tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5269222012828467742024-03-14T02:37:34.874+00:00Red MisterAnd what if, when we awoke...Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-7716033930720443432016-11-21T11:42:00.000+00:002016-11-21T13:40:44.139+00:00M275 CRASH: Monday Bloody Monday!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Just took this pic of the scene coming into Portsmouth this morning at 11am.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Expect delays! :(</span></span><br />
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<img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3p8-Vkxos9xjPlJPfKNFZXCcgHQ_l8uFK-NwYKVfPlgitovImVCFQCpdz0UR_9v50sUvuRmDLIIITSySr2c8_qDKYJQVaChvPsQzaxqOWXc9ewCLeJ0DM9Sf_KJkXpnuLmwNKlJohPg/s640/m27crash.jpg" width="640" />Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-62490095978393966672016-11-13T11:16:00.000+00:002016-11-13T16:18:23.355+00:00Poignant Remembrance Day service in Portsmouth today <span id="goog_284385019"></span><span id="goog_284385020"></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Portsmouth stopped still in silence today to mark those who have fallen
in wars across the world. Crowds gathered in Guildhall Square to pay
their respects to all those who have served in conflicts across the
globe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Hundreds of people made their way to the square where the crowds stood
in sombre reflection remembering all those who fought and died for their
country. This year parade was led by the Band of Her Majesty’s Royal
Marines Collingwood and the Salvation Army Portsmouth Citadel Band.</span><br />
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A gun from HMS Nelson was fired at 11am to start the two-minute silence.</span><br />
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Community leaders, representatives of the armed forces, and faith
leaders all joined the service and laid wreaths for those who died.</span>Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-53245572330129812472016-10-26T16:41:00.000+01:002016-11-14T16:42:16.253+00:00Dog Owners Beware!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3Np_8eR1sWVQa7w-EA0FQuvb32xmXlQhtaPisDeF0B6AmQWHcnxchna5C4FR5_3snncR7WWVzJgn7C1oPOQd2tJhxIEPtfwSyEEM5GUnkpbFIbQ6VGReg-bDZ_0cKVGl9dHCKxQ9hcQ/s1600/ladybirds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3Np_8eR1sWVQa7w-EA0FQuvb32xmXlQhtaPisDeF0B6AmQWHcnxchna5C4FR5_3snncR7WWVzJgn7C1oPOQd2tJhxIEPtfwSyEEM5GUnkpbFIbQ6VGReg-bDZ_0cKVGl9dHCKxQ9hcQ/s400/ladybirds.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Everyone
that has animals check the inside top of their mouths. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The Asian
beetles look like ladybirds. They get in their mouth and they stick
themselves to the mouth. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> Makes dog's mouth very sore.</span></span></span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"> </span></span>Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-73617841209273840662016-10-20T16:41:00.000+01:002016-11-14T17:18:35.447+00:00iPhone Charger Warning!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1BLdxzTwYIX9iP7ha_7ATHQ3h1M7R4Ag1DWIcOWFkhY-dtUmtcj3ouGpHjyyCKI9H1MAIpoE9Nt0h41O344Jp7MUMgoFa7QzOY2EwaylMAT2rdAQNeEsDauR4Pt9S7aZomps3ZioqzI/s1600/fire.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1BLdxzTwYIX9iP7ha_7ATHQ3h1M7R4Ag1DWIcOWFkhY-dtUmtcj3ouGpHjyyCKI9H1MAIpoE9Nt0h41O344Jp7MUMgoFa7QzOY2EwaylMAT2rdAQNeEsDauR4Pt9S7aZomps3ZioqzI/s640/fire.png" width="640" /></a><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Mum releases Pictures after averting a House Fire :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And this kids is why us parents tell you not to leave your phone/iPod
charging underneath your pillow. Chloe ,Eve and Fergie you are al very
lucky girls that this didn't end up serious or worse end up killing
yourselves and the rest of your family in your stupidity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I have told
you ti<span class="text_exposed_show">me and time again never to have
your phone/iPod left charging under your pillow as the heat from the
charge can't escape. Now look what's happened and you showed no remorse
or emotion this morning at the consequences of what could have happened. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Well as of today I no longer trust you as a 16 year old girl but will
treat you as a 5 year old child. All electrical items have been removed
from your bedroom and you wish to use your hair dryer or straighteners
or curlers you ask permission and return after use. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Your bedroom is no
longer your doss hole it's a place to sleep and get changed. You will
sit downstairs with the rest of your family and interact with us. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Just
count your blessings that we are still alive for me to do this to you
and punish you for your irresponsible behavior. Things could have been a
whole lot different come this morning!!!</span></span></div>
<span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"></span></span>Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-17779803371109274432016-09-22T16:54:00.000+01:002016-11-13T16:55:12.539+00:00UKRO Advancing Professional Rescue<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Such an amazing and beautiful animal...and a working dog too!</span><br />
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random male has just gone to the front door and shouted racial and
sexual abuse at woman including sexual hand gestures! Anyone living in
the West End area of Southampton please be aware and be cautious.
