Saturday 3 November 2012

Revealed: British Premier Gordon Brown Is A Paedophile


Dunblane Children.

In the early months of 2003, just prior to the illegal invasion of Iraq, and working in conjunction with a London-based freelance journalist who had thoroughly double-checked exposures published by the Scottish ‘Sunday Herald’ newspaper, I publicised details of a child-sex ring linked to senior ministers within the Blair government.
I initially published my findings, stemming from discreet leaks from a secret list provided by the American FBI to the ‘Sunday Times’ newspaper, and concomitantly discovered that Tony Blair had issued a gagging order to suppress all further discussion of a scandal that would most certainly have brought a swift end to his administration and made Britain’s collusion in the destruction of Iraq impossible.
The articles I wrote concerning the “Operation Ore” cover-up and the 100-year blackout order imposed upon the report concerning the Dunblane massacre of children used and abused by senior Scottish Labour government ministers can still be found here:
Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain’s War Machine, Massive Cover-Up
www.propagandamatrix.com/alleged_pedophiles.html [Ref. 1]
Blair’s Protection of Elite Paedophile Ring Spells the End For His Career
www.propagandamatrix.com/blair_protection.html [Ref. 2]
Blackout in Britain: Alleged Pedophiles Helm Blair’s War Room
www.counterpunch.org/james01292003.html
Blackout in Britain: Alleged Paedophiles at Helm of Britain’s War Machine
http://thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=8257
Tony Blair Caught Protecting Elite Paedophile Ring
http://thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=8258
Cremation of Care: The New World Order and the Dunblane Shootings
www.cremationofcare.com/the_nwo_dunblane.htm
Dunblane Secret Documents Contain Letters by Tory and Labour Ministers
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=600
These stories, which also implicated the Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith, former NATO Boss Lord Robertson, and the Svengali of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s rise to power, the flamboyant homosexual Peter Mandelson (now Lord Mandelson), were widely publicised on the Internet, excited debate within numerous online forums, and inspired Robert Kilroy-Silk’s former Veritas Party to undertake a detailed examination of the extent to which senior and junior ministers close to Gordon Brown were given free licence to engage in paedophiliac activities under the protection of the British intelligence services.
The Sunday Herald’s incendiary story (“Child Porn Arrests Too Slow”, 19 January 2003), written by its Home Affair’s correspondent Neil Mackay, disappeared rapidly from the Internet within weeks of my exposure. Mackay’s editor, at first cooperative, subsequently refused to answer any further enquiries put to him by myself and the freelance journalist Bob Kearley.
Each and every letter I sent to the British Home Office, Scotland Yard and the Sunday Times solicited not one single reply.
Lord Robertson, a self-confessed Freemasonic member of Edinburgh’s sinister “Speculative Society” lodge, who enjoyed a peculiarly close personal relationship with Thomas Hamilton, the mass murderer of abused children in Dunblane, failed to sue the Sunday Herald for libel and promptly disappeared from public life. Police records revealed that Robertson had helped expedite the process by which the Manchurian Candidate, Hamilton, already a convicted child molester with known affiliations to the British elite, was able to obtain gun licenses.
Roberston worked in collusion with Michael Forsyth (Secretary of State for Scotland), a fellow “Speculative Freemason” and Robert Bell, an associate of Malcolm Rifkind (British Foreign Secretary). Robertson, at the behest of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, had a vested interest in ‘wasting’ children who were beginning to talk.
On 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton, a former Boy Scout leader walked into Dunblane Primary School armed with two 9 mm pistols and two .357 Magnum revolvers. He killed sixteen small children and a teacher. The subsequent police investigation revealed that Hamilton had loaded the magazines for his Browning with an alternating combination of fully metal-jacketed and hollow point ammunition. This horrific event led to the banning of handguns in the UK. [How convenient.]
The Judge who conducted the inquiry into the atrocity, during which two teachers claimed to have seen another mysterious man “guiding” Hamilton onto the premises, was Lord Cullen. Cullen, also a member of the Freemasonic Speculative Society and an associate of Labour “Scottish Mafia” figures such as Lord Robertson, Tony Blair, John Reid and Gordon Brown, was accused by leading journalists and emergency service personnel of having achieved a cover-up.
According to journalist Marcello Mega, in The News of the World, 28 December 2003:
1. A top Scottish Freemason, Former Grand Master Lord Burton, has said that Lord Cullen’s inquiry into the Dunblane massacre was a cover-up.
Lord Burton says Cullen’s inquiry suppressed crucial information to protect high-profile legal figures.
2. These high-profile legal figures may belong to a secretive ‘Super-Mason’ group called The Speculative Society.
Lord Burton said: “I have learned of an apparent connection between prominent members of the legal establishment involved in the inquiry, and the secretive Speculative Society. The society was formed in Edinburgh University through Masonic connections so I accept that there might be a link by that route.” Reportedly, members of the Speculative Society have included Lord Cullen and a number of other judges, sheriffs and advocates.
3. Some of these high-profile people had links to the Queen Victoria School ‘where gunman Thomas Hamilton was allowed to roam free before the 1996 atrocity’.
4. Reportedly the police are investigating claims that pupils at Queen Victoria School were regularly taken away and sexually abused.
5. Former housemaster Glenn Harrison told the News of the World how he even found Hamilton, 43, creeping around the dormitories at night. He said Hamilton had close links to a top policeman. Glenn was never called to give evidence at the Cullen Inquiry.
6. Lord Burton said: “I tried repeatedly to raise concerns about the inquiry during my time in the Lords, and I was bullied and threatened by powerful peers loyal to the Conservative Government of the day, who warned me of dire consequences if I continued to embarrass them.” ( According to this source Cached – ‘Malcolm Rifkind’s friend and his then Chairman of his constituency party at Edinburgh Pentlands, Robert Bell, according to the front page lead of the Edinburgh Evening News on 23 March 1996, sold guns and ammunition to Thomas Hamilton only a few weeks before the Dunblane massacre, and it was reported he said he would sell him guns again.’)
8. Glenn Harrison had kept dozens of files from pupils alleging bullying and abuse while he was at the Queen Victoria School and wrote to parents warning of the dangers in 1991. It led to him being ousted from the school and just days before he left, police raided his home and confiscated the files.
9. Glenn states that Hamilton had been a friend of Ben Philip, the senior housemaster at QVS. Mr Philip died in December 1993, aged 46, when he fell from a ladder while hanging decorations.
For William Burns’ further elucidation of the cover-up, please see Ref. 3.
Alan Milburn, a close ally of Tony Blair, also resigned dramatically from the senior benches of the Labour Party government shortly after Scotland Yard’s anti-paedophile investigation was suppressed by the Blair administration, citing the need to “spend more time with my family”.
For some reason, the abduction of Scottish children for the purpose of rape and murder, always closely linked to senior Labour Party political figures, continues unabated.
Pressure on Police to Release Paedophile Dossier
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article708514.ece
Although Labour Supremo Peter Mandelson’s alleged role in the kidnapping of young girls and boys for the “pleasuring” of the European Union’s elite commissioners in Brussels was the subject of intense speculation long before the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, I can now bring to a close all speculation as to the name of Tony Blair’s most “highly placed and senior politician” who fell not only under the scrutiny of Scotland Yard for crimes against children, but was also identified by the FBI as an active member of the paedophile ring run by Thomas Hamilton.
That name was first revealed to me by Norman Lamont at a private party in Clapham in 1986, during which time I worked as a scriptwriter for the British television media. Lamont later became Chancellor of the Exchequer under John Major’s Conservative administration. Following investigations in 2003 on both my and Bob Kearley’s part, that name cropped up time and time again, and I passed the details to Internet journalist Paul Joseph Watson.
Gordon Brown, the current British Prime Minister, is a practising paedophile whose activities are known not only to the British, American and Israeli intelligence services, but also by Rupert Murdoch and his senior editor at the Sunday Times.
Michael James, an English patriot, is a blacklisted and surveilled former freelance journalist resident in Zionist-occupied Germany since 1992 with additional long-haul stays in East Africa, Poland and Switzerland. He advocates a Leaderless Resistance to destroy the Soviet European Union and is actively working towards a free and independent England.
http://thetruthseeker.co.uk/columnist.asp?ID=25
http://gnosticliberationfront.com/mike_james_page_a_list_of_al.htm
http://rense.com/Datapages/mikejamesdat.htm

Ref. 1

Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain’s War Machine, Massive Cover-Up

