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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:13 pm Post subject:
Blair's Protection of Elite Paedophile Rings Spells the End For His Career
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.
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:37 pm Post subject:
Massive Similarity to the Anders Brevik Massacre - Freemasonry.
In 1996 Thomas Hamilton committed the worst atrocity imaginable: he shot and killed 16 schoolchildren in a warped and evil response to perceived slights to his reputation. This award-winning programme - first broadcast ten years after the massacre - hears from the first person he shot - schoolteacher Eileen Harrild. Pupils from the school who survived Hamilton's madness, community members and, perhaps most movingly, a parent of a child murdered that day, come together to honour the childrens' memory and call again for tighter gun control laws. Producer: Will Hanrahan
The Tragic Magic Circle – Scotlands Shameful Child Sexual Abuse Scandal Continues
Posted on March 31, 2014 by cathyfox
Tales from Scottish Legal La La Land
A man was arrested on Valentines Day and is still in jail on remand in Scotland, with bail having been refused on 3 occasions [99a] . What is it about this softly spoken genteel 68 year old man that has caused the Scottish establishment to arrange his incarceration for the second time?
Why does Alex Salmond continue to break the law, defy the Information Commissioner and refuse to hand over the information that was given to him and the date it was given? [109] [110].
What is the connection between this mans imprisonment and the following?
Four Sheriffs and partners,
Two ex partners of Sheriffs
Two High Court judges and partners
Two Procurator Fiscals and partners
Six ex partners of Procurator Fiscals
Sixteen court staff
Thirty seven staff from Scottish government departments
Seventeen primary school teachers.
The answer to this last question is an Edinburgh sexual fettish club called the Violate club [5o] [51].
But I digress, to get answers to all the questions, and to understand the links between them we first need to set the sordid scene of the sick silks in what was termed the “Magic Circle” child sexual abuse scandal. This had been rumbling on in the late 1980’s but erupted in the early 1990’s.
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Magic Circle Sexual Abuse Scandal
The basics of the “Magic Circle” scandal allegations were that a network of establishment individuals engaged in sexual deviations, homosexual practices and paedophilia. Twinned with this assertion, there was an overall contention that there was a conspiracy by these purported establishment figures that in order to foster and further their deprived ends they perverted the course of justice [23a]. The scandal was also variously known as the “sex for justice scandal” and “sex for judges scandal”.
Many notables, such as Sir Angus Grossart [183] (Deputy Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland); Lord Hardie [184] (judge of the Court of Session, and former Lord Advocate); Mr Ivor Reginald Guild (Ex Senior Partner of solicitors Shepherd & Wedderburn and prominent resident of the Edinburgh’s New Club); and the late Very Reverend Andrew Herron (former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland) of the Scottish establishment were subjectively linked either directly or indirectly with Lord Nimmo Smith’s findings.
Intertwined with ‘Magic Circle’ accusations, numerous suspected establishment figures were also perceived to combine together and to be members of quasi secret societies and privileged organisations such as the Speculative Society[185], the Faculty of Advocates [186], Edinburgh’s New Club [187], and Edinburgh’s Merchant Company where such alleged depraved establishment figures conspire against the public interest. ‘Magic Circle’ influence accusations continue to re-surface; notable are the case of the 100 year secrecy embargo by Lord Cullen [188] upon the Dunblane enquiry [189], the Fettesgate cover-up at Lothian & Borders Police Headquarters [23a].
In 1988 possible homosexual blackmail had been suggested in the Burnett Walker Solicitors case [37]. Ian walker killed himself and money was missing [117][118] [119]. In 1989 Lord Devaird had mysteriously resigned [119]. Rumours abounded. I believe there was a lot more published than this in the late eighties but at present the newspapers of the time are not easily available on the net.
Operation Planet
On 24th March 1990 Lothian and Borders Police launched Operation Planet after a 16 year old boy from a care home, was sodomised by a number of men, having been given cannabis beforehand [1]. Operation Planet was overseen by Detective Superintendent George Ritchie and the Reporting Officer was Detective Inspector Peter Robertson [32][33].
Having sex with children is a serious offence against the law, and in the late 1980’s having homosexual sex with anyone under the age of 21 was an offence [ ].
The pre-trial hearings took place between the 9th and the 11th January 1991. During those hearings it was agreed between the Crown and defence counsels to reduce the 57 indictments to just 10 – allowing five defendants to walk free, and with pleas arranged for the remaining five. Police officers involved in “Operation Planet’ were totally confounded, and extremely angered by this extraordinary turn of events. [1]
The trial of the one defendant, an Edinburgh based solicitor, who had pleaded not guilty, was held on the 15 and 16 January 1991, before Lord Clyde (the Senator of The College of Justice). The jury found the charges to be ‘not proven’. On the 12th February 1991 the remaining five accused persons, who had pleaded guilty, appeared before Lord Clyde for sentencing. One of the accused was sentenced to four years imprisonment. Sentencing of the remaining 4 accused was deferred for nearly 8 months to 8 October 1991 when they appeared before the Lord Justice Clerk and were admonished [1]. This unusual state of affairs was sufficient to raise eyebrows and suspicion to say the least.
Elish McPhilomy (now Elish Angiolini) Report
This internal study paper was authored towards the end of March 1991, as a direct consequence of ‘Operation Planet’, and prosecutions relating to acts of sodomy upon teenage boys. It was produced by the Crown Office and sought to establish a rationale for, and the extent to which, the protections offered by Common Law could be circumvented, and statute law ignored. The author of that paper was the then, Senior Legal Assistant at The Crown Office, Elish McPhilomy (now Elish Angiolini) [1].
The justification given by the Crown Office for this extraordinary action was that “some public concern about the appropriateness of basing charges on Common Law rather than statute” had been expressed. However the only “public concern” cited in the Crown Office report was of an opinion proffered by one of the defence counsels in the ‘Operation Planet’ trial, the Advocate Derek Ogg – and as quoted in The Glasgow Herald on the 20th February 1991 [1].
