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Title: The Dunblane Massacre Author: Albert Meltzer Date: 1996 Language: en Topics: fascism, Black Flag, terrorism Source: Retrieved on 22nd September 2020 from https://libcom.org/library/dunblane-hamilton-meltzer Notes: Published in Black Flag #208
Thomas Hamilton walked into a classroom at Dunblane, where he was well
known, and shot the teacher and almost the entire class of five year
olds. In the national mourning many questions were raised as to how this
could have been prevented. As he had killed himself anyway, like Fred
West the serial murderer-rapist, there could hardly be any of the usual
cries for the re-introduction of the death penalty. Though it was
generally claimed that it is all the harder for parents who canât
understand why Hamilton acted the way he did, it was taken for granted
politics must be kept out of it. Now that it is passed over as
yesterdayâs news, perhaps the time has come to make those politics
known.
Political understanding has everything to do with it. The police, local
councillors, even the Secretary of State for Scotland, knew the man, had
interviewed him and either failed to note he displayed obvious Naziclone
tendencies or more likely ignored them as irrelevant to his having a gun
licence. He was not far from their own mentality, just far enough to
make him a misfit.
With the gun lobby on the defensive the question was raised of peaceful
farmers or local people in the Highlands and Islands needing handguns to
shoot rabbits, either as a pest or for food where vegetables and fruit
are rare and expensive. It should be noted that the same Scottish Office
which granted a gun license to Hamilton, refused one to an Islands
resident, then an editor of Black Flag with no criminal convictions, who
just wanted to shoot rabbits like everyone else there. Why? On account
of his âpolitical extremismâ. For them, Hamilton was âa bit queer
perhaps but otherwise one of us.â
One can distinguish, though they are all obnoxious, between the fascist
who wants to keep down the working class by all necessary means, and
also the one who thinks it is an alternative political or racial theory
which may perhaps entail violence against those naturally or forced into
being defenceless. There is another type one may call the ânazicloneâ,
i.e.someone who doesnât give a shit about the political or racial side
of fascism or nazism but glories in the inevitable atrocities. The
fantasist-fascist of this ilk is not uncommon though often confining
him/herself to a dreamland where a handsome young fĂŒhrer struts through
Whitehall planning mayhem. They can be incited to enact their fantasies
by fascist propaganda, but also by reading anti-Nazi books. They lick
their lips over the Holocaust books and bemoan insufficient
illustrations. Colin Brady was one such, and with his partner Myra
Hindley tortured and murdered small children from around the
neighbourhood.
How could Hamiltonâs nature have been recognised? True, he had done
nothing for which he could have been charged but clearly gun licences
are subject to political assessment. Only the Establishment found his
credentials impeccable.
All naziclones have an obsession with lethal weapons, over and above any
use of them. They enjoy imposing harsh discipline. Swaggering with
pistols is a kick in itself. They also have an obsession with physical
fitness and discipline, especially in training young men and boys.
âStrength through joy means powerlessness through controlâ. None of this
is necessarily anti-social but it didnât need a Sherlock Holmes to find
the dangers in this case.
Naziclones usually despise women and often are rapists; they sometimes
have sexual relationships with boys or young men whom they can treat as
women. But they equally hate homosexuals with consenting sexual urges or
loving relationships. Hitler put them in the death camps, didnât he?
The naziclone from Stirling spent his time training youngsters to
physical fitness. He spent his hard-earned money photograph-ing young
but fit boys in skimpy shorts. He toted as many guns as possible. He was
bitter at being excluded from the bonding of the gun clubs, and refused
entry into the Scout movement, after paedophiliac allegations which may
or may not have been true.Why? They regarded him as a pervert, he
protested. He petitioned Her Gracious Majesty but even She did not help
her loyal subject. What was left to a naziclone but to act out his
fantasies:- stage his own mini-holocaust and exit on a grand scale like
the great man himself? And they say they canât understand it!
The debate centres on whether we should restrict gun llicences. It would
be better to turn our attention to naziclones and how to restrict them
socially.