Canada, UK and US = the same scum run the country

MONTREAL -- Former Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler has slammed Prime Minister Stephen Harper's foreign policy, accusing the Conservatives of pandering to Canadian Jewish voters with a "reckless" Middle East policy that blindly favours Israel.

He also says Canada does not deserve a seat on the United Nations Security Council; that the Afghanistan mission is doomed to failure; and that Canadian politicians -- Conservatives and Liberals -- set their foreign-policy goals only to "corner the ethnic vote" in Canada.

"The world does not need more of the kind of Canada they have been getting," Mr. Fowler said in a speech in Montreal on Sunday. "Canadian governments have turned inward and adopted ‘me first' stances across the international agenda; and Canada's reputation and proud international traditions have been diminished as a result."

Mr. Fowler made his remarks at a weekend "thinkers" conference organized by the Liberal Party of Canada, with Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and former prime minister Paul Martin looking on.

He was brutal in his assessment of the Conservative government's foreign policy.

He said the Conservatives must "accept the reality and importance of the ironclad link between . . . continuing turmoil and volatility in the Middle East and the rise [and] growing strength of international terrorism."

But, he said, doing that means confronting Israel, as it "builds ever more settlements in illegally occupied territories in contravention of a myriad of international judgments."

He said Canadian politicians -- and here he seemed to suggest both Liberal and Conservative politicians -- refuse to acknowledge that reality for fear of being labelled anti-Semitic.

"It is there for all to see, but apparently politically incorrect to draw attention to it."

Moreover, he accused Canadian politicians of formulating foreign policy, on the Middle East and on other issues, only with a view to winning votes and scoring political points at home.

He said politicians are merely engaged in "the scramble to lock up the Jewish vote in Canada [and] selling out our widely admired and long-established reputation for fairness and justice. I have no reason to love Islamic extremism or indeed terrorism of any stripe, jihadi or political, but I do deplore the abandonment of our hard-won reputation for objective analysis and decency as a result of our reckless Middle Eastern posturing."

Mr. Fowler speaks with considerable experience in foreign affairs. Not only was he a civil servant for 38 years, he was the foreign policy adviser to prime ministers Trudeau, Turner and Mulroney; he was Canada's longest-serving ambassador at the United Nations; and he was the personal representative for Africa for prime ministers Chretien, Martin and Harper.

In 2008, while representing United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Africa, he was captured and held hostage by al-Qaida for 130 days. He now teaches at the University of Ottawa.

Mr. Ignatieff said Sunday he has always stood for a two-state solution in the Middle East and rejected accusations of pandering.

"The Canadian consensus -- and it is a consensus, darn it -- is two states between two free peoples, living side by side with international recognition and international security guarantees," said Mr. Ignatieff. "I say that in every room I go into. I don't chop it. I don't change it."

Mr. Fowler, though, cited other examples of "radical voices within domestic constituencies [that] are being indulged" by politicians seeking electoral support.

"Look only at Liberal politicians falling over themselves to celebrate supporters in Toronto of the Tamil Tigers, one of the world's more unpleasant terrorist organizations," Mr. Fowler said.

"Or consider the ethical and international implications of politicians of all parties attending the Surrey, B.C., spring parades to mark the anniversary of the Sikh religion, where photographs of Sikh terrorists, like the leaders of the Air India bomb plot and Free Khalistan separatists, are prominently displayed and venerated."

While he praised the key foreign policy initiatives of Pearson, Trudeau, Mulroney and Chretien, Mr. Fowler was withering in his assessment of Harper's approach to world affairs, suggesting that, because of the Conservative approach, the world is becoming increasingly suspicious and distrustful of a Canada that has increasingly turned away from the world.

Canada will vie with Germany and Portugal to win one of the two seats on the United Nations Security Council 2011-12. Mr. Fowler said Canadians should not assume the rest of the world wants Canada to win that race.

"If we win, it will not be because we have contributed much to the effective management of world affairs over recent years, because we have not," Mr. Fowler said.

The Afghanistan mission, Mr. Fowler said, is doomed because neither Canadians nor its allies are prepared to pay the price, "in blood or treasure" to essentially colonize that country.

