Also on Friday, a leading Pakistani Taliban splinter group praised the "blessed attacks in France" but had harsh words for governments and media in the Islamic world, who the group said had not condemned the magazine forcefully enough.
Its internal divisions could explode; and the demographics are against it: most supporters in the east are pensioners (people like the 18-year old Linke deputy in the Saxony parliament are mere window-dressing), while in the west the party is dominated by older communists and sectarian splinter groups, whose theoretical positions the easterners often find baffling.
In the early 60s, he was a member of a splinter group called Victory For Socialism.
"An Independence from Europe", a splinter group formed by an ex-Ukip MEP, took 23,000 votes in the South West.
They have the capacity to cause trouble disproportionate to their numbers – 300 between all the splinter groups?
Their concerns are only reinforced by events elsewhere in Mexico: hardly a day goes by in the southern state of Guerrero without reports of atrocities committed in the turf wars between splinter groups of the once-mighty Beltrán Leyva cartel.
This is especially galling for Farage's party as the splinter group's alphabetical listing netted it top billing on the ballot, leading one or two of the party's online supporters to suggest "An Independence from Europe" was a "LibLabCon" conspiracy.
But in another, Henry McDonald's account in today's Guardian of his dealings with the republican splinter group is PG Wodehouse stuff.
Younger voters may prefer the Greens (who won a seat in the European election in June) or Syriza, a left-wing splinter group run by Alexis Tsipras, a fast-talking, 30-something biker.The government that takes over after the election, which will probably be on October 4th, may be short-lived.
The authors call this the "sheepish" model of filtering.As governments come to terms with the changes wrought by free services offered by companies like Google services that Egyptians, unlike Americans, may not be able to afford if Mr Lanier's universal payment system were a reality the internet will inevitably splinter and balkanise.
That paved the way for marches on Dhaka, the capital, by Hefazat-e-Islam, an Islamic splinter group with fundamentalist demands.
