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Posts Tagged ‘Simon Bennett’

UPDATE: BNP webmasters and South African racists

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Speculation over what happened to the BNP’s website continues.

Anti-fascist sources claim that Simon Bennett, the BNP’s webmaster, was sacked before the Red, White and Blue festival (Nothing British were unable to corroborate this). The BNP website is said to be now in the hands of another South African, Lambertus Nieuwhof.  Nieuwhof is accussed of attempting to bomb a mix race school in South Africa. (Nothing British were unable to corroborate this).

If true, Nothing British believes this is evidence of how changes to the BNP are largely comestic and that beneath the modern veneer exists an ultra-racist core.

“Cyber-terrorism” and the BNP website

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Simon Bennett, BNP Webmaster

Simon Bennett, BNP Webmaster

The BNP’s website was embarrassingly down during the busy RWB weekend.

The BNP blame its opponents for trouble with its site. In an email to registered users, Nick Griffin blamed the black-out on a “cyber-terrorist attack” for the DDO action. Simon Darby, BNP Deputy Chairman, has suggested on his blog that an “anti-British” individual  has paid Russian criminals to hack into the BNP. In May 2009, Lee Barnes blogged that he had told the “counter-terrorism unit, Scotland Yard and MI5″ that one of the largest attacks in cyber-warfare history was underway against the BNP.

In the past, BNP critics have suggested these cyber-attack stories were a convenient excuse for BNP internet incompetence (no trace of Lee Barnes’ complaint could be found by anti-BNP activists).

Either way, Nothing British happens to believe that taking down your opponents’ website is not as effective as winning  the arguments.  And the BNP’s lauded website savvy is not all it’s claimed to be.