On the 29th April 1991 a meeting was held between Lord Fraser (the Lord Advocate), Lord Roger (the Solicitor General), Duncan Lowe (the Crown Agent), Alfred Vannet (the Deputy Crown Agent) and persons unknown, to discuss the Elish McPhilomy report [1].
As a result of that meeting, directions were issued by the Crown Office to the Procurators Fiscal (Directive No 2025 on the 28th November 1991) in which the Crown Office effectively sanctioned particular criminal acts, contrary to Law – of teenage boys being sodomised by older men. That directive provided the means by which such activities were to be ‘legitimised’ by The Crown [1].
In response to what the Crown Office described as “public misapprehension”, an amended set of directions was issued (Directive No 2025/1 less than a month later, on the 20th December 1991). However those directions amounted to little more than an adjustment of detail – and with an additional Crown Office directive stating that it saw little justification in pursuing cases involving the clients of ‘rent boys’ [1].
FOI requests submitted to the Crown office for the full text of these circulars and are way overdue [12]. The concern was not simply that officers of the Crown being in breach of their oath (and of ‘malfeasance in public office’). Also there was the matter of the introduction of political activism into the Criminal Justice System – for the purpose of introducing extreme, and unconsented social change [1].
One such issue, of considerable importance, was that of the activities of paedophiles and of organised paedophile rings. The abhorrence of such behaviour is a natural human reaction against those who indulge in such hideously cruel and selfish acts against vulnerable children [1].
However the danger was that the politically motivated misrepresentations of those who attempt to confront paedophilia as ‘homophobic’ (as espoused, for example, in a 1997 article in ‘ScotsGay’ magazine, by Advocate Derek Ogg) can also be seized upon by those with evil intentions to close down any effective response to the serious problem of organised child abuse [1].
In fact the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) did exactly this and tried to present any attack on paedophiles as an attack on homosexuals generally [41]. More recently so did David Cameron Prime Minister of UK plc in November 2012 in reply to a question from Philip Schofield. He said he “fears a witch hunt against gay people by those commenting online about child abuse allegations” [46] [172].
Elish Angiolini incidentally has received a controversial damehood [116].
These are two old interviews with Vyzygoth, which are on the CD entitled "Anatomy of Three Massacres". This is one of several CDs of old interviews with Vyzygoth available from here - http://www.thinkorbeeaten.com/theknoll/collections.html
Part 1 of this video was supposed to be all one video, but the last 20 minutes or so were cut off the end. I don't know why.
Part 1b is here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk2HHpLj9bs
Part 2 is here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk1WCYoT8ho _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
The official story is that, on 13 March 1996, a mad loner called Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 children at a primary school in Dunblane in Scotland.
The unofficial story is that Thomas Hamilton was supplying pornography, and young boys, to top people including policemen and politicians; and Thomas Hamilton may have been murdered, to shut him up.
It has been suggested that Thomas Hamilton was a brainwashed patsy and that the real shooters were working for the security services.
In the Dunblane shootings, "none of the survivors would have been able to obtain a good viewing of the gunman."
The Murder of Thomas Hamilton | Dunblane Exposed
Thomas Hamilton ran clubs and camps for boys and reportedly had access to the Queen Victoria School, in Dunblane, a boarding school run by the Ministry of Defence.
"Mr and Mrs Ogilvie know that the men who regularly turned up in large flashy cars to visit Hamilton continued doing so right up to 13 March 1996. They saw them.
"Another neighbour, Cathleen Kerr gave a statement to the police that she saw Hamilton getting out of a grey saloon car on that final fateful morning. He was cheerful, she said."
Dunblane Murders Cover-up
Queen Victoria School in Dunblane
Glenn Harrison was a housemaster at Queen Victoria School, in Dunblane, between the summer of 1989 and December 1991.
Harrison "told me of how, in about 1990, he believed boys from his then school were being ... sexually abused, both at the school and away from the school.
"He told me the (sexual abuse) was done by a clique of paedophiles connected with the school (teachers etc. and their friends) and another group of 'toffs' who visited the school and took carefully targeted boys away for weekends."
"Harrison and his wife ... would see big fancy cars (sometimes chauffeur driven and displaying pennants, and badges of office) arrive with well known faces of politicians, judges and other celebrities who, when he enquired as to who they were, and what they were doing, was given the answer that these people were 'Friends of QVS' who were taking certain boys out for a treat."
Sir Fixed it for Jim
Queen Victoria School
Former housemaster Glenn Harrison told the News of the World how he even found Hamilton, 43, creeping around the dormitories, at Queen Victoria School, at night.
He said Hamilton had close links to a top policeman.
Glenn was never called to give evidence at the Cullen Inquiry.
Cached
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.
Cached
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.
aangirfan: Moira Anderson; child abuse; senior public figures ...
Andy Murray and his elder brother, Jamie, attended the Dunblane Primary Schhol. They were on their way to the school gymnasium and survived by hiding under a desk in the headmaster's office.
Glenn states that Hamilton had been a friend of Ben Philip, the senior housemaster at Queen Victoria School.
Mr Philip died in December 1993, aged 46, 'when he fell from a ladder while hanging decorations'.
aangirfan: Moira Anderson; child abuse; senior public figures ...
Former paramedic Sandra Uttley has written a book about the 1996 Dunblane tragedy.
Sandra Uttley claims that elements of the police were part of a paedophile ring and part of a cover-up.
Uttley said: "Central Scotland Police should never have been involved in a so-called independent inquiry.
"They were implicated in the events under scrutiny and continually provided Hamilton with renewals of his gun licence despite long-term and repeated warnings that this should not happen.
"It was known that Hamilton had friends in the police force, including one highly placed officer.
