Ben *did not* kill Willie Macrae

This is a post, from a dead thread, on a pointless forum scattered on the outskirts of the internet. I'm putting here for... posterity. Actually I want to keep it for a while as the forum it's on seems to have deleted the thread and thanks to Auntie Google, the cache is still available (for now). I'm interested in paranoia.

From: http://tinyurl.com/yaj5kp (this may not work... if it doesn't, go to google and type (with quote marks - "willie macrae" UFO - and then click the cache link on the first post.

MEMO ONE: The Denial

I'm sitting here listening to Springsteen and contemplating the crazy life I once had! However due to the power of the internet and reflecting on some of the conspiracies that have been appearing on the net I decided to nip this one in the bud.

Many years ago a Scottish Solicitor died in suspiscious circumstances. Books were written, newspapers ran articles in other words people cashed in. Who did they suspect of the murder of Willie Macrae? Me.

It is a mystery, one that I can explain. I know how Willie died but no-one is prepared to listen to the truth. An internet campaign has now been launched and a new judicial process has been set up to investigate his death but let me tell you here and now IT WAS NOT ME. THE MAN COMMITTED SUICIDE!!

Only today I found this on a web site. Although it does not name me as the killer this is the beginning of it all coming back to haunt me. I DID NOT KILL HIM. I was on another assignment in England at the time. I have never been questioned by anyone over this and yet the media continue to speculate that it was me. I could never hurt anyone. Willie Macrae was not hurt by anyone other than himself.

What I found was this (And I know there's more)

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Who killed Willie MacRae? The Mysterious Death Of An Activist
By Dave Leadbetter (1990)


Five Years ago the charismatic nationalist Willie MacRae was found dead in his car on the road to Kyle.; Was it suicide or was it murder?


Glasgow solicitor, Willie MacRae was regarded by many discerning Nationalists as uniquely well qualified to lead Scotland into Independence. His combination of total dedication, uncompromising integrity, outstanding oratical ability, charisma and sheer intellect endeared him to all. Although not a Republican or Socialist we have much cause to honour him: not least for his magnificent fight against Nuclear Waste dumping. The victor of the Mullwhacher Enquiry, against nuclear dumping there, and joint founder of the "Oystercatcher Movement", against dumping in Glen Etive, was the the nuclear lobby's most formidable and feared antagonist in Scotland.

A life long SNP member, Willie was at various times legal adviser to, Vice Chair of and Parliamentary Candidate for that Party. No "narrow nationalist", he was simultaneously a captain in the Royal Indian Navy and a true friend of Indian Independence. The author of Israel's Maritime Law Code and emeritus Professor in the University of Haifa. After his death Israel planted a 3,000 tree forest in his memory. Yet Willie could and did make a busy commercial practise take second place to the problems of an Asian client in Glasgow, a neighbour in Kintail, or someone whose Civil Rights seemed endangered anywhere.

April 6, anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath was regarded by Willie - and many others - as Scotland's Independence Day. Many Scots gather at Willie's cairn each year on the Anniversary of his murder.

HOME TO KINTAIL

In the early evening of Good Friday, April 5 1985, Willie MacRae drove out of Glasgow towards his native Highland home in Wester Ross. He seems never to have arrived there.

About the middle of the next morning Willie was found (initially it is said by a holidaying Australian Air Pilot) unconscious in his car which had gone of the road, close to where his Memorial Cairn and Flagpost now stand.

Subsequently - just how subsequently is a point very much at issue - he was discovered to be suffering from injuries caused by a gunshot wound without ever regaining consciousness.

Later a handgun (alleged to have belonged to the deceased and to have been fired TWICE) was found, but too far from the car to have fallen from the hand of a suicide or have been thrown by someone who had shot himself. Until now the (non-partisan) MacRae Society with help from his friends in the media and the law; the London based 'Inquest', the odd MP, such as the late Bob MacTaggart of Glasgow Central, has battled unremittently to establish the truth only to see its efforts thwarted by official obstruction. In a situation where every circumstance reeked of suspicion, the Government response has ever been: no suspicious circumstances, no prosecution, no fatal accident enquiry. NO, NO, NO!

