Friday - March 13, 2009

Britain is fighting a war – and we are too soft on our enemies.  (they have rights ya know)

Spells it out well but this of course is not the first time we’ve heard something like it.
The problem is ..... it doesn’t look as though the people who make the decisions are listening. And if they are, they aren’t acting on what they hear.

I’ve never been a ‘sky is falling’ individual.  Generally I have always thought that where a problem was recognized it could be fixed.  But I have discovered an awful lot of ppl who seem to prefer a mode of ‘deaf - dumb - and blind.’ At least over here.

I doubt the sky will really fall on them here as much as it will gradually envelope them in a cloud of appeasement and delusional well being.
Hate to say so out loud but the future for this island may well be well behind it.  Unless enough of these folks wake up, their future will be dark. As in, The Dark Ages.  It won’t have anything to do with the climate as so many believe.  The enveloping cloud I see will be an islamic one.

As Americans, we better not be too smug about this.  There are more then enough Yanks back home with blinders on as well.  They are as big a threat to us as their counterparts here in the UK.  And I haven’t even broached the subject of traitors.  That’s a whole other problem to be dealt with.

Britain is fighting a war – and we are too soft on our enemies
Too little action is being taken by the authorities against hostile Muslims.

Con Coughlin
Last Updated: 10:25AM GMT 13 Mar 2009

It’s not just soldiers who win wars. Governments also have a crucial role to play – and to judge by the response of most Western governments to the threat we face from radical Islamism, we are simply not competing on equal terms with the enemy.

No one can claim that we in Britain don’t understand the nature of the threat we face. In recent months, there has been a succession of reports highlighting the increasingly pernicious influence British Islamists are having on the Nato-led campaign to bring stability to Afghanistan.

After senior officers confirmed last year that British Muslims were fighting with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, it was revealed that RAF Nimrod surveillance planes monitoring Taliban radio stations were surprised to hear insurgents speaking in strong Yorkshire or Midlands accents.

More recently, officers based at the main military base at Lashkar Gah revealed that they had found British-made components in roadside bombs used to attack coalition forces in southern Afghanistan, sent to Helmand by Muslim sympathisers in Britain. This week three British Muslims, part of a terrorist cell whose leader was convicted of plotting to kidnap and behead a British soldier on video, were jailed at the Old Bailey for supplying equipment to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

The active involvement of radical British Muslims in the Afghan insurgency has led senior officers to claim that they are engaged in a “surreal mini-civil war” in Afghanistan. And yet, for all the compelling evidence that British-based Islamist radicals are actively participating in a jihad against Britain and its coalition allies, the Government, together with those who have opposed our involvement in the War on Terror from the start, seems determined to give the Islamist radicals the benefit of the doubt.

Even when incontrovertible proof is found that British Muslims are aiding and abetting the enemy in Afghanistan and elsewhere, the Government’s instinct is to try to cover up their involvement, for fear of further inflaming Islamist sensitivities.

Twice in the past year I have been admonished by our military establishment for revealing details about the support British sympathisers are providing to the Afghan insurgency, whether it involves actually fighting alongside the Taliban or providing them with the means to kill and maim British personnel. Officials did not question the reports’ veracity. On both occasions, I was told that it was simply not helpful to expose such details, as they might cause offence to the Muslim community, or encourage Islamist radicals to intimidate British soldiers returning from combat.

Well, to judge by the disgraceful reception given this week by Muslim demonstrators to members of 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, as they paraded through the centre of Luton, the Islamists are receiving all the encouragement they need, not least in the form of the virulently anti-Western sermons delivered over the internet by the Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, who was banished from Britain in 2005 following the July 7 attacks in London. He has made his approval of the protesters’ actions known, claiming “my brothers from Luton were protesting against people they see as killers of Muslims”.

Nor should we be surprised that the only action taken by Bedfordshire police has been to arrest those who were incensed by the Islamists’ taunts of “criminals” and “terrorists”, aimed at the returning soldiers. The authorities’ response in Luton is symptomatic of the perverse attitude that seems to have become Britain’s default position when confronted by difficult Islamist issues. When the former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed claimed that British intelligence officials were complicit in his torture, the main focus of the controversy was the alleged collusion of ministers, rather than precisely what Mr Mohamed was doing in Afghanistan.

