June 26, 2008
White children most likely to be bullied
Joanna Sugden
White children are much more likely to be bullied than any other ethnic group - reversing racial stereotypes surrounding playground abuse, Government research indicates.
Two thirds of children from white families say they had been bullied in the last three years but less than half of children of Indian origin make the same assertion.
Anti-bullying campaigners say white children are now in the minority in some areas raising their chances of being bullied.
Claude Knights, director of anti-bullying charity Kidscape, said:“More and more we’re hearing that in some cities it isn’t the usual isolation of ethnic groups, suddenly we have got statistics that show we have got a larger number of white young people being bullied.
You can bully, as long as you aren't racist
“In some cities there’s a dislocation of certain white children. So many cultures around them are being celebrated but where’s their place? There’s been such an attempt that you don’t forget what has come in to the system that what was there already has been forgotten.” This isolation makes children feel “different” she said, and was likely to lead to them being bullied.
Six in ten children of black Caribbean origin said they had experienced bullying in the last three years, according to research into 16-year-olds by the Department for Children Schools and Families(DCSF). The results indicated that 58 per cent of children from Pakistani backgrounds and 54 per cent of those with Bangladeshi roots had been victims of bullies.
Louise Burfitt-Dons, founder of the charity Act Against Bullying, which cut ties with Jade Goody after allegations of racist bullying against Indian actress Shilpa Shetty on Big Brother, said: “Normally all you hear about is bullying with racial groups being discriminated against.
“Whites are becoming more aggressive than they used to be as a result of trying to intergrate into a new society norm that is so aggressive. They have changed the way they behave in order to survive.”
The study also found that boys are just as likely to be bullied as girls but as many as eight in ten children with a disability that affects their school life said they had suffered at the hands of bullies in the last three years.
A spokesperson for the DCSF said:”We have given teachers and heads the powers and support they need to prevent and tackle bullying. But bullying is a challenge we must all face up to and we need the support of teachers, heads, parents, young people and bystanders. It is important that children and young people who experience bullying speak out and do not suffer in silence.”
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Its The End Of The World As We Know It
If there were less people on the planet, then climate change would not exist.
Climate change is simply an aspect of human over population and industrial processes required to feed, cloth, heat and sustain these huge human populations.
Climate Change May Challenge National Security, Classified Report Warns
ScienceDaily (June 26, 2008) — The National Intelligence Council (NIC) has completed a new classified assessment that explores how climate change could threaten U.S. security in the next 20 years by causing political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, or conflicts over water and other resources in specific countries.
The House Intelligence Committee is scheduled to be briefed Wednesday, June 25, on the main findings.
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While the assessment itself is confidential, some analyses used as raw material will be open, including a series of studies done by Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). On commission from NIC, CIESIN ranked countries by looking at three climate risks: sea-level rise, increased water scarcity, and an aggregate measure of vulnerability based on projected temperature change, compared with nations' ability to adapt.
"We can pinpoint areas of high projected climate change that are also in historically unstable regions. This suggests that climate change is likely to heighten political risks,' said CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy, a coauthor of the CIESIN studies. Many countries with high exposure to climate change have low levels of historical instability, he said; for instance, U.S. allies like the Netherlands are exposed to perils such as sea-level rise, but have large economies and strong governments, and so are not deemed high risks.
However, others suffer both high vulnerability to projected temperature changes, and low levels of adaptive capacity based on the strength of state institutions and their histories of instability and conflict. These tend to cluster in economically depressed southern regions. The more dangerous nations on the CIESIN list--which may or may not match the NIC list--include South Africa, Nepal, Morocco, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Paraguay, Yemen, Sudan and Côte d'Ivoire.
The greatest number of people exposed to sea-level rise are in China, the Philippines, Egypt and Indonesia. China and the Philippines alone have 64 million people in the lowest elevation zones (1 meter above sea level). In Egypt, a longtime major recipient of U.S. military aid, and scene of recurring internal strife, 37% of people live in within 10 meters of sea level in the fertile Nile delta. In other nations, disruptions in rainfall or other temperature-driven phenomena could contribute to dangerous instability due to crop failures or other phenomena. These include Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Congo, Ethiopia and Jordan, suggests the CIESIN research.
Climate-related security impacts could be significant when they cause "a noticeable--even if temporary--degradation in one of the elements of national power (geopoliltical, military, economic, or social cohesion) because it indirectly influences the U.S. homeland, indirectly influences the United States through a major military ally or a major economic partner, or because the global impact is so large, that [it] indirectly consumes U.S. resources," according an NIC briefing document quoted by the newsletter InsideDefense.com, which first reported on the assessment. "The additional stress on resources and infrastructure will exacerbate internal state pressures, and generate interstate friction through competition for resources or disagreement over responses and responsibility for migration."
The assessment, commissioned by NIC last year at the request of the House and Senate intelligence panels, seems to be part of a growing recognition among military officials that climate change must be reckoned with. A 2007 report by the Center for Naval Analysis called for a comprehensive look at the issue. The 2008 National Defense Authorization Act mandates the Pentagon to "examine the capabilities of the U.S. military to respond to consequences of climate change," particularly preparedness for national disasters due to extreme weather. According to InsideDefense.com, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has approved a yet-unreleased National Defense Strategy that includes planning for environmental and climate problems.
Richard Engle, deputy national intelligence officer for science and technology in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, spoke of the classified report in a recent speech. " We wanted to get down to something that might be actionable for the policy community. So we had to be very specific," he said. The assessment was originally supposed to be public, but has been classified as confidential out of fears that it could evoke hostility from red-flagged governments, according to sources close to the process.
Thomas Fingar, chairman of the NIC, will publicly address some portions of the 58-page report, "National Security Implications of Global Climate Change Through 2030," at Wednesday's hearing. The key findings represent the consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.
Along with CIESIN, other sources whose data contributed to the assessment include the U.S. Climate Change Program; Center for Naval Analysis; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; the Rand Corp.; and Arizona State University.
"There is clearly great interest among policy makers in knowing whether climate change will make crises such as the conflict in Darfur more prevalent, and whether other violent scenarios might be likely to unfold," said Levy. "The science of climate impacts does not yet give us a definitive answer to this question, but at least now we're looking at it seriously."
The CIESIN documents will available starting Monday, June 30.
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ScienceDaily (July 10, 2007) — Climate change, and the resulting shortage of ecological resources, could be to blame for armed conflicts in the future, according to David Zhang from the University of Hong Kong and colleagues. Their research, which highlights how temperature fluctuations and reduced agricultural production explain warfare frequency in eastern China in the past, has been published online in Springer’s journal Human Ecology.
Zhang and his team looked at the impact of climate change on warfare frequency over the last millennium in eastern China. The agricultural production in the region supports the majority of the Chinese population. The authors reviewed warfare data from 899 wars in eastern China between 1000 and 1911, documented in the Tabulation of Wars in Ancient China. They cross-referenced these data with Northern Hemispheric climate series temperature data for the same period.
They found that warfare frequency in eastern China, and the southern part in particular, significantly correlated with temperature oscillations. Almost all peaks of warfare and dynastic changes coincided with cold phases.
Temperature fluctuations directly impact agriculture and horticulture and, in societies with limited technology such as pre-industrial China, cooling temperatures hugely impact the availability of crops and herds. In times of such ecological stress, warfare could be the ultimate means of redistributing resources, according to Zhang and his team.
The authors conclude that “it was the oscillations of agricultural production brought by long-term climate change that drove China’s historical war-peace cycles.” They recommend that researchers consider climate change part of the equation when they consider the reasons behind wars in our history.
Looking to the future and applying their findings, Zhang and colleagues suggest that shortages of essential resources, such as fresh water, agricultural land, energy sources and minerals may trigger more armed conflicts among human societies.
