Tuesday - August 02, 2005

Politically Correct Blackmail

I almost started this post with “I don’t believe this ....” but after watching the PC crowd over the last 10-15 years, I am saddened to say, yes, I can easily believe this will happen ....

Britain Could Pay One Million Dollars To Brazilian Family

LONDON, (AFP) - Britain’s Metropolitan Police could pay up to one million dollars in damages to the family of the innocent Brazilian who was shot dead in a bungled anti-terror chase in London, a newspaper reported. The Daily Mail said John Yates, deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, was expected to make an initial payment to the family of electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, 27.

However, legal experts quoted by the Daily Mail believe the force could end up paying up to one million dollars to the impoverished family. Police officials were quoted as saying the final figure will be “very substantial.” In Sao Paulo, the Globonews website said a British government delegation had arrived in Brazil Sunday and would travel Monday to de Menezes’ home town of Gonzaga, in southeast Brazil, to meet his parents to discuss compensation.

De Menezes was killed on July 22 after British police followed him from a London address they had been watching in connection with four failed bomb attacks the day before. Mistaking him for a suicide bomber, officers cornered the Brazilian inside a subway train and shot him eight times at close range, seven times in the head. He was buried in Gonzaga on Friday in a ceremony that attracted an estimated 10,000 people and was marked by anti-British protests.

You already know the facts: (1) Menezes was in the country illegally since his visa had expired, (2) he was seen wearing a heavy overcoat in the Tube in July, (3) when police tried to detain him for questioning he ran, (4) he resisted police until they shot him.

Now, what does this tell us about the recently deceased? 

Well, it tells me:

• He didn’t care a fig about British law or else he would have (a) applied to renew his visa or (b) gone back to Brazil. This made him a criminal and an illegal alien, according to British law. As such, he should have been jailed or deported anyway. Thanks to British Liberals like Cherie Blair, wife of PM Tony Blair, it is almost impossible to find or get rid of these creeps who defy British law once they get into the country. Verdict: criminal.


• He was badly overdressed for the occasion. As the saying goes, only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun but our criminal from Brazil felt the need to dress up in a heavy overcoat in July in the stuffy confines of the London Tube. This man would probably have been stupid enough to try to stroll through airport security in New York with a dozen box cutters in his pockets a few weeks after 9/11. Verdict: stupid.


• He obviously had a guilty conscience about something else why would he run away when police shouted at him to stop and answer questions. He ran away and struggled with police when they finally caught up to him. What was on his mind (beside the five bullets he earned for his stupidity)? British Bobbies are the most polite, easygoing police force in the world. What did he have to fear? Verdict: guilty.


• Scenario: you’re surrounded by heavily armed cops who are obviously very pissed at you for running away from them. What do you do? Me, I’d fall to the ground spread-eagled, face-down, and crying as loud as I could, “MOMMA, HELP ME! PLEASE DON’T SHOOT! PLEASE! PLEASE!”. It never hurts, in a situation like this, to let the nervous policemen know you are a craven coward who has just pissed his pants. Verdict: defiant.

There you have it .. a stupid criminal who felt guilty about something and decided to defy the police. And for this, his family and the bleeding heart Liberals in Britain think the government should pay this blackmail money of $1 million to this bunch of extortionists in Brazil. NO, SIR! Tell them to go pound sand. Tell them to s**t in one hand and wish in the other. Tell them to bugger off. And then kick the rest of the Menezas family out of Britain, whether they’re legal citizens or not. No more Mr. Nice Guy!

Britain should just tell Brazil: “YOU WANT A MILLION OUT OF US? COME AND GET IT, ASSHATS! WE’LL MEET YOU AT THE SHORE! CHEERIO!”

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/02/2005 at 09:12 AM   
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   Monday - August 01, 2005

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia Dead

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia died early this mornning of natural causes after a prolonged illness. He will be succeeded by Crown Prince Abdullah. It’s too bad the Saudis (and several other middle-eastern countries) can’t let go of these aristocratic regimes and dictatorships. A rich ruling class, rolling in money from oil sales and a huge population of poor has always been and always will be a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately for us in the West, these absolute rulers have deflected the rage of the poor away from themselves and against us. President Bush is right. The only way out of this dilemna is to introduce democracy to their little world. Naturally, on the news of King Fahd’s death, the price of oil took another jump to $61 per barrel. The shakiness of these regimes is another concern for the world’s markets and another reason why something must be done or we will be held ransom to every little change.

