KKK UK--coming of the pseudo klans? (concluded from previous page)
As a post-script to the above, on 20th September two
events took place in East London within a very short distance of each other. On the one hand, a KKK national relaunch meeting
was held, the redirection point for which was Bow Bus garage. On the other hand, a BNP meeting was sceduled for Bethnal Green
the same afternoon. This latter meeting place was moved at the last minute to Stratford, and BNP members as well as Anti-Nazi
League puppets/others under the proximate control of the Searchlight team were directed from one place to the other, so they could
beat up an elderly gentleman of pensionable age (John Tyndall) and his wife. In order to get from the original anti-BNP meeting
point (Whitechapel Tube Station) to Stratford, the ANL and others had to pass within yards of where the Klan eventually met.
As far as I know, no attempt was made to disrupt the KKK gathering. The day after, more free Klan adverts appeared in the Sunday
Mirror and (Glasgow) Sunday Mail (21/9/97). No doubt Searchlight will soon claim inside knowledge of the Klan moot, and provide
a disingenuous explanation of why the BNP were attacked and the Klan not. Could it be that Searchlight and their state paymasters
wanted the latter meeting to go ahead so as to foster Klan growth? Once cannot be certain, but at the very least this whole
enterprise has the aroma of state license, if not sponsorship, about it. Army intelligence? No thanks.
UPDATE (26/10/06)
As
predicted, Searchlight later claimed inside knowledge of the 20/9/97 Klan meeting--one likely soiurce for which was the charmless
Linda Miller, in whose flat the meeting was held! More recently, so-called gangland 'hard man' Bernard O'Mahoney explained
in self-serving detail his antics while accompanying News of the World reporter Gary Jones to a 1996 Klan meeting for the article
referenced in footnote 7. This, indeed the whole book, perfectly captures the mentality of the low-grade police informer O'Mahoney appears
to be [13] SEE ADDITION BELOW FOOTNOTES. Subsequently, the Ku Klux Klan has done little in the UK, which has not stopped
sporadic if half-hearted media publicity from time to time, usually with Searchlight input [14]. Winder's reference in the original
article to having summarily lost his job became a little clearer-- it is alleged he had been using Inland Revenue facilities to track
down political opponents. Nice. He subsequently became BNP Eastbourne Organiser--presumably enabling him to interface
with both the political undead and the soon-to-be dead.
FOOTNOTES
1) see Sunday Telegraph 8/6/97
2) see
John George & Laird Wilcox 'Nazis, Communists, Klansmen & others on the Fringe' (Prometheus Books/New York 2002)
p.394-414. Michael Novick 'White Lies White Power' (Common Courage Press/Maine 1995) p.35-91 adopts a rather more sensationalist
approach which tends to vastly overestimate the Klan's current strength, but to his credit outlines lots of instances of state:Klan
collaboration.
3) George & Wilcox op. cit. p.405. See p.402-6 especially on the dispute between Duke & Wilkinson
4)
in March 1978 when David Duke visited the farm of Robert Beauclair in Warwickshire, I was one of those protesting along with comrades
from the Leamington Anti-Racist Anti-Fascist Committee.
5) Sunday Mirror 19/2/95. Another recent member of the
Klan who later turned out to be a Searchlight/ state asset and wife-killer was Charles Hanson.
6) see interview in Highlanderissue 1 (Glasgow/1996) p.6
7) News of the World 30/6/96 (Gary Jones)
8) p.1 of 'Important Announcement' document distributed Summer 1997
9)
direct quote from Roger Cook's commentary
10) see respectively editions for 19/6/97 (Andy Bevan) 23/6/97 (Erlend Clouston) and 22/6/97
(Tim Reid)
11) one of his Monomarks Boxes (Kaotica) was listed in the 'Our Race is Our Nation' document, the organisational high-water
mark of C18.
12) p.2 document cited. ZOG is the fascist term for the so-called 'Zionist Occupation Government' (ie World Jewish
Conspiracy).
