Wednesday - March 11, 2009

Massacre in Germany

WINNENDEN, Germany – A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black opened fire at his former high school in southwestern Germany on Wednesday then fled in a hijacked car, killing at least 15 people before police shot him to death, state officials said.

The gunman entered the school in Winnenden and opened fire, shooting at random, police said. He killed nine students, three teachers and a passer-by outside the building, officials said.

“He went into the school with a weapon and carried out a bloodbath,” said regional police chief Erwin Hetger. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.”

Triggering a land and air manhunt, he hijacked a car, freed the passengers and drove about 25 miles (40 kilometers) before police found him. When confronted, he killed two bystanders in a shootout with police before he was slain, Baden Wuerttemburg governor Guenther Oettinger said. Two officers were seriously injured, but there was no immediate information on other casualties.

Four hours after the shootings began, police announced the teenager’s death.

It was the nation’s worst shooting since another teenage gunman killed 16 people and himself in another high school in 2002.

I’m getting tired of this. Would anyone like to do a little research to find out whether all of these mass-murdering crazy people are under 30? Under 28? Because I’m really wondering. This kind of thing simply did not happen when I was a young man. Ok, that one incident in the clock tower at the University of Texas, when I was a little kid. And that guy, Charles Whitman, 25, was hopped up on amphetamines. And he had a brain tumor. Is it the drugs? The kids who did Columbine were zonked out on ADHD meds. Several other mass shooters have also had heavy psychological medications. Is it our cultures, that we don’t teach the value of human life anymore? What the heck is going on?

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Bloodbath in Alabama

The death toll in Tuesday’s deadly shooting spree in south Alabama rose to 12 Wednesday as police searched for clues into the deadly shooting rampage that stretched across two counties.

Michael McLendon killed himself Tuesday afternoon, ending what police described as a shocking shooting rampage that claimed the lives of 11 other victims, some of which were random targets.

The 11th victim was revealed Wednesday morning. According to WSFA-TV in Montgomery , McClendon’s girlfriend was found dead inside the home of the shooter’s mother, who died Tuesday after police said McClendon set the house on fire.

Witnesses of the shootings and their aftermath described a man with multiple weapons who engaged in heavy gunfire, leaving behind blood-soaked porches and bodies.
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“He started in his mother’s house,” Preachers said. “Then he went to Samson, and he killed his granny and granddaddy and aunt and uncle. He cleaned his family out.”
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The wife and baby of a sheriff’s deputy [Myers] were also among the dead, said Sheriff Greg Ward of Geneva County.

The bloodshed, which spread across two counties and claimed 11 victims plus the gunman, began about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when McLendon burned down the house he lived in with his mother in Kinston, Ala.

Authorities found Lisa McLendon’s body and the body of McLendon’s girlfriend inside, MyFOXAL.com reported. Coffee County Sheriff Dave Sutton said McClendon put his mother on an L-shaped couch, piled things on top of her and set her afire. He said McClendon also shot four dogs at the house. McLendon then drove a dozen miles southeast to Samson, in Geneva County, where he gunned down nine more victims, including four members of his family. After, he drove around the town shooting out his car window, killing three more people seemingly at random, authorities said.

The rampage ended another 12 miles farther east in Geneva at the metals plant where the shooter worked until 2003. After a gun battle with police, McLendon killed himself. The massacre left four other people injured, including a baby girl. The victims haven’t all been identified.

“He cleaned his family out,” Coffee County Coroner Robert Preachers said. “We don’t know what triggered it.”

The sheriff deputy’s wife and child were slaughtered in their mobile home, officials said. McClendon also killed another person at a Samson supply store and a woman at a service station, they said. The location of the shooting of the 10th victim was unclear.

Cops said McClendon fired randomly at people as his maroon Mitsubishi Eclipse traveled along Highway 52 toward Geneva’s Reliable Metal Products, which makes grills and vents for heating and air conditioning systems, mainly for hotels. McLendon had reportedly once worked at the plant.

“He was just driving down the street shooting at people sitting on their porches,” Smith said. “A family was just sitting on the porch and they were shot.”

Victim identities and a motive remained unknown. Preachers confirmed that several other victims of the gunman were related to him including McLendon’s grandparents, an aunt and an uncle. Investigators told WSFA-TV the victims ranged in age from 18 months to 74-years-old.

Investigators said McLendon drove down Highway 52 where he fired at least seven times on a state trooper vehicle. The trooper was wounded by broken glass.

He then drove to the Samson Pipe and Supply Company on Highway 52 where he gunned down another victim. Afterwards, he took aim at an innocent civilian at a local service station in the same area. That victim also died of their wounds.
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Geneva police then began a pursuit of the suspect’s vehicle, chasing McLendon to the Reliable Metal Products company in Geneva. Officials later confirmed he had been a former employee of the company, but the reasons for his leaving the company were not immediately know.

Once there, officials said the man fired at least a 30 round burst of ammunition at the city police chief before running inside the business. The police chief was grazed by gunfire but was wearing a bullet-proof vest.

A short time later investigators said they heard shots inside the building, and when they entered the business they found the man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Geneva Police Chief Frank Lindsey was wounded by McLendon, who trapped him and his partner in their police car as he fired round after round from his automatic weapon.

Lindsey told FOX News that they encountered McLendon at a Wal-Mart in Geneva.

“He had a lot more fire power than we did,” Lindsey said Wednesday. “All we had were our pistols. He fired 15, 16 rounds from an automatic weapon. ... We faced him head-on. He just looked at us right straight.”