A NOVEL DOCTRINE

One particularly choice example deserves especial mention. A Dean of the Crown Office, who should know better, wrote to the Society about the 'impropriety' of the "Crown" appearing to interfere in 'The affairs of another political party' by holding a Fatal Accident Inquiry into his death. This letter takes the prize for constitutional illiteracy. The supposed advantage of having a 'Crown' at all is that it is not supposed to be a political party (otherwise WE would have to pay for all its lost deposits) but also the hypocrisy prize. The Crown interferes all right, not to institute enquiry, but to suppress it.

MR CONWAY REPORTS

The situation has now been transformed by the Conway Report. John Conway is a lay member of the 'Justice' organisation, which has righted so many wrongs, and a former CID officer, who has pursued his own 'Independent Enquiry' - and forwarded the results to, among others, the MacRae family, the MacRae Society and the UK Prime Minister. Only the Sunday Post and the Morning Star (which consistently raised the issues arising from Willie's death) and the SWR have so far published the report. Others, though, have expressed interest.

SEVEN PAGES OF DYNAMITE

Mr Conway has discovered much new and interesting material. That Willie's briefcase was ransacked was always suspected by us, but that his pockets were also gone through and valuable items removed therefrom by persons unknown we did not know.

The chief value of the report lies in Mr Conway's findings about the fate of the official investigation into Willie's death. Mr Conway alleges;

1) That MI5 had an interest in Willie dating back to his wartime service in India, where he acquired the MI5 label of a 'character likely to engage in subversive activities'
2) That in his own political campaigning his outspoken criticisms ... and... ardent Nationalism inevitably brought him under the eye of the police Special Branch who regularly attended his meetings, and with whom he was on first name terms.
3) That 'the North of Scotland being a NATO sensitive area Willie's views on all things nuclear were particularly unwelcome as were his views on dumping of toxic waste.'
4) That it can be said without any doubt Willie MacRae both as a politician and a lawyer had made enemies and also incurs the displeasure of people in high places. Of this he was well aware, but disregarded warnings of possible reprisals and persisted in going his own way.'
5) That ' because of who and what he was, Willie MacRae had been a known person to not only the security service MI5 but also the Special Branch officers of Strathclyde Police and the Northern Constabularly.'
6) That 'as this was a suspicious death and the man was of interest to the security services it was necessary to refer the matter through the Special Branch Regional Co-ordinator to the security services and police liaison officer ... at the Home Office.'
7) That Government policy in these matters is to sweep it under the carpet 'and so it was that within a few hours of its commencement the police investigation comes to an abrupt halt.'

It seems that it was the abruptness of this halt which first made the experienced Mr Conway realise that something was amiss. Even open and shut police enquiries are rarely wrapped up so precipitately. The authorities too, he says, realised that they had dropped something of a clanger. The Northern Constabulary were held to be "in error" - not, of course, for terminating the enquiry but for making it too apparent that they had done so. The Procurator Fiscal's 2nd Report of July 1985 was the predictable cosmetic result.

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Ben speaking again now. The investigation was a fuck up. But the facts remain. He committed suicide!!!! I will be posting more to show how and why people think it was really done. Just remember the name will you please? He is central to this!!!!

Ben


Memo 2: Willie Macrae and Nuclear Power

Here's another load of bollocks I found on line;-

I have a strong suspicion that something covert is going on at a place called Glensanda, which is situated not far from this "neck of the woods". We are all led to believe that a straightforward - albeit technical - quarrying operation is taking place which involves boring and cutting down vertically from the top [Glory Holing?] of a mountain in order to extract granite from a tunnel outlet in the side of the hill, for shipment to the USA for road building requirements! You may well be aware of this superquarry, or of another which has been proposed for the Island of Harris in the Western Isles, where considerable publicity has been generated by those islanders in their objection to the proposed site.

The large and wild mountainous area containing the Glensanda mining operations is located on a point of land bordered by the sea loch, Loch Linnhe, and the Sound of Mull. There are no roads accessing the site and as far as I am aware no recognized hill tracks available to gain access should one want to do so. Should an attempt be made by someone to venture across the wild mountains and moorland and finally reach the Glensanda site, I am told that they would be confronted by a high perimeter fence patrolled by security guards. It is also said that the workers there are under some for of secrecy oath. Machinery and heavy excavating equipment is ferried across Loch Linnhe from Barcaldine, North of Oban. A few years ago it was rumoured that a piece of equipment was sabotaged at the site. For what reason I wonder, if there was nothing to hide; it a being conventional quarry operation?

