I consider this statement needs to be made known far and wide, not least in Wales where a few fantasists continue to believe that the FWA is still in existence, it is not. Although, I have considered it might me an educational and entertaining to establish an F.W.A re-enactment group, after all if the contemporay South Wales Borderers WW II have such a group, why not the F.W.A? > PLEASE NOTE THAT IS A JOKE HONEST!!!!For history of FWA, see my Alternative Welsh Nationalist Movement & Struggle blog at http://awnms.blogspot.com read the book To Dream of Freedom or for a ''Quick Fix'' click into Wikapedia, see links below:
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Free Wales Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJuly, 1969: The Criminal Investigation Department's operation "Cricket" comes to fruition with the arrest of the FWA leadership. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Wales_Army - 30k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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On 1 July 1969, the day of the Investiture of the Prince of Wales, six members of the FWA were convicted under the Public Order Act. After a trial Lasting ...www.bbc.co.uk/wales/walesonair/database/march.shtml - 20k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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Amazon.co.uk: To Dream of Freedom: Books: Roy Clews Amazon.co.uk: To Dream of Freedom: Books: Roy Clews by Roy Clews.www.amazon.co.uk/Dream-Freedom-Roy-Clews/dp/0862435862 - 130k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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Alright History and Information aside, I would point, the lessons to be learnt from above and most importantly from below. First thing to be said in a 'Welsh Connection' is this, FORGET THE FANTASISTS WHO PRATTLE ON IN FORUMS ABOUT THE FWA AND MEIBION GLYNDWR, NOT LEAST TOTALLY BE AWARE OF THE RUBBISH AROUND AND ABOUT A SO CALLED ''WELSH REPUBLICAN ARMY''. In latter connection pay real attention to the below and just as important make sure you avoid all and anyone who wants to involve you in discussion or be part of any ''Welsh Republican Army''. Best of all and let us all make it absolutely clear, that in Wales we reject all forms of Armed Militant Political Violence as would have in the past been advanced by the FWA, MAC and later MG. All that is history, keep it that way and stay safe ok! Now read on, lesson from Cornwall.
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Neges o Gernyw/Message from Kernow
Celtic League Kernow Branch.
Dear Member.
This letter is going to all who are currently registered as Cornish Branch members.
I apologise for the length of this communication but our branch has been thrown into some confusion since September by rumours, speculation and in some cases lies. To reassure members it will be necessary to relate the whole sorry story of what appears to me, to have been a joke at the expense of a gullible press who seem to print dramatic myth over hard facts.
In 2006 a teenager, recently left school, daubed graffiti over the walls of his ex school in Bude saying “Teach Cornish” and signed it CNLA. Later other walls in Bude were sprayed all with the signature of “CNLA”.
In this fashion was a mythical Cornish National Liberation Army created from the testosterone fuelled imaginings of a young man.
Anyone with their ear to the ground knew darned well that this was simply an attempt to attract attention and it succeeded, for within a very short time people in Kernow were getting calls from the press asking to be put in touch with this mythical organisation. Such requests were rebutted because it simply did not exist. The press finally obtained an interview with Jack Bolitho who, whilst disclaiming to be a member, did drop a number of hints to the contrary off the record. As the young man was at the time a member of the Celtic League we naturally investigated the press claims and hold a copy of the transcript as given to the press. But not published.
Discussion took place and it became more and more obvious that the press were seeking sensationalism. Drama over truth.
During the course of early 2007 both the press and television persisted in contacting League and non league members for interviews and filming. They were persistently rebuffed.
It now becomes clear that someone contacted by email one of the television documentary makers and declared that the CNLA existed. I’m uncertain as to how or what went on then, but this culminated in a crew from a Welsh television consortium coming to Kernow to make a film about the CNLA. Someone fronted as a member of this myth and told a great heap of bull, although at no point were threats against persons or property made. The film intimated that contacts had been made between the mythical organisation and the Free Wales Army which the TV crew should have known, was destroyed in 1969 when a number of people were arrested for parading about in uniforms, and one year sentences handed down. The FWA as an organised group dissolved 39 years ago.
The Sun on Sunday newspaper after the program was broadcast, picked up on an email sent to people who were not necessarily CL members, showing the whole thing as a bit of a laugh. The paper, in dramatic fashion, made a mountain out of a very small molehill.
Singer Graham Hart made a song about the CNLA and broadcast it on Youtube. This bit of tomfoolery clearly inflamed the beneficent state, and it seems to me that orders went down to destroy this myth.
