“You can see their fingerprints all over the statements released by the families of victims”
When a Libyan Muslim terrorist carried out the horrifying Manchester Arena attack targeting young children, the media quickly began running a hoax story that a Muslim homeless man had been helping save people.
(It turned out he was actually robbing them.)
Where did the story come from? How do these counter-narratives emerge so quickly and in such an organized fashion after Islamic terrorist attacks in such a consistent fashion (“he was mentally ill” “actually, Muslims were the real rescuers in the attack”)… at least in the UK, there may be an answer.
The name of the secretive Government propaganda unit trying to manipulate events makes it sound like an innocuous back-office operation – the Research, Information and Communications Unit, or RICU.
The 22-strong unit was established in 2007 by the late Charles Farr, a former MI6 officer, as part of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy.
Modelled on the Information Research Department (IRD), a propaganda unit established by the Attlee government in 1948 to blacken the names of communists and other political opponents, RICU operates out of the Home Office’s Westminster headquarters.
When the mobs took to the streets of Northern Ireland last week following the stabbing of Stephen Ogilvie, allegedly by Hadi Alodid, a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum-seeker, RICU swung into action to advise the police in the province on how to ‘control the narrative’.
What does that entail? When you see a statement from the family of a victim disavowing any anger or protests, it’s apparently coming out of RICU.
It has also been claimed that the unit intervenes to write statements by the families of victims of potentially racially linked incidents to stop them from inflaming tensions further with their remarks.
The source said: ‘You can see their fingerprints all over the statements released by the families of victims in these volatile situations – they usually have a similar tone.’
It has a long history of ‘covertly engineering’, in the words of one expert, ‘the thoughts of people’ at times of crisis, being quick to spring into action after terrorist incidents such as the London Bridge attacks in 2017. Eight people died when a van was driven into pedestrians on London Bridge and the three occupants ran to a nearby market and began stabbing people.
A team in an unmarked van is also understood to have toured the area plastering the walls with posters bearing hashtags such as #TurnToLove, #ForLondon and #LoveWillWin.
Similarly, after the British aid worker Alan Henning was decapitated by Islamic State in Syria in 2014, RICU used a specially created ‘front operation’ to plant an image of a woman in a Union Jack hijab in the media.
In June 2017, Darren Osborne, a recent convert to far-Right ideology, drove a white van into a crowd of pedestrians close to Finsbury Park mosque in north London, killing one person and injuring ten. Reports at the time said that Osborne had been held down and beaten by people at the scene, until an imam appealed to them to stop.
It later emerged that the reports about the peace-making imam had originated after journalists were approached at the police cordon by a woman called ‘Gabbie’, who said she worked for a company called ‘Horizon PR’ and offered to introduce them to a third party who ‘stressed to the journalists the role that the mosque’s imam had played in protecting Osborne until he could be handed over to police’.
The story was the work of an agency called Breakthrough Media – which had been paid by RICU.
The unit’s fingerprints were also all over the hashtag #WeStandTogether which appeared on Twitter afterwards and was shared by prominent politicians, police commanders and the London Fire Brigade.
So there’s a unit of the government that pushes post-attack propaganda, some of which consists of actual lies, pressures family members into releasing statements, and all of this Black Mirror stuff is kept secret.
But it’s not just the UK.
There were serious questions about the role of a DOJ unit known as the Community Relations Service in the BLM riots under Obama.
In Australia, the narrative was quickly manufactured after the Bondi beach attacks that the real hero was a Muslim. In Italy, after a recent Car Jihad attack, a similar narrative rapidly popped up.
I don’t want to get too conspiratorial here, but it’s apparently not very far fetched to speculate that there are government units, originally set up to fight racial tensions, e.g. the DOJ’s CRS, or Islamic terrorism, e.g. the UK’s RICU, that morphed into putting out narratives to spin Islamic terrorism and suppress the truth.
Wellington says
Lipstick on a pig never can make her into Miss America (or Miss UK) but fools and rubes aplenty keep trying to do this.
The game is up with this nonsense. The Common Man (you know, the one that Thomas Jefferson believed in as I do) has had it. The only real question is can the beaten down folks in the West,, i.e. the Common Man writ large, whether in the UK, Australia, Austria, Canada, here in the US, et al., finally say enough is enough and take matters into their own hands? We’re approaching that point I believe since the Establishment in the West has utterly failed its people by allowing savages from the non-West, and by the millions, to inundate the West. It’s now or never.
somehistory says
This would, under a better world, be a surprise and difficult to believe. Sadly, there is a whole boatload of evil and lies and everything being done to polish the “image of the wild beast.”
and OT
“Muslim woman claims coworker’s name insults her religion, demands she change it”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/muslim-woman-claims-coworker-s-name-insults-her-religion-demands-she-change-it/ar-AA25LWR3?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a318f641dee4f75a7215a94efca4eeb&ei=6
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the link, somehistory.
Just wondering if it won’t be long before muslims are triggered by the names of the 12 apostles.
somehistory says
You are welcome, James. And you will need to watch your back just because.
GE says
Thanks for the link, somehistory.
Every day I think I’ve heard it all. Sigh.
somehistory says
You are welcome, GE.
Yes, everyday there is a new low. They must have a *book.*
And there must be groups of the devout sitting around thinking up complaints and filing lawsuits.
gravenimage says
This is *just insane*, Somehistory. No one should have to change their name because it (supposedly) means something offensive in a another language. I think that few save Muslims woild make such a demand.
Would a Briton demand that a coworker named “Fanny” or “Randy” have to change their names because they might sound a bit off color under certain circumstanes? I doubt it…
somehistory says
It’s truly arrogant, g. and the other worker taking the side of the muzlm makes it worse.
And, I had an Aunt Fanny on my father’s side. She married into the family and I can’t see my uncle standing still for her to receive such an insult As far as I know no one ever did make an issue of her name
England Invaded says
In the last 2 years, more people have woken up to this endless propaganda. A bit too late though.
40 rounds says
The powers that be are totally invested in the Islamic fantasy of victimhood and righteousness. Who the hell are they fooling other than fools
tgusa says
The UK ruling class and their foot soldiers are an evil that is so monstrous that Hollywood could not produce a movie portraying it. Hollywood couldn’t do that because the movie would be so over the top that no one would believe it.
And now we have the Rape Gang Report.
250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4384091/posts
All covered up for the good of the UK ruling class, their foot soldiers, and the muslim perpetrators. Throughout history, within in a Western country, has there ever been a greater cowardice and evil carried out on their own people? I cant think of one. Monsters best describes them.
clive roach says
We now live in a time were you can’t trust governments or
government departments or the judiciary or it would seem the police the have been instrumental in bringing all the criminals and low life’s into our country and allowing them to stay and cause harm to our women and children especially we need a Trump type person to remove all these people whe are responsible 🤮🤮🤮😡😡😡
jerry glenn says
Dhimmi Britain continues to surge in the European Islamopandering derby.
Mo says
Wow. It really is impossible to know what to believe anymore.
I don’t think countries / civilizations can survive this way.
gravenimage says
A Secret UK Government Unit Has Been Planting Lies About Terrorism in the Media
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This is *utterly chilling*. Here I just though they were on the lookout for any “feel good” story involving Muslims, not matter how beside the point–but this is *far worse*. And what is the point of this constant whitewashing of the horrors of Islam? It is not as though Muslims will be grateful…