When Charity is Criminal
The Searchlight Educational Trust Exposed
Part 1
Part 1
Main Article
Part 2
Some Sources and Useful Publications
The Other Face of Searchlight
Searchlight, O'Hara, Hepple and Scargill
Searchlight - the Real Extremists
O'Hara and Gable - Comrades in
Disinformation
Green and Brown Anarchist
Alexander Baron
What's in a Name
Evil Final Conflict
Clafrification -if it's Needed
Riot a Highlight
Wanted
[Note: There are various references to secondary articles on other pages in
the following text. These refer to their original location in Final
Conflict magazine #20. All the relevant facts follow, although they are not
laid out in the same order as they were in the magazine in which some
features were inserted amongst others.
Issue 20 of Final Conflict which, amongst other things, also contains an
interview with Australian National Action, is still available from Final
Conflict along with other back issues].
SEARCHLIGHT LIES
Searchlight "clearly works on the notion that if enough mud is thrown
some of it will eventually stick." Nationalism Today Issue 41.
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IMAGINE, IF YOU will dear reader, that there were a Charity in this
country run by criminals and political 'extremists' that published
material of a political nature that attacked open, legal and democratic
political parties. Wow! Wouldn't that cause a fuss? It would be all
over the papers, the Charity Commission would swing into action overnight...
but, perhaps not...
Let us add the matter of the Charity's Communist/Zionist so-called
"anti-racist" background and maybe, just maybe, the fact that certain
strings are pulled by the Jewish Board of Deputies, Special Branch/MI5
and high ranking politicians who just might be Jewish, homosexual,
Socialist or a lovely mixture of any of these.
"No! This couldn't happen! Not in democratic Britain" I hear the politically
naive cry... but that's exactly what is happening and the Charity
concerned is the Searchlight Educational Trust (hereafter: SET) Registered
Charity No. 1013880.
But before we go onto the matter of SET, let us first take a look
at Searchlight magazine which, as we'll see later is indistinguishable
from SET, and some of the charming people behind it:
MRS. SONIA GABLE (SET Secretary):
Mrs. Gable is a former member of the National Party, National Front
and League of Saint George (indeed at one stage she had a close relationship
with 'Strasserite' Steve Brady of all three of these organisations,
and other "nazi" activists - surely taking "infiltration" a bit far?).
As well as being the secretary of SET she is also sales/circulation
manager of Searchlight magazine. So, she was either a White racialist
- in which case is hardly suited to be involved in an "anti racist"
Charity such as SET - or a political infiltrator. Being (part) Jewish,
one would think she had to be an infiltrator. Not so. Members of the
League of St. George knew Miss Hochfelder was a Jewess (she wrote
letters in the Feb and June 1978 editions of League Review defending
Israel and Jews and condemning anti-Semitism and a Mr. C. Horner of
Peterborough wrote a letter in the August 1978 edition attacking her
for this). This lends credence to the view expressed by many that
Sonia Hochfelder was a "Court Jew" in 'Nationalist' circles. The National
Front also had Jewish members and Jewish membership of the BNP caused
concern in C18 circles circa. 1993 and reportedly in his recent court
case, BNP 'No. 2' Nick Griffin admitted that the BNP has Jewish members
- so this is not a new phenomenon.
Should such a known "racist" (or a political operative - an infiltrator
is hardly a part-time functionary holding tea parties) be the secretary
of a registered Charity which flirts with the political process; especially
when one looks at the political and criminal 'background' of her husband
(and others) connected with Searchlight magazine and SET?
MR. GERRY GABLE (Editor of political journal Searchlight, shareholder
of Searchlight Publishing Ltd., criminal and speaker at SET conferences):
Although not named as such, it is very likely that Mr. Gable is one
of the main organisers of SET.
Mr. Gable was a member of the Young Communist League and the Communist
Party of Great Britain. He left school at 15 years of
age and started as a trainee journalist on the Communist Party's Daily
Worker. After a year he left for what became a career as a Communist
Party trade union official. He stood for the Communist Party on Thursday
the 10th of May 1962 at Northfield Ward, Stamford Hill, North London.