That culminated in September with dawn raids upon four people, two of whom happened to have been branch members at the time. It seems that search warrants were issued to at least one of these people for an alleged fire arms offence, whether this applied to all of them I do not know. However one of these was also a member of the Stannary and was told to resign from the league. All four were released on police bail to report back on Jan 16th and without charge.
At this time, only one of those arrested and interviewed is a branch member. Tony Leamon. As such I shall concentrate upon him.
Tony is unmarried and cares for his 94 yr old Father. His mother is as I speak in hospital for a second breast mastectomy and in a life threatening situation. Tony himself has leukaemia which is only under control by powerful drugs.
Tony was arrested and his house searched, amongst items taken were a computer, his mobile phone, a Cornish Flag of St Piren, and a book by John Angarrack. It would seem that John’s books and St Pirens banners, constitute some sort of threat.
With Tony being financially disadvantaged, I went down to Falmouth to give him a lift to the police station on Jan 16th at 11am, along with another branch member for support. A further branch member turned up whilst we were there. We met his Mother who is due to go into hospital the following day for the operation mentioned above.
I waited for four hours in the police station car park for Tony to be released. Questions via a speaker grill to the police office guarding what is euphemistically called “The Custody Suite”, asking when Tony would be released were met with a curt “Don’t Know, Hours yet”.
By Four in the afternoon I had to return to the farm to help my husband with the evening feeding of our sheep flock. Tony’s Mother insisted on waiting for Tony. She rang me about 6pm to say she had waited out in the cold of this January day for a further hour and a half, and then had to leave to get the last bus home. She also enquired at the jail speaker grill, explaining that she was Tony’s Mother, and with the same uncaring result.
At 9pm after 10 hours of what one assumes was interrogation, Tony was released penniless onto the streets of Camborn some forty miles from home and with no buses available to get him home. He rang me and I jumped in my car to help him get home. Again accompanied by the branch member who had come with me earlier in the day.
When we met Tony he was in a terrible state. Seemingly the interrogators had thrown all sort of accusations at him, from financing terrorism (Tony hasn’t got two brass farthings to rub together), They quizzed him on email addresses appearing on his computer, and it seems that they also took my car number whilst I was waiting for him, and questioned him as to whom I was. No one is safe in this much vaunted democracy it seems, I mean safe from the government gauliters. Forget muslim fundamentalist terrorists, our own protectors appear to be doing their job for them because poor Tony is now in daily fear.
It seems that one of the original four arrested, Folk Singer Graham Hart (No conection with the League), broke down and told police that Tony and our Secretary Mike Chappel had tried to recruit him into this mythical army. Having quizzed both Tony and Mike it seems that just the opposite took place. However I cannot say more at this stage because it may well end up being sub-judicial if Graham Hart is charged with other offences. It may be that when police searched his property they found illegal substances, which may possibly explains why Graham has tried to implicate others and gain police sympathy. I don’t know, and you must treat this as speculation only at this time.
As the situation is now, Tony has to report back to the police station in Camborn on March 26th, and is presently still on bail. I will again offer him my services as a taxi if he so desires.
The net result of all this witch hunting is that two of our branch members, Tony and Mike are suffering terrible mental stress. Neither are well equipped to cope with it. Tony is not only disabled, but penniless, and has very little in life to look forward to bar further incarceration in Camborn police station surrounded by hostile interrogators. That he has held up so well at present, is something of a miracle.
Mike Chappel who as we know spends half the year at his small home in Spain which is where he is now, far from his beloved Kernow is terrified of arrest when he does come back. He also, is now on heavy doses of anti depressants and heart drugs. Lest you get the idea that these guys are wimps, Mike has several commendations for police bravery.
I will inform you now, that until proven otherwise, no one in our branch or any where else has the right to condemn anyone. I do believe that it is a principle of law that one is innocent until proven guilty. I for one have no intention of deserting any of our members. My own adherence to Celtic honour would not allow me to hold my head up if I did. From my understanding neither of these branch members has done anything to hurt anyone or anything. Guilty of a bit of tomfoolery with a gullible press is maybe, all they might have done.
What other branch members choose to do is up to them, but I will offer any assistance I can, even it be so lowly as to act as taxi driver, and offer consolation and advice to both of them. Those who wish, can condemn me as they see fit, but it is at times like this, when faced with adversity, that the true Cornish are seen for their honour, whilst others run to cover their backsides.
