The 'Proxy War' for the Heart and Soul of the independence Movement, the Alba Party is attacked by generously SNP Government funded LGBT charity Stonewall Scotland, previously Alba leader Alex Salmond was targeted by another generously SNP Government funded organisation, is there a pattern emerging, why should Alba candidate Margaret Lynch formally apologise and retract her 'age of consent' claims made at Alba's women's conference, if her remarks were “based on fact”, where exactly would a reasonable person say she lied, the umbrella organisation exists, the declaration for "Eliminate all laws and policies that punish or criminalize same-sex intimacy" exists and Stonewall Scotland is a member of the umbrella organisation

Dear All 

In politics, it is only natural that new parties when they emerge to break the old cartel are attacked in the most vicious way. How to you attack a new party, well the current thinking is to 'label' them, run a smear operation using what is termed standard denigrating terms such as 'homophobic', 'racist', 'misogynic', 'fascist', Neo Fascist' and the new one is 'transphobic'. Labels are used as a negative instrument to denounce something, a party or someone without the need for reasoning. Using this smear technique the lazy rhetoric does away with the need for analysis and scrutiny, reasoned critique of pros and cons. An idea, a policy or a person is automatically found guilty directly or by association and must be rejected and discarded. The use of cheap labels has shut down wider debate and helped turn a broad church politics to little more than narrow factionalism. This technique is all about control of power or gaining control of power. At the same type you are being attacked by smearing, this is usually followed up by 'gaslighting'. Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse where a person or group makes someone question their sanity, perception of reality, or memories. People experiencing gaslighting often feel confused, anxious, and unable to trust themselves. 

In this type of psychological warfare, the smearers don't want to get involved in justifying their arguments, they want to publicly throw mud to destroy their target. 

The emergence of the Alba Party was noticeable by the smearing of Alex Salmond by Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP and the press who despite not having the benefit of a guilty verdict, have engaged in casting doubt on the Salmond criminal trial verdict. Salmond's party was also immediately attacked, by all of the above, and also by many of the SNP lgbt section, it was like someone had 'set the dogs off the leash'. One way of using the smear campaign to greater effect is to involve a third party such as a charity, in the Salmond case, Rape Crisis Scotland was the vehicle used to attack him. Alex Salmond was found to be innocent, cleared by a jury of his peers who were mostly female. In Scotland, those who operate middle class charities seem to favour the notion that allegation equals guilt. Because of this type of behaviour, many injustices have taken place in Scotland. Scotland is a corrupt country and a failed State.  

There is a pattern in Scottish politics, which I want to draw to your attention, where 'dirty work' is farmed out to others. This is seen by them as strategically and cost effective because the bigger the numbers of known people and organisations 'roped in' doing the smearing the better chance the Scottish public will believe it. The same lie must be constantly repeated by many different sources for doubt to be raised, followed by disinterest in facts, and ultimately not willing to give someone or group a hearing. Smearing is about destroying people, I was a victim as many people know which ended up in a court case. 

https://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2015/10/unmasked-nicola-sturgeons-independence.html 

For years, I have highlighted the four main groups that make up the Scottish National Party, these are lgbt, Muslim, Sein Fein lite and the rich. The group which controls the SNP is the lgbt, they are party staffers, committee members, MPs, MSPs, Cllrs, MP and MSP staffers and have formed various little groupings in the party. There are many of these people who make a living out of the current political setup, but more than that they use their identity politics to push their agenda. How does the SNP lgbt wing push their agenda in the SNP, they do so by being very close to the leader, Nicola Sturgeon. In return the SNP lgbt are Sturgeon's praetorian guard attacking anyone who threatens her leadership or power. Under Nicola Sturgeon, her government generously funds many lgbt charities, the Equality Network, LGBT Youth Scotland, Stonewall Scotland, HIV Scotland, LGBT Health and Wellbeing and the Scottish Transgender Alliance. If you want to see a fuller extent of groups someone of whom either directly or indirectly access taxpayer's cash either from the Scottish Government, Scottish Councils or NGO's then click on this link, the Equality Network is a good resource. 

If you wish to know where millions and millions of taxpayers' money goes then the drop down menu on the Equality Network will address that issue for you.  

In order to understand what goes on in Scottish politics, you have to look beyond the issues, and research the background, so when you see someone or organisation being attacked or labeled or smeared, you have to ask the questions. Who are these people, and why are they doing this? In earlier posts, I highlighted about the 'sexualisation of children' by the Scottish National Party, in order for the SNP Government to sell sexualisation, they used what I termed, 'the enlightened heterosexual'. In this case, this was the Deputy First Minister and Education Minister John Swinney. Swinney was the 'front man', the use of the front man is well known in acts of deception, the deception in this case, was sexualisation of children under the guise of education. There is a video by the Scottish Family Party which I have stuck on this post, I draw your attention how John Swinney is shielded from questions. At around 2.37 into the video, Swinney says about promoting the sexualisation material that "there is enough parliamentary pressure on me to ensure that is the case". 