(These links remain. In 1986 Searchlight was distributed by 'Central
Books Ltd.', a Communist Party front that distributes various Marxist
literature). In 1962, after 10 years unbroken membership, he left
the Communist Party to "concentrate on anti-fascist work and because
the party had begun to adopt an anti-Israel line".
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"...There is a man who has been involved to various degrees in the
anti-fascist movement for many years now who is known to be a police
informer and by his own admission has contacts in the security services...
His name is Gerry Gable and his publication is Searchlight." Black
Flag, Autumn 1993.
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His type of "anti-fascist work" soon became clear. In November 1963
Mr. Gable was arrested and held at Hornsey police station following
a bungled attempt to burgle the home of historian, David Irving. On
the 14th of January 1964, Gable admitted breaking into the flat with
intent to steal. His associate Manny Carpel (see later) also pleaded
guilty. They were both fined £20. Gable was also fined £5 for stealing
a GPO pass card.
As editor of Searchlight, Gable is an expert at spreading lies and
disinformation (see later evidence re. 'The Gable memorandum', secret
state involvement and various incredible smears against individuals
and organisations).
Gable is also a Zionist. His son served in the Israeli Defence Force
(sic) which has been responsible for some of the worst crimes against
unarmed civilians - even women and children (dare we mention the word
'racist' in attacks by 'superior' Jews against dispossessed Arabs?).
HARRY BIDNEY
(Searchlight magazine's "hero", pimp, homosexual paedophile and criminal):
The Zionist terror group 'The 62 Group' (supporters of the terrorist
Beginite Herut organisation in Israel) was unofficially based in the
sordid Limbo Club in Soho. Gable was involved with the criminal '62
Group' and the Limbo Club was managed by Harry Bidney. After his death
Bidney was described by Searchlight as an "hero".
In 1977 Bidney was found guilty of eight charges of living off the
earnings of prostitutes. In court, Bidney was described as the company
secretary of Calderhead Investments, which was headed by David Calderhead,
who was jailed for, on his own admission, attempting to procure a
16-year-old boy to commit an act of gross indecency with the predatory
homosexual Harry Bidney.
In the March 1997 edition of Searchlight Gerry Gable wrote of his
joy at having a 60th birthday surprise party sprung on him by his
fellow Searchlight criminals. He listed pimp Harry Bidney as one of
just eight "old and dear friends" that had "passed on". But "The evening
did not pass without fond memories of you all". How quaint.
DAVE ROBERTS
(Editorial board member of Searchlight magazine and criminal):
Roberts joined the editorial board of Searchlight magazine in 1974
and infiltrated political organisations for Searchlight throughout
the mid 1970's. Infiltrating some lunatic fringe organisations led
him to being convicted at Birmingham Crown Court of conspiring with
others to burn down an Asian restaurant. He was only given a suspended
sentence, which he later served as a result of a criminal conviction.
Despite such events, Roberts continued to work for Searchlight for
some years.
Roberts was responsible for one of Searchlight's best-known 'neo-nazi
shock' frauds - Column 88 in the 1970's (NB: Searchlight was still
pushing the fictitious Column 88 to people without brains in the
January 1990 issue - #175) This name has since been used (somewhat
bizarrely) by the 'National Socialist Movement' (ex-National Socialist
Alliance/C18, Sargent wing), who now publish a journal entitled Column
88.
MANNY CARPEL (Searchlight journalist and criminal):
Arrested alongside Gerry Gable (see above). On top of this, he was
convicted the year before of assaulting P.C. William Nield and of
having an offensive weapon (a metal butcher's hook). In 1967 he pleaded
guilty, with Michael Cohen, of trying to break into a printing works
(W.H. Jones Ltd. on 20th July, 1966) with intent to commit a felony
and to possessing housebreaking tools by night.
Later, when in court for setting light to a printworks in Uckfield,
Sussex, and causing more than £50,000 worth of damage (November the
5th, 1980) he described himself as "a freelance journalist working
for Searchlight". Despite his previous convictions, Carpel received
a mere two and a half year sentence on the 13th of April 1981. (It
is highly possible that the Searchlight criminals, under Gable's leadership,
are planning to repeat this arson given their request in a recent
issue - January 1998 - for all sorts of info on "...a well known printer
in Uckfield").
Gerry Gable continues to maintain close links with Carpel.
MAURICE LUDMER
(Deceased - former Searchlight editor).
