Found while grazing..

A long and worthwhile article about Geert Wilders’ film Fitna.

The Fitna Firestorm

The equation of Islam with violence doesn’t come from Dutch politician Geert Wilders; it comes from the words and actions of Muslims he features in his controversial film.

March 31, 2008 – by Robert Spencer

Fitna in Arabic means discord or upheaval; it is also the name of a new sixteen-minute film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders that appeared last Thursday, and has done nothing since then but … create fitna. The expected riots and violence did not materialize: in Karachi, a quixotic band of just over three dozen jihadists chanted “Death to the filmmaker,” but so far that has been about it on the street level.

Protests have instead been official. Iran and Pakistan lodged formal complaints — Iran with the European Union and Pakistan with the Dutch Ambassador to Islamabad — and as of this writing the anger is only growing. Other Islamic states and organizations also expressed outrage over the film. The multinational Islamic body and largest single voting bloc at the UN, the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, condemned Fitna in “the strongest terms,” claiming that Wilders’s movie was “a deliberate act of discrimination against Muslims” intended only to “provoke unrest and intolerance.”

However, equal and even greater indignation came from non-Muslim leaders, particularly at the United Nations. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon dubbed the film “offensively anti-Islamic” and declared: “There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free expression is not at stake here.” Or maybe it is: the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, urged those angered by the film to work to limit free speech rights. “There is a protective legal framework,” she noted, “and the resolution of the controversy that this film will generate should take place within it.” She said that legislators “should offer strong protective measures to all forms of freedom of expression, while at the same time enacting appropriate restrictions, as necessary, to protect the rights of others.”

With somewhat woolly logic, Jorge Sampaio, UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, urged the world not to overemphasize extremism, for to do so would only create extremism: “We should indeed beware of overemphasizing it, because extremism anywhere is extremism everywhere, thanks to new media technologies. Few people think of themselves as extremists, but many can be pushed towards an extreme point of view, almost without noticing it, when they feel that the behavior or language of others is extreme. We therefore deeply regret this offensive film.”

So in other words, don’t point out the evil that the “extremists” are committing, or they’ll just do more of it.

Read on…

AJ

Scotch Prioritise Crimes against Muslims

As much as I support Scotch independence, it hasn’t happened yet, so they’re still part of the UK.

So it comes as rather more than an average irritation to find that they are devoting police resources to supporting the Muslim community.

Via Atlas Shrugs:

POLICE IN RACE BIAS OUTRAGE

Scottish forces ordered to give priority to crimes against Muslims by Dean Herbert

Police in Scotland have been ordered to give special priority to crimes where the victims are Muslim.

In a move that last night sparked a fresh row over political correctness, a senior officer revealed that the race and religion of a victim has now become a crucial factor in how police respond to crime.

Inspector Tom Galbraith, of Lothian and Borders Police’s diversity unit, told a conference on tackling terrorism that it was important to stop Scottish Muslims feeling “vulnerable” in case they were driven towards radicalism.

Mr. Galbraith said the force encouraged officers to consider the religious or ethnic backgrounds of victims to assess their needs in dealing with hate crimes.

He said that both an attack and a perceived lack of action by police could turn Islamic youths into future terrorists.

Mr. Galbraith also revealed that police officers, Special Branch and BAA security staff were being given special lessons about Islamic culture after Muslims complained that being questioned when entering the country about whether they pray and attend mosques was offensive to their faith.

Speaking at a national security conference in Edinburgh on Thursday, Mr. Galbraith said, “It is not about treating everybody the same.

If I have a young Asian man who has been subjected to a hate crime, I would rather put more resources into that than if it had happened to a white male because the white male is far less likely to end up becoming radicalised.”

He later confirmed that his remarks were in line with Lothian and Borders Police policy, saying that cases of hate crime were assessed “by need”.

He added: “You have to consider cases according to need.  The idea of treating people all the same is a bit naive and we have to remember that there are vulnerable individuals who can be put on the path of radicalism.”

Last night, the police were criticised for being too politically correct in dealing with hate crimes.

Conservative Justice spokesman Bill Aitken said: “I’m afraid we are now living in a society in which some people are more equal than others.

[...]

During the conference, Mr. Galbraith also said that police officers and airport security staff were being given lessons in Islamic culture to avoid offending arrivals.

Which probably means the pigs won’t have the time or inclination to deal with shit like this:

Trio Guilty Of Race Hate Murder

8:16pm UK, Wednesday November 08, 2006

The mother of a teenage boy who was kidnapped, repeatedly stabbed and then burnt alive has spoken of her relief after three men were jailed for the murder.

Kriss Donald’s scarred and partially-clothed body was found on the Clyde Walkway in the east end of Glasgow, inMarch 2004.

