Nazi Hate

Sometimes a programme comes a long that you have just have to watch. Last night after our now compulsory fix of Life on Mars and Prison Break a trailer came on for A Macintyre Investigation - Nazi Hate Rock. This was a horrifying investigation into the minds of people behind the white power movement, and how the music of racist bands is funding global racism (including the BNP). The tactics of these groups including giving out free CDs of hate-filled 'music' at school gates and secret gigs to small audiences across Europe. The police do try to stop these events, but they are hard to track down and even the 'fans' don't know the venue until the last minute. Disturbingly for me, there was a concert filmed in Ushaw Moor, a small ex-mining town in Durham, 5 miles down the road. The audience seemed to comprise of about 15 fat, baldy men with aggressive looking faces and prone to lots of Nazi salutes.

Hearing some of the 'artists' talk about the need to 'preserve' the white race against the 'invasion' of multiculturalism was like being inside the mind of a mad man. The picture they painted of the threat from other races and cultures bears no reality to the world I see around me. The really worrying thing was the potential for kids to be drawn into this through the music. I just hope politicians and police forces were watching and will keep up a hard line against racial hatred and aggressive, racist bigots.