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Gun Control
The slaughter of 20 children and 6 adults by Adam
Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut, and the multiple killings in Webster, New York
have reopened the debate on gun control. Last July a graduate killed 12 people
in a Colorado theatre showing a Batman movie. And less than a month later an
army veteran killed 6 worshippers at a Sikh temple in Winsconsin.
In the UK the Gun Licence Act of 1870 was followed by
the Pistols Act 1903, the Firearms Act 1920, the Firearms Act 1937, the
Criminal Justice Act 1967, the Firearms Amendment Act 1988 and the Violent
Crimes Restriction Act 2006. These laws were prompted by the abundance of
firearms brought home by returning soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars and the
First and Second World Wars, and by popular demand after a series of massacres
in Hungerford, Dunblane and Cumbria.
Some conspiracy theorists accuse the authorities of
being implicated in these atrocities. They think that governments are using
mass murder to disarm the population and prevent armed insurrection. Most
people reject such ideas out of hand but Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Daily Telegraph accused the FBI of
causing the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the New Age spokesman David Icke
believes that the world has been taken over by a gang of green lizard people
led by Queen Elizabeth II and known as the Babylonian Brotherhood.
But apart from the Wild West and the usual suspects
gun control laws are widely supported and there’s no sign of an impending
revolution. The gun lobby is powerful in the US but it’s insignificant in
Britain because we were never attacked by the forces of King George III or
faced with marauding Red Indians or dangerous wild animals. We need protection
against armed terrorists and criminals but the use of firearms must be
restricted to trained officers of the law.
The idea of ex-servicemen keeping weapons at home is
dangerously misguided. A former Swiss soldier recently shot dead three women
and injured two men in the village of Daillon. Ex-servicemen are trained to use
firearms but they are just as vulnerable to mental disorders as the rest of us.
In fact the Samaritans report that young ex-servicemen are up to three times
more likely to take their own lives. Soldiers need weapons for fighting battles
but in civilian life they need jobs.
The policies of the far-right
In 2010 the UK government scrapped plans for identity
cards when everyone from the lunatic left to the rigid right started screaming
about civil liberties. They claimed that ID cards were a step towards
dictatorship but if we want to control immigration we need to know who is in
the country. The government has problems with vote rigging and social security
fraud but efforts to update their databases are frustrated by lack of information.
In the modern world accurate records are a fact of life; the far-right is
encouraging criminality by opposing them.
They are also wrong about shale gas. Energy prices
have nosedived in the US as a result of gas fracking. Scientists believe that
shale gas deposits in the UK could match the North Sea oil boom. If they are
right nothing will stop the government from exploiting them. Wind power is
expensive and unreliable. Nuclear power plants are expensive to build and
cripplingly expensive to shut down. Coal
is relatively cheap and available but twice as polluting as gas. There are
environmental risks to shale gas but they will be managed.
Before the current Afro-Asian influx the British
population was descended from tribes that crossed the English Channel in
antiquity; Beaker Folk, Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Vikings and
Normans. But despite our anthropological links to the mainland the far-right
makes no distinction between European and non-European immigration. Their lack
of racial solidarity and historical perspective is shameful.
The BNP fought the last general election with images
of Winston Churchill and Spitfire aircraft to emphasize their patriotism. But
they failed to make a breakthrough and they have been eclipsed by the
reactionaries of Ukip and the Paki-bashers of the EDL.
They claim that the UK contribution to the EU budget
is £43 million per day – that’s £15.6 billion a year. In fact our contribution
in 2012 was £6.5 billion before the rebate. This is even less than we spend on
foreign aid; an insignificant sum compared to a national debt in excess of £1
trillion and a budget deficit of £126 billion. They should concentrate on
immigration and leave economics to those that understand it.
John Gaster
The
inquest into the death of Gareth Williams the MI6 codebreaker who was found
dead in a zipped-up holdall in his Pimlico flat reminded me of another highly
intelligent character who had worked for the government and died in unusual
circumstances. It seems that not all of our spies are as indestructible as
James Bond.
John
Marston Gaster was dismissed by Jeffrey Hamm as public relations officer
of the British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women for being too openly National
Socialist. That was before the League was absorbed into Oswald Mosley’s Union
Movement in 1948. He founded an organization called the North West Task Force
under the slogan “Wir Kommen Wieder” – “We come again”; a bold but risky
strategy in the immediate postwar period. A few years later he founded a
swastika bedecked movement called the British Pan-German League.
