Monday, 6 July 2009

Spooks and their friends

The latest edition of the Sunday Times reported yesterday that anti-terrorism officers have discovered the biggest haul of weapons and explosives in England since the IRA’s campaign of terror in the 1970s. The alleged culprits of course turn out not to be "Islamic extremists" but neo-Nazis – see
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6638139.ece

On the same day another British newspaper revealed that the new head of the intelligence services MI6 and his family are close friends of Hugo Haig-Thomas who is it seems a "researcher" for the notorious "historian" David Irving (who in his ill fated libel case against the American academic Professor Deborah Lipstadt was described by a High Court judge as having devoted his life to crude attempts to to portray "Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews"):
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1197562/MI6-chief-blows-cover-wifes-Facebook-account-reveals-family-holidays-showbiz-friends-links-David-Irving.html

Is it any wonder that when the authorities in England do actually make any arrests in connection with far-right terrorist plots it is invariably more by luck than by design?

Perhaps if our intrepid intelligence agents spent less time on holiday with nazi apologists they could spend more time thwarting neo-nazi terrorist conspiracies...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-caught-on-cusp-of-bomb-campaign-1724229.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7469180.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6263022.stm

(with thanks to Leyland Lad)

2 comments:

Tellywatcher said...

Anybody see tonight's Panorama?

It showed how the plod are - apparently at the behest of the greedy and unelected energy companies and their corrupt New Labour pals - wasting their time (funded of course by us long suffering tax payers) spying on harmless and peaceful campaigners, retired environmental scientists and even journalist and cameramen from major TV news networks whose job it is to cover public protests and demonstrations.

No wonder the REAL "extremists" and terrorists must sleep easily in their beds! These "cops with cameras" - our supposed protectors - are too busy protecting the profits of foreign owned energy companies. (These elite boys in blue are it seems appropriately known it seems as "FIT" ("Forward Intelligence Teams" - or is that something to do with FITTING people up...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8130000/8130986.stm

Anonymous said...

Anybody see tonight's "Panorama"?

Instead of fighting crime or protecting us from real terrorists or extremists, the programme showed what the plod get up to nowadays -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8130000/8130986.stm

Rather than protecting the public they are too busy protecting the profits of greedy foreign owned energy companies and their corrupt New Labour pals.