Blood and Honour was the motto of the Hitler Youth.

It’s also the name of a Neo-Nazi movement with devotees around the world, including right here in Lotusland. Like the two guys who were recently charged with various hate crimes, including setting a Filipino person on fire while he was sleeping on a discarded couch. The man was badly burned, but he survived.

I’m still trying to figure out what exactly is honourable about setting a defenceless person on fire. Of course, he’s less likely to fight back. Maybe they should rename the movement Blood and Chicken S–t.

In some ways, it’s difficult to take these guys seriously. They have ridiculous names such as Werwolfwear, Skrewdriver, Schwarzer-Orden (Black Order) and, my favourite, 14 Words: We Must Secure the Existence of Our People and A Future for White Children.

It’s important, apparently, to protect the little white moppets from the Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG), according to Blood and Honour deep thinker Max Hammer, while honouring the memory of Ian Stuart Donaldson, former frontman for the white-power band Skrewdriver, who died in 1993.

The creepiest part of this garbage, along with all the Nazi-inspired neo-swastikas and iconography, is that these guys truly believe other white people share their vision but are just too downtrodden by the forces of ZOG to do anything about it.

What’s even creepier is that their vision, stripped of its over-the-top, red-and-black bluster, keeps turning up all over the place. In this post 9-11 world, the target is more Middle Eastern than African or Asian. Certain pundits argue seriously that we are about to be engulfed by a new generation of immigrant Muslims and then enslaved by Sharia law, the most hardline interpretation of the Qur’an. There’s a terrorist lurking behind every burqa.

Meanwhile, anyone with ambitions to be the next U.S. president has to declare his or her intent to shore up the wall between the U.S. and Mexico to keep out the “illegals.” Canada is rarely included in the conversation, and when it is, Canadian “illegals” are called “snowbirds.” They’re white and therefore not a problem.

Here in B.C., we have a Hate Crime Task Force, which tries to prevent Blood and Honour from terrorizing the innocent. Critics argue that hate-crime legislation is overkill and people who set people on fire are just criminals, period, and that the traditional criminal code is enough.

Maybe so, but hate is an accelerant, the Molotov cocktail of the mind. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire, to prevent it from spreading.