Letter to William Burns from Paul Todd
William BurnsThis is something I have been sending to the English media for weeks and which I spoke to Martin Short and others about. Martin Short wrote a piece about my father in his book but seems motivated mostly by earning a crust.LINK
Great article.LINK Your number is ex-directory. I would like a chat with you if you have the time.
Thanks
Paul Todd
[Ed. ~ Phone number provided.]
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The public cries out for someone it can blame for the massacre at Dunblane. Perhaps the writer similarly cries out for someone to blame. The contents merit consideration by someone impartial from those retained to investigate, who may have vested interests.
Hamilton was either a habitual offender interested in young boys or he wasn't. The Ombudsman exonerated him. His M.P. suggested that Hamilton publicise the findings of the Ombudsman. The Scouts knew something but kept quiet. The police made numerous enquiries. No action was taken and there was either no evidence or they decided not to take action.
Despite public disquiet into his private life and police investigations, Hamilton was allowed to continue to operate his boys clubs and to obtain a firearms licence, the control of which is much stricter than a shot gun licence and administered by the police. His final act to slaughter children is the only real public evidence we have of his general state of mind concerning children.
There is a question. If there was disquiet over his behaviour and if, as seems apparent by his dreadful final moments, he did have some fixation involving children, how is it that the Ombudsman exonerated him and that, despite repeated police investigations, no evidence was found such as to proceed with action, or to even highlight these concerns in their consideration of his application for firearm licences?
Perhaps the answer lies in an interview with a local woman who complained to the police about Hamilton and was then threatened by Hamilton who told her that he was a Freemason and that her complaints would go unanswered as his fellows in the local lodge included the police to whom she had complained.
This was reported in The Sport newspaper (March 15, 1996), the same woman whom The Sunday Times referred to on 17 March 1996, but omitted the Freemasonry reference (unsurprising for those who know of the impartiality of that paper where Freemasons and the establishment are concerned) and the same woman shown photographed in The Mail on 18 March 1996 with the assertion that "the authorities should have acted sooner", but, again, failing to mention the Freemasonic connection, as might be expected from an Associated Newspaper Group publication.
The 25 March 1996 issue of Newsweek highlights some of the inconsistencies:
An international media organisation could interview the witness and make further inquiries into the Ancient and Scottish Rights Freemasonic Lodge. Surely a decent Scottish Freemason in Dunblane will break ranks from the directions of Freemasons' Hall and expose all that is bad in Freemasonry to enhance all that is good.
Was Hamilton a Freemason? If so, what lodge did he belong to?LINK Is any police officer who was in any way involved in any investigation into Hamilton, or who authorised his firearms licences also a Freemason? Is the Ombudsman who investigated Hamilton and exonerated him a Freemason?
Hamilton walked into Dunblane School carrying two Browning 9mm automatics and two .357 magnum revolvers armed with over five hundred rounds of ammunition.LINK Put into some sort of perspective Clint Eastwood carries one .357 magnum revolver, which can stop a car engine when fired at it; and a full armed soldier going into battle is equipped with only 250 rounds of ammunition. It is fortunate that Hamilton ceased firing when and where he did, or the toll of human misery could have been far greater. Who put this sort of firepower and ammunition into Hamilton's hands and why did they do so in the face of all the evidence, which should have called them to question the appropriateness of Hamilton even holding a firearms licence.LINK
Is the judge appointed to investigate [i.e. Lord Cullen ~ ed.], either a Freemason or someone with links to Freemasonry?LINK Are we to expect a whitewash with Hamilton alone blamed? It seems apparent that Hamilton, by his final act, proves earlier fears about his unhealthy twisted mind, insofar as children were concerned, were well-founded. His final dreadful act stands to condemn those who actively promoted his obtaining lawful authority to buy these awesome weapons of death because of their poisoned distorted duty to their warped and twisted brother Mason.
Let us hope, for the sake of the memory of the children and the teachers, that those who put the guns in Hamilton's hand might not now rely on similar condescension to their wrong-doing by another brother Mason, and let us try to ensure that the question of Freemasonic involvement in the Dunblane tragedy receives open public consideration.