Mike James
A child-sex scandal that threatened to destroy Tony Blair’s government last week has been mysteriously squashed and wiped off the front pages of British newspapers.
Operation Ore, the United Kingdom’s most thorough and comprehensive police investigation of crimes against children, seems to have uncovered more than is politically acceptable at the highest reaches of the British elite.
In the 19th of January edition of The Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay sensationally reported that senior members of Tony Blair’s government were being investigated for paedophilia and the “enjoyment” of child-sex pornography:
“The Sunday Herald has also had confirmed by a very senior source in British intelligence that at least one high-profile former Labour Cabinet minister is among Operation Ore suspects. The Sunday Herald has been given the politician’s name but, for legal reasons, can not identify the person.
There are still unconfirmed rumours that another senior Labour politician is among the suspects. The intelligence officer said that a ‘rolling’ Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur.”
The allegations are the most serious yet levelled at an administration that prides itself on the inclusion in its ranks of a high quota of controversial and flamboyant homosexual men, and whose First Lady, Cherie Blair, has come under the spotlight for her indulgence in pagan rituals that resemble Freemasonic rites. Unconfirmed information also suggests that the term “former Labour Cabinet minister” is misleading and that the investigation has identified a surprisingly large number of alleged paedophiles at the highest level of British government, including one very senior cabinet minister (known to Propaganda Matrix.com).
The Blair government has responded by imposing a comprehensive blackout on the story, effectively removing it from the domain of public discussion. Attempts on the part of this journalist to establish why the British media has not followed up on the revelations have met with a wall of silence. Editors and journalists of The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sun, the BBC, Independent Television News and even The Sunday Herald have refused to discuss the matter.
Speaking from London, freelance journalist Bob Kearley told me: “Whether or not a D-Notice has been issued is not clear. But based on some of the feedback I’ve been getting it’s apparent that editors and media owners have voluntarily agreed not to cover the story at this time. Operation Ore is still being reported, but not in regard to government ministers, and it’s taking up very few column inches on the third or fourth page. Don’t forget that the intelligence services are involved here, and Blair is anxious to ensure that the scandal does not rock the boat at a time when the country is about to go to war.”
“You can imagine the effect this would have on the morale of troops who are about to commit in Iraq. In fact morale is reportedly quite low anyway, with service personnel throwing their vaccines into the sea en route to the battlefront and knowing how unpopular the war is with the British people. And a lot of squaddies I’ve met think there’s something weird going on between Bush and Blair. If you’re then told that the executive responsible for the conduct of the war is staffed by child-molesters … well, then Saddam suddenly looks like the sort of bloke with whom you can share a few tins [beer].”
[In an E mail to Paul Joseph Watson, Mike James identified his sources as "people I knew in London who used to work for the Treasury department throughout the 1980s, one being a private secretary at a senior level....my sources will definitely refuse to support my claims - both are doing extremely well financially and career-wise."]
References:

Ref. 2

Blair’s Protection of Elite Paedophile Rings Spells the End For His Career

Mike James
NATO boss and Blair government insider Lord Robertson has threatened to sue Scotland’s leading independent newspaper over internet allegations that he not only used his influence as a Freemason to procure a gun licence for child killer Thomas Hamilton, but was also a member of a clandestine paedophile ring reportedly set up by Hamilton for the British elite.
On 13 March 1996, Hamilton, armed with four hand-guns, opened fire on a junior school class, killing 16 children and one teacher before turning the gun on himself, shattering forever the idyllic 13th century Scottish town of Dunblane.
The controversy is certain to topple the Blair government, which has already issued a D-Notice to gag the press from revealing the names of known paedophiles within the British executive, including at least two senior ministers; and the case highlights the government’s antipathy toward the Sunday Herald and its brand of independent journalism that has, among other things, exposed the role played by the domestic security agency, MI5, in helping the IRA to carry out terrorist atrocities.
As reported by this journalist last month at Propaganda Matrix and Counter Punch, and by the Sunday Herald’s Home Affairs Editor, Neil Mackay, the British intelligence services are actively engaged in preventing any further child sex revelations that could incite further hostility to an already unpopular Prime Minister and destroy the morale of troops set to invade Iraq. An intelligence officer told Mackay that “a ‘rolling’ Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur.”
Some commentators, mindful that one of Tony Blair’s closest confidante’s is a practising paedophile, are even suggesting that this particular scandal, and not Blair’s repeated lies and fabricated reports in regard to Iraq, may well prove the downfall of a government mired in sleaze and corruption. The Sunday Times is reported to have obtained an FBI list of Labour MPs who have used credit cards to pay for internet child pornography, and Blair has responded by imposing a massive news blackout, failing however to stop the arrest of one of his most important aides, Phillip Lyon.
The latest allegations came to light following a campaign to lift the secrecy on the Dunblane massacre. Large sections of the police report were banned from the public domain under a 100-year secrecy order. Lord Cullen, an establishment insider, also omitted and censored references to the documents in his final report. Parents and teachers were advised to concentrate their efforts on a campaign to outlaw handguns instead of focusing on how the mentally unstable Freemason, already known by the police to be a paedophile, had obtained a firearms licence for six handguns. Hamilton allegedly enjoyed good relations with both local Labour luminary George Robertson and Michael Forsyth, the then Scottish Secretary of State and MP for Stirling. Forsyth congratulated and encouraged Hamilton for running a boy’s club. Hamilton was also found to have exchanged letters with the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth.
The rumours and allegations concerning Lord Robertson’s ties to Hamilton, and the possibility that the American intelligence services may be blackmailing Tony Blair into continued support for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, have been given fire by internet investigator and intelligence expert Michael Keaney:
“An additional, and potentially explosive, aspect of US leverage over Blair is the FBI’s investigation of users of child porn websites which has already claimed a number of high profile scalps. [....] The biggest two fish that come to mind are indeed high profile: firstly there is George Robertson, who today has announced that he will step down as NATO Secretary General after four years and two months in the job. Were he to be fingered the fall out would be spectacular but short-lived — he’s been a long time out of the cabinet and is sufficiently distant from Tony to be regarded as not requiring the presentational finesse of a “rolling” Cabinet committee, whatever that might be. However, our second candidate is most certainly very closely identified with the prime minister, and retains a high profile [and] continues to operate at a very high level indeed, whether in Europe, Japan, or even the Middle East.”
“Peter Mandelson began political life as a member of the Communist Party, soon “seeing the light” and instead getting involved with the CIA/MI6-financed Socialist International youth wing and the Labour Party, through which he rose in parallel with his experience working at London Weekend Television with other A-list regulars like John Birt and Michael Maclay, now public mouthpiece of Hakluyt, the private sector spook outfit run by a bunch of “ex” MI6 types including the widow of ex-Labour leader John Smith. This sort of background and connections makes Mandelson very useful in the sort of corridors-and-alleyways diplomacy and networking that is the real substance of international relations and intelligence gathering. [....] If Mandelson is indeed the suspect, then the damage this could cause may fatally wound Blair.”
“An interesting development that may, or may not, be related to this, is the publication of an article in last Sunday’s Observer by David Aaronovitch. He and Mandelson are longtime friends, having been together in the Communist Party and at London Weekend TV. Aaronovitch was, until recently, a leading political commentator for the Independent, on whose “international advisory board” (the standard vanity collection of august persons put together for the ego of newspaper proprietors like Tony O’Reilly and Conrad Black) sits Peter Mandelson.”
“Since switching to the Guardian Media Group at the beginning of this year or thereabouts, Aaronovitch authored an article on child abuse in which he pleads for common sense to prevail, rather than the lynch mob: ‘Strangely I trust the police to act sensibly (because, like the analysts, they’ve seen it all): it’s the rest of us I worry about.’”
“That much depends upon the behaviour of the US Justice Department, which ultimately has responsibility for the investigation, must be a worry for Blair. One need only imagine how this must colour the views of John Ashcroft regarding the moral fibre of British cabinet ministers and the laxity of the prime minister who chose them in the first place. How easy would it be for the suspect to be named in a story that miraculously surfaced outside of the UK (thereby circumventing the D Notice and leading potentially to a re-run of the Spycatcher fiasco of 1987)?
“Whoever is on the suspects’ list, we can see that already this ‘rolling’ cabinet committee is busy leaking stories that serve at least to delay the shock of the inevitable, eventual revelation, buying valuable time if nothing else. Thus you can depend on the Guardian to save the day for Tony, and here’s some helpful tip-offs courtesy of MI6 that help to distract from what’s really going on, whilst bolstering the reputation for integrity and financial propriety that has marked Blair’s dealings with businesspeople like Bernie Ecclestone, Richard Desmond, Lakshmi Mittal, etc.”
“I have come to the considered conclusion,” says a correspondent of Keaney, William Palfreman, “that the events surrounding the Dunblane massacre, and the subsequent submissions to the Cullen enquiry that have been put under to 100 years of secrecy, far out weigh in political significance issues such as our opposition to the EU [and] what it entails. It is inconceivable that T Blair, Jack Straw [and] Gordon Brown can survive in office as this matter becomes known. It totally undermines the Labour government, and could easily be a case of the Queen feeling she has to use reserve powers to call an emergency general election, such would be the loss of confidence.”
“This scandal is far more important that anything that has happened here in living memory, in fact I can think of no parallel for it. It certainly pisses all over anything that happened to Kennedy or was done by Nixon. I am surprised, given the gravity of this matter, that [an] attempt has yet to be made on his life, for surely we are dealing with desperate people here. It also explains a few strange things, such as just why T Blair & co. were so keen to ban all handguns, and why such obviously talentless nobodies like George Robertson have risen from being backbench nobodies a couple of years ago to Defence Secretary, and now Secretary-General of Nato.”
“[....] Now where in this is there a national security risk so great, that documents part of the public enquiry are now state secrets to be held for 100 years? Funny kind of public enquiry. Why, when Thomas Hamilton’s application for a gun licence was turned down, due to him being regarded as a man of unsound character [and] him being the object of several paedophilia investigations, did his MP, our friend George Robertson (now Lord Robertson, Secretary-General of NATO), write him a glowing character reference, and personally see to it that his application was successful, when he knew the grounds for the original refusal were because he was suspected of procuring boys for sexual services?”
“Or take a certain boat seized on Loch Ness [Loch Lomond] by the Strathclyde Police. It is a very rare thing for assets to be seized in the UK, as [there] are no asset-forfeiture laws. When it does happen, there is normally a trial at least, with things only being seized if they are proven to be bought with money proven to be consequence of a proven crime. Even then, they are sold by public auction. How come, then, was this very valuable boat sold for the tiny sum of £5000, without an auction, to none other than our friend Thomas Hamilton, a man of no financial means whatsoever, nor a sailor, nor lived anywhere near any open water. Why did not the boats owners complain about having their property stolen from them in this manner? I can only conclude because it was being used for some very serious criminal activity, and those on board were merely glad to escape prosecution. Also, it seems rather odd in such circumstances that not only were the owners happy to avoid prosecution enough to lose a valuable boat, but that the Strathclyde Police were not willing to prosecute. And yet, after these improbable events, it wound up in none other than our friend Hamilton’s hands. Could he have been a blackmailer as well as a paedophile?”
“But the main thing is what might explain sections of the public enquiry are now under the hundred year rule. There are only three levels of secrecy in the UK for state secrets, the 30 year rule, the 80 year rule and the 100 year rule. Normal secrets, like Cabinet discussions, government papers, espionage, all that, are under the 30 year rule. Only a very small number of things ever reached the 80 year rule, particularly events in the Sudan with Kitchener in 1902, where it seems that an act of genocide was committed, and some things that happened 1914-18, as well as things like potential peace negotiations in 1941, and just about everything to do with the IRA (after all, people are still alive after 30 years) come under the 80 year rule. Of them, the darkest of state secrets, when the events of ’02 were getting a bit close to their limit for comfort, a further class of secrets was created to last a hundred years, and tiny number of things were put in it – e.g. Kitchener in ’02, some World War I things.”
But none of these things can be said to apply to Dunblane. That was a case of a common criminal [and] sexual pervert committing some fairly ordinary murders, of a kind that happen from time to time. Even if a backbench Labour MP was implicated, or may have been involved in a large paedophile ring in Scotland, that is not a matter of vital national importance. You have a prosecution, there is a bit of a scandal, everyone is disgusted and one MP goes to prison. Big deal: such things happen. You certainly would not make such information a state secret just to save one unnamed backbench nobody’s miserable neck. Governments simply don’t go to such extreme lengths to save nobodies – power broking just doesn’t work like that. There must be issues of profound national importance working here, and I put it to you that anything that involves certain events in Scotland is more likely to be someone of cabinet level than anything else.
If the physiologically flawed [although Thomas Hamilton was these were the words of Tony Blair when speaking of Gordon Brown] Thomas Hamilton was the centre of a paedophile ring in Scotland that procured boys to people of the amongst the highest rank, and Tony Blair [and] Jack Straw covered this up by the Official Secrets Act (They would do the covering, as both the Prime Minister’s [and] Home Secretary’s permission is needed to put some something under the 100 year rule.) it is hard to see how they or their close colleges could possibly remain in office, even if they were never inclined to such flawed behaviour themselves. The government would fall.”
That prospect seems to be energising a government now considered to be fighting for its political life, even to the extent of killing the review process by which some of the banned sections of the Cullen Report would be made public, arguing that freedom of information would somehow harm other abused children in Dunblane.
In a recent interview with the Guardian newspaper, Michael Matheson, the Scottish National Party’s shadow deputy justice minister, said: “There are more documents covered by the 100-year rule than this police report. Some of them have nothing whatsoever to do with children. We need to look at why such a lengthy ban has been imposed on them. I have been contacted by a number of families affected by the tragedy who are anxious to ensure this information becomes public. And so far we have no guarantee that it will. We only have a review.”
“It is important we make available, if it is at all possible, any information that is available about people in the public eye,” said the Scottish first minister, Jack McConnell.
When Tony Blair took office following a landslide victory in 1997, few commentators would have suggested that this man would be willing to drag his country into a war of unjustified aggression against a people that have done no harm to the British public. Nor would anyone have surmised that a Labour government would hitch its political fortunes to a shabby cabal of fanatical neoconservative Zionists working to make real their much-touted biblical Armageddon. And no one could have predicted that Blair’s nominally “Christian” administration would transform itself into a licentious club of flamboyant homosexual cruisers and out-of-control paedophiles.
But it is now becoming shockingly clear that the slavish adherence of Tony Blair and Jack Straw to the Bush line on Iraq may have less to do with principled arguments, and much more to do with the fear of CIA and FBI revelations that would make them two of the most hated politicians in modern British political history.
There is only one way out for Tony Blair – resign.
References:
Robertson considers action over web allegation
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=290762003
Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain’s War Machine
www.propagandamatrix.com/alleged_pedophiles.html
Call to lift veil of secrecy over Dunblane
www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,895056,00.html
Child porn arrests ‘too slow’
www.sundayherald.com/30813

