The articles I wrote concerning the "Operation Ore" cover-up and the 100-year blackout order imposed upon the report concerning the Dunblane massacre of children used and abused by senior Scottish Labour government ministers can still be found here:
- Alleged Paedophiles at Helm of Britain's War Machine, Massive Cover-Up - http://www.propagandamatrix.com/alleged_pedophiles.html [Ref. 1]
- Blair's Protection of Elite Paedophile Ring Spells the End For His Career - http://www.propagandamatrix.com/blair_protection.html [Ref. 2]
- Blackout in Britain: Alleged Pedophiles Helm Blair's War Room - http://www.counterpunch.org/james01292003.html
- Blackout in Britain: Alleged Paedophiles at Helm of Britain's War Machine - http://thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=8257
- Tony Blair Caught Protecting Elite Paedophile Ring - http://thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=8258
- Cremation of Care: The New World Order and the Dunblane Shootings - http://www.cremationofcare.com/the_nwo_dunblane.htm
- Dunblane Secret Documents Contain Letters by Tory and Labour Ministers - http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=600
The 'Sunday Herald's' incendiary story ("Child Porn Arrests Too Slow", 19 January 2003), written by its Home Affair's correspondent Neil Mackay, disappeared rapidly from the Internet within weeks of my exposure. Mackay's editor, at first cooperative, subsequently refused to answer any further enquiries put to him by myself and the freelance journalist Bob Kearley.
Each and every letter I sent to the British Home Office, Scotland Yard and the Sunday Times solicited not one single reply.
Lord Robertson, a self-confessed Freemasonic member of Edinburgh's sinister "Speculative Society" lodge, who enjoyed a peculiarly close personal relationship with Thomas Hamilton, the mass murderer of abused children in Dunblane, failed to sue the Sunday Herald for libel and promptly disappeared from public life. Police records revealed that Robertson had helped expedite the process by which the Manchurian Candidate, Hamilton, already a convicted child molester with known affiliations to the British elite, was able to obtain gun licenses.
Roberston worked in collusion with Michael Forsyth (Secretary of State for Scotland), a fellow "Speculative Freemason" and Robert Bell, an associate of Malcolm Rifkind (British Foreign Secretary). Robertson, at the behest of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, had a vested interest in 'wasting' children who were beginning to talk.
On 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton, a former Boy Scout leader walked into Dunblane Primary School armed with two 9 mm pistols and two .357 Magnum revolvers. He killed sixteen small children and a teacher. The subsequent police investigation revealed that Hamilton had loaded the magazines for his Browning with an alternating combination of fully metal-jacketed and hollow point ammunition. This horrific event led to the banning of handguns in the UK. [How convenient.]
The Judge who conducted the inquiry into the atrocity, during which two teachers claimed to have seen another mysterious man "guiding" Hamilton onto the premises, was Lord Cullen. Cullen, also a member of the Freemasonic Speculative Society and an associate of Labour "Scottish Mafia" figures such as Lord Robertson, Tony Blair, John Reid and Gordon Brown, was accused by leading journalists and emergency service personnel of having achieved a cover-up.
According to journalist Marcello Mega, in The News of
the World, 28 December 2003:
1. A top Scottish Freemason,
Former Grand Master Lord Burton, has said that Lord Cullen's inquiry
into the Dunblane massacre was a cover-up.
Lord Burton says Cullen's
inquiry suppressed crucial information to protect high-profile legal
figures.
2. These high-profile legal
figures may belong to a secretive 'Super-Mason' group called The
Speculative Society.
Lord Burton said: "I have
learned of an apparent connection between prominent members of the
legal establishment involved in the inquiry, and the secretive
Speculative Society. The society was formed in Edinburgh University
through Masonic connections so I accept that there might be a link by
that route." Reportedly, members of the Speculative Society have
included Lord Cullen and a number of other judges, sheriffs and
advocates.
3. Some of these high-profile
people had links to the Queen Victoria School 'where gunman Thomas
Hamilton was allowed to roam free before the 1996 atrocity'.
