Martin Webster is a nationalist who was in politics with previous incarnations of the British National Party. The Wiki tells that he was 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 says that/alleges/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. 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 - another hostile sourceHe 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
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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
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Leave a rotten rogue to lead it and destroy it? That is the message coming through.
Martin Webster Writes On 21 September 2011
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The Neocons, the BNP and the Islamophobia Network - an Email from Martin Webster 2 September 2011
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“Who funds the Muslim-baiting in the US?”
Anybody on this list who didn’t get that article has only to e-mail me to request it.
These two articles are also written from a Leftist point of view but none-the-less they contain information which is of interest and use to those who wish to understand how the various sections of the political spectrum are played-off against each other — and by whom and for what purpose.
The section in the second article below (“The Neocons, the BNP and the Islamophobia Network”) dealing with Nick Griffin’s frantic effort a few years ago to ingratiate himself with Zionist Jewry (by way of one “Alan Goodacre”, an allegedly English member of the financial services community based in New York, who wrote grovelling letters to the Jewish Chronicle) is of particular interest.
In that same article you should also N.B. all the references to the activities and contacts of the ‘Neo-Con’ Adrian Morgan, who described as:
“.... 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 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 order 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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How Policy Exchange and the Centre for Social Cohesion
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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>
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Spinwatch - Thursday 17th September 2009
The Neocons, the BNP and the Islamophobia Network
by Tom Griffin
Events in London in recent weeks have highlighted the growing collusion between American neoconservatives and the European far right in stirring up hatred of Muslims.
Richard Bartholomew has details of a meeting at the George Restaurant in east London in August attended by Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer and Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion at the invitation of the Christian Action Network. Also invited were the English Defence League, the group responsible for a number of recent violent anti-Muslim protests.
Robert Spencer says on his blog that he and Murray refused to meet with the EDL, and cites Adrian Morgan as a witness to this version of events. But the presence of Morgan, who did meet the EDL, is itself evidence of the emerging relationship between the neocons and the far-right.
Morgan is 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.
He is also the author of Western Resistance, a defunct blog on which he laid out his view of the BNP:
"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.
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Another former member of Griffin’s kleptocracy
breaks ranks to document a “criminal conspiracy”
My attention has been drawn to a very recent posting by one Arthur Kemp on his own blog site. In this he ‘spews his guts’ over the increasingly isolated and discredited Nick Griffin, chairman of the British National Party. I run out the full text below.
Until recently Kemp was one of the leading lights of the BNP who ran a book-selling franchise under the party’s financial umbrella. He became disillusioned with Griffin not over any matter of policy, principle, financial management or the like but because they fell out in a squabble over money. Faced with a mounting pile of debts, Griffin would not pay Kemp his ‘dues’.
While I don’t doubt that all that Kemp says about Griffin is true (haven’t I been saying much the same thing for the past eleven years??) I think it would be a mistake to regard Kemp as an ‘Innocent-at-Large in a Naughty World’ — which is clearly how he hopes you will think of him.
Kemp is an ex South African policeman who has been on the nationalist political scene both here and in the USA for some years. For a while he was an associate of Dave Duke.
Three years ago Kemp spent much e-mail energy trying to persuade me that just because Duke......
(a) behaved disgracefully when in the late 1970s he visited Britain as leader of the Ku Klux Klan and, for the sake of cheap personal publicity, co-operated with BRMB Radio in an attempt to set up an ambush for the National Front by including him (without the NF being told in advance) in a “Joint NF/KKK Radio Interview” just as a general election was pending......
(b) was later jailed in America after pleading guilty to embezzlement of his organisation’s funds (i.e. spending his members’ subscriptions on the roulette tables)......
...... it didn’t mean he was a bad person!
(There were aspects of Duke’s selfish and outrageous personal behaviour whilst he was in Britain which shocked his Birmingham hosts, but which would be too much of a digression for me to recount here.)
Kemp has been willingly sucking at the tit of Griffin’s BNP for some years, deeply involved with the party’s head office coterie which had a deeply kleptocratic culture. All sorts of financial scandals have transpired whilst Kemp was a member of the party’s leadership echelon.