McLendon then drove around Samson, shooting out his car window, killing three more people seemingly at random.

“He sprayed bullets through the town,” Adams said.

Myers, the grieving sheriff’s deputy, made an appeal Wednesday to tighten the country’s laws on the ownership of automatic weapons.

“As a community, as a family, as a nation, we need to do something about this,” he said.

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THE FRONT PAGE OF THE DAILY MAIL.  MUSLIM SCUM GREET BRIT MEN RETURNED FROM FRONT

Muslim hate preacher ridicules troops abused in anti-war protests - and mocks their dead comrade

By Michael Seamark, Andrew Levy and Matt Sandy
Last updated at 12:07 PM on 11th March 2009

A Muslim preacher of hate today ridiculed British soldiers who were abused during a homecoming parade - branding them cowards who have an ‘uncanny knack for death by friendly fire’.

Firebrand preacher Anjem Choudary praised the Muslims who had protested at yesterday’s parade for the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment in Luton.

And in an inflammatory message posted on an Islamic extremist website, Choudary viciously mocked their comrade who was killed by friendly fire in Iraq.

His words came as police charged a man who allegedly shouted abuse at the Muslim anti-war protesters.

Venom: Faces contorted with fury, some of the Muslim demonstrator who marred the homecoming of the Royal Anglian Regiment yesterday

Choudary, who has links with banned Muslim cleric Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, likened the soldiers to Nazis and branded yesterday’s homecoming a ‘vile parade’ of ‘brutal murderers’.

Choudary said: ‘On 10th March 2009 200 pathetic and cowardly British soldiers from the second battalion, of the Royal Anglian Regiment, pompously marched through Luton to demonstrate their skill at murdering and torturing thousands of innocent Muslim men, women and children (in Iraq) over a 24-month period.’

Choudary leads the controversial Islam For The UK organisation which wants Britain to be an Islamic state, ruled by Sharia law.

His group was formed after Bakri’s fundamentalist organisation Al-Muhajiroun was banned by the Government.

He said: ‘Non-Muslims in Britain must appreciate that the actions of the British soldiers must be condemned unreservedly; they are not heroes but closer to cowards who cannot fight, as their uncanny knack for death by ‘friendly fire’ illustrates.’

His cruel comments were clearly designed to mock the memory of Private Darren George, 23, from Pirbright, Surrey, who was accidentally shot by a colleague in Kabul on April 9, 2002.

SCUMLINK TO REST OF STORY

THESE ARE THE IMAGES FROM MORNING PAPER, THESE ARE SOME OF THE SCUMMY UNWASHED,SMELLY LICE INFESTED BASTARDS GREETING TROOPS.

HERE IS WHAT PASSES FOR MUSLIM EYE CANDY.  SMELLY , HAIRY , LICE RIDDEN, UNWASHED SKANKS.
this is the price to be paid for allowing these sub-humans to live among a higher order. these are the breeders. they produce what’s seen in photo above, and below. and they breed like the insects they are.

INTERESTING THAT ONE SIGN CLAIMING ENGLAND A TERROR STATE.  IF IT’S THAT, THEN WHY DOESN’T HE GO LIVE IN AN islamic COUNTRY?

Good seeing the sign in lower right.
Just once I wish the cops would turn away and let the troops FIRE AT WILL.  But then all that paperwork ...

Posted by peiper     on 03/11/2009 at 09:06 AM   
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GITMO BLO-HARD SCUM PROUD OF 9/11, AND MUSLIM SCUM HERE PROTEST BRIT SOLDIERS HOMECOMING

It’s just a little after 8am here in Comrade Commissar Brown’s Nanny Republik and a couple of items caught my eye in morning papers. And this before coffee.
I’m too tired to be PO’d yet but it’ll come when I fully wake I’m sure.

There are so many stories to share ... if I can still find the link. One even might be funny if I read it again.
The headline reads,” EU Law will let atheists sue over crucifixes.” No kidding.  It really does say that but if I read it again I’ll find the explanation for so silly a headline.  Altho .... EU?  Hmmmm.  Well maybe?

Next door to us a new house was built all through the last year.  For one reason or another the construction was slowed due to the bankruptcy of the original builder, then the entire roof was discovered to have the wrong pitch and so the whole thing had to be replaced. Meanwhile the scaffolding company that was first hired wasn’t paid and so all those pipes and planks had to be dismantled and you can’t imagine the noise that made as they dropped everything.
Then another company was hired and they had to put up their scaffolding and then it was found that some kind of support beam ( there is a proper name but I forget what it is) well that was missing and so a whole other part of the upstairs front window and casement had to be torn down and rebuilt.
And now construction/repair is on again as the roof has developed a leak and the stuff (I don’t know the name) under the tiles that looks like cement, well it’s faulty or something and it all has to be replaced.  And all this is going on right now next door.  They even need to put their ladder in our drive (which is ok) to do the work tho I don’t know why as they didn’t need to do that when they built the place.  This is the same house I posted a week or so ago about the wheelchair ramp.  ALWAYS something.

Add to all of that, the folks who moved in are NEVER,EVER done with projects.  As soon as one thing is done they find another thing to start on and it always involves noise of some kind. Always!  They even talk loud.

THIS USED TO BE SUCH A QUIET PLACE. 

Now then, take a good look at the faces in the photo.  Anything there that looks remotely human except for the fact that they are upright?
They have some nerve talking about innocents killed considering what they espouse.
G_D damn but I really HATE those bastards! 

