Tag: Terrorism

  • FLASH NEWS!  ARMENIA TAKES TURKEY TO INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE!

    FLASH NEWS! ARMENIA TAKES TURKEY TO INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE!

    ERGUN KIRLIKOVALI

    Turkish Forum Danisma kurulu Uyesi

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    Just kidding…

    That could never happen, although perhaps it should, as that is the only way to expose the Armenian hearsay and forgeries.

    That is the only way Turkey can clear its name in the face of Armenian lies, deceptions, fabrications, falsifications, and misrepresentations. The 1948 U.N. Convention also required that genocide verdict can only be rendered by a “competent tribunal” where it is proven beyond a showdown of doubt that there was an “intent” to commit genocide. Activists, columnists, academicians, clergy, politicians, and million other professions are free to be heard as witnesses if called upon, but the ultimate decision BELONGS TO THE COURTS.

    Why do I stress that? Because none of the Armenian claims can stand the scrutiny of a court room…not even a single one!

    Case in point: US federal judges recently threw out a California law passed by Glendale Armenians via racist and dishonest politicians which allowed the so called heirs of bogus survivors of a bogus genocide could sue the insurance companies for life insurance policies purchased by Ottoman Armenians. Whoosh! What was that? It was the sound of Armenian claims going out the window… Armenian genocide lies finally hit the wall of truth…
    (Check the archives for details on when, where, who, why, etc.)

    We know this. That is why we are saying, writing, demanding that Armenians, if they truly believe in the crap they spread around as genocide, they should sue Turkey at ICJ in the Hague. I dare them!

    The rest is talk… cheap talk!

    But they cannot!

    Do you now know why Armenians can never take their claims of genocide to court to convict Turkey?

    Because the Armenians know that the Armenian genocide claims do not have a snowball’s chance in hell to withstand the scrutiny of a courtroom.

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    If they did, this is how that lawsuit at ICJ would start:

    Your honor, poor starving Armenians…

    Objection!

    unarmed, Armenian civilians…

    Objection!

    were killed by Turks….

    Objection!

    In 1915…

    Objection!

    systematically…

    Objection!

    And with intent to annihilate…

    Objection!

    to the tune of 1.5 million…

    Objection!

    Armenians had no weapons…

    Objection!

    Armenians were loyal citizens…

    Objection!

    Armenians did not revolt…

    Objection!

    Armenians did not demand territory…

    Objection!

    Armenians did not resort to terrorism…

    Objection!

    Armenians did not join the country’s enemies…

    Objection!

    Armenians did not join the invading enemy armies…

    Objection!

    Armenians were innocent…

    Objection!

    No one helped Armenians…

    Armenian homeland…

    Objection!

    And Armenian national identity…

    Objection!

    (blah…blah…blah…)

    ( Objection!… Objection!… Objection!… )

    See, the Armenians would not be able to finish even a SINGLE FULL SENTENCE without being interrupted after every word/phrase by extremely VIGOROUS TURKISH OBJECTIONS…

    Racist and dishonest Armenian version of history at the hands of equally racist and dishonest politicians like Schiff, Pallone, Radanovich, do not face responsible opposing views in political platforms and can pass easily with a show of hands. In none of the 20 or so countries’ parliaments or 40 some US States’ assemblies did those racist and dishonest Armenian resolutions pass without considerable Armenian political pressure. Meaning, if Armenians did not push this hard, no one would give a damn!

    Pay Schiff, Pallone, Radanovich, and they will sign any resolution created by Armenians. That is why Armenians go for political resolutions rather than courts, because they can manipulate the facts in the former, but not the latter.

    Not all killings are genocide… Not all teresets (temporary resettlements) are genocide… not all my-granma-told-me stories are genocide…Not all human suffering is genocide… Not all man’s inhumanity to man is genocide… Not all war crimes are genocide…

    You see, there has to a proven intent for any of the crimes to be a genocide (that’s what the 1948 UN Convention says)

    And the verdict belongs to ICJ, the only competent tribunal that can effortlessly rip apart the unreliable collection of Armenian hearsay and forgeries.

    That is the plain truth…

    And that, my friend, you can take to the bank!

  • FALSIFIERS OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN CONFLICT

    FALSIFIERS OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN CONFLICT

    There is not a day when some Armenian activist somewhere around the country is not deliberately defaming and demonizing Turks, Turkish-Americans, Turkey, and even friends of Turkey. This is done by signs, blogs, letters, talks, films, panels, exhibitions, indoctrination summer camps, and/or a combination of these and other vehicles. Why?

