Martin Webster is a nationalist who was in politics with previous incarnations of the British National Party. The Wiki tells that he was a is a former leading figure on the far-right, that he was associated with Lady Birdwood, that he claims to write as a freelance, producing two occasional e-bulletins, "Electronic Watch on Zion" and "Electronic Loose Cannon". The Wikipedia barely bothers to hide its loathing. It does not give links to his publications to make it difficult to find his views; a standard propaganda technique. Notice that the Wikipedia tells us that he claims to write........ The Wikipedia knows that Words are Propaganda Tools. It uses them.
Think of the differences between the 'right' and 'left'. Nazis are national socialists. Communists are international socialists. The main differences are slogans and uniforms. The rest is murderous oppression. The Wikipedia favours the Communist side of things because it was set up and run by Jews just like the Wiki. Mr Webster tells us that Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party is thief who is destroying the party. I have no doubt that he is right. See Griffin Has A Track Record Of Fraud - The Main Stream Media Cover It Up
^ http://www.nwn-forum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=208 Martin Webster-CURRICULUM VITAE - a hostile source
^ Martin Webster has another go at the BNP's Nick Griffin
He is on line at Anglo-Celtic - http://anglo-celtic.org/blog/
Griffin Has A Track
Record Of Fraud - The Main Stream Media Cover It Up - Mr Webster explains
QUOTE
June 16, 2007
The body of this post is taken from the
Electronic Loose Cannon, e-bulletin of former National Front National
Activities Organiser, Martin Webster. ARN republishes Webster’s missive
without alteration as (yet another) instructive intervention in the BNP’s
leadership race. While Mr Webster, a life-long racist, clearly has his own
agenda and appears to be driven by his loathing of BNP leader Nick Griffin,
there is no doubting that he is also a good “facts” man. Obviously intent on
inflicting maximum damage on Griffin, Webster’s article will nevertheless make
interesting and useful reading for anti-racists generally, though – naturally
– we cannot vouchsafe the truth of Martin Webster’s statements. Read on…
Some ‘deep background’ on the BNP
Chairman
A reader has e-mailed me as follows:
“Nick Griffins sister stood for the NF in
Suffolk. What is her name? What is Griffin’s father’s REAL name? He claims it
to be Edgar Vincent Griffin. He also claims to have been born in Harrow but he
wasn’t, he was born in Brighton. Why would he lie about that?”
This prompted me to consider that there are so many newcomers (compared to me!) to the Nationalist scene that the time had come for a bit of “deep background” on Nick Griffin, Chairman and, to all intents and purposes, owner of the British National Party. I have no knowledge of Nick Griffin’s father, Edgar, beyond that he is a chartered accountant and that his father, Edwin, was a leading Freemason who left Nick, £300,000 in the late 1980s (which he quickly lost in stupid property deals). On the one occasion in the mid 1970s that I stayed over-night at the Griffin family home (then at Hill House, Huntingfield, near Halesworth, Suffolk) the kitchen was filled with oriental carpets, giving it the appearance of a souk. Mrs Griffin had bought a job lot of these and was proposing, somehow, to merchandise them. She asked my opinion as to their quality. I was surprised she didn’t remark: “Never mind the quality — feel the width”.
It became evident to me on that occasion that the entire Griffin family were money mad. I understand that the family lived in Barnet when Nick was a toddler. Presumably his father had made sufficient cash to translate the family to Suffolk. Perhaps Grandpa helped.
MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING SISTER
I was informed last year by Daily Mail
feature writer David Jones that Nick Griffin’s sister is “Susan Patricia”.