"The bottom line is: We will not prevail in Afghanistan," Mr. Fowler said. "We are simply not prepared to foot the massive price in blood and treasure, which it would take to effectively colonize Afghanistan -- the least fortunate country in the world -- and replace their culture with ours, for that seems to be what we seek, and with the Taliban share that view."

Mr. Fowler argued that Canadian troops should immediately withdraw from that country. "It is time to leave. Not a moment, not a life, and not a dollar, later."

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The Evil Exposed - family and nation to be destroyed

The destruction of the family is almost complete.

The eradication of the natural family unit means that the individual is rootless, an atomised, individuated unit amidst a constantly changing flux of incoming and outgoing immigrants and emigrants.

The eradication of the nation, and a national consciousness, must first begin with the eradication of the sense of family and ties to the land.

This is what this is all about - by destroying the basis of the human biological family unit the individual is therefore without a past and resides only in the present.

The concept of being part of a nation is removed and the individual is abandoned in a constantly changing environment.

This is treason.

To nature, to family and nation.

The people that proposed this, and who vote for, will one day be punished for their crimes.



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The words 'mother' and 'father' are to disappear from birth certificates to allow homosexual couples to be named as 'parents' of surrogate children.

The switch means the biological parents will no longer necessarily be identified on the certificates that provide a legal record of a child's birth.

Birth certificates have recorded mothers and fathers since registration of babies was introduced more than 170 years ago.

But to comply with a change in the law, around 200 special certificates a year will be authorised for same-sex couples who qualify under a new law as the legal parents of a child born through surrogacy or fertility treatment.

The move has been questioned by fertility experts and lawyers, who believe it means birth records will be effectively falsified.

In the case of two women who register as the parents of a child, there will be no record on the birth register of who the biological father is.

Baroness Deech, a former head of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, warned: 'It could even result in deception to exclude the natural father where the mother conceived naturally but uses this provision to cut him out of the child's life.'

But gay pressure groups have welcomed the move.

Ben Summerskill, of Stonewall, said: 'We are delighted that the reality of people's family lives in being recognised at last, that lesbian and gay couples no longer have to go through the unpleasantness of an adoption procedure.

'The law means that from next week, two men who have a child by a surrogate mother will be able to apply to a family court for an order making them the legal parents.

The court will rule on whether they are fit to bring up the child.

In this case an original birth certificate naming the mother will exist.

But it will be replaced by a new document naming the two men as parents if a judge grants a parental order.

A child will be able to trace the original birth certificate once he or she is 18 years old.

Rules governing the issue of certificates have been strictly upheld since 1837, the year Queen Victoria came to the throne.

Registrars must, for example, record entries on certificates in the same kind of ink developed in the 1830s to ensure it does not fade or be easily erased.

Lady Deech, a senior family lawyer, said the rule allowing two parents of the same sex to appear on birth certificates gave her 'unease'.

She said: 'There is an issue of principle here, which is the truth.

'It puts the demands of the adults ahead of the rights of children to know and benefit from both sides of their genetic makeup.'

White Flight From the Left

http://www.americancrisis.us/Article.php?ID=69134&


USA: ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT: Millions of White men are abandoning the Democrats...
Date Posted: Saturday 27-Mar-2010

[Now we're talking!! This is the kind of news I like to hear. The word "Liberal" seems to me to be abused and distorted in America. Often it is a synonym for socialism or outright Marxism. A communist in America would be labelled a "Liberal". Jan]

Millions of white men who voted for Barack Obama are walking away from the Democratic Party, and it appears increasingly likely that they'll take the midterms elections in November with them. Their departure could well lead to a GOP landslide on a scale not seen since 1994.

For more than three decades before the 2008 election, no Democratic president had won a majority of the electorate. In part, that was because of low support -- never more than 38 percent -- among white male voters. Things changed with Obama, who not only won a majority of all people voting, but also pulled in 41 percent of white male voters.

Polling suggests that the shift was not because of Obama but because of the financial meltdown that preceded the election. It was only after the economic collapse that Obama's white male support climbed above the 38 percent ceiling. It was also at that point that Obama first sustained a clear majority among all registered voters, according to the Gallup tracking poll.