    If the Armenian claims are so truth, so watertight, so slam dunk, why such passionate, radical, sometimes even fanatic behavior, which is known in the past, to have led to Armenian terrorism victimizing ordinary citizens?

    Do you see the Irish going around and bombing British facilities to have the potato famine acknowledged?

    Do you see the Jews going around and bombing German installations to have the Holocaust recognized?

    Do you see Japanese bombing American owned buildings to have the Japanese internment admitted?

    What is wrong with Armenians? Especially those who still revere Armenian terrorists (like the notorious Lisbon Five ?)

    And those who never condemn Armenian terrorism of the past 40+ years victimizing 70+ innocent men, women, and children, mostly of Turkish heritage, but some non-Turkish ones, too?

    ARMENIAN HYPOCRISY IN SUPPORTING TERRORISM

    What can one say in the face of an incredible hypocrisy that while all Armenians mourn the assassination of Hrant Dink in 2007 by a Turkish teenager, no Armenian will remember, much less mourn, the assassination in 1982 of the Turkish consul general, Kemal Arikan, by an Armenian teenager? Both victims were 52 years old, married, had teenage daughters, and killed by a teenager filled with hate by his elders. Why this double standard in the Armenian community? Why would they now acknowledge, much less condemn, more than 2000 acts of terrorism committed by brainwashed and fanatic Armenian youth?

    Armenian love to hate all things Turkish. So much so, that they even falsify the record of one of the most accomplished Turkish historians, Prof. Esat Uras, the founder of Turkish Armenianology. His 1000+ plus book “Armenians in History and The Armenian Question” still shines the brightest light into a dark chapter of history that is the Turkish-Armenian conflict. You know what Armenian propagandists call him? Pan-Turkish ideology and former Turkish secret service agent. Give me a break!

    If it were this simple to defame a man’s personality, character, and lifelong career, then the Armenian lobby would have nothing to do today, as there is not anyone in the contra-genocide camp, yours truly included, that the Armenian did not call Turkish government agent, someone paid by Turkish interests, lobbyist, propagandist, or similar. Such intimidation, harassment, and even veiled threats by Armenians, though, only help create only a bitter smile on our faces and more research, publications, and public education in return.

    Why do Armenian attack the doyen of Turkish historians, Prof. Esat Uras, so viciously? Because of many of his books? Yes. But perhaps more for what he wrote about Armenia and the Armenian identity:

    “Armenia cannot be anything other than simple memory based on geography, a region without political boundaries.”

    IS ARMENIAN HISTORY MOSTLY PROPAGANDA MADE IN GLENDALE ?The

    Armenians prefer to call mountainous eastern Anatolia Armenia but they only lived there, scattered over a very wide territory and were always a small minority in the areas they lived. If communities can claim the right to every place they lived, then there would be thousands of countries as members of the United Nations today. Can Armenians claim California as their own just because they number 20% of Glendale and 10% of Fresno? Or Massachusetts because 5 % of some town there is Armenian?

    Armenians were also furious with what Center for Strategic Research, a think tank in Ankara that is similar to Hudson Institute in Washington DC, wrote in “Armenian Claims & Historical Facts”:

    “It is certain that the Armenians did not originate in Armenia (Eastern Anatolia highlands) not did they live there for three to four thousand years as claimed. They put forward these ideas merely to support their claim that the Turks drove them out of a homeland in which they lived for thousands of years. But these claims cannot stand up the facts.”

    Armenians still think they can humiliate Turks and destroy Turkish history with falsifications, fabrications, and deception. They still think they can implement an apartheid on Turkish soil, where a tiny minority would be allowed (by the powers east and west) to rule over a majority of non-Armenians. They still think they can pressure, harass, and eventually destroy Turkey. Then again, Armenians are not exactly known for their sound thinking. They also think that a tail can wag the dog.

    The most shocking of all is that some American institutions of higher education would allow themselves to become a vehicle used by directly/indirectly-paid-Armenian-agents and/or direct/indirect beneficiaries of the Armenian-financed-genocide-industry (Akcam, Gocek, et.al.) to promote Armenian version of history.

