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*nods* I see. We recently had a case of a meeting held in a hall. It was a private meeting, just party members (BNP) and affiliate supporters. Two of the main speakers (the leader of their party and a young upcoming type) made comments and called for things that, had they been directed at a specific ethnic group would have contravened those laws. They were directed though at "illegals" and "ethnics". I'm talking about some fairly strong stuff here, if you replaced the word 'ethnic' with the word 'Jew' it has a ring of 30s Germany: references to an infestation of cockroaches 'and what do we do with cockroaches?' *insert noises of approval and some fairly unpleasant 'joke' comments here*.
The meeting was infiltrated by a member of one of the anti-nazi groups and a journalist. Charges were brought against the two speakers, but both were cleared in court. A lot of people were upset that such blatant calls to ethnic violence slipped through the system. Upset to the point of considering tightening the laws. Fortunately that impulse was resisted and the law is as it was.
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