Written by: "Anti-Racist" Agitator, Spy and  Informant Matt Lauder

Do you want to sell papers? Or, for that matter, do you want to stay in business?

With regards to the media industry, if you want to stay in business, you’ve got to pander to the fascist neo-liberal agenda and play the game of political correctness. Then, you’ll sell papers by the thousands.

And that’s why there was such hysteria over a “supposed” Heritage Front gathering in the quiet conservative town on Kingston. And, let me stress here that it was “supposed,” as nothing was officially planned.

The pressure for the media to write fictitious stories comes from the neo-liberal special interest groups. The short of the long of it is that stories about so-called “radical groups” justifies an increase in funds to the special interest groups, not to mention the police departments and CSIS so they can “fight” the supposed terrorist. You need money to survive, and the special interest lobby and the police have found a convenient cash cow to guarantee funding. All you have to do is scream “neo-Nazi skinheads” and the government comes running with a bag full of money.

CSIS uses some of the money they receive to fake hate crimes, to put moles in patriotic groups and to infiltrate political parties

And the result is that the media plays into the game. They publish the articles because, in return, the special interest lobby feeds them information and gossip which sells newspapers. It’s a cycle of corruption.

Nothing like a catchy headline on Nazis to sell papers, and then to make your article better, the special interest lobby will offer up their own resident “expert” to make up something about how insidious the right wing movement is in Canada. By the time the liberal media confers with the “experts” and finishes the article, the story has taken on a life of its own, with no basis in reality.

We’ve seen it done time and time again and, certainly, last weekend’s HF fiasco is another example of how the special interest groups and the media play off on one another.

And, don’t for one second think that the local police didn’t enjoy all the media coverage. In the sleepy town of Kingston, the mere threat of a “neo-Nazi” group will garner hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional funding from the government so they can start up hate crime units and pro-active liberal mind-washing programs for young people.

What really happened up in Kingston was that a local HF wanna-be called some friends to spend the weekend at his place so they could celebrate Canada Day. Sounds harmless enough, right?

There were no bands organized to play and certainly 100 to 200 skinheads were not expected to show up. It was supposed to be a Canada Day party for a few close friends from back home. They were going to go camping, drink beer, and talk about the good old times. That’s it, nothing else.

But the special interest lobby found out about the party. They heard rumours on the Internet that there was to be “racialist music” and had automatically presumed that meant not 1 but 4 skinhead bands were going to be performing. Soon after, the special interest lobby contacted the police, Canada Customs, the media, and God knows who else, about the event and made everyone believe that Kinston was the new bastion of hate in the nation and that Canada Day in Kingston was going to be celebrated with cross-burnings.

They were so wrong, and they made everyone else pay the price for listening to them. Apparently, Kingston Police put on extra staff and Canada Customs was on high alert. Some people probably got called in to work on the holiday and it was all for nothing as nothing was exactly what had happened up there.

The problem is that the media always listens to the boy who cries wolf. When are they going to realize that the special interest lobby uses them? If only the media had the intelligence to call the supposed organizers and ask them what was happening than, may be, this whole alarmist media play wouldn’t have happened.

In conversation with a Kingston HF member (yes, I was fact checking, as all good writers should), I was told that, in addition to pandering to the special interest groups, the media “enjoys listening to maniacs of the movement. That one person who says something stupid who does not represent the group.”

He went on to mention that, “even if he has something smart to say, the media would just make stuff up to make him look radical and crazy. In the case of this weekend, no one asked the HF about what was really going on. The media just decided to make stuff up based upon one person’s plans to hold a party for friends for Canada Day.”

And while this sort of hysterical media coverage is expected from the neo-liberal and politically correct Toronto Star and Whig Standard, it’s not expected by the once reputable Globe and Mail. For shame Globe and Mail, for shame.

The only thing I can conclude is that it was a slow news week. May be next time the media will ignore the rumours spouted by the special interest lobby and print some news worthy material, possibly something about the use of violence by the radical left to protest big business and globalisation.