(BBC)—King Fahd, Saudi Arabia’s ruler since 1982, has died. Saudi state television announced that Crown Prince Abdullah had been named as King Fahd’s successor. King Fahd had been frail since suffering a stroke a decade ago and had delegated the running of the kingdom’s affairs to Crown Prince Abdullah. Defence Minister Prince Sultan is next in line to the throne after Abdullah, and was named crown prince, state television announced. Members of the royal family have already pledged allegiance to Abdullah. An official ceremony confirming him as the new king is due to be held on Wednesday.

King Fahd ascended the throne in 1982 after seven years as crown prince, making him absolute monarch of the world’s largest oil-producing country and home of Islam’s two holiest sites, the mosques at Mecca and Medina. He threw the weight of the kingdom behind Arab causes and was heavily involved in regional issues such as the search for a peaceful settlement to the Lebanese civil war which ended with an agreement signed in the kingdom. The monarch’s decision in 1990 to invite American forces into Saudi Arabia after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait was heavily criticised within the country. Many say it contributed to the rise of al-Qaeda whose leader, Osama bin Laden, is a Saudi-born businessman.

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   Friday - July 29, 2005

Help Your Sisters

I just finished reading this story in the Washington Post and immediately wondered where are all the feminists in the US? Shouldn’t they be going over to Afghanistan to help women achieve the unprecedented right to have their voices heard in government? Why isn’t N.O.W. (National Organization for Women) issuing a call to members to help their sisters overseas? Instead of running around America in an air-conditioned bus protesting against the war to set these women free, Jane Fonda should go over there and be a human shield for the women who are trying to run for office.  I am issuing a challenge to all the Liberal, bra-burning feminazis out there: go to Afghanistan and help your sisters .... or admit you’re the cowardly hypocrites I think you are ....

(WASHINGTON POST) CHARKH, Afghanistan—The note slipped under Mahmoud Shah’s front gate was written in a tidy, graceful hand. But the message brimmed with venom: “If you don’t stop campaigning for Noorzia Charkhi, your life will be in danger. Also tell Noorzia Charkhi that she should give up her candidacy. Aren’t you ashamed to put up posters of your family’s women in the bazaar?”

Charkhi, 36, is a journalist based in the capital, Kabul, who is campaigning for a seat in Afghanistan’s new parliament. But in this mud-walled village in Logar, the home province she hopes to represent, Charkhi’s candidacy is such a challenge to tradition that she and her relatives, including her cousin Shah, have faced repeated threats.

“I’m not going to quit, because I want to show people that a woman should be able to do these things. But definitely I fear for my life. . . . The people who did this already have blood on their hands,” Charkhi said during a visit to Shah’s home, 50 miles south of Kabul. “I’m even more afraid that they will smear my reputation,” she added. “That would be worse than death.”

Charkhi’s situation underscores both the difficulties facing female candidates running for office in the Sept. 18 parliamentary elections and the determination many have expressed as they embark on an unprecedented bid for political power.

Even though many Afghan families still prohibit wives and daughters from showing their faces in public, 328 women are running for the lower house of parliament, where 68 of 249 seats have been set aside for female representatives. An additional 237 are running for seats on provincial councils that will in turn appoint a third of the upper house. Despite the traditional restrictions on women, the guaranteed quota of legislative seats for them has given political parties, tribal leaders and powerful families an incentive to promote female candidates whom they might otherwise have ignored—or even banned from running.

“There is quite a bit of support for women running in the parliamentary elections—much more than we expected,” noted Rina Amiri, a U.N. political affairs officer who is monitoring the elections. Yet female candidates in provinces across the country have complained of receiving phone calls and letters threatening them with death if they don’t withdraw.

In southern Helmand province, U.N. officials are investigating reports of letters circulating that offer a $4,000 reward for killing female candidates. In southeastern Zabol province, unknown gunmen tried to hijack a car belonging to Zarmina Pathan, a candidate and employee of a local aid organization. Afghan and U.N. officials said they are investigating whether the attack was a routine crime or an attempt to intimidate her.

