Hope Springs Eternal

This glorious April, the finest in my memory, is drawing to a close. I am, as will be obvious, no expert on 19th and 20th century English poetry but somewhere in the remotest dusty recesses of my memory banks are snippets of verse about the beauties of England in the spring.  Were they by Rupert Brooke? Or perhaps by homesick, and long forgotten, colonial civil servants or army officers stuck in the sweatier parts of our Empire – those places where the weather is always the same, and always hot.

How sad that we have had to experience this most delightful month trapped in lock-down. It was in mid-March, just before lock-down began, that I strolled through the small town in the south of England close to my home. I noticed a white poster, less than a foot square, stuck to some piece of street furniture; someone had tried to scratch it off but had failed to obliterate the message which, in black print, clearly said “It’s okay to be white”. I approved the sentiment of course, wondered briefly what patriotic soul could have put it up, then forgot about it.

Forgot about it, that is, until just the other day. I saw somewhere, I forget where, a reference to a “far-right” group that I’d never previously heard of – “Hundred Handers”. A quick search on Google brought up several refences to Hundred Hander activities in recent months, mainly in the north of England. I found local newspaper headlines like this: “Vile anti-Islam stickers found in St. Helens being treated as a hate crime”; “Far Right Group Hundred Handers are invading Hull with sick white supremacist propaganda”; “Authorities are not going to put up with it”; and “Local politicians are to undergo training to help them spot far right messages when they see them”.

It seems that what this group has been doing to reduce local politicians and police chiefs to frothing fury is sticking up posters with such utterly foul messages as “It’s okay to be white” (that one again), “No2halal”, “This land is ours”, “We will be a minority in OUR homeland by 2066”. Local bigwigs, clearly unable to argue that there is actually anything untrue or hateful about such messages were reduced to claiming that they are “divisive” (while slogans such as “black lives matter” or ” white privilege” are presumably not divisive). For their trouble, two lads in Hull aged 20 and 22 were arrested on suspicion of “racially aggravated public order offences”. So it seems that any public expression of hostility to immigration and its unwanted consequences, however overtly innocuous that expression may be, can land you on a charge.

It is alleged that the Hundred Handers have been rather naughty in putting up some posters – not those cited above – but others bearing the Extinction Rebellion logo and name. These latter posters read “Save the Environment – End Mass Immigration”, “Only White People Care About the Environment”, “House the World, Destroy the Environment”, “Sink the Boats, Save the World”. Whether these latter posters are indeed the work of the Hundred Handers has yet to be established,  but their appearance has provoked local bigwigs to spout forth from the pages of local newspapers, providing the Hundred Handers with a tremendous amount of free publicity for which I am sure they are extremely grateful.

The Hundred Handers get their odd name from hundred handed giants of Greek mythology. Their modus operandi, as far as I can see, is that someone devises these posters and others (“the hundred hands”) print them off on special printers with which they have equipped themselves. It seems to be American based but operational throughout the Anglosphere, or perhaps more widely, and could therefore be cited as an example of what many nationalists have long been calling for – international co-operation between White nationalists.

The emergence of the Hundred Handers demonstrates the creativity and lateral thinking for which our people are famed. The organisation is self-starting, anonymous, doesn’t need top-heavy administration, is too slippery for the powers-that-be to easily pin down, has messages which will either get people thinking or infuriate them (both good), and is exactly the kind of transgressive, clandestine, “two-fingers” to the politically correct establishment which many young people may enjoy.

I don’t know how big this group is, what potential it has, or how long it will last but it is a pointer to new ways of doing things – and that is why “hope springs eternal” – hope that nationalists will continue to innovate and find new ways – new tactics and strategies to advance our cause and the interests of our people.

By Frederick Dixon © 2020