Must watch video clip ;
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/31/townhall_exclusive_cops_creator_reveals_intentional_distortions_on_race_and_crime
Thursday, 2 June 2011
What you watch is PC Bullshit
The media lemmings are Politically correct cowards too afraid to tell the truth about black crime in society - so they target whites instead.
Must watch video clip ;
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/31/townhall_exclusive_cops_creator_reveals_intentional_distortions_on_race_and_crime
Must watch video clip ;
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/05/31/townhall_exclusive_cops_creator_reveals_intentional_distortions_on_race_and_crime
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Death To All Paedo Degenerates
Here we see more evidence of the sick cult of paedophilia amongst senior politicians, in this case French Socialist MP's and other members of the French ruling class.
It is time for the scum to be removed from all our societies.
The day of the judgment and the era of the rope must begin.
Strauss-Kahn ally is accused of 'orgy with little boys' in MoroccoBy Peter Allen
Last updated at 6:07 PM on 1st June 2011
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Outed: Former French culture minister Jack Lang
One of the closest supporters of scandal hit French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn was today linked with 'an orgy with little boys' in Morocco.
Jack Lang, the former Socialist culture and education secretary, was fighting to save his reputation after Luc Ferry, another ex-minister, revealed the crime on TV.
Breaking a code of silence which traditionally allows such offences to be kept a secret, Mr Ferry said: 'All of us here probably all know who I'm talking about.'
Mr Ferry claimed the man's sex attack on the boys - which was said to have taken place in the tourist city of Marrakech and was uncovered by police who raided a 'palm grove' - was an open secret which had been discussed openly by a former Prime Minister.
Asked if he had any proof, Mr Ferry said: 'Of course not. But I have testimony from cabinet members at the highest level, state authorities at the highest level.'
Mr Ferry told co-panelists on Canal Plus's Grand Jury on Tuesday that he had no intention of naming the former minister, saying: 'If I let his name out now, it's me who will be charged and doubtlessly convicted, even if I know that the story is true.'
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Egyptian banker denies sex attack on hotel maid as bail is set at $25,000 in midnight court appearance
But L'Express, the political weekly, stated on its website that Mr Ferry was referring
to ban old rumour involving Jack Lang.
In turn, Mr Lang, who is married with two daughters, said: 'I don't want to get involved in these stories for now. I will speak in due course.
'This case is sadly trivial. Vulgarity is part of our world. All those who question my honour - newspapers and individuals - will be all be prosecuted.'
'Orgy': The alleged sex attacks by the unnamed French minister happened in Marrakech, Morocco
Rachida Dati, the former Justice Minister, meanwhile claimed that Mr Ferry should be pursued for failing to report a crime b an offence punishable by three years in prison and a 45,000 euro fine.
She said that France has 'a law that allows the prosecution of everybody who commits acts of pedophilia abroad.'
The claims come as France reels from the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal, in which the former finance minister is accused of raping a chamber maid in a New York hotel suite last month.
Mr Strauss-Kahn is currently on police bail as he awaits trial on a series of sex-related charges, and has been forced to resign as head of the International Monetary Fund.
He denies all the allegations, but his ambition to become the new Socialist president of France following elections in 2012 are also in ruins.
By coincidence Mr Strauss-Kahn owns a holiday home in Marrakech, and he and his wife Anne Sinclair frequently had political allies to stay, including Mr Lang.
Scandal: The allegations come as France is still reeling from the entirely separate allegations surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Mr Lang has been a vehement defender of Mr Strauss-Kahn, saying the way he was treated by the US authorities was binhumanb and had 'provoked horror and aroused disgust'.
The U.S. justice system, Mr Lang said, was 'politicised' and the judge appeared to have been determined to 'make a Frenchman pay' by originally denying the head of the International Monetary Fund bail.
It comes as France questions its obsession with privacy laws and other measures which have helped keep private wrong-doing a secret.
Mr Strauss-Kahn was frequently linked with alleged assaults on woman, including an attempted rape in 2002, but charges were never filed.
On Sunday Georges Tron resigned as civil service minister after two former female staff members accused him of sexual assault.
Tron denies the allegations but was forced to go after other cabinet members said ministers should be 'above all suspicion'.
Frederic Mitterand, France's current culture minister and the nephew of the late President Francoise Mitterand, in 2005 wrote an autobiography in which he wrote about his sex holidays to Thailand, admitting: 'I got into the habit of paying for boys ... The profusion of young, very attractive and immediately available boys put me in a state of desire I no longer needed to restrain or hide.'
At the time Mitterand was applauded for his honesty, but was then severely criticised for defending Paris-based film director Roman Polanski, who is wanted in the USA for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Mitterand later claim that his male prostitutes were adult 'boys', and that: 'I condemn paedophilia, which I have never in any way participated in.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393078/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-ally-Jack-Lang-accused-orgy-little-boys-Morocco.html#ixzz1O6DqYLAo
It is time for the scum to be removed from all our societies.
The day of the judgment and the era of the rope must begin.
Strauss-Kahn ally is accused of 'orgy with little boys' in MoroccoBy Peter Allen
Last updated at 6:07 PM on 1st June 2011
Comments (1) Add to My Stories Share
Outed: Former French culture minister Jack Lang
One of the closest supporters of scandal hit French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn was today linked with 'an orgy with little boys' in Morocco.
Jack Lang, the former Socialist culture and education secretary, was fighting to save his reputation after Luc Ferry, another ex-minister, revealed the crime on TV.
Breaking a code of silence which traditionally allows such offences to be kept a secret, Mr Ferry said: 'All of us here probably all know who I'm talking about.'
Mr Ferry claimed the man's sex attack on the boys - which was said to have taken place in the tourist city of Marrakech and was uncovered by police who raided a 'palm grove' - was an open secret which had been discussed openly by a former Prime Minister.
Asked if he had any proof, Mr Ferry said: 'Of course not. But I have testimony from cabinet members at the highest level, state authorities at the highest level.'
Mr Ferry told co-panelists on Canal Plus's Grand Jury on Tuesday that he had no intention of naming the former minister, saying: 'If I let his name out now, it's me who will be charged and doubtlessly convicted, even if I know that the story is true.'
More...No chambermaids here: Dominique Strauss-Kahn hires all MALE cleaning staff at his $14m Manhattan bail house
Egyptian banker denies sex attack on hotel maid as bail is set at $25,000 in midnight court appearance
But L'Express, the political weekly, stated on its website that Mr Ferry was referring
to ban old rumour involving Jack Lang.
In turn, Mr Lang, who is married with two daughters, said: 'I don't want to get involved in these stories for now. I will speak in due course.
'This case is sadly trivial. Vulgarity is part of our world. All those who question my honour - newspapers and individuals - will be all be prosecuted.'
'Orgy': The alleged sex attacks by the unnamed French minister happened in Marrakech, Morocco
Rachida Dati, the former Justice Minister, meanwhile claimed that Mr Ferry should be pursued for failing to report a crime b an offence punishable by three years in prison and a 45,000 euro fine.
She said that France has 'a law that allows the prosecution of everybody who commits acts of pedophilia abroad.'
The claims come as France reels from the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal, in which the former finance minister is accused of raping a chamber maid in a New York hotel suite last month.
Mr Strauss-Kahn is currently on police bail as he awaits trial on a series of sex-related charges, and has been forced to resign as head of the International Monetary Fund.
He denies all the allegations, but his ambition to become the new Socialist president of France following elections in 2012 are also in ruins.
By coincidence Mr Strauss-Kahn owns a holiday home in Marrakech, and he and his wife Anne Sinclair frequently had political allies to stay, including Mr Lang.
Scandal: The allegations come as France is still reeling from the entirely separate allegations surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Mr Lang has been a vehement defender of Mr Strauss-Kahn, saying the way he was treated by the US authorities was binhumanb and had 'provoked horror and aroused disgust'.
The U.S. justice system, Mr Lang said, was 'politicised' and the judge appeared to have been determined to 'make a Frenchman pay' by originally denying the head of the International Monetary Fund bail.
It comes as France questions its obsession with privacy laws and other measures which have helped keep private wrong-doing a secret.
Mr Strauss-Kahn was frequently linked with alleged assaults on woman, including an attempted rape in 2002, but charges were never filed.