He might, as he insists, be innocent of any wrongdoing. But the risks of taking the protestations of innocence of a former Guantánamo detainee at face value have been graphically demonstrated this week by the revelation that another inmate, Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, has re-emerged as one of the Taliban’s most effective commanders in southern Afghanistan.

During the six years he was held at Guantánamo, Rasoul, now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, managed to convince his American interrogators that he had never held a military command, even though it turns out he was a high-ranking commander close to Mullah Omar, the Taliban’s supreme leader. Rasoul was eventually released after claiming he wanted to return to his family and farm. British officials believe he is the mastermind behind the deadly surge in roadside bombings in Helmand since last spring.

The worldwide campaign against Islamist-inspired militancy is highly complex. But if the West to wants to prevent further terror attacks, we must first distinguish between those who are on our side, and those who are not.

The Telegraph

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As France rejoins NATO, a humorous reminder of why we never missed them.

Okay Bmews ....

This post is MOSTLY for DREW but the rest of you are of course always welcome.

Brits having a bit of fun at French expense.

And the Brits do not have a lot to laff about these days. 

As France rejoins NATO, a humorous reminder of why we never missed them

By Marcus Dunk
Last updated at 1:57 AM on 13th March 2009
The Daily Mail

With typical flamboyance and fanfare, French President Nicolas Sarkozy this week announced that France is to rejoin Nato’s military command after 40 years of self-imposed exile.

It was in 1966 that President Charles de Gaulle pulled out of the heart of the Nato alliance, claiming that belonging to the Nato military command undermined French independence and sovereignty.

Yet while its allies in the alliance have publicly welcomed this return to the fold, a fundamental question seems to have been ignored: do we actually want the French back?

The French are not known for their military might

Since World War II, the French and its army have been seen by many as standard-bearers for surrender, cowardice and military ineptitude.

But at least they’ve made us laugh. Here’s a selection of morale-boosting jokes and quips about the people so memorably described in The Simpsons TV series as the cheese-eating surrender monkeys…

(two of the best comic actors ever there were.  Especially Kenneth Williams, pictured in front with monocle)

What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up?

The army.

How can you recognise a French veteran?

Sunburned armpits.

Why are there so many tree-lined boulevards in France?

Germans like to march in the shade.

Why did it take Germany three days to conquer France in World War II?

Because it was raining.

Why did the French give America the Statue of Liberty?

Because she has only one arm raised.

Why do the French get more votes in the U.N.?

They vote with both hands.

Why is the French fighter plane called the Mirage?

It doesn’t exist.

Why don’t they have fireworks at Euro Disney?

Because every time they shoot them off, the French try to surrender.

What does ‘Maginot’ mean in German?

Welcome!

Why is the French Foreign Legion the only decent fighting force in the whole French Army?

Because it’s made up of foreigners.

What does the new French flag look like?

A white cross emblazoned on a white background.

What’s the shortest book ever written?

French War Heroes.

What is the first thing the French Army teaches at basic training?

How to surrender in at least ten languages.

What is the most useful thing in the French Army?

A rear-view mirror, so they can see the war.

Why does Nike like the French Army?

Because in wartime they are the biggest buyers of running shoes.

Why did the French celebrate their World Cup in 1998 so wildly?

It was their first time they won anything without outside help.
French football fans kiss in Toulouse, after France’s 3-0 victory over Brazil

French football fans kiss in Toulouse, after France’s 3-0 victory over Brazil

Why do the French have glass bottom boats in their Navy?

To see all their other ships.

What did the mayor of Paris say to the German army as they entered the city in World War II?

‘Table for 100,000, monsieur?’

Why are the French afraid of war?

You would be, too, if you had never won one.

How do you stop a French army on horseback?

Turn off the carousel.

Did you hear about the French admiral who wanted to be buried at sea when he died?

Five sailors died digging his grave.

What’s the best thing about being French?

You can surrender at the beginning of the war and somebody else will win it for you.

‘I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.’

General George S. Patton.

How do the French advertise surplus World War II rifles for sale?

‘Never fired, only dropped once.’
And a few more jokes…

The French government announced after the London bombings that it had raised its terror alert level from Run to Hide.