His
contemporaries describe John Gaster as an impressive character. Roger Clare
remembers him as an accomplished pianist, linguist and historian who had worked
for the British Foreign Office. John Bean recalls him addressing a meeting of
the National Labour Party in an upstairs room of Bill Webster’s pub the Black Horse
in Kentish Town; and discussing history and politics with his comrades Frank
Leonard, Neville Bealing and Peter Greenslade. Roy Chester told me that John
Gaster used to translate directly from the Russian newspaper Pravda. And Vic
Sarson remembers a tall, well-spoken man smartly dressed in a railwayman’s
uniform.
He was an
authority on secret societies and the author of Krumm-Heller in England,
a treatise on the German-Mexican Rosicrucian Arnoldo Krumm-Heller who was implicated
in the Zimmerman Telegram in WW1 and supported the pro-Nazi Swiss National
Front during WW2.
I met
John Gaster in the Bladebone pub in Bethnal Green in 1972. He asked me if I knew
anything about the Italian “Propaganda Due” Masonic lodge. But I knew nothing
about P2 until the apparent suicide of “God’s Banker” Roberto Calvi a decade
later. When I heard that he had died following an assault in 1998 I remembered
our conversation and I was intrigued when the “anti-fascist” magazine
Searchlight blamed Roberto Fiore, leader of the Italian Forza Nova party, for
his death: an allegation that Alexander Baron has dismissed as just another
Jerry Gable fantasy. The coroner found that his death was caused by an
infection and the police made no arrests.
John
Gaster was just one of the many thousands of people who have passed through the
so-called far-right movements. But he is remembered as a remarkable man by all
who knew him. He was apparently born about 1920 so he would have been nearly 80
years-old when he died. It is not known why he left the Foreign Office and
ended his working life on the railways. Or why such a gifted linguist and
historian devoted himself to radical politics instead of pursuing an academic
career. We can only speculate on the man and his motives and be grateful that
we knew him. Not many railwaymen can speak Sanskrit or quote pages of Goethe.
Nationalism in a Changing WorldOpponents of immigration are divided between racial and cultural nationalists. But racial homogeneity does not guarantee national unity and language does not define nationality. The Spanish-speaking Gibraltarians are British to the core but the English-speaking Irish are determined not to be British. The state of Belgium was created to save the Dutch-speaking Catholic Flemings from domination by the Protestant Hollanders. But after 183 years of union with Catholic French-speaking Wallonia they are demanding independence. Their nationalism was first based on religion and then on language; but there is no appreciable racial difference between the Flemish and Walloon people.
Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley brought peace to
Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement. Although they came from
different traditions they got on so well that they became known as the “chuckle
brothers.” The Loyalist and Nationalist leaders found that on abortion and a
host of issues they shared the same views. The flag riots are not typical of
the vast majority of the population. As a handful of hooligans threw petrol
bombs at the police 250,000 decent Belfast people went to work.
The Slovenes, Bosniaks, Croats, Montenegrins, Serbs
and Macedonians came together after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
because they shared the same Slavic language and culture. But their common
heritage did not save them from war when the authoritarian regime of Marshal
Tito collapsed. But now Slovenia and Croatia are members of the EU; Bosnia and
Montenegro have applied to join and the government of President Tomislav
Nikolic has recognized Kosovo as a prelude to Serbia’s membership. Soon all of
the former Yugoslav states will be reunited in the European Union.
The Israelis are comprised of white Jews from Europe,
brown Jews from Arabia and black Jews for Ethiopia; many races, languages and
cultures united by a common religion. They are surrounded by the Arabs who can
be anything from black to white. Most of them are Muslims but they may be
Christian or Druze; many races and faiths united by language and culture. Race
is a matter of biology but nationality can be based on race, religion, culture,
language, monarchy, geography or bureaucracy. The people of Alsace-Lorraine
have been German or French according to the fortunes of war. And when asked why
a Jewish field marshal – Erhard Milch – was serving in the Luftwaffe Herman
Goering said: “I decide who is a Jew and who is an Aryan.” (Bryan Mark Rigg:
Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers).
The UK Independence Party doesn’t have any Westminster
MPs but they have 3 members of the House of Lords and 12 members of the
European Parliament. Their leader is Nigel Farage a former Tory commodities
trader who is married to a German woman and famous for wearing overcoats,
drinking beer, smoking cigarettes and insulting people. He recently explained
his fears to Simon Walters of the Daily
Mail:
Farage says he saw a glimpse of it at the European
Parliament last week when the EU’s anthem Ode to Joy was played. “I looked
around the room and I saw them standing ramrod straight to attention and I
thought Bloody Hell, that is scary.” He denies comparing it to the rise of
Hitler, but adds: “This is the new nationalism. For German politicians in the European
Parliament it is acceptable to be deeply patriotic about the European flag and
not their own. Germany, Italy – there are many countries who feel they are
rubbish and they rather like a flag they can be proud of and an anthem they can
stand up to. The European project is now a project of nationalism and it is
very dangerous.