Ludmer was a Communist Party supporter. In 1963 he sponsored a Mrs.
O'Brien as Communist Party candidate in Moseley Ward of Birmingham
in the local elections. In 1967 he performed a similar service for
the Communist Party candidate Mr. Brian M. Chambers. As late as 1986,
Elizabeth Ludmer, his wife and shareholder in Searchlight Publishing
Ltd., was throwing garden parties for the Socialist Workers Party
at her Moseley home.
Ludmer liked to promote violence against legal political meetings
and demonstrations. An example of this was a meeting of the Young
National Front at the Digbeth Hall in Birmingham in 1978. He was a
member of the "steering committee" which whipped up a crowd which
went on the rampage. The riot resulted in several police being badly
injured and Saturday shoppers being terrorised by hoodlums.
Ludmer was also on the 'steering committee' of the Anti Nazi League
in the 1970s. ANAL was then, as it is now, a front for the Socialist
Workers Party, but was more of a 'broad front' then, containing people
like Ludmer with his Communist Party connections. The 70's ANAL was
far more violent than today's version (bear in mind that the 70's
SWP/ANAL still contained the Red Action elements - kicked out in 1982 - who
went on to form the violent Anti Fascist Action - see 'Searchlight - the
Real Extremists', page 12, this issue), no doubt benefiting from Ludmer's
love of organised violence against
lawful demonstrations and meetings.
Searchlight continues this "proud tradition" by publishing names,
addresses, phone numbers and work places of political activists, thus
'setting them up' for attack (see page 15). Great democratic credentials!
Interestingly, ANAL seems to belong to the Harry Bidney fan club too.
The ANAL and SWP were both based at the same address in Newcastle
- above a sex shop!
DAVID EDGAR
(Searchlight Publishing Ltd. shareholder ):
This man was also on the editorial board of Marxism Today. He may
possibly still be involved with both Searchlight and Marxism Today.
This further links Searchlight with open political activities.
MICHAEL COHEN
(Searchlight photographer, shareholder in Searchlight
Publishing Ltd and criminal):
Also involved and found guilty of the 1963 burglary attempt alongside
Gable and Roberts. He also pleaded guilty to the W.H. Jones attempted
break-in with Carpel (see above).
GRAEME ATKINSON
(Searchlight's European correspondent and criminal):
Atkinson worked for (surprise surprise!) the Communist Party's Morning
Star newspaper as its district reporter in Yorkshire and the North
East.
When in Sweden he manhandled a young thalidomide victim, Ulf Ranshede,
so badly that the Swedish police wanted him for questioning and placed
him on official report.
He was convicted and fined together with Searchlight activist Michael
Avril Loft of distributing an illegal leaflet during the October 1974
General Election which attacked a legal, political party (looks like
SET has had good teachers!).
RAY HILL
(Searchlight columnist and criminal):
Criminal: he jumped bail on a duplicate passport two days before he
was due in court charged with a £2,000 credit card swindle. He went
to South Africa to avoid criminal charges (and joined the South African
National Front) and came back to England under a similar cloud. He
was also facing charges in connection with the theft of £20,000 from
a Masonic organisation called The Sons of England, for which he was
secretary.
These events happened during the period when Mr. Hill was a member
of various organisations that could be described as Fascist or National
Socialist (though some do not fit that description); indeed, when
he announced he was a "mole" he was Press Officer for the BNP. "So
his "conversion" to 'anti-fascism' and the pay-roll of Searchlight
magazine might have seen him change his law-breaking ways?" thinks
the political novice.
Unfortunately not. Mr. Hill appeared in Lincoln Crown Court (March
1988) when a Mr. George Lewis was the defendant in the case of indecent
assault of young males. In short, Mr. Lewis, who had been jailed in
Zimbabwe for sexual offences, was the victim of blackmail by Ray Hill, whom
Mr. Lewis claimed
- despite working for Searchlight magazine - was still "anti-Jewish".
The jury believed Mr. Lewis and he was acquitted.
SEARCHLIGHT VIOLENCE
Despite constantly condemning others for their "criminal" and "violent"
past, Searchlight's main 'moles' - Ray Hill and Tim Hepple both fit
this bill. Indeed, Gable adheres to the "East End Socialist and Communist
tradition of raising hell and, when necessary, fighting on the streets"
- Jewish Chronicle 23rd October 1987.