It looked for a moment as though Democrats had finally reached the men of Bruce Springsteen's music, bringing them around to the progressive values Springsteen himself has long endorsed. But liberal analysts failed to understand that these new Democrats were still firmly rooted in American moderation.

Pollsters regularly ask voters whether they would rather see a Democrat or Republican win their district. By February, support for Democrats among white people (male and female) was three percentage points lower than in February 1994, the year of the last Republican landslide.

Today, among whites, only 35 percent of men and 43 percent of women say they will back Democrats in the fall election. Women's preferences have remained steady since July 2009. But white men's support for a Democratic Congress has fallen eight percentage points, according to Gallup.

White men have moved away from Obama as well. The same proportion of white women approve of him -- 46 percent, according to Gallup -- as voted for him in 2008. But only 38 percent of white men approve of the President, which means that millions of white men who voted for Obama have now lost faith in him.

The migration of white men from the Democratic Party was evident in the election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts. His opponent, a white woman, won 52 percent of white women. But white men favored Brown by a 60 percent to 38 percent margin, according to Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates polling.

It's no accident that the flight of white males from the Democratic Party has come as the government has assumed a bigger role, including in banking and health care. Among whites, 71 percent of men and 56 percent of women favor a smaller government with fewer services over a larger government with more services, according to ABC/Washington Post polling.

Obama's brand of liberalism is exactly the sort likely to drive such voters away. More like LBJ's than FDR's, Obama-style liberalism favors benefits over relief, a safety net over direct job programs, health care and environmental reform over financial reform and a stimulus package that has focused more on social service jobs -- health care work, teaching and the like -- than on the areas where a majority of job losses occurred: construction, manufacturing and related sectors.

This recession remains disproportionately a "he-cession." Men account for at least seven of 10 workers who lost jobs, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Nearly half of the casualties are white men, who held 46 percent of all jobs lost.

In 1994, liberals tried to explain their thinning ranks by casting aspersions on the white men who were fleeing, and the media took up the cry. The term "angry white male" or "angry white men" was mentioned 37 times in English-language news media contained in the Nexis database between 1980 and the 1994 election. In the following year, the phrases appear 2,306 times.

Tarnishing their opponents as merely "angry" was poor politics for the Democrats. Liberals know what it's like to have their views -- most recently on the war in Iraq or George W. Bush -- caricatured as merely irrational anger. Most voters vote their interests. And many white men by the 1980s had decided the Democrats were no longer interested in them.

Think about the average working man. He has already seen financial bailouts for the rich folks above him. Now he sees a health care bailout for the poor folks below him. Big government represents lots of costs and little gain.

Meanwhile, like many women, these men are simply trying to push ahead without being pushed under. Some once believed in Obama. Now they feel forgotten.

Government can only do so much. But recall the Depression. FDR's focus on the economy was single-minded and relentless. Hard times continued, but men never doubted that FDR was trying to do right by them. Democrats should think about why they aren't given that same benefit of the doubt today.

David Paul Kuhn is chief political correspondent for RealClearPolitics and the author of "The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma." He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

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Saudi Arabia and the CIA = sponsoring terrorism

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7078771.ece



SAUDI ARABIA is pouring hundreds of millions of pounds into Islamist groups in the Balkans, some of which spread hatred of the West and recruit fighters for jihad in Afghanistan.

According to officials in Macedonia, Islamic fundamentalism threatens to destabilise the Balkans. Strict Wahhabi and Salafi factions funded by Saudi organisations are clashing with traditionally moderate local Muslim communities.

Fundamentalists have financed the construction of scores of mosques and community centres as well as handing some followers up to £225 a month. They are expected not only to grow beards but also to persuade their wives to wear the niqab, or face veil, a custom virtually unknown in the liberal Islamic tradition of the Balkans.

Government sources in traditionally secular Macedonia (official title the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), said they were monitoring up to 50 Al-Qaeda volunteers recruited to fight in Afghanistan.
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Classified documents seen by The Sunday Times reveal that Macedonian officials are also investigating a number of Islamic charities, some in Saudi Arabia, which are active throughout the Balkans and are suspected of spreading extremism and laundering money for terrorist organisations.

One of the groups under scrutiny is the International Islamic Relief Organisation from Saudi Arabia, which is on a United Nations blacklist of organisations backing terrorism. It did not respond to inquiries, but has previously denied involvement in terrorist activities, calling such claims “totally unfounded”.