Ref. 3

“Perceptions” note: email below is from a long-time contributor. However, subject matter – a mass killing of school-children by a pedophile reputed to have had friends in power – might offend some.
Subject: VOMIT Burns / Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:01:55 EST / From: VOMITUK@aol.com

Victims Of Masonic Ill Treatment 10 January 2004

Foreword:
The unlawful sectioning of George Farquhar by the Royal Edinburgh Hospital on the basis that he accused Cullen on his Website of a Masonic cover-up of paedophiles in Scotland’s high society calls for the removal of Dr Chrichton from the medical register and the removal from the bench of Sheriff Lothian.
The same abuse of power and of the corruption of the psychiatric process by Carstairs State Hospital to silence Mr Arnold McCardle calls for similar penalties against the psychiatrists and judges involved in the McCardle case. Carstairs also has another paedophile friendly “doctor” who is being investigated for using the title “doctor”.
William Burns
18 Shore Road
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EH30 9SG
Tel: 0131 331 1855
6 January 2004
Bryan McConachie
Public Petitions Team Support
Room 5.16
Public Petitions Committee
Parliamentary Headquarters
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Dear Mr McConachie
THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT – SUBMISSION OF PUBLIC PETITIONS PE652 & PE685
In support of evidence submitted with the Public Petitions Committee in relation to the above petitions PE652 and PE685, please find enclosed a copy of an article of serious significance by Marcello Mega that appeared in the News of the World on Sunday, 28 December 2003. It further bolsters my earlier submitted News of the World article by Marcello Mega of 9 November 2003, along with an article that appeared in the Herald on Wednesday, 13 November 2003.
I apologise if I appear overly pushy with this supplication, but I am sure the entire PPC will appreciate the enormity of it, especially in the light of Lord Burton’s revelations in the News of the World.
The “News of the World Investigates” article by Marcello Mega, published on 28 December 2003, is typed out verbatim below.
The inquiry into the Dunblane massacre was a massive cover-up, a top Scots Freemason has sensationally claimed. Former Grand Master Lord Burton says that Lord Cullen’s official probe suppressed crucial information to protect high-profile legal figures.
He says they may belong to a secretive “Super-Mason” group called The Speculative Society. Some had links to the Queen Victoria School where gunman Thomas Hamilton was allowed to roam free before the 1996 atrocity. [ DUNBLANE SCHOOL KILLINGS ]
And Lord Burton revealed that he was bullied and threatened by other peers when he tried to raise his concerns in the House of Lords. Last night the 79 year-old aristocrat said: “There’s no escaping the fact that there’s something sinister about the whole affair.” He was prompted into action after reading in the News of the World last month that police are investigating claims that pupils at QVS were regularly taken away and sexually abused.
The Cullen Inquiry failed to investigate why suspected paedophile Hamilton was allowed to wander around the school whenever he liked, running camps and using the shooting range.
Former housemaster Glenn Harrison told us how he even found Hamilton, 43, creeping around the dormitories at night. He said Hamilton, who murdered 16 pupils and a teacher at Dunblane Primary School in 1996, had close links to a top cop. Glenn said he was aghast that he was never called to give evidence at the Cullen Inquiry.
He said: “I was one of the people who was making a fuss about Hamilton long before he killed those children, but no one wanted to listen.” Now Lord Burton has contacted him at his new home in the Shetland Islands, saying he believes Glenn wasn’t called to give evidence to avoid the embarrassment of top legal names being dragged into it.
The QVS is for schoolchildren of the military services and has long-standing links to high office; its current patron is the Duke of Edinburgh. Whoever holds the position of secretary of State for Scotland becomes president and Scotland’s second-most senior judge, the Lord Justice-Clerk, becomes a commissioner.
Lord Burton said: “I was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland at the time and I’m aware that most of the conspiracy theories around Dunblane revolve around allegations of a Masonic conspiracy. I do have some difficulty with that, but I have learned of an apparent connection between prominent members of the legal establishment involved in the inquiry, and the secretive Speculative Society. The society was formed in Edinburgh University through Masonic connections so I accept that there might be a link by that route. But Hamilton was never a Mason. His grandfather was.”
[Petitioner's interjection: Thomas Hamilton enrolled as a member of Lodge Garrowhill (Lanarkshire Middle Ward) No. 1413, Garrowhill Drive, Garrowhill, Glasgow, in 1977, the same year he was granted a firearms certificate. Without any shadow of a doubt, his files connecting him to Freemasonry would be destroyed after the atrocities on 13 March 1996.]
Current members of the Speculative Society include Lord Cullen and a number of other judges, sheriffs and advocates. Lord Burton has been trying for years to get to the bottom of the conspiracy theories, using his influence in the House of Lords until the reforms meant he was no longer entitled to sit in Westminster. Last night he said: “I tried repeatedly to raise concerns about the inquiry during my time in the Lords, and I was bullied and threatened by powerful peers loyal to the Conservative government of the day, who warned me of dire consequences if I continued to embarrass them.”
[Petitioner's interjection - Bear in mind, Malcolm Rifkind was the Foreign Secretary at the time - and they do not come much higher in government than that - and Malcolm Rifkind's friend and his then Chairman of his constituency party at Edinburgh Pentlands, Robert Bell, according to the front page lead of the Edinburgh Evening News on 23 March 1996, sold guns and ammunition to Thomas Hamilton only a few weeks before the Dunblane massacre, and it was reported he said he would sell him guns again. I sent this information to Lord Cullen in a letter dated 27 February 2003, a copy with which the Public Petitions Committee were all provided as additional evidence to PE652.]
But the determined peer pressed on and on and in 1999, asked a question in the Lords which revealed that documents from the inquiry had been locked up for 100 years.
Among them was a police report revealing that Hamilton had been accused of sexually abusing boys and had been considered by some officers unfit to hold a firearms licence.
Lord Burton added: “We still need to know why that was necessary. Who was the secrecy protecting?”
Although the official reason is to protect the families of possible abuse victims, it’s unusual for documents to be locked up unless for matters of national security.
In July, Dunblane ambulance worker Sandra Uttley told the News of the World how she and friend Doreen Hagger had drawn up a 50-point, 5,000-word dossier calling for secrecy surrounding the tragedy to be lifted. They claimed that dozens of questions have gone unanswered and crucial lines of enquiry were ignored. Former ambulance worker Sandra said: “There may be other individuals who should face prosecution.”
Glenn Harrison had kept dozens of files from pupils alleging bullying and abuse while he was at the QVS and wrote to parents warning of the dangers in 1991. It led to him being ousted from the school and just days before he left, police raided his home and confiscated the files. When Glenn read Sandra’s story, he went back to the police – and this time they agreed to investigate.
Last night he said he in turn had been glad to receive the call from Lord Burton … He added: “I’ve been making noises for years and I sometimes despair and think it’s time to just accept we’ll never get to the truth. “But I think we owe it to all the people who were so affected by the killings to continue to demand questions that were never asked.”
Glenn told us that Hamilton had been a friend of Ben Philip, the senior housemaster at QVS. Mr Philip died in December 1993, aged 46, when he fell from a ladder while hanging decorations. Glenn said: “They were friends so Hamilton was a regular visitor to the school and I was introduced to him. “Ben Philip was a decent guy who was very trusting. I think he thought he and Hamilton shared interests in things like the outdoors, and he couldn’t see that Hamilton had another motive for wanting to be around the school.
“Hamilton ran camps in the school grounds and he used the shooting range freely. He came and went as he pleased, almost as if he owned the place, and no one has ever tried to explain why he had such freedom. I am still haunted by the memory of pick up my newspaper on March 14 1996 and reading about what had occurred at Dunblane Primary School the day before. I just knew the killer had to be Thomas Hamilton. He should have been stopped.”
Demands have already been made to the Scottish Executive to investigate the influence of the Speculative Society. It was formed in 1764 as an off-shoot of the Masons and has counted Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh McDiarmid among its most celebrated members.
The Spec, as it is known, is described by its members as a debating club. They meet in candlelit vaults below Edinburgh University’s Old College in the winter. Prospective members are normally approached while still studying at the university. Its membership – which was secret until a year ago – reads like a Who’s Who of the rich and powerful in Scotland.
Campaigners were determined to reveal the membership amid concerns, many expressed by senior lawyers who are not members, of the disproportionate influence the Spec is said to wield. One legal figure who has long been suspicious of the Spec said: “Members laugh off the suspicions and say it’s just a debating club. But, given that the members are picked as undergrads and almost without exception go on to reach the pinnacle of their careers, you have to think either that those making the selection are very astute at spotting potential, or that membership gives you a big leg up in life. I know which option I favour.”
I will be much obliged if you could respond at your earliest convenience. Please also keep me abreast of any progress with PE652, which was heard over two months ago, and of any proposed date for the hearing of PE685.
Yours sincerely
WILLIAM BURNS
Publisher: VOMIT UK Group Fax/Phone 020 7727 5300
file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/dunbla33.txt
Lord Robertson, who was intimately involved with events leading to the massacre and subsequently disappeared from public life
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Scottish court convicts 8 men over child sex abuse