On Sunday Georges Tron resigned as civil service minister after two former female staff members accused him of sexual assault.
Tron denies the allegations but was forced to go after other cabinet members said ministers should be 'above all suspicion'.
Frederic Mitterand, France's current culture minister and the nephew of the late President Francoise Mitterand, in 2005 wrote an autobiography in which he wrote about his sex holidays to Thailand, admitting: 'I got into the habit of paying for boys ... The profusion of young, very attractive and immediately available boys put me in a state of desire I no longer needed to restrain or hide.'
At the time Mitterand was applauded for his honesty, but was then severely criticised for defending Paris-based film director Roman Polanski, who is wanted in the USA for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Mitterand later claim that his male prostitutes were adult 'boys', and that: 'I condemn paedophilia, which I have never in any way participated in.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393078/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-ally-Jack-Lang-accused-orgy-little-boys-Morocco.html#ixzz1O6DqYLAo
Census Company Hacked - Data Lost ?
Lockheed Martin are the company that are processing the national census data.
It may be the information on the census that has been taken - at the least it means the data is at risk of being stolen.
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/lockheed-martins-hack-attack.html
Monday, May 30, 2011Lockheed Martin's Hack Attack
Conspiring or incompetent, Lockheed Martin must be shown the door.
AFP photo
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
Bangkok, Thailand May 31, 2011 - Lockheed Martin has claimed, and the US Department of Defense has confirmed, that the megalithic defense contractor has suffered a "cyber incident."
Lockheed Martin is claimed to be a defense contractor American national security depends on. If this private corporation really is bestowed with such a grave responsibility and it was incompetent enough to put sensitive information and systems onto the public Internet, it should immediately have such responsibilities stripped away and perhaps undergo a vigorous investigation in regards to its criminal negligence in handling sensitive state secrets. At the very least, all contracts should be canceled and new contractors immediately found - ones capable of isolating sensitive information from the public Internet.
Instead, the war profiteering corporation and the extralegal, extraterritorial global corporate-financier steering committees it is a member of, are using the attack to add to the growing call to institute increasing control over the Internet. It is yet another suspicious incident that has corporate-funded pundits calling for increased "cyber security" and lending further justification for the completely unjustified existence of government agencies like the "Department of Homeland Security."
Our politicians then parrot verbatim the think-tanks and their corporate media talking points declaring that cyber security must take center stage – not the gross incompetence of corporations that have uncontested, undue access and influence over the American tax payers' money. The next step will be increased legislation giving the government and their corporate handlers more control over how the public uses the Internet - all based on and citing incidents like Lockheed Martin's recent cyber security breach.
Defying Common Sense
Even on a personal level, private, confidential information is safest when it is kept solely on a closed system, disconnected from the Internet. Any information put on the Internet must be assumed to be at potential risk and suitable contingencies must be put in place to deal with that information falling into the wrong hands. If that information must absolutely not fall into the wrong hands, it must then be entirely isolated from the Internet.
Scientists who worked on America's most sensitive defense projects historically would live and work sequestered at research facilities. They would not bring their briefcases full of national secrets to the local cafe, ride the city buses, nor talk about such information on public telephone networks. It is hard to believe that today, such corporations, many born from these WWII and Cold War defense projects, have suddenly forgotten the value of closed, controlled systems where secret research and sensitive projects are isolated from the public in all manners.
A documentary covering the Manhattan Project. Starting at 24:45, security regarding the secret project is discussed.
....
The recent “hack” then is the result of at least two possibilities. First, it may be yet another attempt to scare the ignorant, uneducated masses into giving up more of their freedom and liberty for the sake of “security." "Security" being just a pretense for handing the corporate-financier elite yet another monopoly. If this is not an orchestrated event, it may just be utter incompetence. Either way, corporations like Lockheed Martin, the politicians whose leashes they hold, and the media machines that manage the public for them have outlived their usefulness. They have become as great a threat to our nation as any external enemy, either out of incompetence or unmitigated avarice.
It is time America replaced these aged, embedded parasites, obstacles of progress, sponges soaking up the brightest talent the nation has to offer and wringing it out into buckets of greedy, stagnant muck. Their missiles, warplanes, and ships are most certainly impressive, unrivaled even. But the price we have paid to procure this achievement is subservience to a despotic corporate-financier elite that has permeated and infected our government on all levels, as bad or worse than any invading foreign power could ever hope to achieve.
There may be the argument that no other corporation can do what Lockheed, or other parasitic war profiteering corporations like Boeing, Northrop, or Raytheon can do. Certainly this may be the case, but we must ask ourselves why our nation, with its vast resources, doesn't turn out annual graduate classes full of engineers, designers, rocket and nuclear scientists all capable of meeting local and national needs both civilian and military in nature. It is because the global elite have created a system so interdependent and monopolized on a global scale that only those that control it (them) can manage it and excel within it.
Americans like President Dwight Eisenhower or General Smedley Butler warned us long ago that the blurring line between corporatism and the American government was a grave threat to our nation's future. Decades later, with the nation under astronomical, mathematically inescapable debt, endless war, rotting infrastructure, and a sabotaged education system, is there any doubt that their warnings should have been heeded? Can we still heed them? We can and we must.
Throw off these corporations by boycotting and replacing them. For corporations like Lockheed Martin who we are told we “depend” on and cannot live without, their incompetence/conspiring as they bleed the American nation dry negates any benefit they supposedly grant us. In actuality, we cannot survive their continued existence.
It may be the information on the census that has been taken - at the least it means the data is at risk of being stolen.
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/lockheed-martins-hack-attack.html
Monday, May 30, 2011Lockheed Martin's Hack Attack
Conspiring or incompetent, Lockheed Martin must be shown the door.
AFP photo
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
Bangkok, Thailand May 31, 2011 - Lockheed Martin has claimed, and the US Department of Defense has confirmed, that the megalithic defense contractor has suffered a "cyber incident."
Lockheed Martin is claimed to be a defense contractor American national security depends on. If this private corporation really is bestowed with such a grave responsibility and it was incompetent enough to put sensitive information and systems onto the public Internet, it should immediately have such responsibilities stripped away and perhaps undergo a vigorous investigation in regards to its criminal negligence in handling sensitive state secrets. At the very least, all contracts should be canceled and new contractors immediately found - ones capable of isolating sensitive information from the public Internet.
Instead, the war profiteering corporation and the extralegal, extraterritorial global corporate-financier steering committees it is a member of, are using the attack to add to the growing call to institute increasing control over the Internet. It is yet another suspicious incident that has corporate-funded pundits calling for increased "cyber security" and lending further justification for the completely unjustified existence of government agencies like the "Department of Homeland Security."
Our politicians then parrot verbatim the think-tanks and their corporate media talking points declaring that cyber security must take center stage – not the gross incompetence of corporations that have uncontested, undue access and influence over the American tax payers' money. The next step will be increased legislation giving the government and their corporate handlers more control over how the public uses the Internet - all based on and citing incidents like Lockheed Martin's recent cyber security breach.
Defying Common Sense
Even on a personal level, private, confidential information is safest when it is kept solely on a closed system, disconnected from the Internet. Any information put on the Internet must be assumed to be at potential risk and suitable contingencies must be put in place to deal with that information falling into the wrong hands. If that information must absolutely not fall into the wrong hands, it must then be entirely isolated from the Internet.
Scientists who worked on America's most sensitive defense projects historically would live and work sequestered at research facilities. They would not bring their briefcases full of national secrets to the local cafe, ride the city buses, nor talk about such information on public telephone networks. It is hard to believe that today, such corporations, many born from these WWII and Cold War defense projects, have suddenly forgotten the value of closed, controlled systems where secret research and sensitive projects are isolated from the public in all manners.
A documentary covering the Manhattan Project. Starting at 24:45, security regarding the secret project is discussed.
....
The recent “hack” then is the result of at least two possibilities. First, it may be yet another attempt to scare the ignorant, uneducated masses into giving up more of their freedom and liberty for the sake of “security." "Security" being just a pretense for handing the corporate-financier elite yet another monopoly. If this is not an orchestrated event, it may just be utter incompetence. Either way, corporations like Lockheed Martin, the politicians whose leashes they hold, and the media machines that manage the public for them have outlived their usefulness. They have become as great a threat to our nation as any external enemy, either out of incompetence or unmitigated avarice.
