It is peculiar timing for the unionist rag The Scotsman, to declare it had solved the mystery of Willie McRae’s death – just when security service tasking on the SNP returns to the levels of 1975-86.
The Scotsman claims that the police had first removed the vehicle and then replaced it, and this explains the mystery of why the gun was so far from the car after McRae’s remarkable two shot “suicide”. For me, that adds just another level of improbability to so very many. How, inside a car, you shoot yourself in the head in such a way that the gun falls out of the window, seems problematic. The car was crashed over a burn; how you order that with the suicide is peculiar.
The case is a notorious one in Scotland. There was never any indication of McRae having suicidal tendencies. He was driving to a destination – his cottage – where he was expected and he had phoned ahead for the fires to be lit. A briefcase of documents went missing from his car. Several retired policemen have affirmed he was under police and security service surveillance, which since his death the authorities refuse to comment on. He was not only a leading member of the SNP, but an effective anti-nuclear activist. All that I already knew – what was new to me was that he had also been investigating a senior paedophile ring. It is tempting to put that together with his having been ADC to Louis Mountbatten, but I confess that is mere speculation.
Establishment lackeys have been trying to ridicule my assertion that the SNP is a major security service target. Many know they are lying, and deliberately are trying to distract. But for those who are actually naïve, is it not extraordinary that anytime anybody mentions anything the security services do, it is dismissed as “conspiracy theory”. GCHQ, MI5, MI6 and SO15 employ over 50,000 people between them. What do you actually think they do all day?
There is a thread on Medialens about Craig’s post.
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1428351918.html
The third comment.
‘It isn’t supposed to happen.
The Scottish referendum was a closer call than expected, too close for comfort.
The SNP seem set to get a landslide in Scotland with an impressive new leader.
After the election the SNP might be needed to prop up a minority Labour government.
The possibility of Scottish independence is still on the cards. And what of Trident replacement? What kind of deal could be done?
Of course, you and I know that Millipede would sooner sell his own granny than do anything to upset the imperial master, to lessen the value of number one vassal.
But the security services are not so trusting. Any potential threat to ‘national security’ (break-up of UK, no Trident replacement, loss of base at Faslane), which means threat to the ‘national security’ of the US empire and the interests of its corporate masters, has to be nipped in the bud.
SNP beware.’
So true.
There are more ways to kill outspoken people than shooting them in the head. Their careers can be postponed, even killed. Here are the magic fingers of Ukrainian pianist, Valentina Lisitsa, playing Paganini and Liszt. In our free west the Toronto Symphony Orchestra have taken her off their programme because she has been telling the truth, the truth that nobody wants to hear, about what is happening in her native Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD6xMyuZls0
I think the security services are at the moment busy distorting opinion polls so they’ll match up with the election results. In sensitive constituencies (Clegg’s, Farage’s) they are preparing themselves to enter election centres to manipulate the postal votes and also I believe having talks with the media persuading them not to run exit polls or instructing them how to rig these polls where necessary.
The figure of 50,000 employees looks suspiciously round as well as large. Now if you had said 53589, that might be more plausible, unless of course someone guessed where I got the digits from 🙂
According to a quick internet search, the total budget for the secret services in the UK is about £2 billion, MI5 employs about 4000 people and GCHQ 5000. If MI6 is comparable that would make about 12,000 people altogether. If £40,000 on average were allocated for salaries, that would leave most of the budget for operational expenses, which makes sense. If however you divided the pot among 50,000 people most of the budget would go on salaries if each had a full-time job.
Therefore, I suspect that the figure of 50,000 is an overestimate.
PS. Unless, perhaps, the majority of those 50,000-plus employees are part-timers.
As regards my comment at 10.17 am. Here is Valentina Lititsa’s FB page which contains a message of freedom.
https://www.facebook.com/ValentinaLisitsa
Fred : “ASIANS for Independence organiser Muhammad Shoaib resigned from SNP in disgust over Nationalist activists secretly backing Tories.”
And that’s it. No evidence. No names. No dates. No locations. No circumstances. No corroboration.
Just a claim by a carpet-bagger politician who was previously suspended from the Labour party over passport fraud allegations. Shoaib has now been re-admitted to the Labour party. Any connection between his re-admittance and these unverifiable slurs is unverifiable.
I used to respect you, Fred.
It’s a done deal, the ONLY way the cameron/bloomberg banter about a purring Elizabeth could happen is if they had some unassailable knowledge re 911 or 7/7 or like. Invariably some insider will collect a packet from the bookies to divulge the plot,as happened in the indyref,watch the odds on a cameron win as it becomes common knowledge.
“I used to respect you, Fred.”
I’ve always thought you were a congenital cretin.
Node : “I used to respect you, Fred.” = Fair comment. You used to post reliable information. Now you post lies and smears and don’t even defend them when it’s pointed out.
Fred : “I’ve always thought you were a congenital cretin.” = A personal attack = hypocrisy.