As a former police detective and an experienced political hand, Kemp must have realised what Griffin was up to, but he kept his mouth shut and stood with Griffin as scandal and crisis followed scandal and crisis — and purge followed purge. Only when his brooklet from the main Griffin money stream ceased to flow did Kemp wake up to “....the gangster-like Griffin”!
WHAT IS KEMP ALLEGING AGAINST GRIFFIN?
Kemp presents what he says is documentary evidence to establish that Griffin tried to induce one of the printers involved in producing BNP election literature to engage in a “criminal conspiracy” whereby the printer would improperly invoice (or re-invoice?) the outstanding sum to Richard Barnbrook rather than to the BNP/Griffin. I understand the issue of the authenticity of the legally required Return of Election Expenses submitted in respect Griffin’s Barking campaign is already before the courts.
Barnbrook was elected as a BNP member of the Greater London Authority in May 2008. He was adopted by members of his local Barking & Dagenham BNP branch to be their candidate for the Barking constituency in the 2010 general election. Griffin later parachuted himself in and announced he was to be the candidate. The wretched Barnbrook accepted this and meekly volunteered to act as Griffin’s Election Agent.
How Griffin repaid Barnbrook’s loyalty is recounted by Kemp.
Kemp ends his exposé with a multitude of “Mea culpas” and declarations that he should have paid attention to those who issued warnings about Griffin for years past. I for one do not accept these glib ‘apologies’.
I regard Kemp — at best — as a political and financial adventurer who has been closely involved with too many dodgy characters over the years ever to be taken seriously by anybody who has got so much as half a brain. (I leave it to the reader to assess what proportion of the nationalist supportership is thus equipped.)
Kemp obviously hopes that his information will be used by the relevant authorities to prefer criminal charges against Griffin. He evidently considers that charges involving conspiracy, perverting the course of justice, fraud and sundry breaches of election law should be on the menu.
I doubt if the authorities or the mass media will react to his documentation of Griffin’s criminality any more than they have done when similar or even more serious matters, with supporting evidence, have been drawn to their attention over the past decade.
The Establishment knows that Griffin is a crook who is bringing the nationalist movement to financial and political bankruptcy and its supportership to disillusionment and despair. It will do nothing to prevent Griffin from continuing with this destructive work.
Griffin is not an “agent of the enemy” or a “state asset” or any such thing. He is simply a sociopathic financial predator doing his thing.
Martin Webster.
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Arthur Kemp's blog - downloaded Monday 18th July 2011
The Gangster-like and Surely Criminal Behaviour of Nick Griffin
By Arthur Kemp
Nick Griffin has behaved like a gangster, has committed fraud and attempted to incite a criminal conspiracy to bankrupt Greater London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook with forged documents blaming him for the party’s printing debts.
This shocking situation has brought the entire party into disrepute and is conclusive proof that Nick Griffin is unfit to be leader of the BNP.
The outrageous story begins in July 2010, when Nick Griffin and Clive Jefferson drew up a conspiracy to force Richard Barnbrook into giving up the Greater London Assembly seat.
To do this, they devised a plot to use forged documents to get Mr. Barnbrook declared bankrupt.
To this end, the utterly evil and devious plan was developed:
1. Nick Griffin approached the owner of Romac Press in Belfast, David Sloan, with an offer to settle the outstanding printing debt owed to his company.
2. In terms of this offer, Mr. Griffin asked Mr. Sloan to sign and print out, on Romac letterheads, two different letters addressed to Mr. Barnbrook.
3. The first letter, which Mr. Griffin dated 11th August 2010 (both letters were written by Mr. Griffin in July 2010), was a seemingly friendly reminder to Mr. Barnbrook that the printing bill for the Barking and Dagenham election material had not been paid.
4. The second letter, which Mr. Griffin dated 1st November 2010, was a formal demand for full payment of the outstanding debt, failing which court proceedings would follow.
Mr. Sloan has confirmed to me in person that Mr. Griffin asked him to sign these two letters.