4. Reportedly the police are
investigating claims that pupils at Queen Victoria School were
regularly taken away and sexually abused.
5. Former housemaster Glenn
Harrison told the News of the World how he even found Hamilton, 43,
creeping around the dormitories at night. He said Hamilton had close
links to a top policeman. Glenn was never called to give evidence at
the Cullen Inquiry.
6. Lord Burton said: "I tried
repeatedly to raise concerns about the inquiry during my time in the
Lords, and I was bullied and threatened by powerful peers loyal to the
Conservative Government of the day, who warned me of dire consequences
if I continued to embarrass them." ( According to this source Cached -
'Malcolm Rifkind's friend and his then Chairman of his constituency
party at Edinburgh Pentlands, Robert Bell, according to the front page
lead of the Edinburgh Evening News on 23 March 1996, sold guns and
ammunition to Thomas Hamilton only a few weeks before the Dunblane
massacre, and it was reported he said he would sell him guns again.')
8. Glenn Harrison had kept
dozens of files from pupils alleging bullying and abuse while he was at
the Queen Victoria School and wrote to parents warning of the dangers
in 1991. It led to him being ousted from the school and just days
before he left, police raided his home and confiscated the files.
9. Glenn states that Hamilton
had been a friend of Ben Philip, the senior housemaster at QVS. Mr
Philip died in December 1993, aged 46, when he fell from a ladder while
hanging decorations.
http://scot-land.blogspot.com/2007/12/lord-cullen-dunblane-lockerbie.html
For William Burns' further
elucidation of the cover-up, please see Ref.
3.
Alan Milburn, a close ally of
Tony Blair, also resigned dramatically from the senior benches of the
Labour Party government shortly after Scotland Yard's
anti-paedophile investigation
was suppressed by the Blair administration, citing the need to "spend
more time with my family".
For some reason, the abduction
of Scottish children for the purpose of rape and murder, always closely
linked to senior Labour Party political figures, continues unabated.
Pressure on Police to Release
Paedophile Dossier
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article708514.ece
Although
Labour Supremo Peter Mandelson's alleged role in the kidnapping of
young girls and boys for the "pleasuring" of the European Union's elite
commissioners in Brussels was the subject of intense speculation long
before the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, I can now bring to a
close all speculation as to the name of Tony Blair's most "highly
placed and senior politician" who fell not only under the scrutiny of
Scotland Yard for crimes against children, but was also identified by
the FBI as an active member of the paedophile ring run by Thomas
Hamilton.
That name was first revealed to
me by Norman Lamont at a private party in Clapham in 1986, during which
time I worked as a scriptwriter for the British television media.
Lamont later became Chancellor of the Exchequer under John Major's
Conservative administration. Following investigations in 2003 on both
my and Bob Kearley's part, that name cropped up time and time again,
and I passed the details to Internet journalist Paul Joseph Watson.
Gordon Brown, the current
British Prime Minister, is a practising paedophile whose activities are
known not only to the British, American and Israeli intelligence
services, but also by Rupert Murdoch and his senior editor at the
Sunday Times.
Michael
James, an English patriot, is a blacklisted and surveilled former
freelance journalist resident in Zionist-occupied Germany since 1992
with additional long-haul stays in
East
Africa, Poland and Switzerland. He advocates a Leaderless Resistance to
destroy the Soviet European Union and is actively working towards a
free and independent England.
Ref. 1.
Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain's War Machine, Massive Cover-Up
By Mike James
A child-sex scandal that threatened to destroy Tony Blair's government
last week has been mysteriously squashed and wiped off the front pages
of British newspapers.
Operation Ore, the United Kingdom's most thorough and comprehensive
police investigation of crimes against children, seems to have
uncovered more than is politically acceptable at the highest reaches of
the British elite.
In the 19th of January edition of The Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay
sensationally reported that senior members of Tony Blair's government
were being investigated for paedophilia and the "enjoyment" of
child-sex pornography:
"The Sunday Herald has also had confirmed by a very senior source in
British intelligence that at least one high-profile former Labour
Cabinet minister is among Operation Ore suspects. The Sunday Herald has
been given the politician's name but, for legal reasons, can not
identify the person.