OK, things getting back to normal.
Pissed off. Again.

Muslim extremists shouted abuse at British soldiers during a home-coming march by the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment.

Last Updated: 6:43PM GMT 10 Mar 2009
Muslim extremeists: Muslim extremists shout abuse at British soldiers during home-coming march
Muslim extremeists: Two lines of police officers protected the anti-war protestors from a large number of locals Photo: SOUTH BEDS NEWS

A group of around 20 men in traditional Islamic dress held up banners and placards that read: “Anglian Soldiers Butchers of Basra”, “Anglian Soldiers Criminals, Murderers Terrorists” and “Baby killers”.

As the battalion, which is nicknamed The Poachers, reached Luton Town Hall the small group shouted and yelled “Terrorists” and “Anglian Soliders Go to Hell.”

The protestors then had to be protected by police as angry supporters of the soldiers turned on them shouting: “Scum” and “No surrender to the Taliban.”

As the parade finished in St George’s Square in front of the Duke of Gloucester, Colonel-in-chief for the regiment, the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, Sam Whitbread, a General Sir John McColl KCB and the Mayor of Luton, Councillor Lakhbir Singh, police had to force the protestors into a small area reserved for them by the town’s Arndale Shopping Centre.

Two lines of police officers protected the anti-war protestors from a large number of locals, some waving Union and St George’s flags, who turned their attention to them rather than the inspection of the soldiers by the dignitaries. There was a stand off between the two any groups who yelled insults at each other.

Police dogs and riot vans were also called to the scene to keep the two sides apart.

In all 200 soldiers led by a military band marched through Luton to mark their return home from a second six-month tour of Iraq in two years.

Luton’s Mayor Councillor Lakhbir Singh said: “The Royal Anglian Regiment was given freedom of the town some years ago and we are proud to welcome them back. We hope as many people as possible will come out and show their support and appreciation of these brave soldiers.”

Five men charged over the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US have said they wear the accusation like “badges of honour” and are “terrorists to the bone”.

They mocked the US intelligence authorities for having been “unable to foil our attacks”.
The comments from the men, who are detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, were disclosed in a court document released by the Pentagon.

Sept 11 suspects defend actions as Guant?namo war court reconvenes
The five – including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the so-called mastermind of the attacks – have indicated that they intend to plead guilty to charges of murder.
The US had intended to try them in military court hearings, which have been suspended by Barack Obama, the President, pending a review.
The document details how the men attempt to justify the attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people.

It makes reference to the shooting down of an Iranian jet by a US warship in 1988 and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“Does your blood have a value and the blood of Muslims not?” they ask.
Referring to the charges, the document states: “With regards to these nine accusations that you are putting us on trial for, to us, they are not accusations. To us they are badges of honour, which we carry with pride.”
It continues: “Our religion is a religion of fear and terror to the enemies of God: the Jews, Christians, and pagans. With God’s willing, we are terrorists to the bone.”

If found guilty of the charges against them, the five men could face the death penalty.
Three of the five men are representing themselves in the court proceedings.

But two – Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa al-Hawsawi – have Pentagon-appointed military attorneys – neither of whom have met their clients to discuss the document released today.

Their lawyers, Major Jon Jackson and Commander Suzanne Lachelier, said in a statement: “There is no evidence that either Mr Binalshibh or Mr al-Hawsawi knew about, read or undersigned this document.”
A spokesman for the Pentagon said that the court filing was “merely another attempt by these detainees to garner publicity.”

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Both the articles above come from the Telegraph.

There is also much bru-haha going on at the moment with regard to Brits helping Americans re. torture of “detainees” in other countires, with bleeding hearts calling for an investigation which btw seems very likely.  Something about “EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION.” Has a ring to it that does.  Everyone wringing hands and writing about oh we can’t do that sort of thing blah,blah.  Lets get to the truth, blah,blah. 

Ladies and gents, this ain’t no way to fight an enemy.  They get lawyers?  Why?  Is it okay to say I think their lawyers should have accidents?
With all the mayhem and all the killing that goes on around the world every day, how come NO lefties or their lawyers bite the dust?  No news of any assassinations of lawyers or terrorists.  Nobody disappeared at the aclu or amnasty. Nothing.  These folks are leading a very charmed life. They really are.
And that is NOT a good thing!
Aren’t there any patriots left out there who can Un-Charm them?

I guess you folks know the UN is on our case again, it’s reported here.  Something about ... war crimes and torture?  Bad Americans. Naughty. Go sit in corner.
But save the world first.  Screw-em !  Don’t much care for the UN either. 

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   Tuesday - March 10, 2009

Remains of Shakespeare’s first Globe Theatre unearthed in East London. AWESOME!!!

Hey ... What a great find!

I’m not a huge fan and to be honest never have been able to grasp the language in the plays.
But I am impressed with things like this when they are found.  And I like Archaeology. Except the spelling of same of which I’ve noticed two ways to do so.
But there was ONLY ONE GLOBE THEATER.  or, Theatre for the Brits.

Remains of Shakespeare’s first Globe Theatre unearthed in East London

By Graham Smith
Last updated at 10:10 AM on 10th March 2009

The remains of William Shakespeare’s first theatre have been found in East London.

Archaelogists from the Museum Of London unearthed what they believe to be part of the original curved wall of the first Globe Theatre in Shoreditch.

The team made their discovery a metre and a half below street level last summer.