"I believe that Hamilton was a major provider of pornographic photographs and videos to a ring of men prominent in Central Scotland, including police officers who protected him from numerous allegations of physical abuse at boys' camps and clubs he ran.
"They protected themselves after the massacre which conveniently ended in his suicide".
Lord Robertson (left)
The UK's George Robertson was Secretary General of NATO.
Reportedly, on 13 March 1996, in Dunblane in Scotland, Thomas Hamilton, armed with four hand-guns, opened fire on a junior school class, killing 16 children.
"Lord Robertson was the referee on Thomas Hamilton's shotgun licence."
('Blair covering up paedophile scandal?' www.tpuc.org)
Hamilton and Lord Cullen.
"Lord Cullen led inquiries into the Dunblane shootings, and in March 2002 led the five-judge tribunal which heard the failed appeal of the Lockerbie bomber."
A former senior judge / aangirfan: Dunblane / aangirfan: Lockerbie - who were the key players in the trial?
"Lord Cullen ... had physically walked Thomas Hamilton to the massacre."
THE SEX COLLECTORS - How the World is run on Shame
"In the large volume of correspondence which he (Hamilton) generated, a recurring theme is his assertion that the police were biased in favour of the 'brotherhood of masons' ." - Lord Cullen.
According to journalist Marcello Mega, in The News of the World (Cached), 28 December 2003:
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.
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.'
Queen Victoria School, Dunblane
"A Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Forsyth was, by virtue of office, on the Board of Directors of QVS, and was also responsible for the appointment of Cullen to conduct the Inquiry.
"There is Prince Philip, a Freemason, the patron of the Board of Directors of QVS and is an honorary member of the exclusive, secretive and highly suspect Speculative Society of Edinburgh.
"Then there is Lord (Donald McArthur) Ross, the then Lord Justice-Clerk and Cullen's superior in the judiciary, who was also on the Board of Directors, and is also a "Brother" of Cullen's in the Masonic Speculative Society of Edinburgh, numbered at 1642."
The unofficial story is that Thomas Hamilton was supplying pornography, and possibly young boys, to top people including policemen and politicians; and Thomas Hamilton may have been murdered, to shut him up.
It has been suggested that Thomas Hamilton was a brainwashed patsy and that the real shooters were working for the security services.
In the Dunblane shootings, "none of the survivors would have been able to obtain a good viewing of the gunman."
The Murder of Thomas Hamilton | Dunblane Exposed
Thomas Hamilton ran clubs and camps for boys and reportedly had access to the Queen Victoria School, in Dunblane, a boarding school run by the Ministry of Defence.
1. "Mr and Mrs Ogilvie know that the men who regularly turned up in large flashy cars to visit Hamilton continued doing so right up to 13 March 1996. They saw them.
"Another neighbour, Cathleen Kerr gave a statement to the police that she saw Hamilton getting out of a grey saloon car on that final fateful morning. He was cheerful, she said."
Dunblane Murders Cover-up
Queen Victoria School in Dunblane
2. Glenn Harrison was a housemaster at Queen Victoria School, in Dunblane, between the summer of 1989 and December 1991.
Harrison "told me of how, in about 1990, he believed boys from his then school were being ... sexually abused, both at the school and away from the school.
"He told me the (sexual abuse) was done by a clique of paedophiles connected with the school (teachers etc. and their friends) and another group of 'toffs' who visited the school and took carefully targeted boys away for weekends."
"Harrison and his wife ... would see big fancy cars (sometimes chauffeur driven and displaying pennants, and badges of office) arrive with well known faces of politicians, judges and other celebrities who, when he enquired as to who they were, and what they were doing, was given the answer that these people were 'Friends of QVS' who were taking certain boys out for a treat."
Sir Fixed it for Jim
3. Former housemaster Glenn Harrison told the News of the World how he even found Hamilton, 43, creeping around the dormitories, at Queen Victoria School, at night.
He said Hamilton had close links to a top policeman.
Glenn was never called to give evidence at the Cullen Inquiry.
Cached
4. 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.
Cached
Andy Murray and his elder brother, Jamie, attended the Dunblane Primary Schhol. They were on their way to the school gymnasium and survived by hiding under a desk in the headmaster's office.
5. Glenn states that Hamilton had been a friend of Ben Philip, the senior housemaster at Queen Victoria School.
Mr Philip died in December 1993, aged 46, 'when he fell from a ladder while hanging decorations'.
aangirfan: Moira Anderson; child abuse; senior public figures ...
Thomas Hamilton
6. Former paramedic Sandra Uttley has written a book about the 1996 Dunblane tragedy.
Sandra Uttley claims that elements of the police were part of a paedophile ring and part of a cover-up.
Uttley said: "Central Scotland Police should never have been involved in a so-called independent inquiry.
"They were implicated in the events under scrutiny and continually provided Hamilton with renewals of his gun licence despite long-term and repeated warnings that this should not happen.
"It was known that Hamilton had friends in the police force, including one highly placed officer.
"I believe that Hamilton was a major provider of pornographic photographs and videos to a ring of men prominent in Central Scotland, including police officers who protected him from numerous allegations of physical abuse at boys' camps and clubs he ran.
"They protected themselves after the massacre which conveniently ended in his suicide".
Lord Robertson (left)
7. The UK's George Robertson was Secretary General of NATO.
Reportedly, on 13 March 1996, in Dunblane in Scotland, Thomas Hamilton, armed with four hand-guns, opened fire on a junior school class, killing 16 children.
"Lord Robertson was the referee on Thomas Hamilton's shotgun licence."
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Hamilton and Lord Cullen.
8. "Lord Cullen led inquiries into the Dunblane shootings, and in March 2002 led the five-judge tribunal which heard the failed appeal of the Lockerbie bomber."
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9. "Lord Cullen ... had physically walked Thomas Hamilton to the massacre."