In Logar, Charkhi is not the only female candidate to face threats. Zobaida Stanekzai, 52, a school supervisor running for parliament, said she has little doubt about the motives of whoever set fire to the door of her mud-walled home several weeks ago. “They were trying to scare me into dropping out,” said Stanekzai, whose home was also attacked with a grenade last year when she took a job registering women to vote in the presidential election. “But my decision to be a candidate is unshakable.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/29/2005 at 06:24 AM   
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African Cleanup

Cox & Forkum

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   Monday - July 25, 2005

Blackmail

I am certainly glad I have a thick skull and a big head of hair. How else could I block out all those dangerous gamma rays that are penetrating the atmosphere and damaging the brains of so many people around the world? I sure save a lot of money on tin-foil, not having to build a new “barrier-hat” every day. The latest example of brain-damaged idiots is from .... Britain! Surprised? Not me. I just knew this was coming and it was only a matter of time before some idiot family member of the recently deceased Brazilian was contacted by some greedy barrister. It took a whole two days for the maggots to go after the police ....

Victim’s Family: Police Must Pay

^{Monday, July 25, 2005}

LONDON, England (CNN)—The family of a Brazilian man shot dead by armed police officers at a London subway station say they are considering legal action. Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old electrician, was killed in the aftermath of last Thursday’s attempted bombings of the London transit system. However police said on Saturday Menezes “was not connected” with the attacks.

Asked if his family was taking legal action, Menezes’ cousin Alex Alves Pereira said the police had to pay for the mistake.

“They have to pay for that in many ways, because if they do not, they are going to kill many people, they are going to kill thousands of people,” Pereira told BBC television. “They just kill the first person they see, that’s what they did.”

“They killed him because they had to show off. If they were so afraid of a bomb why did they let him get on the bus?”

Pereira said his family was upset and angry over the death, and he challenged police statements that Menezes failed to obey orders, and jumped a ticket barrier. He added that no amount of apologizing by police would bring his cousin back.

“When you do something wrong, you can’t have nothing to say—to say sorry is not enough.”

On Sunday Metropolitan Police Commissioner said he regretted Menezes’ death but defended the policy of shooting to kill suspected suicide bombers and warned that more people could be shot.

“To the family, I can only offer our deepest regrets,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair told Sky television. “I think we are quite comfortable that the policy is right, but of course these are fantastically difficult times. “It’s still happening out there, there are still officers having to make those calls as we speak,” he said, adding: “Somebody else could be shot.”

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   Thursday - July 21, 2005

London Bombed Again

The asshats are at it again, not as effectively this time, it seems. My guess is it’s the same group but they couldn’t fool the delivery boys into being suicide bombers this time so the whole thing got furked up ....

London blasts cause chaos on Tube

(BBC)—The Tube has been plunged into chaos and several stations evacuated after minor blasts on three trains and a bus. Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair said only three Tube lines were still suspended and it was time London started to return to normal. The minor explosions - just two weeks after blasts killed 56 - involved detonators only, a BBC reporter said. There was only one injury.

A blast was also reported on a Number 26 bus in Bethnal Green. There were no injuries and the bus suffered no structural damage. Eyewitnesses heard bangs and saw abandoned rucksacks at the sites of the incidents at Warren Street, Shepherd’s Bush Hammersmith and City line and Oval tube stations as well as the number 26 bus.

At Warren Street and Oval a man was seen running away from the scene. Large areas around all four sites were cordoned off. One person was injured at Warren Street. There were reports the injured person may have been holding a rucksack containing the detonator.

Sir Ian appealed for witnesses with mobile phone pictures of any of the incidents to send them to www.police.uk And he said it was “time to get London moving” again. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: “We can’t minimise incidents such as this because they obviously have been serious in the four different places as we know.

“I think all I’d like to say is this that we know why these things are done, they’re done to scare people and to frighten them, to make them anxious and worried.” The BBC’s Andrew Winstanley said devices had been found but appeared to have been dummies, containing no explosives.

Terrorism experts are already saying the bombings were “amateurish” and could likely be a copycat group ....

Jeremy Binnie, an analyst with the London-based Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center, said there were key differences between Thursday’s explosions and the previous blasts. The latest ones did not take place at rush hour, they targeted more outlying stations, and “if there were bombs, they seem to have been duds,” Binnie said. “It seems much more amateurish in many ways,” he told The Associated Press. That could suggest they were a copycat operation, but Binnie cautioned that it was too early to tell. He noted that investigations into the July 7 blasts showed signs there could be a second cell in existence.

Keith Burnet, an expert at the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London, also said the blasts appeared to be part of a “copycat exercise, carried out by people not as sophisticated as the bombers who struck on July 7.”

