On the cover of this week’s Shortlist Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew (Plan B) poses in a t-shirt of the infamous white power band Skrewdriver. Skrewdriver were a driving force behind the UK’s neo-Nazi skinhead scene in the 80s and early 90s. Their ...
A NAZI PIECE OF WORK
Brian Whelan, Sunday World Exclusive
THE LEADER of Ireland’s new far-right, anti-immigration group, the Irish National Party, is a Hitler-obsessed anti-Semite, Sunday World can reveal.
David Barrett (29), from Crumlin, has been parading his new BNP style party in the media and hopes to officially launch the group later this year.
Barrett claims he already has 200 potential members who will take to the streets to oppose “mass immigration”.
Describing himself as a “totalitarian”, skinheaded Barrett sees himself as a potential leader for Ireland’s growing population of frustrated young unemployed men.
However, Sunday World can reveal that the real motives behind Barrett and his party are to create a racially pure group styled on Hitler’s Nazi party.
In private internet postings seen by this paper Barrett revealed his obsession with Adolf Hitler as well as his hatred of Jewish people.
In one sick rant he declared “the dirty Jew that lives next door to the parents was in her garden today with a hose washing the patio, there’s a f*cking water shortage! And people wonder what Herr Hitler had an issue with.”
In another rant Barrett quoted his German idol and called for the extermination of the Jews, declaring “Wier musen die juden austrautten!”.
When confronted with his own anti-Semitic statements Barrett claimed he was joking and that his comments were being taken out of context.
He claimed that his party does not believe in the superiority of one people over another and are opposed to racism.
“We are not against all immigrants,” he declared. “Personally and from speaking to a lot of people interested in the party, people aren’t racist.”
“We’ve had uncontrolled immigration hoisted upon us and were never consulted about it.”
INP supporter and friend of Barrett, Ollie Allen, from Ballyfermot, has even appeared in pictures performing nazi salutes.
While he swears his party are not racist and denies any links to violent known Irish Neo Nazi gangs, Sunday World can reveal that Barrett has been approached by an extremist group called Ireland First (IF) to discuss co-operation.
The “white power” IF have links to Eastern European fascist groups, who are also known to be operating in the country.
Last October violence broke out on the city streets when seventy neo-Nazis from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland traveled here to celebrate the birthday of for Czech far right activist, David ‘Jiri’ Kalo.
Barrett’s INP have also attracted the attention of another Irish group who, under the direction of a Lebanese immigrant, had plotted to attack Synagogues and mosques just last year.
It is believed that the INP was to serve as a respectable front for the more hardline violent skinheads to spread their message of hate.
The great leader, however, who boasts of his Irish heritage, can’t even answer a basic question in his native tongue.
While the INP warn of the “increasing threat to traditional Irish values” when asked about his plans for seachtain na gaeilge, Barrett turned red-faced and explained that he hadn’t learnt his Irish at school.
“It was one of the founding principals that we wouldn’t communicate using the Irish language,” he declared.
“75 to 90 per cent of the population do not speak Irish to a fluent level…I think that in itself is discriminatory why should we communicate in a medium that majority of the population cant understand.”