Since then they have uncovered the Tudor structure’s gravel surface, the area where the audience would have stood that sloped down towards the stage.

They have also found a fragment of pottery of a man with beard that resembles Shakespeare.

But the stage itself is now thought to be buried under a housing development.

The theatre was built outside the city in 1576, in what were then known as the ‘suburbs of sin’, the team’s leader Taryn Nixon told the BBC.
Enlarge Archaeologist Heather Knight walks on the site of what is thought to be London’s first purpose built playhouse

There are plans to build a new theatre on the Shoreditch site with an opening date of 2012

How it looked: A drawing of the Globe Theatre. It was built with materials dismantled from the East London theatre built by James Burbage

‘The Lord Mayor actually passed a decree that there shouldn’t be any theatrical performances in the city,’ she said.

‘So just on the edge of the city is actually, classically, where you find all the slightly wilder, slightly more fun activities going on.’

Twenty-five years after its construction, the theatre was dismantled piece by piece and rebuilt on London’s South Bank.

In the 1990s the Globe Theatre was reconstructed at this location and has hosted Shakespearean productions ever since.

There are now plans to build a new theatre on the Shoreditch site of the first playhouse with an opening date of 2012.

Meanwhile, a 400-year-old painting thought to be the only surviving portrait of Shakespeare from his lifetime was today unveiled.

The picture, painted in 1610, six years before the playwright’s death, has been owned by the Cobbe family since the early 18th century.

But for three centuries they were unsure if the subject was Britain’s greatest writer. At one point it was thought to be Sir Walter Raleigh, although experts now believe it was indeed the Bard.

Elsewhere on Monday, a newly identified portrait of the Bard was unveiled.

The 400-year-old painting is thought to be the only surviving portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime.

It was painted in 1610, six years before the playwright’s death, at the age of 46.

There has long been controversy over his portraits with the accuracy of many being called into question.
Enlarge shakespeare

BARD

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EYE CANDY AS CARLA SPARKLES IN DIAMONDS.

I’m posting this as Eye Candy because the lady really does look great.  Don’t much care for her politics but hey, I’m not married to her.
I’m happy to simply look and appreciate.
However, there is a complete and somewhat interesting article that goes with the photos.
If you care, hit the link > > CARLA SPARKLES, FRANCE ANGRY!

Carla sparkles in diamonds but Sarkozys’ lavish state visit to Mexico sparks outrage in recession-hit France.

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School bans CCTV film check to protect iPod thief’s rights.  Can they get any dumber?

BMEWS readers all ....

I read part (okay only the headline) of an article this morning that says people who are always angry are at risk of heart attacks.
So I thought ... hmmmm.  They’re talkin’ to me.  Maybe I’d better say my goodbyes now while I can and while I still feel fit.

So just in case the worst happens, it’s been great knowin’ ya’ll and here’s just another example of why I’m perpetually pissed off!

This appeared in this morning’s Telegraph on page 13.  Unfortunately, the story isn’t online in their site. Typical of these SOBs and so I’m PO’d on that score too as I had to go to something called Press Display and sign up for an account where they give me a couple of free articles a week I think it is.  So that means I haven’t a direct link to the article.  But you can tell I am NOT making this up.

So now I’m 2wice angry. 

Here is more lunacy from comrade socialist nanny state.

10 Mar 2009
The Daily Telegraph
By Richard Savill

School bans CCTV film check to protect iPod thief’s rights

ATEENAGER whose £165 iPod was stolen from a school changing room has been told that he cannot view CCTV footage because it would infringe the rights of the thief.

Oliver Wheen, 16, wanted to see if there was footage of the incident at Varndean School in Brighton to identify the suspect, but was refused permission by teachers who cited the Data Protection Act.
The schoolboy’s bag, containing his house keys and books, as well as the iPod, was taken during a PE lesson, forcing his mother, Lesley Wheen, to change the locks on their home.

Mrs Wheen, whose son also made an unsuccessful request under the Freedom of Information Act to view the footage, said: “It makes a bit of a mockery of having the cameras in the first place. What are they actually there for? If they are supposed to be a deterrent they obviously have not deterred anyone.”
The schoolboy asked to see the footage from cameras covering the entrance to the changing room after his bag was stolen while he was in a 90-minute games lesson which included trampolining in the sports hall.

A spokesman for the school said: “As a rule it is locked but every child knows that if they have anything valuable in their bag they have to give it to the teacher for them to lock up.
“There are no CCTV cameras in the changing rooms for privacy reasons so the only footage would have been someone walking out with the pupil’s bag.
“It has been reviewed and nothing like that was seen.”

The boy was initially allowed to watch the footage in fastforward alongside a member of staff, but after he complained the video needed to be shown in real time he was referred to a senior teacher who made clear he should not have been shown it in the first place.
Wendy Kassamani, the information compliance officer for Brighton and Hove council, said: “You are entitled to CCTV footage of yourself but not of other people.”

The school said police and designated members of staff were allowed to view the footage. “The matter including the footage has been passed to police.”
The spokesman added that it was the choice of pupils as to whether they brought an iPod into school.

Pupils had responsibility for their iPods and they were not allowed to use them in lessons unless directed to by the teachers.
The teenager’s bag has been handed back three weeks after it vanished.

Sussex Police are investigating the theft of the iPod which is still missing.

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They allowed a fast forward view. Oh that’s a big help.  Can you folks believe this crap? So they watched and nothing showed up. Fine. But this is so darn stupid it defies description.  So I’ll leave the rest of that to you.

