Hateland
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I almost laughed. The leader of a group which intimidates,
threatens and attacks innocent people wanted to run to the police because someone had spoken harshly to him on the phone. I called him 'a fucking tart' and replaced the receiver.
A week later the News of the World printed the story under the headline, 'WE EXPOSE EVIL KLAN'.
The hoods and robes are chillingly familiar. Menacing symbols of hatred and fear. Of burnings, beatings and brutal murder.
This is a meeting of the dreaded Ku Klux Klan. A gathering of evil racists hell-bent on wiping what they call 'coloureds' off the face of the earth. Our exclusive picture of these white supremacist devils at 'prayer' comes moments after they initiated a killer into their ranks.
It was taken secretly at a Klan conclave in Birmingham. Not Birmingham, Alabama, in the racial hotbed of America's Deep South where the Klan has traditionally struck terror into black communities.
But Birmingham, England.
For today we reveal how this vile sect has:
GAINED a strong foothold in our country with IRA-style small cells growing nationwide;
SPREAD its tentacles to school gates as it searches for new, impressionable members;
JOINED forces with the violent and fiercely racist Nazi group Combat 18 and
SET UP a secret military camp to train members for racist attacks.
We also UNMASK one of the beasts who leads the British Ku Klux Klan, a smiling thug who lives in a housing estate among West Indians and Asians.
A thug whose first words to the News of the World's undercover reporter were, 'Join the Klan and help us rid Britain of "niggers".'
Our painstaking and dangerous investigation in which our reporter was initiated into the KKK penetrates the very core of the feared sect which guards itself night and day against discovery.
The details were spread over two pages, including grainy pictures from the ceremony and a photo of Nige without his bedsheet. I was pleased the story had been given such a good spread, but I felt a bit uncomfortable, because indirectly the article boosted the morons. It took them as a serious threat, rather than the ridiculous halfwits I knew them to be. The article ended with the words:
Their leader, who bounces at a nightclub in Willenhall, is known to West Midlands police.
The thug, who bragged he would never be exposed, made death threats when our reporter contacted him yesterday.
'We've got a top ten of people on our hit list and you've made it,' he yelled. 'We'll get you.'
Now we are making our dossier of evidence on him and his Ku Klux Klan henchmen available to the police. Last night Gerry Gable, editor of international anti-fascist magazine Searchlight , praised our investigation.
'The KKK are active everywhere,' he warned. 'If anybody thinks the Klan is a joke, a political fancy-dress party, they should look at their criminal records. People should be very worried.'
The article, and the footage of the ceremony broadcast on the television news, caused a commotion, particularly in the Midlands. Police chiefs, bishops and talk-show hosts all had something to say. MPs even raised the matter in the House of Commons.
A few days later, a plain, brown envelope arrived at my mother's address in the Midlands. I'd never lived there. I was living 150 miles away. Inside was a calling card from the British Knights of the Ku Klux Klan with the words 'Always Watching'. I was furious. As far as I was concerned, these pricks were threatening my elderly mother by letting me know they knew where she lived.
I rang Grand Kleagle Nige again, but his number was now unobtainable. I considered dropping in on him, but I couldn't be sure he'd be there. One news report had said he'd gone into hiding. And I didn't want to have to pass on a message through his girlfriend and baby daughter.
I rang Adolf. He had numerous contacts within the far-right and I wanted him to pass on a message. Adolf wasn't pleased to hear I'd helped turn over a part of 'the Movement' for ZOG's press. He thought I deserved some grief, but he didn't like the idea of my mother being threatened. I asked him to let it be known that I wanted a straightener with the bastard who'd sent the calling card. I'd go to a place of his choice and I'd go alone.
Adolf rang me a few days later. He said the response hadn't been favourable. He'd spoken to a senior Klansman in Birmingham who was in denial. I sent a written offer of a straightener to the British Knights of the Ku Klux Klan's PO box in America. I told them to publish it in their 'rag'.