Reference: Zhang DD, Zhang J, Lee HF, He Y (2007). Climate change and war frequency in eastern China over the last millennium. Human Ecology; (DOI 10.1007/s10745-007-9115-8)
Climate change is simply an aspect of human over population and industrial processes required to feed, cloth, heat and sustain these huge human populations.
Climate Change May Challenge National Security, Classified Report Warns
ScienceDaily (June 26, 2008) — The National Intelligence Council (NIC) has completed a new classified assessment that explores how climate change could threaten U.S. security in the next 20 years by causing political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, or conflicts over water and other resources in specific countries.
The House Intelligence Committee is scheduled to be briefed Wednesday, June 25, on the main findings.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
While the assessment itself is confidential, some analyses used as raw material will be open, including a series of studies done by Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). On commission from NIC, CIESIN ranked countries by looking at three climate risks: sea-level rise, increased water scarcity, and an aggregate measure of vulnerability based on projected temperature change, compared with nations' ability to adapt.
"We can pinpoint areas of high projected climate change that are also in historically unstable regions. This suggests that climate change is likely to heighten political risks,' said CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy, a coauthor of the CIESIN studies. Many countries with high exposure to climate change have low levels of historical instability, he said; for instance, U.S. allies like the Netherlands are exposed to perils such as sea-level rise, but have large economies and strong governments, and so are not deemed high risks.
However, others suffer both high vulnerability to projected temperature changes, and low levels of adaptive capacity based on the strength of state institutions and their histories of instability and conflict. These tend to cluster in economically depressed southern regions. The more dangerous nations on the CIESIN list--which may or may not match the NIC list--include South Africa, Nepal, Morocco, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Paraguay, Yemen, Sudan and Côte d'Ivoire.
The greatest number of people exposed to sea-level rise are in China, the Philippines, Egypt and Indonesia. China and the Philippines alone have 64 million people in the lowest elevation zones (1 meter above sea level). In Egypt, a longtime major recipient of U.S. military aid, and scene of recurring internal strife, 37% of people live in within 10 meters of sea level in the fertile Nile delta. In other nations, disruptions in rainfall or other temperature-driven phenomena could contribute to dangerous instability due to crop failures or other phenomena. These include Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Congo, Ethiopia and Jordan, suggests the CIESIN research.
Climate-related security impacts could be significant when they cause "a noticeable--even if temporary--degradation in one of the elements of national power (geopoliltical, military, economic, or social cohesion) because it indirectly influences the U.S. homeland, indirectly influences the United States through a major military ally or a major economic partner, or because the global impact is so large, that [it] indirectly consumes U.S. resources," according an NIC briefing document quoted by the newsletter InsideDefense.com, which first reported on the assessment. "The additional stress on resources and infrastructure will exacerbate internal state pressures, and generate interstate friction through competition for resources or disagreement over responses and responsibility for migration."
The assessment, commissioned by NIC last year at the request of the House and Senate intelligence panels, seems to be part of a growing recognition among military officials that climate change must be reckoned with. A 2007 report by the Center for Naval Analysis called for a comprehensive look at the issue. The 2008 National Defense Authorization Act mandates the Pentagon to "examine the capabilities of the U.S. military to respond to consequences of climate change," particularly preparedness for national disasters due to extreme weather. According to InsideDefense.com, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has approved a yet-unreleased National Defense Strategy that includes planning for environmental and climate problems.
Richard Engle, deputy national intelligence officer for science and technology in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, spoke of the classified report in a recent speech. " We wanted to get down to something that might be actionable for the policy community. So we had to be very specific," he said. The assessment was originally supposed to be public, but has been classified as confidential out of fears that it could evoke hostility from red-flagged governments, according to sources close to the process.
Thomas Fingar, chairman of the NIC, will publicly address some portions of the 58-page report, "National Security Implications of Global Climate Change Through 2030," at Wednesday's hearing. The key findings represent the consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.
Along with CIESIN, other sources whose data contributed to the assessment include the U.S. Climate Change Program; Center for Naval Analysis; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; the Rand Corp.; and Arizona State University.
"There is clearly great interest among policy makers in knowing whether climate change will make crises such as the conflict in Darfur more prevalent, and whether other violent scenarios might be likely to unfold," said Levy. "The science of climate impacts does not yet give us a definitive answer to this question, but at least now we're looking at it seriously."
The CIESIN documents will available starting Monday, June 30.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ScienceDaily (July 10, 2007) — Climate change, and the resulting shortage of ecological resources, could be to blame for armed conflicts in the future, according to David Zhang from the University of Hong Kong and colleagues. Their research, which highlights how temperature fluctuations and reduced agricultural production explain warfare frequency in eastern China in the past, has been published online in Springer’s journal Human Ecology.
Zhang and his team looked at the impact of climate change on warfare frequency over the last millennium in eastern China. The agricultural production in the region supports the majority of the Chinese population. The authors reviewed warfare data from 899 wars in eastern China between 1000 and 1911, documented in the Tabulation of Wars in Ancient China. They cross-referenced these data with Northern Hemispheric climate series temperature data for the same period.
They found that warfare frequency in eastern China, and the southern part in particular, significantly correlated with temperature oscillations. Almost all peaks of warfare and dynastic changes coincided with cold phases.
Temperature fluctuations directly impact agriculture and horticulture and, in societies with limited technology such as pre-industrial China, cooling temperatures hugely impact the availability of crops and herds. In times of such ecological stress, warfare could be the ultimate means of redistributing resources, according to Zhang and his team.
The authors conclude that “it was the oscillations of agricultural production brought by long-term climate change that drove China’s historical war-peace cycles.” They recommend that researchers consider climate change part of the equation when they consider the reasons behind wars in our history.
Looking to the future and applying their findings, Zhang and colleagues suggest that shortages of essential resources, such as fresh water, agricultural land, energy sources and minerals may trigger more armed conflicts among human societies.
Reference: Zhang DD, Zhang J, Lee HF, He Y (2007). Climate change and war frequency in eastern China over the last millennium. Human Ecology; (DOI 10.1007/s10745-007-9115-8)
More White on White Racism
Interesting review of a slew of new movies coming out in the next few months.
A load of middle class mummys boys film directors have decided to cash in on the New Racism and make a load of films that demonise the Indigenous White English Working Class.
It appears that Hollywood has now been joined by the Hooray Henrys of the British film industry in their industrialised demonisation of the English Working Class.
The White English Working Class youth is now the New Nazis.
Hoodies are as bad as Himmler it appears, in the eyes of the middle class.
I am a member of the New Untermensch, I am White English and Working Class. Therefore I am scum.
You can demonise me, be as racist as you wish about me, you can promote less qualified blacks into jobs above me, you can remove my rights and insult me, Jack Straw, a Jew, can even call me violent and dangerous - yet if I said such things about Jews I would be arrested for racism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/uk/596703.stm
Mr Straw described the English as "potentially very aggressive, very violent" and will "increasingly articulate their Englishness following devolution."
I am the new scum, my entire class are subhuman and you can villify me and all my kind with utter impunity.
You can make movies that demonise me and others who are also poor, english and white - but if you do the same with blacks or Jews you would be arrested for it.
The BBC even allows polls on their website that ask ' Are the English Violent'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/596717.stm
Imagine the outcry if the BBC had a poll that asked ' Are Blacks Violent' or 'Are Jews running the world '.
This whole New Racism sickens me.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article4212974.ece?Submitted=true
From The TimesJune 26, 2008
Watch out for Donkey Punch, Eden Lake and Better Things: starring the new villains of the big screen
The new cinema baddie looks very familiar. Our correspondent discovers how the hoody skulked to the big screen
Kevin Maher
One of the most terrifying movie moments of 2008 occurs early in the new British thriller Eden Lake. Kindly, middle-class thirtysomething Steve (Michael Fassbender) is lounging by the titular Midlands lake with his girlfriend and prospective fiancée Jenny (Kelly Reilly). Their tranquillity is disturbed by the deafening boom-box and roaming Rottweiler of five local hard-knock teens. Steve decides to do the unthinkable – ask them to turn their music down! It’s a heart-stopper of a scene and, as he walks tentatively over to the stony-faced gang, every fibre in the being of every single audience member screams out: “No, Steve, don’t do it! Leave them alone!”