According to its website, it works in 32 countries to provide relief to the victims of natural disasters and to carry out humanitarian, health and educational projects.

“Hundreds of millions have been poured into Macedonia alone in the past decade and most of it comes from Saudi Arabia,” said a government source. “The Saudis’ main export seems to be ideology, not oil.”

Sulejman Rexhepi, leader of the Islamic community in Macedonia, said a number of mosques had been forcibly taken over by radical groups. Four in central Skopje are no longer under the control of the official Islamic authorities. New imams claim they have been “spontaneously” installed by the “people”.

“Their so-called Wahhabi teachings are completely alien to our traditions and to the essence of Islam, which is a tolerant and inclusive religion,” said Rexhepi.

In some mosques believers are being told that Macedonia, which sent 200 soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan, has been tricked into supporting a crusade against Islam spearheaded by Britain and America. Radical clerics have shown footage from Afghanistan, Iraq and the Palestinian territories to illustrate their claims that the West is waging war on Islam.

Rahman, a 35-year-old cab driver from Skopje, Macedonia’s capital, said he had stopped going to his local mosque since it was taken over by extremists. “Following the Haiti earthquake the new imam said God would punish the West for their wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with natural disasters,” he said.

Bekir Halimi, an imam trained in Syria, runs Bamiresia, an Islamic charity that has been investigated for alleged terrorist links and money laundering. Police raided its offices but failed to find any evidence of terrorist links.

“We are fully entitled to receive funding from both governmental and non-governmental organisations from Saudi Arabia,” said Halimi, who refuses to name the sources of his funding but rejects any suggestion of criminal activity.

Macedonia’s law enforcement agencies warn that the European Union and America have failed to recognise the growing problem of Islamic extremism in the Balkans.

Baroness Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, has declared stability in the region to be her top priority, but local politicians complain that the EU and Nato are reducing their presence in troublespots such as Bosnia and Kosovo.

Last month, Bosnian security forces raided a village strongly influenced by Salafi extremists and found a weapons cache.

In raids elsewhere rifles, bombs and rocket-propelled grenades have been uncovered.

The West has put considerable political and financial efforts into helping build democracy in Bosnia following its civil war in the 1990s. Saudi organisations have also asserted considerable influence, giving more than £450m to build more than 150 mosques and Islamic centres.

In Macedonia, Fatmir, a former disc jockey, explained how he became an adherent of Salafism. The father of two has grown a beard and instructed his wife to wear a niqab. He now makes his living by selling Islamist literature. “Ours is the Islam of the 21st century,” he said.

Vere Is Your Paperz - the real fascists exposed

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/165641/Snoopers-check-we-don-t-split-atoms-



THEY can show up without notice or warrants and with 1,208 reasons to enter your home, workplace or land without your permission.

This is Gordon Brown’s new model army of snoopers, which is gaining new home invasion powers at the rate of two a week.

The Prime Minister promised a crackdown on them in 2007 but it is Conservative peer Lord Selson who is leading the fightback.

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His private member’s Powers of Entry Bill has created a full list of the bizarre and obscure legislation that gives thousands of jobsworths the right to enter your home. The list, due to be published next week, would be used by a Conservative government to launch consultation with councils and Whitehall aimed at striking out scores of out-dated and unnecessary laws.

And the Tories have promised that whatever laws remain, no official will ever be able to enter your home again without obtaining a court warrant first.

From checking the energy rating on your fridge, to ensuring you are not working on an atom bomb in the kitchen – our snooper laws are as far-reaching as they are bizarre.

Officials can gain entry using the same level of powers to search for cluster bombs as they can for a clutch of eggs. Lord Selson’s third attempt at curbing these ridiculous laws could become law before Parliament breaks up.

Lord Selson has won praise from civil liberties groups for his dogged determination over two decades to rein back the snoopers.

He said: “People should not be allowed to go into someone’s home, search it and seize data without a court order or a warrant. I just believe in individual freedom.”

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He had to hire a private team to create a full list of powers of entry because Whitehall departments could not provide a list of all their sprawling snooper laws. Alex Deane, director of Big Brother Watch, said 20,000 town hall officials have the right of entry.