Posted on 08 May 2009.
(CNN) — A Scottish court has convicted eight men of child sexual abuse in what police say is the largest pedophile ring ever dismantled in Scotland.
The eight men were all convicted Thursday of offenses related to indecent photographs of children. Three were also convicted of the sexual abuse of young children, and five were convicted of conspiring to take part in the sexual abuse of a child, identified only as Child F.
“Tens of thousands of photographic and video images of children being sexually abused were recovered,” said Morag McLaughlin, the prosecutor for the Lothian and Borders region. “All of those involved in the investigation and prosecution of the case have been profoundly affected by it.”
Two of the men, Neil Strachan and James Rennie, face a maximum of life in prison when they are sentenced July 29, said a spokesman for the High Court in Edinburgh, where the men were convicted. The others, who will be sentenced June 11, face a variety of lesser sentences.
The police investigation revealed a network of people who shared a common interest in child sexual abuse, said Detective Superintendent Allan Jones, of Lothian and Borders Police. Information from the probe yielded information on 70 others around Britain and led to “numerous arrests,” he said.
“They made initial contact via the Internet and used it to share vile imagery and discuss the abuse of children,” Jones said.
Strachan was the only one of the eight who was previously known to police, he said.
“All of them led classic double lives. Some of them were respected members of their professions and communities,” Jones said.
The family of Child F released a statement after the conviction that detailed how Rennie betrayed the family’s trust to abuse their son.
Rennie was “the closest of family friends” for more than 15 years and even offered support and friendship during difficult times, they said.
“To subsequently learn that he abused our son, and invited others to do the same, has been devastating,” the family said. “As a family we have had to learn to live and cope with the effects these horrific events have had.”
The mother of another child involved in the case, identified only as Child JL, described her “anguish” about what Strachan had done to her son.
“I will never be able to forgive him for the sick acts that he committed against my son,” said the mother, whose name was not released. “I feel that no matter what punishment given to Mr. Strachan, it will never be able to compensate for the hurt, devastation and great deal of stress brought to me and my family. Mr. Strachan used and abused our trust in order to satisfy his and others’ sick needs.”
Police and prosecutors gathered important evidence from overseas and used new scientific expertise in order to prosecute the case, the court said.
Lothian and Borders Police said it received “invaluable” expertise from the FBI in the United States and other British and Scottish agencies — including the Serious Organized Crime Agency and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center.
Microsoft helped police trace e-mail addresses and identities, Jones said. Police also had help from two U.S. academics, Professors Hany Farid of Dartmouth University and Miroslav Goljan of the State University of New York at Binghamton, who are experts in steganalysis, a forensic technique that links an image to the camera on which it has been taken, Jones said.
Jones praised the forensic scientists who had to examine the imagery in the case.
“They do not have the option to look away and have to live with the memory of what they have seen,” he said. “It is a testament to their expertise that they did this day in, day out. They did it for the good of children and provided us with a first-class service.”
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Pressure on police to release paedophile dossier

Posted on 23 April 2006.
By Mark Macaskill, Scottish Home Affairs Correspondent
A SECRET dossier said to identify members of a paedophile ring could be published within weeks, after the intervention of the Scottish information commissioner.
Kevin Dunion has been asked by the family of Moira Anderson, a schoolgirl who disappeared almost 50 years ago, to review a decision by Strathclyde police not to release the document that may identify her abductors.
The 11-year-old was last seen boarding a bus in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, in 1957 during a heavy snowstorm. She was on her way to the shops to buy a box of chocolates for her mother’s birthday.
The dossier, written by James Gallogley, a convicted paedophile who died in Peterhead prison in 1999, is said to implicate senior public figures in the abuse of children in Strathclyde during the 1950s and 1960s. It is also believed to list vehicles and safe houses used in Glasgow, Monklands and Paisley where children were hidden before being taken to sex parties.
Strathclyde’s chief constable has refused to release the document, saying its publication could destroy any chance of solving the case.
However, relatives argue it could help to identify those responsible for Anderson’s abduction and recover her remains.
Her sister Janet, 63, who lives in Australia, has appealed to the information commissioner to order its release. A decision is expected in the next few weeks.
Her call is backed by Sandra Brown, the founder of the Moira Anderson Foundation, who believes her late father, Alex Gartshore, was responsible for the crime.
In an interview with The Sunday Times this weekend, Brown said her father, a former bus driver and convicted sex offender from Coatbridge, was part of a paedophile ring whose members she will recognise when she sees Gallogley’s dossier.
She said that Gartshore and Gallogley, who were friends, lived close to Fred West, the notorious serial killer, in Coatbridge during the early 1960s. Both Gartshore and West moved out of the area in late 1965.
However, Gartshore, who was on bail accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at the time of Anderson’s disappearance, denied any involvement in the crime. He died earlier this month at the age of 85.
According to Brown, who has spoken to former police officers involved in the investigation, Gallogley’s dossier describes how “wee Moira” was subdued with chloroform, abused by Gartshore and “one other” and placed in the boot of Gartshore’s bus.
It claims her body was dumped in the Tarry Burn in Coatbridge, an area that has never been thoroughly searched.
The dossier was handed to police by a former cell mate four years after Gallogley’s death. It prompted a review of Anderson’s disappearance but failed to throw up any meaningful leads.
“Pressure needs to be brought to bear on Strathclyde police,” said Brown. “Who is being protected and why is there a problem with transparency? I understand Gallogley’s dossier reveals names in his confession. It indicates Moira was not the sole victim of this ring and gives details of parties where children were abused.
“Those named could help lead us to Moira’s remains. There’s unwillingness by officers to share information.”
However, Strathclyde police said inquiries were ongoing. “We regularly review any investigations and the disappearance of Moira Anderson is no exception,” said a spokesman. “Any new evidence and information will be the subject of further investigation in an effort to resolve her disappearance, ” said a spokesman.
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Cullen Inquiry (100-year Closure Order) (PE652)

Posted on 29 October 2003.