It is time America replaced these aged, embedded parasites, obstacles of progress, sponges soaking up the brightest talent the nation has to offer and wringing it out into buckets of greedy, stagnant muck. Their missiles, warplanes, and ships are most certainly impressive, unrivaled even. But the price we have paid to procure this achievement is subservience to a despotic corporate-financier elite that has permeated and infected our government on all levels, as bad or worse than any invading foreign power could ever hope to achieve.
There may be the argument that no other corporation can do what Lockheed, or other parasitic war profiteering corporations like Boeing, Northrop, or Raytheon can do. Certainly this may be the case, but we must ask ourselves why our nation, with its vast resources, doesn't turn out annual graduate classes full of engineers, designers, rocket and nuclear scientists all capable of meeting local and national needs both civilian and military in nature. It is because the global elite have created a system so interdependent and monopolized on a global scale that only those that control it (them) can manage it and excel within it.
Americans like President Dwight Eisenhower or General Smedley Butler warned us long ago that the blurring line between corporatism and the American government was a grave threat to our nation's future. Decades later, with the nation under astronomical, mathematically inescapable debt, endless war, rotting infrastructure, and a sabotaged education system, is there any doubt that their warnings should have been heeded? Can we still heed them? We can and we must.
Throw off these corporations by boycotting and replacing them. For corporations like Lockheed Martin who we are told we “depend” on and cannot live without, their incompetence/conspiring as they bleed the American nation dry negates any benefit they supposedly grant us. In actuality, we cannot survive their continued existence.
The New Dispossessed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20110531/pl_yblog_exclusive/why-the-white-working-class-is-alienated-pessimistic
Why the white working class is alienated, pessimistic
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EmailPrint..By National Journal national Journal – Tue May 31, 10:17 am ET
By Ronald Brownstein
National Journal
Almost no one noticed, but around George W. Bush's reelection in 2004, the nation crossed a demographic milestone.
From Revolutionary days through 2004, a majority of Americans fit two criteria. They were white. And they concluded their education before obtaining a four-year college degree. In the American mosaic, that vast white working class was the largest piece, from the yeoman farmer to the welder on the assembly line. Even as late as the 1990 census, whites without a college degree represented more than three-fifths of adults.
But as the country grew more diverse and better educated, the white working-class share of the adult population slipped to just under 50 percent in the Census Bureau's 2005 American Community Survey. That number has since fallen below 48 percent.
The demographic eclipse of the white working class is likely an irreversible trend as the United States reconfigures itself yet again as a "world nation" reinvigorated by rising education levels and kaleidoscopic diversity. That emerging America will create opportunities (such as the links that our new immigrants will provide to emerging markets around the globe) and face challenges (including improving high school and college graduation rates for the minority young people who will provide tomorrow's workforce).
[ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ]
Still, amid all of this change, whites without a four-year college degree remain the largest demographic bloc in the workforce. College-educated whites make up about one-fifth of the adult population, while minorities account for a little under one-third. The picture is changing, but whites who have not completed college remain the backbone of many, if not most, communities and workplaces across the country.
They are also, polls consistently tell us, the most pessimistic and alienated group in American society.
(PICTURES: Meet the GOP's 2012 Presidential Hopefuls)
The latest measure of this discontent came in a thoughtful national survey on economic opportunity released last week by the Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project. If numbers could scream, they would probably sound like the poll's results among working-class whites.
One question asked respondents whether they expected to be better off economically in 10 years than they are today. Two-thirds of blacks and Hispanics said yes, as did 55 percent of college-educated whites; just 44 percent of noncollege whites agreed. Asked if they were better off than their parents were at the same age, about three-fifths of college-educated whites, African-Americans, and Hispanics said they were. But blue-collar whites divided narrowly, with 52 percent saying yes and a head-turning 43 percent saying no. (The survey, conducted from March 24 through 29, surveyed 2,000 adults and has a margin of error of ±3.4 percent.)
What makes these results especially striking is that minorities were as likely as blue-collar whites to report that they have been hurt by the recession. The actual unemployment rate is considerably higher among blacks and Hispanics than among blue-collar whites, much less college-educated whites.
(INTERVIEW: Paul Ryan's Finest Hour?)
Yet, minorities were more optimistic about the next generation than either group of whites, the survey found. In the most telling result, 63 percent of African-Americans and 54 percent of Hispanics said they expected their children to exceed their standard of living. Even college-educated whites are less optimistic (only about two-fifths agree). But the noncollege whites are the gloomiest: Just one-third of them think their kids will live better than they do; an equal number think their children won't even match their living standard. No other group is nearly that negative.
This worry is hardly irrational. As Massachusetts Institute of Technology economists Frank Levy and Tom Kochan report in a new paper, the average high-school-educated, middle-aged man earns almost 10 percent less than his counterpart did in 1980. Minorities haven't been exempt from that trend: In fact, high-school-educated minority men have experienced even slower wage growth than their white counterparts over the past two decades, calculates Larry Mishel, president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
But for minorities, that squeeze has been partially offset by the sense that possibilities closed to their parents are becoming available to them as discrimination wanes. "The distinction is, these blue-collar whites see opportunities for people like them shrinking, whereas the African-Americans [and Hispanics] feel there are a set of long-term opportunities that are opening to them that were previously closed on the basis of race or ethnicity," said Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster who helped conduct the Pew survey.
(PICTURES: Top 10 Monuments of D.C.)
By contrast, although it is difficult to precisely quantify, the sense of being eclipsed demographically is almost certainly compounding the white working class's fear of losing ground economically. That huge bloc of Americans increasingly feels itself left behind—and lacks faith that either government or business cares much about its plight. Under these pressures, noncollege whites are now experiencing rates of out-of-wedlock birth and single parenthood approaching the levels that triggered worries about the black family a generation ago. Alarm bells should be ringing now about the social and economic trends in the battered white working class and the piercing cry of distress rising from this latest survey.
Why the white working class is alienated, pessimistic
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EmailPrint..By National Journal national Journal – Tue May 31, 10:17 am ET
By Ronald Brownstein
National Journal
Almost no one noticed, but around George W. Bush's reelection in 2004, the nation crossed a demographic milestone.
From Revolutionary days through 2004, a majority of Americans fit two criteria. They were white. And they concluded their education before obtaining a four-year college degree. In the American mosaic, that vast white working class was the largest piece, from the yeoman farmer to the welder on the assembly line. Even as late as the 1990 census, whites without a college degree represented more than three-fifths of adults.
But as the country grew more diverse and better educated, the white working-class share of the adult population slipped to just under 50 percent in the Census Bureau's 2005 American Community Survey. That number has since fallen below 48 percent.
The demographic eclipse of the white working class is likely an irreversible trend as the United States reconfigures itself yet again as a "world nation" reinvigorated by rising education levels and kaleidoscopic diversity. That emerging America will create opportunities (such as the links that our new immigrants will provide to emerging markets around the globe) and face challenges (including improving high school and college graduation rates for the minority young people who will provide tomorrow's workforce).
[ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ]
Still, amid all of this change, whites without a four-year college degree remain the largest demographic bloc in the workforce. College-educated whites make up about one-fifth of the adult population, while minorities account for a little under one-third. The picture is changing, but whites who have not completed college remain the backbone of many, if not most, communities and workplaces across the country.
They are also, polls consistently tell us, the most pessimistic and alienated group in American society.
(PICTURES: Meet the GOP's 2012 Presidential Hopefuls)
The latest measure of this discontent came in a thoughtful national survey on economic opportunity released last week by the Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project. If numbers could scream, they would probably sound like the poll's results among working-class whites.
One question asked respondents whether they expected to be better off economically in 10 years than they are today. Two-thirds of blacks and Hispanics said yes, as did 55 percent of college-educated whites; just 44 percent of noncollege whites agreed. Asked if they were better off than their parents were at the same age, about three-fifths of college-educated whites, African-Americans, and Hispanics said they were. But blue-collar whites divided narrowly, with 52 percent saying yes and a head-turning 43 percent saying no. (The survey, conducted from March 24 through 29, surveyed 2,000 adults and has a margin of error of ±3.4 percent.)
