Politically motivated Police raids on local BNP members.

Four BNP activists from Blackburn and Nelson were interviewed by police yesterday over perfectly legal leaflets after ‘internal pressure from the Muslim Police Association’ a senior police source has said.Brian Parker, Robin Evans, Tony Bamber and Lee Karner — all hardworking BNP activists, were detained by police in Gestapo-like dawn raids yesterday, and taken to Burnley police station for ‘interviews under caution.’ They were released at 5pm yesterday and unconditionally bailed until February next year.The leaflets that sparked off the detentions were a local one linking Muslim gangs to the heroin trade, and the BNP’s national Islam leaflet (download your own copy by clicking here).Both leaflets are perfectly legal, having been thoroughly vetted. The local heroin leaflet was in fact already the subject of an investigation by the Crown Prosecution Service, who ruled definitively that it was legal.The CPS’s made the decision not to prosecute over the leaflet, however a source within the Police has let us know the decision to make the arrests was made higher up the chain of command and not at a local level, confirming what we already know to be a politically motivated move.

The leaflet, which points out the preponderance of Islamic gangs in the heroin trade and the fact that the majority of heroin comes from Pakistan and Afghanistan — did not sit well with the National Association of Muslim Police (Christians need not apply) who have instigated a renewed investigation, according to a police source.BNP leader Nick Griffin and several dozen activists from the local area and around the country (including, but not limited to, Andrew and Peter Tierney from Liverpool, who brought their now-famous A-frame vehicle; Adam Walker and a small team from the North East; and Derek Adams from Manchester) demonstrated outside Burnley police station until late.“We received a fantastic response from the public,” Mr Griffin said. “One member of the public stopped, found out what was going on, and, so incensed at the outrage, complained to the police and gave the BNP a £100 donation on the spot,” he said.The BNP will, of course, fight this travesty of justice, and, just like the media coverage given to the supposed membership list “leak,” this latest attempt to demonise the party will blow back in its originators’ faces.