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Afghan Pizza Man Convicted In Britain

Londoners might be surprised to learn they have been getting their pizzas from a murderous Afghan warlord ....

(MIDDLE EAST TIMES)— Afghan warlord Faryadi Sarwar Zardad was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a London court on July 19 for torture and hostage-taking in Afghanistan in a landmark case for international law.

Zardad, 42, who lived in south London, had denied the charges, which included keeping a “human dog” to savage his victims. The ruling came as Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai met Prime Minister Tony Blair during a brief trip to London. In the first trial of its kind under a UN torture convention, Zardad, who fled to Britain in 1998 on a fake passport, was prosecuted at the Old Bailey even though he is not a British citizen and his crimes were committed overseas.

Treacy said he was sure Zardad had personally shot dead one man in the presence of his men. He was also present and knew what was about to happen when a bus containing men of different ethnic origins was shot up.

The British jury, who unanimously convicted the warlord on Monday, heard evidence of summary execution, the slaughter of 10 or 11 men in a minibus, and an old man imprisoned in a metal cupboard and whipped with a bicycle cable. The court was also told about the “human dog” kept by Zardad and his men, a man in chains who would be set on victims to bite them.

Zardad fled to Britain in 1998 to seek asylum after fighting both the Russians and the Taliban during Afghanistan’s civil war between 1992 and 1996. He ran a pizza take-out shop in Streatham, a suburb of south London, but two years later was confronted first by a BBC television crew and then by British anti-terrorist detectives.

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   Tuesday - July 19, 2005

A Bloody Shame

What’s the world coming to when the only pirates to be found are off the waters of Iraq and Somalia? It’s a downright bloody shame, I tells ya. I see we’re gonna have to tighten up around this ship and head for the deep blue waters. There’s plenty of piratin’ and pillagin’ and rapin’ to be done, lads! AVAST!

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The number of pirate attacks worldwide hit a six-year low in the first half of 2005, but Iraq and Somalia emerged as increasingly perilous hotspots for commercial ships, a maritime watchdog said Wednesday. Globally, 127 vessels were attacked from January to June, a 30 percent drop from 182 cases in the same period last year, the International Maritime Bureau said in a report released by its piracy watch center in Kuala Lumpur.

It was the lowest first-half figure since 1999, the British-based bureau reported. No seafarers have been killed by pirates so far in 2005 compared to 30 by this time last year, the report said. Thirteen crew were injured, down from 44 in the first six months of 2004. The report offered no reasons for the declines.

But the International Maritime Bureau warned of “a new and worrying trend” of armed robberies in Iraqi waters, noting that four “serious incidents” were reported there between April and June, despite the presence of U.S.-led coalition naval ships in the area. Before this year, “attacks in and around Iraq were almost nonexistent,” the bureau noted. It did not give details on why Iraqi waters have become more dangerous.

Security also worsened dramatically off Somalia’s east coast, where bandits with guns and grenades attacked eight vessels and sometimes seized hostages for ransom. Only one attack occurred in Somalia between January and June last year.

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   Monday - July 18, 2005

The Wrath Of God

The French are in deep trouble now. It seems Pharoah Chirac has even got The Almighty mad. Perhaps he should let the Christians go before it gets worse ....

France faces drought, locusts
Jul. 17, 2005 at 9:41PM

On top of a severe drought, France is fighting a plague of hundreds of thousands of locusts. The locusts are devouring everything from crops to window-box flowers, reported the Observer.

“At the beginning they seem small, insignificant insects but they grow very quickly,” said Aveyron region farmer Gerard Laussel. “They eat everything that is green, leaving only stalks, and when they have finished they leave some kind of scent so the cattle do not want to graze on what is left.”

The French environment ministry said drought could be felt across most of France, but it mostly impacted from the Atlantic Ocean to Paris.

“There is nothing we can do for the 700 or 800 farmers affected,” said Patrice Lemoux, an agriculture official. “The locust has no known predator and the only insecticides which might make a difference are banned.”

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   Thursday - July 14, 2005

More French Merde

In France, the bus service is lousy, the drivers are obnoxious, you can’t talk while riding and the buses never run on time. On top of that, if you don’t like it and decide to car pool with your friends, they’ll sue you. Ya know, looking back on it, June 6, 1944 is starting to look like a really, really bad mistake on our part. In fact, the only thing France has given civilization in the past two thousand years is an example of how not to act. Stoopid frogs!