Jones said he had tried to locate her via a search of the on-line Registry of
Electors, but had no luck. There is a real mystery concerning why she has
broken off all contact with her family and made efforts to cover her
tracks. Susan Patricia was once engaged to Ipswich National Front branch
Organiser Tony Williams, a boyhood friend of Griffin’s. At the time (late
70s/early 80s) Williams (whose father was a wealthy businessman) was building
up a very successful off-licence business in East Anglia. During the 1970s
Susan Patricia stood at least once (I think in Ipswich) as an NF local council
candidate. I don’t know when or why the engagement between Susan Patricia and
Williams ended. It may have been something to do with the following:
NICK GRIFFIN’S FIRST SWINDLE?
In the mid/late 1980s Griffin swindled
Williams of a couple of thousand pounds. Griffin told Williams that he had got
news about a bargain supply of CDs somewhere on the Continent, but that he
didn’t have the cash to take advantage of the offer. He implied the purchase
was for his own private business enterprise and promised to repay Williams in
cash “within two weeks”. As they were friends, the deal was transacted without
paperwork. Weeks went by and no repayment was made.
When Williams asked for his money, he was astounded to be told by Griffin that the money was “a loan to the party” (i.e. what remained of the National Front, or one of its splinters) not a personal loan to him, or a loan guaranteed by him, and that if Williams wanted his cash, he should chase the party. But this was at the time that the remnant of the NF was splintering into little grouplets and Griffin was helping Roberto Fiore set up the International Third Position, so in effect there was no identifiable “party” to chase and any litigation against the then impecunious Griffin would be futile.
JUNK PRINTING EQUIPMENT AND A
DRUNK’S LIFE-SAVINGS
You will know that Griffin was eventually
forced to quit the ITP after a deal which involved the purchase of printing
equipment which turned out to be only just so much scrap iron; and swindling
one of its members, Colin Todd, caretaker of the Fiore-owned building Liss
House at Liss Forest, Hants. Somehow Griffin persuaded Todd to “invest” his
life savings in a venture. It was a scam and Todd lost the lot. When
confronted with this cruel swindle Griffin shrugged it off, remarking that
“Todd is a drunk”.
The two thousand pounds loss which Williams sustained as a result of Griffin’s crookedness was not the worst aspect of the sting. It was the crass and cynical dishonouring of an agreement between two long-standing friends. Williams just could not believe Griffin could be so dishonest and so brazen — and so casual about a long friendship.
THE FIRST FARM BUILDING RENOVATION
SWINDLE
This made Williams loathe Griffin and,
decades later, prompted him to make available to me a DVD copy of a video he
had shot of a building restoration project which had taken place in 1984 on
Hill House, the Griffin family home in Suffolk. Griffin told the NF that he
had persuaded his parents to grant the National Front’s youth wing, the Young
National Front, free use of a number of outbuildings of their farmhouse, but
that restoration work would need to be done free of charge. YNF and NF members
went to the farm for weekend after weekend during that year and did hard and
dangerous building work for no wage. They paid their own fares to and from the
site and slept on the floors of the buildings they were renovating.
A SWINDLE WITH GRATIS AD LIB LAGER
FUNDED “FREE MEALS”
They were given “free” meals, but the meals
were in fact paid for by means of a petty swindle. Williams had delivered to
the site before work commenced a van-load of tins of continental lager which
had just gone by their ‘sell-by’ date and could not be sold via the off-licence
trade. Williams GAVE the lager for FREE distribution to the young idealists.
The Griffins knew a business opportunity when they saw it and they set to work
grinding off the ‘sell-by’ date from the cans, which were then SOLD to the
workers at £1 per can! Easily £2 in today’s values. But this was only a
trivial side swindle. The worst aspect of the main swindle — the building
restoration — was that the youngsters were put to work on an a major asbestos
clearance.
