[mobglob-discuss] Question for Rick McCallion

[Chris Shaw]

Could you please provide the following:
1. For those of us outside the loop, details of Gordon Watson's 
illegal/other actions (please cite media or police reports if available).
2. The letter cited in the Radical forum appears to be about another court 
case that involves Topham and does not deal with the Holocaust; or is the 
issue that Topham continues to provide Watson with a forum in general?
3. I couldn't log onto the anarchist site since I am not a member. Please 
send a plaintext version of Topham's/Watson's comments if available so that 
all can examine.

Thanks.


Christopher A. Shaw, Ph.D
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>From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby at tao.ca>
>Reply-To: mobglob-discuss at lists.resist.ca
>To: mobglob-discuss at lists.resist.ca, project-x at lists.resist.ca
>Subject: [mobglob-discuss] Question for Rick McCallion
>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:42:54 -0800
>
>Hi Rick.
>
>I thought this might deserve to be left quietly. But now this is appearing,
>posted in the last couple of days. Arthur Topham, former publisher of the
>Radical, is now promoting Gordon Watson directly, Watson being a well known
>anti-woman terrorist. This same man spent time in the last few days on a
>Vancouver Anarchist discussion list promoting "revision" of the Nazi 
>Holocaust
>(calling people jewish Holocaust groupies) In his campaigns, he has started
>quoting you again.
>
>I have a question for Rick McCallion: Arthur, formerly I thought he was a 
>dupe.
>But the neo Nazi has been quoting you on a local listserve in Vancouver, 
>all
>after telling people that the Nazi Holocaust killed "only 1.5 million" and 
>then
>proceeded to ask a local anarchist if she was a "jewish? orhtodox? zionist?
>sympathiser?" after she objected to his bizarre re-writes of history.
>
>He, of course, went on an attack spree against me and also Will Offley,
>apparently it was either me or Will anytime that someone calls him on his 
>anti
>semitism. When all of this was happening, none of the people on the list 
>serve
>knew anything about me or Will Offley. I found out after it was brought to 
>my
>attention that he was talking about me. He then quoted something you said 
>on
>Mobglob. You said you had never seen anything racist in the radical, and if 
>you
>did you would reconsider your support for the paper. Fair enough. Here, 
>this
>isn't racist below, but Arthur is now publishing Gordon Watson (Watson did 
>not
>post the article, Arthur did so for him), a known terrorist against the 
>abortion
>providers in this city. It is a form of hate, and Watson is known as a 
>promoter
>of violence against women. Do you still give Arthur Topham permission to 
>use you
>as a cover for his own work? Will you distribute this in the future?
>
>Here's a link (where Watson calls himself a "reader of the Radical" at the
>outset) to this article.
>
>If anyone wants, they can see the archives of the discussion where Topham 
>the
>"anarchist" newspaper editor makes his bizarre statements about the 
>Holocaust
>(et al). Considering you have actively helped organise with Arthur, it is 
>fair
>to ask you publically let us know where you stand on this issue...
>
>as you yourself stated you would.
>I know you are busy, so let me thank you ahead of time for taking out the 
>time
>from your busy schedule. It's just that these kinds of questions really do
>deserve attention, as I'm sure you'll agree.
>
>article by Watson published by Arthur Topham:
>http://www.radicalpress.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=453
>
>bizarre anti-semitic rants by Arthur at this (Anarchist based)Vancouver 
>email
>list:
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vanarchy/
>
>Macdonald
>
>
>-------------------------------------------
>Macdonald Stainsby
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>
>
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