(Guardian-UK) They might have been congratulated for their “green” efforts in an area of heavy air pollution. Instead a group of French cleaning ladies who organised a car-sharing scheme to get to work are being taken to court by a coach company which accuses them of “an act of unfair and parasitical competition”. The women, who live in Moselle and work five days a week at EU offices in Luxembourg, are being taken to court by Transports Schiocchet Excursions, which runs a service along the route. It wants the women to be fined and their cars confiscated.

Two years ago a business tribunal threw out the company’s case. It is now pursuing the women in a higher court, claiming that their action has cost it €2m (£1.4m). The women explained that for many years cleaners used the TSE line for the 40-minute ride across the border, which cost them €110 (£76) a month.

“Using our cars is quicker and at least twice as cheap. And on the bus we didn’t have the right to eat or even to speak,” said Martine Bourguignon. Odette Friedmann added: “In the evening instead of coming to get us at 9.30pm the bus would arrive at 10.30pm. If you made any comment to the driver you’d get a mouthful of abuse.”

“It’s absurd and ridiculous,” said the women’s lawyer, Cécile Klein-Schmitt. “I don’t see how any magistrate can find any legal basis for this case.” TSE is also suing the women’s employer, Onet-Luxembourg. “They’ve basically accused us of inciting the car-sharing scheme when we have nothing to do with the method of transport used by our staff,” said director Frédéric Sirerol.

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   Wednesday - July 13, 2005

The Backlash Begins

In Britain, the backlash against Muslims has already started ....

Wednesday July 13, 2005
The Guardian

A Muslim man has been beaten to death outside a corner shop by a gang of youths who shouted anti-Islamic abuse at him, the Guardian has learned.

Kamal Raza Butt, 48, from Pakistan, was visiting Britain to see friends and family. On Sunday afternoon he went to a shop in Nottingham to buy cigarettes and was first called “Taliban” by the youths and then set upon.

Nottinghamshire police described the incident as racially aggravated, not as Islamophobic, angering Muslim groups and surprising some senior officers.

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The Brits Are Closing In

British police and intelligence forces raided a house in Leeds yesterday, blew up a suspected bomb and identified four Britons of Pakistani origin as the bombers who evidently blew themselves up in last Thursday’s London bombings ....

LONDON, July 12—Four young British citizens of Pakistani origin appear to have carried out last week’s bombings of the London transit system, blowing themselves up along with their victims in what would be the first suicide attacks in Western Europe, British police said Tuesday.

In a day of fast-moving developments, heavily armed police backed by army units raided six houses in and around the northern city of Leeds seeking evidence, arrested a relative of one of the suspects and carried out a controlled detonation of explosives at one of the sites.

The preliminary findings against native-born Muslims brought expressions of anguish from a prominent Islamic community leader, as well as warnings from security officials that other people involved in the plot were probably still at large and dangerous, including the presumed bombmaker behind the operation. Britain remained on its highest-ever security alert.

Investigators say they believe the men drove to the Luton train station 30 miles north of the capital early Thursday morning and boarded a train to King’s Cross station in north London. They were recorded there on closed-circuit security cameras just before 8:30 a.m.

Three of them boarded subway trains heading in different directions—one toward Liverpool Street and Aldgate, one toward Edgware Road and one toward Russell Square. Bombs blew up on those three trains within 50 seconds of one another about 8:50 a.m.

The fourth man wound up on a No. 30 double-decker bus that was diverted to nearby Euston station after the explosions shut down King’s Cross. His bomb detonated nearly an hour after the others at nearby Tavistock Square, killing at least 13 people.

In total, at least 52 people were killed and about 700 wounded.

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   Friday - July 08, 2005

Stiff Upper Lip

Londoners are going back to work today after the attacks yesterday left 50 dead and hundreds injured. The buses and “tubes” are operational again, except for a few lines where the attacks occurred. Police are on the lookout for more bombs ....

(BBC) Many Londoners are back at work as Tubes, buses and trains slowly return to normal after Thursday’s bombings. Most Tube lines are running, but with limited services, and the Hammersmith and City and Circle lines remain shut. Buses are running and all mainline rail stations are open, although services from King’s Cross are limited. Roads and trains are quieter than usual and security alerts mean streets and stations are continually closing and reopening across the city.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/08/2005 at 05:59 AM   
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Stoopid Rats

_{Jeff Parker, Florida Today}

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