Reply #10: not so easy

[iverglas]

The British government should put out a statement with the names and addresses of the BNP leaders

The British government is, of course, prohibited from releasing personal information in any of its files without the consent of the individuals to whom it belongs. Brits and Europeans (and Canadians) take the protection of personal data quite seriously.

No easy fix. Nobody's really suggesting that the BNP or anyone else should have been prohibited from publishing these materials. And nobody's really suggesting that any formal or informal retaliation for publishing them is appropriate.

I'm just finding it very interesting that an outfit like the BNP would so readily see the materials as serving their purpose -- to stir up hatred of Muslims -- when all the other publishers of it (and many of their defenders hereabouts) protested so loudly that the materials weren't even capable of doing that, let alone designed to do it.

And how also very interesting that none of the ones hereabouts have had any comment on this story.