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[NAME REMOVED]: reactionary Scottish nationalist and police mole and far-rightist

Reginald Gillis | 10.01.2010 23:41 | Analysis | Indymedia | Other Press | Liverpool | World

[NAME REMOVED], a self-styled Scottish anarchist residing in Edinburgh who posts as "Danny" on Indymedia UK, is a police mole and disinformation shill for the reactionary Scottish National Party of which he is a member of the inner circle and is also a known member of the British National Party is has gone record admitting his involvement with the far-right and is currently on the EDL lists. He enjoys bragging about his arrest record in order to seem credible, while ratting legitimate activists to the police, often falsely libeling them as pedophiles and sex offenders, despite the fact that he is a violent drunk and misogynist.

[NAME REMOVED] admits to frequently attending SNP parties and gatherings and voting SNP, despite claiming to be an anarchist:

"I was just invited to my second Scottish National party party this month. They are non-stop party people. This time I'll be staying fairly sober and only talking about two things - manual vote counting and John Bowden. I'll also be attending the two Scottish Parliament protests on these issues and hope you do too."

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2007/05/370536.html?c=on#c173676

[NAME REMOVED] admitting ratting out two activists, one of whom was involved with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, while lying about his reasons for doing so:

"I did give a voluntary police statement about two 'activists', [NAME REMOVED] and [NAME REMOVED], but that was after three years of them sending the police to raid my parents house, a fact they admit and try to justify. And they were never my mates, THEY BOTH HAVE WORSE CHARACTERISTICS THAN SIMPLY BEING POLICE INFORMERS. I tried to get anarchists to deal with them non-violently behind the scenes but fuck it, since they use the police to attack their enemies then they have earned the same in return."
From  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/438684.html?c=all

[NAME REMOVED] often advocates violence in his online posts and person-to-person conversations, a clear mole tactic to instigate violence among anarchists and get them arrested:

"Miminal violence which is aimed at stopping greater violence is both legal and moral.

US soldiers have been slaughtering women and children in Afghanistan for eight years. They are still doing it. A change in US presidents hasn't curtailed these massacres or punished any of the perpetrators. and UK politicians are US corporate employees. No demonstration has paused the carnage and nobody here has suggested any tactic that will stop it, yet it can't be allowed to continue.

Here is what I suggest. Recruit a few locals and start punishing US soldiers based in or holidaying in the UK. Don't kill them. Hold them down and break their arms and legs with a hammer. Do this until either UK or US courts start punishing the ongoing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan."
From  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/430294.html?c=all

Danny spends a great deal of time condemning peace activists and anti-globalisation thinkers, such as Michel Chossudovsky, accusing them of being covert American intelligence assets, along with boastful claims about his arrest record:

"The most important lie about 911, the lie that obviously benefits Bush and Blair most, is that 911 somehow justified the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Whatever the real 911 story that is still the most damaging and deadly lie since it has killed more innocents than died on 911.

So why would Chossudovsky enforce this most important propaganda point ? Is he a U.S.-sponsored Intelligence Asset or a useful fool ?

I mean, tell me if I'm wrong since then I've wasted the past five years of my time getting arrested protesting the Afghan and Iraq invasions when they were actually justified invasions. Instead I could just move to Sheffield to investigate 911."
From  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/07/345411.html?c=on#c152231

Danny has a long history of sexist and homophobic behaviour, and is openly a supporter of fascist states like Libya and Iran and has admitted collaborating with these regimes and being in contact with their embassies:

"I do agree with Twilight on this issue. Any criticism of Iran just now must be viewed as dubious in the extreme. Iran is under the same imminent threat of attack from our state that Iraq was under when Tachell started ratcheting up the pressure unfairly on supposed Iraqi abuse of gays. In truth, Saudi Arabia was more brutal to gays than either Iraq or Iran in the same period, but was cricised much less by Tatchell. Tachell claims to be opposed to the invasion, occupation and genocide or Iranians but he claimed that with Iraq and yet his criticism of supposed Iraqi gay-bashing helped contribute to that invasion. In this respect Tatchell has helped contribute to the deaths of perhaps 160,000 gays. A true 'Labour friend of Iraq' just like Anne Clywd, like many self-proclaimed ex-pat dissidents who look and sound like Chalabi."
From  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/07/345411.html?c=on#c152231

Danny falsely accused several prominent activists, including individuals with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Greenpeace, as well as climate change activist Tamsin Omond, of various heinous crimes as part of an online smear campaign:

"Hi folks. I was just wondering if there's anything at all that can be
done about [NAME REMOVED], posts comments as Danny, who has been using
Indymedia to spread malicious lies about decent activists in Scotland. I
don't really give a toss what he says about me, it's all water off a
ducks back. What does concern me is the naming of certain activists who
are amazing, committed, awesome people on Indymedia and the linking of
them with paedophilia.