A few months later, a genuine rag landed on my doormat. It was a magazine which looked like it had been knocked out on granddad's typewriter, then photocopied at the local newsagent's. The Klan had sent me a copy of their members' and supporters' newsletter, Always Watching.
My face glared out from the cover. They'd used my passport photo to decorate an article headlined, 'WE EXPOSE EVIL REPORTER SCUM!'. The article, written by 'the Imperial Wizard', was riddled with simple spelling mistakes:
The picture on the right is of a sick freelance reporter who goes under the name of 'PATRICK BERNARD O'MAHONEY'. Mahoney along with sidekick News of the World reporter Gary Jones who also goes under the name of Arther Owen tried to pass themselves off as Klan Kandidates at a Klavern meeting in Birmingham.
However they did not get as far as they make out in their fairy story article about us in the News of the World and they were NOT initiated into our Order.
It was thanks to quick thinking of our Security Staff who spoted the ilegal recording equipment and they were then quickly expelled from the Klavern.
Cowardly Mahoney made death threats on my Grand Kleagle and his family by telephone which encluded my
Grand Kleagles baby daughter. Of course the police are now involved on a local level to monitor any futher threats made on the Grand Kleagle, his family and any other of our members. Together with this I have installed Nighthawks to keep watch over the Grand Kleagle and his family.
If you do make a move Mahoney we will be waiting for you, you gutless cowardly scum.
It is unfair to envolve the Grand Kleagles ex-girlfriend and baby daughter as they have been apart now for some time.
The Imperial Wizard said I'd already tried to infiltrate other Klan groups. Indeed, he'd be putting my name on the Internet to warn other comrades of 'theses gutter-sniper's':
So Mahoney I would not bother trying to join any other groups as the game is up my son. You will have to find another way of earning your 'Thirty Pieces of Silver'.
This reference to my 'thirty pieces of silver' showed me they knew I'd once genuinely been a part of 'the Movement'. They saw me now as a Judas, a betrayer - as indeed did Adolf - not just a reporter who'd done the dirty on them.
The article attacked Labour MPs who'd threatened to jail Klan members. Apparently, Gary Jones and I were the real criminals deserving imprisonment, because we'd used recording equipment illegally and allegedly threatened to kill a woman and her baby.
The Klan article continued:
Next the 'Bishop' of Aston joined the band-wagon by saying 'that it's sad to see that there are these evil men in society who wish to destroy the multi-blended faiths that we enjoy in Birmingham.' Well Bishop I sugest you read your Bible mate. It makes it quite clear about the dangers of race-mixing.
Also Bishop what about the Evil Reporters that made death threats on a baby, is it because she is white that you are not botherd about her well-being? You make me sick.
'They profess they know God, but deny him by their works' - Holy Bible.
The truth is if anybody understands the cultural needs of the ethnics groups, then it is the Klan and National Socialism. We preach racial love, NOT racial hatred. It is the above MP's and so-called church leaders that are trying to destroy all races by their policy of forced race-mixing. It is the un-Godly race-mixing that we hate and NOT the colour of a persons skin.
The Imperial Wizard then thanked the News of the World for 'the free advert', claiming to have gained more members and hundreds of enquiries as a result. He finis
hed with an effusion of thanks worthy of an Oscar ceremony:
Once again I would like to thank the Grand Dragon, Grand Klaliff, Grand Kludd, the Grand Kleagle, Grand Knighthawk and Great Nighthawk and the Exalted Cyclops (Hinckly Klavern) who have been fantastic in their help and supportive actions in concern to the above.
He ended his rant with a supposed quote from 'Adolph' Hider: 'That which does not destroy us, makes us stronger.'
I turned to the rag's letters page to see if they'd printed my letter offering a straightener. They hadn't. However, they'd printed several letters slagging off the News of the World as the Jews of the World. I had the impression the letters had been written by the same person. Surprisingly, one of them gave a faint nod to multiculturalism:
Dear Sir,
I have read the very biased News of the World Article.
As a Pakistani Muslim and someone who knows you from my school day's, I just Know that what Gary Jones has printed about you is just not true.
