This site is inspired by the old Indymediawatch blog. It is not otherwise related to it.
Who Am I?
I'm keeping that to myself right now. Indymediacs often like to remain anonymous, and I reserve the same right, especially knowing how nasty they can get if crossed. Let's just say that I'm someone who has made it my business to catalogue some of the bullshit that UK Indymedia gets up to.
What bullshit? I thought they were a pretty straight bunch of guys.
You thought wrong! Indymedia is notorious for filling its newswire with utter crap, some of it quite nasty. I'm guessing this blog will mainly cover the anti-semitism that seems to be their main stock-in-trade, but will also have plenty of room for the conspiracy theories, incitement to violence, hypocricy, censorship and general neo-Stalinist nonsense that has made Indymedia infamous.
Why? For God's sake, man, why??
I'm hoping to encourage the activist community to boycott indymedia and start something new, less centralised and stifling. I also want to expose these people for what they are.
I didn't say "what for?", I said "why?" What's your beef?
Because I have good reasons to believe that the mods who run and control Indymedia is not entirely honest about their mission. Indymedia seems to be run by a group of people who are obsessed with "zionists" and "zionism" , who repeatedly try and stir up trouble and egg people on to have a go at Jewish-owned or run businesses, and who promote really politically dodgy stuff like all those 9/11 conspiracy theories and links to extreme right wing American websites.
Some of it's actually funny. Anti-semitism is the sinister clown of the hatreds, its' adherents are comically paranoid, and often run around accusing each other of being (cough) "Zionists" at the drop of a hat, let alone any citizen who does not see things their way. It's fun to mess with people like that and it's fun to see their horrified reaction when they realise they are actually being laughed a la Speak You're Branes.
On a more serious note, I find it very disturbing, sinister even, that such people are appropriating the language and practice of Leftism and that the left seem to be playing along for the most part. Only a few old fashioned class struggle anarchists, Jewish socialists and other oddballs ever question this disgraceful behaviour, I want to lend my voice to this lot.
Unlike Indymedia I don't have any conspiracy theories to throw around; I know that people are just stupid and nonsensical enough to pull stuff like this. I do know however that there are a few people who want to make an ideology which has murdered millions of people within living memory acceptable again. I think it's time for good people everywhere to say "no" to them.
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