“IF HE DOESN’T BREAK HIS NECK HE’LL
DIE OF ASBESTOS POISONING”
By that time a law had been passed requiring
asbestos clearances to be conducted by specially licenced asbestos clearance
contractors whose staff had been specially trained and who use special
protective equipment and who bagged and disposed of asbestos waste in a
prescribed manner. Needless to say, the NF/YNF people were ignorant of the
dangers and of the law governing such work, and they simply climbed on to the
roof of “the Asbestos Barn” and hurled the asbestos sheets to the ground,
sending up clouds of potentially lethal dust. This and other aspects of the
work was filmed by Tony Williams on his video camera. Griffin wrote and spoke
a commentary to the video. His voice is unmistakable. At one point in the film
John Field, then the Organiser of Hackney YNF, is shown on the roof without
any protective equipment or safety harness, hammering down asbestos sheets as
clouds of dust rise. Griffin remarks in his commentary: “If he doesn’t break
his neck, then he die of cancer due to asbestos poisoning”.
This remark was made with cold matter-of-factness.
WHY SHOULD ALL THIS BE DRAGGED UP
NOW — AFTER SO LONG A TIME?
Some may ask why such wickedness should be
made an issue now…. “after all, it was a long time ago”. There are two equally
important answers, as follows: Firstly, asbestosis is a terminal condition
which takes decades to manifest itself. The people who as young men worked on
the asbestos clearance at Hill House are now coming into the time when, if
they have been unlucky, symptoms will start to present. They may have no idea
what is happening to them, or why.
Secondly, anybody who in his 20s (an adult) who could perpetrate such a thing against anybody, let alone “comrades”, and who could perpetrate sundry other swindles against friends and associates, is not somebody who at any subsequent time should have any trust reposed in them. Needless to say, the property, once renovated, was never made available to the NF (nor was the video!!). The whole thing had been a trick whereby the Griffin family exploited their political connection to con young idealists to get dangerous, expensive and potentially lethal work done for free.
VIDEO MADE TO CREATE ILLUSION OF “A
HISTORIC PROJECT”
Griffin had only asked Williams to make the
video to give the YNF lads the illusion they were engaged in “a historic
project” — and how those innocents played up to the camera! Williams says he
was as much conned as to the real purpose of being asked to make the video as
he was conned by the use made of his supply of lager. The work which those
lads did added greatly the value of the Griffin property. When the property
was sold, not a penny of the enhanced value created by the renovation work was
directed to any nationalist political movement, as promised by Griffin at the
outset. Fiore and other of the Italian ITP prominenti occasionally turned up
to Hill House to inspect the good work, since the concept of “rural community
centres” was then very much one of their ideological fads. One would have
thought that the swindle they saw Griffin perpetrate against the NF would have
warned them off trusting him with their financial affairs…. but Fiore and his
gang were then and are now greedy for money, so perhaps they admired Griffin’s
style.
THE SECOND FARM BUILDING RENOVATION
SWINDLE
Griffin performed another “Barn conversion”
swindle soon after he became chairman of the BNP in 1999 — in about 2001/2.
The BNP put up the money for the materials and provided free skilled labour
for the renovation of his barn on his ‘Y Gribbin’ farm in Wales. This barn is
supposed to function as a venue for party meetings. If as and when it is used
as such, the party is invoiced by Griffin for its use. Griffin did not grant
the party any equity in the property in return for its “investment” so that if
as and when the farm is sold, the added value created by the barn renovation
go entirely to Griffin and not a penny to the BNP. For some reason Griffin
never secured the video (with his commentary dubbed on it) of the Hill House
outbuildings renovation of 1984. Perhaps in the hurley-burley of political
splits and financial shenanigans he forgot all about it.
WILLIAMS’ HILL HOUSE VIDEO GOES
WALKABOUT
Williams left the NF at about the time of
its final disintegration under Griffin’s (mis)management and some time in the
1990s became head of the minuscule National Socialist Movement. The NSM became
exposed by the media for one reason or another and Williams fled the country
and settled in a far-off land. He took with him the video of the Hill House
renovation. Eventually he made a DVD conversion of the video and made
available a copy to me. The ownership of the copyright of this film is
retained by Williams under contract. Information about this DVD has been given
to a wide cross-section of the media. I have retained the complete file of all
the negotiations which took place. In all instances there was an initial
flurry of keen interest and then, in all cases, the interest suddenly
evaporated without any explanation.