There you have SNP Minister John Swinney essential admitting he is a 'front man', so who is he a front man for? Is there a vast grouping of heterosexuals at Holyrood demanding that young male children learn about anal sex? The sexualisation programme isn't just limited to male children, Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP want to sexualise your 'little princess', you sent them to school to read, write and get educated, instead their valuable class time is wasted on sexualisation and the justifcation for doing it. To access university and college, you need excellent grades, what you don't need is a certificate that you attended a simulated dick sucking class using a banana and a tub of nutella. To explain the 'tools', basically, the banana represents an erect penis, the tub of nutella represents an anal passage, and the nutella represents shite. The sexualisation of children doesn't just stop with lgbt sexuality being taught, it doesn't stop with a banana and Nutella, they are just props, it goes further with bring Drag Queens into primary school as the infamous Flow job incident. 

SNP MP Mhairi Black  controversial trip to a primary school with an X-rated drag act also raised doubts about her judgment when she flanking “FlowJob” to read an LGBT awareness story to kids as young as five. After that outrage, condemned by many, Black it is alleged also accused worried parents of “homophobia”.  From one error of bad judgment, Black escalated it to several, it was said that in the post aftermath of what she had done, SNP MPs clashed at a “shouty and sweary” Westminster group meeting in the aftermath of the revelation. What was there to be “shouty and sweary” about, well I would suggest plenty, Mhairi Black is a lesbian, her first Drag Queen visit to a primary school was also her last. I would suggest worried parents won the day on that child protection issue. 

Holyrood 2021 is an odd election, it is polarised not as 'left vs right' but as Nationalists Vs pro UK. In the Nationalist community, there is also polarisation as well, between heterosexual and homosexual being played out. The SNP and the Scottish Greens under the leaderships of Nicola Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie, are seen as the parties for homosexuals and trans people. The lgbt influence in those parties goes well beyond the statistical norms in terms of representation. The SNP and the Scottish Greens are what I would term as "woke parties", this just means that they are bigoted but too dumb to realize it. An example of the woke was recently displayed by Scottish Green leader Patrick Harvie over the death of Prince Philip. Patrick Harvie was condemned by many, watch his speech at Holyrood, if there is an argument, Harvie is on the wrong side, if there is a mood, he doesn't recognise it, he is truly an odious little man with a big chip on his shoulder. Sadly, due to the list system having no rejection mechanism for the public, like a limpet, the Scottish public cannot get rid of him from public office. The only way to successfully get rid of him would be if Alba candidates took list seats in Glasgow. 

The Alba Party is looking at a different section of the voting public, they want the women's vote. So, how is the Alba Party going to get the women's vote, well recently an Alba Candidate Margaret Lynch told an online women's conference that proponents of "queer theory" wanted to lower the sexual consent age to 10. Now, one thing about women who have kids is their absolute hostility to anyone or organisation that they perceive is a threat to them. There are several things in politics which are considered off limits, one of them is 'don't fuck with people's kids'. I assume that concept fuelled the argument when Mhairi Black faced a “shouty and sweary” Westminster group meeting after the Flow job incident. Since Alba Candidate Margaret Lynch made her statement, the UK's largest lgbt charity, Stonewall has demanded an Alba candidate retract what they say is a "dangerous and misleading" statement over. As well as her 'age of consent' controversial remarks, Ms Lynch also criticised the funding of Stonewall and LGBT Youth Scotland by the Scottish Government. 

Since Ms. Lynch mentioned LGBT Youth Scotland, you may remember their employee James Rennie, Rennie was the chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland who was one of the ringleaders of Scotland's biggest paedophile network. Rennie is sentenced to serve a life sentence back in 2009 for sexually assaulting a three-month-old and for conspiring to get access to children in order to abuse them. Rennie's co-accused was Neil Strachan, had attempted to sodomise one 18-month-old boy on New Year's eve, taking a photograph known as the "Hogmanay image". 

Another chief executive of an lgbt charity, HIV Scotland which you may have read about recently was Nathan Sparling who is close to SNP MSPs, SNP MPs and even worked for a SNP Government Minister. Sparling was said to be a former personal assistant to the party’s former Westminster leader Angus Robertson. The charge against Sparling is that is accused of taking a photograph of a man’s penis in his Edinburgh flat on September 30, 2019. Sparling is pleading not guilty according to press reports.  

In a statement over the remarks made by Alba Candidate Margaret Lynch, Stonewall chief executive Nancy Kelley, and the Stonewall Scotland director Colin McFarlane said they were "appalled" by Ms Lynch's remarks. They also said she is "repeating deeply harmful myths about LGBT+ people as paedophiles and sexual predators." Clearly the majority of lgbt people aren't paedophiles and sexual predators, and I don't think Alba candidate Margaret lynch said or implied that either. So, why are Nancy Kelley and Colin McFarlane demanding an apology? 

