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White Terror Page 14 For the record (courtesy of the Burnley Citizen and BLINK): A former British National Party member has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country. Robert Cottage, 49, of Talbot Street, Colne, appeared before Burnley magistrates last week charged with possession of an explosive substance. Officers claim that their find is the largest haul of chemicals of its kind discovered. Cottage reportedly drives disabled children to school. Police sealed off Cottage’s home and were believed to have continued their search over the weekend. His Peugeot car has been taken away for examination. 22 chemical components are believed to have been recovered from his house. David Leach, representing Cottage made no application for bail. Cottage, a sub-contracted driver for Lancashire County Council, stood for the BNP in the May elections in the Vivary Bridge ward of Pendle Council. 62-year-old retired dentist David Bolus Jackson, of Trent Road, Nelson, was charged with similar offences. It has been reported that police discovered a rocket launcher, a nuclear biological suit, chemicals and BNP literature. Christiana Buchanan, who appeared for the prosecution in Jackson’s case, alleged the pair had “some kind of masterplan". What this masterplan consisted of is not yet known. Nor has the identity of the 22 chemical compounds found by police been revealed. Cottage and Jackson of Trent Road made separate appearances in Burnley Magistrates’ Court, charged under the 1883 Explosive Substances Act with possession of an explosive substance for an illegal purpose. Amid alarm from nearby residents, police tried to reassure neighbours that they had not discovered “a bomb making factory.” A local BNP councillor, Brian Parkinson, distanced his party from Cottage. “It certainly wouldn’t condone the sort of thing he is allegedly being connected with”, he said. Why weren’t these “terrorists” raided by dawn’s early light by hundreds of heavily armed police officers? Why were they charged under a Victorian statute and not our “necessary” thoroughly-modern, shiny, new anti-terror laws? Why didn’t this Timothy McVeigh-like plot garner the national, nay the international attention it deserved? Too many questions. Too many obvious answers. |