Imran Shahid, 29, his brother Zeeshan Shahid, 28, and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, 27, were found guilty by a court in Edinburgh.

Just what fucking country are we living in? Appeasing cowardly bastards. Is it any surprise the Islamists think we lily-livered kaffirs deserve their wrath?

This is not about race, or immigration. I’d happily see all the Muslims in the UK replaced with Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, Buddhists, Jedi and Flying Spaghetti Monsterists – but I really would like these medieval, suicide-bombing, women-stoning cunts to get with the programme or get the fuck out of my country. Yes – as a freeborn Englishman, it is my country. This is not a caliphate state.

I shall refer to a rare case of me agreeing with Johann Hairy.

I don’t respect the idea that we should follow a "Prophet" who at the age of 53 had sex with a nine-year old girl, and ordered the murder of whole villages of Jews because they wouldn’t follow him.

Is there an alternative? Well if there really are moderate Muslims out there who object to the way their religion is being supposedly misused and turned into an object of hatred, isn’t about time they fucking piped up and sorted this whole thing out before the BNP get a decent enough grip and Enoch Powell’s vision becomes a reality?

Also mentioned on the same blog is this:

HATE PREACHER GETS OK TO RUN SHARIA LAW DEMO  Daily Star Hat tip Kasper

HATE preacher Anjem Choudary will march in London today calling for Britain to adopt Islamic Sharia law.

The startling move comes just days after processions celebrating St George were banned for being racist.

Choudary was given the green light yesterday despite a previous demonstration in which some of his supporters chanted: “Bomb the UK”.

Publicity for the march, in the East End, carries 41-year-old Choudary’s personal mobile number

Which is apparently 07956 600 569, according to the islam4uk.com site.

and says the aim of the campaign is to “emulate the Prophet and his companions, by calling for Islam and speaking out against the oppression of man-made law”.

It says that Britain is full of “disbelievers” who are involved in prostitution, gambling, alcoholism and worshipping other gods.

The publicity says women are welcome to join the march but they must walk at the back of the procession as “strict segregation will be enforced”.

The demo comes 18 months after three of Choudary’s supporters were jailed for soliciting murder in a London protest against cartoons of the prophet Mohammed published in Denmark.

Just fuck off, you atavistic bastards.

Want another example of us bending over for these fucks? Okay – have this:

U.K.: Thousands of Muslim men using welfare system to support multiple wives

"… the Taxpayers’ Alliance, a lobby group, has complained: ‘Polygamy is not officially condoned here, so why should British taxpayers have to pay for extra benefits for men to have two, three or four wives?’"

For that matter, how many traditional, monogamous couples and their children in Britain are suffering because of the recession while their government hemorrhages money to reward illegal behavior?

"Polygamy UK: This special Mail investigation reveals how thousands of men are milking the benefits system to support several wives," by Sue Reid for the Daily Mail, February 24

AJ

Fuzzy Barry Hocks USA to Chinese Pawnbroker

This is quite remarkable, from Atlas Shrugs.

Impeachment Time: Obama Grants Eminent Domain Rights to China to Secure Debt

The time for partisan bickering just ended.  This is as serious as a heart attack.  Obama is going to spend so much money, which he intends to get from China via the sale of government backed bonds, that the Chinese apparently don’t think he’ll be able to make good on them. 

So President Obama gave the Chinese eminent domain rights to American land and businesses as collateral – i.e. we don’t pay, they now own America.

I think there may be a constitutional challenge to this – I would hope so anyway.

AJ

Dear Councillor Shithead,

It has come to my attention that in Scotchland, they are ‘introducing’ Monthly bin collections (also known as cutting the service by 50%).

I am writing to offer my support for the introduction of this scheme to our local area. You may find this surprising from a member of the public, so permit me to explain.

Since you cancelled half of my bin collections (without a concomitant reduction in my council tax) my bin has been emptied, on average, once every 8 weeks, because I work away a lot during the week, and you’ll fine me if I put my bin out a day early or leave it out a day late. As a result, I burn every single item of waste that is at all combustible. This is a result because I like fire – I see your visage in the flames and I dream of the day.

Anyway, I fully support the introduction of monthly collections, since it would make no difference to me whatsoever. What it will do, when coupled with the healthy increase in council tax you no doubt have planned, in order to pay for your pension, is bring closer the day when we, the public – for whom you and your cronies work – will relieve ourselves of the burden of paying your pensions by stringing every last one of you cunts up from lamp posts.

In the meantime, I hope to see lots more disobedient heroics from the likes of the most marvellous Ian Margetts.

Unkindest disregards,
Alan S Jahom

Some things don’t change…

Back in November, I wrote:

Maybe it’s because I drank far too much last night and have a 5 o’clock shadow. On my tongue.