Nigel Farage’s comments are self explanatory. He
supports the United Kingdom which is a union of England, Northern Ireland,
Scotland and Wales, but he rejects the same federal arrangement for Europe.
Ukip are simple patriots but their loyalty is misplaced and their 1930s-style
nationalism is redundant: we cannot live on nostalgia.
Europe is finally coming together after centuries of
squabbling. The European Central Bank will henceforth guarantee the euro and
oversee a common fiscal policy. But Dave Cameron has promised a “hokey cokey”
referendum if he wins the next election; in out, in out shake it all about.
Ukip’s fears are groundless. England, Northern
Ireland, Scotland and Wales still have their own identities after hundreds of
years of political and economic union. Europe united on the same federal basis
as the United Kingdom will offer the advantages of collective security without
threatening our nationality.
After the war Oswald Mosley called for Europe a Nation
with America as our ally against communism. That was during the Cold War when
the Soviet Union was an expansionist power. But Francis Parker Yockey and Jean
Thiriart saw American capitalism as the main enemy and called for rapprochement
with Moscow. Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 interest in a
European-Russian alliance has been revived. Apart from the racial and cultural
affinity between Europe and Russia there is also the fortuitous proximity of
Russian gas and oil to German industry.
When John Tyndall wrote Six Principles of British Nationalism in 1966 Commonwealth trade
was booming. But fifty years later selling Morris Minors and BSA motorcycles to
grateful Australians is no longer a viable proposition. The White Dominions
have found new markets and we have ditched much of our industry in favour of a
service economy. In the sixties the pound was tied to the dollar, the dollar
was backed by gold and Britain had advantageous trade relations with the
Commonwealth. That system collapsed in 1971 when America finally abandoned the
Gold Standard.
The political and business leaders that want Britain
to stay in the European Union are not Marxists they are realists. Japan, China
and Korea are recreating the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Russian
Federation stretches from the Baltic to the Pacific and the North American Free
Trade Area links the economies of Canada, the USA and Mexico. The European
Union is here to stay and we should be at the heart of it. But we must deal
with what we have. The EU is the world’s biggest trading bloc and the euro is
the second most traded currency. The BDP idea of a Europe of 100 Flags is a
fantasy that will never be realized. A hundred flags would mean a hundred
armies and a hundred competing economies: a recipe for perpetual warfare.
NR Five Questions
Who are you?
My name is Alexander Morana. I am now approaching my
60th year since my birth. I live in a multi-racial, progressive and
affluent metropolis in North America. I graduated in Media Arts and worked for
many years in advertising, switching to magazine and book publishing in later
years. Since my full time job was obliterated by the new means of
communications, for the past six years I have become a full time, independent
day trader using the same means which had previously made my old skills
obsolete. I am married to a clever wife who also works in publishing and have a
wonderful son, presently in his last year of university.
I love art, since I was introduced to the great
masters when I was a little boy. I would like to add, the enjoyment of good
conversation, a good meal with a Mediterranean red or white wine. I enjoy an
entertaining film if it puts me in the mode and feel engaged in mentally as
well as visually. Also I enjoy reading a good historical and factual book. In
the last twelve years the company of a white female West Highland terrier,
called Shelia, has rejuvenated me (due to 2 times a day walks), and instilled a
bit of patience, of which I had lacked.
What do you believe in?
I believe in my European and Mediterranean heritage.
To my ancient ancestors I am in debt for who I am and what I have become even
though my birth roots have been uprooted and transplanted to a multi-cultural
society. I believe in my first people, of pre-History, the temple builders of Hagar-Qim who glorifying the mythical
element of earth, spirit and race and transcended through the classical period
of Greece and Rome. I strongly also believe in the freedom of the whole self
and mind as for the individual, the will to create, produce and contribute is
boundless. The works of Spengler, Dr Michael Pearce, Julius Evola, Francis
Parker Yockey, including Gabriele D’Annunzio, Norman Lowell’s – Credo, the
theories of Alexander Dugin, I have not taken them all as creed but to my
heart. To my father for he has taken me to the Temple of Apollo in Segesta,
Sicily as a child. To walk and speak softly, as he pointed out where the Gods
slept and who instilled in me to be proud of my heritage and where I come from.