Police have been notified and are aware.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /> May I ask that you share
this and raise awareness, this sort of behaviour is not acceptable. This
is a street full of families and children, let's stand united and stop
this from happening to anyone else!!!</span></span></span></div>
Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-56221151393463335782016-05-28T19:59:00.000+01:002016-12-02T19:59:40.678+00:00Welcoming the Solent Eye<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Got this lovely shot of the new Solent Eye today, as seen from groovy Gosport!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxELyyGgk__ayAS4Pu39iHYjYVXDtlcZqY3Ay3mn5g5_qrBMYyQoL8nYJcXXaix-L_u-9uKaF_8YEvNCwOukbqLjsqWmXCB5tVB2m4H-DpnNk7HivdwLyuw8TRszbIW4BiBZGWGztvBC4/s1600/solenteye.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxELyyGgk__ayAS4Pu39iHYjYVXDtlcZqY3Ay3mn5g5_qrBMYyQoL8nYJcXXaix-L_u-9uKaF_8YEvNCwOukbqLjsqWmXCB5tVB2m4H-DpnNk7HivdwLyuw8TRszbIW4BiBZGWGztvBC4/s640/solenteye.jpg" width="640" /></a>Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-76006039148825264902014-11-13T17:15:00.000+00:002014-11-13T17:26:21.897+00:00Defending the Indefensible: Andrew Lawrence, Dapper Laughs & Freedom of Speech<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
recent shennaingans surrounding obnoxious chauvinists Andrew Lawrence
and Dapper Laughs has seen many (so-called) libertarians and otherwise
rational people quote Voltaire's famous maxim, <i>“I disapprove of what you
say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”</i>. The problem
is Voltaire never said this and never would have because it's actually a
really dumb thing to say.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> A turn-of-the-century biographer
created the phrase to specifically describe Voltaire's attitude to, and
friendship with, author Helvétius, who's book <i>De l’esprit</i> [On the Mind]
had suffered at the hands of authoritarian French Parliamentary book
burning. The book asserted that human motivation derives from sensation;
you're more likely to do something that feels nice than something that
hurts. Hardly a shocking or outrageous assertion so when Helvétius came
under attack Voltaire naturally defended him, alledgedly crying, <i>"What a
fuss about an omelette! How abominably unjust to persecute a man for
such an airy trifle as that!"</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Whilst not wishing to put words in
Voltaire's mouth (as he has clearly already been the victim of that!) I
believe he had a similar sentiment to myself; all valid, intellectual
reasoning and criticism (even if it differs from your own) has it's
rightful place in society but idiotic, ill-educated, foolish, irrational
and uninformed opinion does not (and Volitaire never said it did!).</span></span><br />
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If what someone says is stupid then you would not 'defend to the death'
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE MARY MOSS ELM GUEST HOUSE VIP PAEDOPHILE PARTY LIST: UK ESTABLISHMENT CLOSES RANKS AS ORGANISED CHILD SEX ABUSE NETWORK LEADS BACK TO NO. 10</span></h1>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet more revelations that are rocking the very foundations of the British establishment and the entertainment industry. Some of the names of those allegedly involved should come as no surprise at all</i>.</div>
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A groundswell of opinion is forming that the targeting of celebrity figures in the world of light-entertainment, largely surrounding indecent assault, is actually a smokescreen for a far more sinister paedophile ring involving members of the UK Establishment at the very highest level; leading politicians, civil servants, peers and even members of the Royal Family and their staff. Whilst Stuart Hall and Rolf Harris were apparently kiddie fiddling it appears the British State were hiding depraved orgies of buggery and murder of young, vunerable children. </div>
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<b>Whilst Cyril Smith and Jimmy Savile are no longer alive many of the leading members of this paedophile ring are very much alive and well and cowering behind the corrupt skirts of the British judicial system and secret services.</b></div>
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It appears a large number of rich and powerful VIPs would attend these parties where mostly white working-class boys were trafficked from local Care Homes to be sexually abused and raped during perverted “parties”. Several Boys have reported that they were forced to dress up as girls and/or fairies for these sordid “parties”. The Boys were also plied with alcohol and drugs.</div>
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Following Carole Kasir’s suspicious death, from an insulin overdose in 1990 at the age of 47, two social workers gave disturbing evidence at her inquest. Mary Moss and Christopher Fay made serious allegations of Child sex abuse by rich, powerful People at Elm Guest House. There are also two local Boys still missing from that time who are believed to be linked to Elm Guest House.</div>