    “…Armenians further claim that they were the people of Urartu which existed in Anatolia starting about 3000 BC. This claim has no basis in fact. No form of the name Armenian was found in any inscription in Anatolia dating from that period, nor was any similarity at all between the Armenian language and that of Urartu, the former being a satem group of Indo-European languages while the latter was similar to Ural-Altaic languages. Nor were there any similarities between their cultures. There is, therefore, absolutely no evidence at all to support the claim that the people of Urartu were Armenian…”

    Source: “Armenian Claims & Historical Facts”, Center for Strategic Research, Ankara (A think-tank like Hudson Institute in Washington DC.)

    ARMENIAN NARRATIVES ARE PARTI PRIS, SELECTIVE, AND UNTRUSTWORTHY

    So, much of poses to be serious writings in academic journals about modern Armenian history, produced by academics like C.J. Walker, well known for his passionate support of the Armenian cause, are parti pris, discriminatory, and unreliable.

    It is the Armenian-financed and/or supported genocide scholars who have an interest in cover up, distortion, secretive reviewing of data, falsification, fabrication, and deception, and who do not seek to discover or explain the situation as it really was.

    The Karabagh territory historically belongs to Azerbaijan. Armenians relocated there by Tsarist Russia in accordance with the long standing Russian policy of substitution of Muslims of Caucasus (by killing or expelling) by reliable elements (Armenians and others.)

    Armenians are newcomers and colonists even in the eastern Anatolian highlands. The ancestors of Armenians arrived there in the 6th century BC and actually destroyed the Urartians. The three so called 5th century historians, Buzand, Khorten, and Yeghiske, are non-existent and the works attributed to them are non-credible para-historic texts.

    Armenian propagandists are busy defaming and demonizing the Turkish identity, promoting the false Armeniological school, which corrupts and distorts Turkish history in accordance with the Armenian designs.

    SEVEN ARMENIAN OR ARMENOPHILE SCHOLARS IN TROUBLE

    Armenians are so intolerant to dissent and responsible opposing views that if you do not tow the official Armenian party line in telling the Armenian history, you will be declared an enemy of the Armenians even if your career is spent in appeasing them. If you don’t believe me, ask these scholars: Nina G. Garsoian, Ronald Grigor Suny, Robert W. Thomson, Richard G. Hovannisian, James R. Russel, Peter S. Cowe, Alina Ayvazian, Simon Payaslian, and others.

    Can you believe the Armenian fanatics? These seven scholars spent a life time trying to appease the Armenian propagandists but just because they question the Armenian identity or homelands, they were “nixed”. If I were any one of these seven scholars, I would definitely avoid Armenian functions in the next… uh… 195 years. Armenian fanatics are in no mood to see any of these seven scholars or the scholars will “get it”. The Armenian hoodlums made derogatory videos about them and posted them in youtube. These seven scholars are “shish kebab” now as far as the Armenian thugs are concerned. You see what I mean?

    Ronald Grigor Suny is the holder of the first Alex Manoogian chair in Modern Armenian History in the Univ. of Michigan. In other words, he is as “partyline” as you can possibly get to the Armenian version of history. In his book “Looking Towards Ararat: Armenians in Modern History” , 1993, page 4-5, he writes this:

    “…The national consciousness of Armenians about their identity is nothing but a collection of beliefs…”

    Now if I say this, Armenians falsifiers and their Turk-hating stooges are quick to label me Turkish-government agent, paid-lobbysist, genocide denier, blah…blah…blah… But look who is saying it?

    Let’s continue with the writings of this Armenian-propagandist-turned-instant-Armenian-enemy:

    “…The present Armenian people are a product of natural intermingling of different ethnic groups…

    The ancestors of Armenians were invaders of Armenian (eastern Anatolian) highlands who have migrated to Armenia in the 6th century BC…”

    Source: Same book, page 7. Wow!

    Again, if I uttered these words, columnists kissing Armenian (you know what) would walk all over each other to call me names. Sorry to disappoint them but one cannot argue with facts, can one?

    Fasten your seatbelts for this one:

    “…The Armenian-Turkish conflict was provoked by the Armenian nationalists in order to overtake Turkish Anatolia and the Turkish side simply reacted…”

    Source: Ronald Grigor Suny, “Nation Making, Nation Breaking: The End of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Community”, 1996, page 3.

    Forgive me, your honor, you majesty, your high and mighty genocide scholar of the 17th order, but isn’t that exactly what I have been writing all these years? If what I was subjected to by the Armenian falsifiers and Turk-haters is any indication, then this poor Ronald Grigor Suny is in serious trouble. Who knows, Armenian terrorists might bomb his house, too, just like they did UCLA’s Prof. Stanford Shaw’s house in 1977 for saying the same things. Ah, but in those days, who knows, people like you, Ronald Grigor Suny, ridiculed Prof Stanford Shaw and ignored his freedom of speech, didn’t you?