Maybe it’s because I haven’t taken my medication today, and the nurse put my straitjacket on too tightly.

Maybe it’s because this country is full of the most odious and stupid people it is possible to herd together.

Maybe it’s because this country is being run by a bunch of communist porridge wogs. Because the odious and stupid voted for these authoritarian, egregious, hypocritical ringpieces.

Maybe it’s because I’m sick to fucking death of the state coercing me, marginalising me, extorting money from me, and then failing to provide any semblance of a service back to me.

Maybe it’s because the only apparent alternative is to vote for a public school pillock who’s as right-on as any of these Labour fucks, with his wind turbine and his cycle helmet. Anyway, it appears that the principal qualification for being a political leader of any hue these days is proving your genetic inadequacy beyond all doubt by squeezing out a spasticated child then using it as a electoral selling point.

Maybe it’s because my main hope for getting back onto the property ladder has been wiped out by the current financial fuckduggery that Gordon Brown has brought upon us. By some oddity, I now appear to own twice as much of Royal bank of Scotland as I did 3 months ago (even though the government is holding the asset for me), but it’s also worth square-root of fuck all.

Maybe it’s because I promised myself I would avoid using the word ‘cunt’ on this blog, yet I’ve never felt it more apposite.

Oh I can’t be bothered. I’m going to work on my list.

And absolutely nothing has changed. Apart from the long-passed promise to deny the use of the most appropriate word for just about everyone.

AJ

Jack Straw: “Water is dry, snow is hot and I’m not a lying cunt…”

And Britain isn’t turning into a police state.

This cunt knows no bounds of ludicrousness.

Our record isn’t perfect. But talk of a police state is daft

There was no golden age of liberty. Since 1997, we have done more to extend freedoms than any government before.

When people come to assess the choices available at the next election, I will stand proudly on Labour’s record, from the Lawrence inquiry, which reported 10 years ago this week, progressive legislation on race and gender, to devolution, the Human Rights Act, Freedom of Information and much more, and be ready to be judged on it. I hope that in the final reckoning even some of our harshest critics will concede that this Labour government has done more than any before it to extend liberties and to constrain government.

Speechless. Happily, CiF commenters are far from it.

An end to peaceful protest within a mile of Parliament.
ID cards.
Over 60 pieces of personal information before you can travel.
Internet monitoring.
Phone call monitoring.
The politicization of the police.
One-quarter of all the CCTV in the world.
Racist ID cards for non-EU nationals.
And you have the bare-faced cheek to say that you have extended liberties? You are a liar, Jack, and not a very good one. We want our freedom, and our country, back.

…

Also, 42 days, misuse of RIPA and lots of smaller stuff: bin laws, council snoopers, pub music, CRB check if you want to give 4 other kids a lift to a sports fixture, the smoking ban (well, pub owners should have had a choice but now a lot of them have lost their livelihood), freedom of speech, health & safety stopping traditional events if they can’t afford insurance….. it just goes on….

…

I accept your relationship with truth is somewhat estranged. I think you have allegiances to others besides the UK. If we delve back over the time of Nu labour, your name is linked with all of the policies that have alienated the majority community, and made Britain despised in the world along with USA and Israel.

Still we should be grateful, the arrogance and ignorance of this government, has woken the people up to your crimes, and if a referendum was held on whether we ought to transfer some of the cabinet to the Hague for war crimes, my guess is you would be the second one on the plane.

This government/ cabinet, needs to parade out, bow deeply and apologise for the destruction you have inflicted on UK society. Trouble is, that takes courage, nuff said.

Indeed.

AJ

I like this thinking…

Via Mr Eugenides… an Oirisher has a novel and compelling solution to the credit crisis.

NEWTON’S OPTIC: THE ANSWER to all our problems is staring us in the face. It may even be quite literally staring at you, right now, across the breakfast table.

So put the paper down, stare back and ask yourself a selfless question.

Does the woman in your life really need a job?

Admittedly, this is not a fashionable question. From Iceland to Australia, men are blamed for causing the credit crunch, while a more feminine approach to finance is proposed as the solution.

Of course there will always be a place in the world of business for exceptional women. Women also have an important role to play in jobs that are too demeaning for men, like teaching. But the general employment of women is another matter. Indeed, working women almost certainly caused the credit crunch by bringing a second income into the average household, pushing property prices up to unsustainable levels.

…

Consider the issue of unemployment. There were 221,301 men on the live register last month and just under one million women in work.

Surely at least half these women have a partner who is earning? Surely at least half would be happier at home? One half of one half is a quarter and one quarter of a million is roughly 221,301. I think we can all see where this argument is going.

