Keith Mothersson died 3rd July
I’ve known Keith Mothersson for about thirty years. He was a socialist Buddhist visionary-philosopher, and a central concern of his has always been, how would a society that lives in a condition of peace be possible? He and I and some legal eagles co-founded the little known group Inlap (the Institute for Law and Peace) in the late 1980s, which was concerned with legal defences used by peace activists and with the concept of mass destruction technology being inherently unlawful – His is a feminist vision, about our common Motherland. He promoted his central vision of what ought to be sacred, viz the immunity of noncombatant civilians, if our world is to endure: that is to say, women and children especially not participating in a war, ought to be safe.
Maybe it was because of his grandfather being the founder of the Tavistock Clinic, but in the new millennium he became quite involved in the 9/11 and 7/7 truth movements. He would always come out with awesome insights over what was really going on. He could sus out the psychologically strange manipulation, whereby the public were being told something that was not actually true. This is something totally outside the traditional socialist agenda, whereby our reality itself is being manipulated, and it becomes hard to tell the difference between what is real and what is illusory. Up in Scotland he worked as a gardener and I always supposed this would assist and maintain his peace of mind. Keith and I share happy memories of being present at the early July 7 truth campaign meetings (he had just donated to them his URL www.julyseventh.co.uk).
Nobody helped me more in producing my ‘Terror on the Tube’ book, both in the text and evaluation of the sometimes obscure central issues, than Keith. He recently sent out a swathe of e-mails to various editors of papers and journals about the forthcoming publication of my book, eg:
- the main discernable effect of which was that Rachel North started wittering on her blog about the forthcoming opus, presumably someone sent it to her. But, I ask in agony, did this have some adverse effect upon him, which he did not anticipate?A trusted colleague and friend has written a very fine book which I was privileged to read and comment on in draft, and which sets out the case that the supposed perpetrators of July 7th were almost certainly entrapped and framed. The attachments set out the cover pages and contents pages of ‘Terror on the Tube’ by Dr Nick Kollerstrom, to be published shortly by US based progressive Press…. this handsomely produced book (30th April).
Keith was founder of ‘All faiths for 9/11 Truth’ which was concerned to heal the millenia-old ‘war’ between Muslims and Christian civilisations, in danger of being reactivated in our time. As such he had quite a lot to do with MUJCA, Muslims, Jews and Christians for 9/11 truth, founded in the US by Kevin Barrett. Kevin was coming over to London on July 7th for his first major UK 9/11 meeting, so they would have met. Kevin had written the foreword to my book and this was the time of its launch. Keith was also expected at a 7/7 meeting at the Birmingham Mosque on 5th July two days earlier. Here again his marvelous peace-building skills would have been of value. He would have been good at the building of bridges of understanding with the Muslims there. So this was quite an important period for him.
It Strikes – the Amnesia – but what was it?
The nurse at Scotland’s Murray Royal psychiatric clinic did not know what is wrong with him. It’s a kind of dementia, but the staff have not seen so sudden an onset of this condition before. His mind has sort of gone. It happened on Thursday 4th June, quite suddenly. The evening before he had gone to his Buddhist society as usual. One hears that he had been having troubles with is memory – but if so, none of us lot noticed anything. Sedated by a heavy, anti-psychotic drug, he does not remember a great deal. His friend D who visited him has described his memories of being in a van where a terrible struggle took place and where his mind may have been tampered with. If so, these memories of his have now gone. Noel went to visit him, and suddenly – this news.
For what little it may be worth, I offer this record of my phone calls with his close friend Daphne, taken on June 17th .
Daphne
Wed 3rd KM went to his Buddhist group as usual, in evening.
Thurs 4th 7pm Daphne arrived, saw him lying in bed dishevelled, he had forgotten the day and even the year - all he had done over last few months was a ‘horrible jumble’.
He had no idea of what they had intended to do that evening – she thought maybe he was ill, and took him to the doctor.
Friday ‘My mind has totally collapsed hasn’t it?’ He kept repeating.
He mentioned the van to Daphne as he was going, 4th- 8th June – there had been a horrible row in a van he kept saying, over this period; he went in hospital, Fri 5th.
Into a Psychiatric hospital, but not under section. He forgot 911 and sequence of time – immediate amnesia of past events. They will give him MRI brain scan
Murray Royal Hospital, Moridan b wing. He looks dreadful. He tried to escape, and from Mon 15th, he was given Haliperodal – 1 mg three times a day –an anti psychotic drug. This slows him down. 5 mg is max, turns one into vegetable. Dr Praetorius was his consultant psychiatrist.
Hospital staff confused – the nurse Tyrone said this was very unusual, because dementia does not usually arrive by a ‘sudden disintegration’ like this. He had never seen a case like this.
Then on june 16th, he told Daphne, ‘I’ve been in a van with some people and they messed with my head.’ NB I phoned her the next day, and wrote this sentence down as she said it. She was very positive about it. A health advocate’ came to argue case, but could not really communicate with him
His brother, sister and daughter do not approve of 911. Their grandfather founded tavistock clinic, Keith was trying to ask his sister and brother about this – but they would not talk! They view his conspiracy stuff as evidence of mental derangement.*
A further note taken on the 19th, after I phoned both KM and the staff nurse. Thr nurse doesn’t know what his condition is, it is still being assessed, mri scan etc, they will have an answer next week.
I talked to Keith and found that his memory and self-identity had rather faded away. He asked me if he was staying with me, (as if he did not recall that I was way down in London hundreds of miles away) adding ‘sorry I can’t remember.’
He was a grandfather and had certainly lived a good life. But, Aargh! Keith! We needed you!
