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(Note: after some debate this quick update was posted only on the understanding that its made very clear the AF have no time for the '911 Truth Movement' and do not wish to engage with them whatsoever. This is not about them. Anarchists recognise that governments kill thousands of citizens every year in cold blood - its an ineveitable part of government. We do not need a conspiracy theory to see what is in front of our noses)
Anarchists massing for the joint block on the September 23rd march were happy to display their libertarian credentials by tolerating a few dodgy poems from a Green Party supporter over a portable soundsystem in Albert Square - but none too happy when ex-MI5 agent David Shayler took to the mic.
Shaylor was a spy from 1991 until 1996, his department directly responsible for monitoring and harassing progressives and revolutionaries considered a threat to government - the very people standing in front of him that Saturday. Despite his "whistleblowing" storm in a tea cup in 1998, which amounted to 7 weeks in an open prison, Shayler has never given the press or the left anything of any substance - and he was certainly party to juicy information. His jailing in 2002 was purely on principle for breaking the Official Secrets Act. If Shayler genuinely does not know anything else of any value, he is as irrelevant a spokesman as the next failed journalist. Currently he makes a living out of conning people into believing he does have a trick up his sleeve: after exhausting the media's interest with him, he has now zeroed in on the "911 truth movement", people who believe the 11th of September attacks were carried out either by, or with the help of the US government - Shayler personally argues it was an "inside job".
It was this topic which Shayler chose to address. Unfortunately for those around him in the "911 truth movement", he does not believe a word of it. At the end of his speech, an AF comrade took the mic to explain:
"Whether nine eleven was an inside job is possibly up for discussion; what is not in question is whether this idiot genuinely believes that. Directly after the attacks, he went on record to say that it was a security failure, but not an inside job. A few years on and he has a book out and craves attention so he changes his tune. Don't listen to this wannabe martyr."
"Well, I should have said martyr," the speaker admitted later, "but I get nervous speaking in public, and when I'm nervous I swear. I just called him a f*cking idiot, which got me booted off the mic."
However at this point Shayler grew animated and followed the speaker into the crowd. Shouting "What have you done? I've been to prison for my beliefs!" he pushed into them repeatedly and goaded his denouncer to attack him, probably hoping for their arrest. A bit of solidarity from the crowd sent him packing however.
A rather surreal footnote to an otherwise straightforward day. It is bizarre that Shayler thinks of anarchists and socialists as a potential audience, and even more bizarre that he is surprised they react badly to his presence. He has come to the (unwilling) attention of the movement since his attempt to talk at the 2005 anarchist bookfair. Since then anarchists have been interested in the work of independent researcher Larry O'Hara. Along with the evidence of his blatant opportunism around 911, the idea that he remains an MI5 agent spying on the anti-war movement is interesting. O'Hara looks at Shayler in NFB #6 http://www.borderland.co.uk/
MI5 agents are lower than any scum in the state hierarchy, they alone are completely aware of exactly how the ruling class lie and kill to stay in power - they carry it all out. Given that Shayler still supports, and possibly is in MI5, before addressing revolutionaries he should remember that revolutions end with the secret police hanging from the trees.
1-http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/03/24228.html
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