Tuesday 12 June 2007

Question Time 10: “A blind eye to infiltration?”

The Britain Forward Lie:Arthur Kemp worked for South African intelligence under the nationalist government and may have played a part in killing the red scum agitator Chris Hani. When the blacks took over and started destroying that wonderful country, Arthur Kemp changed sides and was sent to work inside nationalist groups in Britain, Germany and the USA.”

The Truth: An old hoary lie, cranked out by well-known homosexual Marxist Searchlight spy Peter Rushton (see side bar for link).

This made-up allegation is based on the fact that Arthur Kemp was conscripted into the South African police’s uniform branch (all White males were conscripted into one or another of the ‘old’ South African military); and that he was spied upon by, and did not spy for, the then South African spy agency, the National Intelligence Service (NIS).

The latter allegation originates in the Chris Hani assassination story, which Arthur dealt with in his book on the AWB, which can be read here (which also made mention of the NIS spying on him.)

What happened was that while working as a journalist in South Africa, Arthur freelanced for a number of news agencies. One of these agencies turned out to be a front for the NIS, used specifically to spy on journalists in that country.

One story Arthur wrote for that news agency dealt with possible plans by the right wing to demonstrate in front of the rich and fabulous houses of ANC leaders and sympathisers.

All this came out during the amnesty application by the two people convicted for the assassination, Clive Derby-Lewis and Janus Walusz. The transcript of the amnesty application is online at the Web site of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and can be found in full here.

Below is the relevant extract (Mrs Derby-Lewis, wife of Clive, is speaking:

“MRS DERBY-LEWIS: (reading document) "Information corresponding to the so-called hit-list found in the flat of Walus was reported to division 052 by agent Z0066 (Jerry Pieterse who fronted as a freelance reporter) who received it from sub-source 46 (Arthur Kemp) who was not aware of his link to NIS through Pieterse, not was he a registered agent of NIS.
Pieterse was handled as a principal agent who ran his own network of sub-sources, mainly journalists or stringers for major national and international newspapers. The sub-sources communicated their newspaper type reports to Pieterse by computer."
Note the following:

1. It was quite clear that Arthur was not aware of any NIS link and was not working for the NIS. In fact, the opposite is true: he was the one being spied on;

2. The whole point of setting up a news agency front was to trick journalists into selling their writing to an otherwise legitimate company (which quite genuinely did have contracts with wire services) in order to monitor what those journalists were doing.

3. In this particular case, the front-agency in question took stories from many journalists in South Africa, including a well-known one, Professor Anton Harber, who is today the director of the Journalism and Media Studies Programme at Wits University, Johannesburg. At the time, Anton Harber was editor of the Weekly Mail and Guardian, the Guardian’s sister newspaper in Johannesburg. Anton and Arthur were just some of many journalists who were spied upon by the NIS.

Britain Forward’s “intelligence” allegation is thus a complete reversal of the facts: Arthur was spied upon, and did not spy for anyone.

But Britain Forward is never one to let the facts get in the way of an attack, as readers can clearly see.

The Britain Forward Lie: “He was reinforced by a former South African Special Forces soldier Lambertus Bep Nieuwhof who also found favour in our party becoming a branch officer and then put in charge of the BNP Forum, despite the worries of some senior members.”

The Truth: Lambertus Nieuwhof was born in 1972. The Angolan border war, during which the South African Special Forces operated, ran from 1966 to 1989. Lambertus was therefore only 17 years old when the war ended! The ANC was unbanned in February 1990, and there was no more border war.

In reality, Lambertus Nieuwhof was never conscripted, and never even served in the South African military, much less being a “Special Forces” soldier. (Not unless they recruited ten-year-olds to be mini-Rambos).

Once again, Britain Forward’s allegation is an utter lie, made worse for the fact that it is so easily disproven. It is not even a good lie.

The Britain Forward Lie: “He (Nieuwhof) is now running Solidarity’s website and is clearly privy to sensitive information.”

The Truth: Like everything else Britain Forward has to say, this is a another simple lie.

Lambertus Nieuwhof does not “run” the Solidarity Web site. His company provides the hosting, but the day-to-day running of the site is done by Solidarity officials. He has no input into “sensitive information” about the union at all.

The Britain Forward Lie: “He got off a bombing charge in South Africa with little more than a slap on the wrist and not the 12 years imprisonment that Kemp claimed he got.”

The Truth: Nowhere has Arthur ever claimed that Lambertus got “12 years imprisonment.” This is a total fabrication on Britain Forward’s part, and where it comes from, only Forward Britain’s demented brain can tell.

The Britain Forward Lie: “Bep had also done a deal to sell out his old political allies to the black Marxist South African Intelligence Service.”

The Truth: Yet another total fabrication, typical of the sort of “argument” which Britain Forward uses in his barely literate attacks.

There is absolutely no evidence, anywhere, anyhow, that Lambertus has had any contact, even peripherally, with any “intelligence service” anywhere.

This is just another appalling, unsubstantiated, unproven and un-provable attack upon a dedicated volunteer supporter who has provided money and time to the party without asking for anything in return.

Such is the level of the “logic” that Britain Forward employs. . . he makes allegations with absolutely no supporting evidence whatsoever, and then expects everyone to believe him. Psychotic is the only word to describe such a liar.

The Britain Forward Lie: “Richard Barnbrook has been attacked by our enemies over a homosexual film he made many years ago, but nobody speaks about his long membership of a left-wing Labour Party branch in South East London.”

The Truth: Richard Barnbrook’s admittedly somewhat peculiar art student-era film has been done to death, and has no relevance to anything today.

The real issue is this: Where does Britain Forward think new party members will come from? If the party is to grow, it will have to recruit people who were previously supporters of other parties … duh.

The Britain Forward Lie: “Robert Bailey claims to have been a Royal Marine commando and have links with Germany. One of our members, a former army officer, has shown us the result of his research into Bailey's background that indicates he may be working for British Military Intelligence as an infiltrator into the BNP.”

The Truth: A classic example of Forward Britain’s Searchlight-style innuendo and word-play, making allegations without providing any proof of any nature whatsoever.

If we substitute “Britain Forward” for Robert Bailey, the baseless nature of this “argument” becomes instantly apparent:

“Britain Forward claims to have been a Royal Marine commando and have links with Germany. One of our members, a former army officer, has shown us the result of his research into Britain Forward’s background that indicates he may be working for British Military Intelligence as an infiltrator into the BNP.”

How pathetic can someone be? Britain Forward has, in fact, set a new standard for pathetic-ness as far as “arguments” go.

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