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"In the large volume of correspondence which he (Hamilton) generated, a recurring theme is his assertion that the police were biased in favour of the 'brotherhood of masons' ." - Lord Cullen.
10. According to journalist Marcello Mega, in The News of the World (Cached), 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.')
7. 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.
8. 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.
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Queen Victoria School, Dunblane
11. "A Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Forsyth was, by virtue of office, on the Board of Directors of QVS, and was also responsible for the appointment of Cullen to conduct the Inquiry.
"There is Prince Philip, a Freemason, the patron of the Board of Directors of QVS and is an honorary member of the exclusive, secretive and highly suspect Speculative Society of Edinburgh.
"Then there is Lord (Donald McArthur) Ross, the then Lord Justice-Clerk and Cullen's superior in the judiciary, who was also on the Board of Directors, and is also a "Brother" of Cullen's in the Masonic Speculative Society of Edinburgh, numbered at 1642."
12. Professor David J Cooke Head of Forensic Clinical Psychology for the Greater Glasgow Health Board told the investigation after the shootings "There were major difficulties in Thomas Hamilton's life which threatened his self-esteem.
"He was in debt. He was refused a loan. He was being refused access to premises to hold his boys clubs and fewer boys were attending the clubs. It may have been the case that, like many mass killers, he obtained feelings of power and mastery by fantasising his revenge on those whom he perceived as persecuting him.
"It is likely that his fantasies became more complex and compelling after 'behavioural tryouts' when firing at his gun club. He believed that school staff were telling families not to send children to his clubs and that parents were spreading rumours that he was a pervert."
THE debauching of a child for personal gratification is a filthy perversion and an equally filthy crime in statute law.
By FREDERICK FORSYTH
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Yet revelations – Savile, Smith, Hall, Harris – seem to inform us that this perversion is a lot more widespread than many had ever imagined.
Hardly a week goes by without another iconic individual being exposed or cyber police tracing networks of online perverts who want to watch and presumably gloat.
The idea that this is a victimless activity, “I was only looking at images”, is rubbish. These libraries of filth, pain, humiliation, even torture, have to be ordered and paid for.
That enables others to set up the studios, groom the children and film the obscenities that then occur. If no one paid for bread there would be no farmers growing wheat.
The fact that the high and mighty are in no way immune to this vice means that when they are threatened with exposure immensely powerful forces are brought to bear to accomplish a high-level cover-up.
This seems to have happened in the case of the list of names handed to the Home Office years ago by the late Geoffrey Dickens, MP. It just vanished.
But the strangest cover-up I have ever witnessed (or suspected because it was highly successful) concerned what liaisons and practices lay behind the Dunblane massacre of 1996.
We were all told to believe that a single psychopath, Thomas Hamilton, with a private armoury, stalked into a kindergarten in a Scottish village, murdered 16 children and one teacher, then shot himself. So sad.
Senior Scottish lawyer Lord Cullen was asked to prepare an investigation and report. He did both. It was one of the weirdest documents the Scottish establishment has ever produced; not because of what it said but what it refused to ask or investigate.
Lord Cullen apparently held 100 hearings in public then six crucial ones in private. He decreed his report should be buried for 100 years.
But that is longer than our nuclear secrets have to remain confidential. So what did those last six witnesses reveal?
Others came forward, not summoned, never heard by officialdom, to allege Hamilton was a practising pervert and pederast.
That he had free access to a nearby boys’ boarding school and could be seen prowling the dormitories after lights out.
That he was the “trawler” for likely boys for a ring of extremely senior figures including police chiefs, lawyers, judges and Freemasons, plus very senior figures in Scottish Labour.
Witnesses disappeared, changed their minds. Editors about to assign investigative reporters were advised that would be most unwise.
The village bobby of Dunblane was transferred so far north he was practically waist deep in the North Sea.
If cover-up it was, and I have not the slightest doubt, it remains one of the most successful ever.
Officially it remains a case of a single psychopath, with guns he should never have had, who sort of went doolally and committed mass murder.
But why? Don’t ask. What about that boys’ school? Don’t ask. Why did so many close to the scene become Trappists? Don’t ask. And why was the Cullen Report buried for 100 years? There above all, don’t ask.
Twenty years on from the Dunblane massacre there is one man who will never forget the horror
00:00, 13 MAR 2016 UPDATED 08:55, 13 MAR 2016
BY ANDY LINES
Pathologist Anthony Busuttil says he "hit the wall" when he saw the bodies of the children butchered in the school
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/twenty-years-dunblane-massacre-on e-7547625
GEORGE McLUSKIEAnthony BusuttilAnthony Busuttil says he will never forget the horror of walking into the school
Twenty years ago, pathologist Anthony Busuttil walked into the gym at Dunblane Primary School. What he witnessed has stayed with him ever since.
In an emotional interview, he reveals how he “hit the wall” when he saw the heartbreaking carnage that was to stun every family in Britain – little bodies scattered on the floor and, chillingly, among them the corpse of their evil killer Thomas Hamilton.
The people of the Scottish town will mark the 20th anniversary of those 16 children and their teacher’s deaths with a sombre dignity.
William, George, Billy & Scots Myths re the Cullen Report on Dunblane
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William, George, Billy & Scots Myths re the Cullen Report on Dunblane
This blog deals mainly with my concerns about the treatment of “Billy” (William Burns) by “William”, the then law lord William Douglas Cullen.
But first some clarification regarding Baron George Robertson of Port Ellen & Baron Cullen of Whitekirk in connection with the Queen Victoria School, Dunblane.
Cullen and RobertsonPicture shows Lord Cullen in Edinburgh leading a procession of members of “The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle” followed by Lord Robertson & other Knights of the Thistle
In light of some disturbing feedback to me I think there is a need to clarify the following statement I made in my blog entitled “Did Sir Fix it For Jim” in which I wrote:-
“I also wrote to the Patron of the school, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, and the headmaster at the time of the allegations, also Lord Cullen and Lord George Robertson, who, The Housemaster had repeatedly stated, were visitors to the school during his time there.”
