Kev, referring to the
colour photograph of you giving a nazi salute, is this another one of the
propaganda tricks being used on that hate blog against you on the internet, or
is there more to it? Were you ever a
member of the BNP as they are suggesting?
Were you just posing at their annual get-togethers for fun? Or is there perhaps more to it. Also I would like to know just who is “Raggerty”
(if you are allowed to say) and are you indeed working on a book about your
life story and how much will be you be saying about your apparent support for
the third Reich? Sue Lees
Hi Sue,
Thanks for your question. I have received many similar
questions in the last few days.
First let me assure everyone that I have never in my life
been a member of or supported the BNP. Interestingly however the person who is
trying to slur me with this label is himself a member of the BNP although he
does not of course use his real name or address. Let me explain something at
the onset which this person (known affectionately by his many ‘fans’ across the
internet as ‘Bonky’) knows full and is attempting to exploit: there is only one group of people which members
of racehate organisations despise even more than ethnic minorities – and that
is people who have betrayed or abandoned their cause, and as they see it one’s
race.
This does not apply to me, as I have never subscribed to
their cause, or their ‘Great Christian nation’ as Sean Manchester and his braindead
sidekick Keith refer to it. Neither have I ever idolised the third reich. But
by deflecting his own nationalism and fascism onto myself, Sean (who is in
reality describing himself, not me) is attempting to a) damage my reputation,
b) salvage his own and c) bring down the wrath of those who militantly oppose a
multicultural society on myself and my friends and family.
He has been trying to ‘slur’ me to this effect; ever since I
severed our friendship and exposed his nazi leanings on this blog. This has
infamously included my publication of images of Sean posing for photographs in
a secret nazi shrine that he normally keeps concealed from guests to his
house. As I explained in my last entry
here, on my last visit to his house in 2007 with my wife Bev, I was invited
into his room where we took some photographs of our own (which I published
here) and also another person (a friend of this
person “Sean”) also took some of their own photographs in this room
which they have not yet seen fit to publish.
But back to the contentious photograph of myself published
on one of Sean’s hateblogs in the last week. I am not going to insult my
readers by coming up with some elaborate ruse to explain its existence. I was
as surprised as anyone else not that it ‘surfaced’ but that it exists at all.
Hence my decision not to amend or remove or backtrack on my original answer to
Mr Boggins’ query about the Photoshopped version. I shall leave re-writing
history to Sean. My assumption that the
image of me apparently giving a nazi salute was Photoshopped was based on the
simple fact that I cannot remember ever having done so. I genuinely believed
that it must have been a manufactured image, especially as Sean has a lot of
previous for manipulating images in this way (he has in the last week admitted
to editing the image in question at least twice viz blacking out the background
etc, as if it wasn’t obvious that the flags etc were Photoshopped on anyway).
On this point people might query why he Photoshopped another
image of me standing next to an image of Hitler taken in his own house, by making
my face green. The targeted use of an image of my face next to Adolf Hitler,
and the placement of a Union Jack with a swastika in the middle was clearly
intended to associate me with fascism in the viewer’s perception. I am not sure
what impact was intended by spraying my face green; whatever it was it was very
childish, but I mention it as an illustration of Sean’s obsession with bad
Photoshop. Whatever point Sean was trying to make is made even more nebulous by
the fact that the Hitler portrait hangs on a wall in HIS nazi shrine – and yet
he suddenly seems to think that portraits of Hitler are BAD things. Make up
your mind Sean!
But back to the nazi salute image. Why he didn’t just
publish the photo unedited in the first place is beyond me. Although the
answer, presumably, was that he hoped I would do exactly what I have done –
write a defence which will make me appear to be a liar.
I have even asked people with technical knowledge to check
that it is in fact NOT photoshopped; they have checked the EXIF data on the
photo and did not see any Photoshop origins listed. So if it is a real photo, I
suppose it must be me.
But please ask
yourself this – if I remembered posing for that photo, I would be aware
that Sean had the original and could produce it at anytime. So why would I risk
presenting a false account, even if I wanted to? Why would I write an outraged
blog entry about it? I am not stupid, nor am I mentally ill. I might be going a
bit senile, in fact I rather wonder if I am in view of all this! Because I
genuinely do not remember posing for that photograph. That might sound like a
weak defence, but my only form of defence is having none, and relying on the
truth to see me through. When I saw it, it made me feel physically sick
I have asked Bev about this, and she doesn’t remember me
having an England running top like that either, but I suppose I must have had
one; I have had hundreds of sporting tops over the years and have represented
England in sporting events so I suppose it must be mine. Maybe it was given to
me to wear when cycling for the England
team, I don’t know. I challenge anyone to remember every item of clothing they
have ever owned or worn!
‘I can see that, Kev’ you might be thinking, ‘but if I’D
ever given a nazi salute I think I’d remember THAT.’ If I did it was solely
done ‘in fun’ at the instructions of Sean who was always saying he wanted
‘atmospheric’ photographs. He is after all frequently boasting about what a
good photographer he is. Not the funniest of jokes – in fact not funny at all.
But it would have happened so fleetingly and was so meaningless to me that it
made no meaningful impression.
Which brings us on to another question I would invite readers to ask themselves – just how did Sean come into possession of this
photograph in the first place? He carefully avoids stating that he took it.
And yet he seems to know what kind of camera it was taken with, and seems to
have the rest of the sequence to hand. Could it be the case that he was in fact
the photographer? The scene of the photograph is HIS front room after all, and
I am standing next to HIS Christmas tree.