THE STRANGE REACTION OF THE MEDIA
Can one imagine what the reaction of the
media would be in normal circumstances where a politician — of ANY party — was
on record on a DVD of being involved in such a matter and of commenting
sarcastically about the possible death of one of his duped helpers? To put the
gravity of the current situation into some kind of perspective, one would have
to recollect the kind of huge smears, based on the most trivial of pretexts,
levelled at personalities in the National Front during the 1970s. In 1978, for
example, the Daily Mirror concocted a double-page spread exposing the
Organiser of a local branch of the NF as “a Nazi” because part of the minute
pattern on his tie, when hugely enlarged, could be said to resemble a “pattern
of swastikas”! The NF official concerned (Paul Kavanagh) was a respectable
middle-class importer of machine tools with no “Nazi” background whatsoever.
Indeed, he was widely rumoured to be an MI5 informant (but that is another
story!). He was co-founder with Andrew Fountaine of the “National Front
Constitutional Movement”. How does that bit of nonsense about Paul Kavanagh’s
tie compare with Griffin’s outrageous record?
WHO KILLED-OFF DOMINIC CARMAN’S
BIOGRAPHY OF NICK GRIFFIN?
My recent experiences of the media vis-à-vis
Griffin seem to be very similar to that of the author Dominic Carman (son of
the famous libel lawyer, the late George Carman QC). Three years ago Carman
was engaged in researching Griffin prior to producing a biography. Carman
subjected me to two long in-depth interviews, the first was video-taped, the
second audio-taped. He took copies of a lot of documents I have on file. The
questioning covered a lot of ground, including most intimate matters.
In-between Carman’s first and second interview with me, he had visited the
Griffin farmhouse home in Wales. I understand he spent the weekend there and
took the opportunity to interview Nick’s wife Jacky separately from her
husband Nick. She was very frank on delicate matters. Carman also took
information from former pupils at a girls public school in Suffolk, whose
sixth form Nick and one or two other lads were permitted to attend. The
information which they gave chimed with that provided by Jackie and provided
context for my information in the same general area of sexuality.
THE ESTABLISHMENT IS HAPPY WITH
GRIFFIN AS BNP CHAIRMAN
Two years rolled by but Carman’s book did
not appear. A brief article about Griffin by Carman appeared in the Daily Mail
colour supplement about a year ago which was clearly based on his book
researches, but since then there has been complete silence. Intrigued by this,
I e-mailed Carman on 25th April this year, saying: “….. you will understand my
wondering if the reason why your book on Griffin has not appeared has anything
to do with my experiences of trying to get quite crucial information about
Griffin’s character and background into the public arena at a time when the
mainstream media profiles of him are edging towards hagiography. Any reply
will be kept confidential by me if you so request…..” Carman received my
e-mail but has sent no response. I quite understand. He wants to be able to
continue to earn his living from the mainstream media. For want of any other
explanation, I feel entitled to propose that the media was and is being
orchestrated not to do anything to dislodge Griffin from his perch at the top
of the BNP. It is evident that the Establishment has every reason to be happy
to have creature like Griffin at the head of the premiere “nationalist” party
in Britain, just as it is happy to have corrupt creatures at the head of every
other political party which strives for the rewards which only Establishment
patronage can bestow.
Martin Webster
UNQUOTE
Leave a rotten rogue to lead it and destroy it? That is the
message coming through
Martin Webster Writes On 21 September 2011
“.... a contributing editor to Family Security Matters, which has been described as a front for the Center for Security Policy, a Washington think-tank run by the ultra-neoconservative Frank Gaffney ..... A member of the 910 Group, an offshoot of the Center for Vigilant Freedom (CVF), which ran the CounterJihad Europa conference in October 2007. Among those speaking alongside Robert Spencer at this Brussels event were representatives of European far-right parties such as Filip Dewinter of the Vlaams Belang and Ted Ekeroth of the Sweden Democrats....
