Stop! Who goes there?

One of my correspondents says, of Blair presumably, "why don't you guys give him a break". Well, I would if things in this country weren't so bizarre.

Today I look at BBC News to find that the actors who star in the movie "The Road to Guantanamo" were questioned by police at Luton airport under anti-terrorism legislation. One police officer from Bedfordshire Police asked one of the actors, Rizwan Ahmed, if he intended to make any more "political" films. This random check was done because we are on "heightened alert". This kind of questioning does no good for the British public in the fight against terrorism.

Bedfordshire Police need to question themselves as to why an officer felt it necessary to ask such a question. The spokeswoman's mealy-mouthed reply is not good enough.

The British police are becoming opinionated and politicised under Blair's regime. This is not how they should serve the community. I feel we have a right to comment on this unfavourable development.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4736404.stm

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Spinning or just plain lying?

The cheesy geezer we have for a prime minister has a track record in making people think things are better than they are and that the truth needs his magic touch so that our brain cells get a makeover par excellence. On Channel 4 tonight, we were given an excellent programme by Peter Oborne concerning Blair's approach to terrorism. It seems more a case of using the thought of terrorism to bolster his image rather than any real attempt to crack this pernicious nut.

Blair has succeeded in:-

1. Upsetting the vast majority of Muslim people in the UK
2. Creating myth and fable out of police raids on suspected terrorists
3. Treating his cabinet colleagues in a shabby manner (denied on camera by these hapless wonders).

Lady Falkner, a Liberal Democrat peer, sat on committees reflecting the issues of terrorism and commented in the programme that she had confronted Blair on the fact that the Iraq War has indeed polarised opinion in some parts of the Muslim community. Blair moved on as if this was a topic that was tantamount to treason.

The police raid on Iraqi Kurds in Manchester on the spurious grounds that they were terrorists hellbent on blowing up Manchester United's football ground came to nought. Greater Manchester police are now on a monk-like silence, but it appeared this "raid" was something to assist Blair's political agenda. Of course Blair hasn't said anything about the Iraqi Kurds, who fled Saddam Hussein, only to get a politicised police force in the UK knocking on their doors at the early hours of dawn in order to ask imbecilic questions about domestic items such as TV extension cables. The Kurds were released without charge but not before the media was given a good dose of Blairite mythology.

Crispin Black, a man who knows his onions on terrorism and spooks, thinks the intelligence services are woefully lacking in an understanding of how to deal with the new terrorist threat and with Blair's cunning. Old style soviet spookery won't do, neither will giving Blair straight answers about the threat!

This programme really makes me mad that we allow such a wily fox to be sitting in Downing Street. Blair will be closing down channel 4, for sure, as they seem to reveal so much of his skullduggery.

http://www.kishwerfalkner.org.uk/index.htm
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article333786.ece

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Justice?

Three cases are in the news at the moment where the accused/acquitted is being given the Barabbas treatment. It seems that the jury system only works when people are either not bothered with a case or think the verdict was OK.

Niel Entwistle is the man accused of murdering his wife and baby in Massachusetts. Yesterday, his wife's family lawyer, flanked by the extended family, read out a statement that more or less made the jury's deliberations in a forthcoming trial redundant. Obviously helped by the District Attorney's loose tongue, the lawyer laid in on the assumed guilt of Entwistle. I'm surprised he didn't have a rope with him for the lynching!

Sir Roy Meadow is the medical professor who claimed during a baby death case that "the probability of two natural unexplained cot deaths in the family was 73 million to one." This piece of soothsaying was ridiculed by the General Medical Council, but a learned judge has thought otherwise. Sir Roy said, "I am relieved that the court has quashed the GMC's decision. Children can only be protected from abuse if those who suspect abuse are able to give their honest opinion without fear of retribution." This comment seems to imply that he was right and the court of appeal wrong. He is impugning the innocence of the aquitted women!