Lord Cullen
The Convener: Petition PE652 is from Mr William Burns, who is present. The petition calls on the Scottish Parliament to consider a range of issues, including initiating a new inquiry into events that relate to the Dunblane massacre; the 100-year closure order on some files that relate to the Cullen inquiry; and membership by the Scottish judiciary of the freemasons, the Speculative Society and other similar organisations. Mr Burns has supplied a considerable amount of material with his petition, with the specific request that it be made available in full to all members of the committee. Accordingly, a copy of all the material provided has been issued to each member with their meeting papers.
Before we begin, I make clear that the committee has been advised by the Parliament’s legal office that it would not be within the competence of the Parliament to overturn a court order, and that those sections of the full petition that call for such action are therefore inadmissible. The petitioner has been advised of that and has indicated to the clerks that he disagrees with the advice, which he has the right to do.
For legal reasons, the full text of the petition was removed temporarily from the Parliament’s website. The clerks were advised that it could be argued that certain statements made in the petition are defamatory and that, because the petition has not yet been considered as part of the proceedings of the Parliament, the publication of the petition on the website could leave the Parliament open to defamation action. Guidance on the submission of petitions states clearly that petitions should not
“include language which is intemperate, inflammatory, sarcastic or provocative”.
The petitioner has been advised of the reasons for the temporary removal of his petition and that it will be reinstated on the website immediately after the meeting.
10:45
William Burns: I do not think that anyone in Scotland now believes that the Cullen inquiry into the Dunblane massacre was anything other than a masonic whitewash. The 100-year gagging order on my correspondence with the inquiry confirms that. The committee has been provided with copies of my documents, so it cannot now ignore the solid evidence that exists.
At the time of the inquiry, Lord Cullen claimed that there was no evidence of child sex abuse in relation to Thomas Hamilton and his connections, but seven years later Lord Cullen uses the fact that there was such evidence to place a gagging order on the files, claiming that it was imposed to protect the names of victims, although most of the files that have been buried do not mention victims’ names. My files fall into that category. It must be clear to the committee that my letters to Cullen were gagged only to keep the masonic implication of their content out of the equation and out of the public eye.
The Lord Advocate has stated:
“There is no statutory basis for the closure of records created by Scottish public bodies.”
Those are his words, not mine. They were published in a news release of 18 March 2003, under the heading “Dunblane police reports released”. That disclosure alone makes a mockery of the view of the clerk to the committee, Steve Farrell, that it is not within the competence of the Parliament to overturn or interfere with the terms of such an order. The Scottish Parliament is the only body with the power to create a framework for imposing closure orders, but it must do so in the public interest, not in the interest of collaborators in secret societies.
The Lord Advocate goes on to say:
“The Public Records (Scotland) Act 1937 … makes provision for the preservation, care and custody of the public records of Scotland. The terms of the legislation are permissive.”
That means that they are lenient, tolerant or liberal, reflecting a belief that there should be as few restraints as possible. Preservation, custody and care of records do not mean the exact opposite—smothering, stashing and snaring of public records.
The report continues:
“By contrast, in England and Wales the Public Records Act 1958 (as amended by the Public Records Act 1967) sets a statutory ‘closure period’ of 30 years after which records must, with limited exceptions, be made available to the public. The 1937 Act does not impose similar obligations on Executive departments, but in practice those procedures are followed in Scotland.”
The phrase “in practice” means nothing and could be replaced with the words convenience, habit, obsession, fixation, weakness or a number of other meaningless slogans. Even tradition has no authority in law. The fact that something is widespread practice does not create a power that Parliament has denied or for which it has not legislated.
Because there is no framework for closure orders in Scotland, I call on Parliament to enact unequivocal legislation to prevent people with a vested interest from burying evidence and diverting the onus on to everyone from judges to procurators fiscal, the police, clerks and every Tom, Dick and Harry chosen for the purpose, so that the real culprits can distance themselves from their illicit undertakings. This closure order was enforced not to protect the names of the children concerned, who are now adults, but to protect the names of very high-profile masons and paedophiles.
Helen Eadie: In January 2003, the Justice 2 Committee agreed to take no further action on a similar petition, with the proviso that it would consider revisiting the issue if there were evidence of specific cases in which difficulties had arisen over judicial membership of the freemasons or the Speculative Society. The Public Petition Committee believes that it is one thing to make statements and allegations, but another to provide evidence. Do you have evidence that we could refer to the justice committees?
William Burns: The committee has my initial letters asking Lord Cullen whether he was a freemason, on which a 100-year closure order was placed. I know for a fact that it is a masonic ruse to get someone else to deny that you are a mason. It is another ruse that someone who is asked whether they are a freemason can say that they are not—they have to be asked whether they have ever taken the oath of an entered apprentice. Lord Cullen used the ruse of getting someone else to deny that he had been a mason when he got Glynis McKeand, the secretary to the Cullen inquiry, to telephone me to deny it. To my everlasting regret, I took that as read at the time. Later I found out that he is an extraordinary member of the Speculative Society, numbered at 1702. The Speculative Society is an offshoot of freemasonry; it was formed by masons in the Canongate Kilwinning lodge in Edinburgh. That is a fact; it is a masonic set-up.
Helen Eadie: I will press this issue a little bit further because it is one thing for you to give us hearsay, allegations and statements, but it is quite another to provide substantive evidence. I ask you again, do you have substantive evidence that can be referred to the Justice 2 Committee, which said that it would consider revisiting the matter if substantive evidence was provided?
William Burns: Are you asking for evidence of the Speculative Society?
Helen Eadie: Either.
William Burns: I have the list of members of the Speculative Society and Cullen is on it.
The Convener: I do not doubt that the list exists, Mr Burns. Helen Eadie is asking whether you have any evidence that connects members of that society to any decision that has been made and the impact of that decision, so that we can take the petition further.
William Burns: It was widely reported that Thomas Hamilton was in the freemasons. While evidence was being given, I was reading the papers on a daily basis and I asked Cullen to ask every witness whether they were in the freemasons. It looks as if there was a cover-up to protect Thomas Hamilton over many years. The evidence is in my submission and in the embargoed documents that have been put under the 100-year closure order. Why else would those documents have been put under a 100-year closure order? They do not mention one name of a child victim. I do not know the names of any of the child victims. The only thing I referred to was freemasonry and Cullen has embargoed my letters to protect freemasonry. That is obvious if you read the letters—there is no other reason. It is the masonic implication that has been buried, as far as my letters are concerned. I am asking you why else Cullen would have buried the documents. He has done it because they expose the masonic connections.
Jackie Baillie: In your view, that is critical to the wider issue. From what the Lord Advocate has said about this matter, I understand that evidence of any child’s name had been removed from police reports and they were ready to be released. The National Archives of Scotland is producing a full catalogue of all the material and submissions. As you will appreciate, there is a huge volume of material. The Lord Advocate has gone on record as saying that when that catalogue is complete, he will consider what material can be released and whether all the material should stay under the 100-year closure order. I would have thought that that would go some way to satisfying your concerns. Am I misreading the situation?
William Burns: You are not misreading it; I see where you are coming from, but it could take another 99 years to release material.
Jackie Baillie: I would hope not.
William Burns: So many high-profile people are involved that that could be another ruse to put the public off. It is the Parliament’s duty to insist on having another inquiry so that we can be done with all this nonsense. It is just another stalling tactic. My correspondence with Cullen should be accessible right now because there is nothing in it about any children; it is about the masonic implication and that is the only reason why my correspondence has been buried.
Carolyn Leckie: I am particularly interested in the evidence that you provided to show the amendments that have been made to the archived references to your correspondence. It concerns me that they had to be amended. Your correspondence and some of the subjects that you raised were acknowledged as necessary for inclusion in the archive. If someone were to run a search relating to the material that you mentioned, your name would not be attached to them. I share some of your concerns about what evidence has already been placed in the public domain. Will you expand on any correspondence that you have had in relation to what is currently not in the public domain? What evidence do you believe is not already in the public domain?
I am a member of Unison, which asks in its application form, “Are you a member of the freemasons?” I agree that people have the right to ask that question. In the explanations that you have received, has it been explained why that question is not considered to be legitimate?
You have raised legitimate questions about the 100-year closure order and its relationship to the powers of the Parliament. I believe that the Parliament should consider investigating the matter and perhaps creating a framework to state how long a closure should last and what is acceptable and what goes a wee bit too far.
William Burns: I believe that there is to be legislation to compel MSPs to declare whether they are members of the freemasons. Is that true?
The Convener: I think that it is being discussed, but I do not know what stage it has reached.
Carolyn Leckie: I make it clear that I am not a mason—I am a woman and I would not be allowed anyway.
William Burns: If no one has anything to hide, they should state that. Members of the judiciary should declare whether they are freemasons, especially when they are judging civil cases. Freemasons take an oath of allegiance to one another so, if the judge and the plaintiff are both in the freemasons, they will protect one another, as the fifth of the five points of fellowship states that members must support a brother in his absence as in his presence. If that is the most important oath that masons take, how can such a judge be impartial? Even if the judge tried to be impartial, non-freemasons will perceive that he will be partial. Public perception is all-important.