There are still unconfirmed rumours that another senior Labour
politician is among the suspects. The intelligence officer said that a
'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal
with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the
government if arrests occur."
The allegations are the most serious yet levelled at an administration
that prides itself on the inclusion in its ranks of a high quota of
controversial and flamboyant homosexual men, and whose First Lady,
Cherie Blair, has come under the spotlight for her indulgence in pagan
rituals that resemble Freemasonic rites. Unconfirmed information also
suggests that the term "former Labour Cabinet minister" is misleading
and that the investigation has identified a surprisingly large number
of alleged paedophiles at the highest level of British government,
including one very senior cabinet minister (known to Propaganda
Matrix.com).
The Blair government has responded by imposing a comprehensive blackout
on the story, effectively removing it from the domain of public
discussion. Attempts on the part of this journalist to establish why
the British media has not followed up on the revelations have met with
a wall of silence. Editors and journalists of The Times, The Daily
Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The
Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The
Mirror, The Sun, the BBC, Independent Television News and even The
Sunday Herald have refused to discuss the matter.
Speaking from London, freelance journalist Bob Kearley told me:
"Whether or not a D-Notice has been issued is not clear. But based on
some of the feedback I've been getting it's apparent that editors and
media owners have voluntarily agreed not to cover the story at this
time. Operation Ore is still being reported, but not in regard to
government ministers, and it's taking up very few column inches on the
third or fourth page. Don't forget that the intelligence services are
involved here, and Blair is anxious to ensure that the scandal does not
rock the boat at a time when the country is about to go to war."
"You can imagine the effect this would have on the morale of troops who
are about to commit in Iraq. In fact morale is reportedly quite low
anyway, with service personnel throwing their vaccines into the sea en
route to the battlefront and knowing how unpopular the war is with the
British people. And a lot of squaddies I've met think there's something
weird going on between Bush and Blair. If you're then told that the
executive responsible for the conduct of the war is staffed by
child-molesters ... well, then Saddam suddenly looks like the sort of
bloke with whom you can share a few tins [beer]."
[In an E mail to Paul Joseph Watson, Mike James identified his sources
as "people I knew in London who used to work for the Treasury
department throughout the 1980s, one being a private secretary at a
senior level....my sources will definitely refuse to support my claims
- both are doing extremely well financially and career-wise."]
References:
http://www.sundayherald.com/30813
http://www.sundayherald.com/29876
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/cherie/story/0,12713,857416,00.html
Ref. 2
Blair's Protection of Elite Paedophile Rings Spells the End For His Career
By Mike James
NATO boss and Blair government insider Lord Robertson has threatened to
sue Scotland's leading independent newspaper over internet allegations
that he not only used his influence as a Freemason to procure a gun
licence for child killer Thomas Hamilton, but was also a member of a
clandestine paedophile ring reportedly set up by Hamilton for the
British elite.
On 13 March 1996, Hamilton, armed with four hand-guns, opened fire on a
junior school class, killing 16 children and one teacher before turning
the gun on himself, shattering forever the idyllic 13th century
Scottish town of Dunblane.
The controversy is certain to topple the Blair government, which has
already issued a D-Notice to gag the press from revealing the names of
known paedophiles within the British executive, including at least two
senior ministers; and the case highlights the government's antipathy
toward the Sunday Herald and its brand of independent journalism that
has, among other things, exposed the role played by the domestic
security agency, MI5, in helping the IRA to carry out terrorist
atrocities.
As reported by this journalist last month at Propaganda Matrix and
Counter Punch, and by the Sunday Herald's Home Affairs Editor, Neil
Mackay, the British intelligence services are actively engaged in
preventing any further child sex revelations that could incite further
hostility to an already unpopular Prime Minister and destroy the morale
of troops set to invade Iraq. An intelligence officer told Mackay that
"a 'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal
with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the
government if arrests occur."