What makes these results especially striking is that minorities were as likely as blue-collar whites to report that they have been hurt by the recession. The actual unemployment rate is considerably higher among blacks and Hispanics than among blue-collar whites, much less college-educated whites.
(INTERVIEW: Paul Ryan's Finest Hour?)
Yet, minorities were more optimistic about the next generation than either group of whites, the survey found. In the most telling result, 63 percent of African-Americans and 54 percent of Hispanics said they expected their children to exceed their standard of living. Even college-educated whites are less optimistic (only about two-fifths agree). But the noncollege whites are the gloomiest: Just one-third of them think their kids will live better than they do; an equal number think their children won't even match their living standard. No other group is nearly that negative.
This worry is hardly irrational. As Massachusetts Institute of Technology economists Frank Levy and Tom Kochan report in a new paper, the average high-school-educated, middle-aged man earns almost 10 percent less than his counterpart did in 1980. Minorities haven't been exempt from that trend: In fact, high-school-educated minority men have experienced even slower wage growth than their white counterparts over the past two decades, calculates Larry Mishel, president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
But for minorities, that squeeze has been partially offset by the sense that possibilities closed to their parents are becoming available to them as discrimination wanes. "The distinction is, these blue-collar whites see opportunities for people like them shrinking, whereas the African-Americans [and Hispanics] feel there are a set of long-term opportunities that are opening to them that were previously closed on the basis of race or ethnicity," said Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster who helped conduct the Pew survey.
(PICTURES: Top 10 Monuments of D.C.)
By contrast, although it is difficult to precisely quantify, the sense of being eclipsed demographically is almost certainly compounding the white working class's fear of losing ground economically. That huge bloc of Americans increasingly feels itself left behind—and lacks faith that either government or business cares much about its plight. Under these pressures, noncollege whites are now experiencing rates of out-of-wedlock birth and single parenthood approaching the levels that triggered worries about the black family a generation ago. Alarm bells should be ringing now about the social and economic trends in the battered white working class and the piercing cry of distress rising from this latest survey.
Gene Line Therapy and the New Society
If science can prevent the disabled from being born disabled eg through germ line therapy, then parents must be made to have that treatment prior to conceiving.
We stand at the brink of a new society - one where no more disabled children with inherited genetic defects need be born anymore to suffer as a result of those conditions.
We now have technologies that can ensure parents do not have to bear the burden of caring for disabled children born with genetic defects and that disabled people are not born to suffer due to those defects.
The time has come for society to change to adapt to new technologies - and this includes compulsory pre-pregnancy screening.
Those that refuse lose all rights to benefits.
If they want to have a disabled child, then they have to pay for it, not the state if they have refused screening or got pregnant without screening.
If they get pregnant without screening - they pay for the child, not the state.
The states role is to provide resources to hospitals to allow all women and men to be tested prior to having children for genetic diseases and if a problem is detected to provide them via gene line therapy and IVF the chance to have a healthy child via the NHS.
Why should society pay for their apathy, ignorance and selfishness if they just decide to get pregnant and bring a disabled child into the world.
We stand at the brink of a new society - one where no more disabled children with inherited genetic defects need be born anymore to suffer as a result of those conditions.
We now have technologies that can ensure parents do not have to bear the burden of caring for disabled children born with genetic defects and that disabled people are not born to suffer due to those defects.
The time has come for society to change to adapt to new technologies - and this includes compulsory pre-pregnancy screening.
Those that refuse lose all rights to benefits.
If they want to have a disabled child, then they have to pay for it, not the state if they have refused screening or got pregnant without screening.
If they get pregnant without screening - they pay for the child, not the state.
The states role is to provide resources to hospitals to allow all women and men to be tested prior to having children for genetic diseases and if a problem is detected to provide them via gene line therapy and IVF the chance to have a healthy child via the NHS.
Why should society pay for their apathy, ignorance and selfishness if they just decide to get pregnant and bring a disabled child into the world.
The Genetic Crimes of Counsin Marriage
To marry your cousin should be a crime.
A society that allows incest is a sick perverted society.
No one should be allowed to have children without first undergoing genetic screening with a potential partner.
Pre-pregnancy screening should be made compulsory and if the woman gets pregnant accidentaly then she should have foetal genetic screening and if the foetus suffers a serious disability, then the option of an abortion offered and all future pregnancies based on germ line therapy and IVF.
If they do have children without genetic screening - then all benefits for that child should be stopped and both parents taken to court and forced to work and pay for the child out of their own money.
Those that have children with their cousins should be imprisoned and if possible, deported.
Deformed babies and a shameful conspiracy of silence
By Saira Khan
Last updated at 2:12 AM on 1st June 2011
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Few subjects are more universally heartbreaking than the plight of sick children. Yet in this country babies are routinely born with terrible disabilities that could easily be avoided — if only the dangerous tradition of first cousins marrying, which still prevails in many Muslim communities, could be stamped out.
A whole raft of genetic disabilities —from blindness and hearing problems to blood disorders — are being bred into our children thanks to this antediluvian practice.
As a British-born Pakistani Muslim, this is something I have seen first-hand — and yet, in this politically-correct age, it is seen as a taboo, with precious few people willing to speak out.
Shocking: The practice of inter-marriage within Muslim communities is leading to some children being born with a raft of genetic diseases
At the weekend, however, geneticist Professor Steve Jones from University College London made a brave speech at the Hay Literary Festival highlighting the health problems of ‘inbreeding’ within Islamic communities.
He warned of the ‘hidden genetic damage’ to children born when first cousins marry, explaining this occurs because children are much more likely to inherit two copies of any damaged genes from their parents.
While everyone inherits some abnormal genes, in most cases a normal gene from one parent will overrule a defective gene from the other parent. But if the child’s parents are related, they are more likely to both carry the same defective genes.
Professor Jones’s research showed that children of first cousins were ten times more likely to have recessive genetic disorders and face deafness, blindness and infant mortality.
This is a shocking statistic, which is why I’m grateful that someone has finally been prepared to stand up and say what many of us in Islamic communities have known for decades.
I can only hope that David Cameron’s Government will not shy away from confronting a problem which for too long has allowed outrageous practices to flourish unchallenged in this country.
Growing up in England as the child of Pakistani parents (who moved here in 1965, five years before I was born) I know of several children, born to first cousins, who have severe disabilities. I have little doubt that most Muslims in this country would say the same.
It is a problem I have always been aware of. Thankfully, I was under no personal pressure to ‘marry within the family’ — indeed my own British husband is not even Muslim.
I am even more grateful for the fact that my two-year-old son has no health problems.
Brave: The problem of inbreeding within Muslim communities was highlighted by Steve Jones during a speech at the Hay literary festival
Unfortunately, others in my community cannot say the same. Many Muslims born in Britain are under intense family pressure to ‘marry within’, as a way of keeping money within the family. If they do not, they face being ostracised by their own relatives.
Studies show that in Bradford, which has a large Pakistani community, 70 per cent of marriages are between relatives — and more than half of these are between first cousins.
The result of this inbreeding? Terrible disabilities like the ones I have witnessed in the children born to a woman in my own community. Her first child was born blind, the second deaf and the third mute.
As if that were not tragic enough, these disabilities are simply accepted with a casual shrug. Because everyone seems to know someone with a sick child, it is barely commented on within the community.
In the Pakistani-Muslim communities I have experience of, it is not a cause for concern. The only thing that matters is ‘marrying within the family’; after that, no questions are asked.
Those who do acknowledge the issue take no responsibility for the hardships they are inflicting upon their children.
To me, it is nothing short of shocking that this is happening in third, fourth and fifth generation British Pakistani communities.
My own mother, whom I love dearly, arranged the marriage of her niece to her nephew, the children of her brothers. If they have children, will they be born healthy? I just don’t know.
But no one should be surprised that blood disorders, diabetes and obesity are commonplace among Muslim children.
This is the case in Pakistan, of course, where these practices have been common for hundreds of years.
But while I can understand — without condoning it — why this might still be happening among poor, uneducated villagers halfway around the world, there is no excuse for it in a modern, advanced country like Britain in 2011.
Devout: Muslims pray at a Mosque in Bradford. A study of the city's Muslim population found that 70 per cent of marriages are between relatives, with more than half between
cousins
One thing needs to be clear: these practices have no basis in religion — there is nothing in the Koran that dictates a man should marry his first cousin.
