Without getting you to stop-what-you're-doing-and take-all-your-time-up-looking-at-this, We think it's worth being aware that local fash-ists are starting to scroll the sheffield indymedia archives. and other sites..
Just this week, Nazi-site REDWATCH has been very generous in giving SOUTH YORKS REDS(!) their very own section:
http://216.28.118.142/sheffreds1.html
...using what they see as interesting info on a CARF mtg as reported on sheffindymedia.
Also, their related guestbook keeps getting updated by pasting info from Sheff-IMC newswire, for example:
http://drypool.net/cgi-bin/system.pl?id=wngb&cmd=view&page=2
We imagine that these "activists" of the far-right are taking the lengthy and possibly methodical task of looking through the archives with the intention of using peoples photos and cross-matching
"intelligence". Nothing to get totally paranoid about but still worth bearing in mind when future submissions are made to the IMC Newswire and this list.
Just wanted to inform sf people of this in case not aware already. By adopting a sense of vigilance we can then keep the fascist threat to the back of our minds while carrying on with what's important. We believe that it's absolutely necessary to have an understanding about what's been going on in the last couple of weeks, while at the same time realising that allowing this negative shit to take over is the worst thing that could happen.
Written by a collective of concerned people but not paranoid!
Just this week, Nazi-site REDWATCH has been very generous in giving SOUTH YORKS REDS(!) their very own section:
http://216.28.118.142/sheffreds1.html ...using what they see as interesting info on a CARF mtg as reported on sheffindymedia.
Also, their related guestbook keeps getting updated by pasting info from Sheff-IMC newswire, for example:
http://drypool.net/cgi-bin/system.pl?id=wngb&cmd=view&page=2 We imagine that these "activists" of the far-right are taking the lengthy and possibly methodical task of looking through the archives with the intention of using peoples photos and cross-matching
"intelligence". Nothing to get totally paranoid about but still worth bearing in mind when future submissions are made to the IMC Newswire and this list.
Just wanted to inform sf people of this in case not aware already. By adopting a sense of vigilance we can then keep the fascist threat to the back of our minds while carrying on with what's important. We believe that it's absolutely necessary to have an understanding about what's been going on in the last couple of weeks, while at the same time realising that allowing this negative shit to take over is the worst thing that could happen.
Written by a collective of concerned people but not paranoid!
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The more they post about 'us' the closer 'we' get to finding out who they are...
21.10.2003 21:53
Following is some public info on the domain names of their web sites, some of which are hosted by a porno hosting company in the states!
All the domain names appear to lead to Simon Sheppard, from Hull, who has has stuff about him on Indymedia before:
And he does not hide his identity:
Not to be confused with Simon Sheppard the gay anti-war pornographer!
whois -h magic redwatch.org
Domain ID:D29253312-LROR
Domain Name:REDWATCH.ORG
Created On:15-Jun-2000 05:03:17 UTC
Last Updated On:13-Oct-2003 11:27:19 UTC
Expiration Date:15-Jun-2005 05:03:17 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R91-LROR
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:GODA-02439331
Registrant Name:Billy Blagg
Registrant Organization:White Nationalist Party
Registrant Street1:BM Box 5581
Registrant City:London
Registrant State/Province:Not Applicable
Registrant Postal Code:WC1N 3XX
Registrant Country:GB
Registrant Phone:+44.448454561677
Registrant Email:
Admin ID:GODA-22439331
Admin Name:Simon Sheppard
Admin Street1:PO Box 1004
Admin City:Hull
Admin State/Province:Yorkshire
Admin Postal Code:HU3 2YT
Admin Country:GB
Admin Phone:+44.448454561677
Admin Email:
Billing ID:GODA-32439331
Billing Name:Simon Sheppard
Billing Street1:PO Box 1004
Billing City:Hull
Billing State/Province:Yorkshire
Billing Postal Code:HU3 2YT
Billing Country:GB
Billing Phone:+44.448454561677
Billing Email:
Tech ID:GODA-12439331
Tech Name:Simon Sheppard
Tech Street1:PO Box 1004
Tech City:Hull
Tech State/Province:Yorkshire
Tech Postal Code:HU3 2YT
Tech Country:GB
Tech Phone:+44.448454561677
Tech Email:
Name Server:NS1.WIFETRADER.NET
Name Server:NS2.WIFETRADER.NET
whois -h whois.enom.com redwatch.net
Registration Service Provided By: RegisterFly.com
Contact:
Visit:
Domain name- redwatch.net
Nameservers-
NS7.ACE-HOST.NET
NS8.ACE-HOST.NET
Start of registration- 11/23/02 13:59:52
Registered through- 11/23/05 13:59:52
Registrant Contact-
Simon Sheppard (
845 4561677
BM Box 5581
London, WC1N 3XX
GB
Administrative Contact-
RegisterFly.com
Domain Registration (
+1.9737580880
FAX- +1.5097568622
Box 2418
Livingston, NJ 07039
US
Billing Contact-
RegisterFly.com
Domain Registration (
+1.9737580880
FAX- +1.5097568622
Box 2418
Livingston, NJ 07039
US
Technical Contact-
RegisterFly.com
Domain Registration (
+1.9737580880
FAX- +1.5097568622
Box 2418
Livingston, NJ 07039
US
whois -h whois.nic.uk redwatch.org.uk
Domain Name:
redwatch.org.uk
Registrant:
The National Front
Registrant's Agent:
Host Europe Internet Ltd [Tag = WEBFUSION]
URL:
Relevant Dates:
Registered on: 07-May-2001
Renewal Date: 07-May-2005
Last updated: 14-Oct-2003
Registration Status:
Registered until renewal date.