The reference to Filip Dewinter of the Vlaams Belang party (of Flanders
in Belgium) is of current interest. Griffin and Dewinter had a conference at
Dover only last weekend and a video of part of it is on the BNP web site.
Dewinter is a particularly craven pro-Zionist. He was induced to come over here
and chat with Griffin on the beach with the White Cliffs of Dover in the
background as a return favour for Griffin going over to Belgium a few years ago
to help stifle an outbreak of “anti-semitism” in Vlaams Belang. Griffin,
according to his (Christmas 2005) blog, made a speech along the lines of:
“Just because most Oligarchs are Jews, it doesn’t mean to say that most Jews are
Oligarchs...” That sophisticated line seems to have done the trick with the
Flemish nationalist who evidently match their British counterparts IQ point for
IQ point — that is to say: one each.
Griffin is in very deep legal and political ‘do-do’ the moment and he hopes that
this very public cuddle-up to perhaps the most pro-Jewish ‘nationalist’ leader
in Europe (apart from Geert Wilders of Holland!) might persuade the Jews to call
off the Hounds of Hell — in the form of Sheriff’s officers escorted by the
Police — who have since the early hours of this morning been pounding at his
door and demanding immediate payment of huge sums or goods in lieu.
Go to Sean Hadley’s ‘GriffinWatch’ and Peter Barker’s ‘North-West Nationalist’
web sites for full and updated information about that scenario. Sean and Peter
do a great job keeping nationalist informed.
As you know, the narrative of how Griffin attempted to ingratiate himself with
with Zionist-Jewry — and why — and also how he was swindling the BNP’s
membership of considerable sums, was being written about, with chapter and verse
evidence, in my bulletins YEARS before the authors of the below articles got on
the case.
Martin Webster.
P.S.: While drafting this bulletin, news has arrived that a printer in Belfast
has gone bankrupt, making nine of his employees redundant, because Griffin
failed to pay a £40,000 bill on printing for last year’s general election. The
printer refused to take up a fraudulent suggestion that in ordeer to get part of
the debt paid he declare that Richard Barnbrook, a former senior BNP official —
and Election Agent to Griffin at the last election but subsequently purged from
the party — had placed the order for the printing.
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From:
Date: Monday, 29 August 2011 21:18
To:
Subject: The Cold War on British Muslims
How Policy Exchange and
the Centre for Social Cohesion
encourage The Cold War on British Muslims
Spinwatch 2 August 2011
In a report published today, Spinwatch examines the
Centre for Social Cohesion <http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Stanley_Kalms>
and Policy Exchange <http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Policy_Exchange>
; two key right-wing think-tanks involved in the debate on Islam and
multiculturalism which are thought to have influenced the Coalition Government’s
new Prevent strategy.
The report, which was completed before the recent terrorist attacks in Norway,
argues that right-wing think-tanks have understated the rise of Islamophobia on
the far-right and in some cases condoned the rise of groups such as the English
Defence League because of their own links to the 'counterjihad movement'.
The Cold War on British Muslims, shows how the Centre for Social Cohesion
and Policy Exchange have rejected counter-terrorism policies based on public
safety and have instead sought to revive discredited counter-subversion policies
from the Cold War era – policies which targeted a generation of trade union
leaders and peace activists including future Labour Ministers. The report warns
that reviving such policies is likely to stigmatise and even criminalise
politically active Muslims, as well as liberals and leftists, and risk
undermining the traditional freedoms enjoyed by churches, schools, universities
and public libraries.
The Cold War on British Muslims also reveals for the first time the
network of individuals and foundations that are bankrolling both think-tanks.