Thirdly, Sion Jenkins is the teacher who was aquitted of the murder of his foster daughter Billie-Jo, who was also called Jenkins. The girl's natural father seems convinced "it was 'im who done it" and more or less said so on the Radio 4 Today Programme. An aunt of Billie-Jo lashed out in the court building, giving the tabloids something to go on.

So the jury may speak but others who feel wronged, abused, or hurt can go on second guessing or denying the verdict. Not a very satisfactory position to be in!

Truth will out - but what about justice? The jury on this is still out!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4718570.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4720334.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4723012.stm

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Elder abuse?

Amongst all the stories of late, this one from Gloucestershire has some beating for bureaucratic meanness and petty brain power. Richard and Beryl Driscoll, who are both 89 and have been married for 65 years, were split up by Gloucestershire Social Services when Mr Driscoll, who is disabled, was placed in a Cheltenham care home, but Mrs Driscoll did not qualify despite being blind. She was told she was not going to join him.

So the couple were given a period of torment by unthinking, pen-pushing bureacrats who can only see rules instead of reason. After they were subjected to complaints from Help the Aged and the couple's family, the hard-hearted stiffs from "social" services relented.

But where on earth was their common sense, what brain cells induced them to think this was reasonable let alone morally decent? By relenting, they admit that their original decision was very much incorrect. We allow these sort of people to operate unchecked because local democracy is so weak. We should all vote to secure proper democratic control of these municipal operatives!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4704338.stm

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Two Wrongs? Do they make a right?

So the Islamic world is in turmoil over cartoons. Some seek revenge, some seek calm, but nearly all are talking about it. The young man, one Omar Khayam, who took to the streets of London shouting the odds, claiming his very soul was seared now turns out to be a convicted drug dealer. How does he square Islamic beliefs with ruining other peoples lives with crack cocaine just because he is a greedy felon? Probably thought he wan't going to be found out. And this revelation has apparently spared the politically-motivated high command of the Metropolitan Police from bringing any charges for breaches of the peace or incitement to murder. Seeking to behead your foes is small beer to the Met.

According to the BBC, "he was arrested and recalled to prison for breaching the terms of his licence. Khayam apologised for his "insensitive" protest on Monday. A Bedfordshire Police (his home force) spokesman said Khayam was arrested under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 at the request of the Home Office. He was given five and a half years in prison in December 2002 for dealing cocaine and heroin."

He was arrested at the request of the Home Office! Was anything said about the death threats? I very much doubt it! Those reading this should be aware of the nature of policing in Blair's Britain. Don't rock the Muslim Vote is the mantra. This is wrong and it should be stated as such.

Blair keeps on telling us about his interpretation of Islam, but it would be better coming from some Imam or spritual leader that could be seen as the authentic voice. Even if there was dissension from the core beliefs, and we all know that the Chief Rabbi doesn't speak for all Jews and the Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't hold sway with all Christians, those Muslims looking to a "Chief Imam" could be freed from the temporary lunacies of such young men as Omar Khayam, who is definitely NOT a sceptic like his namesake Omar Khayyám!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4687996.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam

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Justice? or What?

So Nick Griffin and his cohort from the BNP got off. I didn't really expect anything else. The politically charged CPS is now going for a second bite of the cherry, as Griffin and friend are now out on bail pending further events. The jury were undecided on two counts. Seems the New Labour lot are determined to see off Griffin and his bunch in the courts and not via the ballot box. This is probably because if he is legally allowed to say such things then their constituencies with large muslim votes could be affected. Also, the Blairites do not want Griffin poaching white working class votes.

All that said, what about the crowds in London as I bang this out. Shouting about the Danes and others. "You will pay with your blood! Your heads will be cut off! etc, etc." Not very nice just after Friday prayers!

Will that great war apologist Jack Straw say something? Will the chief scout, I mean Home Secretary, arrest anyone? Not likely? Because they believe in free speech, don't they?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4676524.stm

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