Gone to the dogs
Rover | 28.10.2006 12:57 | World
Once upon a time there was a site called IMUK and in the heady days of the Genoa G8 events and the London MayDay human rights abuses it was a haven for activists to report and organise actions.
Now, it seems as though activists only post here out of habit and organising actions is no longer happening but for a few select interests.
Now, it seems as though activists only post here out of habit and organising actions is no longer happening but for a few select interests.
Back in the beginning...
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/viewallposts0.html
IMUK was met with great enthusiasm and expectation from the disparate non-hierarchical acivist scene. It even forced MSM to sit up and take notice of globalisation, Channel 4 news was featuring indepent reports from IMUK journos and they were even giving Mark Thomas money; The lorry drivers were giving Tony Blair hell. Things were looking optomistic.
Then a year on as Disarm Dicey were getting the sardine squash, Sept. 11th happened.
Here's how it was first reported:
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/11144.html?c=on#c11204
And here we have the first "false flag" comment:
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/11163.html?c=on#c11211
The first mention of the CIA:
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/11269.html?c=on#c11334
And then the bullshit starts to really flow with the first link to a conspiraloon site:
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/11300.html?c=on#c11457
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/index.html
And since then, we can plot a slow but enexorable decline from an activist site with a few conspiracy postings to its current state of being deluged with conpiracy tosh and antisemitism (reposted/rehashed ad nauseum).
I have to ask, since I have been here since the beginning, has this site been deliberately infiltrated/targetted in order to discredit it and gradually drown it in some right-wing racists conspiracy shit? After the initial success of IMUK in joining up activists and even influencing MSM, is someone out to kick it down and hold it down?
How many of the original contributors are still here? How many of the old admins?
I'm going to as http://indymediawatch.blogspot.com/ (where it can be discussed)to republish this article as I'm pretty sure it'll get shot down quickly.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/viewallposts0.html IMUK was met with great enthusiasm and expectation from the disparate non-hierarchical acivist scene. It even forced MSM to sit up and take notice of globalisation, Channel 4 news was featuring indepent reports from IMUK journos and they were even giving Mark Thomas money; The lorry drivers were giving Tony Blair hell. Things were looking optomistic.
Then a year on as Disarm Dicey were getting the sardine squash, Sept. 11th happened.
Here's how it was first reported:
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/11144.html?c=on#c11204 And here we have the first "false flag" comment:
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/11163.html?c=on#c11211 The first mention of the CIA:
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/11269.html?c=on#c11334 And then the bullshit starts to really flow with the first link to a conspiraloon site:
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/11300.html?c=on#c11457 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/index.html And since then, we can plot a slow but enexorable decline from an activist site with a few conspiracy postings to its current state of being deluged with conpiracy tosh and antisemitism (reposted/rehashed ad nauseum).
I have to ask, since I have been here since the beginning, has this site been deliberately infiltrated/targetted in order to discredit it and gradually drown it in some right-wing racists conspiracy shit? After the initial success of IMUK in joining up activists and even influencing MSM, is someone out to kick it down and hold it down?
How many of the original contributors are still here? How many of the old admins?
I'm going to as
http://indymediawatch.blogspot.com/ (where it can be discussed)to republish this article as I'm pretty sure it'll get shot down quickly.
Rover