White Terrorism Overlooked?
Sunday, 3 December 2006
The facts should speak for themselves. Two men were arrested last month with an array of bomb-making components and weapons. A rocket launcher was found, though some reports indicate more than one, as was a biological suit and chemicals that could be used to make bombs. Surely this warranted front-page news? Actually no.
In an article in Searchlight Magazine, Nick Lowles looks at how possible plans for terrorism did not make the frontpages. And there is something odd about how little attention the arrests of Robert Cottage (49) and David Jackson (62) have gotten in the media.
In Cottage’s house, some 22 chemical components were discovered. At Jackson’s house a rocket launcher and a biological suit were found, as well as what in other cases might have been described as radical or extremist literature. In this case the literature came from the party mr. Cottage recently ran for election for: the neo-fascist British National Party.
I can not say whether plans for terror even existed, although I have some problems imagining legitimate reasons to stock up on chemical explosives and rocket launchers. It would have been interesting to know, though, whether the news stories would have been limited to this kind if the arrested men were named Muhammed and Said rather than Robert and David?
Would the story of a man “the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country” then have been extensively covered even in other newspapers than the Burnley Citizen?