The only two higher levels in France are Surrender and Collaborate. The rise in the alert level was precipitated by a recent fire which destroyed France’s white flag factory, effectively disabling its military.

A long time ago, the British and French were at war. During one battle, the French captured an English major. They took the major to their headquarters and a French general began to question him.

The French general asked: ‘Why do you English officers all wear red coats? Don’t you know the red material makes you easy targets for us to shoot?’

In his debonair English way, the major informed the general that the reason English officers wear red coats is so that if they are shot, the blood won’t show, and the men they are leading won’t panic.

And that is why from that day to now, all French army officers wear brown pants.

An officer in the U.S. Naval reserve was attending a conference of officers from the U.S. navy and the French navy. At a cocktail reception, he found himself in a small group that included personnel from both navies.

A French admiral started complaining that whereas Europeans learned many languages, Americans learned only English. He then asked: ‘Why is it that we have to speak English at these conferences rather than speak French?’ Without hesitating, an American admiral replied: ‘Maybe it’s because the Brits,
Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn’t have to speak German.’

In 1966, upon being told that Charles de Gaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated from French soil, President Lyndon Johnson told Secretary of State Dean Rusk: ‘Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!’

So, at end of the meeting, Dean asked de Gaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000 plus soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II. De Gaulle never answered.

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   Thursday - March 12, 2009

AN EDITORIAL ON LAW AND DISORDER ….  A MUST READ FROM PETER HITCHENS

I’m a few days late getting this posted.  It’s been at the top of my do now stack but things just haven’t gone as planned with posts.
But no matter.  I think Peter Hitchens is exactly right.  I’ve tried to say the same but he says it better.  He should of course as he’s trained for it.
So that’s my excuse for not being as literate or articulate as perhaps I want to be.  This is an excellent editorial by him. It appeared last week in The Mail on Sunday.

“The more you appease criminality with weakness and offers of ‘understanding’, the more criminality you will get.”

Yeah, sweet ... the two sneering words a killer said to the police
Peter Hitchens
The Mail on Sunday

Last updated at 12:08 AM on 08th March 2009

If we can’t make criminals fear the law, then we will have to live in fear of criminals. It is that simple.

When I first warned of this some years back, it was still a theoretical problem for most people. Now it’s becoming a practical one.

I’m pretty sure that we’re finished as a country and a society anyway, and would advise anyone who can do so to think seriously about getting out while it’s still possible.

But because we have saved ourselves from near-disaster so many times before, I feel I have a duty to carry on trying, just in case there’s still a chance.
But I beg of you, do not look for any help or hope from the Tories. All that they offer is a change of faces without any alteration of policy.

(TORIES,,, CONSERVATIVES.  And as usual, Hitchens is correct.)

Every stupid decision of the past half-century was either made by them or later supported by them. They are merely a machine for getting Cabinet posts for the sons of the rich. They have entirely adopted the soppy spirit of the age. Anyone who votes for them in the hope of reform is deluded.

Don’t believe me? The next time you hear some Tory spokesperson blethering about crime under Labour, as they have taken to doing, ask him a few questions.

Does he believe that police officers should be free to administer informal wallops to louts?

Does he think there is any crime so bad that the perpetrator deserves to hang?

Does he believe prisons should punish, through fear and hard conditions? I can tell you that he will at best mumble. If he tells the truth, he will say ‘no’ in all cases.

Yet without such measures, implemented soon, no possession and no person will be safe from random, impenitent criminality.

Last week we ‘learned’ from surveys and statistics the following things, all of which you and I have known for years: that miscreants laugh at ‘community punishments’; that dozens of convicted murderers are released to strike again, in many cases to kill again; that our criminal courts are now so clogged up with cases they cannot cope.

Our prisons, likewise, are swollen like boils ready to burst, however hard the Ministry of Injustice seeks to empty their inmates on to the streets, or the judges strive to dilute their sentences.

This is no surprise to anyone apart from the ruling elite. The more you appease criminality with weakness and offers of ‘understanding’, the more criminality you will get. Here’s a recent example from real life.

