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Are we seeing a para-political coup against Scottish democracy?
Some notes on the present moment in Scottish politics , with a special focus
on the introduction of electronic election technology.
'The hostility shown towards Alex Salmond by the Scottish LibDems is almost
pathological. These are parties which agree on almost everything - local
income tax, fiscal powers, nuclear power - and yet the LibDem leadership
seems determined to relinquish any prospect of having these policies
implemented by refusing the Scottish people a say on the constitution.'
Iain MacWhirter in the Sunday Herald, 18 th February 2007.
Many people are talking of a Scottish 'Prague Spring'. They are assuming
that the LibDems will eventually strike a deal with the SNP. I am not so
sure. [Since the first draft of this I hear that the LibDems propose to
allow the SNP to lead a minority administration, but I also hear of the
possibility of Labour challenging its loss of Cunninghame North by only 48
votes.]
In what follows I place the present tense situation or impasse in the light
of broader consideration of para-political phenomena, many of them little
noticed or tabooed to mention or even notice. Although I hope to see a
SNP-led adminstration, I think that the British State is engaged in pulling
out the stops to block this, even to the point where we can almost talk of
an on-going coup against Scottish democracy. (Alternatively the SNP
leadership may be allowed a share in office, not power, only once they have
dropped opposition to Trident, unorthodox plans to raise money by selling
bonds, and anything else which doesn't fit with the neo-liberal consensus.)
At the risk of being howled down by waves of insider-metropolitan derision
for being conspiracy theorists, let us sceptical Scottish natives begin by
recalling the sheer power of secret elites to infiltrate, 'manage' (or else
block) a range of civil society organisations, not least political parties
and lobbying organisations.
At one level we observe that those who wish to lead 'Western democracies'
(plus Nato and many EU bodies) seem to have to attend Bliderberg group
meetings for group approval - or otherwise (
http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#wand). More directly we recall with
researchers like Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril the secret services'
plotting against the Wilson government, their work with the CIA to promote
the Atlantacist and pro-Zionist SDLP which let Thatcher - supported by Airey
Neave and MI5 take over, then break the power of the unions with the aid of
big business and the 'media-intel complex', and finally raise up New
Labour - with Blair himself an MI5 informer/agent of influence, according to
David Shayler
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/westcountry/2005/10/325840.html . [This is
consistent among much else with the coincidence that on first arrival in the
Commons he 'happened' to be allocated a room with Militant MP and fellow
'new boy', Dave Nellist]. (See Ramsay's brilliant little The Rise of New
Labour, 2002, and Dorril and Ramsa's Smear: Wilson and the Secret State,
1991] Now that New Labour has served its purpose for a while, one can see
the hand of history (Bilderberg, etc) moving back to support David Cameron,
at least so long as he drops his 'traditional tory' objections to neo-con
revolutionism abroad.
As for the LibDems I believe that here too a degree of MI5 influence at the
top is the rule rather than the exception. One thinks of the eminently
blackmailable Jeremy Thorpe, whose long-known-about interest in boys and
young men, was eventually exposed by a section of MI5 as a way to destroy
the Lab-Lib pact. [The role of MI5 sponsored boys homes/abuse circles in
Northern Ireland (Kincora), Scotland (Dunblane) and probably Cardiff mirrors
on a smaller scale the systematic role that State- sponsored child abuse has
played in the certain centres of power in the US (and Brussels) . see the
work of Glen Yeadon: http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/littleboys.html .]
After David Steel we saw military intelligence officer Paddy Ashdown's
meteoric rise to leadership, plus the tendency of 'unreliable' contenders
for the leadership to implode, now leaving the field clear for St Andrews
based safe pair of hands Menzies Cambell, a confirmed Atlantacist who has
developed pretending to be critical of the US and Israel (while pulling all
his punches) into an art form. As for the antiwar Left I take it for granted
that MI5 manages to play a role in guiding certain key groupings, promoting
those perspectives with which it can live, and shutting out as beyond the
pale other perspectives, e.g. on false-flag terrorism or on the 'War on
Drugs', where we have seen the price of heroin fell after the West took over
Afghanistan.
Of course there are many other difficulties and shortcomings which confront
all of us who want serious social change, many of which many better be
understood in 'structural' terms, or in terms of institutional, gender,
economic, cultural, social-psychological, psychological and even spiritual
perspectives, rather than - or rather than mainly - the products of
fiendish para-political manipulations by ruling and other secret
fraternities .... . But unless we are alert to the possibility or actuality
of the latter, then we can easily over-explain in other terms ('Scottish
cringe') or misunderstand what is really going on.