What exactly is she to apologise for? 

Either the statements she made are true or they are false. Her basic claim appears to be that the SNP are indeed paying lobby groups with your money to try to reduce the age of consent in Scotland to 10. The premise for this statement can be found contained within a document called Feminist declaration on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. 

https://iwhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Beijing-25-Feminist-declaration.pdf  

The relevant article from the iwhc feminist declaration states:

"Eliminate all laws and policies that punish or criminalize same-sex intimacy,
gender affirmation, abortion, HIV transmission non-disclosure and exposure,
or that limit the exercise of bodily autonomy, including laws limiting legal
capacity of adolescents, people with disabilities or other groups to provide
consent to sex or sexual and reproductive health services or laws authorizing
non-consensual abortion, sterilization, or contraceptive use;

End the criminalization and stigmatization of adolescents' sexuality, and
ensure and promote a positive approach to young people's and adolescents'
sexuality that enables, recognizes, and respects their agency to make
informed and independent decisions on matters concerning their bodily
autonomy, pleasure and fundamental freedoms".  

The World Health Organisations' definition classes an adolescent as someone aged 10-19. 

The document came from ILGA World, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. If you take the time to read Wings over Scotland articles, he has a picture from the ILGA website which lists Stonewall Scotland and LGBT Youth Scotland as members. 

Stonewall published a statement: 

"We are appalled by the baseless and offensive accusations made by Alba parliamentary candidate Margaret Lynch on Saturday. What she said was not only untrue, but it was also a wilful, bad faith interpretation made for the sole purpose of trying to smear LGBT+ organisations. Her allegations have been refuted in the strongest terms by ILGA World." 

They added:  

"In making these accusations, she is repeating deeply harmful myths about LGBT+ people as paedophiles and sexual predators. It’s the oldest trick in the homophobic book of lies. This kind of language has a long, dark history of being used to paint us threats to children and stop us from being treated as equal citizens. These myths are used to bully, intimidate and silence LGBT+ people. We will not stand for this. Her comments have been deeply upsetting for LGBT+ people in Scotland and beyond. These falsehoods and those who recycle them and amplify them place our staff and our community in danger. They have no place in public life, or anywhere else in society." 

"We call on Margaret Lynch to retract her false accusation and apologise. We are carefully considering our next steps.  If you have any information that could help us consider our next steps, please get in touch. This is about the sort of country we want to live in, and whether we want to live in a country where decency and truth matter. We call on all Scotland’s political leaders to condemn this behaviour and stand in solidarity with LGBT+ communities."  

The Alba party has been challenged over the comments, but continued to support Ms Lynch as a candidate. 

Their argument is that, they say her remarks are “based on fact” and urged Stonewall to clarify its position on the age of consent. If you are part of an umbrella group which has produced a document calling for the end the criminalisation and stigmatization of adolescents' sexuality, you should expect to be challenged. People see adolescents as being between 10 to 19 years old. If you end criminalisation then is it a surprise that people would think a 19 year old could legally groom a 10 year old and sodomize them? Will Stonewall take the Alba Party candidate Margaret Lynch to court, personally I doubt it, and if so what is their case? Would a reasonable person reading the section on "eliminate all laws and policies that punish or criminalize same-sex intimacy" and "end the criminalization and stigmatization of adolescents' sexuality" support Margaret lynch's view? I would suggest that Stonewall will not be taking anyone to court, the explanations put forward so far covered on Wings over Scotland are just a pile of shite.   

This part of the Wings post sums up matters.  

"All that’s required to definitively clear up the matter is for a journalist to ask the organisations who’ve signed the declaration to give a simple and direct answer to this question, which is entirely quoted from it:  

"Do you or do you not wish to eliminate all laws and policies which limit the legal capacity of adolescents to consent to sex?" 

(To which the obvious follow-up, were they to answer “No”, would be “Then why have you signed up to a document that says you do?”)" 

Finally, surely the best way to resolve this matter would be for Stonewall Scotland and the LGBT Youth Scotland to withdraw their membership of ILGA, or get ILGA to withdraw its signature from the Declaration. If they don't do this, can they really expect people to not form the opinions that "the SNP are indeed paying lobby groups with your money to try to reduce the age of consent in Scotland to 10?" 

So far, it seems both Scottish lgbt organisations haven't withdrawn from membership of ILGA, haven't denounced the Declaration. It also seems there are convoluted explanations of what the word  "adolescent" means on social media. In a fast moving world, people aren't really interested in convoluted explanations, when they aren't hearing what they think they should be hearing. I think people are sick and tired of people telling them that they cannot read English properly, in fact, I suspect that many ordinary people would be inclined to tell them, 'just get yourself to fuck'.

Yours sincerely 

George Laird                                                                                                                                The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University