    Well, what do you know, now you are in the same spot as Prof Stanford Shaw was in 1977! You are not exactly a (so called) genocide denier, but you deny worse: you deny Armenian identity and homeland. (Don’t you love it? Does this thing get any better than this?)

    Finally, there is this:

    “…The Turkic-Azeris are the direct descendants of the Caucasian Albanians and the territory of Karabakh historically belonged to (Azeris)…”

    Source: Ronald Grigor Suny, “Looking Towards Ararat: Armenians in Modern History” , 1993, page 193

    Thank you, Ronald Grigor Suny, the Armenian-propagandist-turned-instant-Armenian-enemy. Who is going to save you from the Armenian Revolutionary federation now?

    Lesson of the day: Truth rules, sooner or later.

  • FEDERAL APPEALS COURT:  NO GENOCIDE!

    FEDERAL APPEALS COURT: NO GENOCIDE!

    Another 1-2-3 blow to those bogus Armenian genocide claims.

    This time, it is from the high court. And this time, the ruling by a panel of federal judges pierces through the collective hearts of all Armenian falsifiers and their Turk-hating friends like a golden arrow… whoosh!

    The wording by The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (8/20/09) does not really leave much to say, does it?

    “…the U.S. government doesn’t legally recognize that an Armenian genocide occurred…”

    As if this is not enough, the judges follow with a thunderous lightning:

    “…The (California 2000) law contradicts past presidents’ opposition to describing Turkey’s slaughter of as many as 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide…”

    Never mind that the casualty numbers are deliberately inflated in the bogus Armenian claims and that Turkey was not “slaughtering” but “defending their home” in the face of a minority that took up arms against their own government, joined the invading enemy armies, and were killing their Turkish neighbors and other fellow citizens (Kurds, Arabs, Jews, Circassians, Bosnians, and more) en masse. Never mind that the Armenians made plans to betray Turkey prior to WWI, armed and organized themselves for sedition, attacked government facilities, killed soldiers and police and ordinary citizen bystanders, made territorial demands on the government, enthusiastically joined the enemy during a major war of survival of the state, and when Turks defended their country, home and family with much superior passion, determination, energy, and skill, the treasonous Armenian ingrates screamed “genocide!”… err… 50 years later!

    There is more, but first, let’s read the news:

    1- FEDERAL APPEALS COURT REJECTS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CASE
    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-aug-21-me-armenian-suit21-story.html

    Armenian Americans descended from victims of the 1915-18 massacre by Ottoman Turks can’t sue foreign insurance companies for unpaid claims because the U.S. government doesn’t legally recognize that an Armenian genocide occurred, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. A Glendale priest and thousands of other Armenians whose relatives were among the 1.2 million killed had won a partial victory two years ago. U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder said then that a 2000 law passed by the California Legislature gave the descendants standing to sue three German insurance companies… (Read more and then see comments below.)

    2- STATE CAN’T LET ARMENIAN VICTIMS’ HEIRS SUE
    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/State-can-t-let-Armenian-victims-heirs-sue-3220858.php

    (08-20) 14:25 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A California law allowing heirs of victims of the Armenian genocide to sue in state courts for unpaid insurance benefits is unconstitutional because it conflicts with U.S. foreign policy, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The law contradicts past presidents’ opposition to describing Turkey’s slaughter of as many as 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said in a 2-1 ruling. (ead more and then see comments below)

    2- COURT TOSSES CALIF. LAW ON PAYMENTS TO ARMENIANS

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court invalidated a California law Thursday that allowed heirs of Armenians killed in the Turkish Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago to seek payment on the life insurance policies of dead relatives. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law amounted to unconstitutional meddling in U.S. foreign policy. It based its 2-1 ruling on a 2003 (Read more and then see comments below.)

    Now for comments, I have the following thoughts:

    1- Turkey and USA settled their differences arising from the mutual claims during WWI amicably with an agreement inked in 1934. Consequently, any claims after that point by any American (Armenian heritage or not) against Turkey cannot go through US Court system.

    2- This fact should have been known to those who have even the most cursory knowledge on this subject but even more so, to attorneys. Congressman Adam Schiff, an attorney at law by profession, who “co-wrote” this incredibly ill-informed law based on deliberate misrepresentations by his Armenian constituents and his gullible acceptance of same and who rammed it through the state legislature, should have known better.