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   Monday - March 09, 2009

Muslim sues after workmates ‘laughed at his beard’.  got it. so now ya can’t laugh either. ok.

Thought I was through for the night until I saw this.

Here we go yet again.  Another muslim suing.  Yawn.

Sorry there achmed or whatever the hell your name is, I already forgot it, I don’t buy any of your story except the part about laughing at that absolutely ridiculous, asinine and stupid looking beard.  Sue me.  It looks fake and phony and I can’t understand how this jerk can’t look in a mirror and see that.  Simply amazing.

It really doesn’t ever end people.  That because it’s allowed to go on and on and on.  Because these folks all have “rights” don’tcha know.

Anyway ... take a look at this stupid looking thing and let us know if you laughed too.

Muslim PC sues after workmates ‘laughed at his beard’

By Andrew Levy
Last updated at 9:10 AM on 09th March 2009

A Muslim police officer claims he was forced out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a ‘f***ing Paki’.

PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly discussed in front of him how they were ‘ better’ than their ethnic-minority colleagues.

The married father of two also claims officers pulled faces at each other if told they had to go out on patrol with him and forced him to walk home from a job instead of picking him up.

Well of course they’d “pull faces” because nobody normal would wanna been seen with you.  You’re embarrassing. Schmuck.

Mr Iqbal says he was sacked after fellow-officers in Luton launched a ‘smear and witch-hunt campaign’ during which they lodged a string of complaints about his performance.

He is taking the Bedfordshire force to an employment tribunal claiming he is the victim of racial and religious discrimination and unfair dismissal.

The claims will add to concern about institutional racism in police forces.

An employment tribunal in London recently heard evidence that an ‘apartheid culture’ was operated at Belgravia police station, with separate vans for white and black staff.

Mr Iqbal, who was born and raised in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, told the Daily Mail: ‘My beard is an important part of my identity which helps other Muslims relate to me.

‘I am disgusted that I was bullied by other officers because of my beliefs. I became a policeman because I believed in putting something back into society.

‘I have found that institutional racism is still very much around.’

Mr Iqbal was working in Hertfordshire County Council’s finance department when he became a special constable for the Bedfordshire force, one day a week.

Following the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005, he volunteered to go on patrol every night after work for two weeks to help reassure the large Muslim population of Luton, who were concerned about revenge attacks.

In October that year he was accepted on to a training course to become a full-time constable.

He says the first racist incident came in early 2006. He claims he was in a van with seven PCs and three ‘tutor’ constables - including one other Muslim - which stopped for food at a shop which did not sell halal products. When he asked if they were stopping anywhere else, he was told: ‘This is it.’

One officer allegedly mimicked his accent and pretended to have a beard similar to his in an ‘ offensive’ incident.

Matters worsened in September 2006 when eight officers presented ‘negative statements’ to superiors about Mr Iqbal, including an allegation that he failed to help a colleague arresting a violent offender.

He said he was cleared the following June when CCTV showed he was dealing with other people at the time.

But relations with fellow officers hit a new low in February 2008, three months after he officially lodged his grievances. A sympathetic officer told him the document had been left in the duty room where anyone could read it.

Subsequently, he said, an officer had openly referred to him as a ‘f***ing Paki’.

Mr Iqbal had only recently returned to work after a ninemonth leave of absence on full pay owing to depression when he was sacked for poor performance in August last year. He says he was the victim of untrue allegations, such as failing to report a rape claim. He insists the woman complained only of harassment at the time.

Mr Iqbal’s wife, Surhya, 30, a preschool headmistress, said: ‘Javid has gone through depression quite badly. There were times when he was asleep continuously for three days. Previously, I felt if something was wrong we would be able to rely on the police. Now I know how it works on the inside I’ve lost faith.’

A source at Bedfordshire Police claimed Mr Iqbal was sacked because he was ‘not cut out to be a police officer’. A spokesman added: ‘We can’t comment on a case that is yet to be heard but the evidence will speak for itself.’

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WHILE DREW IS, “STILL WORKING,” SOME FOLKS ARE HAVING A GREAT TIME HERE ..

Well first of all there’s a headline in the paper today on page 6 of The Telegraph except heaven forbid they (Telegraph) make it easy to find on line.

Anyway it says the following.

MOTHERS ON BENEFIT ‘BETTER OFF’ THAN WORKING WOMEN

So is anyone surprised? See if Drew were a female with lottsa kids or an airplane hijacker or a member of the ROP who couldn’t be deported, he could be here collecting benefits from wealthy comrade taxpayer thank you native citizens, instead of cleaning windows of capitalist landowner with big house and barn.  See how easy that is?  Works for some.  Of course, the Brits are pretty well pissed off about it all but there isn’t an election scheduled for another year I believe.  And Mr. Brown sure as heck ain’t gonna call one.  Hey ... if he didn’t call one when his ratings were okay, he sure as heck is NOT gonna call one now.  And if anyone thinks the Conservatives here will be much better, well ,,,, I’m not so sure about that either.

Some editorialist or finance guy recently wrote that this place is going to the dogs, (italics mine) and to get out if you can while you can.

Then there’s another story from The Mail about a pretty lady with 6 kiddies and maybe three dads who never knew she was was not taking ‘The Pill’ because she wanted kids, kids and more kids.  She loves em and wants em but the article didn’t tell me whose paying for it all.
Right now she’s living with a lawyer and so maybe she isn’t collecting any benefits. ??  The fathers she says were indeed tricked but hey ...
“It’s my body so I don’t feel bad” she says.  “I thought it would be a challenge.”

