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This is a guest post by Edmund Standing, of I Kid You Not

9/11 ‘truthers’ often complain that it is unfair to associate their ‘movement’ with anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and claim there is no connection. However, a look around the blogs of Britain’s Fascist groups turns up a considerable interest in 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Lee John Barnes is ‘legal adviser’ to the crypto-fascist British National Party (BNP) and maintains a personal blog entitled ‘21st Century British Nationalism‘, which is dedicated to ‘Cognitive Dissidence, The mechanism of warfare and subversion for intellectual revolutionaries’.

In addition to writing bizarre articles on topics such as ‘The Big Bang and Norse Cosmology‘ and ‘The Holy Grail and the Gnosis‘, Barnes also has a keen interest in 9/11, 7/7, and the supposed global conspiracy responsible for these events.

According to Barnes, in a post dedicated to fantasies of a ‘National Revolution’:

Whoever is elected represents the interests of the same elite. The same people stay in control, the same government runs everything the same way and the same political, social, media and financial elites control the nation.

The political puppets all dance to the same tune of their puppeteer pay masters. The media corporations propagandise the political parties that the corporate elite want to see in power whilst the financial sections of the elite drectly fund and control the political parties.

The only parties allowed to be elected are those that work directly for the elite itself.

For Barnes, ‘Bin Laden is a puppet of the US Shadow Government, and he is used to target areas of the world for Jihadist attacks that the US has a strategic interest in invading or having a presence in’. In addition, Barnes believes that ‘The 7/7 bombings were run by a faction within MI6′.

And where does Barnes get this information? It turns out that he likes watching the videos of the Texan conspiracy nutcase (and associate of anti-Semites) Alex Jones and reading 9/11 conspiracy websites.

Through immersion in the ‘9/11 Truth’ subculture, Barnes has discovered that ‘Al Qaeda was, and still is, a CIA run organisation set up to draw islamic fundamentalists into participating in terrorist operations THAT SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THE US SHADOW GOVERNMENT’ [emphasis in original] and that ‘the Al Qaeda organisation is a a “false flag” operation run by the security services and operating to their agenda via the paid state agents and deluded saps in those organisations’.

Barnes elaborates further:

The Al Qaeda unit that blew up the 911 towers were working for the US Shadow Government who needed a new ‘Pearl Harbour’ to unleash their plans for global Oil Imperalism.

The Al Qaeda unit that blew up the tube trains in London on 7/7 were also working for an Al Qaeda double agent under the orders of MI6, the same MI6 units that worked with Al Qaeda in Libya.

Everything you have been told by the media and the government is a lie.

The system is a corrupt criminal running amok in our nations and across the world.

It is a vile bloody thirsty monster controlled by genocidal criminals who understand that the end game of the present human civilisation is at hand, and who seek to ensure they survive the coming collapse.

They understand that unless the entire present globalised order of human civilisation is stopped and a new natural order imposed based on eco-nationalist principles imposed, that a global collapse is inevitable and with it a global population crash from wars and famines that will be the global equivalent of the Fall of Rome.

Because the people who control the Shadow Government are crminals [sic], they can never allow their crimes to be discovered. Therefore they can never stop the process they have started and the crash they have caused.

The crash is how they will hide their crimes.

They will ensure that as much chaos is caused as possible so that they can burn all the evidence of their crimes during the firestorms that will be unleashed.

A myriad tipping points have been reached at the same time from Peak Oil, Climate Change, Human Over Population, Resource depletion, islamic terrorism, economic collapse, environmental destruction, peak food, peak water etc etc.

Unless the present system is smashed and the criminals taken from their positions of power, then humanity is about to suffer at least an 80 % population crash.

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Today the new Tertullians are preparing for the coming collapse and manouvering themelves into positions where they expect to survive the comong crash.

The End Game has begun.

Either The System is overthrown – or the world will fall into chaos.

Much of this paranoid drivel is drawn directly from the work of Alex Jones, particularly his recent pseudo-documentary Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, which promotes the same apocalyptic delusions as Barnes, including the claim that an ‘elite’ is engineering the death of 80% of the world’s population.

In Barnes’ worldview, there is a secret ‘Shadow Government’ in charge of the US, with tentacles reaching across the world. Barnes does not speculate in any detail as to who the people are that actually make up this sinister conspiracy. We hear that the CIA and MI6 are part of it, but, further than that, Barnes will only tell us that ‘The slime trail from all these creatures always leads back to the same stinking shit pile’. Just who – or what – is this ’stinking shit pile’?

While Barnes may be unsure, there are others on the British far-Right scene who are willing to be a bit more specific.

