British MP Murdered
June 16th, 2016Fascinating: Poll Reveals 10-Point Swing Towards Brexit With A Week To Go
And then…
Cue lone nut.
I’ll be very surprised if the Brexit is allowed to happen. My guess is that anything and everything would be done to prevent it.
Via: Guardian:
The grieving husband of Jo Cox, the Labour MP shot and stabbed to death, has called on people to fight “the hatred that killed her” as detectives investigated whether her killing was politically motivated.
The 41-year-old mother of two young children was the victim of a daylight attack outside her West Yorkshire constituency surgery by a man who, according to two witnesses, shouted “Britain first” during the assault.
The first killing of a serving MP since Irish Republicans murdered Ian Gow in 1990 stunned Westminster on Thursday and led to the suspension of campaigning for next week’s EU referendum until Saturday. Cox had taken part in a high-profile event on Wednesday supporting the remain campaign on the river Thames.
Police arrested a 52-year-old man, named locally as Thomas Mair, who was described as using an “old-fashioned” gun and a knife in the attack, shortly before 1pm. Eyewitnesses said Cox’s attacker approached her outside the public library in Birstall when she left her constituency surgery with her aides. In a tussle, he shot her up to three times and stabbed her repeatedly.
The former charity worker and MP for Batley and Spen was declared dead at 1.48pm by a doctor working with a paramedic crew attending to her injuries.
As kingvaclav at zerohedge.com wrote: “What a coincidence: Cox was elected in 2015. As an MP, she was involved with Labour Friends of Palestine and wrote part of a 2015 report by the group, urging a lifting of the Israeli blockade on Gaza.”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/labour-friend-palestine-jo-cox-slain
The clearest evidence linking the alleged killer to a political motivation is a 2006 post from a blog called ‘Springbok Cyber Newsletter’:
This was confirmed by the site owner in a story from the Mirror.:
However, I note that no Internet Archive record exists for the site before March of this year, after the announcement of the referendum:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://springbokcybernewsletter.blogspot.co.uk/2006_01_01_archive.html
– despite the post apparently being ten years old, and despite other posts on the site being archived in 2014.
I hope this is not too boring, but I further thought to check the blog index sidebar from an archived page. In this page 2014 page archive, no links exist for 2005, 2006 or 2007 content – there is a three year gap:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141031010434/http://springbokcybernewsletter.blogspot.co.uk/2014_10_01_archive.html
So for whatever reason, the key content was neither recorded by the internet archive prior to 2016, nor reachable via the site’s own index, if it existed.
I will stretch my host’s patience with another Internet Archive link. The earliest reference I could find to the Springbok Cyber Newsletter was posted in 2008 on a site called ‘African Crisis’:
UK: Springbok Cyber Newsletter – January 2008 – editorial
This links to then still active page of the UK Springbok Club http://www.springbokclub.org.uk. The oddity is that while Springbok Cyber Newsletter links to springbokclub.org.uk, springbokclub.org.uk makes absolutely no reference to a ‘Springbok Cyber Newsletter’. It looks to me that the ‘Cyber Newsletter’ is shadowing the identity of the Springbok Club. Skip forward eight years: springbokclub.org.uk is gone and a Springbok Cyber Newsletter blog hosts a back-dated post establishing a long-standing link between soon-to-be terrorist suspect with a history of mental health problems and the radical right. The page even mentions Nigel Farage, front-man for the EU referendum ‘Leave’ campaign.
I didn’t make up such an approach – called ‘Cyber Herding’, it’s described in the paper Exploiting Islamic Extremists Use of the Internet published by the US Naval Postgraduate School.
One more?
Here are Internet Archive histories for two sites:
rhodesia.org – active as Rhodesians Worldwide Magazine from 2004 to 2013
rhodesians-worldwide.com – active as Rhodesians Worldwide Magazine from 2010 to present
During the three year overlap, rhodesia.org makes no reference to rhodesians-worldwide.com. In 2013, rhodesia.org suddenly redirects to hodesians-worldwide.com.
Further, before the redirect, rhodesia.org contained the following text (from Trademarks, Copyrights and Registered Names:
I guess the well connected individuals got their way in the end.
All this I mention because http://www.rhodesians-worldwide.com hosts an SEO page, purportedly from 2006, which references the Springbok Cyber Newsletter:
http://www.rhodesians-worldwide.com/rwmagazines1/vol222/files/assets/seo/page34.html.PreLock
Sorry, got a bit carried away with the Rhodesians Worldwide claim – interesting, but would probably need to research the names to feel confidence about this one, and that’s something I probably won’t do.
Thanks heaps for looking behind the curtain, DT.
Me again. Via an SPLC story, I see this Google link which *does* indicate a link between Thomas Mair and the South African ‘exile’ movement, back in 2010:
South African Patriot in Exile, Issues 30-32
Google list a digitization date of 2010. This suggests all my elaborate theorizing is wrong. Sure, I suppose this could be fake data too, but that would be staking a lot of reputation. I must assume I was wrong.
Here’s a link that actually shows a page snippet:
South African Patriot in Exile, Issue 35