That Steve ends up beaten by the gang, tied, gruesomely tortured and has his “happy-stabbing” recorded on their mobile phones is testament both to the power of slick horror film-making and that the best contemporary screen villains are now not psychopaths and mutant zombies but contemporary British youth. The hoody has made it to the big screen and we should be scared.
“This is a film that has hit its moment,” says Richard Holmes, the producer of Eden Lake. “It has resonance with a youth crime phenomenon that’s not going to fade away. We are probably the first film out there of this type, although there’s quite a few in the pipeline.”
A load of middle class mummys boys film directors have decided to cash in on the New Racism and make a load of films that demonise the Indigenous White English Working Class.
It appears that Hollywood has now been joined by the Hooray Henrys of the British film industry in their industrialised demonisation of the English Working Class.
The White English Working Class youth is now the New Nazis.
Hoodies are as bad as Himmler it appears, in the eyes of the middle class.
I am a member of the New Untermensch, I am White English and Working Class. Therefore I am scum.
You can demonise me, be as racist as you wish about me, you can promote less qualified blacks into jobs above me, you can remove my rights and insult me, Jack Straw, a Jew, can even call me violent and dangerous - yet if I said such things about Jews I would be arrested for racism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/uk/596703.stm
Mr Straw described the English as "potentially very aggressive, very violent" and will "increasingly articulate their Englishness following devolution."
I am the new scum, my entire class are subhuman and you can villify me and all my kind with utter impunity.
You can make movies that demonise me and others who are also poor, english and white - but if you do the same with blacks or Jews you would be arrested for it.
The BBC even allows polls on their website that ask ' Are the English Violent'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/596717.stm
Imagine the outcry if the BBC had a poll that asked ' Are Blacks Violent' or 'Are Jews running the world '.
This whole New Racism sickens me.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article4212974.ece?Submitted=true
From The TimesJune 26, 2008
Watch out for Donkey Punch, Eden Lake and Better Things: starring the new villains of the big screen
The new cinema baddie looks very familiar. Our correspondent discovers how the hoody skulked to the big screen
Kevin Maher
One of the most terrifying movie moments of 2008 occurs early in the new British thriller Eden Lake. Kindly, middle-class thirtysomething Steve (Michael Fassbender) is lounging by the titular Midlands lake with his girlfriend and prospective fiancée Jenny (Kelly Reilly). Their tranquillity is disturbed by the deafening boom-box and roaming Rottweiler of five local hard-knock teens. Steve decides to do the unthinkable – ask them to turn their music down! It’s a heart-stopper of a scene and, as he walks tentatively over to the stony-faced gang, every fibre in the being of every single audience member screams out: “No, Steve, don’t do it! Leave them alone!”
That Steve ends up beaten by the gang, tied, gruesomely tortured and has his “happy-stabbing” recorded on their mobile phones is testament both to the power of slick horror film-making and that the best contemporary screen villains are now not psychopaths and mutant zombies but contemporary British youth. The hoody has made it to the big screen and we should be scared.
“This is a film that has hit its moment,” says Richard Holmes, the producer of Eden Lake. “It has resonance with a youth crime phenomenon that’s not going to fade away. We are probably the first film out there of this type, although there’s quite a few in the pipeline.”
Blame Whitey - legalised racism
Who remembers the words of Martin Luther King who wrote that he wanted to create a society where what mattered was simply " The content of your character, not the colour of your skin ".
Well it appears that in the name of affirmative action, racism has been validated - as long as the victims are white.
The white liberal scum in the Labour government want to create a society where what matters is simply the colour of your skin.
The era where just because you carry a gene that makes your skin dark means you are deserving of extra rights is a hang over of a 20th century liberal mindset.
Note that it is not blacks making this law change, it is white politicians assuming their usual crass, paternalistic stance towards blacks.
This is the liberal equivalent of the old racism.
In the past racist white people would symbolically pat blacks on the head and ruffle their frizzy afro hair and say 'aaahh they are nice people but they are simply not capable of being as civilised as us are they '.
Now racist white liberals pat black people on the head and ruffle their frizzy hair and say ' aaah they are such nice people, but they simply cant get ahead on their own merits can they, so we will pass some laws to allow them to get ahead not on merit, but simply because they are black '.
This is simply racism disguised as liberalism.
This is nothing but insulting, crass, paternalistic , racist nonsense. If I was black I would be ashamed that white liberals seek to demean me in such a way.
The idea that blacks cannot get ahead on their own talents is nothing but racism.
These laws will incite racial hatred like this country has never seen before.
Whits refused jobs because less qualified blacks are hired will end up despising blacks. Racial tensions will escalate.
Incompetent blacks will get jobs and cause real harm to people. This will further incite racial hatred.
Imagine a scenario where a doctor is hired not on merit but simply because they are black. If then that individual who is less qualified than other white applicants is hired simply because they are black and then kills someone though negligence then the hospital will be liable and the families will sue.
This will mean that more and more people will then not want to be treated by those black doctors who were employed simply on merit, as they will worry that they were employed not because of their skills but because they are simply black.
These laws will cause vast amounts of racial anger and tension in our society.
The more the government then seeks to punish people for not wanting to be treated by black doctors for example, the more they will generate race hatred.
These laws are simply absurd and I would argue unlawful.
The only racial group that is independently and objectively recognised as failing to get ahead in our society is the Indigenous White Working Class.
On every objective denominator they are failing ;
Universities are failing to recruit white, working-class students despite receiving £400 million from Government to widen participation, regulators claim today.
The National Audit Office report says teenagers from deprived backgrounds “remain significantly under-represented” in higher education.
White boys from working-class families are less likely than any other group to take a degree.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4210561.ece?token=null&offset=0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7473469.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7220683.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jun/22/education.schools
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2151025/White-working-class-boys-becoming-an-underclass.html
http://www.teachers.tv/video/5458
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article641312.ece
Therefore these new laws that seek to legitimise affirmative action I would argue cannot be justified either in law or on evidential grounds.
In fact if they are brought in I will issue a Judicial Review in my own name to challenge them.
Any laws that abridge the fundamental civil rights of any individuals based on their race, colour or nationality have to be based on evidence of a real problem.
In this case all the evidence confirms that the only social and racial group failing in our society, and hence in need of affirmative action, is the indigenous white working class.
These laws that propose to further damage and undermine the chances of the white working class to get jobs, by allowing companies to hire ethnic employees solely on the basis of their skin colour, means the life chances of the white working class will be further damaged.
This is intolerable, and must be resisted.
I have no doubt that the scum on Lancaster Unity, Searchlight and the socialists in the SWP etc will not stand up for the white working class on this issue, simply because they are so gutless that they fear being called racist for doing so.
The fake socialists that infest this country dont give a toss for the white working class. They will accept this attack on the white working class simply because are using the white working class.
The left have abandoned the white working class and see them simply as a joke.
I bet that you will not see an article on Lancaster Unity demanding that this law be scrapped so that the white working class be protected.
This new law is illegal and if required I will go to court personally to seek a judicial review of the law that seeks to impose these measures.
Well it appears that in the name of affirmative action, racism has been validated - as long as the victims are white.
The white liberal scum in the Labour government want to create a society where what matters is simply the colour of your skin.
The era where just because you carry a gene that makes your skin dark means you are deserving of extra rights is a hang over of a 20th century liberal mindset.
Note that it is not blacks making this law change, it is white politicians assuming their usual crass, paternalistic stance towards blacks.
This is the liberal equivalent of the old racism.