Karl Bishop, told that Robert Knox had died from wounds he had inflicted, remarked: ‘Yeah, sweet.’ He also told police to take him straight to Belmarsh prison, saying: ‘I’m going down anyway. I don’t mind. I get gym every day, meals, just take me there.’

Bishop, by the way, a regular user of supposedly ‘soft’ cannabis, knows – as transgressors all do – that after 50 years of Left-Liberal government, he has nothing to fear from the police or the courts.
In my view, he should have been shaking with uncontrollable fear of the noose and trap-door that ought to await him.

But what would I know? I’m an extremist, out on a limb, with views that exclude me from any significant political party.

Yeah, sweet.

SOURCE

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Yoot crime as boy age eight is accused of rape.  Eight?  Is that even possible? 8?

Saw this one and really was surprised as I would never have thought age eight would have been developed enough.
Saw the original story in Telegraph with more detail re. ‘yoot’ crime in The Mail.

I can somewhat agree with people who say kids are having sexual images hammered into them at a very early age. Makes a parent job harder then it used to be I bet.  And at an earlier age.  That is, the parents who are trying.  We read about many who are pretty dismal at the job.  Never know where their kids are or what they’re doing.  But even then, it can’t be possible for parents to know about every single hour even among the many good parents.  Has to be a big worry and an ulcer maker I would guess.

Would you say communication is theeeee most important?  Or ... would kids at a certain age think communication a waste and see it as unwanted control?  I’m asking as a non parent so curious.

Now (over here as readers are aware) there’s a move afoot to start sex ed. at five.  That’s 5.  As in years old.  Thing is, so called “experts” who are also parents and are supposed to know something about the subject because it’s their profession, seem to believe that’s ok.  Five?
Being a non parent maybe I should not question what experts are supposed to be trained for.  But gee ... Five?

Then of course you are all aware as well about that dust-up last week over parents not wanting to send kids to their school for the Romeo and Julian thing.  So, are kids being pushed into growing up sooner?  I tend to think that without actually knowing if I’m correct or not.

As for these kids mentioned here .... well.  Hard to imagine an 8yr old but then again a lot would depend on his origin too. Ya think? It could.
I once heard a 10 yr old tell a cop what his civil rights were.  And that was over 30 years ago.  No foolin’.
So maybe all these years later it isn’t outlandish at all to accept that crime is getting younger.  And younger and more serious.

There is NO going back I know that.  But I still believe as I stated in another post that the entertainment industry (entertainment in gore) in all it’s forms, has coarsened the culture to a point where this is simply one of the results.
It has to take very strong, dedicated and worrying parents to attempt the role of buffer, adviser, disciplinarian and heaven only knows what the heck else the demand are on you.  Oh yeah, banker too. 

So far, I think I’m darn lucky to have avoided that role in life.  Thankfully I recognized early on that I just wouldn’t cut it as a parent.

EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY ACCUSED OF RAPING GIRL
By Neil Puffett
12 March 2009

An eight-year-old boy accused of rape was among 24 Suffolk children who were not prosecuted last year because of their age, police have revealed.
The boy was accused of carrying out the attack on a girl under the age of 10 but was not charged because he too is under 10, the age of criminal responsibility.

A Freedom of Information request made to Suffolk police reveals other serious offences that are alleged to have taken place, included four incidents of racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by a five-year-old, two six-year-olds and an eight-year-old.

Other alleged crimes committed in 2008 included two incidents of common assault and battery by nine-year-olds and nine cases of criminal damage caused by seven-, eight- and nine year-olds.

In total, 18 separate alleged crimes were revealed.

A Suffolk police spokesman said: “In circumstances where the suspected offender is below the age of criminal responsibility, the incident, like any other crime, is thoroughly investigated.

“However, it cannot be dealt with by way of prosecution. Further action involving the offender is very much dependent on the incident and can be a complex issue.”

Each incident is assessed to determine whether the child is suffering bullying or neglect or needs to be referred to another agency, the spokesman added.

JUST YOOTS

AND THERE IS THIS:

Kyle Abdo became Britain’s youngest convicted rapist when he was aged 12 in 2004 and given two-and-a-half years’ detention for raping a nine-year-old girl.