Some commentators, mindful that one of Tony Blair's closest
confidante's is a practising paedophile, are even suggesting that this
particular scandal, and not Blair's repeated lies and fabricated
reports in regard to Iraq, may well prove the downfall of a government
mired in sleaze and corruption. The Sunday Times is reported to have
obtained an FBI list of Labour MPs who have used credit cards to pay
for internet child pornography, and Blair has responded by imposing a
massive news blackout, failing however to stop the arrest of one of his
most important aides, Phillip Lyon.
The latest allegations came to light following a campaign to lift the
secrecy on the Dunblane massacre. Large sections of the police report
were banned from the public domain under a 100-year secrecy order. Lord
Cullen, an establishment insider, also omitted and censored references
to the documents in his final report. Parents and teachers were advised
to concentrate their efforts on a campaign to outlaw handguns instead
of focusing on how the mentally unstable Freemason, already known by
the police to be a paedophile, had obtained a firearms licence for six
handguns. Hamilton allegedly enjoyed good relations with both local
Labour luminary George Robertson and Michael Forsyth, the then Scottish
Secretary of State and MP for Stirling. Forsyth congratulated and
encouraged Hamilton for running a boy's club. Hamilton was also found
to have exchanged letters with the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth.
The rumours and allegations concerning Lord Robertson's ties to
Hamilton, and the possibility that the American intelligence services
may be blackmailing Tony Blair into continued support for a U.S.
invasion of Iraq, have been given fire by internet investigator and
intelligence expert Michael Keaney:
----------
"An additional, and potentially explosive, aspect of US leverage over
Blair is the FBI's investigation of users of child porn websites which
has already claimed a number of high profile scalps. [....] The biggest
two fish that come to mind are indeed high profile: firstly there is
George Robertson, who today has announced that he will step down as
NATO Secretary General after four years and two months in the job. Were
he to be fingered the fall out would be spectacular but short-lived --
he's been a long time out of the cabinet and is sufficiently distant
from Tony to be regarded as not requiring the presentational finesse of
a "rolling" Cabinet committee, whatever that might be. However, our
second candidate is most certainly very closely identified with the
prime minister, and retains a high profile [and] continues to operate
at a very high level indeed, whether in Europe, Japan, or even the
Middle East."
"Peter Mandelson began political life as a member of the Communist
Party, soon "seeing the light" and instead getting involved with the
CIA/MI6-financed Socialist International youth wing and the Labour
Party, through which he rose in parallel with his experience working at
London Weekend Television with other A-list regulars like John Birt and
Michael Maclay, now public mouthpiece of Hakluyt, the private sector
spook outfit run by a bunch of "ex" MI6 types including the widow of
ex-Labour leader John Smith. This sort of background and connections
makes Mandelson very useful in the sort of corridors-and-alleyways
diplomacy and networking that is the real substance of international
relations and intelligence gathering. [....] If Mandelson is indeed the
suspect, then the damage this could cause may fatally wound Blair."
"An interesting development that may, or may not, be related to this,
is the publication of an article in last Sunday's Observer by David
Aaronovitch. He and Mandelson are longtime friends, having been
together in the Communist Party and at London Weekend TV. Aaronovitch
was, until recently, a leading political commentator for the
Independent, on whose "international advisory board" (the standard
vanity collection of august persons put together for the ego of
newspaper proprietors like Tony O'Reilly and Conrad Black) sits Peter
Mandelson."
"Since switching to the Guardian Media Group at the beginning of this
year or thereabouts, Aaronovitch authored an article on child abuse in
which he pleads for common sense to prevail, rather than the lynch mob:
'Strangely I trust the police to act sensibly (because, like the
analysts, they've seen it all): it's the rest of us I worry about.'"
"That much depends upon the behaviour of the US Justice Department,
which ultimately has responsibility for the investigation, must be a
worry for Blair. One need only imagine how this must colour the views
of John Ashcroft regarding the moral fibre of British cabinet ministers
and the laxity of the prime minister who chose them in the first place.
How easy would it be for the suspect to be named in a story that
miraculously surfaced outside of the UK (thereby circumventing the D
Notice and leading potentially to a re-run of the Spycatcher fiasco of
1987)?