“In the end every house will have something about it that means officials can gain access to your home,” he said.

In 2007 Mr Brown said he shared “the concerns about the liberties and rights of the citizen”.

Now there are 418 pieces of legislation which allow council officials to enter your home without a warrant. Labour has merely promised a consultation document if it is re-elected and a “draft code of practice” on powers of entry.

Hi to the Independent Reader

Note that I said 'reader' as opposed to 'readers.

As for this mysterious 'article' sent to activists - well if they mean 'an article written on my blog' then I suppose they are almost right.

And to be exact, which The Independent are not known for, the children of the politically correct Middle Class Liberal and Tories are suffering not just racial discrimination but also sex, sexuality and class discrimination.

Take a look at the new Camerons Crony's - a mixture of Middle Class Affirmative Action Ethnics, Middle Class Affirmative Action homosexuals and lesbians and Middle Class Affirmative Action women whose sole entitlement and 'merit' for their placements as MP's was simply their skin tone, the fact they prefer to sodomise men rather than women, they are women who prefer sex with women or they have a vagina.

Not one has been picked on merit - but simply because they ticked the right 'affirmative action' box.

From Aristocracy to Affirmative Action in one step and completely bypassing Meritocracy.

To hell with that - we demand a MERITOCRACY not a poisonous, politically correct racist state.

Affirmative Action is state sponsored racism - and it is the enemy of meritocracy itself.

In todays Britain you only get on if you are one of those 'groups' who can be promoted under the aegis of Affirmative Action or Positive Discrmination - but if you are white, male, heterosexual and predominantly working class then you are thrown on the scrapheap.


For both the middle class middle aged white liberals and the middle class middle aged white tories - the one group they despise above all others is the White Working Class.

Not one of Cameron's Crony's who is now a potential MP was from a working class background (unless they are an ethnic or one of the gays or lesbians of course then their ethnicity / sex/ sexuality trumps their class).

Yet the greatest irony is that the people who vote for this racist system of apartheid are the white middle class middle aged liberal and white Tory middle aged and middle class parents of a betrayed generation.

Whilst mummy and daddy want to display their oh so impeccable liberal credentials to their friends at dinner parties yah by saying how much they adore multi-culturalism and how many ethnic friends they have - they are in reality betraying their own children.

The parents of those who are under 45, the sixties simpering idiot generation, the most brainwashed, moronic generation in history, are the ones to blame for the crisis in our society.

With their degenerate liberalism, and their idiocy and selfishness they voted for New Labour and they will vote for the Tories - and each time they do the governments they elect pass ever more politically correct affirmative action laws, like the forthcoming Equality Act, that relegate their own children to the status of second class citizens in their own country.

Each year that passes more and more white children of all classes are suffering ever more forms of discrimination, and each new form of discrimination is mandated by the votes of their own parents.

Never before has a generation ever been so betrayed by their own parents.




http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bnp-goes-upmarket-to-target-white-middle-class-1929309.html





BNP goes upmarket to target white middle class

Legal defeat prompts far-right party to 'refocus its propaganda on a new front'

By Jane Merrick, Political Editor

Sunday, 28 March 2010


The British National Party is attempting to cloak its image as a party of violent, racist thugs by appealing to middle-class voters at the general election.

Nick Griffin, the BNP's leader, has signalled a radical change in strategy for the forthcoming campaign after his widely derided performance last October on BBC1's Question Time, which draws a large middle-class audience. It will attempt to capitalise on disillusionment with both Labour and the Conservatives over the expenses and lobbying scandals.

The BNP's legal officer, Lee Barnes, in an article sent to activists, claims the BNP has "won over" the white working class and that it is now time to use "propaganda" to reach out to a wider circle of voters.

Yet the strategy remains targeted at white voters, with Mr Barnes telling activists they must appeal to the "white liberal middle class" and the "white Tory middle class".

The move is a sign that the court defeat inflicted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over the BNP's ban on non-white members has forced the party to modify its election campaign strategy away from race to broader issues of class.

Yet critics described the plan as a cosmetic move to cover up its racist beliefs and showed that the BNP had gone as far as it could in picking up working-class votes.