Great role model for those little girls she has.  She says that when they’re old enough, she’ll tell em that she loved and wanted them so much that she lied to their dads just to have em.  Some logic that is but I guess so far it works for her.  But I do feel sorry for those adorable little girls.  When they’re older they will ask questions.  And they may not be happy with her answers.

But back to Drew and still working.  Poor Drew.  Can’t be fun in this weather.  BUT ... well now if he were a crinimal ( I spelled it the way I wanted it to sound) and living here, he might have benefits as well. 

Prisoners paid £5m compensation for early release
Criminals released early from prison under a scheme to end overcrowding have been paid more than £5 million in compensation, official figures show.

By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 6:05PM GMT 08 Mar 2009

The payouts are intended to reimburse convicts for the cost of food and accommodation that would have been provided by the state if they had stayed in prison.

The Government introduced the controversial payments in June 2007 when it launched the End of Custody Licence (ECL), under which prisoners serving short terms are released nearly three weeks early to free up cells.

Offenders – including some convicted of violent crimes – are entitled to around £7 a day plus a one-off payment of £46, as they are not allowed to claim state benefits for the duration of their licence period.

Figures released by Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, after demands from the Tories showed that prison governors had paid out £2.27 million and the Department for Work of Pensions £3.11 million under the scheme.

With the £429,000 spent on administering the initiative, taxpayers have paid out close to £6 million to compensate criminals for letting them out of prison early.

The 49,800 inmates who have already benefited from the scheme have committed nearly 1,000 crimes while on ECL release, according to Government statistics.

Dominic Grieve, the shadow justice secretary, condemned the payments, saying that the money would be better spent on prisoner rehabilitation.

“Hard-pressed taxpayers will be flabbergasted to learn they are compensating prisoners for being released early – it just adds insult to injury,” he said. “Money that could have been spent holding and rehabilitating prisoners is being spend on releasing them to re offend.

Figures obtained last December showed that foreign prisoners have received more than £369,455 under the early release programme.

The Government said that the scheme was a temporary measure to ease overcrowding and said that only prisoners with personal savings less than £500 received the payments.

David Hanson, the justice minister, said: “We will end ECL when there is sufficient prison capacity to do so.”

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Aid convoy stoned by irate Egyptians.  Ha. Good.  It’s that Commie Galloway Guy .. read.

Just so you folks know who don’t know and now ya will.

This Galloway buffoon (I call him that but he isn’t really totally stupid) is a true blue Anti-American so and so , and so I haven’t any problems reading that he may be having a problem here and there.  Wish they’d keep him where he is.

I don’t think he’s still a member of Parliament.  Lyndon?  Did he lose his seat?  Doesn’t read that way.  I thought he was out. 

Anyway, he is pretty shrewd but then so were Hitler and Stalin and Mao.  But this Galloway is slicker by far you can bet your butt on that.

Here’s something from The Clue Batting Cage that will give you some idea.

H/T philmon.blogspot.com

Thursday, August 04, 2005
The Gall of George Gallway

BBC News reports that Incessant Terror Apologist George Gallway ("Respect" party, UK) is praising Iraq “martyrs”.

Some in the British Government are trying to downplay any influence the man has, presumably over Islamist militants. But they miss the point.

He says:

“It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony.”

And that isn’t all this guy says.  Again, from the same source as above:

“These poor Iraqis - ragged people, with their sandals, with their Kalashnikovs, with the lightest and most basic of weapons - are writing the names of their cities and towns in the stars, with 145 military operations every day, which has made the country ungovernable.

“We don’t know who they are, we don’t know their names, we never saw their faces, they don’t put up photographs of their martyrs, we don’t know the names of their leaders.”

Now then, this is just part of what the blog had to say and by all means use that link above for more.

Clearly openly and drippingly romanticising the Baathist and Islamist resistance and dismissing the other 20 million or so Iraqis who want nothing to do with Ba’athists or Islamist extremists. This is clearly a recruitment speech. Gallway is a mouthpiece for the Islamists. He is working for them. He is a traitor.

So you can see why I’m so nit picky and pleased when things don’t go exactly as this guy would like.  Whatever causes him agro, I’m all for it.

George Galloway convoy stoned by irate Egyptians
A British aid convoy led by George Galloway, the east London MP, that was carrying relief supplies for Gaza, was pelted with stones and vandalised in the Egyptian town El-Arish late on Sunday, an organiser said.

by Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: 9:22AM GMT 09 Mar 2009

The convoy, which set out from London last month carrying relief supplies valued at £1 million ($1.4 million), was in El-Arish, a border staging post about 28 miles from the Rafah passage to Gaza.

“It’s an absolute disgrace,” said the organiser of the aid shipment, Yvonne Ridley. “The power was cut. During cover of darkness members of our convoy were attacked with stones.

“Vandals also wrote dirty words and anti-Hamas slogans,” she said. “Several people in the convoy were injured in the attack.”

A security official said that during a power cut, which is a frequent occurrence in the town, children had pelted the convoy with stones.

The convoy is expected to head to Rafah but its future movement is tied up in a dispute between organisers and Egyptian officials, who had welcomed the activists, over the inclusion of non-medical aid in the convoy.

Egyptian officials have said they would allow medical relief through the Rafah passage but non-medical goods such as food would have to pass through Israel’s crossings with the Palestinian enclave.