"Whoever is on the suspects' list, we can see that already this
'rolling' cabinet committee is busy leaking stories that serve at least
to delay the shock of the inevitable, eventual revelation, buying
valuable time if nothing else. Thus you can depend on the Guardian to
save the day for Tony, and here's some helpful tip-offs courtesy of MI6
that help to distract from what's really going on, whilst bolstering
the reputation for integrity and financial propriety that has marked
Blair's dealings with businesspeople like Bernie Ecclestone, Richard
Desmond, Lakshmi Mittal, etc."
"I have come to the considered conclusion," says a correspondent of
Keaney, William Palfreman, "that the events surrounding the Dunblane
massacre, and the subsequent submissions to the Cullen enquiry that
have been put under to 100 years of secrecy, far out weigh in political
significance issues such as our opposition to the EU [and] what it
entails. It is inconceivable that T Blair, Jack Straw [and]
Gordon Brown can survive in office as this matter becomes known.
It totally undermines the Labour government, and could easily be a case
of the Queen feeling she has to use reserve powers to call an emergency
general election, such would be the loss of confidence."
"This scandal is far more important that anything that has happened
here in living memory, in fact I can think of no parallel for it.
It certainly pisses all over anything that happened to Kennedy or was
done by Nixon. I am surprised, given the gravity of this matter,
that [an] attempt has yet to be made on his life, for surely we are
dealing with desperate people here. It also explains a few
strange things, such as just why T Blair & co. were so keen to ban
all handguns, and why such obviously talentless nobodies like George
Robertson have risen from being backbench nobodies a couple of years
ago to Defence Secretary, and now Secretary-General of Nato."
"[....] Now where in this is there a national security risk so great,
that documents part of the public enquiry are now state secrets to be
held for 100 years? Funny kind of public enquiry. Why, when
Thomas Hamilton's application for a gun licence was turned down, due to
him being regarded as a man of unsound character [and] him being the
object of several paedophilia investigations, did his MP, our
friend George Robertson (now Lord Robertson, Secretary-General of
NATO), write him a glowing character reference, and personally see to
it that his application was successful, when he knew the grounds for
the original refusal were because he was suspected of procuring boys
for sexual services?"
"Or take a certain boat seized on Loch Ness [Loch Lomond] by the
Strathclyde Police. It is a very rare thing for assets to be
seized in the UK, as [there] are no asset-forfeiture laws. When
it does happen, there is normally a trial at least, with things only
being seized if they are proven to be bought with money proven to be
consequence of a proven crime. Even then, they are sold by public
auction. How come, then, was this very valuable boat sold for the
tiny sum of £5000, without an auction, to none other than our
friend Thomas Hamilton, a man of no financial means whatsoever, nor a
sailor, nor lived anywhere near any open water. Why did not the
boats owners complain about having their property stolen from them in
this manner? I can only conclude because it was being used for
some very serious criminal activity, and those on board were merely
glad to escape prosecution. Also, it seems rather odd in such
circumstances that not only were the owners happy to avoid prosecution
enough to lose a valuable boat, but that the Strathclyde Police were
not willing to prosecute. And yet, after these improbable events,
it wound up in none other than our friend Hamilton's hands. Could he
have been a blackmailer as well as a paedophile?"
"But the main thing is what might explain sections of the public
enquiry are now under the hundred year rule. There are only three
levels of secrecy in the UK for state secrets, the 30 year rule, the 80
year rule and the 100 year rule. Normal secrets, like Cabinet
discussions, government papers, espionage, all that, are under the 30
year rule. Only a very small number of things ever reached the 80
year rule, particularly events in the Sudan with Kitchener in 1902,
where it seems that an act of genocide was committed, and some things
that happened 1914-18, as well as things like potential peace
negotiations in 1941, and just about everything to do with the IRA
(after all, people are still alive after 30 years) come under the 80
year rule. Of them, the darkest of state secrets, when the events
of '02 were getting a bit close to their limit for comfort, a
further class of secrets was created to last a hundred years, and tiny
number of things were put in it - e.g. Kitchener in '02, some World War
I things."
