Scotand's Press Bordering On Fascism

It is becoming clearer that Scotland's press is no longer democratic. Das Herald Sturmer and Das Schottishman are both conducting campaigns against SNP politicians based on smear and frothing hyperbole.

Clearly there is an election coming up and the political and corporate interests which control both newspapers and others now believe that they are free to conduct political vendettas.

While the European Union is facing meltdown Scotland's newspapers print leader headlines like:

Alex Salmond defends under-fire Sturgeon on court letter

and

SNP backs Nicola Sturgeon's help for fraud convict

Nicola Sturgeon's crime was writing to a judge asking for leniency for a constituent who has committed benefit fraud. In the letter (see below) Nicola explains that the man has shown remorse and intends to pay the money back. She then asks the judge to keep that in mind when considering his sentence.

As you can see the letter is balanced, accurate and humane. And yet, for whatever reason Scotland's anti-democratic press has decided to use this to try and bring down the Depute First Minister of the Scottish Parliament.





















Does this letter merit the hysterical baying for blood that the press headlines have engendered? It is apparent that in the run up to the election the press are going to use any trivial nonsense that they can twist into a 'story' and in a co-ordinated fashion have political attack dogs lined up to heighten the importance of the story from humane to grevious act of misconduct for a Minister of the Government.

A democratic media would laugh this nonsense out of the public court. Indeed, a democratic press would be following up real stories like the charges of fraud of Labour MPs. It would be splashing stories on the possible collapse of the Euro or the possibility of Britain defaulting its national debt.

Clearly journalists and editors have been heavily politicised and are being directed by their corporate/political masters to serve up trivia as shock politics.

We are moving into a dangerous period in our history. With electoral registers going missing in by-elections, with economic statistics no long dependable, with citizens being openly robbed by government to feed insolvent and corrupted bankers, with wars which are casual and no longer make headline news, with balloons spying on the population and so on. Privacy laws in Britain are used to protect corruption in Downing Street, former Prime Ministers accused all over the wold of war crimes are given consultancies with merchant banks (who profit from said wars) of GBP 2.5 million a year..

And Scotland newspapers scream and howl over a constituency letter? It is clear that Scots are not to be allowed an open and honest debate about our constitutional future. Clearly, our national newspapers have been hijacked for political and corporate ends and have no semblance of balance.

Two generation ago Scots saw off Nazis and Fascists and many died doing so. Now the propaganda used by these types of tyrannical regimes is being used on us. The time has come for journalists to make a stand for Scottish democracy and refuse to write this type of odious and dangerous political propaganda.

Citizens must boycott these newspapers and encourage friends to do likewise. If our political institutions can not protect us then we must protect our democracy ourselves. Scotland's newspapers are not informing us but lying to us. They and those who continue to write for them can no longer assume the public's confidence.

Are Scottish political journalists so afraid of losing their jobs that they'll write anything?

Down the ages Scots have died to pass on freedoms. I am ashamed of you!