There are more than 3,000 pages in the transcript of the Cullen inquiry. Three people who gave evidence mentioned Queen Victoria boarding school. Thomas Hamilton had access to the gun club in that school, where he also got a job for a teacher. He had a van from Central Regional Council to use for transporting children at the Queen Victoria school. However, there was not one mention of Queen Victoria school in Cullen’s report. I have the transcript of the pages that it appears in. Ian Steven Boal was referred to on page 1803. He was a teacher; Thomas Hamilton got him a job. On page 286, Grace Jones Ogilvie, a neighbour, said that Thomas Hamilton used to get a van from Central Region for camps at Loch Lomondside and Queen Victoria school. Robert Mark Ure, an ex-husband of a friend of Thomas Hamilton, said that his estranged wife had been to the rifle range at Queen Victoria school with Thomas Hamilton. Thomas Hamilton had all that access to Queen Victoria school, but there was not one mention of the school in Lord Cullen’s report. A schoolmaster, Glenn Harrison, wanted to give evidence at the inquiry. This is ultra important in calling for a rerun. He saw—
The Convener: I am trying to get—
William Burns: He saw high-profile people coming into the school.
The Convener: I fully appreciate that you want your statements to be factually accurate—
William Burns: They took children away for the weekend.
The Convener: What I am asking about is the relevance of the information to the petition and where it is taking us.
11:00
Ms White: Dunblane was a terrible tragedy. Nobody wants anything like that to happen again. My concern about the decision at the time—it did not arise just from the petition—related to the 100-year rule. I do not want to indicate to the petitioner that any decision that the committee makes may lead to a witch hunt of people who he may have named or who may not have been named. I am concerned about the 100-year rule.
This may be a hurtful question to Mr Burns, but it has to be answered. Is the reason that you have brought the petition to the committee to get to the truth of what happened at Dunblane, or is it a witch hunt of people who are members of a freemasonry lodge? I am concerned by some of the language that you use. I am not a member of any such organisation, but I do not think that we should carry out a witch hunt of people who are members of a union or any other organisation. I want a simple yes or no answer. Have you brought the petition to the committee to get to the truth and to prevent another Dunblane or to have a witch hunt of people who are members of secular societies, the freemasons or whatever?
William Burns: It is about the truth. It is not so much to get to the truth as to get the truth made public.
Ms White: So it is the 100-year rule that you have the problem with and you are looking for a new inquiry.
William Burns: Obviously I want the 100-year rule to be removed because that explains a lot on its own, but I want the truth about what happened in Dunblane. What is worse than the murders themselves is the cover-up after they took place. That is even worse because they could happen again and again.
Ms White: Are you saying that the evidence that came out in the Cullen inquiry is untrue?
William Burns: The truth was smothered. Not only was a gagging order put on the files, but a gagging order was put on witnesses. Glenn Harrison, a schoolmaster at Queen Victoria school, wanted to give evidence. He had been claiming for years that children were getting abused. He ended up getting moved away out. He is now living on an island away up in the north of Scotland—he got taken right out.
The Convener: I am trying to keep the discussion focused on what the petition is asking for.
Ms White: I am trying to focus on that. Mr Burns asks for a new inquiry that also investigates the reasons for the 100-year ruling. I am trying to establish whether a new inquiry would satisfy what he wants.
The Convener: There is also the question of whether we can ask for such an inquiry.
William Burns: We need a new open and honest inquiry.
The Convener: Do members have any points or do they want to make recommendations on where we take the petition?
Helen Eadie: Perhaps we could write to the Lord Advocate to ask him to give an indication of the time scale for the publication of the catalogue that Jackie Baillie mentioned on the Cullen inquiry material and to inform us of any subsequent decisions on the release of material or any variations to the closure period. If we were to receive that information from the Lord Advocate I would be happy with that as a way forward on the petition.
Mike Watson (Glasgow Cathcart) (Lab): There is an issue to do with the 100-year rule, although I am not sure whether we would get all that much further forward if we asked for it to be rescinded, because I understand that the normal rule in such a situation is 75 years. That would still not serve anybody who is currently in the room.
It might be useful to get some answers to the points that Mr Burns has made. We have been told that the 100-year rule was brought in to protect the children and the children’s children. Although that argument may have some resonance, Mr Burns has made the point that some of the information that is retained has nothing to do with children and does not mention them. We should query that, regardless of whether the Lord Advocate is the appropriate person to ask.
I was not happy that Sandra White equated being a member of a trade union, which everyone at work should be, with being a member of the freemasons.
I was a bit concerned about one of the comments that Mr Burns made in his opening statement. He felt that the freemasons were harbouring paedophiles, which is an extremely serious allegation to make. I am prepared to believe that it is likely that freemasons would help one another to get jobs or promotions, but I have difficulty in getting my head round the idea that senior law officers, for example, would harbour paedophiles, who are among the most abhorred members of society. Unless Mr Burns has firmer evidence, that sort of allegation does not serve his case, but weakens it. The allegation that senior law officers would hide paedophiles simply because they were members of the masons or a similar organisation is so serious that very few ordinary people in the street would believe it. I do not want to sound patronising, but I do not believe that that allegation helps his case.
William Burns: That point needs to be answered right away. I have friends who are freemasons. I am talking about high-profile people—law lords and politicians—who are paedophiles and are being covered up.
The Convener: Mr Burns, you are again making allegations which, unless you substantiate them—
William Burns: If there were another inquiry, that would all come out and my allegations would be proved to be true.
The Convener: If you have evidence of that, you should not be talking to the Public Petitions Committee; you should be referring it to the police. To make such statements—
William Burns: Glenn Harrison, who was a schoolmaster—
The Convener: I counsel you not to use people’s names unless you can back up your allegations with evidence. We are getting on to very dangerous ground. I am trying to be helpful to you.
William Burns: I will drop that for the moment. I know that Lord Cullen became Lord President, but his boss at the time—Lord Ross, the Lord Justice Clerk—was on the board of directors of Queen Victoria boarding school, as was Michael Forsyth.
The Convener: I fail to see how that is relevant. You are answering Mike Watson’s point.
William Burns: Lord Ross is a member of the Speculative Society.
The Convener: I do not think that we need to have a roll-call of who are members of what organisations. I do not see how that serves your petition in any way.
William Burns: I am answering Mr Watson.
The Convener: I fail to see how your line of argument does that.
William Burns: Mr Watson said that he could not believe that freemasons would protect paedophiles. I know a prominent freemason whom members of the committee will probably all have met. He stands outside on the first Wednesday every month. He is behind the exposure of any freemason who is the subject of the kind of allegations that I am making.
The Convener: I am asking you to be very careful. You are making allegations about a connection between an organisation and paedophilia. I am asking you not to go down that route. You are using people’s names and accusing them—
William Burns: I am talking about high-profile freemasons, as opposed to freemasonry as a whole.
The Convener: Mike Watson made the point that it does not help for you to go on in the way in which you have done.
William Burns: I think that I am helping the cause; I want to get a rerun of the inquiry.
The Convener: We will have some more questions.
Carolyn Leckie: Such suspicions are inevitable when a gagging order is placed on evidence. There are legitimate questions to be asked about why certain evidence has not yet been put into the public domain. The reason that was given for that—to protect children—has not been substantiated. Whether or not the suspicions are true, their existence is inevitable. I also think that there is enough concern in society about organised child abuse for legitimate questions to be asked. I am of the view that people who abuse children exist in every layer of society. When there is secrecy, there is bound to be suspicion. The specific recommendations before us do not mention the wider implications of the ability to have a 100-year rule.
One of the justice committees should consider and pursue that. If the committee wishes to write to the Lord Advocate as well, I am happy for us to do that. If we could exert some pressure and get answers to questions about some of the evidence from the Cullen inquiry that has not yet been put into the public domain, perhaps the information and evidence would support demand for an another inquiry. However, logically, getting to the bottom of what exists as a result of the original inquiry comes first.
The Convener: The difficulty is that the petition does not ask for that. That is not to say that we cannot—
William Burns: I am asking now.
The Convener: We have to be careful about how petitions are dealt with. If we consider a petition, we have to know what its aim is. The aim of petition PE652 gives us a couple of options. It has been suggested that we take the matter up with the Lord Advocate. That does not—
William Burns: The Lord Advocate has nothing to do with it.
The Convener: Mr Burns, excuse me.
Carolyn, the recommendation is that questions be asked of the Lord Advocate. Responses will come back, which will allow us to decide what further we want to take on the petition. However, to agree to write to the Lord Advocate seeking an indication of the time scale for the publication of the full catalogue is a starting point for taking the petition further before we ask anybody else to consider the petition.
William Burns: The embargo is illegal. The Lord Advocate has nothing to do with it.
The Convener: Mr Burns, I am sorry. We are trying to agree some recommendations to act on the petition.
William Burns: There is no power to impose the 100-year closure rule.
Helen Eadie: Convener, you have summed up the views of other committee members. I would happily endorse your recommendation.
The Convener: Do members agree?
Mike Watson: Does that mean that we are delaying the question about the 100-year rule?
The Convener: No, we are asking about it. We are asking for a time scale. If the Lord Advocate replies on the time scale for announcing publication of the full catalogue, we can ask for more information on the 100-year rule and its use. That would be a legitimate part of pursuing the petition. Does the committee agree?
Members indicated agreement.
The Convener: Thank you very much for attending, Mr Burns.