    3- Adam Schiff, thus, wasted by his self-serving efforts to appease his Armenian supporters, untold amount of time, money, and energy. If a CPA could sit down and calculate all this, s/he would find that the final figure could be in the many millions of dollars.

    4- In view of the fact that California is just ordered to free up to 45,000 inmates due to substandard living conditions in prisons and does not have money or time to build new ones, Adam Schiff’s selfish disregard may have cost the taxpayers many millions of dollars. He could have worked on this real issue when he was in Sacramento instead of trying to legalize fictitious, divisive, polarizing, fraudulent, and good-for-nothing Armenian claims.

    5- What’s more, it is not a leap of imagination to predict that if those freed inmates commit terrible crimes tomorrow, Adam Schiff should be held at least partially responsible, since he so egotistically wasted the courts’ time and squandered the state’s and country’s resources in political witch hunt. (Schiff is still squandering taxpayers hard earned money by sending aid to Armenia, a land-locked, poverty-stricken, extremely corrupt, violent, and rogue country which goes out of its way to create trouble for each and every one of its neighbors. Armenia’s major import is foreign aid and major export is illegal aliens, crooks, criminals, and terrorists. Has anyone red the coverage in LA Times of the widespread Medicaid/Medicare fraud committed by mostly the “Armenian immigrants”? That’s my tax dollars at work. And Schiff wanted to open a “ US Trade Office” financed by more of my tax dollars there. Trade office? Really? Trade what? Five crooks for a bushel of wheat? Fifteen criminals for a Dell computer? Fifty terrorists for a Chevy truck? Anyway, let’s go back to the issue at hand.)

    6- Campaign pledges on the one hand and realities and responsibilities of office after being elected on the other, are two completely different things. The Armenian Diaspora simply does not get it, even after so many legal lessons ofsimilar magnitude. So when Obama, Biden, Clinton and others do not go along with discredited Armenian claims while in office, the Armenians are quick to call this reversal of their fortune ” a denial”. In reality, however, they are the ones who deny the truth.

    7- The Armenian claims are racist and dishonest. They are racist because they ignore Turkish suffering and loss caused by Armenian ultranationalists during WWI, just because the victims are Turkish. And they are dishonest because they deliberately and cunningly exclude the six T’s of the Turkish-Armenian conflict: tumult (revolts), terrorism, treason, territorial demands, Turkish suffering, and TERESET (temporary resettlement order of 1915, which is amply documented as such, not genocide. See www.ethocide.com.)

    Any questions?

  • BNP: A party of convictions

    BNP: A party of convictions

    The BNP claims to be the party of law and order but its ranks are full of people with serious criminal records. […] [Also Terrorist Links are listed below]

    Here are some of the most recent cases where BNP members have been convicted.

    November 2008 Ian Hindle (left) | details |
    Jailed for three years for having sex with a child

    November 2008 Andrew Wells (right)
    Jailed for two years and three months after admitting engaging in sexual activity with a child and engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

    October 2008 Lockart Kneen | details |
    Fined £150 and £115 after being found guilty of two counts of racially and religiously aggravated harrassment for affixing anti-Islamic stickers to packages he sent out in the mail. He ran an operation selling BNP magazines on the Internet and sent out packages with stickers that read “no more mosques.”

    October 2008 Martin Glasgow | details |
    Chesterfield BNP fundholder Martin Glasgow is jailed for 12 months for a racist assault against an Asian man in June 2006.

    October 2008 Anthony Weeks | details |
    Darlington BNP member Anthony Weeks is given a ten month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £600 in compensation to his victim and order to do 80 hours community service after admitting racially aggravated assault against an Egyptian customer at his place of work, a local cash and carry. After telling his victim that he was a member of the BNP Weeks then shouted “All you foreigners should not be in my country” before punching him. He was spared jail after his victim spoke up for him. The judge stated that “but for Mr Noaman’s intervention, you would have gone immediately to prison.”

    November 2007 Andrew Kendall | details |
    BNP supporter Andrew Kendall was given an 18 month conditional discharge and fined £200 for putting up a racially-offensive and threatening poster which showed three black men, the words read “Illegal immigrant murder scum” and contact details for the British National Party.

    October 2007 Shaun Jones | details |
    Welsh BNP supporter Shaun Jones is given a six month community order for threatening polling booth staff on 4 May 2007 with a stick after being told he was not registered to vote. He ignored advice from staff who gave him a phone number to call to register and instead continued shouting and swearing at them until he was arrested. He was also made to pay £150 costs.

