I read the Burkean article and its is mostly an attack on Dowson and his murky past with the BNP and his dealings as a political consultant in Hungary.
Niall McConnell has certainly picked up many fundraising methods from Dowson.
A political organisation certainly needs money to finance and promote their aims. Short of selling out to the Corporate sector, an imaginative fund raising programme has to be conceived.
The Irish Patriot has a very active presence,with its website, Utube channel and its Newspaper. It takes lots of money to finance this activity and I do not begrudge Niall McConnell for his fund raising methods.
Whether he is still associated with Jim Dowson is not clear ,but McConnell needs to make a statement on the relationship to clear his reputation.
He has done sterling work up to now and we know that any successful Nationalist is likely to be a victim of the NGO 'dirty tricks' dept. and be reputationally smeared to undermine and degrade his organisation. All part of the nasty political game, to plant seeds of doubt, of integrity and sincerity.
We and the Burkean should concentrate investigative efforts on the cesspool of dirty money, flowing thru;; the legacy Parties of FF/FG/SF/Lab, they are the real Enemies of the Irish People and not a small time hustler like Jim Dowson.
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