You will all be aware that the league does not countenance violence, nor do I. We do not need any such acts to assist our endeavours to free our nation from London domination, a state that will inevitably come about through peaceful means, and the exposure of unfairness and outright skulduggery.
All I see at present is a possible act of regrettable buffoonery by otherwise honourable men, and that is only assumption. Our Secretary Mike Chappall has also been implicated by word of mouth and rumour. NO ONE will know the FACTS until and if, any charges are brought and a case heard in court. Even then we shall have to use our own judgement for we all know how the state reacts to any threat to its cloying power in support of the rich and powerful. We’ve seen it in the past and will see it in the future.
Only three people have formally left the branch as a result of this; ‘slop and caudle’. There may, after this communication be others. Whatever happens our branch WILL continue, we will emerge perhaps slimmer but a whole lot fitter.
A branch meeting will be held after March 26th when Tony et al, attend bail once more. Meanwhile as branch convenor I would like each of you to reply to this newsletter affirming or otherwise, your intention to stay with the branch.
With all best wishes.
Sue BowenConvenor.
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Celtic League Kernow Branch.
Dear Member.
This letter is going to all who are currently registered as Cornish Branch members.
I apologise for the length of this communication but our branch has been thrown into some confusion since September by rumours, speculation and in some cases lies. To reassure members it will be necessary to relate the whole sorry story of what appears to me, to have been a joke at the expense of a gullible press who seem to print dramatic myth over hard facts.
In 2006 a teenager, recently left school, daubed graffiti over the walls of his ex school in Bude saying “Teach Cornish” and signed it CNLA. Later other walls in Bude were sprayed all with the signature of “CNLA”.
In this fashion was a mythical Cornish National Liberation Army created from the testosterone fuelled imaginings of a young man.
Anyone with their ear to the ground knew darned well that this was simply an attempt to attract attention and it succeeded, for within a very short time people in Kernow were getting calls from the press asking to be put in touch with this mythical organisation. Such requests were rebutted because it simply did not exist. The press finally obtained an interview with Jack Bolitho who, whilst disclaiming to be a member, did drop a number of hints to the contrary off the record. As the young man was at the time a member of the Celtic League we naturally investigated the press claims and hold a copy of the transcript as given to the press. But not published.
Discussion took place and it became more and more obvious that the press were seeking sensationalism. Drama over truth.
During the course of early 2007 both the press and television persisted in contacting League and non league members for interviews and filming. They were persistently rebuffed.
It now becomes clear that someone contacted by email one of the television documentary makers and declared that the CNLA existed. I’m uncertain as to how or what went on then, but this culminated in a crew from a Welsh television consortium coming to Kernow to make a film about the CNLA. Someone fronted as a member of this myth and told a great heap of bull, although at no point were threats against persons or property made. The film intimated that contacts had been made between the mythical organisation and the Free Wales Army which the TV crew should have known, was destroyed in 1969 when a number of people were arrested for parading about in uniforms, and one year sentences handed down. The FWA as an organised group dissolved 39 years ago.
The Sun on Sunday newspaper after the program was broadcast, picked up on an email sent to people who were not necessarily CL members, showing the whole thing as a bit of a laugh. The paper, in dramatic fashion, made a mountain out of a very small molehill.
Singer Graham Hart made a song about the CNLA and broadcast it on Youtube. This bit of tomfoolery clearly inflamed the beneficent state, and it seems to me that orders went down to destroy this myth.
That culminated in September with dawn raids upon four people, two of whom happened to have been branch members at the time. It seems that search warrants were issued to at least one of these people for an alleged fire arms offence, whether this applied to all of them I do not know. However one of these was also a member of the Stannary and was told to resign from the league. All four were released on police bail to report back on Jan 16th and without charge.
At this time, only one of those arrested and interviewed is a branch member. Tony Leamon. As such I shall concentrate upon him.
Tony is unmarried and cares for his 94 yr old Father. His mother is as I speak in hospital for a second breast mastectomy and in a life threatening situation. Tony himself has leukaemia which is only under control by powerful drugs.
Tony was arrested and his house searched, amongst items taken were a computer, his mobile phone, a Cornish Flag of St Piren, and a book by John Angarrack. It would seem that John’s books and St Pirens banners, constitute some sort of threat.
With Tony being financially disadvantaged, I went down to Falmouth to give him a lift to the police station on Jan 16th at 11am, along with another branch member for support. A further branch member turned up whilst we were there. We met his Mother who is due to go into hospital the following day for the operation mentioned above.
