democracy a precious gift

Today I had a leaflet from the British National Party they claim to “say what you think”. Well they most certainly do not say what I think! I am not racist, nor homophobic; neither do I wish to see the return of the death penalty.

As someone who is politically active I take a keen interest in democracy. I am working on a campaign to get a friend elected as a county councillor. One thing that has become glaringly obvious to those of us following these county elections is that even though the BNP have candidates in every ward none of these people live in the ward they are standing in, on no leaflet are the home addresses or telephone number of the candidates recorded, we should ask ourselves what do they have to hide to be so secretive and inaccessible to their potential constituents. Hitler’s Nazi party behaved like this.

Another thing they have in common with the Nazis is the way they play on ordinary people “perceived” fears making it easy for racism or homophobia to appear reasonable and rational. As a Christian I am called upon to love and respect all people but these people tell me they are Christians, they’ve even formed their own church! I will not be joining this church I can’t learn to hate large chunks of the population. As a Christian I believe that II have a duty to use my vote to benefit the good of all people, democracy is precious and a right we should all exercise, but I would urge us all before casting our vote to remember the words of the English philosopher Edmund Burke, ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ DO SOMETHING AND VOTE WISELY EVIL MUST NOT TRIUMPH IN OUR LAND!