To be clear, the reason I considered writing to Lords Cullen and Robertson was that I had been told by an ex-housemaster, Glenn Harrison at Queen Victoria School, Dunblane (QVS), a boy’s boarding school, that both men had visited at a time when he believed physical and sexual abuse of pupils had taken place. I knew of no official connection linking either person with the school.
Mr. Harrison described boys being taken away from the school for weekends by a group he called “Friends of QVS” who were not officers of the school’s governing board. He also spoke of abuse at the school.
To elaborate further: In my initial telephone conversations with Mr. Harrison he had spoken of how he and his wife had sat at the window of their flat, overlooking the driveway at QVS and watched as prominent people they had seen on the television and in newspapers he called “Toffs”, get out of cars at the school’s main door.
During these telephone conversations Mr. Harrison wasn’t too sure of the names of some of the politicians, judges, and other celebrities he described. In an attempt at clarifying these vagaries I suggested names and positions of public figures based on the descriptions he gave, which he agreed to or otherwise. The list I eventually came up with was like a Who’s Who in Scots public life.
Keen to confirm or otherwise the names of these VIPs who, he said, had visited the school without any apparent status allowing them to do so I visited Mr. Harrison at Unst in Shetland to decide for myself whether or not he was genuine. I made the conscious decision that I would not mention or prompt him on the identity of any of these vagaries; these VIPs we had talked of on the phone.
I stuck to this rule and in our long, face to face chats he only repeated two of the names he had mentioned on the phone that were not, as far as I knew, connected with the school in any official capacity and they were George Robertson and Lord Cullen.
That is the reason why, in the first instance, I wrote to George Robertson and politely asked him the same questions I had asked of Her Majesty’s Commissioners (HMCs), the Headmaster and Prince Philip (all of whom were officially connected with the school). In doing so I made no inference that there was anything untoward about his reported presence at Queen Victoria School and simply sought corroboration or otherwise of allegations that had been made to me, regarding a group of Friends of QVS, as well as allegations of bullying and abuse, and the presence of Thomas Hamilton.
For all I knew Mr Robertson may have had good reason to be at Queen Victoria School. He may have been an invited guest or one of Her Majesty’s Commissioners and he may have shared the concerns of the ex-housemaster, but like most of HMCs he wasn’t about to answer my questions and instead tried, using his position as head of N.A.T.O., to have me investigated by Central Scotland Police. LINK
Lord Robertson welcomes US Foreign Sec. Colin Powell to N.A.T.O. HQ Brussels
Similarly, Lord Cullen may have had good reason to visit QVS as Mr. Harrison had stated (Mr Harrison recalled picking up Lord Cullen’s triangular place setting marker from a table set for a HMC’s dinner), but in his case I don’t think he was a HMC as I could find no record of this and if he was he would have been bound to declare that fact when the school was mentioned three times with regard to Thomas Hamilton’s activity there during the Dunblane Public Inquiry, which he chaired.
Unlike my dealings with George Robertson, I had previously written to Lord Cullen on another matter. This was regarding his Masonic membership status and I had found him evasive and unwilling to answer a specific question I put to him in that regard. So while I considered writing to him to ask him questions about QVS, I didn’t and to that extent the above statement from my blog is misleading as it implies that I had written to him specifically on the subject of QVS.
Lord Cullen sitting as a judge in the Scottish Court in The Hague
The above ends my clarification regarding Lords Robertson & Cullen.
Parliament invited me to obtain evidence of Masonic judges, but judges won’t say if they’re Masons.
My previous experience of writing to Lord Cullen came after I had been asked by the Justice 2 Committee of the Scottish Parliament by letter of 03 Feb 2003 to give evidence (that is to cite cases) of where there was a perception, or evidence of, Masonic influence harming the justice system. This was in connection with my Public Petition PE 306 calling for a register of freemasons in the judiciary.
In my response to the Justice 2 Committee’s invitation, a week or so later, I submitted five examples of apparent Masonic interference in the justice system, or at least where there was a perception of this.
One of my examples was that of William Burns, a man who had first written to Lord Cullen at the time of his appointment as Chair, but before he began the Dunblane Public Inquiry. Mr Burns had asked Lord Cullen to declare his Masonic status and asked him to require witnesses to the inquiry to do likewise.
This request was hardly surprising as the prevailing mood in the country regarding undeclared freemasonry before the Dublane shootings had been one of disquiet. In 1994 and 1995 in the House of Commons a number of Labour MPs including Dennis Skinner had expressed fears that Masonic influence may have been used to pervert the course of justice. LINK
Then, the morning after the Dunblane shootings, these concerns were given further weight when the front page of The Scotsman newspaper raised the suggestion that freemasonry may have accounted for Thomas Hamilton’s apparently charmed life in avoiding prosecution during his lifetime. LINK
Mr Burns’ actions were not unsolicited and just as I was responding to an invitation by the Justice 2 Committee of the Scottish Parliament LINK he had acted in response to an advertisement in The Scotsman seeking questions for the forthcoming Dunblane Public Inquiry LINK.
I was able to establish, by speaking to Mr Burns (a civil rights/justice campaigner who, as he was not known to me, I sought out after learning of him from the internet) that in response to his letter to the Dunblane Inquiry he had been given a verbal assurance over the telephone by the Clerk to the Inquiry, Mrs. Glynis McKeand, that Lord Cullen took on board his comments and other concerns re witnesses and that he (Lord Cullen) was not and had never been a freemason.
William “Billy” Burns
Mr. Burns told me that this verbal assurance had initially allayed his concerns, but as the inquiry proceeded and it was apparent that no witnesses were being asked if they were members of the freemasons, his concerns resurfaced.