Footnote by William Burns

The Committee agreed to write to the Lord Advocate seeking (a) further details of the framework under which a decision to impose a closure order of 100 years can be made, (b) confirmation as to why certain evidence that does not name specific children also appears to be subject to this 100-year closure order, and (c) an indication of the timescales for publication of the full catalogue of Cullen Inquiry material by the National Archives of Scotland and for any subsequent decisions on the release of material and variations of the closure period.
Three days after the hearing, I wrote to the Public Petitions Committee, illustrating my displeasure at them taking the futile step of writing to the Lord Advocate.
A response I would later receive from the Crown Office on behalf of the Lord Advocate, dated 28 June 2004, said: “Although your correspondence with Lord Cullen does not refer to children the decision was taken not to release any material until it had been catalogued by officials at the National Archives of Scotland.”
The Deputy Keeper of Rolls at the National Archives of Scotland sent me a letter dated 4 March 2004 in which a description was placed on every individual letter between the Cullen Inquiry and me.   The National Archives of Scotland had no problem whatsoever locating that particular file, COM21/4/105/1 and letting it be known that my correspondence had been “yoked” together with Thomas Hamilton material filed at COM21/4/105/2.   When I wrote asking the Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, why he had such great difficulty locating these files when the National Archives of Scotland found it a simple task, all the embargoed files were removed from the National Archives of Scotland and taken to the Crown Office.
Unfortunately, despite the plethora of supportive evidence with which I provided the Public Petitions Committee, they seemed to have neither the inclination nor the courage to properly address this important petition, and none of the six remedies sought in the requests I made were addressed.   My petition PE652 was “buried”, just as though it never existed.
Curiously, by the time the decision was taken to bury it, articles in the News of the World on Glenn Harrison, the former QVS housemaster, and Lord Burton, the former Grand Master of Scottish Masons, had long since corroborated what I told the Committee at the hearing of my petition on 29 October 2003 – but to no avail.   The Glenn Harrison article was in the 9 November 2003 edition and the Lord Burton article appeared in the 28 December 2003 edition.
Dr Mick North, a retired university lecturer, whose daughter Sophie was murdered in the 1996 massacre, branded Lord Cullen’s Inquiry “a piece of theatre” in an article in the Daily Mail on 10 March 2004.
Joining the growing number of people campaigning to overturn Lord Cullen’s 100-year closure order is Lord (Norman) Tebbit, the former Home Secretary who told the Scotland on Sunday (17 October 2004), “It’s fairly clear that many people think the ‘sensitive’ material is sensitive not to the children of Dunblane, or their relatives, but to other people who perhaps knew more about Hamilton than they have thus far admitted.”
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Tony Blair Caught Protecting Elite Paedophile Ring

Posted on 05 March 2003.
By Mike James in Frankfurt, Germany – 5 March 2003
NATO boss and Blair government insider Lord Robertson has threatened to sue Scotland’s leading independent newspaper over internet allegations that he not only used his influence as a Freemason to procure a gun licence for child killer Thomas Hamilton, but was also a member of a clandestine paedophile ring reportedly set up by Hamilton for the British elite.
On 13 March 1996, Hamilton, armed with four hand-guns, opened fire on a junior school class, killing 16 children and one teacher before turning the gun on himself, shattering forever the idyllic 13th century Scottish town of Dunblane.
The controversy is certain to topple the Blair government, which has already issued a D-Notice to gag the press from revealing the names of known paedophiles within the British executive, including at least two senior ministers; and the case highlights the government’s antipathy toward the Sunday Herald and its brand of independent journalism that has, among other things, exposed the role played by the domestic security agency, MI5, in helping the IRA to carry out terrorist atrocities.
As reported by this journalist last month at Propaganda Matrix and Counter Punch, and by the Sunday Herald’s Home Affairs Editor, Neil Mackay, the British intelligence services are actively engaged in preventing any further child sex revelations that could incite further hostility to an already unpopular Prime Minister and destroy the morale of troops set to invade Iraq. An intelligence officer told Mackay that “a ‘rolling’ Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur.”
Some commentators, mindful that one of Tony Blair’s closest confidante’s is a practising paedophile, are even suggesting that this particular scandal, and not Blair’s repeated lies and fabricated reports in regard to Iraq, may well prove the downfall of a government mired in sleaze and corruption. The Sunday Times is reported to have obtained an FBI list of Labour MPs who have used credit cards to pay for internet child pornography, and Blair has responded by imposing a massive news blackout, failing however to stop the arrest of one of his most important aides, Phillip Lyon.
The latest allegations came to light following a campaign to lift the secrecy on the Dunblane massacre. Large sections of the police report were banned from the public domain under a 100-year secrecy order. Lord Cullen, an establishment insider, also omitted and censored references to the documents in his final report. Parents and teachers were advised to concentrate their efforts on a campaign to outlaw handguns instead of focusing on how the mentally unstable Freemason, already known by the police to be a paedophile, had obtained a firearms licence for six handguns. Hamilton allegedly enjoyed good relations with both local Labour luminary George Robertson and Michael Forsyth, the then Scottish Secretary of State and MP for Stirling. Forsyth congratulated and encouraged Hamilton for running a boy’s club. Hamilton was also found to have exchanged letters with the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth.
The rumours and allegations concerning Lord Robertson’s ties to Hamilton, and the possibility that the American intelligence services may be blackmailing Tony Blair into continued support for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, have been given fire by internet investigator and intelligence expert Michael Keaney:
“An additional, and potentially explosive, aspect of US leverage over Blair is the FBI’s investigation of users of child porn websites which has already claimed a number of high profile scalps. [....] The biggest two fish that come to mind are indeed high profile: firstly there is George Robertson, who today has announced that he will step down as NATO Secretary General after four years and two months in the job. Were he to be fingered the fall out would be spectacular but short-lived — he’s been a long time out of the cabinet and is sufficiently distant from Tony to be regarded as not requiring the presentational finesse of a “rolling” Cabinet committee, whatever that might be. However, our second candidate is most certainly very closely identified with the prime minister, and retains a high profile [and] continues to operate at a very high level indeed, whether in Europe, Japan, or even the Middle East.”
“Peter Mandelson began political life as a member of the Communist Party, soon “seeing the light” and instead getting involved with the CIA/MI6-financed Socialist International youth wing and the Labour Party, through which he rose in parallel with his experience working at London Weekend Television with other A-list regulars like John Birt and Michael Maclay, now public mouthpiece of Hakluyt, the private sector spook outfit run by a bunch of “ex” MI6 types including the widow of ex-Labour leader John Smith. This sort of background and connections makes Mandelson very useful in the sort of corridors-and-alleyways diplomacy and networking that is the real substance of international relations and intelligence gathering. [....] If Mandelson is indeed the suspect, then the damage this could cause may fatally wound Blair.”
“An interesting development that may, or may not, be related to this, is the publication of an article in last Sunday’s Observer by David Aaronovitch. He and Mandelson are longtime friends, having been together in the Communist Party and at London Weekend TV. Aaronovitch was, until recently, a leading political commentator for the Independent, on whose “international advisory board” (the standard vanity collection of august persons put together for the ego of newspaper proprietors like Tony O’Reilly and Conrad Black) sits Peter Mandelson.”
“Since switching to the Guardian Media Group at the beginning of this year or thereabouts, Aaronovitch authored an article on child abuse in which he pleads for common sense to prevail, rather than the lynch mob: ‘Strangely I trust the police to act sensibly (because, like the analysts, they’ve seen it all): it’s the rest of us I worry about.’”
“That much depends upon the behaviour of the US Justice Department, which ultimately has responsibility for the investigation, must be a worry for Blair. One need only imagine how this must colour the views of John Ashcroft regarding the moral fibre of British cabinet ministers and the laxity of the prime minister who chose them in the first place. How easy would it be for the suspect to be named in a story that miraculously surfaced outside of the UK (thereby circumventing the D Notice and leading potentially to a re-run of the Spycatcher fiasco of 1987)?
“Whoever is on the suspects’ list, we can see that already this ‘rolling’ cabinet committee is busy leaking stories that serve at least to delay the shock of the inevitable, eventual revelation, buying valuable time if nothing else. Thus you can depend on the Guardian to save the day for Tony, and here’s some helpful tip-offs courtesy of MI6 that help to distract from what’s really going on, whilst bolstering the reputation for integrity and financial propriety that has marked Blair’s dealings with businesspeople like Bernie Ecclestone, Richard Desmond, Lakshmi Mittal, etc.”
“I have come to the considered conclusion,” says a correspondent of Keaney, William Palfreman, “that the events surrounding the Dunblane massacre, and the subsequent submissions to the Cullen enquiry that have been put under to 100 years of secrecy, far out weigh in political significance issues such as our opposition to the EU [and] what it entails. It is inconceivable that T Blair, Jack Straw [and] Gordon Brown can survive in office as this matter becomes known. It totally undermines the Labour government, and could easily be a case of the Queen feeling she has to use reserve powers to call an emergency general election, such would be the loss of confidence.”
“This scandal is far more important that anything that has happened here in living memory, in fact I can think of no parallel for it. It certainly pisses all over anything that happened to Kennedy or was done by Nixon. I am surprised, given the gravity of this matter, that [an] attempt has yet to be made on his life, for surely we are dealing with desperate people here. It also explains a few strange things, such as just why T Blair & co. were so keen to ban all handguns, and why such obviously talentless nobodies like George Robertson have risen from being backbench nobodies a couple of years ago to Defence Secretary, and now Secretary-General of Nato.”
“[....] Now where in this is there a national security risk so great, that documents part of the public enquiry are now state secrets to be held for 100 years? Funny kind of public enquiry. Why, when Thomas Hamilton’s application for a gun licence was turned down, due to him being regarded as a man of unsound character [and] him being the object of several paedophilia investigations, did his MP, our friend George Robertson (now Lord Robertson, Secretary-General of NATO), write him a glowing character reference, and personally see to it that his application was successful, when he knew the grounds for the original refusal were because he was suspected of procuring boys for sexual services?”
“Or take a certain boat seized on Loch Ness [Loch Lomond] by the Strathclyde Police. It is a very rare thing for assets to be seized in the UK, as [there] are no asset-forfeiture laws. When it does happen, there is normally a trial at least, with things only being seized if they are proven to be bought with money proven to be consequence of a proven crime. Even then, they are sold by public auction. How come, then, was this very valuable boat sold for the tiny sum of £5000, without an auction, to none other than our friend Thomas Hamilton, a man of no financial means whatsoever, nor a sailor, nor lived anywhere near any open water. Why did not the boats owners complain about having their property stolen from them in this manner? I can only conclude because it was being used for some very serious criminal activity, and those on board were merely glad to escape prosecution. Also, it seems rather odd in such circumstances that not only were the owners happy to avoid prosecution enough to lose a valuable boat, but that the Strathclyde Police were not willing to prosecute. And yet, after these improbable events, it wound up in none other than our friend Hamilton’s hands. Could he have been a blackmailer as well as a paedophile?”
“But the main thing is what might explain sections of the public enquiry are now under the hundred year rule. There are only three levels of secrecy in the UK for state secrets, the 30 year rule, the 80 year rule and the 100 year rule. Normal secrets, like Cabinet discussions, government papers, espionage, all that, are under the 30 year rule. Only a very small number of things ever reached the 80 year rule, particularly events in the Sudan with Kitchener in 1902, where it seems that an act of genocide was committed, and some things that happened 1914-18, as well as things like potential peace negotiations in 1941, and just about everything to do with the IRA (after all, people are still alive after 30 years) come under the 80 year rule. Of them, the darkest of state secrets, when the events of ’02 were getting a bit close to their limit for comfort, a further class of secrets was created to last a hundred years, and tiny number of things were put in it – e.g. Kitchener in ’02, some World War I things.”
But none of these things can be said to apply to Dunblane. That was a case of a common criminal [and] sexual pervert committing some fairly ordinary murders, of a kind that happen from time to time. Even if a backbench Labour MP was implicated, or may have been involved in a large paedophile ring in Scotland, that is not a matter of vital national importance. You have a prosecution, there is a bit of a scandal, everyone is disgusted and one MP goes to prison. Big deal: such things happen. You certainly would not make such information a state secret just to save one unnamed backbench nobody’s miserable neck. Governments simply don’t go to such extreme lengths to save nobodies – power broking just doesn’t work like that. There must be issues of profound national importance working here, and I put it to you that anything that involves certain events in Scotland is more likely to be someone of cabinet level than anything else.
If the physiologically flawed [although Thomas Hamilton was these were the words of Tony Blair when speaking of Gordon Brown] Thomas Hamilton was the centre of a paedophile ring in Scotland that procured boys to people of the amongst the highest rank, and Tony Blair [and] Jack Straw covered this up by the Official Secrets Act (They would do the covering, as both the Prime Minister’s [and] Home Secretary’s permission is needed to put some something under the 100 year rule.) it is hard to see how they or their close colleges could possibly remain in office, even if they were never inclined to such flawed behaviour themselves. The government would fall.”
That prospect seems to be energising a government now considered to be fighting for its political life, even to the extent of killing the review process by which some of the banned sections of the Cullen Report would be made public, arguing that freedom of information would somehow harm other abused children in Dunblane.
In a recent interview with the Guardian newspaper, Michael Matheson, the Scottish National Party’s shadow deputy justice minister, said: “There are more documents covered by the 100-year rule than this police report. Some of them have nothing whatsoever to do with children. We need to look at why such a lengthy ban has been imposed on them. I have been contacted by a number of families affected by the tragedy who are anxious to ensure this information becomes public. And so far we have no guarantee that it will. We only have a review.”
“It is important we make available, if it is at all possible, any information that is available about people in the public eye,” said the Scottish first minister, Jack McConnell.
When Tony Blair took office following a landslide victory in 1997, few commentators would have suggested that this man would be willing to drag his country into a war of unjustified aggression against a people that have done no harm to the British public. Nor would anyone have surmised that a Labour government would hitch its political fortunes to a shabby cabal of fanatical neoconservative Zionists working to make real their much-touted biblical Armageddon. And no one could have predicted that Blair’s nominally “Christian” administration would transform itself into a licentious club of flamboyant homosexual cruisers and out-of-control paedophiles.
But it is now becoming shockingly clear that the slavish adherence of Tony Blair and Jack Straw to the Bush line on Iraq may have less to do with principled arguments, and much more to do with the fear of CIA and FBI revelations that would make them two of the most hated politicians in modern British political history.
Michael James is a British freelance journalist and translator, resident in Germany for almost 11 years.
References:
Robertson considers action over web allegation
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=290762003
Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain’s War Machine
www.propagandamatrix.com/alleged_pedophiles.html
Call to lift veil of secrecy over Dunblane
www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,895056,00.html
Child porn arrests ‘too slow’
www.sundayherald.com/30813
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Blackout in Britain