It would be ludicrous to suggest that women should be sacked purely to give men their jobs. In many cases, their jobs should be abolished as well.

Women are twice as likely as men to work in the public sector. They account for two-thirds of the Civil Service and three- quarters of all public employees.

Do pop along to the Oirish Times and read the rest… I needn’t wonder what sort of postbag this generated.

AJ

Daily Mash: Pre-empted.

But they’re still way funnier than me, so I forgive them.

BROWN REFUSES TO HAND BACK PENSION

GORDON Brown last night dismissed calls to surrender his £123,000 a year pension when he is forced to stop being prime minister next June.

Mr Brown was defiant in the face of City outrage despite the UK government’s annual operating loss of £100bn, rising to £1.5 trillion when the write-down of its banking assets is taken into account.

The prime minister said: "I’ve been building up this pension since I became an MP, it’s all completely legal and now you want to take it away because I’ve been catastrophically bad at my job and you’re looking for a scapegoat. What gives?"

He added: "Yes I’ve been in charge of financial regulation for 12 years, yes I encouraged the housing bubble, and yes I pissed billions up the wall giving pointless jobs to Labour voters, but I fail to see what any of this has to do with me being incredibly well off."

Brown’s £3m pension pot is expected to cast the spotlight on the extravagant retirement packages of other failed politicians including Alistair Darling’s inexplicable £1.7m and the £1.5m awarded to John Prescott for being a national scandal for 10 years.

…

Martin Bishop, head of pension rows at the Institute for Studies, said: "It’s a fascinating dynamic. The politicians blame the bankers, the bankers blame the politicians, and the ordinary taxpayer is down on all fours with a confused look on his face, being fucked at both ends."

AJ

We’ll be seeing a lot of this over the next few years…

The lefties in the pubic sector have been lording it up for the last 10 years or so….. but they’re not happy now.. redundancies, pay freezes, pensions under threat… fuck the lot of them.

Teachers demand 10% pay increase

Now while you’re reading this, don’t forget about the collective bargaining arrangement teachers have, which means that the ineffectual, spineless, stupid, out of their depth, malevolent and misinformed teachers get paid the same as that small band of real heroes – the teachers (we all had one or two) who really made an impression and made us what we are today.

The biggest teachers’ union in England and Wales is calling for a 10% pay rise – and says the economic downturn should not be an "excuse" for low pay rises.

Okay. Well, how about… no?

The National Union of Teachers has submitted its demand to the profession’s pay review body.

A government spokesman says the current recommended 2.3% offer represents a "good deal" for teaching staff.

I’d say it represents a very good deal for the above mentioned useless teachers, and a very poor deal for the minority of great teachers.

By all means click through and read the rest if you’re suffering from low blood pressure.

Coppers are being laid off too. The battlefront could be truly multicultural this summer.

AJ

Via Vindico.

The words you’re looking for are “See you in court”

Via LPUK, I come across this:

Ok, so this isn’t actually a picture, but I’ll give you a few moments.

Finished? Let’s see how you got on.

Number one;

Michelle Keiller was shocked to receive a £120 fine with a picture of a white van bearing her Toyota estate car’s registration number illegally parked in south-east London.

Now she has to prove her innocence or pay up.

Number two

Now she needs to send identification – and her car registration documents – to Lambeth Council, to prove that she does not own the van bearing her registration number.

(duplicate omitted there, obviously)

The DVLA said: "Vehicle cloning is something we’ve come across in the past, it’s not as widespread as you think but is something that does happen.

which is in combination with something earlier in the article;

Michelle Keiller was shocked to receive a £120 fine with a picture of a white van bearing her Toyota estate car’s registration number illegally parked in south-east London.

To recap;

• In the good old days (let us say 20 years ago, and for scores of years before that) the state had to prove guilt rather than the individual having to prove their innocence.

• As the issue here is regarding the accuracy of a recorded registration mark, i.e.is it a van or a car, why is the state demanding other documentation, such as ID? If XX123XXX is a car not a van, who gives a monkeys who owns what?

• If the state is aware of this cloning, why are they providing the details of a Toyota estate car to a third party when requesting the details of a white van?

Don’t worry, folks. ID cards, DNA databases, Phone and Email details databases, Foreign travel databases. You have nothing to fear.

As I said: “Hello, Lambeth Council? Fuck you. I’ll see you thick bureaucratic tax-burning cunts in court.”

AJ

Gordon Brown to Surrender his Pension….

… to repay the country for the £billions he has pissed up the wall with his harebrained communist schemes.

Or at least that ought to be the situation, if he really expects Sir Fred ‘hubris-munching-porridge-wog’ Goodwin to surrender the £650k annual pension he walked away from RBS with.

What is it with these Scotch? They just don’t think.