Donors identified in the report include the neoconservative Rosenkranz
Foundation in the United States, and hardline Zionists like Lord Kalms <http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Stanley_Kalms>
and the late Cyril Stein in the UK. It reveals that both think-tanks share
major donors with a number of controversial organisations including the
Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers, the Israel-Diaspora Trust
(an organisation founded by the late Rabbi Sidney Brichto, a passionate
supporter of Israel and scourge of its critics inside and outside the UK Jewish
community) and the Anglo-Israel Association (founded in 1949 by the Christian
Zionist Sir Wyndham Deedes).
The report’s co-author, Professor David Miller of Strathclyde University, said:
‘The policies advocated by the Centre for Social Cohesion and Policy Exchange
detailed in the report inevitably mean the curtailment of civil liberties and
the narrowing of political debate. The consequences for British Muslims though
will be even more serious.’
He added: ‘The revelations about the think-tanks’ donors arguably calls into
question their ability to produce fair and balanced research and certainly
underlines the need for greater transparency over the funding of think-tanks.’
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The report can be downloaded from the Spinwatch page on Scribd <http://www.scribd.com/doc/61402174>
or as a PDF here <http://www.spinwatch.org/images/The%20Cold%20War%20on%20British%20Muslims.pdf>
(786 kb).
See also The Neocons, the BNP and the Islamophobia Network <http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/317-islamophobia/5318-the-neocons-the-bnp-and-the-islamophobia-network>
"I am slightly ambivalent about the British National Party, on account of its racist past. Nowadays, under the leadership of Nick Griffin, a skilled politician, the racist agenda has become replaced by an agenda which is highly focused against Islam. With this aspect of its policies, I am in agreement. Islam poses a more serious threat to every aspect of British democracy than anything previously encountered."
(via the Internet Archive)
Ambivalent or not, Morgan's interest in the BNP is reciprocated, according to
Searchlight Magazine, which reported in 2007 on the efforts of BNP idealogue
Alan Goodacre to tap support from right wing bloggers:
"Goodacre also stated his intention to try and gain the help of Adrian Morgan who writes regularly for the Western Resistance website and has previously contributed to The Guardian and New Scientist and was once a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society. Morgan also contributes to the 'Islam Watch' website – 'Islam under scrutiny by ex-Muslims' – which would explain Goodacre’s interest in him."
It might also be explained by Morgan's membership of the 910 Group, an offshoot
of the Center for Vigilant Freedom (CVF), which ran the CounterJihad Europa
conference in October 2007. Among those speaking alongside Robert Spencer at
this Brussels event were representatives of European far-right parties such as
Filip Dewinter of the Vlaams Belang and Ted Ekeroth of the Sweden Democrats.
The CVF's Christine Brim suggested in November 2007 that the strategy of
embracing such parties could be extended to Jean-Marie Le Pen and the BNP:
"We suggest looking for the possible movement of Le Pen’s political party Front National towards the center-right, as they may change their platform to pro-active support to improve the situations of European Jews and Israel. The same trend is happening in Austria, and with the BNP in the UK (also not invited and did not attend the conference). If such parties specifically state pro-Israel positions, and take real actions opposing anti-semitism and disavowing previous positions - and reach out to Jewish constituents and encourage Jewish participation in party positions - these are real actions to observe, and to approve. They have not done this yet - but are starting."
(via the Internet Archive)
Indeed they were. Alan Goodacre had written to the Jewish Chronicle in 2006
(much to the bemusement of its readers):
"We hope that our future behaviour may in time bring you to understand that our repudiation of antisemitism is genuine. We are the only party in Britain that is truly serious about fighting the Islamofascist threat."
Morgan, Brim and Goodacre have each employed the same sleight of hand,
attempting to present the embrace of Islamophobia as some kind of atonement for
anti-semitism, rather than another manifestation of the same underlying racism.