Name servers listed in order:
ns1.dissidenthosting.com 69.57.142.135
ns2.dissidenthosting.com 69.57.142.136
WHOIS database last updated at 22:30:01 21-Oct-2003
whois -h magic drypool.org
Domain ID:D74559934-LROR
Domain Name:DRYPOOL.ORG
Created On:02-Jul-2001 17:55:27 UTC
Last Updated On:17-May-2003 09:35:16 UTC
Expiration Date:02-Jul-2004 17:55:27 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R69-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:000-SS30119
Registrant Name:Simon Sheppard
Registrant Organization:Simon Sheppard
Registrant Street1:PO Box 1004
Registrant City:Hull
Registrant State/Province:Yorkshire
Registrant Postal Code:HU3 2YT
Registrant Country:GB
Registrant Phone:+4.48454561677
Registrant Email:
Admin ID:000-SS30118
Admin Name:Simon Sheppard
Admin Organization:.
Admin Street1:PO Box 1004
Admin City:Hull
Admin State/Province:Yorkshire
Admin Postal Code:HU3 2YT
Admin Country:GB
Admin Phone:+4.48454561677
Admin Email:
Billing ID:000-SS30118
Billing Name:Simon Sheppard
Billing Organization:.
Billing Street1:PO Box 1004
Billing City:Hull
Billing State/Province:Yorkshire
Billing Postal Code:HU3 2YT
Billing Country:GB
Billing Phone:+4.48454561677
Billing Email:
Tech ID:000-SS30118
Tech Name:Simon Sheppard
Tech Organization:.
Tech Street1:PO Box 1004
Tech City:Hull
Tech State/Province:Yorkshire
Tech Postal Code:HU3 2YT
Tech Country:GB
Tech Phone:+4.48454561677
Tech Email:
Name Server:NS2.000DOMAINS.COM
Name Server:NS1.000DOMAINS.COM
RedWatch Watcher
British nazis exploit internet freedom
21.10.2003 22:21
Last month's jailing of a nazi thug led to an almost immediate reprisal against a teacher whose complaint to the police had resulted in the prosecution. The reason why the nazis could so easily exact their revenge by fire-bombing the teacher's car was that details of the victim appeared on the nazi Redwatch website.
Leeds Crown Court heard how Tony White, 31, had deliberately set out to seduce schoolchildren politically with material that the judge, James Stewart QC, described as "filth" and just the type of hate material that had appeared between the Oldham and Bradford riots further inflaming the situation.
White, a security guard, has bounced around various nazi groups since the mid-1990s, including the terrorist Combat 18 and the National Front. He has also dabbled in pornography and been a casual police informer.
He had boarded a bus going to a school that he knew was experiencing racial problems. To attract attention he put up stickers proclaiming "Combat 18 Whites Only Area". He then handed out his race hate material to the children.
The children also spotted a weapon in the bag White was carrying. The police recovered the weapon when they searched his home. He was jailed for six months.
The nazis fire-bombed the teacher's car parked outside his house while he, his partner and their five-year-old daughter slept inside. Details about the teacher, his family and their car were on a nazi website set up at the start of the new millennium under the title Redwatch.
The website is a product of the sick mind of Simon Sheppard, a twice convicted hate criminal who lives outside Hull in Yorkshire. It started out by listing the names of a few anti-fascists in Yorkshire but over the past three years has grown to include hundreds of names, addresses and photographs of people whom hard-core nazis see as their enemies.
A recent addition is a section headed "Noncewatch" (nonce is criminal slang for paedophile). For the thugs who run and sustain the site, this is a way of describing anyone who is gay and some who are not gay. But the nazis also know that such accusations can cause hysteria and result in attacks on people and their homes.
During the recent Halifax council by-election campaign, Mark Collett, the Hitler-loving former British National Party youth leader, shouted from the safety of a car on a number of occasions how he would have the details of trade unionists campaigning against the BNP put on Redwatch or Noncewatch.
The site can be entered through Sheppard's web address or via a link from various other nazi websites. In what presumably passes as nazi humour, you then have to move the cross hairs of a rifle sight over a picture of the head of Searchlight's publisher, Gerry Gable, and click on it.