AJ

Irony Board

Just a week after we heard that Gordon Brown may be offered leadership of an international regulatory body for financial services (after his bang-up job with the FSA) and Tony Blair was awarded a $1m prize for being a pretty straight kind of guy, there is more amazement today.

I predicted (perhaps tongue in cheek. perhaps not) that Harriet Hormone will be the next editor of Nuts magazine and Lord Ahmed will lead a Christian road safety charity, but I could never have come up with this:

Scottish MP blogger online for an Orwell

A Scottish MP who has established himself as Parliament’s most assiduous blogger has been named among the nominees for the Orwell Prize.

Tom Harris, Labour member for Glasgow South, has been nominated for his And Another Thing blog which, for its immediacy and wit, has become among the most widely read of political blogs, including those of long-established political commentators. It receives about 50,000 hits a month.

This is the first year that the Orwell Prize, established in 1994 to acknowledge political writing in books and journalism, has included a category for bloggers.

You remember Tom Harris, right? He’s the one who posted on he blog about the LPUK campaign-delivered copy of Orwell’s 1984, bearing the inscription, “This book is a warning, not an instruction manual”. His insight lead him to describe the book as “a rollicking good yarn, with a great plot and a very dramatic ending”.

In other words, he’s in denial or (and this is the odds on favourite being as he’s a politician) he’s never fucking read it and he’s a lying cunt.

This Tom Harris, who is up for an Orwell prize, has the following voting record:

• Voted strongly against a transparent Parliament.
• Voted a mixture of for and against introducing a smoking ban (he voted for the ban and against exemptions so far as I can tell. He was absent for the Wales vote.).
• Voted strongly for introducing ID cards.
• Voted moderately for introducing foundation hospitals.
• Voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees. (Which as a Glasgow MP do not apply to his constituents)
• Voted very strongly for Labour’s anti-terrorism laws.
• Voted very strongly for the Iraq war.
• Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war.
• Voted very strongly for replacing Trident.
• Voted very strongly for the hunting ban.
• Voted very strongly for equal gay rights.

Just last week, the former head of MI5 said that Labour Ministers have turned the country into a police state.

Old Eric must be spinning in his grave.

AJ

Met Police not not racist anymore…

Met is ‘no longer racist’ – Straw

The Metropolitan Police is no longer institutionally racist, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said.

His comments came in an interview marking the 10th anniversary of the Macpherson report, published after the murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence.

It heavily criticised the approach and attitude of the force.

Mr Straw told the BBC: "If you are asking me whether I believe the Met as a whole is still institutionally racist, the answer is no."

And it’s true… apart from the bit about them not hating darkies anymore….

Racism ‘alive and vile’ in Metropolitan Police, says Boris Johnson

Racism is “alive and vile” in the Metropolitan Police and must be stamped out without allowing it to threaten the fight against crime, Britain’s most senior officer was warned today.

…

A community support officer has claimed that an “apartheid” culture operated at a London police station where ethnic minority officers were forced to travel separately from white officers.

And of course the professionally aggrieved are onboard.

Met rank and file still racist, Doreen Lawrence says

Doreen Lawrence said that significant progress had been made within the police since “racism and incompetence” blighted the investigation into her son’s brutal murder in April 1993.

But she said that many of the policies devised by civil servants and chief officers had not filtered down to the rank and file who policed the streets.

Mrs Lawrence spoke out after hearing Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, and Sir Paul Stephenson, the Met Commissioner, tell a conference marking the tenth anniversary of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry that the “institutional racism” tag no longer applied to the police.

“At street level the label still applies,” Mrs Lawrence said. “It’s the officers on the beat that we need to change.”

She added that proclamations by senior officers that there was no institutional racism would reinforce bad practice and prejudice at ground level. In her opening address to the conference, Mrs Lawrence said she feared that the issue of racial equality in many walks of public life had become “watered down”.

So far so unsurprising.. apart from Boris having boarded the bandwagon… I wonder if the met are still allowed watermelon smiles… But here’s a contribution to LabourList (yeah – the same labourlist that was lobbing ‘Racism’ grendades at right wing bloggers last week) that sums up pretty well how the Met got to where they are today and why white coppers will always remain racist so long as affirmative action is taken to over-promote incompetent fuzzies.

The Black Police Officers’ Association have called on the black and Asian community not to apply to the Met. How did we get here?

Firstly you need to recognise that if there is a quota to transform one third of the workforce to ethnic, then this doesn’t mean that a white officer has only a two-thirds chance of getting a promotion; it means that he has virtually no chance until the numbers have been achieved.

So although almost every reasonable person on the planet, including you, agrees with the principle that the police force should reflect the diversity of the community, until the numbers have been achieved, your career has just been put on hold.

