The British National Party, arguably the clearest symptom of British patriotic resistence to immigration, has just won its first seat in the London Asembly. Foolishly, all the so-called mainstream parties’ candidates walked off the stage when Richard Barnbrook began his victory addresss. (BNP’s Richard Barnbrook calls for flying of Union Jack and a ban on burkas, by Martin Fletcher, Times Online, May 5 2008.) So much for the voice of the people.

We have written about the BNP in the past primarily in the context of the attempt, extraordinary in a democratic society, to imprison its leader, Nick Griffin, for political comments (critical of Islam!) made in private - and the U.S. MSM blackout on the subject.

This and other themes familiar to VDARE.COM readers have just been echoed in an intelligent piece on the BNP’s success by a self-described gay “social democrat”, Johann Hari.

BNP votes are a cry of white working-class anguish, by Johann Hari, The Independent, May 5 2008.

The trial of Nick Griffin for hate-speech wasn’t just immoral – he has a right to free speech, no matter how foul – but also dumb politics. The way to discredit the BNP is for people to hear what they say. No more no platforms: take them on….

But we also need to address the worries of BNP voters. Most are anxious about immigration not because they don’t want different-looking people walking the streets, but because they feel it damages them in several specific ways…

Hari instances the shortage of public housing, and goes on:

How about wages? It’s true that immigrants boost the economy overall, and pay back £6bn more than they take from the Exchequer. But it’s also true that British people don’t benefit equally from it. It’s simply a fact that if you significantly increase the supply of cheap labour, the hourly rate for it comes down: that’s why wages for builders and waitresses and cleaners have barely budged for 10 years now. For people on the lowest wages, immigration does depress their wages, and it is wrong to deny this, or wave it away as unimportant.

But instead of offering these solutions, we have turned the white working class into a national punch-line. We dismiss them as “chavs”, “pikeys” and racists, and jeer at their clothes and voices and names. So we don’t really have the right to act surprised when they vote in a way designed to tell the entire democratic system – as the woman [previously quoted] standing in her damp flat, carrying bags of economy-brand food from Iceland, told me – to “f— off”.

[Quote bowdlerized because of puritanical US webfilters].

Needless to say, there is no chance that the left will actually listen, because of what its motives actually are. But Hari deserves to be congratulated.

The 2004 murder of Jenny Garcia in her own bedroom in her parents’ Austin home was one of the most terrible crimes imaginable. The 18-year-old college freshman was discoved by her two younger sisters tied up and naked on her bed with a butcher knife in her chest. Jenny had been brutally killed by a Mexican illegal alien who was acquainted with her from their both working at the same restaurant.

Hayden and her husband Humberto Garcia, who has since died, sued the City of Austin in 2005, alleging it had a policy of not reporting undocumented immigrants, which contributed to their daughter’s death.The city says it has no policy that prevents employees, including police, from calling immigration officials.

A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the slain girl’s parents did not show a link between the alleged policy and her death.

Jenny Garcia Hayden, 18, was killed in her family’s North Austin home by David Diaz Morales, who pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence. Her parents said that Austin police should have turned Diaz over to federal authorities for deportation when they suspected him of child molestation two years earlier. Diaz wasn’t arrested in that case; the district attorney’s office said there was insufficient evidence to charge him.
[Mother of slain girl supports immigration agents in jail, By Juan Castillo, Austin American-Statesman, May 4, 2008]

One of the most shocking things about this case is how Austin authorities apparently protected a child molester from prosecution because of his immigration status. Austin has been a sanctuary city for illegal alien criminals, although there may be change on that front.

Now Jenny’s mother is speaking out in support of the proposed policy of having federal agents in Travis County jails to find and deport foreign criminals upon release. What could be controversial about that idea?

Diaz “should have never been in our country,” said Ann Hayden, who now lives in El Paso. She said her husband died of a heart attack last Thanksgiving during a visit to Austin, when he visited his daughter’s grave. Her murder caused his death, too, Hayden said.

“Our entire family was destroyed. He suffered the most,” Hayden said during an emotional telephone interview. “He would tell anyone, ‘All I want is to be with my daughter.’”

There’s more tragic carnage to report, due to the nation’s open borders: a drunk-driving illegal alien living in Indiana, Mario Cardena, killed three Americans (and himself) in a horrific crash that left three twisted vehicles indicating the force of the impact.

MERRILLVILLE — Friends and family mourned the death of a prominent attorney, a young couple soon to be married and a Mexican immigrant who had long struggled with a drinking problem — all four of them killed in three-car collision Wednesday near the border of Merrillville and Winfield.

As Hough and Weiss pulled into the intersection of Randolph and 101st Avenue, Mario Cadena sped west, past a stop sign and into Hough’s Ford Explorer, driving the truck into Weiss’ Mustang. No one emerged alive from the twisted wreckage.

Merrillville police declined comment on the crash but said high speed was a factor. The Lake County coroner will not have results of blood toxicology reports for several days. Police sources say they believe Cadena had been drinking, and a beer bottle was on the front seat of his ruined Jeep Cherokee at the police impound yard.
[Speed, alcohol thought to be factors in fatal Merrillville crash, By Andy Grimm, Merrillville Post-Tribune, May 1, 2008]

Stephen Hough, 26, and Amy Bartelmey, 25, (shown above) had planned to be married after he graduated from Purdue with a degree in public relations. She had a two-year-old son from a previous relationship.

Another victim in a separate vehicle was a well known local attorney Garry Weiss, 53, who is survived by his wife Cindy and two teenage children: Speed, Alcohol Factors In Collision That Killed Four (WMAG-TV Chicago, May 1, 2008).

“He was the love of my life. Everybody loves him. He just … he was perfect. No, not always perfect, but a wonderful husband, wonderful father, wonderful lawyer, wonderful friend, son, brother … there’s not enough to be said about him,” his wife, Cindy Weiss, said. “I love him and I miss him.”

The killer is also dead, so there will be no trial and public examination of his previous arrests; he is another criminal foreigner who should have been punished at the time of earlier crimes and then deported, a basic execution of the law that would have saved his own and three other lives. He had previously been arrested for drunk driving, so this crime was not unforseeable: Driver in fatality had long history [Merrillville Post-Tribune, May 3, 2008].

Cadena was charged with driving without ever having been issued a license and driving while intoxicated after a 2001 arrest by Lake County Sheriff’s police.

A plea deal with prosecutors reduced the drunken driving charge to reckless driving, and Cadena was given a suspended jail sentence of 180 days and paid $480 in fees and fines.

In October 2003, Cadena was pulled over by State Police for unsafe lane movement and driving while intoxicated with a blood-alcohol level above 0.15 percent — nearly double the 0.08 percent required for a drunken driving charge. Cadena again reached a plea deal with prosecutors and received a suspended sentence of one year by Judge Julie Cantrell.

Cantrell also saw Cadena in court in June 2006, when he was charged with driving 77 miles per hour in a 55-mile-per hour zone, failure to register his vehicle and driving without a license.

It’s a story that is painfully similar to many others. Had Judge Cantrell and other local officials of the justice system not been unforgivably weak in dealing with an obviously dangerous illegal alien, this terrible crime could have been prevented.