In return, Mr. Sloan said, Mr. Griffin undertook to pay off the printing bill and, as “a sweetener,” offered to put Mr. Sloan onto an EU salary for £1,000 per month.
To his great credit, Mr. Sloan refused to partake in this plot, telling me that it was clearly a “criminal activity.”
Mr. Griffin’s daughter, Jennifer, sent the two letters Mr. Griffin had drawn up (as MS Word attachments) to Mr. Sloan by email from her ‘britprincess’ hotmail account.
Ms Griffin’s email is reproduced below.
Note the wording:
“These from Nick.”
‘These’ refers to the two word document attachments to the email. The full text of these word documents is reproduced below.
“Please add your surname to them both and print on Romac letter headed paper.”
This is an instruction to Mr. Sloan to print and sign both letters on his own official letterheads.
“Please then post them to Gribin, Llanerfyl, Welshpool, Powys SY21 0JQ.”
This is an instruction to Mr. Sloan to return the signed letters direct to Mr. Griffin personally, and NOT to forward them to Mr. Barnbrook.
The plan was that Mr. Griffin would then send the letters to Mr. Barnbrook, pretending that they were coming from Mr. Sloan.
To make matters more devious, Mr. Griffin deliberately used Mr. Barnbrook’s old mailing address, because then Mr. Barnbrook would be certain not to even receive them.
The point of this was to make sure that when Mr. Barnbrook was eventually sued for the outstanding account, the plaintiff (supposedly Romac Press, but actually Mr. Griffin in the background, pulling the strings and having written the letters of demand) could claim that the letters had been sent and had been left unanswered.
“He says that if we get the London seat back we will be able to guarantee you a payment each month.”
‘He’ is of course Mr. Griffin.
This sentence shows the quid pro quo: if Mr. Sloan agreed to take part in this thoroughly disgusting plan, he would be paid the £44,000 he is owed.
As it turned out, Mr. Sloan refused to play Mr. Griffin’s criminal game.
As a result, he was not paid, and this has resulted in a number of legal actions.
“Call or text me if you need, best wishes
Jen”
This shows the level of involvement in this criminal conspiracy by Jennifer Griffin as well.
She was not merely a “messenger” for her father, but obviously knew the intricate details of the plot.
The exact wording of the first letter, of which you can download an original here, [Pdf file] reads as follows:
“Richard Barnbrook
136 Arden Crescent
Dagenham
RM9 4SA
11th August 2010
Dear Richard
I hope that you are now fully recovered from the excursions and perhaps disappointment of the election. I guess you have been busy but I am getting a bit worried that I haven’t received any payments for my invoices, let alone the prompt and full payment which you promised when pressing for the jobs to be done so urgently before the election. I hope and trust that you will be able to put this right very shortly.
Yours Sincerely
David
Romac Press”
The exact wording of the second letter, of which you can download an original here, [Pdf file] reads as follows:
“Richard Barnbrook 136 Arden Crescent
Dagenham
RM9 4SA
1st November 2010
Dear Richard,
Re. Invoice Number 7760 and 7770
As we have not received a reply to our letter of 11th August we are writing to inform you that, unless a satisfactory proposal for settlement of this outstanding claim is sent to us within fourteen (14) working days of the date of this letter, we shall issue a summons against you in the county court without further reference to you.
Yours sincerely,
David
Romac Press”
There are some important and shocking points to note about these letters:
1. Both were written by Nick Griffin at the same time (July 2010).
2. Both have been written with different dates to make it appear as if they were composed and sent at a date in the future.
3. Both are designed to take an innocent man to court and have him declared bankrupt, simply because he has fallen out of favour with Nick Griffin.
4. The second letter contains the following revealing authorship details: “Dominik” is listed as the original author. This is the well known computer name used by Jane Phillips, the very expensive lawyer retained by Nick Griffin.
I don’t think that Jane was involved in this criminal conspiracy – or at least I hope not – and I suspect that Nick Griffin merely altered one of her letters.