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In his column in Searchlight magazine Mr. Hill even referred to Black
political activists as "Gucci-outfitted bunches of middle-class wankers"
(issue 204, June 1992, page 11). and referred to Louis Farrakhan,
the American Black Muslim (Nation of Islam) activist as a "worm".
(issue 158 - article 'Farrakhan of Worms' attacked Black activist
Lester Lewis for holding anti-Zionist and anti-Freemasonic views;
he should of course believe what his masters at Searchlight tell him
to). Can such talk be conducent to racial harmony?
Though he no longer regularly appears in Searchlight (due to embarrassment?)
Mr. Hill's column did appear for many years after the South African
affair and the Lincoln Crown Court episode.
Indeed, Ray Hill's column (Hill Street News) seems to have stopped
after 1994. Of four copies of Searchlight we've seen of that year,
he had a double page spread in each one, including a centre page spread.
Some researchers claim this column was in fact written by others and
was a concoction of news and gossip landing on Gable's desk, with
Hill giving his name to it. Certainly in recent months another column
'News from the Sewers' has appeared which is a carbon copy of Hill's
old column - maybe Searchlight feel there is little difference between
Hill and the sewer. We'd tend to agree.
In the April 1994 issue of Searchlight, Gable prints a tribute to
Hill: "Well you old sod, ten years later you're still on the team
and, with love and respect to you and your family" - get the sick
bucket! - "we hope you will be around for at least ten more". Indeed
he is. But only just. Hill turned up at the 1997 60th birthday bash
of Gable, proving he can still be wheeled out when times get hard.
TIM HEPPLE
(Searchlight 'mole' and criminal)
This person is held by Searchlight to be their best example of an
infiltrator in the far right. Hepple claims to have been a genuine
Nationalist who "saw the error of his ways" and then decided to work
for Searchlight. What many people have said is that Hepple in fact
worked as an agent provocateur amongst the 'right' and the 'left wing'
(BNP, Church of the Creator, Green Anarchist) and is nothing more
than a State operative spreading disinformation. (see bibliography
at the end of this article).
Whilst working at the BNP's head office in Welling, Hepple claims
to have stolen "at least £40 a week" in loose money from incoming
mail. (Page 19 of 'A Lie Too Far' - in Hepple's own writing) Is this
sort of criminal activity promoted by Searchlight? Given the convictions
of those connected with the magazine it seems likely.
THE REAL FACE OF SEARCHLIGHT
In December 1976, Searchlight was described by a stipendiary magistrate,
Mr. John Milward, as "scurrilous and disreputable ... What purpose
can there be in advertising opponents' meetings except for the purpose
of identifying them and creating disorder and violence? This seems
to be an attempt to stir up trouble which is to be very strongly deprecated."
- Birmingham Post 31/12/76
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The above is just the tip of the iceberg - there are numerous other
sources available (ranging from trade unionist, journalist, Arab,
anarchist etc.) that paint an equally disgusting picture.
In short, Searchlight magazine comprises of a criminal gang, involved
in political smears against legal political parties. Furthermore,
if Searchlight is so opposed to racism, why did it ban, in 1990, a
number of Black people from meeting in a London synagogue. It seems
strange that such an 'anti-racist' magazine should have no Black or
Asian people on its staff.
It also seems hypocritical for Searchlight/SET to constantly be haranguing
people involved throughout the political spectrum and in housing associations,
business etc. for their "extremist" past, given the past of so many
people involved with Searchlight: political extremists, agent provocateurs
and criminals with a chequered morality
(to say the least!). Pots and kettles spring to mind!
LIES
Searchlight magazine is also used to spreading all sorts of lies,
fabrications and half-truths. This has resulted in them facing legal
action for smears on Conservative politicians and a political researcher;
and 'left-wing' shops (e.g. Housemans, near Kings Cross, London) refusing
to stock their publication.
BBC TV had to pay out half a million pounds to Tory MPs Gerald Howarth
and Neil Hamilton as a result of a libel action over the Panorama
programme Maggie's Militant Tendancy (broadcast on the 30th January
1984 and described, not surprisingly, as "commendable" in the editorial
of Searchlight issue 115), which used Searchlight's "research material".