Posted on 29 January 2003.
By Mike James in Frankfurt, Germany – 29 January 2003

Alleged Paedophiles at Helm of Britain’s War Machine

A child-sex scandal that threatened to destroy Tony Blair’s government last week has been mysteriously squashed and wiped off the front pages of British newspapers.
Operation Ore, the United Kingdom’s most thorough and comprehensive police investigation of crimes against children, seems to have uncovered more than is politically acceptable at the highest reaches of the British elite.
In the 19th of January edition of The Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay sensationally reported that senior members of Tony Blair’s government were being investigated for paedophilia and the “enjoyment” of child-sex pornography:
“The Sunday Herald has also had confirmed by a very senior source in British intelligence that at least one high-profile former Labour Cabinet minister is among Operation Ore suspects. The Sunday Herald has been given the politician’s name but, for legal reasons, can not identify the person.
There are still unconfirmed rumours that another senior Labour politician is among the suspects. The intelligence officer said that a ‘rolling’ Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if
arrests occur.”
The allegations are the most serious yet levelled at an administration that prides itself on the inclusion in its ranks of a high quota of controversial and flamboyant homosexual men, and whose First Lady, Cherie Blair, has come under the spotlight for her indulgence in pagan rituals that resemble Freemasonic rites. Unconfirmed information also suggests that the term “former Labour Cabinet minister” is misleading and that the investigation has identified a surprisingly large number of alleged paedophiles at the highest level of British government, including one very senior cabinet minister (known to Propaganda Matrix.com).
The Blair government has responded by imposing a comprehensive blackout on the story, effectively removing it from the domain of public discussion. Attempts on the part of this journalist to establish why the British media has not followed up on the revelations have met with a wall of silence. Editors and journalists of The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sun, the BBC, Independent Television News and even The Sunday Herald have refused to discuss the matter.
Speaking from London, freelance journalist Bob Kearley told me: “Whether or not a D-Notice has been issued is not clear. But based on some of the feedback I’ve been getting it’s apparent that editors and media owners have voluntarily agreed not to cover the story at this time. Operation Ore is still being reported, but not in regard to government ministers, and it’s taking up very few column inches on the third or fourth page. Don’t forget that the intelligence services are involved here, and Blair is anxious to ensure that the scandal does not rock the boat at a time when the country is about to go to war.”
“You can imagine the effect this would have on the morale of troops who are about to commit in Iraq. In fact morale is reportedly quite low anyway, with service personnel throwing their vaccines into the sea en route to the battlefront and knowing how unpopular the war is with the British people. And a lot of squaddies I’ve met think there’s something weird going on between Bush and Blair. If you’re then told that the executive responsible for the conduct of the war is staffed by child-molesters … well, then Saddam suddenly looks like the sort of bloke with
whom you can share a few tins [beer].”
[In an E mail to Paul Joseph Watson, Mike James identified his sources as "people I knew in London who used to work for the Treasury department throughout the 1980s, one being a private secretary at a senior level....my sources will definitely refuse to support my claims - both are doing extremely well financially and career-wise."]
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Fettes old boys defend ex-teacher accused of sex abuse

Posted on 03 November 2002.
Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland), Nov 3, 2002
Byline: CLAIRE GARDNER

Tony Blair at Fettes College on the basketball team.
FORMER Fettes College students – including a High Court judge – have rushed to the defence of a former teacher accused of sexual misconduct with boys.
Scotland on Sunday recently revealed that Charles Whittle, who taught Tony Blair history, left the school following allegations including fondling boys while he caned them, watching children on the toilet and becoming aroused while meting out corporal punishment.
Whittle, who died recently, left the school in the early 1970s. Fettes declined to comment on the allegations, saying they “pertained to another era”.
But former Fettes pupils, including Lord MacLean, one of the judges at the Lockerbie trial, and Harry Reid, former editor of the Herald, have now rallied around their former teacher, saying they do not have any recollection of him ever behaving in an inappropriate manner.
MacLean, who is chairman of the Board of Governors at Fettes College and was taught by Whittle between 1952 and 1957, said he remembered him as a dedicated teacher.
“He was an eccentric, but a very memorable character. When he went shooting in the school grounds it was a shotgun to shoot magpies.
“It never occurred to any of us at the school in that period that he was anything other than a conscientious, interested and sympathetic teacher and housemaster,” he said.
Whittle was also remembered by Reid, who was taught by him between 1961 and 1965. “He was an eccentric character, but I certainly do not remember any incidents or even rumours that he was associated with any sort of perverted behaviour.
“He was a very kindly man and cared a great deal for his pupils. There was no doubt he was eccentric, and he sometimes carried a rifle around.
“The only rumours I ever heard was that he shot his dog, but again I don’t know for sure if there was any substance to that,” he said.
Whittle was employed at Fettes between 1948 and 1972, when he was housemaster of Moredun. He taught English and Latin and general subjects including history.
Reid said he was taught by Whittle and did not believe the teacher was capable of such behaviour.
“I don’t think that he could have changed his character that much in the years between when I left and when he was supposed to have carried out these indecent acts.”
Paul Cheetham, secretary to the Old Fettesian Society and former English teacher at the school, said he wanted to set the record straight about Whittle in light of the allegations.
“He was an idiosyncratic man with idiosyncratic habits which he kept up until he died.
“At school he used to reward good work by giving pupils Polos. He had a real thing about palindromic dates, and even when he left, old pupils used to write to him on dates such as 9/9/99 claiming their Polos.”
Scotland on Sunday quoted several former pupils who alleged Whittle had behaved inappropriately towards children.
Sources said sixth formers at the school attempted to deliver a petition to the headmaster complaining about Whittle’s conduct but it disappeared after the teacher was tipped off by a colleague.

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