And while I’m prepared to stand up and say how appalled I am at the indifference of my own community, I am every bit as outraged by the lack of interest shown by liberal Britain to this deeply troubling problem.
Although as a nation we are quite prepared to storm into places like Libya and stand up for the human rights of their citizens, we do not have the same approach to social problems in our own country.
Terrified of being branded Islamophobic, most people simply choose to ignore these issues and are more worried about causing offence than the plight of these poor, blameless children. But in keeping quiet out of a misplaced sense of political correctness, we are failing our own citizens.
If this were a problem in any other section of the population, it would be openly debated and tackled. After all, it’s the overstretched state that is left, quite literally, holding the baby.
Because the Muslim community takes no responsibility for the disabilities among its young, it is left to the NHS and local authorities to provide healthcare and learning support.
While only 3 per cent of UK babies are born to British Pakistanis, their babies account for one in three of those born with genetic illnesses.
Time to confront the problem: David Cameron and the government need to step in stop this outrageous practice
When, for example, underage pregnancy was identified as a problem in the UK (and a drain on resources), efforts were made to educate the young, predominantly poor, white, women this was happening to.
Yet because this is happening within Muslim communities, those who speak out about it are made to feel racist, while the liberal elite step back, vowing not to ‘meddle’.
As a young woman who knows only too well how difficult it is to grow up in Britain’s prevailing culture, while another set of rules and norms dictate life within your own home, I would suggest that today’s young Muslim men and women would heartily welcome ‘interference’.
Most of them do not want to marry their first cousins, or have arranged marriages.
Instead, they identify themselves as British and would like the laws and cultural traditions of this country to be observed within their own communities.
Many of the women who have been coerced into marrying first cousins probably do not speak any English, and will not even know of the health problems they may be storing up for their children.
There should be a mandatory genetic screening programme and counselling for any first cousins planning to marry, to ensure they are aware of the potential health problems they could be passing on to their offspring.
Similarly, anyone coming into this country to marry should have to be screened to determine their suitability for their intended spouse. Instead of taking pot luck, people would know the risks they were taking before they conceived.
After all, how can it be racist to protect the well-being of innocent children?
While it is the children who suffer most in all of this — having to negotiate life with crippling disabilities — the impact it has on their families should not be underestimated.
The woman I know who has children who are blind, deaf and dumb is now struggling on her own after her husband left her, remarried and went on to sire more children with another woman.
In the twisted logic that still governs many Muslim communities, this was seen as his right — because his wife had been unable to bear him a healthy child. She, meanwhile, is a single parent with three disabled children who has no choice but to ask the state to support her.
It is a shameful state of affairs, and the more courageous people like Professor Jones draw attention to it, the sooner these families can be dragged into the 21st century.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1392938/SAIRA-KHAN-Deformed-babies-shameful-conspiracy-silence.html#ixzz1O0U22L00
A society that allows incest is a sick perverted society.
No one should be allowed to have children without first undergoing genetic screening with a potential partner.
Pre-pregnancy screening should be made compulsory and if the woman gets pregnant accidentaly then she should have foetal genetic screening and if the foetus suffers a serious disability, then the option of an abortion offered and all future pregnancies based on germ line therapy and IVF.
If they do have children without genetic screening - then all benefits for that child should be stopped and both parents taken to court and forced to work and pay for the child out of their own money.
Those that have children with their cousins should be imprisoned and if possible, deported.
Deformed babies and a shameful conspiracy of silence
By Saira Khan
Last updated at 2:12 AM on 1st June 2011
Comments (8) Add to My Stories Share
Few subjects are more universally heartbreaking than the plight of sick children. Yet in this country babies are routinely born with terrible disabilities that could easily be avoided — if only the dangerous tradition of first cousins marrying, which still prevails in many Muslim communities, could be stamped out.
A whole raft of genetic disabilities —from blindness and hearing problems to blood disorders — are being bred into our children thanks to this antediluvian practice.
As a British-born Pakistani Muslim, this is something I have seen first-hand — and yet, in this politically-correct age, it is seen as a taboo, with precious few people willing to speak out.
Shocking: The practice of inter-marriage within Muslim communities is leading to some children being born with a raft of genetic diseases
At the weekend, however, geneticist Professor Steve Jones from University College London made a brave speech at the Hay Literary Festival highlighting the health problems of ‘inbreeding’ within Islamic communities.
He warned of the ‘hidden genetic damage’ to children born when first cousins marry, explaining this occurs because children are much more likely to inherit two copies of any damaged genes from their parents.
While everyone inherits some abnormal genes, in most cases a normal gene from one parent will overrule a defective gene from the other parent. But if the child’s parents are related, they are more likely to both carry the same defective genes.
Professor Jones’s research showed that children of first cousins were ten times more likely to have recessive genetic disorders and face deafness, blindness and infant mortality.
This is a shocking statistic, which is why I’m grateful that someone has finally been prepared to stand up and say what many of us in Islamic communities have known for decades.
I can only hope that David Cameron’s Government will not shy away from confronting a problem which for too long has allowed outrageous practices to flourish unchallenged in this country.
Growing up in England as the child of Pakistani parents (who moved here in 1965, five years before I was born) I know of several children, born to first cousins, who have severe disabilities. I have little doubt that most Muslims in this country would say the same.
It is a problem I have always been aware of. Thankfully, I was under no personal pressure to ‘marry within the family’ — indeed my own British husband is not even Muslim.
I am even more grateful for the fact that my two-year-old son has no health problems.
Brave: The problem of inbreeding within Muslim communities was highlighted by Steve Jones during a speech at the Hay literary festival
Unfortunately, others in my community cannot say the same. Many Muslims born in Britain are under intense family pressure to ‘marry within’, as a way of keeping money within the family. If they do not, they face being ostracised by their own relatives.
Studies show that in Bradford, which has a large Pakistani community, 70 per cent of marriages are between relatives — and more than half of these are between first cousins.
The result of this inbreeding? Terrible disabilities like the ones I have witnessed in the children born to a woman in my own community. Her first child was born blind, the second deaf and the third mute.
As if that were not tragic enough, these disabilities are simply accepted with a casual shrug. Because everyone seems to know someone with a sick child, it is barely commented on within the community.
In the Pakistani-Muslim communities I have experience of, it is not a cause for concern. The only thing that matters is ‘marrying within the family’; after that, no questions are asked.
Those who do acknowledge the issue take no responsibility for the hardships they are inflicting upon their children.
To me, it is nothing short of shocking that this is happening in third, fourth and fifth generation British Pakistani communities.
My own mother, whom I love dearly, arranged the marriage of her niece to her nephew, the children of her brothers. If they have children, will they be born healthy? I just don’t know.
But no one should be surprised that blood disorders, diabetes and obesity are commonplace among Muslim children.
This is the case in Pakistan, of course, where these practices have been common for hundreds of years.
But while I can understand — without condoning it — why this might still be happening among poor, uneducated villagers halfway around the world, there is no excuse for it in a modern, advanced country like Britain in 2011.
Devout: Muslims pray at a Mosque in Bradford. A study of the city's Muslim population found that 70 per cent of marriages are between relatives, with more than half between
cousins
One thing needs to be clear: these practices have no basis in religion — there is nothing in the Koran that dictates a man should marry his first cousin.
And while I’m prepared to stand up and say how appalled I am at the indifference of my own community, I am every bit as outraged by the lack of interest shown by liberal Britain to this deeply troubling problem.
Although as a nation we are quite prepared to storm into places like Libya and stand up for the human rights of their citizens, we do not have the same approach to social problems in our own country.
Terrified of being branded Islamophobic, most people simply choose to ignore these issues and are more worried about causing offence than the plight of these poor, blameless children. But in keeping quiet out of a misplaced sense of political correctness, we are failing our own citizens.
If this were a problem in any other section of the population, it would be openly debated and tackled. After all, it’s the overstretched state that is left, quite literally, holding the baby.
Because the Muslim community takes no responsibility for the disabilities among its young, it is left to the NHS and local authorities to provide healthcare and learning support.
While only 3 per cent of UK babies are born to British Pakistanis, their babies account for one in three of those born with genetic illnesses.