    August 2007 Dominic Bugler | details |
    Bugler, the BNP candidate for Pelsall ward, Walsall, in the May 2007 elections is arrested and remanded in custody for the possession of an imitation firearm. He is later handed a two-year ASBO earned because he ’caused misery for residents through his violent and drunken behaviour’ and which bans him from parts of Pelsall. The Aldridge and Brownhills Housing Trust won an eviction order against him too but he avoided this by moving of his own accord to a new address. Bugler also appeared in court charge with threatening behaviour towards his wife in late August and agreed to be bound over to keep the peace for 12 months for a sum of £200.

    June 2007 Robert Bennett
    Robert Bennett, the convicted gang rapist who oversaw the BNP leafletting campaign in Oldham in 2002, is arrested for his part in a assault on his next door neighbour which began when they ask his son David to leave a BBQ after he began using racist language. David attacked his neighbour after refusing to leave . He returned with his father and the pair subsequently attacked both the male and female neighbour. Robert Bennett who admitted affray was sentenced to 150 hours community service and £250 compensation whilst his son, who also pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 250 hours community service and ordered to pay £500 compensation.

    May 2007 Jamie Sedgewick | details |
    Jamie Sedgewick, a BNP member from Morden is found guilty of screaming racist abuse at an Asian police officer as he was arrested whilst breaking up a fight at the Hideaway Bar, Kingston Road, in March 2006.

    March 2007 David Copeland | details |
    The Appeal Court increases David Copeland’s sentence to a minimum of 50 years. The London nail bomber, who had been an active member of the BNP, had originally been sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for the three bombs he set off in 1999 which killed three people and injured 139 others.

    February 2007 John Laidlaw | details |
    John Laidlaw is sentenced to life after going on a shooting spree in north London in May 2006. He shot Abu Kamara in Upper Street before accidentally shooting Emma Sheridan at Finsbury Park Tube station, as he aimed at a second man. Laidlaw had a string of previous convictions starting at the age of 14. They included property damage, public order offences and 16 counts of theft and possession of knives. He also carried out seven armed street muggings and had been in and out of jail several times. In October 2004 he attacked a black motorist, hurling racist abuse at him. A police report written after Laidlaw was arrested for the attack said he behaved violently in front of officers and was “foaming at the mouth”. “In the presence and hearing of the black female gaoler the defendant made racist comments and remarks, stating he was a member of the BNP and that he hated all black people,” the document says. He also said he was going to “kill all black people”. He was convicted of racially aggravated actual bodily harm and using racist language.

    February 2007 Robert Cottage | details |
    Robert Cottage, a BNP member and former council election candidate, pleads guilty to possessing explosives. He denies, however, as does his co-defendant David Jackson, conspiracy to cause an explosion. The jury are unable to agree a verdict. A retrial will take place in July.

    January 2007 David Enderby | details |
    David Enderby, a BNP councillor in Redditch, is found guilty of assault on three members of his estranged wife’s family. He is fined £100 for each assault and ordered to pay £100 costs. His wife later told the local newspaper that he had a history of domestic violence.

    January 2007 Mark Bulman | details |
    Mark Bulman was jailed for five years for setting fire to Swindon’s Broad Street mosque. He used a BNP leaflet as a fuse for his petrol bomb.

    December 2006 Richard Mulhall | details |
    Richard Mulhall, the BNP’s council group leader in Calderdale, was sentenced to do 200 hours of unpaid work on four counts of benefit fraud. Branding him “thoroughly dishonest”, Recorder Felicity Davies said he only escaped jail because relevant legislation was not yet in force when he committed the offences. He was also ordered to pay £2,000 costs and to repay £603.18 in jobseekers’ allowance. He had already repaid the housing benefit and council tax benefit. A jury had found him guilty in October of falsely claiming a total of £3,002.95 in benefits by concealing the fact that his partner was working.

    November 2006 Darren Francis
    BNP member Darren Francis is given a five-year restraining order after being found guilty of harassing Sally Keeble, the MP for Northampton North.

    September 2006 Robert McGlynn | details |
    Robert McGlynn, a Swansea BNP activist, is fined £200 plus £200 costs for shouting racist abuse at an Asian woman. He was convicted on evidence from a passer-by. He later loses his appeal against conviction and is ordered to pay a further £140 in costs.

