White Terror Plot that doesn't make the headlines - despite chemical explosives and a rocket launcher

by Charlie Kimber 7^th October 2006

A policeman outside the
house in Trent Road, Nelson,
where a man was arrested

Here's a police seizure of weapons that wasn’t splashed all over the front pages.

This week a British National Party election candidate has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country. That’s right, the largest ever - imagine if he’d been an Asian man. Home secretary John Reid would have held a special press conference and it would have led every news bulletin.

The home of another man charged with similar offences contained a rocket launcher and a nuclear biological suit as well as BNP literature and chemicals!

Robert Cottage of Talbot Street, Colne, and David Bolus Jackson of Trent Road, Nelson, made separate appearances in court charged with being in possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose.

Cottage was arrested at his home on Thursday of last week, while retired dentist Jackson was arrested in the Lancaster area on Friday.

The 22 chemical components recovered by police are believed to be the largest haul ever found at a house in this country. Cottage stood as a BNP candidate in the Pendle council elections in May.

Christiana Buchanan, who appeared for the prosecution in Jackson's case, alleged the pair had "some kind of masterplan".

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Typically, news of the above arrest only appeared in a few regional newspapers in Britain.

Imagine if it had been a Muslim man that was arrested. The whole of Britain would have gone berserk together with the resulting worldwide after wave.

Remember the liquid terror episode last August? The airport restrictions set in place were based on suspicions raised by intelligence sources. Nothing concrete, not a single piece of evidence was presented.

Now this was something bigger.

“..the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country”.

“..a rocket launcher and a nuclear biological suit” found.

By the same standards, Blair should have stopped all modes of transportation in and out of the country with an exception being made perhaps for the horse and buggy.

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Recent White Terror Arrests (Which Didn't Quite Make The Headlines)

William Krar - May 2003

Robert Goldstein - August 2002