I waited for four hours in the police station car park for Tony to be released. Questions via a speaker grill to the police office guarding what is euphemistically called “The Custody Suite”, asking when Tony would be released were met with a curt “Don’t Know, Hours yet”.
By Four in the afternoon I had to return to the farm to help my husband with the evening feeding of our sheep flock. Tony’s Mother insisted on waiting for Tony. She rang me about 6pm to say she had waited out in the cold of this January day for a further hour and a half, and then had to leave to get the last bus home. She also enquired at the jail speaker grill, explaining that she was Tony’s Mother, and with the same uncaring result.
At 9pm after 10 hours of what one assumes was interrogation, Tony was released penniless onto the streets of Camborn some forty miles from home and with no buses available to get him home. He rang me and I jumped in my car to help him get home. Again accompanied by the branch member who had come with me earlier in the day.
When we met Tony he was in a terrible state. Seemingly the interrogators had thrown all sort of accusations at him, from financing terrorism (Tony hasn’t got two brass farthings to rub together), They quizzed him on email addresses appearing on his computer, and it seems that they also took my car number whilst I was waiting for him, and questioned him as to whom I was. No one is safe in this much vaunted democracy it seems, I mean safe from the government gauliters. Forget muslim fundamentalist terrorists, our own protectors appear to be doing their job for them because poor Tony is now in daily fear.
It seems that one of the original four arrested, Folk Singer Graham Hart (No conection with the League), broke down and told police that Tony and our Secretary Mike Chappel had tried to recruit him into this mythical army. Having quizzed both Tony and Mike it seems that just the opposite took place. However I cannot say more at this stage because it may well end up being sub-judicial if Graham Hart is charged with other offences. It may be that when police searched his property they found illegal substances, which may possibly explains why Graham has tried to implicate others and gain police sympathy. I don’t know, and you must treat this as speculation only at this time.
As the situation is now, Tony has to report back to the police station in Camborn on March 26th, and is presently still on bail. I will again offer him my services as a taxi if he so desires.
The net result of all this witch hunting is that two of our branch members, Tony and Mike are suffering terrible mental stress. Neither are well equipped to cope with it. Tony is not only disabled, but penniless, and has very little in life to look forward to bar further incarceration in Camborn police station surrounded by hostile interrogators. That he has held up so well at present, is something of a miracle.
Mike Chappel who as we know spends half the year at his small home in Spain which is where he is now, far from his beloved Kernow is terrified of arrest when he does come back. He also, is now on heavy doses of anti depressants and heart drugs. Lest you get the idea that these guys are wimps, Mike has several commendations for police bravery.
I will inform you now, that until proven otherwise, no one in our branch or any where else has the right to condemn anyone. I do believe that it is a principle of law that one is innocent until proven guilty. I for one have no intention of deserting any of our members. My own adherence to Celtic honour would not allow me to hold my head up if I did. From my understanding neither of these branch members has done anything to hurt anyone or anything. Guilty of a bit of tomfoolery with a gullible press is maybe, all they might have done.
What other branch members choose to do is up to them, but I will offer any assistance I can, even it be so lowly as to act as taxi driver, and offer consolation and advice to both of them. Those who wish, can condemn me as they see fit, but it is at times like this, when faced with adversity, that the true Cornish are seen for their honour, whilst others run to cover their backsides.
You will all be aware that the league does not countenance violence, nor do I. We do not need any such acts to assist our endeavours to free our nation from London domination, a state that will inevitably come about through peaceful means, and the exposure of unfairness and outright skulduggery.
All I see at present is a possible act of regrettable buffoonery by otherwise honourable men, and that is only assumption. Our Secretary Mike Chappall has also been implicated by word of mouth and rumour. NO ONE will know the FACTS until and if, any charges are brought and a case heard in court. Even then we shall have to use our own judgement for we all know how the state reacts to any threat to its cloying power in support of the rich and powerful. We’ve seen it in the past and will see it in the future.
Only three people have formally left the branch as a result of this; ‘slop and caudle’. There may, after this communication be others. Whatever happens our branch WILL continue, we will emerge perhaps slimmer but a whole lot fitter.
A branch meeting will be held after March 26th when Tony et al, attend bail once more. Meanwhile as branch convenor I would like each of you to reply to this newsletter affirming or otherwise, your intention to stay with the branch.
With all best wishes.
Sue BowenConvenor.
Messenger on the move… Text MSN to 63463 now!