The Fascist circle previously operating as the ‘International Third Position’ – a London based umbrella group (co-founded by the current leader of the BNP) seeking to unite Fascists and neo-Nazis across Europe – is now largely represented online by the Final Conflict Blog. On this blog, we read the following unambiguous statement: ‘Oh discerning reader and fellow patriot: join the dots and see the image. It is a fluttering flag with a big star in the middle’.

Final Conflict (FC) rails against ‘the Zionists, Neo Cons, Freemasons — all following the anti-Christian Talmudist creed — that run our world’. FC boast that they ‘do not shy away from saying that the main threat historically, currently and in the future comes from Zionists’, and claim that ‘Zionists’ fund both main American political parties and ‘will control the next US President’ as well. Politicians, according to FC, are ‘cowards who do whatever International Zionism dictates’ and work for ‘the accursed, Neo Con, New World Order’.

For FC, ‘”Al Qaeda” and “911″ have all the hallmarks of the CIA and Mossad’ and ‘911, 7/7 etc. were false flag ops and we should be looking to New York and Tel Aviv for the culprits’.

How does FC know about ‘International Zionism’, the ‘New World Order’, ‘false flag ops’, and so on?

FC draws from the traditional texts of Fascist anti-Semitism and world conspiracy theories – including the anti-Semitic forgery the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and books claiming Jewish-inspired Freemasonry plots – and, as with Barnes, from the websites of Alex Jones. FC recommends, and links to, Alex Jones’ Prison Planet and Infowars websites, as well as the anti-Semitic UK ‘truth’ site ‘The Truth Seeker‘.

Another site that FC recommends is a blog called ‘Nationalist Truth‘.

‘Nationalist Truth’ is run by Simon Smith, who, unbelievably, is a councillor representing the ward of Great Bridge in the borough of Sandwell. Smith was formerly a member of the BNP but has resigned due to his conviction that it ‘is being managed as a state safety valve’. That Smith should believe the BNP is some kind of ‘black op’ is indicative of his paranoid, delusional mindset, a mindset which is very evident if you take a look at his writings.

In a recent post, Smith claims:

We live in a time when so many things are not disclosed and hidden from view. In no particular order: Possible nutritional reasons for most cancers, needless uses of fluoride in the water, false flag ops like 9/11, the real insubstantial nature of political figures, the moon landing hoax, the deliberate holding back of cheap energy sources, the obfuscation of the real nature of banks, the “Holocaust” hoax, the alien UFO hoax to disguise German WWII electrogravimetric craft and their continued development, the refusal by the Establishment to acknowledge the reality of the Bell Curve and the intelligence of particular groups….The list could go on.

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It seems to me that the whole of the Western world is being overtaken by another Dark Age. Clearly there are forces at work which want to monopolise knowledge, resources and technology to preserve their current grip . Surely though, this lack of objectivity that is allowed to be preserved by the Rothschilds, Rockerfellers , Windsors and the rest, must some day have an impact on them as individuals ?

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We need a civilisation based on Classical European thought not the Protocols of Zion. A civilisation based on truth and real human progress. Not one based on robbing Peter to pay Paul and preserving a parisitical lying sexually deviant elite.

So, here again, we find the claim of ‘false flags’, a conspiracy run by an ‘elite’, credence given to the Protocols, as well as lunatic ‘theories’ about the Holocaust, the moon landings, and UFOs.

Smith, it turns out, is a particularly big fan of ‘9/11 Truth’ rubbish. In a number of posts, he links to Alex Jones’ ‘Prison Planet’ website, for example in this post, where he claims:

The September 11th attacks 2001 were an inside job. There are three types of people who have opinions on this:

1/ The ignorant masses who accept the Bilderberg media’s critique of the events that day.
2/ The enlightened (including your truly :-) )
3/ Those that know the truth but feel it expedient to pay lip service to the Bilderbergers

There is a wealth of material out there in cyberspace. Look for it.

What Smith apparently fails to understand is that just as there a wealth of information online, there is also a wealth of nonsense. Being a racist nutcase, Smith naturally favours the latter. He recommends the website of Eric Hufschmid, one of the pioneers of ‘9/11 Truth’ (and author of the influencial book Painful Questions). Like Smith, Hufschmid is a Holocaust denier. Smith writes: ‘”They lie about 9/11, global warming, the Holocaust, the Apollo moon landing.”‘ says Eric Hufschmid on his website … and I agree’.

In another post, Smith re-posts an article written by 9/11 conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier Christopher Bollyn, who claims his ‘investigations have uncovered a great deal of evidence of Israeli involvement in the false-flag terror attacks of 9-11 and other crimes’. In the article, Bollyn boasts of his ‘journalism’:

For journalists working in the controlled media pursuing such investigations would be “career suicide” as many learned after 9-11. I have also paid a very high price for my research and writing. I learned that Jewish Zionists control even small so-called nationalist newspapers. Most journalists, lawyers, and politicians are primarily interested in advancing their own careers and learn early on to accept the yoke of their Zionist masters — or sacrifice their careers. Ambitious people put their self interest first and agree to go along with lies and corruption rather than stand up for the truth. I’ve seen it many times.

