British MP Murdered

June 16th, 2016

Fascinating: 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.

9 Responses to “British MP Murdered”

  1. pookie says:

    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

  2. dt says:

    The clearest evidence linking the alleged killer to a political motivation is a 2006 post from a blog called ‘Springbok Cyber Newsletter’:

    Thomas Mair, from Batley in Yorkshire, was one of the earliest subscribers and supporters of “S.A.Patriot”. Recent correspondence sent to him has been returned to us, however, as he has evidently moved from his last known address in the Fieldhead Estate district of the town. If anyone knows of his new address then we would be very grateful to learn the details.

    http://springbokcybernewsletter.blogspot.co.uk/2006/01/january-2006-edition.html

    This was confirmed by the site owner in a story from the Mirror.:

    Mr Harvey told the Mirror he was trying to set up an S.A. Patriot group in the Yorkshire area at the time, and sent letters to everyone in the area they had contact details for.

    He said his records confirmed that Mair had been an early subscriber to ‘S.A. Patriot’ magazine, but he said he had never met him in person.

    Jo Cox shooting suspect ‘quiet loner who subscribed to white supremacy magazine’

    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.

  3. dt says:

    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.

  4. dt says:

    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.

  5. dt says:

    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:

    In 2006 an attempt was made in the USA to trademark the name Rhodesians Worldwide by some well connected individuals who wished to prevent the magazine from operating under its historical name. This was thwarted through the quick thinking of a very well-respected and successful Rhodesian who happens also to be Black. The USPTO granted Rhodesians Worldwide magazine the trademark to the wording “Rhodesians Worldwide” and since then there has been a continued effort to undermine the work of the magazine to keep the spirit alive.

    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

  6. dt says:

    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.

  7. Dennis says:

    Thanks heaps for looking behind the curtain, DT.

  8. dt says:

    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.

  9. dt says:

    Here’s a link that actually shows a page snippet:
    South African Patriot in Exile, Issue 35

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