Time to confront the problem: David Cameron and the government need to step in stop this outrageous practice
When, for example, underage pregnancy was identified as a problem in the UK (and a drain on resources), efforts were made to educate the young, predominantly poor, white, women this was happening to.
Yet because this is happening within Muslim communities, those who speak out about it are made to feel racist, while the liberal elite step back, vowing not to ‘meddle’.
As a young woman who knows only too well how difficult it is to grow up in Britain’s prevailing culture, while another set of rules and norms dictate life within your own home, I would suggest that today’s young Muslim men and women would heartily welcome ‘interference’.
Most of them do not want to marry their first cousins, or have arranged marriages.
Instead, they identify themselves as British and would like the laws and cultural traditions of this country to be observed within their own communities.
Many of the women who have been coerced into marrying first cousins probably do not speak any English, and will not even know of the health problems they may be storing up for their children.
There should be a mandatory genetic screening programme and counselling for any first cousins planning to marry, to ensure they are aware of the potential health problems they could be passing on to their offspring.
Similarly, anyone coming into this country to marry should have to be screened to determine their suitability for their intended spouse. Instead of taking pot luck, people would know the risks they were taking before they conceived.
After all, how can it be racist to protect the well-being of innocent children?
While it is the children who suffer most in all of this — having to negotiate life with crippling disabilities — the impact it has on their families should not be underestimated.
The woman I know who has children who are blind, deaf and dumb is now struggling on her own after her husband left her, remarried and went on to sire more children with another woman.
In the twisted logic that still governs many Muslim communities, this was seen as his right — because his wife had been unable to bear him a healthy child. She, meanwhile, is a single parent with three disabled children who has no choice but to ask the state to support her.
It is a shameful state of affairs, and the more courageous people like Professor Jones draw attention to it, the sooner these families can be dragged into the 21st century.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1392938/SAIRA-KHAN-Deformed-babies-shameful-conspiracy-silence.html#ixzz1O0U22L00
Concentration Camp Care Homes
The British care homes, for the disabled and orphaned children, are riddled with perverts and sadists.
The churches are riddled with pederasts.
This country is sick.
It needs an emetic.
It needs the death sentence restored and the cleansing of society.
Four people arrested as police launch probe into abuse
Castlebeck chief executive says he is 'shocked, ashamed and disgusted' by the footage
Staff trying to goad patients into committing suicide, slap them and punch them
Patients given cold showers and pinned to the ground
Just a few feet in front of me, Simone cowered in the corner of the shower, her arms over her head to protect her from the care workers who had dragged her, fully clothed, beneath the jets of water.
At the time they took my silence for acquiescence, occasionally leering in my direction as they tossed shower gel at the 18-year-old, who has learning difficulties, and threw mouthwash into her eyes.
But there was a good reason why I didn’t intervene: what these thugs didn’t know was I had a secret camera hidden in the buttonhole of my shirt and was recording every second of their barbaric behaviour.
Vile: Care workers dragged vulnerable patients around like animals at the Winterbourne View private care home in Bristol
Having gone undercover as a care home assistant, I was torn between my instinct to protect the whimpering young woman in front of me and my desire, as an investigative journalist, to ensure I had enough evidence on film to bring her tormentors to justice.
But the moral dilemma I faced here was nothing compared to some of the horrors I witnessed during my five-week investigation.
Even as an experienced journalist working undercover for BBC’s Panorama, I was deeply disturbed by the things I saw at the state-of-the-art Winterbourne View private hospital in Bristol.
Seven months earlier, Panorama’s producers had been approached by a whistleblower who worked there, alleging terrible malpractice at the £3,500-a-week hospital for adults with learning disabilities and autism. It is the modern equivalent of Britain’s Victorian asylums.
Shocked by what I’d been told, I decided to apply for a job there to see first hand what was taking place.
Once I had secured a position, one of my first tasks was to complete a course on how to restrain difficult and disturbed patients.
I prepared myself psychologically for what I might see, but within two weeks of starting my £16,000-a-year job I’d witnessed chaos and abuse worse than anything I’d expected.
Cruel: Patients were trapped under chairs for up to ten minutes which the undercover reporter captured on camera
At Winterbourne View vulnerable young adults are meant to be cared for in a safe, understanding environment. Its publicity literature boasts of ‘caring and dedicated staff’.
The truth, I soon discovered, couldn’t have been more different. On the hospital’s top floor, there was even a locked corridor with bedrooms down either side and a security system at both ends, with no CCTV and no guests allowed — no one, in fact, who might witness the suffering of the patients.
Not long after arriving, I was taken aside by Wayne — the self-appointed leader of the gang of care workers.
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He was a tall, heavy-set man, his neck, shoulders and arms covered by a giant tattoo of a woman with a tear on her cheek.
He told me that the first task of the day was to get Lavinia, a vulnerable young woman in her 20s with a personality disorder and learning disabilities, out of bed.
I liked Lavinia. When she talked, her voice was slightly slurred. But she loved to laugh and listen to music. She enjoyed gardening and talking about blackbirds and flowers.
Sadly, she had a tendency to get quite aggressive — something that was rumoured to be related to a history of abuse.
Wayne wanted to ensure that Lavinia wore herself out and became more pliant. His plan was to get her out of bed in such a noisy, unpleasant way that she would turn into a screaming banshee.
By exhausting all her anger, he said, she’d be easily manageable for the rest of the day. Minutes later, we were standing on either side of her bed. ‘Wake up princess,’ he said, prodding her in the ribs. Then without a trace of irony: ‘You’ve got lots to look forward to.’
A prod turned to a push, then a shake. Within minutes we had the screaming, enraged young woman Wayne had wanted. She was dragged into the corridor, in her pyjamas. More jeering, more prodding and, before we knew it, Lavinia was so distressed that she had torn off her clothes and was lying naked in the corridor, beating her head on the floor and kicking the walls.
Tormentor: Care workers, like Wayne, subjected the vulnerable young people in their care to barbaric behaviour
Later that day, she tried to jump out of the window of the top floor. Luckily, she was stopped.
That’s when I found her on her knees behind the sofa, sobbing. Wayne was talking to her. ‘I like watching you lot try to jump,’ he was saying. ‘When you hit the floor do you think you would have made a thud or a splat?’
Looking back, I’m amazed at how easy it was to persuade the bullies that I was on their side, by saying nothing. Wayne thought I was a blank canvas, a potential disciple. He enjoyed explaining his methods of controlling patients, not realising how sick they sounded.
The violence in some of the care workers’ language was grotesque.
‘Do you want me to get out a cheese grater and grate your face off?’ I once heard Wayne say to Simone, the teenager he liked to torment. ‘Do you want me to turn you into a giant pepperoni? Shall I get a razor and cut you up?’
Wayne wasn’t alone. Another care worker, Graham, who had previously worked in the hospital kitchen, liked to use the language of a sexual masochist, calling patients ‘gimps’ — someone who is trussed up in a rubber outfit. I saw him twist the arm of one patient until she screeched.
Another time he forced Simone’s face into his crotch as he hissed something in her ear. It was agonising for me as I had to be aware of the safety of the patients even while I was filming their abuse. If I believed one of them was in such imminent danger that intervention was the only option, then the patient’s needs would come first — not the film.
It was Simone who seemed to bear the brunt of Wayne’s cruelty. She was exuberant and strong-willed, with a genetic disorder not dissimilar to Down’s syndrome.
Her favourite occupation was jumping on a trampoline, playing hula-hoop and cleaning. She’d clean the tables in the dining room and the cups in the tearoom.
But when she felt upset, she’d lie on the floor and refuse to move or try to tear up the carpet. This irritated the support workers, who took it upon themselves to ‘discipline’ her.
Vicious: Care workers trapped the young people with learning difficulties under chairs at the state-of-the-art home and stamped on their wrists if they complained
On one terrible day, which will haunt me for ever, I clocked into work at 8am, looked at the rota and realised, with a deep sense of foreboding, that three of the worst bullies were all on day-duty. Usually, there were only one or two of them on the top floor at once. I remember thinking: ‘Simone is going to get it.’
The first attack came at 9.20am.
I saw her lying in the corridor with Graham kneeling on her legs. She was screaming.
Nobody responded.