As well as promoting Jones, Hufschmid, and Bollyn, Smith has posted a list of ‘Ten Videos To Make You Think‘, which would be more aptly titled ‘Ten Videos To Rot Your Brain’. Included on the list are ‘Loose Change’, ‘Zeitgeist’, and a Prison Planet film on George Bush Senior, The CIA and The JFK Assassination.

Of ‘Loose Change’, Smith claims that ‘This is one of many good videos illustrating the 911 was an inside job. (I also believe the 7/7 bombings in London were an inside job as well.)’ Anyone who thinks ‘Loose Change’ is ‘good’ should take a look at the resources section of the excellent Screw Loose Change blog and check out the Loose Change Guide, both of which provide ample proof that this ‘documentary’ is nothing but lies and misrepresentation from start to finish. ‘Zeitgeist’ is an increasingly popular 9/11 conspiracy film that takes on other topics including ‘international bankers’, and, as with ‘Loose Change’, has absolutely no credibility.

Looking at Smith’s site we find a pile of conspiracy junk, which is of course to be expected on the blog of an anti-Semitic Fascist. As with Final Conflict, Smith bases his worldview on a mix of Third Reich anti-Semitism, neo-Nazi ideas, and a large amount of ‘information’ drawn from the websites of the ‘9/11 Truth’ cult.

Another group of British extremists, the openly Nazi British People’s Party (formerly the ‘White Nationalist Party’ and ‘Aryan Unity’) shares the 9/11 interests of the BNP’s Barnes, ex-BNP member Smith, and the Final Conflict gang. The BPP homepage links to two Party blogs, one of which is called ‘News From Atlantis‘.

‘News From Atlantis’ (NFA), again, promotes 9/11 conspiracy theories. We get all the usual stuff: 9/11 was a ‘staged atrocity‘, Israel was involved, Bin Laden is a CIA operative, global elite, Zionist elite, New World Order, and so on.

We also get anti-Semitism:

On the day that racist Jews across the world are reciting the Kol Nidre to allow themselves to lie to the Goyim for the next year, remember the role they and their Masonic Shabbat Goy Zionist bed-fellows played in 9/11 and are still playing in building the New World Order.

And promotion of the Protocols:

Proof of the fulfillment of the Protocols of Zion can be seen in the fact that, with very few exceptions, the Zionist lie that they are a forgery is parroted by everyone. The education system has been so debased that the sheeple no longer have the capacity to think, and are becoming the useful drones necessary for the architects of the New World Order to complete their plan to enslave us all.

NFA provides further information on the ‘New World Order’ in a number of posts. Here, for example, we learn that:

The military in the present conflicts are being encouraged to commit all manner of atrocities against the indigenous peoples. By doing this they are becoming desensitised to the suffering of humanity. This will make them very useful in the coming New World Order as the boot-boys of the Zionist rulers. Having got used to torturing, raping and murdering civilians in one region, they will be able to do it anywhere.

In a post on the election of Barack Obama – entitled ‘Mulatto, Zionist, Enemy of Humanity’ – NFA further ‘explains’ the ‘Zionist’ plot:

The USA is the military arm of the New World Order. That is the true reason for the drive to merge Mexico and Canada with the USA into the North American Union – the masters of the NWO need more cannon fodder, which the Americanised Mexicans will unwittingly supply. But that is to digress. Obama is a high profile puppet, and nothing more. He has no real power at all.

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Barack Obama is a willing tool of the Zionist global elite. His presidency will not alter the New World Order agenda one iota. He, like Bush, is a Zionist-Goy servant of his Satanic self-chosen masters. He is an enemy to free humanity everywhere.

One of the sources given as ‘evidence’ for this rubbish is a book hosted on the website of anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theorist Daryl Bradford Smith.

In addition to conspiracies involving Mexicans, NFA also promotes the traditional Nazi view that Jews promote immigration and incite wars in order to undermine nations:

When the individual free nations of Europe were racially homogeneous, the populations had a common identity and an instinctive national pride. National Pride is a safeguard against globalism. The Zionist elite orchestrated the World Wars to break the cultures of the individual nations.

So, ‘Zionists’, according to NFL, are responsible for ‘orchestrating’ wars and carrying out ‘false flag’ terrorism, and have as their end goal the establishment of some kind of Jewish ruled ‘New World Order’.