This said, although the then male-dominated SSP will surely have had its
fair share of people who tend to see things in dualistic terms, which has
predisposed the left to splits over many years, who can seriously imagine
that MI5 hasn't played some role in possibly entrapping and then exposing
Sheridan, and then stirring things further towards a destructive party
split - which has surely contributed to the 'success' that the Scottish
parliament has now been 'cleansed' of any serious ideological opposition to
neo-liberalism.
However the 'threat' from the left isn't the only threat the British State
has to worry about. The 70's saw a rise of a strong Scottish Nationalist
tide, whose ebbing is surely connected with the association of nationalism
with extremism in the public mind. Again, one doesn't wish to paint out of
the picture the Braveheart syndrome of masculinist nationalism, which
deterred amnd deters many throughtful people, especially women, from
embracing and fashioning the SNP as a internationalist and national, not a
nationalist party. Yet granted this vulnerability was there, we also need to
be aware of the role played by the likes of Major Busby and other agents of
the British State, and the numerous 'liberation armies' they spawned, ever
ready to claim credit for bomb blasts, hoaxes, letter bombs, etc. Of course
they also drew in some naive 'genuine' extremists they were manipulating,
inciting, etc (See Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo-American State by Andrew
Murray Scott and Iain MacLeay, 1990) For a recent parallel we need to
realise that secret services now manipulate and largely create the
phenomenon of 'Islamic' terrorism: see Nafeez Ahmed's brilliant online
article Subverting 'Terrorism': Muslim Problem or Covert Operations
Nighmare? ) .
Both these texts are aware of the determination of the British and 'Western'
(US/Zionist) Powers that Be not to give up power lightly. Thus we get the
phenomenon of false-flag terrorism, e.g. the use of Brigadier Kitson's
pseudo-gangs moving back from Kenya to Northern Ireland (Force
Reconnaissance Unit) and then out again to Basra and Baghdad (Joint Services
Group), all the time being given ideological cover by 'counter-insugency'
'terrorism' experts in the RAND-Corporation-linked Centre for the Study of
Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrews, as chronicled by Campaign
Against Criminalising Communities http://www.campacc.org.uk/embedded.htm .
Although the SNP leadership is prepared to trim to the needs of business to
get into office (witness, many believe, the convenient dropping of the
popular demand for re-regulation of the buses just prior to receiving half a
million pounds from Brian Souter), Salmond remains too unpredictable,
anti-war and anti-Trident for comfort. In any case nationalism has a
tendency not just to derail class politics but sometimes to stimulate class
and anti-imperialist awareness. Greater Scottish confidence and mental
independence could manifest in dangerous ways, e.g. it might question other
aspects of the British (Anglo-American) State, e.g. the right of central
banks to make (debt-freighted) money 'out of nothing'; or the British
Broadcasting Corporation's slavish endorsement of the absurd 911 nonsense -
even down to actively reporting the 'collapse' of the Salomon Brothers
Building Seven 26 minutes before it was internally blown up and fell at the
speed of air resistance at 5.20!
(http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm ; on
the demolitions at the World Trade Centre, see www.911review.com and
www.911scholars.org )
Hence, as Scottish Nationalism appears to be on the rise again, we could
well see the Anglo-American State revive the use of a panoply of tactics -
including false-flag terrorism ascribed to 'extreme nationalists'; attempts
to entrap, blackmail and discredit SNP leaders; concerted economic threats
and announcements by Unionist business leaders, bankers or even (as in the
1980's) the US ambassador, etc. The emergence of well-funded groups like
Scottish Voice on a policy-free pro-Unionist agenda may or may not be laying
down a marker for future interventions - its founder is the son of Col
David Stirling whose GB75 citizen army was recruiting people to help
maintain 'order' in a coup in the seventies. Awareness of the record of the
British State abroad suggests that it often seeks to cling to power in (and
over) a country be means of stirring one ethnic or religious group up
against another. The same applies to ruling parties desperately trying to
hold onto power, e.g. Milosovic in former Yugoslavia. Here we all need to be
aware of the amount of sectarian tinder which still lies around in many
parts of Scotland, with Rangers-supporters increasingly being drawn to
define themselves against the Scottish nationalism of Celtic-supporters. At
times the BNP - which sees itself as being adopted/coming to power via
crises - may also play a role in stirring up opposition to 'separation' and
'republicanism' as well as immigration and 'Islamic terrorism'.
On May 3rd the BNP 'appears to have polled' 25,000 votes, advisedly, for
this brings me to yet another technique which may be deployed to frustrate
Scottish Nationalism, indeed may already have been used, namely electoral
fraud.