If this strategy seems crude, it may yet take neo-fascist Gianfranco Fini to the
Italian premiership. Time Magazine describes the process:
"To fulfill his big ambitions, Fini understood in the early 1990s that he had to distance himself from his past. Eventually, he came to believe that the shortest path from marginal Mussolini nostalgic to mainstream political power was unwavering support for the state of Israel. The decisive moment came when Fini traveled to Israel in November 2003, declaring his affection for the Jewish state and his ‘shame’ for Italy’s racial laws under fascism. The following year, Silvio Berlusconi made him foreign minister, where the longtime leader of the National Alliance party stood out amongst his European partners for his pro-Israel policy."
This conversion even impressed some on the 'Decent Left'. Harry's Place wrote of
Fini:
"He is pro-European Union and pro-US - neither of which fit easy with the claim that he is still a fascist. After September 11, AN posters across Italy declared ‘Solidarity with the United States’ - Italian fascists despise the US for obvious historical reasons.
"He is also explicitly in favour of capitalism and the free market. Again this is a break not only with old style Italian corporatist fascism but also the later post-war concept of the ’social right’ which believed in large scale state ownership and nationalisation etc.
"AN also supported the liberation of Iraq, a position that I am not aware of any of Europe’s genuine fascists taking."
As Time noted "having "Israel" stamped in your passport and publicly
condemning anti-Semitism cannot alone remove lingering doubts about extremist
tendencies." Yet the attempt to prove otherwise has some influential backers.
In addition to being a key player in the CVF, and secretary of another
counter-jihad outfit, the International Free Press Society, Christine Brim is a
senior vice-president at Frank Gaffney's Washington think-tank, the Center for
Security Policy (CSP), and director of its Victory Coalition Fund, an incubator
for anti-Islamist projects.
The CSP is open about its involvement in political warfare and even has a
vice-president for information operations who blogs on the subject. Its General
Counsel David Yerushalmi heads up the Society of Americans for National
Existence, whose material found its way into last year's Policy Exchange
briefing against the Global Peace and Unity event in London.
Gaffney's sister Devon Cross, a member of the CSP advisory council, heads up the
Policy Forum on International Security Affairs, a neoconservative briefing
operation for European journalists which was run for some time out of Annabel's
nightclub in Mayfair.
The CSP and the Policy Forum have been endorsed by some of America's wealthiest
conservative foundations. The Philanthropy Roundtable recommended both
organisations in its 2006 publication, The Struggle Against Radical Islam: A
Donor's Guide(pdf) which criticised the US Government for failing to develop
political warfare and public diplomacy programmes modelled on those of the Cold
War, and called on private sector donors to fill the gap.
Neoconservatives had repeatedly come up against resistance in attempting to run
political warfare programmes through their powerbase at the Pentagon during the
Bush administration. One such proposal was leaked to the New York Times in 2004:
"Pentagon and military officials directly involved in the debate say that such a secret propaganda program, for example, could include planting news stories in the foreign press or creating false documents and Web sites translated into Arabic as an effort to discredit and undermine the influence of mosques and religious schools that preach anti-American principles.
"Some of those are in the Middle Eastern and South Asian countries like Pakistan, still considered a haven for operatives of Al Qaeda. But such a campaign could reach even to allied countries like Germany, for example, where some mosques have become crucibles for Islamic militancy and anti-Americanism."
A private sector version of that strategy is clearly visible in the smears and
secret briefings directed at British mosques, a campaign which has now taken a
step further with the recent wave of street protests by provocateurs like the
BNP-connected English Defence League and the Counter-Jihad Europa affiliate Stop
the Islamisation of Europe.
Communities Minister John Denham last week announced plans to address issues
alienating white, working-class people at risk of being exploited by the
far-right. If that approach is to succeed, the wealthy right-wing propagandists
who are actively trying to set working-class communities against each other must
be exposed.
UNQUOTE
What can I add to this?
Martin Webster Writes
QUOTE
Another former member of Griffin’s kleptocracy
breaks ranks to document a “criminal conspiracy”