The Nottingham attacks on 13th June 2023 were the latest atrocity to outrage the public. Three people, two teenage students and a 65-year-old school caretaker were stabbed to death, while others were run over by the attacker. Attacks like these, carried out by migrants or Islamists have become a constant of life in England and western Europe. The attack in Nottingham came only three days after a Syrian migrant with asylum seeker status in Sweden stabbed pre-school children and an old man in a playpark in Annecy, France. In the aftermath of such attacks, one expects grief, shock, and anger. The Nottingham attack was quickly followed by a large, organised gathering in the city, where a carefully selected stage presence of ‘community leaders’ and ‘faith leaders’ flanked the grieving families of the dead. A huge banner read, ‘One City. #NottinghamTogether’. The mothers of the two dead students gave speeches calling for ‘love’, using similar language about their murdered children. The grief was obviously very real, but the staging of the event was familiar.
Earlier atrocities, for example, the Manchester Arena Islamist terror attack, and the London Bridge Islamist terror attack, were also quickly followed by a public response characterised by a strikingly similar message. Famously, the Manchester Arena response saw a huge crowd join in the singing of ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, and the viral message of “‘Heart’ Manchester”, while the London Bridge attack response included Muslim girls handing out 3,000 roses to people at the scene of the attack. The media duly reported the heart-lifting scenes, with Yahoo News! reporting, “Members of the public praised the act of solidarity, calling it ‘touching’ and ‘powerful’”. These shows of apparently spontaneous ‘love’ and ‘hope’ are well-funded, rapidly disseminated via all medias, print, televised, and electronic, and are entirely stage-managed. What you see in the aftermath of terror and killing is the UK security state at work. Their technique is known as ‘controlled spontaneity’.
The state’s organisation responsible is the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU). RICU is part of the Prevent Programme, is managed by the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism and is answerable to the Home Secretary. It was founded in 2007. In 2016, its budget was supposed to be around £17 million a year, and it can be expected that the figure has increased since then. Little has been written about the organisation, and that which has been published, in Middle East Eye, (MEE) and The Guardian, is from the same journalist, and his sole concern is the anti-Islamist remit of RICU. The MEE article explains that RICU aims is to ‘“effect attitudinal and behavioural change” through methods including the dissemination of messages on social media, leafleting homes, and feeding stories to newspapers’. None of that is done under the authorship of RICU. In fact, one of RICU’s main tactics is to deploy ‘black propaganda’, ie, propaganda the origin of which (RICU) is hidden. The UK state has a long history of this, with the Cold War Information Research Body, set up in 1948 and active until at least 1977, and, earlier, the Wellington House unit, established at the start of the First World War.
RICU is well practised. Its propaganda armoury includes pre-arranged volunteers among ‘faith leaders’ and ‘community leaders’ to ‘stand in solidarity’ with victims of attacks. Muslim volunteers, like the women on London Bridge, to lay flowers, light candles and, crucially, be filmed for the media. Typically, those volunteers are often from the minority Muslim sect, the Ahmadiyyas, a community that is persecuted by other Muslims who regard them as heretics. Similarly, journalists and editors are already co-opted by RICU, often working through Breakthrough Media Network Ltd., RICU’s catspaw. In addition, hashtags are prepared and tried out, and all forms of social media posts are ready, as are a range of pre-designed posters.
The little coverage that there has been of RICU has only seen it as a problem because it counters Islamism. Nothing has been said about RICU’s crucial role in channeling public responses to Islamist attacks or migrant outrages – the fruits of ‘diversity’, that ideology that is central to the political mainstream and its globalist outlook. Do not be fooled. When the next attack comes, remember RICU and ‘controlled spontaneity’. It is you that they want to control. Resist!
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