13) Bernard O'Mahoney 'Hateland' (Mainstream/Edinburgh 2005) p.204-5/210-24 covers the Klan
14) 'Klan Knights cash in on
Celtic racism' Sunday Times 21/3/99 (David Bamber & Rajeev Syal)
BERNARD O'MAHONEY: FURTHER DETAIL 8/11/07
We are always pleased to get feed-back from readers: such exchanges brighten
up our day, no matter how early. At 6.40am this morning I received a text-message from a mobile that has the same number as
on O'Mahoney's web-site. This, and other messages/quotes from O'Mahoney both today and in print are highlighted in purple:
"I
suggest u remove your pathetic allegation that I am a low-level police informer from your site asap. This is the only warning
u shall get. BERNARD O'MAHONEY"
To which I responded at 8.48 am (having consulted Agent Q & other key associates)
"If the
level is wrong provide further detail and I'll amend it. Or would a PII Certificate apply?" [PII=Public Interest Immunity
certificate, used to protect informant's identities]
This generous offer seemed to upset Mr O'Mahoney. He immediately left a
phone message "You gutless fucking mug. I'll know who you are by the end of the day. I told you to fucking move it. You're
trying to be clever. Fuck you!"
Soon followed another text, timed at 8.51 in which O'Mahoney now threatened violence
"I am not nor have
I ever been so move it or get your head redesigned"
Timed at 9.29 am, the head-redesigner (O'Mahoney) sent an email to the NFB address
expressing objections to the above passage in which we:
"state that I am a low-grade police informant. This is entirely false
and I am advised is damaging to the True crime books that I write. I have asked the people concerned to remove this falsehood
but they have refused. I am now asking you to do so, should it still be in place by Monday, I will start legal proceedings.
Thank you Bernard O'Mahoney"
So, Mr O'Mahoney seemingly disagrees that he is a low-level police informer/informant. The
precise level is a delicate question--hence me asking him. The substantive question is whether O'Mahoney is (or is not) a police
informer. To clarify, the (on-line) Compact Oxford English Dictionary defines an informer as "Noun: a person who informs on
another person to the police or other authority". Some informants are registered by police, and paid a salary--we do not know
if O'Mahoney is. Bearing the definition in mind, and just using quotes from the 'Hateland' book alone, consider if the following supports
the claim above:
1) speaking of his acting as a prosecution witness at the trial of the man who supplied Leah Betts with the Ecstasy
tablet that killed her, O'Mahoney refers to "my decision to assist the police" (p.203). Clearly a voluntary act, therefore.
2)
"I also made a self-incriminating statement to the police about my efforts to pervert the course of justice on behalf of Lisa and
Michelle Taylor" (p.203). Again voluntarily.
3) The original News of the World article on the Ku Klux Klan referred to above, that
O'Mahoney chronicles his detailed assistance with, is quoted extensively, including this passage "Now we are making our dossier
of evidence available to the police" (p.220)
4) Moving on to the Copeland case, in which letters O'Mahoney wrote to Nazi nail-bomber
David Copeland in jail pretending to be a blonde girl called 'Patsy Scanlon', O'Mahoney says "the main purpose of my hoax would be
to coax from him details that might damage him at the trial" (p.237-8). O'Mahoney also describes voluntarily letting officers
from Scotland Yard's Anti-Terrorist Branch into his home, at which point, speaking of the correspondence with Copeland "I produced
my thick file and they read through everything...they took the letters away as possible evidence" (p.275). And the letters were
indeed used at Copeland's trial as evidence by the prosecution.
CONCLUSION
If O'Mahoney did not inform the police about matters they might be interested in along the lines quoted from 'Hateland'
above, then he might have a point, and the original statement above we would happily remove. In any event, O'Mahoney (like most
featured in NFB) has right of reply, as here. However, given he does not deny co-writing 'Hateland', and has never to my knowledge
denounced it, everybody (including a court) can come to their own conclusions. The question also is not whether the various
people O'Mahoney provides information to police about--alleged murderers, paedophiles, Ku Klux Klan members, David Copeland etc--anybody
can have much sympathy with. We certainly don't. We thank Mr O'Mahoney for providing us with the opportunity to flesh
out the original remark, using his own book. Finally--can the reputation and professional standing of O'Mahoney, who has participated in
neo-Nazi violence (p.86), worn a T-shirt on national TV advertising the National Front phone number (p.185) and by his own admission
been closely involved in the drug-dealing underworld (the exact level a matter for debate) be lowered by being described as a police
informant? Have his own references to co-operating with police hindered O'Mahoney's sales? If not, why does it matter when
others comment on such?