But none of these things can be said to apply to Dunblane. That
was a case of a common criminal [and] sexual pervert committing some
fairly ordinary murders, of a kind that happen from time to time.
Even if a backbench Labour MP was implicated, or may have been involved
in a large paedophile ring in Scotland, that is not a matter of vital
national importance. You have a prosecution, there is a bit of a
scandal, everyone is disgusted and one MP goes to prison. Big
deal: such things happen. You certainly would not make such
information a state secret just to save one unnamed backbench nobody's
miserable neck. Governments simply don't go to such extreme
lengths to save nobodies - power broking just doesn't work like
that. There must be issues of profound national importance
working here, and I put it to you that anything that involves certain
events in Scotland is more likely to be someone of cabinet level than
anything else.
If the physiologically flawed [although Thomas Hamilton was these were
the words of Tony Blair when speaking of Gordon Brown] Thomas Hamilton
was the centre of a paedophile ring in Scotland that procured boys to
people of the amongst the highest rank, and Tony Blair [and] Jack Straw
covered this up by the Official Secrets Act (They would do the
covering, as both the Prime Minister's [and] Home Secretary's
permission is needed to put some something under the 100 year rule.) it
is hard to see how they or their close colleges could possibly remain
in office, even if they were never inclined to such flawed
behaviour themselves. The government would fall."
----------
That prospect seems to be energising a government now considered to be
fighting for its political life, even to the extent of killing the
review process by which some of the banned sections of the Cullen
Report would be made public, arguing that freedom of information would
somehow harm other abused children in Dunblane.
In a recent interview with the Guardian newspaper, Michael Matheson,
the Scottish National Party's shadow deputy justice minister, said:
"There are more documents covered by the 100-year rule than this police
report. Some of them have nothing whatsoever to do with children. We
need to look at why such a lengthy ban has been imposed on them. I have
been contacted by a number of families affected by the tragedy who are
anxious to ensure this information becomes public. And so far we have
no guarantee that it will. We only have a review."
"It is important we make available, if it is at all possible, any
information that is available about people in the public eye," said the
Scottish first minister, Jack McConnell.
When Tony Blair took office following a landslide victory in 1997, few
commentators would have suggested that this man would be willing to
drag his country into a war of unjustified aggression against a people
that have done no harm to the British public. Nor would anyone have
surmised that a Labour government would hitch its political fortunes to
a shabby cabal of fanatical neoconservative Zionists working to make
real their much-touted biblical Armageddon. And no one could have
predicted that Blair's nominally "Christian" administration would
transform itself into a licentious club of flamboyant homosexual
cruisers and out-of-control paedophiles.
But it is now becoming shockingly clear that the slavish adherence of
Tony Blair and Jack Straw to the Bush line on Iraq may have less to do
with principled arguments, and much more to do with the fear of CIA and
FBI revelations that would make them two of the most hated politicians
in modern British political history.
There is only one way out for Tony Blair - resign.
----------
References:
Robertson considers action over web allegation
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=290762003
Alleged Pedophiles at Helm of Britain's War Machine
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/alleged_pedophiles.html
Call to lift veil of secrecy over Dunblane
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,895056,00.html
MP aide facing porn charge
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002400885,00.html
Child porn arrests 'too slow'
http://www.sundayherald.com/30813
Don't look now
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,877634,00.html
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Ref. 3
Subject: VOMIT Burns / Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:01:55 EST / From: VOMITUK@aol.com
Victims Of Masonic Ill Treatment 10 January 2004
Foreword:
The unlawful sectioning of George Farquhar by the Royal Edinburgh Hospital on the basis that he accused Cullen on his Website of a Masonic cover-up of paedophiles in Scotland's high society calls for the removal of Dr Chrichton from the medical register and the removal from the bench of Sheriff Lothian.
The same abuse of power and of the corruption of the psychiatric process by Carstairs State Hospital to silence Mr Arnold McCardle calls for similar penalties against the psychiatrists and judges involved in the McCardle case. Carstairs also has another paedophile friendly "doctor" who is being investigated for using the title "doctor".