In fact the subject of freemasonry wasn’t raised until day 4 of the public inquiry and then only briefly by counsel with the lollipop man, and admitted Mason, Comrie Deuchars and it was never raised again during the 24 days the inquiry sat. LINK
When Lord Cullen did not respond to Mr Burns’ further written submissions in person, but left it to the Mrs. Glynis McKeand, Secretary to the Inquiry, to fend off his written concerns in general terms, Mr. Burns took this evasion as being tantamount to an indication of Lord Cullen’s Masonic membership.
Mr. Burns said he saw this as a Masonic ruse of ‘diverting the discourse’, whereby Masons get others to respond in the negative to questions of their own Masonic status.
Dear Lord Cullen, have you ever taken the Oath of Entered Apprentice in freemasonry?
Armed with full knowledge of Mr Burns’s correspondence and his account of his experiences I wrote to Lord Cullen asking him personally to state his Masonic status in connection with my parliamentary petition PE306.
I also asked Grand Lodge of Scotland a similar question. In the event both parties failed to respond to my satisfaction. LINK
In Lord Cullen’s case, as with Mr. Burns’ questions, he allowed others to make an assumption and relay this to me. On such a personal and important matter this did not satisfy me and like Mr. Burns I suspected that Lord Cullen might indeed be a Mason and was fulfilling his Masonic obligation of keeping his membership secret.
My supposition about Lord Cullen being a freemason is not far-fetched. I know (again from research carried out for my public petition 306) that he is an undeclared extraordinary member of The Speculative Society of Edinburgh (Spec). This self-styled ‘sodality’ has Masonic origins and like the Masons doesn’t disclose who their members are. LINK
Undisclosed membership of the Spec among Scottish judges, when revealed to the UN-appointed Observer at the Lockerbie Trial & Appeal, Professor Hans Koechler caused him serious concern. LINK
Prof. Koechler’s reaction is not surprising as most people dislike secrecy and wish to know if those making important decisions in public life have interests that may cause them to be seen as less than impartial.
Lord Cullen had ordered all Dunblane evidence to be locked away from prying eyes…..but only for 100 years.
With their permission I quoted Prof. Koechler’s concerns and the case of Mr. Burns to the Justice 2 Committee, as well as voicing my opinion that Lord Cullen was a freemason. I also questioned the propriety of the Dunblane Inquiry, which was already beginning to be viewed with scepticism by some serious observers, mainly because of the 100-year embargo placed by Lord Cullen on evidentiary productions.
It is important to remember that back in February 2003 the 100-year closure had only been challenged by individual campaigners, most notably William W. Scott and of course William Burns who was incensed that his representations to the Dunblane Public Inquiry had been firstly ignored, then locked away from prying eyes for 100 years.
Similarly the ex-housemasters allegations of abuse at Queen Victoria School and Thomas Hamilton’s presence/influence at that school had not been aired in the mainstream media and were known only to the few activists who read online public interest blogs. So when I put the case of Mr. Burns and QVS to the Justice 2 Committee it was the first time these matters had been aired publicly. LINK
I say publicly because it was my intention to have these matters aired on the parliament’s website where, at that time, all submissions by petitioners were published.
In the event the committee dismissed my submission out of hand as being fanciful, and possibly actionable, so decided not to publish them LINK , despite the fact that one of the cases cited by me was from government sources and three others had been covered by the mainstream media.
I disagreed with the Justice 2 Committee’s Draconian treatment of my submissions regarding Lord Cullen, as I don’t think it is far-fetched to imagine that members of secret societies have an obligation to keep their membership a secret and they may bend the truth in pursuing that promise. Such a case was that of David McLetchie, M.S.P., the leader of the Conservative Party in Scotland about a year before this.
Appearing live on the BBC Six O’Clock televised news in 2002 Mr McLetchie denied he was a Mason, mocking the reporter who asked him the question by hitching up his trouser leg and bouncing the question back at the questioner. But in the following days (with the prospect of being outed by a fellow lodge member’s testimony to the Sun Newspaper) he recanted and rather shame-facedly, admitted he was once a Mason. But as he hadn’t paid his dues for 10 years so he considered he wasn’t one. LINK
What! Me a Mason! The very thought! IDS & David McLetchie laughing at journalist who asked if he was in the Craft.
Anyway the decision of the Scottish Parliament not to publish my submission was final and was said to have been taken on legal advice with talk of possible defamation of character by me. I disagreed with this opinion and published a full account on my website.
Fast forward 15 years and a BBC? programme rekindles my interest in Lord Cullen.
Part of the reasons that I am again making my position clear with regard to my Masonic membership questions to Lord Cullen is that over time it is quite widely believed that I was the person who asked him the question about his freemasonry at the time of the Dunblane Inquiry.
Even one of our most senior Queen’s Counsel, Donald Findlay QC in October 2005 relied on this canard to try to devalue a complaint I had made to the Faculty of Advocates about his conduct.
Perhaps I should have some sympathy for the hapless Mr Findlay as this erroneous allegation has been repeated about me on the internet so often that it has taken on urban myth status. In early July of this year I was contacted by a researcher purporting to be preparing a programme on freemasonry for BBC Scotland who talked extensively about my views on freemasonry in principle and then, in an incongruous manner, asked me by e-mail: “Was it you who wrote to Lord Cullen asking him outright if he was a mason?”
So for the avoidance of doubt here is the un-redacted correspondence of William Burns re freemasonry with the Dunblane Inquiry in 1996. LINK
And below, almost seven years later is my correspondence with Lord Cullen & The Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland.
As can be seen the question I asked Lord Cullen was a follow-up to one of the many questions that William Burns put to him years earlier, the subject of which was part of my evidence to the Justice 2 Committee of the Scottish Parliament. LINK
Lord Cullen didn’t investigate Thomas Hamilton’s Masonic membership far less any Masonic conspiracy.