    July 2006 Allen Boyce
    The former National Front Remembrance Day parade bugler Allen Boyce, 73, now a BNP supporter, receives a two-year suspended sentence for giving bomb-making instructions to Terry Collins, a BNP member, who was sentenced to five years in 2005 for conducting a racist hate campaign against the Asian community in Eastbourne.

    May 2006 Angela Clarke
    A former BNP councillor Angela Clarke is fined £200 for resisting arrest during a fracas.

    May 2006 Kevin Hughes
    Kevin Hughes, who acted as election agent for the BNP Redditch councillor David Enderby in May 2006, is sentenced to 30 months in prison for assaulting an Iraqi asylum seeker. The sentence is later reduced to two years on appeal.

    March 2006 Luke Smith
    A former BNP Burnley councillor Luke Smith is imprisoned for 11 months for violent disorder, and a further six months for other violent offences. He is also banned from football matches for six years. Smith was expelled from the BNP in 2003 following an assault on a BNP organiser.

    February 2006 Stephen Bailey
    Stephen Bailey, a Lincoln BNP activist, is convicted of 35 charges of criminal damage and 19 of arson. He set fire to sheds, litter bins and a car and is believed to have vandalised more than 80 cars by slashing tyres and damaging bodywork. Bailey was arrested after police seized computer equipment and documents from his home.

    November 2005 Roderick Rowley
    Roderick Rowley, a former BNP candidate in Coventry, is imprisoned for 15 months after admitting 14 charges of making, distributing or possessing obscene images of children. He is also ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years.

    May 2005 Karl Hanson
    Karl Hanson is fined £400 for possessing heroin and crack cocaine. News of his arrest broke a few days before the May 2005 local elections in which he was a BNP candidate in Huddersfield.

    April 2005 John Cope
    John Cope, a Cheshunt BNP member and election candidate, is fined £750 and ordered to pay £104 costs for harassing an anti-racist campaigner.

    March 2005 Terry Collins
    Terry Collins, a BNP member, is sentenced to five years in prison for a year-long campaign of terror against Asian families in Eastbourne. He claims the BNP “brainwashed” him. Collins, a former Territorial Army soldier, admitted charges of arson, racially aggravated harassment and criminal damage. He also admitted the possession of bullets found in his home and asked for 11 further offences of racially aggravated criminal damage to be taken into account.

     

    Terrorist Links

    The conviction of ROBERT COTTAGE for possession of explosives has once again highlighted the link between BNP members and racial violence and terrorism. While the BNP moved quickly to distance itself from the actions of a man who stood in three local elections as a BNP candidate, he joins a growing list of BNP members who have engaged in some form of terrorist or murderous behaviour. Read more.

    • DAVID COPELAND – London nail bomber David Copeland brought havoc to London when he set off three nail bombs in 1999. He was a BNP member and activist in East London. He told police when questioned that he wanted to ignite a race war in Britain so that the white population would vote for a BNP government. Read more
    • TONY LECOMBER – Nick Griffin’s chief lieutenant Tony Lecomber was convicted and imprisoned for three years for five offences under the Explosives Act after he tried to blow up the offices of a political party. Police found hand grenades and detonators at his home. Despite this the BNP kept him on its payroll for over ten years. He was eventually forced out of his job after he approached Joe Owens to kill a leading politician.
    • ALLEN BOYCE and TERRY COLLINS In July 2006 Allen Boyce, a BNP supporter, received a two-year suspended sentence for providing Terry Collins, a BNP activist, with bomb making instructions. Collins himself was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in 2005 for conducting a racist terror campaign against the Asian community in Eastbourne. Read more
    • MARK BULLMAN – arsonist Mark Bulman, a BNP activist, was jailed for five years in January after trying to set fire to Swindon’s Broad Street mosque. He used a BNP leaflet as a fuse for his petrol bomb.  Read more
    • JOE OWENS – gangland hitman For three years until summer 2004 Joe Owens acted as the personal bodyguard to Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, as well as being the Merseyside organiser of the BNP. However, Owens was also known locally as a gangland hitman, whom police had linked to several underworld murders.

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    Left to right: Mark Bulman, Allen Boyce, Joe Owens , Tony Lecomber (image David Hoffman)

     

    Hope Not Hate

  • BNP and Terrorism Link

    BNP and Terrorism Link

    a1Robert Cottage, 49, of Colne, Lancashire.

    A former British National Party candidate who amassed a stash of explosive chemicals in anticipation of a future civil war was jailed today for two and a half years.