I bet you still agree with the principle, and I bet you didn’t join the police for the money; you joined because you wanted to make the world a better place. OK, maybe Frank and Jim joined because they were bullied in school and now they get a chance to chuck their weight around, but they’re not ambitious like you; they don’t much mind what colour the skipper is as long as he puts his hand in his pocket at the bar.

You, on the other hand, are ambitious, but you agree with the principle; it’s inevitable that the Met is changed to reflect the times and if it happened slowly over the years, would that be any better than if it happened quickly over a couple of years? You’ll still rise, cos you’ve got talent. Best to let Sir Ian Blair get on with the job and just be supportive.

By the way, you’ve got a new mate called Dixon. Eugene Dixon. He’s ten years younger than you and he’s on rapid promotion; we need to make our force reflect the community we serve. Unfortunately, you’re about to find out that the bloke’s completely clueless and the stuff he should’ve known before he was even considered for the job, you have to tell him three times. You are patient, because you understand how important it is but sometimes you can’t help but let your irritation show.

And that was where the problem came; you didn’t expect what he came out with, asking you if the hostility is due to your racism. You were really taken aback; surely you can’t be racist? You support what Mr Blair is doing. You’re not a racist; you were just irritated that the guy was promoted to Inspector before he’d even learnt how to be a Sergeant. But you’re not a racist.

No – you don’t have to be a racist to be an authoritarian jumped-up bully-boy cunt in a fluorescent coat. But it helps.

By the way – I may well be a racist by modern fucked-up standard, but I hate these two evil fucks with perfectly equal vigour:

 
Guilty: Antonette Richardson, left, and Tony Virasami were both convicted of the
manslaughter of Kevin Tripp after Richardson mistook him for someone she had
argued with while queuing for cigarettes in a Sainsbury’s supermarket

Harrowing CCTV footage emerged today of the moment an innocent shopper was killed in a supermarket in a row over queue-jumping.

Antonette Richardson was today behind bars after her boyfriend killed father-of-one Kevin Tripp in a case of mistaken identity.

Mr Tripp died after receiving a single blow to the head from Tony Virasami, while standing in a check-out queue at Sainsbury’s in Merton, south London.

Virasami was incited to carry out the attack by his girlfriend, heroin-addicted 37-year-old grandmother Richardson. Today she was convicted by a jury of manslaughter.

The full extent of the couple’s criminal life can now be revealed after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Virasami – who has a string of convictions for petty theft and handling stolen goods dating back 20 years – was under a curfew and on bail for shoplifting. He was wearing an electronic tag when he launched the unprovoked attack.

Richardson has a 16-year criminal record. She has previously received community orders, conditional discharges and fines, for charges including deception, handling stolen goods and theft.

Put the fucking pair of them in a refuse incinerator.

AJ

Bill Gates….. Arrrrgghh

Look, you piece of shit. Last time you asked me this was 5 minutes ago. Then, I had 7 applications open, each with several documents, folders or pages.

This time I may have a couple more or a couple less items open. Either way, does it look like I’m going to stop what I’m doing for this bullshit?

Fuck off Bill. For at least a week. And stop giving my extorted license fees to Africans.

If only Linux wasn’t Stephen Hawking with a Tony Blair mask.

AJ

Punchline of the week…

.. comes from Guthrum, in his post that a 71 year old bloke was brought before the court for roller-blading on the pavement.

Mr Dornan, who has a 2,075-person Facebook group devoted to him, is extremely upset because police have confiscated his skates. Police are upset because when they asked him why he does this he replied, “Because that’s how I roll.”

Class.

AJ

Let me explain something to you….

.. if you’re a motorist. Particularly one that was on the M1 yesterday evening.

1) Speed limits are largely advisory. They’re there to help the government and the police. Not you or me. Observe them when it is expedient to do so – i.e. when there’s a plod or a camera nearby. Otherwise, drive at the speed appropriate to the conditions, which may be way below or way above what is on the Idiot Indicator with the red circle around it.

2) In the case that observing the speed limit is expedient, remember:

a) If you are driving at a constant speed, and your speedo says 50mph but your savnav says you’re doing 46mph, your satnav is right. The speedo has to read up to 10% over actual road speed, unless it’s a calibrated speedo as in a lorry (tachometer) or a police car (admissible evidence).

b) The ACPO’s advisory guidelines for maximum permissible speed before prosecution are POSTED LIMIT + 10% OF POSTED LIMIT + 2MPH. This means 56-57 in a 50 and 78-79mph in a 70 are ‘safe’. You can get a ticket for less but my experience tells me it would be laughed out of court (iAnal).

