I wonder why Liverpool Indymedia has made a link to PnP and Kirby Time, but no link has been made to my web site www.whistleblower.nstemp.com. Admittedly my web site is not as good as PnP's and Kirby Time's web sites, but still, it contains much about the social injustice that goes on at local government level in this city. Could I be accused of being paranoid or has the PnP webmasters of Liverpool Indymedia decided to give me a wide berth?

I don’t believe in banging your own drum, after all self-praise is no recommendation is it? Lets take a close look at what I have done over the last 4 years:

· Posted and paid for nearly half a million Whistle Blower newsletter informing the people in my community about the corruption in the Liverpool City Council
· Gone out on umpteen direct activist campaigns
· Made contact with many activist groups, including PnP
· Been dragged through the courts and won a battle against a housing association who were telling lies about me
· Nearly been thrown out of my flat because of my direct activism
· Been threatened with libel by the city council, the Liverpool Echo and a large housing association
· Had a thousand letters distributed by Riverside Housing and the Kensington New Deal for Communities Chief executive around the Kensington New Deal for Communities area which tried to discredit me in the eyes of the community
· Been written about in the Liverpool Echo
· Ran for Parliament in the last General election
· Ran for the council as an independent on three occasions
· Had my car windows put in on several occasions outside my flat
· Had hundreds of threatening phone calls
· Been written about in a NIACE book

The above list could go on add-infinitum

Is it any wonder that activist who fight against social injustice give up? Not only are they fighting the dominant culture that exists at local government level they are also fighting against left wing trendies and anarchists who are only interested in making a career out of the misery of others. Of course they don’t do this intentionally, everyone has to make a living, I accept that. You have a left wing anarchist clique of very clever people in this city who are brilliant organisers and leaders, but sadly they have used their skills to get funding and expensive computers and other media equipment on the pretext that they were going to involve many other people in the use of it when in truth this small clique has complete control over this equipment and were this equipment is secretly stored. These people have long ago lost their commitment to the poor and socially excluded. They justify what they are doing by saying: OK, we have got funding and created jobs for ourselves, but we are not on much more than the minimum wage! What they conveniently avoid is the fact that they have access to very expensive media equipment and the invaluable experience of working in the media on the ground. This experience alone would cost thousands of pounds if you had to pay for it. Instead of fighting the dominant culture in this city these people have allowed themselves to be manipulated and bought off by that same dominant culture. Of course most of these activists are internationalist who constantly have their heads buried in international issues. And lets be honest international issues are very important. But, you see, these activists hide behind international issues so as to avoid what is going on locally. They are visibly uncomfortable with local issues.

These activists have long ago accepted that poor working class British people who live in run down communities are not worth fighting for because of the fact that they actively participate in their own subjugation by the dominant culture that exists within our civic society. Instead these activists spin about on the fringes hiding behind the curtain of international issues and the next thing you know they are getting grants for this and grants for that, while the rest of us get nothing but agro.

Real activists know that they are fighting an up hill battle and that they will suffer untold frustration. They know they will never win against the dominant culture’s grinding remorseless machine. The real activist is not a secret materialist who wants to own his own house, but does what he does because he has real empathy with the poor and socially excluded. He suffers daily their pains with them. He does not speak on their behalf, he stands beside them speaking as one of them.

Will the real left-wingers and anarchists please stand up and be counted!