Indeed, Gerry Gable was its "Associate Producer", and as we'll see
later has been called "the man mainly responsible for the programme"
by a Labour MP. Searchlight were full of wind over the Panorama programme
and were still accusing the Conservatives in their May 1984 edition,
no. 107 (Article: 'Can of worms - will the Tories ever wriggle out?'
- yes, to the tune of £500,000!).
Against the "right wing" Searchlight is a law unto itself. It fabricates
terrorist groups (like Column 88) and builds up groups like the 'Ku
Klux Klan' into some huge threat to 'civilisation' and 'democracy'
(whilst working with some quite rum organisations themselves - see
'Searchlight - The Real Extremists' on page 12). Indeed, sometimes
Searchlight are seen 'building' up one grouping, only to 'knock them
down' later and claim the credit for themselves! Quite often the group
won't have changed at all.
As well as the usual nonsense against (perceived) 'right wing organisations'
Searchlight has also denounced the SWP for its anti-Zionist stance,
Right-wing Conservatives for being 'extremists', Black groups (like
the Nation of Islam - see double page spread in December 1997 issue
for example - and the Black Caucus - later the Anti Racist Alliance)
for failing to toe the Searchlight line (how racist!), groups who
have outlined Searchlight's role with the Secret State Police (anarchists,
socialists etc.) and especially researchers such as Larry O'Hara and
Alexander Baron.
There was a great example of the lies Searchlight is constantly making
up in its November 1997 issue. Searchlight reprinted a handwritten
letter - supposedly written by a group calling itself the Mercian
Klan. This letter, according to Searchlight, was sent to the Prime
Minister. The letter warned of terror tactics as the BNP had "tried
the political way". The scrawled, probably illegal, letter is hardly
the sort of thing an underground political agitator would keep a copy
of - yet Searchlight had a copy. Perhaps a contact in the government
had passed a copy on? How impressive! Or is the answer rather more
murky and mundane?
When New Target journal wrote to the Prime Minister, the PM's office
totally denied ever receiving such a letter. Yet another Searchlight
fabrication! (Searchlight has a "proud tradition" of printing hand-written
letters from "political opponents", especially post cards from concentration
camps, Croatia and other 'hot spots'. This is a cheap and easy way
to defame organisations).
Searchlight reserved some special bile for the 'Campaign Against Racism and
Fascism' (CARF) who used to have a section in Searchlight,
but realised that Searchlight were following another agenda and had
no interest in the facts behind racist attacks. CARF now have their
own magazine which reports on racism.
Searchlight also organised a Remembrance Day march (and gathered 150
people!) to oppose 'racists' - and yet no Black groups marched with
them. The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign has called Searchlight "sectarian"
(Searchlight - Underming Anti-Fascists, Defending Zionism) and printed
convincing evidence of Searchlight's refusal to work with left-wing
anti-racist, anti-Zionist organisations in Israel and their refusal
to denounce the "semi-fascist Tehiya (Renaissance) and Moledet (Transfer)
parties in Israel. the PSC also denounce the fact that when covering
the German Republikaner and the French Front National, Searchlight
fail to mention they are pro-Israel. A dinner was given in honour
of Le Pen, hosted by Jacques Torczyner, President of the World Union
of General Zionists. Those attending were "all of them leading members
of the American Jewish community, including Dr Israel Singer, Executive
Director of the World Jewish Congress" (Jewish Chronicle 4th September
1987). The PSC, a highly influential group in Palestinian circles,
and the Labour Movement Campaign for Palestine also condemned Searchlight
in an 'open letter' in a 1988 issue of the leftist journal Labour
Briefing (date unknown).
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More illegality: Searchlight, July 1998, reprinted and praised an
illegal "Nazis in Worthing" leaflet asking 'anti fascists' to send
mail to the 'Flag' NF without stamps on.
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The PSC also outline Searchlight's role in attacking Class War in
1985/6 (as they organised a 'Stop the City' campaign - deemed to be
'anti-semitic', does that mean most big Capitalists and bankers are
Jews in Searchlight's eyes?). A report said "Despite the leading role
of Searchlight magazine in the affair, and despite many approaches
to the magazine for evidence, the sum total of material from Searchlight
was nil. We are bemused by Searchlight's role in this affair." In
the course of the enquiry Gable had admitted to monitoring anarchists
(this is years before the Hepple/Scargill Green Anarchist affair).