If the nature of the photograph were as he makes out, i.e.
that I am or was a fascist and am giving a nazi salute proudly and with intent,
why would a Christian bishop entertain such a houseguest – at the holiest time
of the year to boot?! In front of his
Christmas tree??!! Is he suggesting that
I would from time to time randomly leap up and give nazi salutes, from which Sean
would recoil in horror, muttering prayers for the salvation of my soul? Just
what IS he suggesting was going on that afternoon in Bournemouth?
Did I invade his quiet little “bunkerlow” with a load of rabid BNP supporters
who decided to hold an impromptu rally in his front room?
Perhaps Sean himself would care to answer this. But I would
just ask that he (haha!) answers truthfully and not with more lies and
distortions. I can’t really ask for much more, readers, can I? Then you can
further make up your own minds.
Could I remind people that I met Sean in 1974, when I got
him a job as a lifeguard in a local north London
swimming pool. We often used to train together. Even at that stage he used to
demonstrate his leanings by shouting ‘Sieg Heil’ etc at me, but I didn’t take
it seriously. Getting me to pose like that (he probably got the idea because of
the England
top) is exactly the kind of thing which Sean would do and then keep for
‘insurance’ to be used at a later date. In fact in I think May last year I
alluded to Sean taking photographs as ‘insurance’ on this very blog! So perhaps
this photograph is not such a surprise. I am not exonerating myself of all
blame; it was a stupid thing to agree to do, would have been done on the spur
of the moment and is highly regrettable. I also understand that it was a
disrespectful and offensive action. But it was certainly not done with any
genuine intentions. Going along with Sean
and posing for that photograph (and again reader please ask yourself – do I
look comfortable and assertive in my action?) is something which I regret. He
is a very hard person to say no to, especially in his own home. No excuse, I
know. But it is not a mistake which I can undo, and it certainly does not
present an accurate reflection of the real me then OR now. I can’t prove that
to you. I can only hope that given the
full context of the photo you will make a leap of faith in this matter – or,
ideally, evaluate the probabilities and reach what I KNOW to be the truth.
The fact that someone who keeps a nazi shrine in his home
and has appeared dressed in full nazi regalia in a national newspaper has the
nerve to accuse ANYONE else of being a fascist certainly raises its own a
priori considerations with regard to their credibility.
You also asked, Sue, ‘who is Raggerty’? And inquired about
my forthcoming autobiography.
Well let me put these two questions together, as they really
go as one.
Raggety is obviously the person who organises my blog. And
my diary, and my contracts, and practically everything but my sock drawer! Not
an evasion! But I do not think it would be appropriate to give his real name –
at least not without his express permission. Poor old Raggety also has the
misfortune to live extremely close to the Sean One, and I don’t think he would
appreciate an ‘evangelising’ house call from his grace or one or more of his
cronies!
But the point is my autobiography IS going ahead, and
obviously Raggety is helping me to organise it. Obviously Sean is not very
pleased at this news, as it details our relationship from when I first met him
way back in 1974. Of course this is only a minor aspect of my book, I can’t
imagine anyone wanting to read chapters and chapters about that whacko!
But in view of what has been published on the internet
lately, I have had a good idea.
A lot of talk has been going on in public and behind the
scenes about the idea of David Farrant, Sean Manchester and myself submitting
to lie detector tests to establish exactly who is telling the truth. Aside from
Sean’s slipperiness with regard to what he will and will not answer questions
about, and who he will allow to administer such a test etc (basically anything
to get out of it) one major delay seems to be getting the funding to proceed.
I’ve been doing quite a bit of research on this, and have
found at least independent polygraphers
who are signed up with the British Polygraph Association and its associated
codes of professional conduct, and are prepared to make a housecall to Bournemouth. I will be returning to the UK for a visit
very shortly (when I shall also be attending to some very pressing legal
matters which are not unrelated). If Sean really is so terribly outraged about
the naked truths I have revealed about him on this blog, I would like to
propose that he vindicate himself by paying for my lie detector test. And in the
spirit of honour and gentlemanly conduct, I shall pay for his. If he is
concerned about letting a stranger into the ‘Bunkerlow’, I will pay for an
independent security team of his choice to attend and make sure that the evil
polygrapher does him no harm – except the extraction of some truths which he
would prefer stayed untold, and the exposure of alleged truths as lies.
To start off with, I have some questions which should be
very easy for a Christian bishop to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ truthfully with flying
colours. I will be requesting that these questions are also asked of myself,
with the exclusion of question 7 on the grounds of relevance.
They are:
1)
Have you
ever used a proxy name and address to lend your headcount to the BNP
membership, and / or to receive their literature?
2)
Have you
ever received BNP literature from a third party?
3)
Do you have
any contact with right wing groups who’s ideals you admire and emulate, for
example but not limited to the BNP, the EDL, Stormfront, Combat 18?
4)
Do you
believe in the innate supremacy of the ‘Aryan Race’?
5)
Do you wish
that Hitler had won the war?
6)
Do you
believe that Jews, Muslims Asians and Blacks are not equal to 'whites' and have no
legitimate role as citizens with equal rights and opportunities in England
today?
7)
In your
heart, do you really consider yourself to be a Christian, i.e. someone who accepts Jesus Christ (a Jew) as the son of
God made flesh and their Lord?
On a closing note, if I had been asked during a polygraph
test last week if I had ever given a nazi salute and given the answer ‘No’, I
would have passed, and that I honestly and solemnly swear on all that is dear
to me.
What more can I say?
Kev
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