Last week Robert Grierson, a barrister, was selected to stand as a candidate for the BNP in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, where the Conservatives have a majority of more than 12,000. After his selection Mr Grierson was forced to resign from St Philips Chambers in Birmingham where he has worked as a tax barrister for 10 years. "I felt I had to stand up and take the flak I will no doubt get. This shows that the BNP is not a party of skinheads and knuckle-draggers," he said.

But Sutton Coldfield's MP, the Tory frontbencher Andrew Mitchell, described his BNP opponent as "an extremist in a suit".

The BNP's top target seats remain the working-class constituencies of Stoke Central and Barking, and the strategy is unlikely to have a significant effect. Last year, however, a BNP candidate won a shock victory in a council seat in Sevenoaks, Kent, the heart of Middle England.

In his article, Mr Barnes dismissed the "smug, selfish, apathetic, politically correct parents" of middle-class voters, but said it was time to appeal to the next generation who are under 45. He claimed this group were suffering "racial discrimination" when applying for university places.

He wrote: "As a result of the Equality Commission case we must now refocus our propaganda on a new front – that of the Nationalist Classless Society and the creation of a meritocracy as opposed to the racist multi-cultural system. Even though we have failed to market ourselves properly to the White Working Class we have won them over.

"But we must now also reach out [to] the children of the White Liberal Middle Class and White Tory Middle Class and explain to them how mass immigration, New Labour and Cameron's Tories and multiculturalism have betrayed them."

The BNP is fielding 300 candidates at the general election, expected on 6 May, and more than 1,000 in the local elections on the same day.

A spokesman for Searchlight, the anti-fascist organisation, said: "This is an indication of Nick Griffin's desperation as he is unable to break through to the extent he had hoped following the European elections and he is casting around for a new strategy. This will inevitably increase divisions within the BNP which have already been created by his disastrous Question Time performance and his defeat at the hands of the Equality and Human Rights Commission."

Peterborough - where the colonists and criminals rule

Slaughter of the swans: As carcasses pile up and migrant camps are built on river banks, Peterborough residents are too frightened to visit the park

By Andrew Malone
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As civic projects go, using Lottery cash to restore walkways and bridle paths along the River Nene seems a decent enough way to spend charity money for the greater good.

Creating 50 miles of cycle routes, parkland and dozens of delightful picnic spots, the Millennium Green Wheel project - which runs through the Cambridgeshire market town of Peterborough - was designed to encourage families to make the most of living beside the river.

At a cost of £10million, it should be a delight. With recreated woodland and hedgerows alongside the water, the project was also intended to give a boost to wildlife in the area - a traditional mating place for Mute, Bewick and Whooper swans, which congregate in vast numbers as the Nene flows through Peterborough town.
Mute Swan

In danger: Swans are being caught and eaten by Eastern European immigrants in Peterborough, who have set up camp alongside the River Nene

With salmon and sea trout spotted in the river for the first time in decades, the regeneration work has also seen the Nene come alive with other aquatic life, ranging from fish such as pike, carp, tench and barbel, to water voles, snails and freshwater prawns.

But this week, with spring in the air and flowers in bloom on the banks, few local people were brave enough to venture for an evening stroll along this delightful waterway, following disturbing allegations that Eastern European immigrants are 'plundering' and 'pillaging' local wildlife.

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For, according to a flurry of alarming reports, Eastern Europeans are stalking the creatures of the River Nene and, to the horror of local residents, are reputedly now targeting the city's swans.

Rather than simply enjoying the spectacle of these majestic birds, it was claimed that immigrants see the swans as a rich source of food, and are trapping the birds, then roasting them on open fires along the river bank.

The Peterborough Evening Telegraph, which this week revealed details of the scandal, has been inundated with letters and emails since claiming that 'legally-protected swans' were being 'butchered' by immigrants who are 'raping' Peterborough's waterways by snaring the birds then battering them to death with iron bars.
A Lithuanian migrant in her shack home near the river Nene in Peterborough

Living off the land: A Lithuanian woman in her shack home by the River Nene

Of course, stories of immigrants killing and eating swans - once a treasonable offence punishable by hanging because all swans are Crown property and owned by the Queen - have emerged with increasing regularity since Britain's borders were thrown open to Eastern Europe in 2004.