Whilst FC may not have much in common, or even like, some of the above
groups and individuals - the point is that Searchlight's smear tactics
are pointed at anyone and anything they disagree with (or presumably
are told to attack by their pay-masters!), Left, Right, Centre, Black,
White or indifferent. To think of Searchlight as a magazine that only
spreads lies about Nationalists is wrong. They are a lie machine in
overdrive and regularly involve themselves in attacks on legal political
organisations (from the National Front to the Conservative Party to
the Anti Racist Alliance).
BACK TO SET
So we have established that Searchlight magazine has a lot of crooks
(we suspect the rest are just waiting to be caught!) and political
opportunists behind it - but should that detract from the sterling
charitable work being done by SET? You betcha baby!
The fact of the matter is that Searchlight magazine and SET are
indistinguishable.
If you pick up a copy of Searchlight magazine and scan it for SET
adverts, you'll find the terms 'Searchlight' (the magazine) and the
Searchlight Educational Trust are interchangeable. For example, in
the June 1998 issue of Searchlight, there is an advert on page 14
headed "Get Searchlight's Community Response Handbook Free". This
is the booklet produced by SET (which we'll return to later) 'When
Hate Comes to Town'. Yet to read the advert, it is produced by "Searchlight".
The advert closes "Searchlight would welcome any donations to help
further our youth educational work" - again, Searchlight, not SET.
Further proof of this crazy crossover exists in advert for SET in
Searchlight (e.g. back cover, February 1998 edition). It opens: "Searchlight
has brought together all its 33 years' experience of fighting racism
and fascism to produce this unique and comprehensive handbook." No
mention of SET there and if it was the Searchlight staff behind the
SET booklet - which is obviously the case given the mention of "33
years" - this will explain the very same tactics of lies, fabrications,
half-truths and innuendo masked as "research" to fool the gullible,
not to mention attacks on legal political organisations - as we shall
see later.
But let's go back to the SET advert in the June 1998 edition of Searchlight.
On the same page there is an article which attacks the British National
Party (BNP) and the National Democratic Party (NDP) - both legal political
parties, being attacked in a political magazine.
There is also a strange reluctance for SET's charitable status or
its registered number to be included in such adverts. Are the Searchlight
team trying to hide their light under a bushel along with their charitable
status?
And is it any wonder - for not only are the names SET and Searchlight
swopped all over the place, leaving you wondering who's who, but SET
and Searchlight share exactly the same address, fax and phone number,
which are also shared by 'Trade Union Friends of Searchlight', another
front to scam funds.
WHEN HATE COMES TO TOWN
So, let us move onto the SET booklet itself. Although we have not
seen a copy ourselves (loath to give £15 to a bunch of criminals,
pimps and liars) let us instead look at a complaint made by the Third
Way organisation at the end of 1996.
As with the other people Searchlight has attacked and whose material
we quote from in this article, no one can accuse us of being in cahoots
with Third Way. Indeed, we have often attacked Third Way in print
in FC for being overtly pro-homosexual and pro-Zionist. But that makes
our use of their complaint against Searchlight all the more believable.
On the 15th of October 1996 Mr Patrick Harrington of Third Way sent
a complaint to the Charity Commission about SET. This is what Third
Way had to say about their complaint:
"The Third Way made a complaint to the Charity Commission against
the Searchlight Educational Trust on 15 October 1996. We believe that
SET have breached a number of the guidelines laid down by the Charity
Commission regarding political campaigning by charities.
"Charities are given special tax exemptions, and our view is that
the taxpayer should not have to subsidise political campaigns in which
he or she may not believe.
"The issue itself is not new. There were complaints made about Oxfam
(FC Ed: re. 'Free Front Line Africa' - anti South African campaign)
in the early 1990s, and more recently Prime Minister John Major warned
member charities of the Real World Coalition about meddling in politics."
Third Way made some very good complaints against SET, claiming that
they broke three key Charity Commission guidelines:
32. A charity whose stated purposes include the advancement of education
must not overstep the boundary between education and propaganda
in providing balanced information designed to enable people to make
up their own mind and providing one-sided information designed to
promote a particular point of view.