Back in 1985 a Scottish solicitor and Scottish National Party activist, William MacRae was found dead in his car a short distance off the A87 road between Invergarry and Kyle of Lochalsh in the North West highlands. He's been shot in the head with a handgun. The official verdict was suicide. But it wasn't as straightforward as that, as the gun he had used was found to be too far away for MacRae to have thrown it after e supposedly shooting himself. The murder has never been satisfactorily explained, and much has been written about the tragic incident in the local press over the years. A full and comprehensive account (a complete chapter of 28 pages) has also been written by Andrew Murray Scott and Ian Macleay in "Britain's Secret War - Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo American State" suggesting that Willie MacRae may have been about to reveal state secrets which were better kept with the "powers that be" for reasons of national security.

I cannot help wondering whether Willie knew about plans for creating a nuclear dump site at Glensanda and because of the recently previous concern amongst Scots, and Highlanders particularly, was silenced in order to prevent him from revealing long term plans regarding the siting of nuclear waste dumps. The Atomic Energy Authority hated him for his vociferous rejections of their attempted underhanded methods of dodging and avoiding planning permission when searching for sites in the Highlands. Seemingly Willie was highly elated a short time before his "execution", quoting several times to his close friends "I've got them. I've got them". What he was referring to was has never been revealed but I can't help wondering if it had something to do with Glensanda. MI5 and the Special Branch were constantly on his tail. This has been well documented. That Willie MacRae was undoubtedly one of Britain's greatest seekers of the truth and sought to expose cover-ups and release pertinent information to the subjects of this country is admirably summed up by Alan Clayton writing to the "Scotsman" on 9th April 1988, when he wrote:- "To my mind it is abundantly clear that Willie MacRae was a well established dangerous and deadly enemy of a state which will go to apparently any lengths to sustain and protect itself.

Ben again. If anyone cares to read the book which I highlighted they will discover that not only am I named as the potential killer but they also write a whole heap of other shit about me. NONE OF WHICH IS TRUE!!!!! I cannot sue as I would have to lodge $120,000 with a court before going to trial. I simly cannot afford that and they know it. That's why the lies keep going. Forever lying. The media can do this coz they have the power and the money!!!! They are scum!!!

Ben

Memo 3: Who is Ben?

Because I was an undercover Special Branch agent who's cover story for that night was that I was in the Highlands (When in fact I was in England). The authorities know this but the media don't so it's the media who keep placing me at the scene!!!!

Ben

Memo 4: What was Ben doing?

I infiltrated a cell of terrorists of which Willie Macrae was aware and had (He was gay) a relationship with one of them. It was the ending of this relationship that led Willie to commit suicide. But he did it in a strange manner that's all, and bad policework has made it look like murder. As I said I was in England but the authorities cannot say where in England because of what was going on there at the time!!! So I'm stuck with my Highlands alibi and the media look no further than me!!!

Ben

Memo 5: Why is Ben paranoid?

I just found another one!!! It's like 1985 all over again!!!

Willie MacRae was a Scottish nationalist best remembered for the mystery surrounding his death.

MacRae was an active member of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and a prominent anti-nuclear campaigner. A qualified solicitor, MacRae had in fact contested the SNP leadership in 1979, coming third in a three-way contest with 52 votes to Stephen Maxwell's 117 votes and winner Gordon Wilson's 530 votes.

He was active outwith Scotland too, having served in the Royal Indian Navy becoming friendly to the campaign for independence for India. He was also the author of the maritime law code of Israel and emeritus professor in the University of Haifa. After his death a forest of 3,000 trees was planted in Israel to mark his passing.

MacRae's death is shrouded in mystery. On April 5, 1985 he was driving from Glasgow to his home in the Scottish highlands but never made it back. The next day he was found unconscious suffering from gunshot wounds, subsequently dying without ever regaining consciousness.

A handgun was later found near to where MacRae was found, said to belong to the deceased and having been fired twice. The official verdict in the inquest into his death was suicide, but many individuals refuse to believe this is the case. Many argue that in fact he was killed by the secret services due to his political activity inside the SNP, and the high profile campaigning he was involved with against nuclear dumping in Scotland, although this has never been proved.

Ben