In the past racist white people would symbolically pat blacks on the head and ruffle their frizzy afro hair and say 'aaahh they are nice people but they are simply not capable of being as civilised as us are they '.
Now racist white liberals pat black people on the head and ruffle their frizzy hair and say ' aaah they are such nice people, but they simply cant get ahead on their own merits can they, so we will pass some laws to allow them to get ahead not on merit, but simply because they are black '.
This is simply racism disguised as liberalism.
This is nothing but insulting, crass, paternalistic , racist nonsense. If I was black I would be ashamed that white liberals seek to demean me in such a way.
The idea that blacks cannot get ahead on their own talents is nothing but racism.
These laws will incite racial hatred like this country has never seen before.
Whits refused jobs because less qualified blacks are hired will end up despising blacks. Racial tensions will escalate.
Incompetent blacks will get jobs and cause real harm to people. This will further incite racial hatred.
Imagine a scenario where a doctor is hired not on merit but simply because they are black. If then that individual who is less qualified than other white applicants is hired simply because they are black and then kills someone though negligence then the hospital will be liable and the families will sue.
This will mean that more and more people will then not want to be treated by those black doctors who were employed simply on merit, as they will worry that they were employed not because of their skills but because they are simply black.
These laws will cause vast amounts of racial anger and tension in our society.
The more the government then seeks to punish people for not wanting to be treated by black doctors for example, the more they will generate race hatred.
These laws are simply absurd and I would argue unlawful.
The only racial group that is independently and objectively recognised as failing to get ahead in our society is the Indigenous White Working Class.
On every objective denominator they are failing ;
Universities are failing to recruit white, working-class students despite receiving £400 million from Government to widen participation, regulators claim today.
The National Audit Office report says teenagers from deprived backgrounds “remain significantly under-represented” in higher education.
White boys from working-class families are less likely than any other group to take a degree.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4210561.ece?token=null&offset=0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7473469.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7220683.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jun/22/education.schools
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2151025/White-working-class-boys-becoming-an-underclass.html
http://www.teachers.tv/video/5458
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article641312.ece
Therefore these new laws that seek to legitimise affirmative action I would argue cannot be justified either in law or on evidential grounds.
In fact if they are brought in I will issue a Judicial Review in my own name to challenge them.
Any laws that abridge the fundamental civil rights of any individuals based on their race, colour or nationality have to be based on evidence of a real problem.
In this case all the evidence confirms that the only social and racial group failing in our society, and hence in need of affirmative action, is the indigenous white working class.
These laws that propose to further damage and undermine the chances of the white working class to get jobs, by allowing companies to hire ethnic employees solely on the basis of their skin colour, means the life chances of the white working class will be further damaged.
This is intolerable, and must be resisted.
I have no doubt that the scum on Lancaster Unity, Searchlight and the socialists in the SWP etc will not stand up for the white working class on this issue, simply because they are so gutless that they fear being called racist for doing so.
The fake socialists that infest this country dont give a toss for the white working class. They will accept this attack on the white working class simply because are using the white working class.
The left have abandoned the white working class and see them simply as a joke.
I bet that you will not see an article on Lancaster Unity demanding that this law be scrapped so that the white working class be protected.
This new law is illegal and if required I will go to court personally to seek a judicial review of the law that seeks to impose these measures.
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Proud To Be An Idiot
I know, I know I said I wouldnt respond to any more of the 'Tales From The Puppet Masters' on their sad little blogs, but seeing as this one is about me I will break the rule.
This is the latest post on one of the idiot blogs on the internet ;
" There is some welcome news to report in that the main BNP website no longer carries a link to the deranged ramblings of the blog run by Lee John Barnes, the self titled BNP Legal Eagle.
The link was removed in the past few days, yet the main question is whether it was Griffin himself who ordered it to be removed, or as is far more likely, was it Simon Bennett the current web-editor who chose to do so? As Mr. Bennett appears to be a lot more rational and certainly more decent than Griffin, it would appear that Simon had simply had enough of the embarrassment caused by the joke 'legal adviser'.
Not only does the blog contain vile language and personal insults that can't be backed up in fact, Lee has also come up with these precious beauties:
There will be a second coming of Christ in 2012 - it is all in the stars!
Islam is not a threat to the West and any nationalist who suggests otherwise is speaking non-sense and in the eyes of Lee Barnes, may not even be a nationalist
Those people that support internal democracy in the BNP are all traitors (though he does not mention traitors to Great Britain so we can assume he means to Gri££in himself) And let us not forget this piece of exceptional musical critique regarding Lee's top gigs ever!: Blind Melon Reading Festival 1995 - a week later the lead singer Shannon Hoon died of a heroin overdose. You could tell he was high on stage as he kept throwing the microphones into the ceiling rigging then snapping them, but what a show. A real classic performance.
We have been saying for a long time that Griffin surrounds himself with idiots and that this will be his downfall. It seems that Griffin has come to realise that Lee Barnes is nothing more than a complete and utter embarrassment for British Nationalism - yet this may be too late.
It also seems strange than when something big develops, Barnes is all over it like a rash spewing forth bile against good nationalists, like a kid who has just spat out his dummy and yet still no-one wants to listen to him or take him seriously. However, a few days later, after about 3 or 4 hate filled articles, he seems to shut up shop completely and go back to writing that anyone who may think that Islam or Zionism are a threat to the West is not a nationalist, and that the best gigs are those where the lead singer is junkie scum. What a strange world Lee Barnes lives in!"
So in order to clarify the issue heres a few answers ;
1) My old blog on the BNP site was one I have not used or updated since about February. There were only about four or five articles on it. This was due to the fact that I spend most of my time posting my writings on this site. I had to laugh at colin autys statement on his leadership challenge blog, that I posted up the article calling him a puppet on my blog site that was linked to the BNP site. This was simply a lie. The article where I called him a puppet was published only on this site and never published on my BNP blog, which confirms that auty is a liar.
No doubt some saddo at Lancaster Unity will be able to confirm that the puppet article was not posted on that BNP blog, seeing as they keep copies of everything we write on the website.
2) The reason why I spend most of my time writing on this site is because I control it. All the writings I had on the Brimstone section of the BNP website were removed by Steve Blake with no authority whilst he was involved in his sad little plot. This meant the articles I had written for the BNP website were lost. Once bitten, Twice Shy. All my writings now go up on my blog, as that way I control them.
3)Not one of the articles on the BNP linked blog had any swearing or any invective poured at the puppet masters and their puppet. They were simply articles on politics and nothing else. More lies from the morons again. Typical of the puppet clan that they never let the truth get in the way of a lie. (wheres the police investigation over the 'theft' of the computers eh ! ).
4) The writings on the 2012 event concern my interpetation of the symbolism in the Gnostic Gospels, and will form part of book on the symbolism of Gnosticism and the Gnostic texts that I have been writing for a while now. I have also been writing a book on the interior mysticism of the Indo-European religions and how the symbolism of those religions are all linked to a similar mystical teaching that reached its zenith in the Druidic religion, prior to its destruction by the Roman Empire. I know you are all straining at the leash to read my commenary on the internal symbolism of the esoteric gnostic commentaries and how they relate to an eschatological interepation of the passing of the Platonic Great Year and the spiritual rebirth of the teachings of the Gnostic Christos, and so those who want copies of the aforementioned book please send me a cheque now.
5) Unlike the Smith clique I have studied both Islam and comparative religions, and unlike those retards I can ascertain the difference between the teachings of Universal Sufi Islam and that of Sunni Islam and Shiia Islam. Only retards seek to conflate those three variants of Islam as equating to just one religion.