The BBC programme researcher who contacted me also repeated another urban myth, namely that Lord Cullen, a non-Mason, had investigated Masonic conspiracy theories regarding Thomas Hamilton at the Dunblane Inquiry.
Just as my asking Lord Cullen if he was a freemason at the time of Dunblane is a myth this is another myth that I feel I should debunk. This second myth was floated in the same e-mail correspondence with the “programme for BBC researcher” and relies on one unattributed newspaper article in The Scotsman.
The article in question was published in 2005 at a time when, after much public pressure generated by justice campaigners such as Mr. Burns LINK, the Lord Advocate had released some of the Dunblane evidence files. LINK
The Scotsman’s mystery member of the public
This Scotsman article of September 2005 revealed exclusively that at the time of the Dunblane Inquiry a member of the public had queried Lord Cullen on his Masonic status.
This article relied on part of a selective and redacted release of papers by the Lord Advocate, so it did not reveal Billy Burns’ identity and quite bizarrely relied on anonymous comments written on a piece of cardboard, which in the newspapers’ view indicated that an unknown writer believed Lord Cullen was not a freemason.
The secret cardboard scribe also believed, he (Lord Cullen), was stunned that anyone would think he was a Mason, and even more astonishingly the article claimed, as a matter of fact, that “police investigated claims of a Masonic conspiracy“. LINK
Now I may be wrong about Lord Cullen being a Mason, but I am not wrong about there being no claim of a Masonic conspiracy by anyone at the Dunblane Inquiry, far less a police investigation of such a theory.
With regards to the assertion in The Scotsman that there was a police investigation into “claims of a Masonic conspiracy” even Lord Cullen made no such claim.
The sum total of witness evidence at the Dunblane Inquiry regarding freemasonry consisted of an admitted Mason admitting that he didn’t really know Thomas Hamilton adding “I wouldn’t like to say. I don’t know” when asked what made him think from remarks made by James Hamilton that Thomas Hamilton wasn’t a Mason adding “I couldn’t say what inference James made of that. Sorry.” LINK
Furthermore, the “police investigation” the newspaper report stated took place, is not to be found in the final Cullen Report or Appendix 4 (List of Submissions to the Inquiry). LINK Nor is it evident in the redacted evidence files of the Procurator Fiscal’s police report.
As a matter of fact it can be established beyond doubt that Lord Cullen did not examine the question of whether or not Thomas Hamilton was a freemason, rather he relied on a contradictory witnesses impression and his own contradictory comments on the letters of Thomas Hamilton to conclude he was satisfied that the mass murderer was not and had never been a Mason.
Who would one be likely to believe; C. Martin McGibbon, Grand Secretary of The Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland, or a Lollipop Man?
C. Martin McGibbon, Grand Secretary
The written evidence of Thomas Hamilton’s Masonic membership that Lord Cullen may have seen (about which the best he could claim was that it “wasn’t overlooked”) was a one page report by a single police officer, a Detective Inspector with Central Scotland Police who had asked the Grand Secretary of Grand Lodge of Scotland, C. Martin McGibbon, to check on Thomas Hamilton in two lodges in Stirling and one in Garrowhill, Glasgow.
The Grand Masonic Lodge of Scotland’s Grand Secretary responded in a two page statement given on 3rd June (Day 4 of the PI), which said he didn’t find Thomas Hamilton to be a member of any of the three lodges he checked, adding that under his charge there were 660 lodges in Scotland and 1,100 worldwide. Of course the Scottish Masonic official could not speak for English masons which are regulated by U.G.L.E. LINK
Everyone trusts the Lollipop Man, don’t they?
N.B. If Lord Cullen did know of the Procurator Fiscal’s report regarding Thomas Hamilton’s Masonic membership it wouldn’t have been until the 5th of June at the very earliest (Day 6 of the PI). But he didn’t refer to it at the Dunblane Public Inquiry or in his final Report, and instead relied on the oral evidence of Comrie Deuchars, a Masonic lollipop man, who drank with fellow Mason Jimmy Hamilton (who he believed to be Thomas Hamilton’s father) in a Masonic Lodge in Stirling.
Confirmation that no Masonic investigation took place can also be gleaned from Lord Cullen’s handwritten note to the Clerk to the Inquiry, Glynis McKeand in which he admits that Thomas Hamilton’s letters to various VIPs does not specifically mention the “Brotherhoods”.
Lord Cullen then suggests, initially, that Mrs McKeand should tell the concerned Masonic writer (William Burns) that Hamilton had “written disparagingly about the masons,” but then scores out masons and changes this to “connection between the police and brotherhood organisations”. LINK
So it can be seen by his own hand that Lord Cullen considered stating to the Inquiry Secretary that Thomas Hamilton had disparaged the Masons, but then thought better of it, drawing a line through the word masons and giving an alternative wording only to reverse this in his final Report where he tells us the very opposite, namely that Thomas Hamilton in a “large volume of correspondence which he generated a recurring theme is his assertion that the police were biased in favour of the “brotherhood of masons””. LINK
So Lord Cullen, in a note, tells the Secretary to the Inquiry one thing while withholding the relevant letters about this from her, then he later tells the public in his final Dunblane Report these letters contained a recurring phrase, that he had earlier denied the existence of.
If you are confused, join the club, but don’t look for clarity as we can’t expect to see the letters that Lord Cullen didn’t let his clerk see. I suppose they may become available one day, but in the Lord Advocate’s redacted form they would probably be useless.
As for any oral evidence of any purported investigation of freemasonry, neither the lone Central Scotland police officer nor the Grand Secretary of Grand Lodge of Scotland that he interviewed was called to give evidence to the Public Inquiry and all we have is their skeletal, redacted statements in a report to the Procurator Fiscal dated 5th June (Day 6 of PI), which Lord Cullen may or may not have seen. LINK
Perhaps not surprisingly, Lord Cullen doesn’t mention the written police statement of C. Martin McGibbon, Grand Secretary of Grand Lodge in the Official Transcript of the Public Inquiry or his final Report.
