p2pnet - rss feed: Hate site under investigation
p2pnet.net News:- Redwatch warns it’s a web site, “designed and intended for people who are involved in the struggle against the spread of Marxist lies in the UK” and that it shouldn’t be accessed by anyone who, “does not wish to be exposed to material that discusses the problems of sovietisation in the United Kingdom”.
It’s not a lot different from any of the of other hate sites you’ll find everywhere online; except for one thing - it has an extensive dbase of anti-racism campaigners, politicians and journalists and it publishes their home addresses and telephone numbers, together with pictures taken at rallies and elsewhere.
It also has a ‘retards gallery’ featuring, among others, outspoken UK singer-songwriter Billy Bragg.
Now, says a BBC story here, Redwatch is being investigated by the UK Home Office. “We are aware of the anxiety caused by the presence of such material on the internet,” a Home Office spokeswoman told BBC News Online. “We have had representations from many MP’s about this matter and will be responding to their concerns very soon.”
Photographer David Hoffman has been taking pictures of racist groups at demonstrations for 25 years and he’s one of the people singled out by Redwatch. After his details were published, he began to receive menacing phone calls, says the Beeb story, quoting him as saying:.
“People started phoning me and saying ‘we’re going to kill you’ and that sort of thing. To be honest, I wasn’t that worried as I thought that if someone was going to kill me, they wouldn’t call me and let me know first.”
Hoffman was concerned enough, however, to have a ‘firebomb-proof letterbox’ and bullet-proof window glass installed.
March 24th, 2004 at 1:39 pm
In addition to the above, I must add that a lot of the information on Redwatch is just plain false. People who do legal work in the area of human rights are labelled as ‘Marxists’ etc. People who happen to turn up at the odd demonstration are said to be ‘ringleaders’ and to have ‘organised riots’. Redwatch often denounces people as ‘paedophiles’ for committing the terrible sin of both being gay and winning an online argument with one of the site’s idiotic researchers.
The irony is that the so called British patriots at Redwatch are wasting the time of police and MI5 officers, time which is urgently needed to counter the threat from international terrorism.
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HK