I always knew your views and had respect for them as you did for mine.
However I am sure that your brothers and mine share the same fight against Zionism, Capitalism and Communism.
Mr M.
At the back of the newsletter, which had devoted so much space to my supposed threats, the Imperial Wizard reprinted an article from Northern Ireland's Sunday Life newspaper. It had been sent in by 'Our Ulster Klan Comrades'. The billy-boy bully boys had sent hatemail to a local anti-racism campaigner. The envelope had contained a poster showing a bedsheet-wearing Klansman with the printed words, 'Ku Klux Klan - Closer Than You Think'. They'd handwritten the words, 'Now in Ulster'. I was reminded of the words of Gavin, my Asian mate from Raquels: 'They don't mind giving it, but when you give it them back they don't want to know.'
CHAPTER 15
MUMMY SAYS I'M HANDSOME
And a word of thanks to our comrades of the NSA and the Editor of The Order magazine who have helped in exposing the reporter scum despite the fact that Charlie and Will are having their own problems with ZOG at the moment together with some other comrades that have not long been arrested for so-called alleged anti-race laws.
The Imperial Wizard's last words were meant to remind me that, by infiltrating the Klan, I'd also invoked the wrath of Britain's newest Nazi bogeymen, Combat 18. The 'NSA' stood for the National Socialist Alliance, a loose network of British Nazi groups, dominated by Combat 18 (CI 8); The Order was its magazine; and 'Charlie and Will' were C18's notoriously violent leading personalities, Charlie Sargent and 'Will' Browning (usually only reds called Browning 'Will'. Among his mates he was 'Wilf'.).
Combat 18 had emerged after I'd stopped supporting 'the Movement'. Only the occasional phone conversation with Adolf, and the Nazi magazines he continued to send, had kept me in touch with the far-right scene. In 1992, the BNP had sought to harness some of its more violent fringe elements such as the 'East End Barmy Army' - the alliance of London football hooligans formed in part to protect BNP leaders and events. But the violent, direct-action hardcore didn't want to be harnessed. Instead, they formed Combat 18. The number 18 represented Hitler's initials: 'A' being the first letter of the alphabet, 'H' the eighth. For their logo, they chose the skull-and-crossbones insignia of the Waffen SS's Death's Head Division.
Indeed, CI8 presented themselves as the Death's Head Division of the British Nazi movement. They'd have run the concentration camps if the National Socialist government of their dreams had come to power. In the mean time, they existed to carry out physical attacks on anyone they considered the enemy. Their stated aim was to start a race war.
At first, CI8 remained nominally loyal to the BNP. But after the party secured its first-ever council seat in Millwall in September 1993, tensions grew between a political party seeking electoral success and a gang of Nutzi hooligans seeking street warfare. CI8 started attacking members of the BNP. Indeed, in a short while, the BNP had more to fear from C18 than from the reds.
Articles in C18's magazine containing extreme and illegal incitement to racial hatred brought things to a head. The magazine declared that CI8 wanted:
... to ship all non-whites back to Africa, Asia, Arabia, alive or in body bags ... to execute all queers ... to execute all white race-mixers ... to weed out all the Jews in the government, the media, the arts, the professions. To execute all Jews who have actively helped to damage the white race and to put into camps the rest until we find a final solution for the eternal Jew.
This viciously crazed anti-Semitism (from people who'd probably never met a Jew in their lives) had become a hallmark of the magazine. One issue contained a report of a visit to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany by a group of CI8 supporters. It read:
Why is it after 50 years people still go on about the so-called Holocaust? We know it's a load of bollocks and so must anyone else with half a brain. Yet still we're bombarded with films and documentaries about those poor little Jews. Not a day goes past without some hook-nose kike weeping on our TV screens, 'Oy vay, oy vay. I lost my daughter, oy vay. I was gassed six times and my wife she's a table lamp.' Is there no end to this dribble? Of course not. Because all ZOG's TV channels are controlled by the Jews. It doesn't matter that there weren't six million Jews in the whole of German-occupied Europe or that most of these so-called gassed Jews fucked off to New York, Israel and Whitechapel before there was any smell of danger.