“George Galloway is still in negotiations,” Ridley said. “What we have agreed to do is to separate the medical aid from the non-medical aid. The non-medical will go into Gaza via the Egyptian Red Crescent.”

Ten Libyan trucks carrying medicine were allowed to transfer their aid to Gaza on Sunday, a border official said.

Egypt opened the Rafah crossing to aid and Palestinian wounded during Israel’s 22-day war in Gaza in December and January, which killed 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, but has since closed it to aid.

It is not the first time the shipment has attracted controversy. Three men arrested by counter-terrorism police last month were allegedly planning to leave Britain as part of the convoy to Gaza.

A spokesman said police had not contacted the organisors in relation to the arrests.

TELEGRAPH

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WOO-HOO … I THINK THE NORTH KOREANS MIGHT BE A TAD UPSET WITH US.

Gee, Maybe we should just apologize since we’re busy in other places.
No wait. Before we do anything or try and respond, we should check first with Europe to see what they say.  Maybe they’ll be able to help since they like us now. ?  Hmmm. Maybe they only like Barry.  Maybe we could just send him? Hey. I like that. Lets send Barry over there to talk with them.

They so seem a bit touchy here but I wonder if they’re bluffing.

What?  Me Worry?

btw ... Are you folks back home getting this story this way? 

North Korea threatens full scale war if rocket is intercepted
North Korea says it will wage war on America, Japan and South Korea if any attempt is made to intercept the launch of a rocket it claims is intended to put a satellite into space.

By Richard Spencer in Beijing
Last Updated: 7:13AM GMT 09 Mar 2009

It has also cut off its border and telephone links with the South in protest at military exercises by American and South Korean troops which began on Monday.

Plans for a launch were first picked up by satellite imagery, with foreign intelligence agencies saying it was a test of a long-range Taepodong-2 missile with the capacity to hit parts of the United States.

The United States said it would shoot down the missile if it headed towards its territory. Japan has suggested it might try to intercept any launch, even if the payload is a communications satellite as claimed by Pyongyang.

“If the enemies recklessly opt for intercepting our satellite, our revolutionary armed forces will launch without hesitation a just retaliatory strike operation,” the general staff of the North Korean army said in a statement on state media. It singled out the United States, Japan and South Korea as targets.

“Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war,” it said.

The North has put its army on full alert in the face of the annual spring military joint exercises begun today by the South Koreans and Americans.

It shut the border point which allows South Koreans to visit a special industrial zone in the city of Kaesong which is funded and run by South Korean companies. The South said 726 people had been turned back.

“It is nonsensical to maintain a normal communications channel at a time when the South Korean puppets are getting frantic with the above-said war exercises, levelling guns at fellow countrymen in league with foreign forces,” the North said.

Last week it also said it could not guarantee the safety of civilian aircraft which approached North Korean airspace during the exercises, causing airlines to adjust their routes.

This threat in particular is beyond the standard fare of North Korean rhetoric. It comes after six months of political uncertainty in relations between North Korea and the West, which had been improving slightly in the wake of a deal supposed to bring an end to its nuclear weapons programme.

Most western analysts linked the uncertainty to the stroke believed to have been suffered by the North’s leader, Kim Jong-il, last August.

This weekend he emerged to cast his ballot in elections for the country’s official parliament, in which he was a candidate.

Voting was expected to be unanimous. Only one candidate’s name appeared on each ballot, and while it was theoretically possible to cross that candidate’s name off, electors had to do so in a special booth, making clear they were dissenters.

The main focus of interest during these elections was rumours that Kim’s youngest son, Kim Jong-woon, would stand.

There is as yet no clear sign of a succession to the leadership. If the rumours were confirmed, Jong-woon would be the only one of the three sons to have been appointed to any official position, a clear sign that he was being marked out.

But as yet no names of candidates other than Kim senior have been given to the outside world.

N.KOREA

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still working

Back again to that mansion I did the windows on in the fall. This time around I’m cleaning the windows in the barn. Well, part of the barn. They converted about a fifth of it to a 2500 square foot “apartment”, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, with walk-in “attic” space of about 800 square feet - big enough to park at least 6 cars in if you could drive them up there. Lots of gigantic windows too, all fwench-paned double hungs with sash cords. Once again I’m doing a big window job using almost nothing but a 4” squeegee.

I was there all day yesterday. Hands are sore as hell today; not much call for window cleaning during the winter so my old paws are out of shape. Should be better today, and with luck I’ll finish the job today too. The windows hadn’t been cleaned in several years, plus all the dust and grit from painting and putting down hardwood floors.

Remind me someday to have a big old rant about how much I hate those aluminum storm window frames that people used to screw onto their houses over the original windows. Grrrrrrr.

See you later.

Posted by Drew458     on 03/09/2009 at 07:36 AM   
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   Saturday - March 07, 2009

Will Crime Rate Drop in Florida?

I saw this meme posted at the Rott, and figured I’d look into it a bit and expand and expound on it.



Florida Swamped By Concealed Carry Permit Applications

The state has a backlog of 95,000 applications for concealed gun permits and will hire more people to handle the paperwork.

The increase may have been due to residents saying they’re worried it may become harder to get a gun during the Obama administration. Others cite their wanting to be able to protect their families, especially in tough economic times.

In Tallahassee, a legislative panel gave the Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson permission on Wednesday to spend $3.9-million more so he can hire 61 temporary workers.

The state reported an increase in applications in November after the elections of Barak Obama.