At about 2pm I found her hunched in the corner of the shower with all her clothes on. She was crying for her mother. ‘I warned you,’ a female care worker said, as she spurted shower gel into Simone’s face.
At 4.30pm, I heard Simone’s shrieks coming from the garden. It was March and the temperature was hovering at around freezing point. I went outside. She was sitting on the concrete with just a shirt and trousers on. Wayne had thrown a jug of cold water over her. She screamed ‘Wayne! B*****d!’ when he pushed her over. ‘No Wayne,’ she pleaded. ‘No, no Wayne.’
He pushed her to the floor again.
‘B*****d!’ she yelled. ‘I’m going to get the police on you.’
‘The police don’t care,’ he said.
Time passed. I knelt by the glass doors, filming her as she lay on the concrete shivering violently.
Finally, Wayne dragged her in ‘before she turned blue’, as he nonchalantly told a nurse who came by to see what was going on. By 8.30pm, Simone was lying in the corridor refusing to go to bed. To teach her a lesson, Graham and the female colleague who had attacked her in the shower decided to throw jugs of cold water in her face before turning on a cold electric fan to freeze her into complying.
Simone’s day finally ended in her bedroom, where four care workers pinned her to the floor — just to feed her a painkiller. When they’d finished, one of the workers picked up a vase of flowers left by Simone’s mother. Graham emptied the water over Simone’s head while his female colleague shoved the flowers into her face. Simone was too tired
to cry.
Later that evening, I returned to Simone’s room. The place was a tip — the care workers had ripped up the cards which her family had left for her and thrown her flowers around the floor. I’m not the crying type. But that day I walked away from work with my hands shaking and tears in my eyes.
The closest I ever got to intervening — and possibly blowing my cover — was on Simone’s behalf.
One day I had to restrain myself from defending Simone physically against the attacks on her.
Wayne had, once again, grabbed hold of her. This time he trapped her under a chair while he sat on it. He did this fairly frequently — sometimes for half an hour while he watched television. If she cried out he would reach down and pull her hair. I saw him stamp on her hand, too.
The appalling truth is that before my investigation, a whistleblower had written twice to Castlebeck management complaining about support workers, saying they appeared to enjoy restraining techniques. Nothing was done
This time Simone had been forced to lie face-down — which is an absolute no-no in the restraint of patients, due to the danger of suffocation. And instead of resting the chair on the floor, the weight of its legs — and Wayne — had been put on Simone’s bare flesh.
Simone seemed to be coping, but I kept a close eye on her. At one point, I got on my knees to film Simone as she lay inert. Wayne leered at me. He thought I was trying to get closer to the action. I had to remind myself that the best outcome for her would be for me to expose what was going on, rather than intervene then.
Twice, I was nearly caught filming.
On the first occasion I was restraining a patient when I caught sight of my arm. The specially-designed button covering the camera on my elbow had popped off and the camera was exposed. Luckily, the nurse next to me didn’t notice.
The second time it happened I was with another support worker, standing with Simone by the window, trying to distract her from thumping the glass pane with her fists.
Without warning, she made a lunge for my shirt and managed to rip it open, revealing the wires underneath. I clamped it shut with my fists.
After five weeks of filming, Panorama decided to pull me out early. As soon as I left, we alerted Social Services and the families of some patients.We also contacted
Castlebeck, the private healthcare provider which owns Winterbourne View Hospital.
Ironically, it was winner of the 2010 Healthcare 100 Best Employers Award. Thirteen members of Winterbourne View staff were suspended and police are now investigating.
When he was confronted with our damning evidence, the chief executive of Castlebeck, Lee Reed, told Panorama that he was ‘ashamed’ of what had gone on.
Thankfully, Simone is now safe. Her parents, with the help of Social Services, removed her from Winterbourne View and found a new hospital
But the appalling truth is that before my investigation, whistleblower Terry Bryan — a former nurse at the hospital — had written twice to Castlebeck management complaining about the attitude of support workers, saying that they appeared to enjoy restraining techniques. Nothing was done.
Mr Bryan even wrote to the national regulator, the Care Quality Commission. But, again, nothing.
In an interview with Panorama, Lee Reed promised a thorough review of his company, including its care culture and medical protocols.
An external advocacy group is to be brought in to review the patient experience at the firm’s 22 private hospitals and residential homes, while a whistleblowing helpline is being set up for its 2,100 employees.
The Care Quality Commission has also ordered an investigation into all Castlebeck facilities and apologised for failing to respond to the whistleblower.
This comes as little comfort to Simone’s devoted parents. Their daughter had told them she was being hit and kicked. Simone’s mother, not believing that anyone could be capable of harming her kind, loving daughter, had told her: ‘No Simone. That would not have happened. It would not be allowed.’
To be fair, without hard evidence, what went on in Winterbourne View would have been unbelievable to most people. But that doesn’t take away the guilt Simone’s parents still feel at not listening.
Thankfully, Simone is now safe. Her parents, with the help of Social Services, removed her from Winterbourne View and found a new hospital.
She is now settling in, seemingly unaware of the crucial role she played in bringing her tormentors to justice.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392892/Panorama-care-home-investigation-Abuse-witnessed-shames-civilised-society.html#ixzz1O0RgkU4E
The churches are riddled with pederasts.
This country is sick.
It needs an emetic.
It needs the death sentence restored and the cleansing of society.
Four people arrested as police launch probe into abuse
Castlebeck chief executive says he is 'shocked, ashamed and disgusted' by the footage
Staff trying to goad patients into committing suicide, slap them and punch them
Patients given cold showers and pinned to the ground
Just a few feet in front of me, Simone cowered in the corner of the shower, her arms over her head to protect her from the care workers who had dragged her, fully clothed, beneath the jets of water.
At the time they took my silence for acquiescence, occasionally leering in my direction as they tossed shower gel at the 18-year-old, who has learning difficulties, and threw mouthwash into her eyes.
But there was a good reason why I didn’t intervene: what these thugs didn’t know was I had a secret camera hidden in the buttonhole of my shirt and was recording every second of their barbaric behaviour.
Vile: Care workers dragged vulnerable patients around like animals at the Winterbourne View private care home in Bristol
Having gone undercover as a care home assistant, I was torn between my instinct to protect the whimpering young woman in front of me and my desire, as an investigative journalist, to ensure I had enough evidence on film to bring her tormentors to justice.
But the moral dilemma I faced here was nothing compared to some of the horrors I witnessed during my five-week investigation.
Even as an experienced journalist working undercover for BBC’s Panorama, I was deeply disturbed by the things I saw at the state-of-the-art Winterbourne View private hospital in Bristol.
Seven months earlier, Panorama’s producers had been approached by a whistleblower who worked there, alleging terrible malpractice at the £3,500-a-week hospital for adults with learning disabilities and autism. It is the modern equivalent of Britain’s Victorian asylums.
Shocked by what I’d been told, I decided to apply for a job there to see first hand what was taking place.
Once I had secured a position, one of my first tasks was to complete a course on how to restrain difficult and disturbed patients.
I prepared myself psychologically for what I might see, but within two weeks of starting my £16,000-a-year job I’d witnessed chaos and abuse worse than anything I’d expected.
Cruel: Patients were trapped under chairs for up to ten minutes which the undercover reporter captured on camera
At Winterbourne View vulnerable young adults are meant to be cared for in a safe, understanding environment. Its publicity literature boasts of ‘caring and dedicated staff’.
The truth, I soon discovered, couldn’t have been more different. On the hospital’s top floor, there was even a locked corridor with bedrooms down either side and a security system at both ends, with no CCTV and no guests allowed — no one, in fact, who might witness the suffering of the patients.
Not long after arriving, I was taken aside by Wayne — the self-appointed leader of the gang of care workers.
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He was a tall, heavy-set man, his neck, shoulders and arms covered by a giant tattoo of a woman with a tear on her cheek.
He told me that the first task of the day was to get Lavinia, a vulnerable young woman in her 20s with a personality disorder and learning disabilities, out of bed.
I liked Lavinia. When she talked, her voice was slightly slurred. But she loved to laugh and listen to music. She enjoyed gardening and talking about blackbirds and flowers.
Sadly, she had a tendency to get quite aggressive — something that was rumoured to be related to a history of abuse.