The roots of the hate site lie in the arrival of Combat 18 on the British political scene in March 1992. The Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire at the time described C18 in a World in Action television documentary as a terrorist group on the grounds that it targeted its perceived enemies, gathered intelligence on them, made threats to them and then acted upon those threats.
In those days Redwatch was a tatty duplicated newsletter listing a few names of anti-fascists. A year on it had grown, as had the reign of terror against anybody it singled out. Its targets included anti-fascists, trade unionists, mixed race couples, people in the peace and anti-apartheid movements and interestingly enough a school teacher in Leeds, who worked at a multiracial nursery. Her name had been obtained when White and a gang of fellow nazis stole a contact address book from the offices of the local radical publication Leeds Other Paper. Threats were made to harm her and the under-fives who attended the nursery.
As opposition and exposure of C18 grew, so did its lists, which even included police and Special Branch officers. Eventually the C18 magazine Stormer, which now published the lists, attracted the attention of the police. A number of key figures in C18 were convicted for possession and distribution of this violent hate material.
C18 suffered a split which eventually led to the murder of a fellow nazi by Charlie Sargent, C18's former leader. But even before that, its magazines had become infrequent and often omitted the hitlists.
Sheppard, an oddball character who hates women and enjoys a weird interest in cannibalism, returned to Britain after being convicted in The Netherlands for producing hate material. After serving a prison sentence there he was deported to Britain and welcomed with open arms into the BNP.
He was soon up to his old tricks again. So extreme was his hate material that the BNP dropped him like a hot potato just before he was jailed again on hate crime charges.
On his release he threw himself totally into the job of turning C18's hitlists into a website. He exploited the fact that the law in this area was weak and confused and that, as much as some police officers wished to shut down hate websites, they were constantly hampered either by non-cooperation of the web host companies, often based in other countries, or by lack of effort by the Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service to tackle this growing criminality head on.
For example, Searchlight discovered that the internet service provider for Sheppard's various enterprises is Stargate Inc, a US-based outfit. He registered with the company using a post office box number in Hull. However, according to the postal authorities, this box has been shut down, which means anyone who wants to seek legal redress against Sheppard has no way of contacting him.
Some of the victims currently named and pictured on the Redwatch site are children in terms of the law. Surely police child protection teams should step in? For all the nazi attacks on "nonces", perhaps the "nonces" are among the nazis, if they put children at risk in this way.
Sheppard, operating under the aegis of the Heretical Press, has built up a dubious reputation for setting up hate websites for all sorts of people on the far right. He has attracted the attention of well known nazi thugs, such as Kevin Watmough, and helped Eddie Morrison create his latest new movement, the White Nationalist Party, which has depended almost entirely on its internet output to gather momentum over the last year.
Others serviced by Sheppard include the nazi music umbrella group Blood and Honour, Combat 18, the Hitlerian November 9th Society, the National Front and the Spearhead site run by John Tyndall, the founder and former leader of the BNP. He also helped to create a website for those nazis, old and young, who still look up to the late and unlamented Sir Oswald Mosley.
One of his achievements has been to convince Colin Jordan, Britain's postwar nazi godfather, to abandon his fear of all things modern and allow him to place on the internet not only his current works and commentary on his present activities, but also years of hardcore hate material, so it can be viewed internationally.
Sheppard's internet activities have given him, a diehard hater of humanity, a free hand to try to terrorise those whom the far right has not got the guts to confront face to face. He also acts as mentor to many nutcases and nazi terrorists, fully-fledged or in the making, helping them to use their websites to make the most obvious violent threats. Their enemies are named, threats are uttered and descriptions abound of how to make and deliver home-made bombs and other lethal devices.
Searchlight and other nazi-watchers constantly inform the authorities of the appearance of such material. Sometimes official intervention results in the removal of some of the most obvious threats from potential killers' websites, only for them to reappear on another site.
Several years ago the Home Office set up a working party on internet crime. A few years later another working party appeared with no knowledge of the first one's existence.
A few weeks ago Abdullah el-Faisal, a 39-year-old London-based Muslim cleric who preached sermons advocating the killing of Jews and others, was sent to prison for nine years. Searchlight's reaction was to welcome the fact that a court took such death threats seriously. But why is it, in the wake of Sargent, the London bomber David Copeland and David Tovey who amassed terrorist equipment, the nazis appear to have such a free hand to do much the same thing?
If there is any doubt about the threat that these nazi terrorists pose, one need only look at their own stark warning headed: "To the reds and their supporters in the media".
"REDWATCH will continue to survive no matter what. Comrades in the USA, Poland and Serbia to name but a few countries make copies of all of the REDWATCH pages and should the security services manage to close our British site REDWATCH will instantly reappear from one or all of those countries. REDWATCH is not a hitlist, it is a warning to the reds and their fellow travellers that whatever they know about us, we know a hell of a lot more about them ... and unlike them we have the guts and means to act on that information effectively!"
Copyright © 2003, Searchlight,
Gerry Gable
Homepage:
http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/042003_story01.htm
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22.10.2003 11:00
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