By the way, the Police used to train their advanced drivers to routinely drive at LIMIT + 10% + 2MPH. I don’t know if they still do. I’m not sure if most of the recent police cars I’ve seen have been driven by someone with any license at all. Mostly 4’2” wimmin and midget effnicks.

c) Taking A and B into account, where the posted limit is 50, your speedo can easily show 60 before you’re in danger of being nicked.

d) Moving out of the way for cunts like me in BMWs who know A, B and C is not just advisory – it’s fucking mandatory.

3) Did I mention that you can defeat the current generation of average-speed cameras by going through each consecutive one in a different lane to the previous one? No? Oh .. maybe it’s not true.

Just get out of my fucking way.

Still, it wasn’t all bad.. 229KG of CO2 emissions for a 4 hour meeting. Om nom nom nom.

AJ

Thankfully, there’s one born every day…

Otherwise we’d run out of people this funny…

Woman fell to her death while chasing a feather

A woman fell 80ft to her death over a cliff edge in Devon while chasing a feather, coastguards have said.

The walker, who was in her 40s, had been following a coastal footpath when she spotted the bird feather and went to pick it up.

As the wind caught it and blew it close to the edge, she ignored safety warnings and climbed over metal railings lining the cliff top.

She then lost her footing and fell from the rocky outcrop to the beach below at Budleigh Salterton, Devon.

Paramedics rushed to the scene and the victim, from Taunton, Somerset, was airlifted to hospital by Coastguards at 5pm on Saturday.

But despite doctors’ efforts, she died of head injuries the following day at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester, Dorset.

A spokesman for Portland Coastguard said: "A woman had slipped down the cliff after she went to retrieve a feather.

"She had been leaning over to pick up the feather and just toppled over. She received head injuries from which she later died."

Onlookers said the victim’s brother had been at her side following the fall.

Eyewitness and teacher Sean Doogan, 39, from Plymouth, Devon, said: "She had just fallen when we got to the spot. The woman’s brother was kneeling beside her."

Another 34-year-old witness added: "The woman was laying on the path at the bottom of the cliff.

"We heard she was out walking with her brother and had slipped. It was a real shock."

John Shiel, chairman of the parish council’s foreshore and footpaths committee, said the railings were put in place to prevent such accidents.

He said: "It is a tragedy. This cliff is about 80ft high. Fencing is there to protect people from falling."

Or to put it another way, John Shiel, “Oh fucking hell… please don’t sue us…. I have a cat, and a mother.”

AJ

Jail for Labour Lord

Lord Ahmed of Lahore – responsible for the threatened Islamic uprising against the showing of Geert Wilder’s short film ‘Fitna’ in the House if Lords – has been jailed for 12 weeks, for dangerous driving, in the act of which a man died. As you’d expect, there’s been glee in the righty-blogoglobe, but I don’t think it’s justified.

Lord Ahmed jailed for dangerous driving

The Labour peer Lord Ahmed was today jailed for 12 weeks for dangerous driving after admitting he was texting while driving on a motorway just before being involved in a fatal crash.

Sheffield crown court had previously heard how Ahmed sent and received five text messages while driving in the dark at speeds of 60mph and higher along a 17-mile stretch of the M1 on Christmas Day 2007.

Or as another source would have it…

David Scutt, prosecuting, said the peer composed and sent three messages and received and read two messages over a 16 minute period during which he covered just under 18 miles of the motorway.

There but for the grace of (a) God go many of us…. I once tried driving at 60mph on the M1 and found, in a decent car, that you can use a laptop, drink a coffee and roll a cigarette. On Christmas day I’d expect to be wafting along at 120mph, given the complete lack of traffic.

Martyn Gombar, 28, a Slovakian man living in Leigh, Lancashire, died when the peer’s Jaguar hit an Audi car that had crashed into the central reservation and was stationary in the fast lane of the motorway near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Ahmed, 51, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving when he appeared at Sheffield magistrates court last year.

So, someone crashed into the central reservation and Lord Lahore hit the car, killing the man in the crashed car. Oh well.. that’s it then. But then, as if out of nowhere, I managed to find quite a lot of sympathy with Lord Lahore.

A factor that is not being that widely reported (I heard it on BBC R4 news, but their website doesn’t seem to mention it (anymore), nor does the Graun) is this: The driver of the other car had, it appears, had spun into the central armco, possibly drunk. He had escaped to the hard shoulder with his passenger, then had at some point gone back to his car for his phone. At which point Ahmed hit the car.

These details, which I know were widely published, because there are several forums discussing it, seem to have disappeared. Whether that means they were not true, I don’t know.

What I am now convinced of, however, is that regardless of the driver of the crashed Audi, in the circumstances as I understand them, Ahmed didn’t deserve to go to prison. The actual offence he was jailed for was texting while driving. The judge said that there was no causal link between that and the accident on which everyone is dwelling.

