I discovered two neo-nazi stickers on lamp-posts the other day whilst walking to work. I found them shocking more for the surprise value than their content. In the 80s (oh no, here he goes again) there used to be quite a lot of this stuff floating about in some areas – you’d even see the odd NF sticker on the tube.
These days it comes across as real fringe nutjob stuff, I think. You know it’s some lonely geezer in a dirty mac furtively going about in the early hours with a pocket full of fading nazi propaganda. Like a dog trying to mark its territory, or a flasher.
These two items were even more pathetic because they publicised two different organisations. “Oh blimey someone from the National Front has been stickering on the same morning as someone from the neo-nazi N*vember 9th S*ciety! What are the chances of that? Wow this area must be a real hotbed of far right activity!”
The pic, by the way, is Rudolf Hess. Apparently he was killed by those horrid rotters ZOG. It’s as good an insight as any into the intellect of the master race that they think:
a) Many people will recognise Hess from his picture
b) Many people will know what ZOG is.
c) Anyone will get worked up by the circumstances of Hess’ death.
My theory is it’s just a wind up, rather than a recruitment aid. “Let them hate us, as long as they fear” and all that. I suppose I do hate them, but mainly it just all seems a bit sad.
I ripped both stickers down easily and had a wander in my lunchtime to see if there were more, but fortunately other people had already removed the bulk of the two other offending items I found.
There used to be all sorts of rumours of fascists putting razor blades under their retarded propaganda but I’ve never met anyone who has actually seen this. Or in fact, many stickers these days – it’s a bit like “I Spy” for cynical lefties.
What a bunch of goblins!
Or, more likely, what a (singular, lonely) goblin!
I do look forward to some barking mad comments about how the left was ‘routed’ when fearless ‘warriors’ smashed up the bogs in The Hand and Flower in Ham in about 1994.
I saw the pic and figured it was just some prime minister from the past or something like that. Its amazing how quaint all this stuff looks today.
What’s up wit
When I saw the pic, I assumed you were being bullied at work, with colleagues leaving stickers on your keyboard every time you popped out for lunch.
I think we have policies here on that… fortunately! I did used to know someone who worked with a load of born again types who would leave religious tracts on his desk in an attempt to “save” him, tho.
I’d still love to get hold of one of those old “Combat 16” stickers with the circled photo of Arthur Fowler
i want to hear about the anti-fascist movement in the 80s! in fact i’m going to demand that you tell me about it at dirty canvas
“These days it comes across as real fringe nutjob stuff”
Does it? Think about the resurgent BNP out in East London and it doesn’t seem so weird to me…
May see you later at DC.
Dan – happy to talk about it, but my involvement is almost insignificant compared to some…
Danny – I think the BNP have taken a seriously mainstream turn of late which is much more successful (and more worrying) than the fringe far right. They’ve done this by jettisoning the holocaust revisionism, street presence, marches etc. Which makes sense to me if they are actually interested in gaining political power rather than existing as a hitler fan club like the stickerist… tho having said that there may be some people who get involved with fascism in its populist form and then want to get more hardcore I guess.
do you think the street presence is *as* diminished in certain parts of the north, as it is in most of london (maybe barking aside)? i honestly don’t know the answer to this, but i’m sure i’ve read articles which imply that you would have a more comfortable public existence if you’re bradford bnp than you would if you were, say, hackney bnp.
I think it’s a basic change of strategy on their part – more door knocking, success in elections etc and no “rights for whites” marches, stickering, graffitti etc. They are basically aiming for a quasi-respectability which rules out a lot of the tactics used by “fringe” types. If you can get people elected to the council, the battle for the streets is basically won already.
YOU KNOW NOTHING. YOU WILL WAKE UP ONE DAY AND IT’LL BE TOO LATE. THE WHITE RACE IS DYING AND YOU DONT CARE, YOU MAKE MAKE ME FEEL SICK. MY COUNTRY HAS BEEN OVERTAKEN BY LIES AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD. IT’S ABOUT TIME WE TOOK BACK OUR LAND. THE STICKERS ARE TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT AHOTHER WAY EXSISTS, ONE RACE, ONE COUNTRY, ONE STRONG LEADER, THE DAY IS FAST APROACHING WHEN YOUR LEFTIST LIES AND PROPAGANDA WILL BE DISCOVERED BY THE BRITISH PEOPLE AND OUR TIME WILL COME, WE WILL WIN, WE MUST WIN, WE CANT AFFORD NOT TOO. VOTE BRITISH FIRST PARTY THIS MAY, FORGET THE BNP, VOTE BFP THIS MAY. BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP BFP
Void by name and void by nature, eh Callum? Brilliant stuff, I love it when idiots take the bait.
The stickers are a salutary reminder that there is a tiny number of retards in the world who will fall for any old nonsense.
Gary Glitter is more likely to win a council seat in May than your party.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go for a bagel with Rachel Stevens.