Liverpool Crown Court heard how Abdo was aged 11 when he carried out the attack during a game of hide and seek at his home.
A judge made an order allowing him to be named.

Another boy aged 12 was given three years supervision at Newcastle Crown Court in February last year after he admitted raping a girl of seven in a drunken game of truth or dare.

The rape which happened in Gateshead in February 2006 after the boy who was aged 11 at the time had drunk four cans of lager and two miniature bottles of vodka.

ABDO?

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   Wednesday - March 11, 2009

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 ...

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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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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.’

MAIL

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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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   Saturday - March 07, 2009

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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AN UPDATE TO A PREVIOUS STORY. BOTTOM LINE .. PC WINS, CITIZENS LOSE. TIS ALWAYS SO

"It is outrageous for a school or local authority to think it can ride roughshod over parents and impose lessons upon children that arouse such widespread concerns.”
Comrades, comrades.  Calm yourselves.  This is our brave cowardly new world being created and the state with co-operation of Comrade Minister for Thought and Behavior approves.  Besides, it’s all about “diversity” which will all be explained in the new revised edition of UK version of Little Red Book.

Lesbian Gay Homosexual Bisexual Transgender History Month

Amazing. Pollution gets a month all its own.

Now then, I am not certain about the Transgender thing to be very honest.
It is my understanding only based on news articles and a very few interviews during news programs, that these people are not necessarily homosexual, but instead may be born with parts of em from both sexes.  ???  Do I have that right?  I have also read about it in links and am under the impression that a person somehow knows early on that the “body they have isn’t really theirs.” I’ve seen that quote more then once.

I’m not a doctor and have no training whatever in things of that nature and so think transgender ppl may (I stress that word, “may") be very legitimate, as opposed to a lifestyle I find really odd at best and disgusting at worst.

My views on the subject are known and the point of this story really belong in a heading like Parents Rights.  Apparently they have none when up against the homosexual lobby which appears very willing to force their point of view on children’s education.  Maybe the correct term is INDOCTRINATION.

Tis really a sick fraken world!

Parents face court action for removing children from gay homosexual history lessons
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:56 AM on 07th March 2009

More than 30 pupils were pulled out of a week of teaching at a primary school which included books about homosexual partnerships.
The controversial content was worked into the curriculum at George Tomlinson School in Waltham Forest, East London.

The council has declared that children who missed the lessons will be viewed as truants.
The ruling means some families could breach rules that children should not be absent for more than 19 days a year.
Sanctions include spot fines, parenting contracts and ultimately court action.

The parents, who objected to the lessons on moral and religious grounds, said the content was more appropriate to secondary age pupils.
Pervez Latif, whose children Saleh, ten, and Abdur-Rahim, nine, attend the school, said he knew of up to 30 withdrawals from the lessons.
The 41-year-old accountant said Christian and Muslim parents had objected to the theme linked to Lesbian ,queer, Bisexual ,Transgender History Month.

‘We as parents did not receive any guidance that this was going to happen,’ he added. ‘There was just a newsletter mentioning the week and that certain themes would be taught.
‘I didn’t want my children to be learning about this. I wrote a letter to the chairman of the governors explaining that I would be taking my children out of school and he wrote back saying that there was no other option.
‘If I am faced with court action, then I will just explain that these are my views. It was also very difficult explaining to my nine- and ten-year-old boys why they were being removed from school.
‘I found it difficult to explain topics such as homosexual relationships at such a young age.’

One story covered in a lesson was King and King, a fairytale about a prince who turns down three princesses before falling in love with one of their brothers.
Another book, And Tango Makes Three, features two male penguins, Roy and Silo, who fall in love at a New York zoo.
Sarah Saeed, 40, took her eight-year-old daughter out of school during the week.

She said: ‘It is not an appropriate age for the children to be learning such matters. We have our own way of explaining things to them and they should not be subjected to this.
‘I was aware they were going to be learning about homosexual relationships through stories.
‘If the council takes action against me I will tell them that I told the school beforehand I would be taking my child away if they did not change their policy.

‘She has a 100 per cent attendance record otherwise. This is the only time and this is the only choice I had.’
Parents have a legal right to withdraw their children from religious education and sex education lessons – apart from science lessons which cover biological reproduction as part of the national curriculum.