I have to use some big words here so its best some of you reading this from the puppet group will need to get your dictionaries out - the renaissance was a reformation of the European intellect, whilst the Reformation was a renaissance of the European conscience. The fundamental transition point in European history though was the weakening of the doctrine of Biblical scholasticism and its grip on the social and political structures of the Middle Ages. Until that point it was the Bible which was the basis of all social and political authority, even to the point that it authorised the Divine Right of Kings. The Bible was the basis of science, teaching, society, the law and our rights. In the period after the Renaissance, the deductive and a priori methods of scholasticism were superseded by the inductive reasoning methodologies of modern science, while the theological basis of the Bible was challenged by the ideals of humanism which sought intellectul and spiritual wisdom from sources outside the Bible such as ancient greek texts.
The crisis of the philosophy of Renaissance humanism though came with the trial of Galileo which was centered on the choice between basing the authority of one's beliefs on one's scientific observations, or upon the religious teachings of the Bible.
Islam needs its Galileos and its Martin Luthers.
Just as Galileos trial represented the high point and the beginning of the end of the age of obedience to the Bible, Islam must now experience its own similar internal revolution in order to allow it to grow away from the idea of Sharia and obedience to the Koran.
The God that created the universse, the world and Man cannot be contained in his immense evolving spiritual entirety in a single book, and such an idea is simply blasphemous. For an Imam or a priest to decide what God 'intended' is to place themselves as an equivalent with God, and that is also blasphemy. No man may know the mind of god. Man may experience the presence of god, but no man can ever understand god in his entirety.
Therefore for anyone to assume any earthly authority to order the death of another human being in the name of god, when all men have been created by god, is to be an apostate and a criminal.
Only god can take back the life he gave to man, and therefore no man may order another mans death in the name of god.
This freedom from the abuses of book law was precisely what Mohammed wanted in the first place when he forbade a priest caste in early Islam so as to allow it to grow its own way, but Islam has been hijacked by the Imams who assume a false authority to issue Fatwas and Jihads.
This is the process that Islam must go through now, in that Islam is in a period of its existence prior to that of the Renaissance, Reformation and post-Scholastic phase. The present Islam of the Imams with its total obedience to the Imams, the Koran, Sharia Law and the dictates of the associated books of Islam, must undergo its own internal changes as that which Christianity went through.
This will neccesitate dialogue with those within Islam that have espoused a more spiritual version of Islam that rejects the gross materialism of the ideal of a global caliphate and its version of a physical Jihad involving war, and support for those that espouse instead a spiritual 'internal Jihad' representing a sublimation of the animal within man allowing him to achieve a spiritually transcedent state of direct higher spiritual union with God.
Simple really.
I think the ever escalating body count of the sectarian wars between Sunni and Shiia Islam in Iraq would have got at least one or two of the retards thinking' Hey, perhaps the idea there is just one Islam may be wrong'. Guess not. Seeing as this country has seen a protracted and bloody war between Christians, protestants and catholics, then perhaps the idea that something similar may be happening in 'Islam' as well as Christianity would occur. Guess not.
6) And worst of all they mock the greatness of Blind Melon. This is unforgivable. The band that brought us one of the greatest songs of all time, Sleepyhouse, should be beyond mockery. My god, have these people no respect.
7) Blogging is now about as relevant to new technology as the newspaper. Keep an eye on the BNP site as pretty soon we are going to be launching a BNPTV station where I and others will be putting up weekly videos and films. This will be a nationalist TV station with weekly TV shows and programmes concerning nationalist issues, interviews with nationalists and also concert footages, music gigs etc etc. That is the reason why the blog was primarily removed. My writing will be on this site and my TV work on the TV site.
This was a idea we had been pushing Blake to do for years, and as usual he did nothing about it.
Lancaster Unity think they have taken a fantastic step forward into the future with a 'forum' on their site - wait until they see our TV channel.
It is a far, far better thing to be spat at by scum, than to be patted on the back by them.
You can wipe away the spittle easily from your clothes, but the stench from associating with traitors and theives lingers a long time.
To be called an idiot and a 'liability' by that collection of thieves, nazis, reds, searchlight stooges, puppets and crooks around Auty and Lancaster Unity is a badge I wear with pride.
This is the latest post on one of the idiot blogs on the internet ;
" There is some welcome news to report in that the main BNP website no longer carries a link to the deranged ramblings of the blog run by Lee John Barnes, the self titled BNP Legal Eagle.
The link was removed in the past few days, yet the main question is whether it was Griffin himself who ordered it to be removed, or as is far more likely, was it Simon Bennett the current web-editor who chose to do so? As Mr. Bennett appears to be a lot more rational and certainly more decent than Griffin, it would appear that Simon had simply had enough of the embarrassment caused by the joke 'legal adviser'.
Not only does the blog contain vile language and personal insults that can't be backed up in fact, Lee has also come up with these precious beauties:
There will be a second coming of Christ in 2012 - it is all in the stars!
Islam is not a threat to the West and any nationalist who suggests otherwise is speaking non-sense and in the eyes of Lee Barnes, may not even be a nationalist
Those people that support internal democracy in the BNP are all traitors (though he does not mention traitors to Great Britain so we can assume he means to Gri££in himself) And let us not forget this piece of exceptional musical critique regarding Lee's top gigs ever!: Blind Melon Reading Festival 1995 - a week later the lead singer Shannon Hoon died of a heroin overdose. You could tell he was high on stage as he kept throwing the microphones into the ceiling rigging then snapping them, but what a show. A real classic performance.
We have been saying for a long time that Griffin surrounds himself with idiots and that this will be his downfall. It seems that Griffin has come to realise that Lee Barnes is nothing more than a complete and utter embarrassment for British Nationalism - yet this may be too late.
It also seems strange than when something big develops, Barnes is all over it like a rash spewing forth bile against good nationalists, like a kid who has just spat out his dummy and yet still no-one wants to listen to him or take him seriously. However, a few days later, after about 3 or 4 hate filled articles, he seems to shut up shop completely and go back to writing that anyone who may think that Islam or Zionism are a threat to the West is not a nationalist, and that the best gigs are those where the lead singer is junkie scum. What a strange world Lee Barnes lives in!"
So in order to clarify the issue heres a few answers ;
1) My old blog on the BNP site was one I have not used or updated since about February. There were only about four or five articles on it. This was due to the fact that I spend most of my time posting my writings on this site. I had to laugh at colin autys statement on his leadership challenge blog, that I posted up the article calling him a puppet on my blog site that was linked to the BNP site. This was simply a lie. The article where I called him a puppet was published only on this site and never published on my BNP blog, which confirms that auty is a liar.
No doubt some saddo at Lancaster Unity will be able to confirm that the puppet article was not posted on that BNP blog, seeing as they keep copies of everything we write on the website.
2) The reason why I spend most of my time writing on this site is because I control it. All the writings I had on the Brimstone section of the BNP website were removed by Steve Blake with no authority whilst he was involved in his sad little plot. This meant the articles I had written for the BNP website were lost. Once bitten, Twice Shy. All my writings now go up on my blog, as that way I control them.
3)Not one of the articles on the BNP linked blog had any swearing or any invective poured at the puppet masters and their puppet. They were simply articles on politics and nothing else. More lies from the morons again. Typical of the puppet clan that they never let the truth get in the way of a lie. (wheres the police investigation over the 'theft' of the computers eh ! ).
4) The writings on the 2012 event concern my interpetation of the symbolism in the Gnostic Gospels, and will form part of book on the symbolism of Gnosticism and the Gnostic texts that I have been writing for a while now. I have also been writing a book on the interior mysticism of the Indo-European religions and how the symbolism of those religions are all linked to a similar mystical teaching that reached its zenith in the Druidic religion, prior to its destruction by the Roman Empire. I know you are all straining at the leash to read my commenary on the internal symbolism of the esoteric gnostic commentaries and how they relate to an eschatological interepation of the passing of the Platonic Great Year and the spiritual rebirth of the teachings of the Gnostic Christos, and so those who want copies of the aforementioned book please send me a cheque now.