The writer said that a CI8 'team of experts' had examined the ovens at Sachsenhausen: 'On further investigation we found that you couldn't cook a cheeseburger in them, let alone six million stinking Yids.' The conclusion was there was no way that six million Jews could have been gassed: '. . . and even if they were, who gives a fuck because next time we're gonna incinerate every last stinking one of 'em! No fuss! No mess! Just pure cyanide.'
In December 1993, the split between C18 and the BNP became official. BNP leader John Tyndall issued 'a notice of complete repudiation of Combat 18', declaring that group to be 'a hostile organisation' guilty of divisive behaviour. He added that BNP members had to sever all links with Combat 18, whose leader Charlie Sargent, a football hooligan with aspirations, then wrote:
Those involved in the struggle now have a straight choice between the failed policies of Tory nationalism or the ideology of Adolf Hitler. The two groups cannot work together. One must be crushed ... It is now your decision. Do you follow Tyndall or National Socialism?
Putting his fists behind Adolf Hider and National Socialism was an emerging rival to Sargent: Wilf Browning, known as 'The Beast'. He'd made a name for himself attacking opponents with screwdrivers. He gave a good beating to Adolf's mate and senior BNP figure 'Mad Bomber' Lecomber, who, from the outset, had been suspicious of, and hostile to, CI8.
Sargent continually preached the need to 'incite the niggers and Arabs' in the hope of lighting 'the touch paper to a fire so powerful that ZOG will never be able to put it out'. In September 1995, he told a meeting in Holborn, central London, that if everyone in C18 killed two people, then 400 would be dead within a week. The scale of the killings would shock the nation and ignite the race war.
Shortly afterwards, Sargent claimed the credit for engineering the riot that brought England's football match against the Irish Republic to a premature end at Dublin's Lansdowne Road. He told a journalist, 'We didn't care if England won or not. The lads was only there for a good fight and to teach the IRA bastards a thing or two, and to try to screw up the so-called peace talks.'
According to the Klan, Combat 18 were now on my trail too. I soon received a copy of Issue 16 of their magazine, The Order. My passport photo occupied the whole of the front page with the words, 'Not so clever now, are you!' Inside, an editorial written by 'Andy Saxon' said:
Our cover page shows intrepid News of the World reporter Patrick O'Mahoney, AKA Gary lones, the man behind the recent so called expose of the alleged members of the British Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham. This red hack took gutter journalism to new depths with his two page spread on the BKK
K. We at The Order hope that he understands that we do not take kindly to our own kith and kin being subjected to such vile smear stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They didn't scare me. They obviously knew my address. If they had a beef with me they should have popped round for a chat, not slagged me off in their semi-literate magazine. I wouldn't be losing any sleep over them.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be forgetting the tossers either. I vowed to continue monitoring their activities - and to exact my revenge when the opportunity arose.
One amusing coincidence I noticed in the issue of The Order which had slagged me off as a 'red hack' was the mention of a new 'Irish' group. The editorial said:
A new development with the cause which is warmly welcomed is the formation of British-based Irish racialist group, The Shamrock Legion. Full details of this group will appear in Issue 17. With more Irish living in mainland is huge. We at The Order will be doing everything we can to help our Irish brothers start up.
I'd been in an unofficial 'Shamrock Legion' for years with my south London friends.
Through my own experience in Tucker's gang, I could see the cracks beginning to appear in CI8. They were posturing bullies with inflated egos, just like Tucker and his henchmen.
C18 had moved into the Nazi music scene, which, by all accounts, was surprisingly lucrative, generating around a hundred thousand pounds a year for Sargent and his clique. In much the same way that Tucker's gang (of which I was part) beat, bullied and terrorised its 'business competitors' in the drugs field, CI8 trashed rivals' concerts, intimidated rival promoters and took control of CD and merchandise distribution. And just as Tucker's gang had linked up with Continental counterparts to import drugs, CI8 linked up with European Nazis to distribute its musical wares.