William Burns
18 Shore Road
South Queensferry
EH30 9SG
Tel: 0131 331 1855
6 January 2004
Bryan McConachie
Public Petitions Team Support
Room 5.16
Public Petitions Committee
Parliamentary Headquarters
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
Dear Mr McConachie
THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT - SUBMISSION OF PUBLIC PETITIONS PE652 & PE685
In support of evidence submitted with the Public Petitions Committee in relation to the above petitions PE652 and PE685, please find enclosed a copy of an article of serious significance by Marcello Mega that appeared in the News of the World on Sunday, 28 December 2003. It further bolsters my earlier submitted News of the World article by Marcello Mega of 9 November 2003, along with an article that appeared in the Herald on Wednesday, 13 November 2003.
I apologise if I appear overly pushy with this supplication, but I am sure the entire PPC will appreciate the enormity of it, especially in the light of Lord Burton's revelations in the News of the World.
The "News of the World Investigates" article by Marcello Mega, published on 28 December 2003, is typed out verbatim below.
The inquiry into the Dunblane massacre was a massive cover-up, a top Scots Freemason has sensationally claimed. Former Grand Master Lord Burton says that Lord Cullen's official probe suppressed crucial information to protect high-profile legal figures.
He says they may belong to a secretive "Super-Mason" group called The Speculative Society. Some had links to the Queen Victoria School where gunman Thomas Hamilton was allowed to roam free before the 1996 atrocity. [ DUNBLANE SCHOOL KILLINGS ]
And Lord Burton revealed that he was bullied and threatened by other peers when he tried to raise his concerns in the House of Lords. Last night the 79 year-old aristocrat said: "There's no escaping the fact that there's something sinister about the whole affair." He was prompted into action after reading in the News of the World last month that police are investigating claims that pupils at QVS were regularly taken away and sexually abused.
The Cullen Inquiry failed to investigate why suspected paedophile Hamilton was allowed to wander around the school whenever he liked, running camps and using the shooting range.
Former housemaster Glenn Harrison told us how he even found Hamilton, 43, creeping around the dormitories at night. He said Hamilton, who murdered 16 pupils and a teacher at Dunblane Primary School in 1996, had close links to a top cop. Glenn said he was aghast that he was never called to give evidence at the Cullen Inquiry.
He said: "I was one of the people who was making a fuss about Hamilton long before he killed those children, but no one wanted to listen." Now Lord Burton has contacted him at his new home in the Shetland Islands, saying he believes Glenn wasn't called to give evidence to avoid the embarrassment of top legal names being dragged into it.
The QVS is for schoolchildren of the military services and has long-standing links to high office; its current patron is the Duke of Edinburgh. Whoever holds the position of secretary of State for Scotland becomes president and Scotland's second-most senior judge, the Lord Justice-Clerk, becomes a commissioner.
Lord Burton said: "I was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland at the time and I'm aware that most of the conspiracy theories around Dunblane revolve around allegations of a Masonic conspiracy. I do have some difficulty with that, but I have learned of an apparent connection between prominent members of the legal establishment involved in the inquiry, and the secretive Speculative Society. The society was formed in Edinburgh University through Masonic connections so I accept that there might be a link by that route. But Hamilton was never a Mason. His grandfather was."
[Petitioner's interjection: Thomas Hamilton enrolled as a member of Lodge Garrowhill (Lanarkshire Middle Ward) No. 1413, Garrowhill Drive, Garrowhill, Glasgow, in 1977, the same year he was granted a firearms certificate. Without any shadow of a doubt, his files connecting him to Freemasonry would be destroyed after the atrocities on 13 March 1996.]
Current members of the Speculative Society include Lord Cullen and a number of other judges, sheriffs and advocates. Lord Burton has been trying for years to get to the bottom of the conspiracy theories, using his influence in the House of Lords until the reforms meant he was no longer entitled to sit in Westminster. Last night he said: "I tried repeatedly to raise concerns about the inquiry during my time in the Lords, and I was bullied and threatened by powerful peers loyal to the Conservative government of the day, who warned me of dire consequences if I continued to embarrass them."