    Robert Cottage, 49, was cleared after two trials of conspiracy to cause explosions. He earlier pleaded guilty to possessing the chemicals.

    Police discovered a large stockpile of chemicals and food at his home in Colne, Lancashire, last September.

    Officers mounted the operation after Cottage’s wife told a social worker she was concerned about the substances, and about her husband’s belief that immigrants were swamping Britain, which he feared was on the brink of civil war.

    Cottage appeared at Manchester’s crown square court to be sentenced in relation to the charge of possession.

    Cottage’s barrister, Alistair Webster QC, said his client admitted having bought the potassium nitrate and sulphur and planning to manufacture gunpowder but said he would have used the chemicals only to create “thunder flash”-style bangers to scare off intruders.

    The judge, Mrs Justice Swift, labelled Cottage’s actions “criminal and potentially dangerous”.

    She noted that the pre-sentence report said Cottage held “overvalued ideas” but said the risk of his committing further offences was low.

    “It is important to understand that Cottage’s intention was that if he ever had to use the thunder flashes, it was only for the purpose of deterrence,” she said.

    “The pre-sentence report says Cottage continues to hold views that veer towards the apocalyptic. The risk of further offending of the same type is low but it cannot be ruled out.”

    A second man, David Jackson, a 62-year-old dentist, was also charged with conspiracy to cause explosions but was cleared after the jury twice failed to reach verdicts.

    Mrs Justice Swift said there was no evidence the chemicals’ packaging had been opened or that Cottage had attempted to make gunpowder.

    Cottage, of Talbot Street, has already served 10 and a half months in jail and is likely to be freed within six months.

    Guardian

  • EU must not shut the door

    EU must not shut the door

    Ankara is not yet ready, but the benefits of such a union would be great

    [Leading Article]

    Tuesday, 7 April 2009

    Barack Obama yesterday wrote in the visitors’ book at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk of his hope to strengthen relations between Turkey and America. But, judging by Mr Obama’s speech the previous day, what the US President wants just as much is a strengthening of relations between Turkey and the European Union. The second wish is, by some distance, the more controversial.

    Mr Obama’s unambiguous expression of support for Turkey’s bid for EU membership in Prague on Sunday did not go down well in Paris or Berlin. The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, were quick to pour cold water on the idea that this predominantly Muslim nation of some 80 million citizens is destined to enter the European family.

    It was unwise for President Obama, as an outsider, to wade into such rough waters. And Washington cannot easily gloss over the fact that Turkey has made little progress towards fulfilling the criteria of entry since the EU agreed to open accession talks with Ankara five years ago.

    It is true that Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has tried to inject some life into the process in recent months, travelling to Brussels for talks with the EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso and appointing a close aide to be full-time negotiator on accession.

    But the reforms Ankara needs to enact to prepare Turkey for EU membership remain on the shelf. The influence of the military within Turkey’s political institutions is still strong. Prosecutions against those deemed to have “insulted Turkishness” continue to be brought. And Ankara refuses to open Turkey’s ports and airports to traffic from Cyprus.

    There are doubts about the ruling AKP party too. The Turkish prime minister’s objections in recent days to the appointment of Anders Fogh Rasmussen as the next secretary general of Nato send an unsettling message about Ankara’s willingness to play politics with religion. The Danish prime minister’s fault in the eyes of Mr Erdogan was his failure to be suitably condemnatory of the offensive cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by some of his country’s newspapers in 2006. Turkey’s need to fall back on funding from the International Monetary Fund raises concerns about the ability of the EU to absorb such a potentially unstable new economic partner too.

    And yet Mr Obama was right to emphasise the desirability, in principle, of Turkey entering the European family. Turkish membership would be a tremendous boost for relations between Europe and the Muslim world. At a stroke, the EU would be transformed from looking like a white, Christian club, to an alliance of free-trading democracies.

    And the influence of the mostly moderate Muslims of Turkey might even help to counteract the spread of separatist Islamism in the likes of Britain and the Netherlands. Nor should we forget that the lure of membership gives Europe great scope to push for reform within Turkey, even if the results so far have been less than many hoped for. The process is almost as valuable as the result.

    President Obama might have been a little indelicate in throwing Washington’s full backing behind Ankara’s EU bid, but we should be in no doubt about one thing: it is not in the interests of a single European to see the door slammed in Turkey’s face.

    Source:  www.independent.co.uk, 7 April 2009