Recently , a right wing blog 'Guido Fawkes ' and the notorious Daily Mail(a paper that supported Mosley and the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s) carried out a vicious campaign against a young woman Labour party activist and Momentum youth activist o for the mere fact they she had defended the DPRK's right to self-defence and carried a small DPRK flag on her twitter page . There were demands for her to be disciplined by the Labour Party . Meanwhile a tenant of a housing association, Affinity Sutton , was refused permission to fly a DPRK flag from his flat. It could be added that the US has banned travel to the DPRK by ordinary US citizens and that the British FCO though it stops short actually banning travel to the DPRK outright it advises against all non-essential travel to the DPRK and asks any British visitors to the DPRK to register with the British embassy no doubt so that their names can be passed on to MI5, MI6 and Special Branch .
This is pure and simple Cold War style McCarthyism aimed at silencing supporters of People's Korea. In the US in the 1940s and 1950s the US Communist Party was banned and the peace movement was silenced by means of a hostile media campaign and the efforts of Senator McCarthy to drive out of employment and blacklist anyone suspected of communist sympathies , in fact not just communist sympathies but any progressive, liberal or pro peace views. Fascism that had been defeated in Europe but rose again in the US in a new guise, the guise of anti-communism. Thousands lost their jobs , some were imprisoned and an American-Jewish communist couple the Rosenbergs were executed, murdered in the electric chair, on unjust charges.
The new McCarthyism against supporters of People's Korea and even against those who are not actually supporters of the DPRK and Juche but made some postive comments about the DPRK such
the video blogger Louis Cole who made a programme about surfing in the DPRK. UK KFA and myself experienced the new wave anti-DPRK , anti Juche , anti- KFA McCarthyism back in the spring of 2014. I was tricked into an interview with "Vice " magazine (which turns out to be part of the Murdoch press empire) . I would have never consented to being interviewed by a tawdry anti-DPRK publication like "Vice ". A week or so later I got contacted by one James Gillespie of the "Sunday Times " and not just Gillespie but a whole team of journalists. A slanderous hatchet job article then appeared in the "Sunday Times " (which is thought by some to be a front for MI6 see " http://parellic.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/sunday-times-mouthpiece-of-mi5-and-mi6.html"). As if this
was not bad enough in itself , the article mentioned my employer the Valuation Office Agency of the HMRC . I had to give through several interviews and hearings including a deeply intrusive 3 hour
interview . In the end I had a charge of 'Serious Misconduct' ( a deeply insulting allegation) slapped on me and I was told that my postion as the Official Delegate of the Korean Friendship Association was "incompatible " with "employment at any level in the civil service " even as an AA , a cleaner or a teaboy. Rather than face ultimate dismissal I bailed out taking early retirement but lost a potenial £17,000 off my lump sum and £4000 a year off my pension. Where was my human rights and my free speech ? Was the human rights of KFA members and supporters and their free speechThe story is told here
http://juche007-anglo-peopleskoreafriendship.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/the-anti-kfa-mccarthyite-witchunt-in-uk.html
http://www.lulu.com/shop/dermot-hudson/the-anti-kfa-mccarthyite-witchunt-in-the-uk-the-real-denial-of-human-rights/paperback/product-22898197.html
Basically , what the new style McCarthyites and anti-DPRK fascist reactionaries from the media, social media and intelligence agencies are trying to do is to create a climate of fear, a climate of intimidation to silence supports of People's Korea, followers of the Juche Idea and anyone sympathetic to the DPRK's cause , so as to create the impression that the DPRK has no support outside the country . It is part and parcel of the strategy of 'de legitmatisation ' of the DPRK that the US imperialists have adopted
Ironically those who attack the DPRK talk a lot about 'human rights' , 'democracy ' and 'free speech' , they rabbit on about 'totalitarianism' , but they are the ones suppressing free speech and free thought and trying to control what people think !
Dr Dermot Hudson
Official Delegate UK KFA
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