44. A charity must not provide information which it knows, or ought
to know, to be inaccurate, or which has been distorted by selection
to support a preconceived position.
46. A charity must not issue material which supports or opposes a
particular political party or the government.
From the evidence Third Way gave it was clear that the booklet clearly
broke the rules (No. 32) on balanced information as lies were told
and Third Way were not asked for their opinion, or the facts concerning
their organisation.
One lie that we can comment on, which Third Way tell the Charity Commission
is an outright lie, is that the International Third Position (ITP)
is a split from Third Way. As the ITP was founded in 1989 and Third
Way wasn't founded until 1990, how can this be so? And this is just
one example of countless such lies that could be clarified with a
little real research. The fact is that Searchlight have repeated this
lie on numerous occasions to 'muddy the waters' concerning Third Way
and the ITP who are miles apart on matters of tactics, structure,
ideology, morality, Race and Zionism. Searchlight want to give readers
the impression that Third Way and the ITP are still (in some way)
'chums' or that there is much the same background to the two.
"...these creeps were leading lights in the political soldier wing
of the National Front before the final split in early 1990 when both
groups took on the name Third Way" - Ray Hill, Searchlight March 1991.
In the February 1990 issue, the main article 'Video Nasties' warbled
on about the December 1989 released video 'Revolution in Action' produced
by 'TP Videos' on why many militants had left the NF, so the March
1991 'story' and every other little 'story' since then is sheer propaganda.
This is just one example of a KNOWN LIE being pushed by Searchlight.
SET is continuing this charade, further proving that SET is a useful
cover for Searchlight's premeditated lies and political propaganda
(still, now that Searchlight are aware of the facts, thanks to the
Charity Commission, we can expect them to drop that lie, along with
all the others, can't we? And pigs might fly!).
SET also broke the guideline on accuracy (No. 44) and SET later admitted
this in a private letter to the Charity Commission ("With one or two
small exceptions, the Trust maintains that its account of the 'facts'
is correct". Small exceptions? Does that mean lies? And who are they
to judge their own "facts"? It seems strange that the Charity Commission
would settle for that - but more on that later).
As for the guideline on political parties, SET breaks this umpteen
times with its attacks on Third Way, as Mr. Harrington points out,
but also with its attacks on the BNP, NF and many other legal bodies.
Indeed, FC in its daily e-mail newsletter has asked all these organisations
to make complaints to the Charity Commission against SET. We reiterate
that request now - not for our own benefit, but for theirs.
CHARITY COMMISSION
So, to anyone looking in on the SET set-up (groan!) it seems obvious
that something is wrong. We have:
1. Searchlight full of (to coin a phrase) 'thuggery, buggery, arson
and whores'.
2. Searchlight and SET sharing all the same address, fax and phone
facilities and key personnel.
3. Searchlight and SET constantly swopping references to each other
in the magazine and in SET promotional adverts.
4. Searchlight spreading lies about political opponents - and SET
following this same "proud tradition" (sic), including deliberate
lies about legal political parties.
So what action have the Charity Commission taken? After the Third
Way complaint were SET closed down? Were their assets frozen while
an inquiry was undertaken about their role in party politics?
No. This is the reply Mr. Simon Haywood of the Charity Commission
made to Mr. Harrington of Third Way:
" We cannot easily determine the truth of the statements in "When
Hate Comes to Town", but would expect charities as a rule to carefully
check the accuracy of any statements or literature they make public.
With one or two small exceptions, the Trust maintains that its account
of the 'facts' is correct. Where there is some doubt, we do not believe
that there has been a deliberate attempt by the charity to mislead
the public. However, we have made it clear to them that we would expect
particular attention to be paid to the accuracy of the information
they use in any future publications. Of course you may wish to consider
addressing the charity directly with your concerns about the accuracy
of its printed material. "
Whilst this looks all 'fair and square' to the untrained eye - as
we've already pointed out, this is allowing SET to be their own judge
and jury.
Who says there was no "deliberate attempt to mislead the public" -
that's what Searchlight thrive on - ask the Green Anarchists, the
Anti Racist Alliance, the BNP, the NF, the NDP, right wing Conservatives,
Larry O'Hara, Alexander Baron, historian David Irving, the SWP and
all the other people who have been lied about in Searchlight. We use
the example of Searchlight as we wish to follow their example and
make Searchlight and SET interchangeable terms, as well as their tactics
and their personnel's backgrounds.