5) Unlike the Smith clique I have studied both Islam and comparative religions, and unlike those retards I can ascertain the difference between the teachings of Universal Sufi Islam and that of Sunni Islam and Shiia Islam. Only retards seek to conflate those three variants of Islam as equating to just one religion.
I have to use some big words here so its best some of you reading this from the puppet group will need to get your dictionaries out - the renaissance was a reformation of the European intellect, whilst the Reformation was a renaissance of the European conscience. The fundamental transition point in European history though was the weakening of the doctrine of Biblical scholasticism and its grip on the social and political structures of the Middle Ages. Until that point it was the Bible which was the basis of all social and political authority, even to the point that it authorised the Divine Right of Kings. The Bible was the basis of science, teaching, society, the law and our rights. In the period after the Renaissance, the deductive and a priori methods of scholasticism were superseded by the inductive reasoning methodologies of modern science, while the theological basis of the Bible was challenged by the ideals of humanism which sought intellectul and spiritual wisdom from sources outside the Bible such as ancient greek texts.
The crisis of the philosophy of Renaissance humanism though came with the trial of Galileo which was centered on the choice between basing the authority of one's beliefs on one's scientific observations, or upon the religious teachings of the Bible.
Islam needs its Galileos and its Martin Luthers.
Just as Galileos trial represented the high point and the beginning of the end of the age of obedience to the Bible, Islam must now experience its own similar internal revolution in order to allow it to grow away from the idea of Sharia and obedience to the Koran.
The God that created the universse, the world and Man cannot be contained in his immense evolving spiritual entirety in a single book, and such an idea is simply blasphemous. For an Imam or a priest to decide what God 'intended' is to place themselves as an equivalent with God, and that is also blasphemy. No man may know the mind of god. Man may experience the presence of god, but no man can ever understand god in his entirety.
Therefore for anyone to assume any earthly authority to order the death of another human being in the name of god, when all men have been created by god, is to be an apostate and a criminal.
Only god can take back the life he gave to man, and therefore no man may order another mans death in the name of god.
This freedom from the abuses of book law was precisely what Mohammed wanted in the first place when he forbade a priest caste in early Islam so as to allow it to grow its own way, but Islam has been hijacked by the Imams who assume a false authority to issue Fatwas and Jihads.
This is the process that Islam must go through now, in that Islam is in a period of its existence prior to that of the Renaissance, Reformation and post-Scholastic phase. The present Islam of the Imams with its total obedience to the Imams, the Koran, Sharia Law and the dictates of the associated books of Islam, must undergo its own internal changes as that which Christianity went through.
This will neccesitate dialogue with those within Islam that have espoused a more spiritual version of Islam that rejects the gross materialism of the ideal of a global caliphate and its version of a physical Jihad involving war, and support for those that espouse instead a spiritual 'internal Jihad' representing a sublimation of the animal within man allowing him to achieve a spiritually transcedent state of direct higher spiritual union with God.
Simple really.
I think the ever escalating body count of the sectarian wars between Sunni and Shiia Islam in Iraq would have got at least one or two of the retards thinking' Hey, perhaps the idea there is just one Islam may be wrong'. Guess not. Seeing as this country has seen a protracted and bloody war between Christians, protestants and catholics, then perhaps the idea that something similar may be happening in 'Islam' as well as Christianity would occur. Guess not.
6) And worst of all they mock the greatness of Blind Melon. This is unforgivable. The band that brought us one of the greatest songs of all time, Sleepyhouse, should be beyond mockery. My god, have these people no respect.
7) Blogging is now about as relevant to new technology as the newspaper. Keep an eye on the BNP site as pretty soon we are going to be launching a BNPTV station where I and others will be putting up weekly videos and films. This will be a nationalist TV station with weekly TV shows and programmes concerning nationalist issues, interviews with nationalists and also concert footages, music gigs etc etc. That is the reason why the blog was primarily removed. My writing will be on this site and my TV work on the TV site.
This was a idea we had been pushing Blake to do for years, and as usual he did nothing about it.
Lancaster Unity think they have taken a fantastic step forward into the future with a 'forum' on their site - wait until they see our TV channel.
It is a far, far better thing to be spat at by scum, than to be patted on the back by them.
You can wipe away the spittle easily from your clothes, but the stench from associating with traitors and theives lingers a long time.
To be called an idiot and a 'liability' by that collection of thieves, nazis, reds, searchlight stooges, puppets and crooks around Auty and Lancaster Unity is a badge I wear with pride.
More lax security in the UK
British 9/11 fears over private planes, Government terror adviser warns
By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 2:18AM BST 24/06/2008
Private jets and light aircraft could be used by terrorists to launch attacks on crowds and buildings in Britain, the Government's anti-terror expert has warned.
There are an estimated 8,500 private aircraft and up to 500 "landing sites" in Britain, ranging from farmers' fields to regional airports.
Senior police officers have "real anxiety" about the possibility of terror missions being launched from small airports amid fears over lax security.
Jets could be hijacked and used as "vehicle bombs" to target the public.
Such attacks would be "relatively simple" to orchestrate, according to Lord Carlile of Berriew in a report on how the UK is dealing with the terror threat.
He said that the thousands of small, rented planes capable of travelling at high speeds between EU countries and the UK should be subjected to far stricter checks.
The warning, contained in a 60-page report, will prompt fears that Britain has been left open to a terrorist attack similar to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington DC.
It comes as:
• Lord Carlile raised the prospect of taking the IRA off a Government list of banned organisations because it had "dwindled to almost or actually nothing";
• Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, disclosed plans to create a 3,000-strong border police force;
• Lord Carlile said he had raised concerns with internet search engine Google over the availability of terror-related material on the worldwide web;
• The European Court of Human Rights announced it would investigate the Government's plans to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days;
• The Government announced it is to build a specialist detention centre for terror suspects
There are an estimated 8,500 private aircraft and up to 500 "landing sites" in Britain, which can range from farmers' fields to regional airports.
However, there is no formal vetting from security authorities about who is landing and taking off from Britain's airfields - although once an aircraft is airborne it is monitored by the Civil Aviation Authority.
In addition it is sometimes unclear where a flight has originated from.
A plane flying from outside the European Union could touchdown on a airfield in the EU and then be regarded by British authorities as coming from within the EU. "This is self-evidently unsatisfactory," Lord Carlile said.
Lord Carlile also said he was concerned about the thoroughness of checks that were made on planes and executive jets which fly into and out of British airspace every day.
He said he was concerned because security was lax or non-existent in many of them.
He said senior officers shared a "real anxiety [about] the potential use of light aircraft as vehicle bombs against places of public aggregation."
He said: "I know that some knowledgable police officers and officials have ongoing concerns about the relative simplicity of terrorism conducted in this way, given the very large number of private aircraft and small airfields."
However, he said there had been no intelligence of any plots to launch such attacks.
Local airfield operators had worked out local policing plans "involving special branch and other police officers working together" - but more efforts to counter the threat was needed, he said.
Experts said that other pilots and airfield operators kept watch on each other through a "Neighbourhood Watch" system, with operators alerting local police and the security services if they see anything suspicious.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association said it offers advice to its members on how to deal with the terror threat, while airport operators on Northern Ireland are currently filming a video offering advice to aircraft owners.
However, Martin Robinson, the association's chief executive, tried to play down the risk pointing out that light aircraft offered an "easy target for people to make a terror claim". The risk to public safety was "no greater" than driving a jeep full of explosives through the door of a building, he said.
Replying to Lord Carlile's report, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she "noted your flagging of the potential for small aircraft to be used as vehicle bombs and your observation that there is no intelligence to suggest this forms part of terrorist thinking".
She added: "The Department [for Transport] keeps this potential threat under review as part of its wider protective security responsibilities, and is participating in discussions in Europe of the possible security regulation of general aviation at the EU level."