Wayne wanted to ensure that Lavinia wore herself out and became more pliant. His plan was to get her out of bed in such a noisy, unpleasant way that she would turn into a screaming banshee.
By exhausting all her anger, he said, she’d be easily manageable for the rest of the day. Minutes later, we were standing on either side of her bed. ‘Wake up princess,’ he said, prodding her in the ribs. Then without a trace of irony: ‘You’ve got lots to look forward to.’
A prod turned to a push, then a shake. Within minutes we had the screaming, enraged young woman Wayne had wanted. She was dragged into the corridor, in her pyjamas. More jeering, more prodding and, before we knew it, Lavinia was so distressed that she had torn off her clothes and was lying naked in the corridor, beating her head on the floor and kicking the walls.
Tormentor: Care workers, like Wayne, subjected the vulnerable young people in their care to barbaric behaviour
Later that day, she tried to jump out of the window of the top floor. Luckily, she was stopped.
That’s when I found her on her knees behind the sofa, sobbing. Wayne was talking to her. ‘I like watching you lot try to jump,’ he was saying. ‘When you hit the floor do you think you would have made a thud or a splat?’
Looking back, I’m amazed at how easy it was to persuade the bullies that I was on their side, by saying nothing. Wayne thought I was a blank canvas, a potential disciple. He enjoyed explaining his methods of controlling patients, not realising how sick they sounded.
The violence in some of the care workers’ language was grotesque.
‘Do you want me to get out a cheese grater and grate your face off?’ I once heard Wayne say to Simone, the teenager he liked to torment. ‘Do you want me to turn you into a giant pepperoni? Shall I get a razor and cut you up?’
Wayne wasn’t alone. Another care worker, Graham, who had previously worked in the hospital kitchen, liked to use the language of a sexual masochist, calling patients ‘gimps’ — someone who is trussed up in a rubber outfit. I saw him twist the arm of one patient until she screeched.
Another time he forced Simone’s face into his crotch as he hissed something in her ear. It was agonising for me as I had to be aware of the safety of the patients even while I was filming their abuse. If I believed one of them was in such imminent danger that intervention was the only option, then the patient’s needs would come first — not the film.
It was Simone who seemed to bear the brunt of Wayne’s cruelty. She was exuberant and strong-willed, with a genetic disorder not dissimilar to Down’s syndrome.
Her favourite occupation was jumping on a trampoline, playing hula-hoop and cleaning. She’d clean the tables in the dining room and the cups in the tearoom.
But when she felt upset, she’d lie on the floor and refuse to move or try to tear up the carpet. This irritated the support workers, who took it upon themselves to ‘discipline’ her.
Vicious: Care workers trapped the young people with learning difficulties under chairs at the state-of-the-art home and stamped on their wrists if they complained
On one terrible day, which will haunt me for ever, I clocked into work at 8am, looked at the rota and realised, with a deep sense of foreboding, that three of the worst bullies were all on day-duty. Usually, there were only one or two of them on the top floor at once. I remember thinking: ‘Simone is going to get it.’
The first attack came at 9.20am.
I saw her lying in the corridor with Graham kneeling on her legs. She was screaming.
Nobody responded.
At about 2pm I found her hunched in the corner of the shower with all her clothes on. She was crying for her mother. ‘I warned you,’ a female care worker said, as she spurted shower gel into Simone’s face.
At 4.30pm, I heard Simone’s shrieks coming from the garden. It was March and the temperature was hovering at around freezing point. I went outside. She was sitting on the concrete with just a shirt and trousers on. Wayne had thrown a jug of cold water over her. She screamed ‘Wayne! B*****d!’ when he pushed her over. ‘No Wayne,’ she pleaded. ‘No, no Wayne.’
He pushed her to the floor again.
‘B*****d!’ she yelled. ‘I’m going to get the police on you.’
‘The police don’t care,’ he said.
Time passed. I knelt by the glass doors, filming her as she lay on the concrete shivering violently.
Finally, Wayne dragged her in ‘before she turned blue’, as he nonchalantly told a nurse who came by to see what was going on. By 8.30pm, Simone was lying in the corridor refusing to go to bed. To teach her a lesson, Graham and the female colleague who had attacked her in the shower decided to throw jugs of cold water in her face before turning on a cold electric fan to freeze her into complying.
Simone’s day finally ended in her bedroom, where four care workers pinned her to the floor — just to feed her a painkiller. When they’d finished, one of the workers picked up a vase of flowers left by Simone’s mother. Graham emptied the water over Simone’s head while his female colleague shoved the flowers into her face. Simone was too tired
to cry.
Later that evening, I returned to Simone’s room. The place was a tip — the care workers had ripped up the cards which her family had left for her and thrown her flowers around the floor. I’m not the crying type. But that day I walked away from work with my hands shaking and tears in my eyes.
The closest I ever got to intervening — and possibly blowing my cover — was on Simone’s behalf.
One day I had to restrain myself from defending Simone physically against the attacks on her.
Wayne had, once again, grabbed hold of her. This time he trapped her under a chair while he sat on it. He did this fairly frequently — sometimes for half an hour while he watched television. If she cried out he would reach down and pull her hair. I saw him stamp on her hand, too.
The appalling truth is that before my investigation, a whistleblower had written twice to Castlebeck management complaining about support workers, saying they appeared to enjoy restraining techniques. Nothing was done
This time Simone had been forced to lie face-down — which is an absolute no-no in the restraint of patients, due to the danger of suffocation. And instead of resting the chair on the floor, the weight of its legs — and Wayne — had been put on Simone’s bare flesh.
Simone seemed to be coping, but I kept a close eye on her. At one point, I got on my knees to film Simone as she lay inert. Wayne leered at me. He thought I was trying to get closer to the action. I had to remind myself that the best outcome for her would be for me to expose what was going on, rather than intervene then.
Twice, I was nearly caught filming.
On the first occasion I was restraining a patient when I caught sight of my arm. The specially-designed button covering the camera on my elbow had popped off and the camera was exposed. Luckily, the nurse next to me didn’t notice.
The second time it happened I was with another support worker, standing with Simone by the window, trying to distract her from thumping the glass pane with her fists.
Without warning, she made a lunge for my shirt and managed to rip it open, revealing the wires underneath. I clamped it shut with my fists.
After five weeks of filming, Panorama decided to pull me out early. As soon as I left, we alerted Social Services and the families of some patients.We also contacted
Castlebeck, the private healthcare provider which owns Winterbourne View Hospital.
Ironically, it was winner of the 2010 Healthcare 100 Best Employers Award. Thirteen members of Winterbourne View staff were suspended and police are now investigating.
When he was confronted with our damning evidence, the chief executive of Castlebeck, Lee Reed, told Panorama that he was ‘ashamed’ of what had gone on.
Thankfully, Simone is now safe. Her parents, with the help of Social Services, removed her from Winterbourne View and found a new hospital
But the appalling truth is that before my investigation, whistleblower Terry Bryan — a former nurse at the hospital — had written twice to Castlebeck management complaining about the attitude of support workers, saying that they appeared to enjoy restraining techniques. Nothing was done.
Mr Bryan even wrote to the national regulator, the Care Quality Commission. But, again, nothing.
In an interview with Panorama, Lee Reed promised a thorough review of his company, including its care culture and medical protocols.
An external advocacy group is to be brought in to review the patient experience at the firm’s 22 private hospitals and residential homes, while a whistleblowing helpline is being set up for its 2,100 employees.
The Care Quality Commission has also ordered an investigation into all Castlebeck facilities and apologised for failing to respond to the whistleblower.
This comes as little comfort to Simone’s devoted parents. Their daughter had told them she was being hit and kicked. Simone’s mother, not believing that anyone could be capable of harming her kind, loving daughter, had told her: ‘No Simone. That would not have happened. It would not be allowed.’
To be fair, without hard evidence, what went on in Winterbourne View would have been unbelievable to most people. But that doesn’t take away the guilt Simone’s parents still feel at not listening.
Thankfully, Simone is now safe. Her parents, with the help of Social Services, removed her from Winterbourne View and found a new hospital.
She is now settling in, seemingly unaware of the crucial role she played in bringing her tormentors to justice.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392892/Panorama-care-home-investigation-Abuse-witnessed-shames-civilised-society.html#ixzz1O0RgkU4E
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