07815 653389
Are we seeing a para-political coup against Scottish democracy?
Some notes on the present moment in Scottish politics , with a special focus
on the introduction of electronic election technology.
'The hostility shown towards Alex Salmond by the Scottish LibDems is almost
pathological. These are parties which agree on almost everything - local
income tax, fiscal powers, nuclear power - and yet the LibDem leadership
seems determined to relinquish any prospect of having these policies
implemented by refusing the Scottish people a say on the constitution.'
Iain MacWhirter in the Sunday Herald, 18 th February 2007.
Many people are talking of a Scottish 'Prague Spring'. They are assuming
that the LibDems will eventually strike a deal with the SNP. I am not so
sure. [Since the first draft of this I hear that the LibDems propose to
allow the SNP to lead a minority administration, but I also hear of the
possibility of Labour challenging its loss of Cunninghame North by only 48
votes.]
of broader consideration of para-political phenomena, many of them little
noticed or tabooed to mention or even notice. Although I hope to see a
SNP-led adminstration, I think that the British State is engaged in pulling
out the stops to block this, even to the point where we can almost talk of
an on-going coup against Scottish democracy. (Alternatively the SNP
leadership may be allowed a share in office, not power, only once they have
dropped opposition to Trident, unorthodox plans to raise money by selling
bonds, and anything else which doesn't fit with the neo-liberal consensus.)
At the risk of being howled down by waves of insider-metropolitan derision
for being conspiracy theorists, let us sceptical Scottish natives begin by
recalling the sheer power of secret elites to infiltrate, 'manage' (or else
block) a range of civil society organisations, not least political parties
and lobbying organisations.
At one level we observe that those who wish to lead 'Western democracies'
(plus Nato and many EU bodies) seem to have to attend Bliderberg group
meetings for group approval - or otherwise (
http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#wand). More directly we recall with
researchers like Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril the secret services'
plotting against the Wilson government, their work with the CIA to promote
the Atlantacist and pro-Zionist SDLP which let Thatcher - supported by Airey
Neave and MI5 take over, then break the power of the unions with the aid of
big business and the 'media-intel complex', and finally raise up New
Labour - with Blair himself an MI5 informer/agent of influence, according to
David Shayler
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/westcountry/2005/10/325840.html . [This is
consistent among much else with the coincidence that on first arrival in the
Commons he 'happened' to be allocated a room with Militant MP and fellow
'new boy', Dave Nellist]. (See Ramsay's brilliant little The Rise of New
Labour, 2002, and Dorril and Ramsa's Smear: Wilson and the Secret State,
1991] Now that New Labour has served its purpose for a while, one can see
the hand of history (Bilderberg, etc) moving back to support David Cameron,
at least so long as he drops his 'traditional tory' objections to neo-con
revolutionism abroad.
As for the LibDems I believe that here too a degree of MI5 influence at the
top is the rule rather than the exception. One thinks of the eminently
blackmailable Jeremy Thorpe, whose long-known-about interest in boys and
young men, was eventually exposed by a section of MI5 as a way to destroy
the Lab-Lib pact. [The role of MI5 sponsored boys homes/abuse circles in
Northern Ireland (Kincora), Scotland (Dunblane) and probably Cardiff mirrors
on a smaller scale the systematic role that State- sponsored child abuse has
played in the certain centres of power in the US (and Brussels) . see the
work of Glen Yeadon: http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/littleboys.html .]
After David Steel we saw military intelligence officer Paddy Ashdown's
meteoric rise to leadership, plus the tendency of 'unreliable' contenders
for the leadership to implode, now leaving the field clear for St Andrews
based safe pair of hands Menzies Cambell, a confirmed Atlantacist who has
developed pretending to be critical of the US and Israel (while pulling all
his punches) into an art form. As for the antiwar Left I take it for granted
that MI5 manages to play a role in guiding certain key groupings, promoting
those perspectives with which it can live, and shutting out as beyond the
pale other perspectives, e.g. on false-flag terrorism or on the 'War on
Drugs', where we have seen the price of heroin fell after the West took over
Afghanistan.
Of course there are many other difficulties and shortcomings which confront
all of us who want serious social change, many of which many better be
understood in 'structural' terms, or in terms of institutional, gender,
economic, cultural, social-psychological, psychological and even spiritual
perspectives, rather than - or rather than mainly - the products of
fiendish para-political manipulations by ruling and other secret
fraternities .... . But unless we are alert to the possibility or actuality
of the latter, then we can easily over-explain in other terms ('Scottish
cringe') or misunderstand what is really going on.