So it seems that he may even be a victim of scapegoating or ‘setting an example’. He got 12 weeks, so the minimum is that he’ll be out in 6. Throw in home curfew and he’ll be out in 3-4 weeks, I guess. Which means he doesn’t get all that much time to proselytise for radical Islam at our expense. I just hope he doesn’t use the whole thing as a martyrdom-of racism launch pad for Ahmed – though I can see this being the making of him.

Once you peel away the politics and conspiracy though, the moral of the story is simply that if anything happens, your fault or not, that causes you to have contact with the police, they will trawl to find things you have done wrong that are unrelated to the reason why they are there.

Anyway, Old Holborn wryly updates us:

Does anyone else find it ironic that THIS Muslim will serve 42 days after being convicted, yet they want US to serve 42 days without even being tried?

Never crossed my mind, your honour. For what it’s worth, I don’t go along with the celebratory tone being struck on OH or other blogs – they’re missing the point, simply because it’s been an enemy who has befallen our utterly fucked justice system.

Still, he has one thing to look forward to…

A Labour Party spokesman said: "The Labour Party does not comment on individual cases, but under the party’s rules any member who receives a custodial sentence is subject to automatic exclusion."

I feel sure that Cameron will be cultivating this particular cross-bencher.

AJ

Equations for public sympathy

Gordo and Cameron both now have emotional battle-scars they can exploit at the next election. But whose will carry more weight? Cameron’s handicapped child has died. Gordo’s child died, and he still has a handicapped one.

To put it as a mathematical proposition, evaluate the truth of:

kid(spaz + dead) > kid(spaz * dead)

I can’t work it out.

Don’t blame me though – it’s what is called ‘electoral math’ in the US*. Someone, in a room somewhere, is factoring this into their electoral actuarial spreadsheet.

AJ

* Or so I heard on The West Wing

UPDATE: Say it isn’t so? Matthew D’Ancona writes in the Tellygraph:

I have been struck, and in a few cases shocked by the resentment quietly expressed by some in Labour’s ranks.

"This seals the deal for Cameron," in the astonishing phrase of one seasoned party strategist. "It makes it impossible for us to argue that he is not tough enough to deal with the recession. We can’t attack him as a weakling. And it reminds people of what they felt when he was elected leader – that he is different, that he is the kind of Tory they might quite like." A ministerial source told me that the print media’s coverage of Ivan’s death had been excessive and "not fair" to the Government – as if there were an impartial, politically balanced way to report the death of a small boy.

 

Condolences to Cameron & family

Sad and tragic.

Not that I really understand, since I don’t have children and remain quite happy that way.

I don’t even join in the opprobrium that is being heaped upon Gordon Brown for making a statement – he has after all lost a child too, and in any case, he would have had to say something in the House. I think complaints about suspending business in the house for 30 minutes are unduly cold-hearted, even if I would have preferred to see Will and Harriet do a turn for us.

However, on his quote that “the death of a child is something no parent should have to face”**, I’ll hand you over to Landed Underclass:

I gather from what little objective reporting has occurred that no further effort on the part of the doctors could have saved poor Master Cameron. This suggests that no effort on the part of Brown, his appalling government, or its vast army of snoops, censors, prodnoses, jobsworths and social workers could have saved him either.

The death of a child is something that parents do occasionally have to face. If we all become so sentimental and risk-averse that we allow ourselves to be conned into believing that with only a few more social workers, only a few more book-burners, only a few more internet spies, only a few more ‘outreach coordinators’, all funded by ourselves with the customary rakeoff to the management, this can be prevented then Brown and his minions will have us all (rather than only the 30% of voters apparently paid in some way to do so) clamouring for more of everything, and to hell with the taxes.

I note that Cameron praised the NHS for all they have done, which is noble. Somehow, though, I’d be surprised if anyone who was practically certain to be the next prime minister could experience poor service first hand. You and I however….?

And one last pointlette from Mr Underclass:

I also can’t help wondering what more generally bad news is being concealed by the media feeding frenzy over Mr. Cameron’s tragic loss. I imagine it involves graphs.

And one from me. Cameron may be able to show a profound reduction in his carbon footprint now.

AJ

** An interesting argument, which highlights a central tenet of the socialists’ belief system. Indeed, the risk aversion elimination argument is also used in the asymptotic and meaningless drive to reduce road accidents to zero. The only results of which are ever lowering speed limits, sprawling networks of speed cameras, lumbering great cars packed to the gunwales with safety kit, more materials used in manufacture, increased fuel consumption and braking distances due to weight, all wiped out in a thrice by drivers’ risk compensation – which is why road deaths are about the same as they have been for the last 15 years.