Copy of letter sent to Dear Dr Reid (home secretary)
As one of the people who appear on Redwatch I feel strongly it should be closed down. No harm as yet has come to myself but I understand it has to others, please copy and send to
homesecretary.submissions@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk thanks for your time..
As one of the people who appear on Redwatch I feel strongly it should be closed down. No harm as yet has come to myself but I understand it has to others, please copy and send to
homesecretary.submissions@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk thanks for your time..
Dear Dr Reid
We believe it is imperative that you take action against websites such as Redwatch,
Noncewatch, Blood and Honour, Stormfront and the VNN site that incite violence
against individuals. We agree with Angela Eagle, MP, who speaking about Redwatch in
a Commons debate on 21 June said: "There appears to be a pattern of violence which
is aimed at individuals who are targeted by this website which cannot simply be a
coincidence. … Hate websites do not deserve the protection of the principles of
freedom of speech when they seek to prevent others from exercising their democratic
rights."
Redwatch responded by posting a photograph of Angela Eagle with a report of the debate.
Although the websites may be hosted outside the UK, the people who run them and
provide information to them are in the UK and their names are known. A court in
Quebec in June convicted a Canadian citizen for wilfully promoting hatred through a
racist website that he created and managed, although the site itself was hosted
outside Canada. The same action should be possible here.
These nazi websites not only incite violence against individuals but also offer
bomb-making instructions themselves or include links to other far-right terrorist
websites from which manuals on bombing and poisons can be downloaded.
Two men, Kevin Watmough from Leeds and Simon Sheppard who lives near Hull, have been raided by police. Both of them have previous criminal convictions and are connected to the Redwatch, Noncewatch and Blood and Honour websites. Within weeks of their computers being seized for examination by the police, they have reequipped and are back in action. Just how long will the police keep extending their bail?
We urge you to act now.
Yours sincerely
Mark Mozaz Wallis
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Yeah, take them down!!
24.11.2006 12:46
uncle jo
No new laws required
24.11.2006 13:19
Donnacha
in response to uncle jo
24.11.2006 14:59
audiotech
audiotech
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Redwatch is dead!
24.11.2006 17:38
Redwatch is simply a joke, and a shambles of its' former self.
Fuck the fash!
Anarko
Bit of a joke really...
24.11.2006 22:12
While the intentions of the site itself are abhorrent, and the odious little goblin that runs it is equally repugnant, its actually a bit of a joke.
Taking a look at the 'intelligence' on display, its all publically-available information about 'soft-targets', the photos are either lifted from lefty sites or they're long-distance photos full of anonymous faces from lefty demos. Hardly James Bond stuff is it?
Some anti-fascist activists have obviously been targetted in fairly unpleasant ways as a result of information taken from this site, although I suspect spam e-mail and some abusive answerphone messages is the best they can normally offer... but that would happen anyway!
The site is run by Kevin Watmough, who has for some time been rumoured to be a state asset, and the fact that out of all the information posted on there, I can't find anything significant about any militant antifascists would suggest to me that the purpose of the site is to worry the liberal left.
As it stands, I can't see what good banning it would do - any precedent set in doing so would inevitably be used against antifascists or left/anarchist radical groups. Asking the state to sort out the problem has always historically ended in tears.
I think Redwatch, much like the charcters that run it, is a shambolic joke with more than a slight whiff of state involvement. Why worry about it, and why give the Rampton-cases involved any more ego-boosts?
Yorkshire RASH
The state already knows about anti-fascists!
25.11.2006 03:53
It is clear that the police work arm in arm and shoulder to shoulder with the far right, Blair loves the scum because he can pose as a liberal.
If only a few people on RedWatch have been attacked, that is a blessing not helped by the MI5.
If the BNP/C18/MI5 wanted to attack someone, it is quite obvious they would do it with the complicity of the Blairite scum.
Remember who had Liebknecht and Luxemburg killed - yes the social democrats (ie. the German Labour Party)
The attack on the Liverpool trade unionist was an messagfe from the state that they aren't to be messed with.
Uncle Joe
I object..
26.11.2006 08:26
Mark Mozaz Wallis
Mark Mozaz Wallis
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