The Dunblane Report was described by author Frederick Forsyth as “one of the weirdest documents the Scottish establishment has ever produced; not because of what it said but what it refused to ask or investigate.”
Frederick Forsyth wasn’t wrong. The above anomalies are but a few of the many arising from the Dunblane Public Inquiry and this is simply not good enough. No one wants to rake over the coals of the tragedy of Dunblane, but to leave so many questions unanswered is more damaging and will result in a festering wound. A weeping sore that saps credit from the Scottish justice system.
One way to begin to correct the many negative impressions about the Dunblane Inquiry is for Lord Cullen to make a public announcement that he is not and never has been a freemason and explain his status and silence during the evidence to the inquiry regarding Queen Victoria School, Dunblane.
If Lord Cullen fails to do these two simple things then the rumours that he is a Mason and this explains the Dunblane Public Inquiry’s inexplicable failure to examine the possibility that freemasonry accounted for Thomas Hamilton’s apparently charmed life will persist.
And the same applies to Lord Cullen’s apparently relaxed attitude towards Thomas Hamilton’s presence at Queen Victoria School at a time when he himself was said to be a visitor, and in a matter of months, would be, as Lord Justice Clerk, a senior, Ex-Officio HMC there. This is in stark contrast to his assiduous examination and reporting of other schools mentioned in evidence at the inquiry.
In my submission to the Justice 2 Committee I floated the possibility that perhaps Lord Cullen was, either consciously or sub-consciously protecting his fellow members of the Speculative Society such as Prince Philip, Lord Ross and David McElhose (all HMC for QVS) or deferring to the Head of Her Majesty’s Commissioners at QVS, Michael Forsyth MP, the Scottish Secretary; the man who at a supper at Bute House (somewhere between the smoked haddock and poached plums?) agreed to give Lord Cullen direction in the inquiry and be available for guidance. LINK
The same Michael Forsyth who had earlier, within hours of the shooting at Dunblane, recommended Lord Cullen as being the “right judge” for the Public Inquiry. LINK
What exactly does the “right judge” mean?
Lord Cullen was certainly the right judge for Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons Scotland who were cleared of having had Thomas Hamilton as a member when Lord Cullen said he was “satisfied he was not a member of the masons”. This absolution was not on the evidence of Grand Lodge, who simply had their Grand Secretary scan the record books of 3 of the 660 lodges in Scotland alone and another 500 abroad that are under their charge. No, Lord Cullen instead preferred the evidence of a Masonic lollipop man, Comrie Deuchars who didn’t socialise with “Tom”, as well as the letters of Thomas Hamilton that we, the public can’t see. But he wasn’t the right judge for William Burns, Chris Mullin MP, Dennis Skinner MP, and a host of others who asked for and expected the inquiry to ascertain the Masonic status of those giving evidence and thoroughly investigate the possibility that Masonic influence (not a Masonic conspiracy) allowed Thomas Hamilton to lead a privileged life free from the normal penalties of our justice system.
Lord Cullen was certainly the right judge for Central Scotland Police as he allowed them to investigate their own shortcomings in dealings with their informant Thomas Hamilton LINK and he didn’t trouble the Chief Constable to attend the inquiry to have his evidence tested. But he wasn’t the right judge for Alex Salmond who echoed the public view in wanting an outside force to thoroughly investigate all aspects of Thomas Hamilton’s charmed life.
Lord Cullen was certainly the right judge for Her Majesty’s Commissioners charged with the duty of care for pupils at Queen Victoria School, Dunblane. None more so than the man who gave Lord Cullen his supper and guidance, the most senior HMC, Scottish Secretary, Michael Forsyth. No doubt other recent Secretary’s of State Ian Lang and Malcolm Rifkind would have been relieved that they didn’t have to answer awkward questions about Thomas Hamilton at QVS. Likewise Lord Ross, who was Lord Cullen’s immediate superior in the judiciary. But he wasn’t the right judge for Glenn Harrison, the ex-housemaster there and others who wanted Thomas Hamilton’s presence and influence at Queen Victoria School investigated i.e.: his unfettered access to the cadet force military shooting range, the school grounds for boy’s camps as well as his influence in fixing appointments of staff at summer schools.
Lord Cullen was certainly the right judge for Lord McKay of Drumadoon, Michael Forsyth, MP, Scottish Secretary; Lord Hope the Lord President, and Prime Minister, John Major, who sought to limit the extent of the public inquiry by having the “right judge” who would not over react. But he wasn’t the right judge for the general public who expected an inquiry that was truly independent and free from any political or other external influences, a judge who would take the inquiry wherever the evidence led it without deference, fear or favour.
Lord Cullen was certainly the right judge for those who like secrecy with his extra-statutory 100 year closure order for all documents relating to the public inquiry. This order, which, after much public disquiet, was relaxed when some papers were released in part, but in such a highly redacted format as to make them illegible. But he wasn’t the right judge for those of us value transparency and had campaigned long and hard to have the 100-year closure overturned so as to be able to properly examine, in full, all of the evidence that led to the Cullen Report.
Acknowledgements: I am grateful to William “Billy” Burns for his patience, understanding and cooperation in providing me with his correspondence with Lord Cullen and others re the Dunblane Inquiry. Also Alistair Dalton of The Scotsman and Tom Gordon of the Glasgow Herald for articles re Dunblane.
Footnote: When a Child Abuse Inquiry was announced by the Scottish Parliament I wrote to the chair to offer my experience of reporting second hand allegations of abuse at QVS. The CAI eventually got back to me and advised me that they would interview me in the near future. That was back in May 2017 and I am still waiting. Coincidentally the lawyer to the CAI is Felicity Cullen, Lord Cullen’s daughter. _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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