[Petitioner's interjection - Bear in mind, Malcolm Rifkind was the Foreign Secretary at the time - and they do not come much higher in government than that - and Malcolm Rifkind's friend and his then Chairman of his constituency party at Edinburgh Pentlands, Robert Bell, according to the front page lead of the Edinburgh Evening News on 23 March 1996, sold guns and ammunition to Thomas Hamilton only a few weeks before the Dunblane massacre, and it was reported he said he would sell him guns again. I sent this information to Lord Cullen in a letter dated 27 February 2003, a copy with which the Public Petitions Committee were all provided as additional evidence to PE652.]
But the determined peer pressed on and on and in 1999, asked a question in the Lords which revealed that documents from the inquiry had been locked up for 100 years.
Among them was a police report revealing that Hamilton had been accused of sexually abusing boys and had been considered by some officers unfit to hold a firearms licence.
Lord Burton added: "We still need to know why that was necessary. Who was the secrecy protecting?"
Although the official reason is to protect the families of possible abuse victims, it's unusual for documents to be locked up unless for matters of national security.
In July, Dunblane ambulance worker Sandra Uttley told the News of the World how she and friend Doreen Hagger had drawn up a 50-point, 5,000-word dossier calling for secrecy surrounding the tragedy to be lifted. They claimed that dozens of questions have gone unanswered and crucial lines of enquiry were ignored. Former ambulance worker Sandra said: "There may be other individuals who should face prosecution."
Glenn Harrison had kept dozens of files from pupils alleging bullying and abuse while he was at the QVS and wrote to parents warning of the dangers in 1991. It led to him being ousted from the school and just days before he left, police raided his home and confiscated the files. When Glenn read Sandra's story, he went back to the police - and this time they agreed to investigate.
Last night he said he in turn had been glad to receive the call from Lord Burton ... He added: "I've been making noises for years and I sometimes despair and think it's time to just accept we'll never get to the truth. "But I think we owe it to all the people who were so affected by the killings to continue to demand questions that were never asked."
Glenn told us that Hamilton had been a friend of Ben Philip, the senior housemaster at QVS. Mr Philip died in December 1993, aged 46, when he fell from a ladder while hanging decorations. Glenn said: "They were friends so Hamilton was a regular visitor to the school and I was introduced to him. "Ben Philip was a decent guy who was very trusting. I think he thought he and Hamilton shared interests in things like the outdoors, and he couldn't see that Hamilton had another motive for wanting to be around the school.
"Hamilton ran camps in the school grounds and he used the shooting range freely. He came and went as he pleased, almost as if he owned the place, and no one has ever tried to explain why he had such freedom. I am still haunted by the memory of pick up my newspaper on March 14 1996 and reading about what had occurred at Dunblane Primary School the day before. I just knew the killer had to be Thomas Hamilton. He should have been stopped."
Demands have already been made to the Scottish Executive to investigate the influence of the Speculative Society. It was formed in 1764 as an off-shoot of the Masons and has counted Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh McDiarmid among its most celebrated members.
The Spec, as it is known, is described by its members as a debating club. They meet in candlelit vaults below Edinburgh University's Old College in the winter. Prospective members are normally approached while still studying at the university. Its membership - which was secret until a year ago - reads like a Who's Who of the rich and powerful in Scotland.
Campaigners were determined to reveal the membership amid concerns, many expressed by senior lawyers who are not members, of the disproportionate influence the Spec is said to wield. One legal figure who has long been suspicious of the Spec said: "Members laugh off the suspicions and say it's just a debating club. But, given that the members are picked as undergrads and almost without exception go on to reach the pinnacle of their careers, you have to think either that those making the selection are very astute at spotting potential, or that membership gives you a big leg up in life. I know which option I favour."
I will be much obliged if you could respond at your earliest convenience. Please also keep me abreast of any progress with PE652, which was heard over two months ago, and of any proposed date for the hearing of PE685.
Yours sincerely
WILLIAM BURNS