Equally regularly, of course, such claims have been dismissed as urban myths spread by opponents of immigration, fabricated as part of some sinister racist agenda.

Indeed, no less an authority than Professor Roy Greenslade, media commentator of the left-leaning Guardian newspaper, denounced one report in The Sun - headlined 'Swan Bake' and revealing how the Queen's swans were being poached and barbecued by Eastern Europeans - as a cynical attempt 'to inflame passions' about immigration.

And, in truth, I was also deeply sceptical about these latest reports from Peterborough, believing there must be some other reason for the mysterious appearance of swan carcasses along the river - the work, perhaps, of foxes or some deadly swan blight?

But, I can report, the reality is even more disturbing than hitherto reported. Indeed, so bad is the situation that the people charged with protecting the river believe the situation is grave and acutely perilous for Peterborough's swan population if the killing is not stopped.

For the first time, there's irrefutable evidence that swans and vast quantities of fish are being killed by immigrants who have set up camp along the River Nene and are living off the land.

With more than 16,000 new Eastern European immigrants arriving in the past five years, those unable - or unwilling - to pay for accommodation in Peterborough have instead adopted the lifestyle of ancient hunter-gatherers, albeit with a penchant for vast amounts of strong Polish vodka and beer.

Living in crude shelters made of wood and plastic sheeting, scores of immigrants have taken up permanent residence all along the Nene.

Using crude snares and nets, the inhabitants are preying on swans, fish, rabbits, pigeons and even snails - all plundered from this expensively-restored habitat and cooked on open fires.
The remains of a swan in bushes near the River Nene at Peterborough

The remains of a swan that has been killed and eaten in the camp

Indeed, at one camp I visited, hidden in bushes on the edge of a field 500 metres from the river and just a ten-minute-walk from the centre of Peterborough, it was abundantly clear that these people are dug in for a long stay.

This camp is also where three swan carcasses were recently found hanging from a tree branch beside a fire built around stones and other bricks which are used to balance heavy steel cooking pots.

Beside the cooking area was a living area - another wood and tarpaulin structure, with a table surrounded by boxes to sit on. Food such as sugar and bread hung in plastic bags from trees to prevent wild animals from eating them.

There was no one at home when I visited, but the camp was clearly still in use. As well as feathers and other bones around the fire, I found piles and piles of snail shells, which had been cooked and emptied of their contents.

A separate 'bathroom area' had been created ten metres away from the huts, where soap and toothpaste hung in bags from trees, along with a bucket used for washing.

The residents had even put down pieces of wood and cardboard to try to keep the mud off their feet following their morning ablutions. The camp was also littered with empty beer cans and vodka bottles.

Intriguingly, as well as all sorts of animal detritus, I also discovered one of the weapons of choice for capturing and killing swans. Propped against a tree was a thick, strong sea angling rod - built to take the strain of hauling big fish from the oceans.

According to walkers, river wardens and RSPCA officials, heavy treble-barbed hooks are attached to lines and cast out into the Nene using these sea rods and giant landing nets. The prize is not fish, but swans.

Out patrolling the river on Wednesday night, Jonathan Means, head bailiff for Peterborough and District Angling Club, points out where he caught one immigrant with a giant net trying to lure swans towards him with bread.

'The guy was hiding behind a tree,' says Mr Means. 'First, he threw bread into the pool so that the swans would come towards him. Then he tried to catch them in his net. I couldn't believe it. I started shouting and hollering at him and he ran away.'
Narrow Boat river Nene

Tranquil: A Narrow Boat on the River Nene, where residents are now too frightened to walk

A mild-mannered man, 44-year-old Mr Means has fished these waters since childhood, spending weekends and holidays on the bank, often only reluctantly packing up when night fell and he could not see to fish.

Giving his time for free as a volunteer, he has been a warden for the past ten years and knows the river and its wildlife well. Yet he no longer finds his patrols by the river relaxing.

Pointing out cooking fires used by immigrants to roast fish and fowl, not to mention piles of empty Polish beer cans, cigarette packets and liquor bottles, he shudders at the destruction along his beloved Nene.

'These people have a total disregard for our wildlife and our country,' he tells me quietly. 'These people know exactly what they are doing. They are catching swans and decimating fish stocks.'