Baroness Neville Jones, shadow security minister, said: "It is vital to have a joined up approach to security threats against the UK - as all the evidence shows that the threat level remains severe.
"However we must also direct resources on the basis of intelligence - so that we maximise the impact of the resources we have in the fight against terrorism."
Lord Carlile's report, a review of the operation in 2007 of the Terrorism Act 2000, also revealed that controversial stop and search powers have been used unlawfully by at least three different police forces.
He disclosed there had been five "episodes" of the anti-terror powers being used without authorisation.
Last December that Sussex police had wrongly deployed the measures at Gatwick airport, where they unlawfully stopped and searched hundreds of people.
The report into similar errors were made by the Greater Manchester and South Wales forces last year.
The police must obtain ministerial authority before they designate an area a stop and search zone under the Terrorism Act 2000.
This must also be renewed regularly to remain legal, otherwise the police could be sued for wrongful detention.
Lord Carlile said 12 people were detained and said he hoped they had been informed of the mistake in writing, so they consider suing the police.
The peer also said that 257 people were arrested under terrorism powers in 2007, of whom 126 were eventually released without charge.
"The realities of this kind of policing increase the possibility of arrests later found to be of innocent members of the public," he said.
"I am satisfied that the level of arrests is proportionate to perceived risk."
Tom Brake, a home affairs spokesman from the Liberal Democrats, said: “We must ensure that the safeguards that apply at our largest airports are not overlooked at our smallest ones where there is a risk that light planes could sliop in below the radar with devasting consequences.”
He added that the Liberal Democrats would be writing to Miss Smith seeking assurances that this security risk was being treated properly by the Home Office.
By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 2:18AM BST 24/06/2008
Private jets and light aircraft could be used by terrorists to launch attacks on crowds and buildings in Britain, the Government's anti-terror expert has warned.
There are an estimated 8,500 private aircraft and up to 500 "landing sites" in Britain, ranging from farmers' fields to regional airports.
Senior police officers have "real anxiety" about the possibility of terror missions being launched from small airports amid fears over lax security.
Jets could be hijacked and used as "vehicle bombs" to target the public.
Such attacks would be "relatively simple" to orchestrate, according to Lord Carlile of Berriew in a report on how the UK is dealing with the terror threat.
He said that the thousands of small, rented planes capable of travelling at high speeds between EU countries and the UK should be subjected to far stricter checks.
The warning, contained in a 60-page report, will prompt fears that Britain has been left open to a terrorist attack similar to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington DC.
It comes as:
• Lord Carlile raised the prospect of taking the IRA off a Government list of banned organisations because it had "dwindled to almost or actually nothing";
• Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, disclosed plans to create a 3,000-strong border police force;
• Lord Carlile said he had raised concerns with internet search engine Google over the availability of terror-related material on the worldwide web;
• The European Court of Human Rights announced it would investigate the Government's plans to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days;
• The Government announced it is to build a specialist detention centre for terror suspects
There are an estimated 8,500 private aircraft and up to 500 "landing sites" in Britain, which can range from farmers' fields to regional airports.
However, there is no formal vetting from security authorities about who is landing and taking off from Britain's airfields - although once an aircraft is airborne it is monitored by the Civil Aviation Authority.
In addition it is sometimes unclear where a flight has originated from.
A plane flying from outside the European Union could touchdown on a airfield in the EU and then be regarded by British authorities as coming from within the EU. "This is self-evidently unsatisfactory," Lord Carlile said.
Lord Carlile also said he was concerned about the thoroughness of checks that were made on planes and executive jets which fly into and out of British airspace every day.
He said he was concerned because security was lax or non-existent in many of them.
He said senior officers shared a "real anxiety [about] the potential use of light aircraft as vehicle bombs against places of public aggregation."
He said: "I know that some knowledgable police officers and officials have ongoing concerns about the relative simplicity of terrorism conducted in this way, given the very large number of private aircraft and small airfields."
However, he said there had been no intelligence of any plots to launch such attacks.
Local airfield operators had worked out local policing plans "involving special branch and other police officers working together" - but more efforts to counter the threat was needed, he said.
Experts said that other pilots and airfield operators kept watch on each other through a "Neighbourhood Watch" system, with operators alerting local police and the security services if they see anything suspicious.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association said it offers advice to its members on how to deal with the terror threat, while airport operators on Northern Ireland are currently filming a video offering advice to aircraft owners.
However, Martin Robinson, the association's chief executive, tried to play down the risk pointing out that light aircraft offered an "easy target for people to make a terror claim". The risk to public safety was "no greater" than driving a jeep full of explosives through the door of a building, he said.
Replying to Lord Carlile's report, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she "noted your flagging of the potential for small aircraft to be used as vehicle bombs and your observation that there is no intelligence to suggest this forms part of terrorist thinking".
She added: "The Department [for Transport] keeps this potential threat under review as part of its wider protective security responsibilities, and is participating in discussions in Europe of the possible security regulation of general aviation at the EU level."
Baroness Neville Jones, shadow security minister, said: "It is vital to have a joined up approach to security threats against the UK - as all the evidence shows that the threat level remains severe.
"However we must also direct resources on the basis of intelligence - so that we maximise the impact of the resources we have in the fight against terrorism."
Lord Carlile's report, a review of the operation in 2007 of the Terrorism Act 2000, also revealed that controversial stop and search powers have been used unlawfully by at least three different police forces.
He disclosed there had been five "episodes" of the anti-terror powers being used without authorisation.
Last December that Sussex police had wrongly deployed the measures at Gatwick airport, where they unlawfully stopped and searched hundreds of people.
The report into similar errors were made by the Greater Manchester and South Wales forces last year.
The police must obtain ministerial authority before they designate an area a stop and search zone under the Terrorism Act 2000.
This must also be renewed regularly to remain legal, otherwise the police could be sued for wrongful detention.
Lord Carlile said 12 people were detained and said he hoped they had been informed of the mistake in writing, so they consider suing the police.
The peer also said that 257 people were arrested under terrorism powers in 2007, of whom 126 were eventually released without charge.
"The realities of this kind of policing increase the possibility of arrests later found to be of innocent members of the public," he said.
"I am satisfied that the level of arrests is proportionate to perceived risk."
Tom Brake, a home affairs spokesman from the Liberal Democrats, said: “We must ensure that the safeguards that apply at our largest airports are not overlooked at our smallest ones where there is a risk that light planes could sliop in below the radar with devasting consequences.”
He added that the Liberal Democrats would be writing to Miss Smith seeking assurances that this security risk was being treated properly by the Home Office.
The Great Awakening
All around the world the sleep of nations is over, as at last the forces of nationalism are reawakening.
The suggestion of a law similar to the one espoused by Israel - The Prevention of Infiltration Act - is one we should enact here as soon as possible, including of course a new border police force, internal security forcesto track down illegals and new facilities to detain them prior to deportation.
Note the spelling mistake of the word immigrant in the telegraph article - they spelt it 'immigrat' - I like that.
These two stories show how this occuring ;
http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=596246
Amnesty International Monday condemned Israel's plans to imprison asylum
seekers, saying the proposed law effectively bars asylum seekers and
''potentially criminalize those who seek protection from persecution.''
"The draft law fails to take into account the particularly vulnerable
situation of asylum seekers and refugees," the London- based human rights
organization said.
"Such procedures would effectively deny individuals fleeing persecution
access to refugee status determination procedures, and fall far short of
Israel's international legal obligations as a state party to the 1951
Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol," it warned.
The proposed law, which makes no provision for asylum seekers fleeing from
violence or persecution, provides for the automatic detention pending
deportation within 72 hours of anyone who enters the country at any point
other than an authorized border crossing.
Individuals, who cannot be immediately deported would be sentenced to five
years' imprisonment "without distinction as to their identity or their
intention when infiltrating."
