Paul Malpas

With the outing of that bad piece of work, Greg Lance-Watkins, who ran two blogs called StolenKids-Hollie and Justice4Hollie.com and claimed to be the official voice of Anne and Hollie Greig and Robert Green, the Hollie Greig campaign can hopefully now get back on track.

I saw Mr. Watkins on video for the first time yesterday and within seconds I could see what kind of verbose, self-seeking, self-publicising individual he is.  For all his verbiage he cannot spell and therefore his intelligence and his emphasis loses its punch.  If Mr. Watkins had any element of credibility,  he would have discussed his fears privately with the family and, if not happy,  quietly withdraw.   We are dealing here with something a damn sight more important than wounded egos.  However it does strike me that Watkins is an Establishment plant and is therefore embedded with the primary aim of obfuscation.  The best possible action is to disassociate publicly and then ignore his future rantings.

Besides the above,  it seems there are blacker and bigger hands than I care to think of now at work behind the scenes in the Establishment Club trying to settle their rocking boat before the General Election on Thursday,  especially against the heart of the Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers (SACL)  campaign in South Aberdeen.  However the local party workers are now convinced they are getting their message out and that they are going to do remarkably well in the vote.

Recently the SACL website was shut down by the Scottish Courts Service and last week the voice of 25,000 members of their FaceBook page were denied a voice when the page disappeared.  On top of this, Robert Green, the parliamentary candidate for SACL,  was forced to travel up to Stonehaven Sheriff Court to be told in camera and without representation,  that his bail conditions imposed after his arrest in February,  remained the same.   Why go to these lengths, unless these black sinister hands are shaking and they are acting without thinking, because to the neutral mind all these kind of unexplained and outlandish occurences make the Hollie case stronger.  The establishment is ruining itself with trepidation brought about by the sincerity of its opponents.

To get everything into perspective let us just examine Robert Green.   He was quietly handing out leaflets one day last February when he was arrested for what eventually turned out to be a breach of the peace.   The next court day he was bailed to appear at the Sheriff Court on a day to be decided, on condition that he did not speak out publicly about the Hollie Greig affair, that he did not come into Scotland and that he reported three times a week to Warrington police station.  In the following weeks he was arrested again in Warrington and delivered up to Aberdeen and then the following day let out on to the streets of the town to make his own way home.   And then there was last Friday’s debacle.   It is all very wild west if you ask me.   The next step for a parliamentary candidate is to have his testicles cut off,  so that the electorate cannot understand his new falsetto tones.  The last time I remember an occurance of this nature was when Bobby Sands won the Fermanagh & South Tyrone by-election in 1981 while still on hunger strike in the Maze prison.  After 66 days of this martyrdom in prison, he died.   Let us hope no such tragedy happens here.

On Sunday (yesterday) there was a demonstration for Hollie in Parliament Square,  one of the many on this day for various causes.  A woman wrote in chalk on the pavement “A child is a child, precious”.  This provoked an emergency response from Scotland Yard. Meanwhile an anti-capitalist demonstration was under way with naked men climbing in the trees.  No police response at all.

With all things Hollie do you not think that the Establishment’s defence is both exaggerated and unlawful and that at long last we might see the end of this particular cabal?

This week has been a very important week in the Hollie Greig story after last weekends programme on Manchester Radio Online with Tony Legend.  On Tuesday with only nine days to go before the General Election, Alex Salmond made an unannounced visit to Aberdeen to open a workshop for blind people, think of the kudos that would give him so near to the election, yet he chose to do it without informing the media.  On the same day Nick Clegg cancelled his pre-arranged visit to the Granite City-no reasons given.  The mainstream parties seem to be running scared of being drawn into our debate.

On Wednesday Robert Green, the broadcaster and journalist, who has brought this campaign into mainstream thinking has been ordered to appear at Stonehaven Sheriff Court today, unaccompanied and the proceedings are to be dealt with in camera, in other words no members of the public are allowed to be present.  This is after  his Aberdeen lawyers ditched him last weekend quoting “a conflict of interest”.  They represented Anne Greig ten years ago.  This whole scenario has to be seen to be believed, against a man who was arrested for peacefully handing out leaflets.  His Scottish aides are now, as I type, looking for a non-crooked able Scottish lawyer to handle the proceedings.  Is there a chance?

In the meantime the computer system of The Palestine Telegraph, the only newspaper that has consistently taken up Hollies story, have had their computer system hacked and Lorraine Loudon who is a leading campaigner for Hollie has had her Facebook page shut down with its 26,000 contributors.  Also last night there was another hustings debate in South Aberdeen organized by BBC Radio Scotland who told the Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers (SACL) representatives that their policy precluded any other than the four main parties from attending.  However leaflets were handed out before the doors were shut and the debate continued until it collapsed 45 minutes later.

Clydeside Television are covering the comings and goings with glee for if nothing else it is all grist to the independent television producers mill.  There main aim besides trying to get justice for Hollie is to make and distribute a programme about this affair.  So their main immediate thrust is to get the campaign proper and sustained legal representation.  They and Greg Watkins from  Stolen-Kids-Hollie.blog.com, the official Hollie blog,  are telling all supporters to use this next week as a period of reflection and entrenchment while the political process comes to an end and are desperately asking anyone in Scotland, if they can, to help the SACL party in Aberdeen during these next few days.

As Lorraine says you could not make up all this activity if you tried and the Establishments sphincter must be well and truly twitching and the media professionals must be having nightmares thinking of all this unpublished and unbelievable copy going to waste.  This whole campaign says something for our lily-livered and squeamish media, but it does show everyone where the power at this moment lies.

So Hollie entrench away and ensure your next few steps are guided by proper, just and honest counsel.  There must be someone who fits the bill out there, who would be willing and able to fight wisely for Human Rights in this paragon of virtue, Great Britain.