“Node : “I used to respect you, Fred.” = Fair comment.”
Fuck off and die retard.
Scotland the Brave New World.
http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/06/scotland-the-brave-new-world
Mr Goss
“Habbabkuk at 8.53 pm
Wishful thinking. This is what’s really trending in Greece. The first Nazi trials since Nuremberg. Watch out Ukraine!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-03/greece-anti-racism-groups-neo-nazi-trial/6369852”
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Sorry to disillusion you, Mr Goss, but most Greeks are more worried about SYRIZA’s internal writhings than they are about the Chryssi Avgi trials.
Mind you, when SYRIZA finally admits that most of its pre-election promises are unrealisable and tears itself apart, the Greek public might well turn to the neo-fascists in greater numbers.
And SYRIZA will bear the responsibility for that.
Fred : “Fuck off and die retard.”
I justified my use of “fair comment”. Which part do you disagree with?
Dave
“@Habba 8:33pm
“I also recall once asking the regular dissidents and freedom-fighters on here whether they had ever been troubled in any way by the evil agents of the corrupt,fascist and tyrannical state known as the UK.”
I told you once before,you must have become senile I will repeat again. We were attacked and our printing presses were smashed up by Thatchers Thugs welding sledge hammers. Frestonia to you. Also the Battle of the Bean Field not that you would know anything about those events”
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You’re right, I don’t. Have you any links and/or any additional information for what you’re on about? Who, for example, are the “we”?
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David Halpin
“the opposite of Goethe’s nation that is content with itself, the more thought control is required. Dissent and questioning must be liquidated or at least marginalised.
A few examples of many from my own experiences –…”
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So you were (twice) unable to access the internet (temporarily), some emails sometimes take a little time to get through, after a meeting a disc sent to you was delayed and the package appeared to have been opened (but the discs sent to the other people at the meeting got through to them without any problem…) and, finally, the Royal Mail once fucked up with a letter and enclosed cheque (but it still arrived in the end).
All that….in how many years of being a fearless dissident?
And you have…survived to tell us all.
I believe that any normal person reading the detail of your post would justifiably be led to think that you’re a case of advanced paranoia. As such, I’m sure you’ll have lots of supporters on this thread.
“I justified my use of “fair comment”. Which part do you disagree with?”
Which part of “fuck off and die retard” didn’t you understand?
John. Thanks for that. Following and sharing.
Fred : “Which part of “fuck off and die retard” didn’t you understand?”
I don’t understand why you think that’s an appropriate comment in a discussion of whether you deserve respect.
“I don’t understand why you think that’s an appropriate comment in a discussion of whether you deserve respect.”
So fuck off and die retard cunt.
Scotland the Brave New World.
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I might have known Fred,would have come up with this biased mince.
Brendan O’Neil, is a blogger for the Telegraph newspaper.
You know the Westminster mouthpiece,that somehow acquired a memo from the Scotland Office,that has no credit attached to it.
Shoaib put his name forward as an SNP candidate for Westminster earlier this year but lost out in a selection battle.
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Above is probably the real reason Shoaib,jumped ship to Labour,and that’s why he’s making accusations against the SNP.
Re my previous comment,its aimed at Freds 12.05am
Comment.
Apologises for the lack of explanation.
Fred : “So fuck off and die retard cunt.”
No.
“No.”
Suit yourself.
For Charles Haughey’s growing disputes with Margaret Thatcher’s government when Willie McRae was murdered, see Ed Moloney’s A Secret History of the IRA, p. 269ff, especially p. 274..
Fred re your comments at 12.05am , given the context of Craig’s post about spooks and the independence movement, you’re not suggesting that a former labour councilor, who was briefly a person of interest in relation to possible passport irregularities, was persuaded to infiltrate the SNP for some reason only to later resign, with considerable publicity and press coverage, at a time and with a given reason that coincided with a political smear involving leaked memos from civil servants containing material of doubtful veracity? Because it’s clearly nonsense as this article should make clear:
https://commonspace.scot/
Jake, your link isn’t to an article, it’s to the home page of Common Space, so when they put a new article up your link will be pointing to that instead of the one you meant. Click the article link at Common Space and paste the URL for that page.
Sorry Clark… the article has been difficult to get… some issues with the site being down or under attack or something…
anyway here it is: https://commonspace.scot/articles/936/exclusive-snp-defector-remains-a-member-of-the-snp-and-says-he-supports-labour-snp-deal
Jake, good one; thanks.
Thanks for the link Jake, some positiveness after reams of gratuitous unpleasantness by a selfish English man who seemingly does not mind soiling others blogs with his repetitive straining for the same old shit.
Lovely spring day here in the east, what a pity that the newspapers love nuclear weapons so much, or they are soiling themselves/being told to soil themselves by the racket that are the establishment guardians.
MSM can you hear me, you are a bunch of lying cowards!