Florida received 75,679 first-time concealed-weapon permit applications in 2007 and 86,269 in 2008, in addition to tens of thousands of renewal forms.

About 541,000 Floridians have permits for concealed weapons.

By law, the state must process permit applications within 90 days. A permit is valid for seven years and costs $117, which includes a $44 fee for state and federal background checks and a set of fingerprints.

The money to hire the new employees will come from fees paid by applicants not from general tax dollars.

Personally, I just love it to death that the new article reminds the people what the law is. Something not done here in New Jersey. Then I started to take a look at the numbers. $117 per permit times 95,000 new permit applications is $11.15 million just sitting around waiting for the state. Even minus the $44, that’s still $6.75 million in free tax revenue. Certainly enough to buy a couple school books or whatever.

Granted, this story is from last month, so the backlog may have ameliorated a bit. Or it may have gotten bigger. Who knows?

Then I took a look at Florida’s gun laws. Compared to New Jersey, they really don’t have any. You have to be 18 to own a firearm. You have to pass the NICS background check when you buy a gun from a licensed dealer. That’s about it. If you want to own a rifle, shotgun, or pistol, just go to the store and buy one. These CCW permit applications are only for those citizens wishing to carry a gun in their pocket while out in public. They can have all the guns they want back in their homes with no permits necessary.

Lastly I took a look at some of the population numbers. Florida has a bit more than 18 million citizens, but it is a very young population: almost 29% are under 18. So if you add the number of people applying for a permit to those who already have a CCW, then divide that by the over 18 population, you will see that more than 4.7% of the adult population is legally able (or trying to be able) to carry a gun in their pocket.

And you know what I call that, when roughly 5% of the adults are armed at all times? I call that a start. C’mon Florida, let’s get those numbers up to 50%. Every other citizen armed. Then watch the crime rate fall to nearly zero. Except in the hoods, where the locals will continue shooting each other all the time anyway. But they’d do that, permits or not, gun laws or not. Makes no difference.

Posted by Drew458     on 03/07/2009 at 03:44 PM   
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Serial teenage criminals to escape with a slap on the wrist.  Like Always. Great message here.

Cool way to fight crime and thugs in the street. Not.

Must be a comfort to victims here reading this.  This will all one day end in a Mad Max society. I know I’ve said that before. Thing is, I really believe it unless and until people do something to reverse things.  But I doubt that will happen.

Junkie burglars ‘cheat justice’: Serial teenage criminals to escape with a slap on the wrist
By James Slack
Last updated at 10:43 AM on 07th March 2009

Serial teenage burglars and muggers could escape with a caution if they have a drug habit, it emerged last night.

Even when a tearaway commits a string of crimes, a ‘conditional caution’ could be handed down instead of a court trial and possible jail sentence.
The conditions could involve simply saying sorry to victims or repairing damage. The Tories called the controversial Government proposals ‘cheating justice’. Critics fear they remove a significant deterrent to repeat offending.
Last year, under-18s committed more than 6,500 house burglaries and 6,300 robberies and were involved in 47,000 cases of theft and handling stolen goods.

The new guidelines will allow burglars to escape with a caution if they have a drug habit
Shadow Justice Secretary Dominic Grieve said burglaries, thefts, robberies and muggings would all be covered by the new rules.
He added: ‘People will be rightly shocked at the idea of serial offenders receiving a single caution for numerous offences. Labour’s reliance on out-of-court measures is cheating justice.’

The plan is at odds with recent directions from the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge.
He told the courts to give tougher sentences to housebreakers to reflect the fact that people’s homes should be their ‘safest refuge’.
Youth Conditional Cautions, which will be introduced later this year, are designed for young criminals whose offence is considered too serious for a warning or a final reprimand or who have already had both of these softer ‘punishments’.

Conditional cautions were originally supposed to be issued for one or at the most two offences, a plan which was controversial in itself.
But new guidelines published by the Ministry of Justice say prosecutors may use the caution for a string of crimes - if they were each considered suitable for out-of-court action.
The document explains that this may apply to ‘similar offences related to the same underlying problem (for example acquisitive crime to fund a drug habit)’.

Shocked: Shadow Justice Secretary Dominic Grieve said the measures mean offenders can cheat justice
It also discloses that a young offender who misses a compulsory drug rehabilitation appointment - a possible condition of the caution - may still be treated as having complied.
The document emerges on the day after the Daily Mail revealed huge increases in crimes such as robbery in Labour’s ‘decade of juvenile delinquency’.
Figures from the Youth Justice Board showed the total number of offences carried out by 10 to 17-year-olds in 2007/08 was 277,986 - or more than one every two minutes.

Lord Judge had called for jail terms for burglaries with aggravating factors such as stealing sentimental items or preying on the elderly.
He said: ‘The principle which must be grasped is that when we speak of dwelling-house burglary we are considering not only an offence against property, which it is, but also, and often more alarmingly and distressingly, an offence against the person.’

He said the home should be our ‘safest refuge’ and burglary, by any starting point, was a ‘serious criminal offence’.
Handing young burglars a conditional caution would effectively set aside this guidance, as the thief would not even appear before a court.
Prior to Judge Judge’s intervention, the Sentencing Guidelines Council had been suggesting that burglars and thieves who steal to fund an addiction to drugs, gambling or alcohol could escape a prison sentence - even if they targeted a vulnerable victim.
Youth Conditional Cautions were introduced by the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.

For more on the story, go here.

JUSTICE?

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