"Britain under threat from neo-Nazi 'lone wolves'"

[1968]

Britain faces an increasing threat from right-wing extremists operating as “lone wolves”, the country’s senior anti-terrorism officer said yesterday.


More resources are being directed towards neo-Nazis because of fears that they will mount attacks, John Yates, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, told MPs.


Mr Yates warned of right-wing extremists operating alone, without an organisational network. He told the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: “What we have seen in recent years is a growth around some far-right extremism movements.” Mr Yates, responding to a question from David Winnick, a Labour MP who asked him about racist and fascist groups who turned to violence, said the police were seeing the emergence of “the lone wolf”.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6911697.ece

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In September Neil Lewington, a white supremacist who wanted to revive the Waffen SS was sentenced to life in prison for planning a terrorist campaign using explosives manufactured in his bedroom. Lewington was carrying two homemade devices when he was arrested by chance after insulting a female train conductor and urinating on a platform in Lowestoft, Suffolk.


Lewington, 43, an unemployed alcoholic who lived at home with his parents in Reading, Berkshire, was also planning to manufacture bombs in hollowed out tennis balls.


In June, Martyn Gilleard, 31, a neo-Nazi forklift truck driver from Goole, East Yorkshire was jailed for 16 years after four nail bombs were found under his five-year-old son’s bed.


Four nail bombs capable of causing an explosion similar to that of a hand grenade were discovered along with an armoury of gun powder, fuses, live bullets, swords, axes, knives and a bayonet as well as internet material on how to poison people and make bombs.


In a third case, raids in West Yorkshire earlier this year found rocket launchers, pipe bombs and dozens of firearms said to be part of a right wing campaign of violence.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5940740/Warning-of-threat-from-right-wing-lone-wolf-terrorists.html

[communard resolution]

I'm always suspicious of government and secret services 'leaking information' about an imminent terrorist threat. Imaginary 'extremist' threats are created to tie the working class to the ruling class.

All we really learn from the article is that isolated, disenfranchised saddos who live in a 3rd Reich fantasy world exist. I mean, "revive the Waffen SS"? Come on.

[TRS]

Lewington, 43, an unemployed alcoholic who lived at home with his parents in Reading, Berkshire,
I thought being unemployed layabouts is what they accused us of!


four nail bombs were found under his five-year-old son’s bed.
wow, definatly the actions of the master race, eh? Placing their children in that much danger...

twat.

[Sasha]

more supresing is at how they always downplay the conection to the "organised" extreme-right.
9 out of 10 times these people turn out to be or have been involved with either big (bnp) or fringe organisations (BPP) or both yet they are always potrait as lonewolves. (to the extreme here in holland where they arrested an RVF member who was in debt and on a miniumwage that was providing for him, wife and child. they found an whole arsenal worth tens of thousands at his house and they still claimed it was an lone wolfs colection instead of the way more likely RVF stasch).

yet some muslim kid that plays with firecrackers only has to have googled al-quaida (sic) once to be accused of international organised terrorism.

[communard resolution]

more supresing is at how they always downplay the conection to the "organised" extreme-right.

To what end would they do that, though?

[Sasha]

dont know, in the dutch case the weapons etc came from the army and they wanted maybe to avoid an big scandal.
other times its known they wanted to protect informers/infiltrators.
or they protect other intrests, some of these guys fought on the side of croatia in the balkanwar yet never got prosecuted our lost their citisenship wich raises the question wheter or not they got sanctioned by politicians/military
and maybe sometimes its just to much hassel, if you already have your soho bomber why look further..

[Jazzratt]

To what end would they do that, though?

If I were being cynical I'd say it's because with shite power organisations and the like you can't draw any connection between them and a country you want to invade or people you want to scapegoat. Of course we know how well this scapegoating goes...

[Sean]

"Tennis balls", which he was presumably going to fire from a cannon made from a pringles can and lighter fluid.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00427/SNF3099G_280_427081a.jpg
WOLF POWER (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1592886&postcount=2)

[Pogue]

What an odd thig to say, they are essentially saying 'theres a threat from violent people'. If they are 'lone wolfs' how is this any different from any violently minded person planning something fucked up. Seriously, if they are 'lone wolves' then how can they a) Be a threat or b) Ever not be a threat?

[Melbourne Lefty]

I smell something here.

It's well known that the state has heavily infiltrated most of the neo-nazi grouplets in the UK.

What if some drunken half brained nazi moron got given a ready made bomb by a bloke in a pub and was dropped off outside a mosque?

The states reaction would be to clamp down on EVERYONE with harsh as hell laws, and since no-one is going to speak up about protecting the rights of nazis after they bomb everyone it could be a very useful way for the state to enforce new restrictive measures.

Or maybe I am being paranoid and this is the usual newsprint bollocks.

[Sean]

I smell something here.

It's well known that the state has heavily infiltrated most of the neo-nazi grouplets in the UK.

What if some drunken half brained nazi moron got given a ready made bomb by a bloke in a pub and was dropped off outside a mosque?

The states reaction would be to clamp down on EVERYONE with harsh as hell laws, and since no-one is going to speak up about protecting the rights of nazis after they bomb everyone it could be a very useful way for the state to enforce new restrictive measures.

Or maybe I am being paranoid and this is the usual newsprint bollocks.
Nope. While I agree that these guys aren't accepted (although often celebrated) much in the same way there are idiots who blow shit up with leftist ramblings too, you're just apologising for them.

Its not a set up, lets just agree disturbed people haunt the fringes of both, get noisily denounced as typical by one side and quietly masturbated to by the other.

[Sean]

I think the reactions are the important thing. Tacit denouncement ("he USED to be with us") with disqualifier conspiracies ("cops set him up"), coupled with hushed applause at arms length are hints of it being part of the same ("he might have been nuts but they had it coming") are all hallmarks of a patsy. We see them now and again, including the man with aspergers that ended up murdering women on the internet I linked to and have referred to in a few posts now.

Its frankly harder to make patsies for the left because you cant throw an off balance person through the hoops of critical thought. Throw something at them and tell them that X is to blame for Y and maybe though.

Still, Northern Ireland had its fair share of nutters on both sides which is something I postulate is the reason we've never had a serial killer.

[Sasha]

as an matter of fact we had an "lone wolf" on the radical left here in holland, he seemed a bit of an crazy guy, volunteerd in an radical bookstore in nijmegen, always talking about bombs, bankrobbery's and armed struggle etc. so people grew suspicious of him, they thought he was an secret service infiltrator/provocateur and worked him out of the scene.
years later he turns out to be responsible for the sudden murder of an prominent actvist who he, it seems, blaimed for his expulsion.
not only that but during his trial it comes out he was also behind a very strange and controversial bombing campaign in the time he was still an activist.
after that he turned to very violent bankrobberies.

[Melbourne Lefty]

Its not a set up, lets just agree disturbed people haunt the fringes of both, get noisily denounced as typical by one side and quietly masturbated to by the other.

Amen to that at least.

[palotin]

Does anyone have any suggestions as far as articles on the British government's habits of leaking information on the far right? I've read some stuff on Searchlight's complicity with these tactics, but am not as well informed as I could be. Still I love self-declared members of the master race who think it's a good idea to publicly urinate while carrying explosives.