Racist British National Party Relaunches American Outreach Effort
Perhaps they’re preparing to try to influence the 2012 elections via social networking:
A racist organization from Great Britain that once boasted a lively U.S. presence before it was routed eight years ago is back again.
The American Friends of the British National Party (AFBNP) was once a serious player in white nationalist circles. The group was created in the late 1990s to raise money from Americans for candidates of the racist British National Party. The AFBNP’s leader, Mark Cotterill, was a master networker who managed to entice right-wing American extremists of seemingly every stripe to address his rather frequent Washington, D.C., meetings.
[…]
All that came to an end in 2002 when the AFBNP collapsed after Cotterill was deported to Britain. The deportation happened after an Intelligence Report exposé revealed that his group had raised at least $85,000 for the BNP in contravention of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Agents of foreign political entities are required to register with the government or face possible felony charges, fines and deportation. Cotterill did not register.
But now the BNP is back. In March, Adam McArthur filed FARA documents registering to run a “social networking campaign” for the BNP and to “provide overseas voting instructions” for BNP members. Unlike its former incarnation, the new group will not raise funds. McArthur, who according to The Independent is an IT worker who recently moved from England to Berryville, Va., is listed in the FARA documents as the “United States Contact – British National Party” and he reports to Andrew McBride, the BNP’s South East Regional Organizer and Overseas Liaison Officer.
[…]
Other organizations and individuals named in the article: Nick Griffin, American Friends of the British National Party (AFBNP), Mark Cotterill, Don Black, Neo-Nazi National Alliance, Steven Barry, Christian Identity, Richard Kelly Hoskins, Patrick Doran, Vanessa McArthur, Simon Thurlow, Michael Storm, Aryan Nations, NSDAP/AO (National Socialist German Workers Party/Overseas Organization, translated name of the original Nazi party’s overseas unit)