Residents and citizens of ten listed states or territories, including
refugee-producing countries such as Sudan and Iraq, would face up to seven
years of imprisonment.
In a memorandum sent to the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee of
the Israeli Knesset, Amnesty urged legislators to reject the proposed law
when it meets on Tuesday to discuss the draft "Prevention of Infiltration
Law - 2008".
"The detention and removal process set out in the draft law, especially the
high level of discretion granted to officers to remove individuals within 72
hours, are inconsistent with Israel's obligations under international
treaties, including the Refugee Convention," it said.
The human rights groups said that since 2005, up to 8,000 Eritreans,
Sudanese, and other nationals who have entered Israel via the Egyptian
border would have been considered to be "infiltrators" and would have been
liable to immediate deportation back to Egypt. --IRNA
2) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2186369/Silvio-Berlusconi%27s-%27iron-fist%27-laws-approved.html
Soldiers could be sent into Italy's cities, illegal immigrants will be imprisoned and all non-serious court cases will be frozen for a year under new measures approved by Italy's senate.
AFP/GETTY
Police patrol a gypsy camp in Rome. Illegal immigrats could face four years in jail under the newly approved measures
The senate voted 166 to 123 to approve a wide-ranging package of measures which will allow Silvio Berlusconi to govern Italy with an iron fist.
Mr Berlusconi, 71, will now be able to use as many as 3,000 soldiers for up to six months in order to fight crime. Previously, the use of the army had to be agreed by the parliament beforehand. The first destination for the troops is likely to be Naples, where Mr Berlusconi faces violent opposition to his plans for dealing with the city's rubbish crisis.
The perma-tanned billionaire will also no longer have to worry about his ongoing court case for allegedly corrupting David Mills, the husband of Tessa Jowell, the Olympic minister. Mr Berlusconi is accused of giving Mr Mills £350,000 in order to stand favourable witness in a separate trial. Both men deny wrong-doing.
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The trial could be suspended under a measure designed to free up Italy's judiciary to concentrate on murder and Mafia cases. More than 100,000 "non-serious" trials, including trials for fraud, manslaughter, theft and kidnapping, will shut down for a year to give the courts a chance to catch up on their backlog.
The National Association of Magistrates said the move would cause "unprecedented chaos" and offered Mr Berlusconi the chance to cut a deal: personal immunity from prosecution if he would let the trials continue.
Mr Berlusconi said he was "outraged" by suggestions that he would pass a law in order to have his own trial suspended. He vowed that the Mills case would continue, despite the new decree.
Another controversial measure in the package will eventually see illegal immigrants imprisoned for up to four years. Landlords who rent homes to illegal immigrants will have their properties seized. Mr Berlusconi has pinned much of the blame for Italy's crime problem on immigrants and has vowed to "wash the piazzas clean of uncertainty". Immigrants who claim to have family in Italy will be given DNA tests.
Anna Finocchiaro, a spokesman for the opposition Democratic Party, said there had been no consultation by the government over the new measures. "We have to have a dialogue over our shared principles and rules," she said.
"We will vote no. The text has two mistaken measures, which are dangerous and against the Constitution. First there is the criminalisation of immigration, and the second is the suspension of trials".
However, Mr Berlusconi's enormous majority in the Senate easily overwhelmed the opposition. The measure will now be ratified by the Lower House of parliament. No date has been set, but the parliament has 30 days in which to carry out a vote.
The suggestion of a law similar to the one espoused by Israel - The Prevention of Infiltration Act - is one we should enact here as soon as possible, including of course a new border police force, internal security forcesto track down illegals and new facilities to detain them prior to deportation.
Note the spelling mistake of the word immigrant in the telegraph article - they spelt it 'immigrat' - I like that.
These two stories show how this occuring ;
http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=596246
Amnesty International Monday condemned Israel's plans to imprison asylum
seekers, saying the proposed law effectively bars asylum seekers and
''potentially criminalize those who seek protection from persecution.''
"The draft law fails to take into account the particularly vulnerable
situation of asylum seekers and refugees," the London- based human rights
organization said.
"Such procedures would effectively deny individuals fleeing persecution
access to refugee status determination procedures, and fall far short of
Israel's international legal obligations as a state party to the 1951
Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol," it warned.
The proposed law, which makes no provision for asylum seekers fleeing from
violence or persecution, provides for the automatic detention pending
deportation within 72 hours of anyone who enters the country at any point
other than an authorized border crossing.
Individuals, who cannot be immediately deported would be sentenced to five
years' imprisonment "without distinction as to their identity or their
intention when infiltrating."
Residents and citizens of ten listed states or territories, including
refugee-producing countries such as Sudan and Iraq, would face up to seven
years of imprisonment.
In a memorandum sent to the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee of
the Israeli Knesset, Amnesty urged legislators to reject the proposed law
when it meets on Tuesday to discuss the draft "Prevention of Infiltration
Law - 2008".
"The detention and removal process set out in the draft law, especially the
high level of discretion granted to officers to remove individuals within 72
hours, are inconsistent with Israel's obligations under international
treaties, including the Refugee Convention," it said.
The human rights groups said that since 2005, up to 8,000 Eritreans,
Sudanese, and other nationals who have entered Israel via the Egyptian
border would have been considered to be "infiltrators" and would have been
liable to immediate deportation back to Egypt. --IRNA
2) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2186369/Silvio-Berlusconi%27s-%27iron-fist%27-laws-approved.html
Soldiers could be sent into Italy's cities, illegal immigrants will be imprisoned and all non-serious court cases will be frozen for a year under new measures approved by Italy's senate.
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Police patrol a gypsy camp in Rome. Illegal immigrats could face four years in jail under the newly approved measures
The senate voted 166 to 123 to approve a wide-ranging package of measures which will allow Silvio Berlusconi to govern Italy with an iron fist.
Mr Berlusconi, 71, will now be able to use as many as 3,000 soldiers for up to six months in order to fight crime. Previously, the use of the army had to be agreed by the parliament beforehand. The first destination for the troops is likely to be Naples, where Mr Berlusconi faces violent opposition to his plans for dealing with the city's rubbish crisis.
The perma-tanned billionaire will also no longer have to worry about his ongoing court case for allegedly corrupting David Mills, the husband of Tessa Jowell, the Olympic minister. Mr Berlusconi is accused of giving Mr Mills £350,000 in order to stand favourable witness in a separate trial. Both men deny wrong-doing.
Article continuesadvertisement
The trial could be suspended under a measure designed to free up Italy's judiciary to concentrate on murder and Mafia cases. More than 100,000 "non-serious" trials, including trials for fraud, manslaughter, theft and kidnapping, will shut down for a year to give the courts a chance to catch up on their backlog.
The National Association of Magistrates said the move would cause "unprecedented chaos" and offered Mr Berlusconi the chance to cut a deal: personal immunity from prosecution if he would let the trials continue.
Mr Berlusconi said he was "outraged" by suggestions that he would pass a law in order to have his own trial suspended. He vowed that the Mills case would continue, despite the new decree.
Another controversial measure in the package will eventually see illegal immigrants imprisoned for up to four years. Landlords who rent homes to illegal immigrants will have their properties seized. Mr Berlusconi has pinned much of the blame for Italy's crime problem on immigrants and has vowed to "wash the piazzas clean of uncertainty". Immigrants who claim to have family in Italy will be given DNA tests.
Anna Finocchiaro, a spokesman for the opposition Democratic Party, said there had been no consultation by the government over the new measures. "We have to have a dialogue over our shared principles and rules," she said.
"We will vote no. The text has two mistaken measures, which are dangerous and against the Constitution. First there is the criminalisation of immigration, and the second is the suspension of trials".
However, Mr Berlusconi's enormous majority in the Senate easily overwhelmed the opposition. The measure will now be ratified by the Lower House of parliament. No date has been set, but the parliament has 30 days in which to carry out a vote.
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