TWO Pendle men have appeared before Pennine magistrates accused of having "a master plan" after what is believed to be a record haul of chemicals used in making home-made bombs was found in Colne.Now the BNP are a particularly odious uber-right British political party with antecedents including the World War II nazi sympathisers of Mosley and the white-supremacist thugs of the National Front. It's main platform is preserving Britain for ethnically native Britons. Membership is limited to "indegenous caucasians" and the party advocates resettlement to their lands of ethnic origin for Britons of non-white ancestry. Prominent members including their leader, Nick Griffin, have been convicted of race-hate crimes.
Robert Cottage (49), of Talbot Street, Colne, and David Bolus Jackson (62), of Trent Road, Nelson, made separate appearances before the court charged with being in possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose. The offences are under the Explosive Substances Act 1883.
Both men were remanded in custody to appear at Burnley Crown Court on October 23rd. Cottage was arrested at his home on Thursday, while retired dentist Jackson was arrested in the Lancaster area on Friday, the same day as he left a dental practice in Grange-over-Sands.
The 22 chemical components recovered by police are believed to be the largest haul ever found at a house in this country.
Cottage is an ex-BNP member who stood as a candidate in the Pendle Council elections in May.
Mrs Christiana Buchanan, who appeared for the prosecution in Jackson's case, alleged the pair had "some kind of masterplan".
She said a search of Jackson's home had uncovered rocket launchers, chemicals, BNP literature and a nuclear biological suit.
Yet the national British media and the British government have been utterly silent on this story. It is only receiving notice because of the efforts of a few bloggers. I have to agree with Harry when he writes that "no doubt, had these been Muslim terror suspects it would have been big news."
I'm forcibly reminded of the story of William Joseph Krar, the white supremacist who had a massive cache of arms and explosives, including at least one cyanide bomb capable of taking out an entire superbowl's worth of victims, in a storage depot in Texas back in 2003. The entire arsenal was mind-boggling:
Apart from having hidden materials for fabricating a sophisticated sodium cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands, Krar had amassed 30 kg of Kinepak solid binary explosives (ammonium nitrate); 66 tubes of Kinepak binary liquid explosives (nitromethane); military detonators; trip wire; electric and non-electric blasting caps; an arsenal of 500,000 rounds of ammunition; cases of military atropine syringes (antidote for nerve agents); more than 60 pipe bombs; various machine guns; as well as instructions for making toxins and chemical and biological weapons.Krar was selling arms to various militias and white-supremacist groups and may even have sold at least one more cyanide bomb. To date, the bomb found in his storage unit remains the only genuine WMD possessed by a terrorist ever found in the U.S.A. Yet beyond a couple of local TV stations and the writings of a few websites, the news remains totally unknown and uncovered by the mainstream media. There were no press conferences called by Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller, even though Krar presented the most demonstrably capable terrorist threat uncovered in the United States since September 11, 2001. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists noted at the time that "Bill Krar and his compatriots don't fit the politically marketable paradigm, the post-9/11 face and faith of terrorism--non-white and Muslim". Certainly a recent National Intelligence Estimate made no mention of white-supremacist and radical militia terror groups as being a risk - even though they obviously are.
It seems this latest discovery in Pendle doesn't fit the politically marketable paradigm either.
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