by Todd A. Heywood
Capitol Correspondent
EAST LANSING- Young Americans for Freedom Michigan State University is bringing Nick Griffin, head of the British National Party, to the East Lansing campus on Friday, Oct. 26 from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Griffin will speak at room E100 of the Vet Med Building on campus.
A protest against Griffin will be held Friday from 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. at the Rock at Michigan State University. The Rock is located on Farm Lane near the Red Cedar River. Following the protest, participants will march to the Vet Med Building.
The British National Party has drawn fire for allegedly being racist. The party has a platform statement which includes stopping all immigration to England:
"On current demographic trends, we, the native British people, will be an ethnic minority in our own country within sixty years. To ensure that this does not happen, and that the British people retain their homeland and identity, we call for an immediate halt to all further immigration, the immediate deportation of criminal and illegal immigrants, and the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by a generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question."
MSU YAF was listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in April. Its chairman, Kyle Bristow, has been tied to the white supremacy movement and its legal advisor Jason VanDyke has been tied to the Council of Conservative Citizens, a racist outgrowth of the former White Citizens Councils.
According to a press release on the YAF blog, Griffin "will deliver a speech at Michigan State University on the issue of how Europe is rapidly becoming 'Eurabia.'"
"It is an honor to host Nick Griffin at my university. Griffin is going to explain how multiculturalism, mass immigration, and Islam are destroying Western civilization," the press release quotes YAF MSU chairman Kyle Bristow as saying.
