Blood & Honour England Updated News ::   C18 Activist Smeared By Ulster Journalist

It has come to our attention that a journalist by the name of Stephen Gordon who writes for the 'Sunday Life', a Northern Ireland newspaper, is carrying out a campaign of lies against an Ulster Combat 18 activist, Ian Thompson, who is currently serving 9 years in prison following a set-up by the security services.

Mr Gordon, in an article in the Sunday Life newspaper on the 3rd February, implied that Ian Thompson was no longer in touch with the Loyalist Volunteer Force, suggesting that there are no longer links with C18 and the LVF. As anyone attending the recent C18 rally in Lancashire will testify, those links are stronger than ever and Loyalist Volunteer Prisoners' Welfare is currently raising funds for ALL LVF prisoners and their families and that includes Ian Thompson (see www.ulisnet.com for details of how to help out).

Gordon claims that his information comes from a 'jail source'. What that means is that Gordon has concocted the story himself. The article goes on to describe Ian as a 'fanatic' when he is just a true Ulster Loyalist serving time for his loyalty. Gordon says that Ian receives many visits from C18 activists in the London area when in reality he has not had any visits from anyone outside his immediate family for the past 18 months.

This man Gordon has his own views and the right to express them but he should not be libelling a man who cannot reply to his allegations because he is behind bars.

As ye sow...

This is the article concerning Ian Thompson in the Sunday Life:

Sunday Life, Sunday 03 February

Shamed squaddie’s Nazi Prison visits
by Stephen Gordon

A FANATICAL right wing ex-RIR soldier - who was jailed for storing arms for the LVF - has kept up his links with the racist Combat 18 group.

Co Armagh man, William Ian Thompson, has been receiving regular prisonvisits from London-based members of the neo Nazi group.

Sources at the jail say fellow ex-squaddies have been among the 'whitepower' extremists, who frequently visit the 30-year-old former lance corporal.

Thompson was jailed for nine years last April, for possessing an Uzi sub-machine gun, a sawn-off shotgun, cartridges and pipe bomb parts.

Police, who raided his Hamiltonsbawn home, also found a massive collection of hate-filled Combat 18 material, including CDs, literature and posters.

Passing sentence, Mr Justice McLaughlin said some of the materialproduced by C18 "made the blood run cold".

The judge described the group as a "fascist organisation which glorifiesin its association with the thinking and philosophy of Hitler".

But the 10-year Royal Irish Regiment veteran was hailed as a heroby C18 supporters, who placed messages of support on the group's website.

One read: "The only crime of William Thompson was loyalty to hisrace and nation."

Said a jail source: "There are a few members of C18, including a couple of former squaddies, who travel over from London regularly to see Thompson.

"It seems he hasn't changed. He's just as fanatical as ever. But he doesn't seem to have much contact with the LVF, they don't bother with him."

Thompson was known to have a huge collection of CDs by racist, skinhead bands such as Warhammer, No Remorse and Razor's Edge. Bands whose 'whitepower' anthems include The Niggers Come Over and Barbecue In Rostock - glorifying the mass murder of Turkish workers in a German hostel.

In 1998, Thompson travelled to Wigan, Lancashire with other loyalists for a C18 rally, where they were pictured giving the Nazi salute.