This said, although the then male-dominated SSP will surely have had its
fair share of people who tend to see things in dualistic terms, which has
predisposed the left to splits over many years, who can seriously imagine
that MI5 hasn't played some role in possibly entrapping and then exposing
Sheridan, and then stirring things further towards a destructive party
split - which has surely contributed to the 'success' that the Scottish
parliament has now been 'cleansed' of any serious ideological opposition to
neo-liberalism.
However the 'threat' from the left isn't the only threat the British State
has to worry about. The 70's saw a rise of a strong Scottish Nationalist
tide, whose ebbing is surely connected with the association of nationalism
with extremism in the public mind. Again, one doesn't wish to paint out of
the picture the Braveheart syndrome of masculinist nationalism, which
deterred amnd deters many throughtful people, especially women, from
embracing and fashioning the SNP as a internationalist and national, not a
nationalist party. Yet granted this vulnerability was there, we also need to
be aware of the role played by the likes of Major Busby and other agents of
the British State, and the numerous 'liberation armies' they spawned, ever
ready to claim credit for bomb blasts, hoaxes, letter bombs, etc. Of course
they also drew in some naive 'genuine' extremists they were manipulating,
inciting, etc (See Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo-American State by Andrew
Murray Scott and Iain MacLeay, 1990) For a recent parallel we need to
realise that secret services now manipulate and largely create the
phenomenon of 'Islamic' terrorism: see Nafeez Ahmed's brilliant online
article Subverting 'Terrorism': Muslim Problem or Covert Operations
Nighmare? ) .
Both these texts are aware of the determination of the British and 'Western'
(US/Zionist) Powers that Be not to give up power lightly. Thus we get the
phenomenon of false-flag terrorism, e.g. the use of Brigadier Kitson's
pseudo-gangs moving back from Kenya to Northern Ireland (Force
Reconnaissance Unit) and then out again to Basra and Baghdad (Joint Services
Group), all the time being given ideological cover by 'counter-insugency'
'terrorism' experts in the RAND-Corporation-linked Centre for the Study of
Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrews, as chronicled by Campaign
Against Criminalising Communities http://www.campacc.org.uk/embedded.htm .
Although the SNP leadership is prepared to trim to the needs of business to
get into office (witness, many believe, the convenient dropping of the
popular demand for re-regulation of the buses just prior to receiving half a
million pounds from Brian Souter), Salmond remains too unpredictable,
anti-war and anti-Trident for comfort. In any case nationalism has a
tendency not just to derail class politics but sometimes to stimulate class
and anti-imperialist awareness. Greater Scottish confidence and mental
independence could manifest in dangerous ways, e.g. it might question other
aspects of the British (Anglo-American) State, e.g. the right of central
banks to make (debt-freighted) money 'out of nothing'; or the British
Broadcasting Corporation's slavish endorsement of the absurd 911 nonsense -
even down to actively reporting the 'collapse' of the Salomon Brothers
Building Seven 26 minutes before it was internally blown up and fell at the
speed of air resistance at 5.20!
(http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm ; on
the demolitions at the World Trade Centre, see www.911review.com and
www.911scholars.org )
Hence, as Scottish Nationalism appears to be on the rise again, we could
well see the Anglo-American State revive the use of a panoply of tactics -
including false-flag terrorism ascribed to 'extreme nationalists'; attempts
to entrap, blackmail and discredit SNP leaders; concerted economic threats
and announcements by Unionist business leaders, bankers or even (as in the
1980's) the US ambassador, etc. The emergence of well-funded groups like
Scottish Voice on a policy-free pro-Unionist agenda may or may not be laying
down a marker for future interventions - its founder is the son of Col
David Stirling whose GB75 citizen army was recruiting people to help
maintain 'order' in a coup in the seventies. Awareness of the record of the
British State abroad suggests that it often seeks to cling to power in (and
over) a country be means of stirring one ethnic or religious group up
against another. The same applies to ruling parties desperately trying to
hold onto power, e.g. Milosovic in former Yugoslavia. Here we all need to be
aware of the amount of sectarian tinder which still lies around in many
parts of Scotland, with Rangers-supporters increasingly being drawn to
define themselves against the Scottish nationalism of Celtic-supporters. At
times the BNP - which sees itself as being adopted/coming to power via
crises - may also play a role in stirring up opposition to 'separation' and
'republicanism' as well as immigration and 'Islamic terrorism'.
On May 3rd the BNP 'appears to have polled' 25,000 votes, advisedly, for
this brings me to yet another technique which may be deployed to frustrate
Scottish Nationalism, indeed may already have been used, namely electoral
fraud.
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