Here I asked if the gods will awake and speak to us. His answer was that they
will only speak to special people and only if they want something special from
them.
If you could direct government policy what would you
do?
I would dismantle all the current European laws issued
by Brussels as well as the local municipal bylaws concerning welfare and social
security and liberate all the shackles of trade and industry to flourish from
the burden of taxes and duties. Furthermore remove any censorship, dictate and
rules concerning, publishing, cinema and entertainment. Implement the death
penalty. Dismantle any central laws, duties and excise taxes on produce,
finances and property. Let the city state flourish and communities work and
contribute for the benefit of each other. Eventually the removal or cleansing
becomes naturally applicable by self whether or not one would be able to
function or be able to produce or partake in such communities? (To the strong
and creative and productive people they shall be rewarded and for the weak and
lazy they should fall. Only the old and sick will be catered to by the state).
The great medieval trade centers thus became prosperous, Florence, Pisa, Ghent,
Antwerp, the city of York, London, Paris, Cologne, Genoa, Venice, Naples and
Palermo.
Finally, I would demolish NATO and remove all US bases
in mainland Europe and remove all the nuclear warheads stored in Britain.
(Notice there is no public debate on this issue anymore?) No more bloody
conflicts for someone’s interest sending young men and women to some far flung
hell holes. Defend the homeland only if attacked.
What are you proud of and what do you regret?
Of my family and my son and wife as well as to what I
have achieved in life so far. I regret that perhaps some people, who are no longer
with us, lived a bit longer to have shared some of my joys and sorrows.
How would you like to be remembered?
I would like to be remembered like I remember my late
father, as someone who had taken and given to mankind in good spirits,
professionally, culturally and ethically.
The Meaning of an Enemy
Andrew Fountaine (1918-1997) fought for General Franco
during the Spanish Civil War and served in the Pacific as a Royal Navy Lieutenant
Commander during WW2. His masterly denunciation of the warmonger Winston
Churchill is now available from Ostara Publications at £7.45 plus postage. www.ostarapublication.com
The Proclamation of London
The
European Liberation Front issued the Proclamation of London in 1949 setting
out the revolutionary ideas of Francis Parker Yockey.
Thus, the Liberation Front now states
to Europe its two great tasks: (1) the complete expulsion of everything alien
from the soul and from the soil of Europe, the cleansing of the European soul of
the dross of 19th century materialism and rationalism with its money-worship,
liberal-democracy, social degeneration, parliamentarianism, class-war,
feminism, vertical nationalism, finance-capitalism, petty-statism, chauvinism,
the Bolshevism of Moscow and Washington, the ethical syphilis of Hollywood, and
the spiritual leprosy of New York; (2) the construction of the Imperium of
Europe and the actualizing of the divinely-emanated European will to unlimited
political Imperialism.
The
ELF grasped the reality of the post-war situation but most people were living
in the past, and sixty years later they still are. They are worrying about
Britain losing her mythical independence in a world that’s already divided into
superpowers.
The
dollar is the world currency and world trade is governed by the World Trade
Organisation. Apart from Russia and China, any country wanting to buy oil needs
dollars and any country with its own currency needs dollar reserves. Any
country trying to circumvent this system will be destroyed by US economic or
military warfare. Argentina, Iraq and Libya have been destroyed and Syria,
Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba and Burma are currently being destroyed. This
system is enforced by American military power supported by NATO. It is known as
“The New World Order.”
All
states lacking the firepower of Russia and China must conform to American
foreign policy. Britain and France last acted independently when they attacked
Egypt in 1956 but their forces were recalled under threat of American economic
warfare and they have behaved themselves ever since. Britain pretends to be an
independent sovereign state but she is occupied by US armed forces and her
nuclear weapons cannot be fired without Washington’s permission. This system is
known as “Collective Security.”
Under
the terms of the WTO the free movement of goods and labour is guaranteed. Any
country trying to defend its borders will be put on America’s hit list and
denied access to oil and credit. This system is known as “Free Trade.”
We
must forget the fears of the past. Communism has been abandoned in Russia and
commercialized in China: the real danger to Britain and Europe is international
capitalism. Francis Parker Yockey’s prophetic vision is now taking shape. The
world trade system is breaking down as capital moves from Europe and North
America to Asia. We will not correct this seismic shift by tinkering with
tariffs and waving national flags. A fundamental change is required: we must
start thinking as Europeans.
The Proclamation of London is
available from Wermod & Wermod Publishing Group at £15.99. http://www.wermodandwermod.com