A spokesman for Waltham Forest Council said: ‘As part of the borough’s policy of promoting tolerance in our schools, children are taught that everyone in our society is of equal value.
‘At George Tomlinson, parents were invited to meet with teachers and governors several weeks ago to discuss what work would
be taking place throughout the national LGBT History Month and how this work would be delivered.
‘Regrettably, some parents chose to remove their children from school.

‘The council does not condone any unauthorised absence from school and action has been taken.’
Norman Wells, director of the Family Education Trust, said: ‘It is a fundamental principle of education law that children must be educated in accordance with the wishes of their parents.
‘It is outrageous for a school or local authority to think it can ride roughshod over parents and impose lessons upon children that arouse such widespread concerns.

‘The only action that needs to be taken is to offer an apology to the parents concerned.’
George Tomlinson is close to a school which launched a gayvery queer version of Romeo and Juliet called Romeo and Julian – also to mark the alternative history month.

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MUSLIMS ON THE MARCH AGAIN AS SCHOOL CAVES …. WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

Shirley gym club claims Muslim parents are forcing it out of school
Croydon Today 07 March 2009
By Neil Millard

A gymnastics club claims it is being forced out of a school because Muslim parents do not want their daughters coming into contact with its male members.

Old Palace School has refused to deny the allegation about a move which has left Shirley Gymnastics Club desperately searching for a new home.

Club boss Colin Perry believes the school’s commitment to multiculturalism has been compromised for fear of offending a minority of mums and dads.

“It’s unbelievable,” he said (...)
http://europenews.dk/en/node/20819

It’s stated in another article that muslims are “very protective of their young girls.” Right.  I do believe that.  Until they reach an age where they are able to make their own decisions.  Then the protection takes on an ugly form sometimes ending in a twisted sense of honor killings.

On the other hand I do have a question.  It’s been many years (a lifetime ago) since I was in school (grammar) and I do not recall being in a gym class with girls.  I’m curious, are gym classes generally mixed these days?  I wouldn’t think young girls would be very comfortable in that set up.

“The school commitment to multiculturalism has been compromised” Well now, surely that has to be a GOOD thing.

Or, are the muslims correct this one and only time?

Yes? No? Comments?

Mixed sex gym club forced to quit all girls’ school over Muslim parents complaints
A gymnastics club has been forced to quit classes at an all girls’ school after Muslim parents complained that they “didn’t want boys in the gym”.

Colin Perry, who runs Shirley Gymnastics Club, said that “multiculturalism” and pressure from Muslim parents on the school’s head has forced him to look for somewhere else to train his 250 young members.

Mr Perry, who has held classes at the Old Palace School – an independent school for girls aged four to 18 years in Croydon – since January last year said he was furious he has to move.

He said: “The school commitment to multiculturalism has been compromised for fear of offending a minority of parents.

“There is a group of Muslim parents with Muslim children at the school and they are the ones putting pressure on the head teacher. It makes me sad to say that.”

The club, which caters for young gymnasts aged between five and 21, has until April 3 to find a new home.

Mr Perry said the school’s head Judy Harris told him that Muslim parents had approached her and asked her why an independent girls schools had boys in the gym while school was still open.

He said: “She said some of the parents have said their children go to an independent all girls school and unfortunately they’re concerned because we have got boys in the club. She said to us that the school has got far more Muslim children than last year, so effectively we have to interpret that in our own way.”

Dudley Mead, a governor at the school, said he knew about Muslim parents’ concerns, adding: “That’s the Muslim belief isn’t it? They are very protective of their female children.”

The school did offer a compromise, that the gym club could stay but start later at 6.30pm, rather than 5pm as at present, by which time pupils will be off the site.

But Mr Perry says this would be impractical as some sessions wouldn’t end until 9.30pm, way too late for many of the club’s young members.

Mrs Harris released a statement in which she said: “We were unable to accommodate the early starting time of the club as the school was still functioning.

“We had hoped that the club could be held at a later time but this was thought unworkable by the organisers.

“It has not been a decision taken lightly but we have to consider the needs of the school and the security of the site given the very young age of our juniors.”