And much as Mr Means loves the river and believes it helps teach people about nature, he says he would not let his son fish here alone, as he did as a boy, because of the threat from these gangs of Eastern European poachers.

'This park and river should be an absolute joy,' he says, as night falls and gangs of Eastern immigrants carrying crates of cider decamp along the water. 'But people are scared to come here.

'I know of people who have fished here all their lives, who now will only come if they have friends with them for protection. Polish leaders say these people just need education - but that's rubbish. People do not need to be educated to know they are breaking the law.'

Indeed, these poachers know enough about the law to destroy all signs warning - in several different languages - that illegal fishing and taking of wildlife will not be tolerated. Every week, Mr Means replaces these warnings posted along the river bank after they have been torn down.

Nor are these the poachers of lore, taking 'one for the pot'. Last weekend, a gang of Polish men was caught using nets to try to empty a pool full of spawning fish. By killing females and young, they threaten the entire fish stock in the river.

'People call this immigrant-bashing,' says Mr Means. 'It's not. I'd be saying exactly the same if it was English people. But it's not - it's Eastern Europeans. They play it daft when I catch them with fish - but what can you do?'

As we are talking, Kathy Hornig, an animal welfare officer, is on a secret mission further downstream at a place called Black Bridge.

Here, another immigrant camp has been built amid high bushes near the river, and the occupants have been seen repeatedly taking swans from the water.

With the camp residents scattering as she approaches with other animal welfare officers, her mission is a success: she discovers the carcass of a mature, adult swan inside a plastic bag hanging from a tree branch by the camp.

Acutely conscious of the potential for tensions between locals and immigrants over the slaughter of British wildlife, the investigators removed the carcass of the dead swan for further tests to determine how it died.

'We've been aware of this [killing swans] going on for some time,' Ms Hornig said. 'The people trying to catch swans are causing them extreme distress. But I cannot say with 100 per cent proof that the swan was killed for food, nor will I speculate about why it was here. I do not want to make any further comment.'

Marion Todd, a former Mayor of Peterborough, whose house is near the Nene, has spotted countless carcasses of birds, as well as bags full of fish, being carried by immigrants back to their camps.

'I've absolutely no doubt that these swans are being killed for food. We cleared one overgrown area where camps have been built - and found lots of swan carcasses. Put it this way: the swans did not disappear and their bones were not found on fires before the immigrants came.'

And so the carcasses are piling up and the death toll is mounting. Officially, there have been six recent confirmed cases of swans being killed by immigrants to eat. But the true number is believed to be far higher.

Of course, it's not just animals that are affected by this influx of immigrants. Few locals dare to use the park in the evening now, and even in daylight hours many will only use paths in sight of other people.

It was in 2004 that Labour threw open Britain's borders to immigration from other EU states, prompting hundreds of impoverished Eastern Europeans to head to these shores.

With more than 60,000 other immigrants predicted to arrive in Cambridgeshire by 2016, the Polish Mission in Peterborough this week said that migrants should be educated, rather than punished, if they are caught poaching.

When approached by the Mail yesterday, the Polish Mission was unable to comment.

A spokesman for the Polish Embassy in London last night confirmed diplomats were aware of the swan killing allegations but questioned the scale of the problem.

'How many Polish people are involved?' he said. 'Four or five. A minority. If somebody has broken the law by behaving in this bestial way, I'm sure they will be punished according to the British law. I've heard of four or five people being arrested. It creates the wrong picture to say that hordes of Polish people are taking British wildlife.'

At the camp where the latest dead swan was found this week, one immigrant from Lithuania had been left behind when her countrymen fled after the raid by animal welfare officers.

As rain lashed down, the woman, who stank of cheap cider and refused to give her name, peered out from beneath her tarpaulin-covered tent. She kept repeating 'No understand - no passport' when I asked her about the swan killed and prepared for the camp pot. 'Please go,' she said. 'No say nothing. No trouble.'

Jonathan Means is unimpressed. 'They know what they are doing is wrong - they just pretend they don't if they get caught,' he says.

'Killing swans and fish has got nothing to do with lack of education. It's to do with decency, manners and respect for the country you live in.'

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