When Danny first started making these allegations we investigated as
much as we could and the man against whom the allegations were made
presented himself to the old bill to be investigated. They declined to
do so. We also approached the mother of one of the children said to have
been abused who was shocked at the accusation. She said that there was
nothing that had gone on and she had left the man for completely other
reasons.

Danny has in the past threatened violence upon people, he has threatened
to kill me on a number of occasions as well as threatening my family,
via the website.

I really think that it is time something is done to prevent him from
spreading his hate filled divisive bile about decent people. I am sure
that it would be possible to find some way of preventing him from
posting, I was of the impression that this had already been done for at
least one repeated nuisance poster.(apologies if I'm wrong about that)
Surely death threats and attempts to destroy peoples lives and sowing
seeds of distrust amongst the activist and anarchist movement in
Scotland is enough to warrant serious action?"
 http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-moderation/2009-May/0512-k5.html

Danny's vitriolic behaviour has helped ruin the reputations of several alternative media outlets, and he has helped the police in Scotland arrest several long-time and respected peace and anti-war activists. He has a long record of smearing activists and distorting information for his own purposes. The fact that he is a stated supporter of anti-democratic regimes in Iran and Libya and has reported the names and addresses of several activists to their embassies and has openly proclaimed that anyone opposing the fascist regimes in Iran and Libya should be harassed and maimed should alarm any serious activist.

Danny has admitted to being a member of the far-right and is a known member and supporter of the BNP and recently has been involved with the racist EDL:

"I used to be in the Far Right and this is a very accurate description of its members. The decent law abiding, hard working and intelligent people are soon driven away by the career criminals, misfits, losers and work shy.

Alot of the people who are in the right wing would not cross the street for their 'beliefs' unless there was a beer in it for them and I am sure the security services/special branch have no trouble recruiting them when they dangle cash or the offer of a jail sentence dissappearing in front of them.

No morals, no principles, no loyalty and no idea. It is no wonder the right wing continues to implode. "

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/12/444114.html?c=on#c239882

"I had a talk with a computer lecturer who is in the SNP last night about the electoral shennanigans. I also learned more about the way the poll was (mis)counted on the night from people who were there. I also discussed this with a top London lawyer who has experience of similar electoral fraud in Northern Ireland. I hope in future elections in the free state of Scotland that votes will be counted by hand and will be writing a report why that should be the case. I'll be keeping shtumm about it on IM from now on in case I do have to act as a technical witness."

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369681.html?c=on#c172893

"If you are Scottish, if you only step into a voting booth once in your life, make it this time."

 https://www1.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368401.html?c=on

"So have you been helping your local SNP candidates ? Cos if you haven't you still have a week left to volunteer and they would probably appreciate it, it will be a busy week. And if you have't put your name down anywhere linking you to the SNP then there are other ways anarchists can help...it is easier taking posters down than putting them up you know. And say you took down a Labour party poster, and then put it up again three weeks after the election, and then reported them to the police - is that as immoral as invading Iraq without a mandate ?

The SNP are the most pragmatic choice,"

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368818.html?c=on

Danny though claiming to be an anarchist actually encourages people to vote for the SNP and has threatened violence against anyone who doesn't vote SNP:

"I also feel that 100,000 spoiled ballots are unacceptably high. In a great many wards the number of spoiled ballots are higher than the majorities of the returned politicians. I presume what has happened is that if someone has made any error on the ballot paper then the whole ballot has been declared 'spoiled'. ( I doubt the 'Vote Nobody' campaign was quite that succcessful !)

(Editor's note: Danny was very against other anarchists on Indymedia who were encouraging people to not vote in the Scottish elections - the "Vote Nobody" campaign. He actively spoke out against it in the comments sections of a number of articles)

This isn't 'sour grapes' on my part - all the candidates I supported won."

The only way to deal with someone like him is to leave him alone to his insanity and criminality. He resides in Edinburgh and is an alcoholic and violent misogynist who has may have been convicted of several sex offenses according to sources within several anarchist circles.

Beware of anyone you associate with who advocates criminal activities and/or violent and illegal tactics. Such people are almost invariably police moles and disinfo trolls like [NAME REMOVED].

Reginald Gillis