure he would have denied the charges against him."

Greg Mulholland, a Liberal Democrat MP in Leeds, said he had formally asked for Thursday's BNP trial to be moved to avoid inflaming racial tensions in the city only two weeks after the July 7 suicide bombings in London. Three of the bombers were young Leeds Muslims of Pakistani origin.


Hugh Lincoln

2005-07-20 13:24 | User Profile

Wonder if stress over the arrest pushed an otherwise seemingly hardy man into that long sleep.


Howard Campbell, Jr.

2005-07-20 15:44 | User Profile

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Howard Campbell, Jr.

2005-07-20 15:52 | User Profile

Tyndall in America
Spearhead's editor reports on his productive trip to America

At the end of May and into June I had the great pleasure of taking up an invitation to visit the United States to fulfil three speaking engagements, the first of which was to address the International European-American Unity and Leadership Conference in New Orleans. This gathering, at which about 300 were in attendance, was organised in part to welcome the well-known American patriotic leader David Duke back to freedom following a prison sentence for alleged tax irregularities, commonly believed to have been a politically motivated frame-up engineered by his enemies, who are many and powerful.

This was my third speaking visit to the USA but my first to New Orleans. The city is, of course, closely associated with jazz musicians - something which, as my friends will know, carried no interest whatever to me. It is nevertheless well worth visiting for some of the old-world sights, notably the French Quarter, which manages to reproduce a uniquely European flavour in the local architecture - rare in the country. The city also contains many magnificent old colonial-style houses, built mostly in the l9th century for those who grew rich on the cotton trade.

The conference was impressive and featured many fine and well-known speakers. A hotel close to the Airport had been virtually commandeered for the weekend, and people booking in there came from all over the United States, as well as Canada. The speakers, apart from David Duke himself, included the moderator of the world-famed Stormfront website Don Black; Sam Dickson, the Atlanta lawyer and an old friend from way back; Dr. Edward Fields, editor of the long-running The Truth at Last newspaper, also an old friend whom I was delighted to meet again with his wife Jane; Kevin Alfred Strom, the presenter of the radio programme American Dissident Voices; Germar Rudolf, the courageous German revisionist historian; Paul Fromm from Canada, a teacher who suffered greatly for his political views in what is today a country straight out of Orwell's 1984 in its intolerance of nationalist dissidents; David Pringle, membership co-ordinator of the National Alliance; and veteran publisher Willis Carto. These big names apart, I was delighted to meet many other fine patriots from all over the North American continent, and enjoy many conversations during breaks between the items on the programme. It was very pleasing to see Paul Fromm's Canadian party display the traditional Red Ensign flag of Canada behind their literature table, together with a banner referring to their country as the Dominion of Canada - a most welcome snub to political correctness!

The keynote speech of the weekend was given by David Duke at the end of an excellent dinner on Saturday evening. He began by speaking of the tragedy of the Iraq war and subsequent occupation, in which so many Americans had died, and went on the indict President Bush and his largely Zionist administration for their criminal folly in embroiling the United States in this region of the world in quarrels in which she (like Britain) had no interest. From this he went on to a very general coverage of the American political scene, which was powerfully delivered and received at the end with rapturous applause.

My own contribution to the proceedings was made in the early afternoon of Saturday, and the (slightly abridged) text of this appears in this month's magazine. I had a short time previously heard a superb presentation by Sam Dickson on the insanity of 'liberals', whom he accused of being afflicted by an inexplicable death-wish. His speech was spiced with much humour in its caricaturing of the liberal mind.

On the Monday following the conference I flew with Sam Dickson to Atlanta, Georgia, where I was his guest for two days, during which I addressed a small meeting of local friends of like mind at a nearby location, with about 25 people present. Here I was surprised, though greatly pleased, to encounter a few who had attended gatherings to which I had spoken in the same neighbourhood in 1979 and 1991. On this stage of my trip I also met a friend of Sam Dickson's, Josh Buckley, co-editor of the book Tyr, which deals with the folklore and religious customs of Northern Europe in pre-Christian times.

My final port of call was the Washington DC area - or, to be more specific, its Virginia suburbs. I stayed at the home of American Renaissance publisher and editor Jared Taylor and his wife Evelyn, to whom I am grateful for many kindnesses. Before that I was met at the airport and then taken to lunch by one of America's finest patriotic writers, Sam Francis, who was a mainstream professional journalist with the Washington Times before being fired for his outspoken views. Since then he has been an independent writer with the Citizens Informer and other publications. While at Jared Taylor's home I met two of his young colleagues Ian Jobling and Steve Webster, who assist him in the production and management of American Renaissance. Steve Webster kindly gave up part of his day on June 3rd to take me on a tour of the battlefield of Bull Run, which featured prominently in the American Civil War, or, as they prefer to call it there, the War Between the States.

Then in the evening I addressed a dinner gathering of about 40 people in a restaurant in nearby Arlington, which was chaired by Sam Francis. This was a very pleasant occasion, with some interesting questions following my speech. Throughout the United States there is a great interest in our movement here in Britain and the common problems with which patriots in both countries have to cope.

The following day I flew home - always a gruelling experience for me when travelling in a west-to-east direction, with the jetlag worse when going that way.

Abiding impressions of America from my third trip there? Well, I have to say that in New Orleans, Atlanta and the suburbs of Washington the ethnic minority presence is absolutely overpowering. Americans are simply losing their country. So, of course, are we but the process over there is much further advanced. It seemed that everywhere I went Blacks were a majority, although in other areas Hispanics are reputed to be even more numerous. American patriots have a real mountain to climb arresting and reversing this process. Good luck to them - they certainly need it!

Spearhead Online

albion

2005-07-20 15:54 | User Profile

[IMG]http://www.natvanbooks.com/cat/429.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41320000/jpg/_41320397_tyndall203pa.jpg[/IMG] The autobiography of John Tyndall, the man who helped lead the National Front in the United Kingdom in the 1970’s and 80’s and who formed the British National Party, which gained 5% of the national vote in 2004. This British leader’s activism spans a half a century. This is a must read for all political activists.


Okiereddust

2005-07-21 08:29 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Hugh Lincoln]Wonder if stress over the arrest pushed an otherwise seemingly hardy man into that long sleep.[/QUOTE]I'm sure it didn't help any.

Here's the LSN article:

[QUOTE]East Sussex, England -- British Nationalist Party founder John Tyndall died this morning of heart failure at his home in East Sussex, days before he was to be tried on charges of inciting racial hatred by a British Labour Party government intent on stifling political dissent in their nation. Tyndall, who had twice been expelled from the BNP after challenging the rule of current BNP leader Nick Griffin, was found dead in his home, with no evidence of foul play of suspicious circumstances. Differing news reports placed his age at either 71 or 72.

Tyndall was a former Chairman of the National Front who founded the BNP in 1982. He was replaced as BNP leader by Griffin in 1999.

After the BNP's widespread success in elections across the country, the British Labour Party and various Jewish and communist groups trumped up charges of speech crimes against Tyndall and Griffin, in an effort to weaken the electoral support of their political party.

[url]http://www.overthrow.com/lsn/news.asp?articleID=8296[/url] -----[/QUOTE]

I was just curious BTW about overthrow.com. Has anyone noticed or does anyone know why its so slow? I suspect it might be under ping attacks and that Bill White isn't as good as Don Black in warding these things off, but I don't really know.


Kurt

2005-07-22 07:41 | User Profile

one of John Tyndall's farts was worth more than all the rubbish spouted by Hayek, Rand, Goldwater, and Reagan.

RIP, Mr. Tyndall. This German-Irish-Welsh man salutes you!