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LIES: In 1987 Searchlight claimed its circulation was 7,250. Benn's
Media Directory for 1987 said the circulation was a mere 3,800! Who's
lying?
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As for contacting SET about such lies - one may as well ask David
Koresh (of Waco 'fame') to sit and ask the FBI why they want to come
in and chat... prior to being burnt alive! Should someone write in
complaint to Searchlight, doubtless their details would appear in
Searchlight magazine, their bins would be trawled through, their home
might get attacked or burgled and they might just get a visit at their
place of work. The Charity Commission must realise that we are dealing
with a criminal gang here - not a bunch of flower power hippies opposed
to nasty racists. But yet again, it seems that SET are to be the judge,
jury and executioner on their own case!
Further into his reply, Mr Haywood says:
"After careful deliberation, whilst we do feel that parts of "When
Hate Comes to Town" may go slightly beyond what was intended by the
Guidelines, we do not consider that in the context of its work as
a whole they constitute a sufficient reason to take punitive action
against its trustees."
"Slightly beyond"! It attacks legal political parties! Can you imagine
a 'Final Conflict Educational Trust' bringing out a booklet full of
lies and half-truths about the Labour Party, Conservative Party and
various Communists and Anarchists? We'd be closed down before you
could say "conspiracy".
What the Charity Commission is trying to tell Joe Public - that's
you and me - is that SET can get tax breaks to bring out literature
full of lies and unsubstantiated claims against legal political parties
(which we, as members of the public, may support, vote for, or even
belong to), which goes against all the supposed rules; and yet because
of who they are and their connections, SET are allowed (to all intents
and purposes) to be their own judge on the matter and hence get away
with it.
It's like someone saying that there was a paedophile who died of AIDS
and abused children in his care, yet everything was swept under the
carpet by local authorities whilst he was alive as he worked for a local
Council and was a strong Labour Party activist
(no, we haven't made that case up it happened not very long ago in
Hackney, East London with Labour Party activist Mark Trotter) was
told "We've had a complaint that you are a paedophile, but if you
say you're not then that's fine by us".
SET may think they're off the hook - but we ask all FC readers, including
those linked to "democratic, patriotic organisations" or who may be
political opponents of SET/Searchlight regardless of their political
viewpoint to make a complaint to the Charity Commission regarding
SET's attacks on legal political parties and also to carefully scan
future SET publications, conferences etc. for any potentially 'useful'
material.
That SET have got away with it so far is, like so many of the people
behind SET, criminal. Final Conflict has made a complaint against
SET which is going through the system now. We urge everyone to apply
pressure on the Charity Commission. Even if we can't close SET down
(though they should have been a long time ago if certain strings weren't
being pulled) let's at the very least make things difficult for them.
Complaints about the Searchlight Educational Trust (Reg. No. 1013880)
should be sent to: The Charity Commission, St. Alban's House, 57/60
Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4QX, England.
THE MYTH
SEARCHLIGHT - "the scourge of Nazis"? Or crooks, opportunists and
worse, prepared to spread lies, and work with anti-Semites and thugs,
and attack the "left" as well as the "right" to further their own
ends?
Their use of a Black hand is also a bit much - Searchlight have constantly
attacked the Black Caucus/Anti Racist Alliance as well as other Black
groups. No Blacks or Asians work for Searchlight - surely a case for
the draconian equal rights laws?
Gable and Co. love to call Black Nationalists who work with the Third
Position and others 'token Blacks' ("fundementalists", "No Buthelezis
in Britain") or much worse (how racist!) - an accusation that could
well be levelled at Blacks that work with the heavily Jewish and part
White, but definitely non-Black and non-Asian Searchlight criminal
fraternity!
In its February 1989 issue (no. 164) Searchlight printed a photo of
Anwar Ali, "Monday Club official". As more Asians are supporting the
Conservatives in key areas like East London, were Searchlight trying
to scare Asians like Mr. Ali by printing the photo, which can bring
violence to people's doorsteps? (See the case of Mark Cotterill on
page 12).
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