Looking at the BPP’s links page, we find a link to a blog called ‘Enoch Powell Was Right‘ (EPWR). Run by a BPP supporter, the blog is largely filled with crude racism, but also takes an interest in 9/11. In three posts, the author of EPWR has enthusiastically endorsed the 9/11 conspiracy film ‘Zeitgeist’.

In one post, we read:

The more you begin to investigate what you think we understand where we came from, what we think were doing, the more you begin to see we have been lied too. We have been lied to by every single institution.

You have to know the truth and seek the truth and the truth will set you free. Only then will you see lies everywhere. The New World Order a One World Globalist Government …… Is it so powerful we cant face it ?

A second post promoting Zeitgeist contains the rally cry: ‘THE REVOLUTION IS NOW
AND IT STARTS WITH YOU !!!’ [Emphasis in original] And a third post states:

Looks to me like the NEW WORLD BANKERS are very busy indeed causing mass panic within our banking system. My advice is to watch ZEITGEIST THE MOVIE 2007 – PART 3 – THE MEN BEHIND THE CURTAIN. [Emphasis in original]

Taking a look around the websites of Britain’s Fascists and neo-Nazis, it becomes clear that the ideas promoted by the so-called ‘9/11 Truth Movement’ are becoming increasingly popular on the far-Right. It has been noted on many occasions that the ‘Truth Movement’ has a fairly large number of followers who promote anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Every time this is mentioned, ‘truthers’ respond angrily, claiming that the ‘movement’ is being ‘misrepresented’ or that the anti-Semites are agents provocateurs, employed by shadowy conspirators to discredit 9/11 ‘truth’. What the ‘truthers’ apparently don’t understand is that the ‘theories’ that underpin their worldview have a pedigree dating back well before 9/11.

Most ‘truthers’ propose the existence of some kind of secret organisation that they hold responsible for orchestrating the 9/11 attacks. While some – especially Leftist ‘truthers’ – seem to lay all the blame with a small circle of ‘neo-cons’ led by Bush and Cheney – most ‘truthers’ propose an international conspiratorial group that worked together to carry out 9/11 and other supposed ‘false flag’ attacks. The most commonly used term for this international conspiracy is the ‘New World Order’, although the ‘Illuminati’ are often mentioned, as are ‘Zionists’.

Alex Jones, for example, has traced this supposed ‘New World Order’ (NWO) group back through modern history, seeing its hidden hand behind most major events and movements of the 20th Century. For Jones, the NWO is a ‘global elite’, a group that seeks to undermine national sovereignty, control international finances, and ultimately enslave humanity. This is not an uncommon view among ‘truthers’, and for good reason. It is very hard to see how 9/11 could have been a ‘false flag’ attack without careful planning and international co-operation. It is also hard to believe, if this supposed plot were real, that wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were the sum total of the conspirators’ goals. As a result, most ‘truthers’ tend to see a conspiracy that is far wider ranging in scope than 9/11 alone.

In reality, the evidence for the existence of a unified international conspiracy pulling the strings of governments across history, controlling the world’s finances, and planning to enslave humanity is non-existent. Conspiracy theories of this nature are based not on a rational evaluation of political and social realities, but rather on fantasy, and this is a kind of fantasy we have seen before.

The 9/11 conspiracy theorists’ ideas about a ‘New World Order’ made up of ‘globalists’ are the heirs to the anti-Semitic tradition based on the fabrications found in texts such as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The idea of a ‘hidden hand’ behind world events, the notion that ‘international finance’ has secret ‘masters’, and the idea that a conspiracy artificially creates wars as part of some ‘end game’ are all rooted in the anti-Semitic visions that were used by Fascists to ‘explain’ the modern world that they detested.

The reason ‘9/11 Truth’ attracts anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis, and other assorted sociopaths is precisely because the paranoid, conspiracy-based worldview it is based around is a sanitised version of the same conspiracy theory they believe in. The reason that Alex Jones attracts neo-Nazis is that they listen to his drivel about a ‘global elite’ and nod and wink to each other, assuming he really means ‘the Jews’. Why would they assume this? Because the ‘global elite’ trope is directly lifted from the ‘World Jewish Conspiracy’ ideas they promote. And why do ‘truthers’ who start out claiming to oppose a ‘Zionist conspiracy’ sometimes slip over into full-blown anti-Semitism? Because the ‘World Zionist Conspiracy’ material is basically the same old ‘World Jewish Conspiracy’ material, with a few modern tweaks and additions, such as claims about 9/11, and the word ‘Jew’ replaced with ‘Zionist’.

That Britain’s Fascists should embrace 9/11 conspiracy theories seems entirely consistent with their inability to grasp reality. That the ‘truthers’ can’t see why anti-Semitic lunatics are attracted to their ‘movement’ suggests they are as out of touch with reality as their Nazi supporters.