In summary, this is the situation:
- Nick Griffin and Clive Jefferson drew up an unbelievably evil plot to deceitfully bankrupt an innocent man because they had fallen out politically with him;
- Nick Griffin attempted to bribe David Sloan from Romac Printers to play along with two forged “letters of demand.”
- In return for Mr. Sloan’s co-operation, Mr. Griffin offered to pay Mr. Sloan’s outstanding printing bill of £44,000.
- In addition, Mr. Griffin offered Mr. Sloan an additional £1,000 per month paid from EU funds as an additional bribe to take part in this criminal scheme.
- The forged letters of demand were written and pre-dated by Mr. Griffin personally.
- Mr. Griffin’s daughter Jennifer, who is currently the BNP membership secretary, is fully aware and complicit in this evil, vile, outrageous and clearly criminal scheme.
It is clear that Nick Griffin is not fit to be leader of the BNP.
In fact, it is clear that Nick Griffin is not even fit to hold public office.
It is beyond my imagination how anyone could stoop to such low levels.
Not in my wildest imagination could I think up such an evil and criminal plot as this.
I have known for a long time that much was amiss in the BNP, hence my resignation from all positions in it earlier this year.
Now however, having discovered the true depth of the criminal depravity of Nick Griffin and Clive Jefferson, I feel humiliated and embarrassed even to be associated with them, never mind being in the same party.
I wish to apologise to everyone who warned me about Nick Griffin. You were right and I was wrong.
In fact, the truth is actually much worse than even that about which I was warned, and ignored.
I can only say that I make mistakes, and I am sorry.
But I tell you what: I only make a mistake once.
If the BNP membership re-elect Nick Griffin as their leader, they will only have themselves to blame and they will get what they have voted for.
You just cannot have a cabal of convicted criminals, pornographers and gangsters running a party and not expect behaviour as outlined above.
Hopefully, the party members will, however, see sense, and vote out these gangsters for once and for all.
* No doubt I will be attacked and smeared all over the various forums and blogs after this post appears. That is alright, it is the price I am more than happy to pay.
*I have a duty to the hardworking, genuine and loyal nationalists out there, who have been so brutally betrayed by the Griffin cabal. They have a right to know what is going on, so that they can make informed decisions on how to deal with it.
*Oh, in case anyone reproduces Nick Griffin’s childish “Wormtongue” allegation, let me show you the text message he sent me on 26 June 2011, immediately after the rancour of the General Members’ Meeting.
* I had apologised for my (typically, sad to say) late night offensive and intemperate emails of a few days previously, and this is what Nick Griffin wrote back:
[MW file note: Pic of photo of mobile phone screen in text mode displayed here, reading as immediately below]
"Text Message
22:57 16/06/11
"From: Nick G
"Thanks for that. Apology accepted
and understood. In turn, my
apologies for
thoughtless 'disrespect' (negroid
concept of coufrse, but accurate
here) over consultation. Yes, I
regard you as a friend and valued
comrade in the struggle. More in
due course. Best wishes and good
night."
The next day, Nick Griffin then phoned me up and offered me a job.
All I would have to do was to come with him to Strasbourg for a week, and help him compile a campaign based around the Charlene Downes case. The money would come from his Communications Allowance.
It was an obvious bribe.
I turned it down, and, in the light of the criminal activity detailed above, I am now doubly glad.
But the point is that two weeks ago I was a “valued comrade in the struggle” but as soon as it became known that I was supporting Andrew Brons, I instantly became “Wormtongue.”
Thank God I don’t have any contracts for the party in my name, otherwise I am sure Nick Griffin would do to me what he tried to do with Richard Barnbrook.
NOTE: THIS BLOG POST HAS BEEN CREATED AND WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY BY MYSELF. ANDREW BRONS HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF IT, OR INPUT INTO IT. I AM EXCLUSIVELY THE AUTHOR AND THE ONLY PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. ANY ATTEMPT TO INSINUATE, CLAIM, OR REPRESENT THIS BLOG POST AS IN ANY WAY BEING REPRESENTATIVE OF MR BRONS, IS AN OUTRIGHT LIE.
—Arthur Kemp.
UNQUOTE