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   Thursday - March 05, 2009

OH HOW ATTITUDES AND MANNERS HAVE CHANGED. AND NOT FOR THE BETTER.

I’m sitting here in the frustrating middle of history that goes back a thousand years and more.
My interest lately though has been WW2 but specifically a group of women super women who were Brit nurses during that time.

I’m going to write a bit about these bigger then life awesome ladies who were members of something called the “QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S IMPERIAL MILITARY NURSING SERVICE.” It was formed in 1902.  They were simply referred to as, QA’s. 
I want to share just a fraction of their story but not here, not now.  There is a book about them called Sisters in Arms, and I can’t see anyone reading it without becoming wound up with and admiring of them.

The training these women went through way back when was by todays standards, brutal.  It was humiliating and it was rough and only the very strong made the grade.  But they were first class nurses and first class ladies every one. AND ....  there isn’t any record where any one of them ever even thought about suing their employer with one of the charges being .....  “hurt feelings.” Not that generation.

Not a great transition but reading about their training back in the 30’s and then reading a story today about;

Sacked paperboy claims £8,000 compensation from newsagent

Part of his claim is for ... “Hurt Feelings.” What a message today’s generation is receiving.  Protection against hurt feelings after being fired is a human right now I guess.  It’s sickening and especially after blazing my way through 300 pages of the history of a group of women who btw, were not street smart to begin with.  Hurt feelings?  What a con.

I don’t know if this kid is really being truthful or not.  My guess is no and when you see the article you’ll see why.  I find it hard to believe that the newsagent would think to make up the story that the kid’s dad says isn’t true.

Daddy and Son lost the case (good) but it may go to appeal. (bad)

Please stay with me for one other thing before I post the article.  I got this first hand from the guy who owns the laundry service we sometimes use.
This is just to show you how decadent and stupid this place has become.  Common sense is totally out the window.

He caught one of his employees dipping into the til after a number of days showing shortages in the register.  Well, as you would expect, he canned her.
But she went to a tribunal and he had to pay her for wrongful dismissal because ..........
HE DID NOT PUT HIS REASON FOR CANNING HER IN WRITING AT THE TIME HE FIRED HER!  The system is rotten and a disgrace to that generation who gave of themselves to secure the future of this country. 

Sacked paperboy claims £8,000 compensation from newsagent
A paperboy who was sacked for being “unreliable” took the newsagent to an employment tribunal claiming £8,000 for unfair dismissal.

By Paul Stokes
Last Updated: 4:06PM GMT 05 Mar 2009

Myles Bebbington, 15, earned £20 a week delivering daily newspapers around the village of Sturry, near Canterbury, Kent, for two years.

When he asked for his round to be extended, he was allegedly told he would have to start at 6.30am and his mother Denise objected to his employer Jackie Palmer.

Myles was dismissed a few days later in August last year on the grounds that he was late, lacked motivation, posted papers through the wrong doors and failed to find cover when he was ill.

Mrs Palmer, who runs Sturry News, also said that his bicycle kept breaking which also made him unreliable.

Myles’ family launched an £8,000 claim for loss of earnings, aggravated damages, injury to his feelings alleging statutory procedures were not followed.

But the case collapsed after the tribunal in Ashford ruled paperboys like Miles were “temporary staff” and cannot legally claim unfair dismissal.

His father Mark, who represented him at the hearing and whose four other sons had worked as paperboys, said: “He’s worked there for two years, delivering papers in rain, wind and snow.

“Our claim was for £8,000, but all I really wanted was an apology, and for them to admit that we should not treat boys like that.”

Mrs Palmer said Myles had informed her he was “fed up” and had not told his parents that she had had to warn him about being late.

Robert Salter, the tribunal chairman, ruled Myles was not employed under a contract of service so unable to pursue a claim for unfair dismissal or age discrimination.

But Carolyn Hamilton, director of The Children’s Legal Centre, said: “There is no doubt Myles was an employee and I think he has a case which needs challenging in court.”

NEWSBOY

I had a newspaper route when I was a kid.  In CT. You know what winters could be like there?
And I can tell you I was younger then 15 and up and dressed by 5:30am. No foolin.’ Jeesh ....

Posted by peiper     on 03/05/2009 at 02:17 PM   
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