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Mary Moss was raided by the Metropolitan Police Special Branch and other "unknown Police Units" looking to seize and destroy any evidence, however she managed to photograph and upload the alleged VIP guest list and other evidence before the Police could get to it.</div>
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Here are some of the highlights of the alleged VIP guest list released by Mary Moss:</div>
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<li style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Liste des visiteurs d'Elm Guest House réalisée suite à des entretiens avec Carole Kasir :"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Stuart Bell, fournissait des garçons, connaissait Dwyer."><b>Stuart Bell</b>, supplying boys knew Dwyer. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Ancien député, mort en octobre 2012.">Former MP, who died in October 2012. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a commencé sa carrière politique au début des années 80.">He began his political career in the early 80s. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="Il a aussi été porte parole pour l'Irlande du Nord de 1984 à 1987.">He was also spokesman for Northern Ireland from 1984 to 1987. </span></span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="En 2006, Bell est devenu chevalier de Légion d'Honneur en France, par Chirac[12].">In 2006, Bell became a knight of the Legion d'Honneur in France, Chirac [12]. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="En 2011, Bell s'est pris une volée d'œufs dans la figure.">In 2011, Bell took a stolen egg in the figure. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="C'est le père d'un gamin violé qui avait demandé en vain de l'aide à Bell qui a envoyé les œufs.">The father of a boy who had been violated, unsuccessfully sought to have Bell investigated. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Le père avait trouvé son fils inconscient, et un type avait été condamné, mais le père de famille pensait que ce n'était pas le bon coupable.">The father found his son unconscious, but an innocent man was tried and convicted , but the boys father believed the criminal was Stuart Bell.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Anthony Blunt, agent double du MI5 et des soviétiques, proche de la famille royale."><b>Sir Anthony Blunt</b>, MI5 <b>Soviet </b>double agent close to the royal family. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Quand il a été découvert, il a balancé des collègues agents doubles afin que ses activités restent secrètes.">When he was discovered, he shopped fellow double agents so that its activities remain secret. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Mais, on peut se demander pourquoi le MI5 l'a recruté en 1939 alors que les sympathies de Blunt pour les communistes étaient connues[13].">But why did MI5 recruit him in 1939 while Blunt sympathies for the communists were known [13].</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Puis Thatcher le balance en plein parlement en 1979 ?">Thatcher parliament in 1979? were embarrassed by </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="et Blunt perd son titre de noblesse !">Blunt and he lost his title!<b> </b></span><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;"><span title="Il est mort en 1983, au moment de l'affaire Elm Guest House.">He died in 1983 at the time of the incident in Elm Guest House. </span></b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il était aussi cousin de la mère d'Elisabeth II et son père travaillait pour l'ambassade d'Angleterre à Paris.">He was also a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II Mother who's father worked for the British Embassy in Paris. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Blunt a aussi traîné du côté du Kincora Boys Home à Belfast, où les services secrets exploitaient un bordel pour pédos afin de compromettre diverses personnalités.">Blunt was also involved in the Kincora Boys Home in Belfast, where the secret services operated a brothel for paedophiles in order to compromise various personalities.</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="D'après certains, Blunt aurait contribué à étouffer les affaires concernant Jimmy Savile.">According to some, Blunt would have helped to stifle cases involving Jimmy Savile.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Sir Peter Bottomley."><b>Sir Peter Bottomley</b>. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Député conservateur et membre du Monday Club.">Conservative MP and member of the Monday Club. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a servi dans l'administration Thatcher aux Transports et à l'Emploi, puis en Irlande du Nord.">He served in the Thatcher administration for Transport and Employment, and in Northern Ireland<b>. </b></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a été président de la Church of England's Children's Society et a été membre du comité politique de One Parent Families, et était membre de la commission ecclésiastique.">He was President of the Church of England's Children's Society and was a member of the Political Committee of One Parent Families, and was a member of the ecclesiastical commission. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="En 1984 il devient membre du gouvernement Thatcher, notamment à l'Emploi puis aux routes et transports, et en 1989 il arrive en Irlande du Nord.">In 1984 he became a member of the Thatcher government, including Employment and roads and transportation, and in 1989 he arrived in Northern Ireland. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Sa femme Virginia est l'une des dirigeantes de la London School of Economics, et en 1988 elle entre au gouvernement, comme sous secrétaire à l'environnement.">His wife Virginia is one of the leaders of the London School of Economics, and in 1988 she entered the government as Deputy Secretary to the environment. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Elle est aussi membre de la très atlantiste Fondation Dichtley.">She is also a member of the very Atlanticist Dichtley Foundation. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;"><span title="Le cousin de Virginia était ambassadeur aux Etats Unis">Virginia's cousin was ambassador to the United States</span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Ronald Brown, député travailliste mort en 2002, visiteur d'Elm Guest House et impliqué dans l'opération Fairbanks, au sujet de ladite guest house."><b>Ronald Brown, </b>Labour MP died in 2002, visitor Elm Guest House<b> </b>and named to officers in Operation Fairbanks</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Ronald Brown, député travailliste mort en 2002, visiteur d'Elm Guest House et impliqué dans l'opération Fairbanks, au sujet de ladite guest house."> <b>Sir </b></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Peter Brooke: député conservateur, il a servi dans les cabinets de Thatcher et de John Major."><b>Peter Brooke: Conservative MP,</b> he served in Thatcher and John Major Governments. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a fait ses études à Harvard aux USA et est le fils d'un secrétaire aux affaires intérieures.">He studied at Harvard in the USA and is the son of a secretary affairs. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="En 1987 il était président du parti conservateur et en 1989 il devient secrétaire d'Etat pour l'Irlande du Nord (il y reste jusqu'en 1992), qui semble décidément une destination très prisée des pédophiles du gouvernement anglais, même si à cette">In 1987 he was Chairman of the Conservative Party and in 1989 he became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (he stayed until 1992), which seems definitely a popular destination for pedophiles from the British government,<b> </b>even if this </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="époque, le Kincora Boys Home était déjà fermé.">time, the Kincora Boys Home was already closed. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a été anobli en 2001."><b>He was knighted in 2001.</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Lord Leon Brittan, ex ministre de Thatcher, visiteur régulier d'Elm Guest House."><b>Lord Leon Brittan</b>, former Minister under Thatcher regular visitor Elm Guest House. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="En 1989, il quitte la politique nationale après avoir été anobli, pour devenir commissaire européen au commerce et aux affaires extérieures ainsi que vice président de la commission européenne en 1995 dans la commission Santer, qui a du démissionner en 1999 pour une histoire de corruption.">In 1989, he left national politics after being knighted to become European Commissioner for Trade and Foreign Affairs and Vice President of the European Commission in 1995 in the Santer Commission, who had to resign in 1999 for a history of corruption. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;"><span title="En 2000 il est nommé baron, et est aussi vice président d'UBS AG Investment bank, directeur non exécutif d'Unilever et membre du conseil international de Total.">In 2000 he was appointed baron, and is also Vice Chairman of UBS AG Investment Bank, non-executive director of Unilever and member of the International Council of Total.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="En 2010, il est retourné au gouvernement comme conseiller au commerce jusque début 2011.">In 2010, he returned to government as an advisor to trade until early 2011. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il était le bras droit de Thatcher lors de sa privatisation du pays à marche forcée.">He<b> </b> was the right arm of Thatcher's privatisation policy. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Tout au long de sa carrière, il a été sous le coup d'accusations de pédophilie, comme dans les années 80 avec l'affaire des orphelinats du Pays de Galles."><b>Throughout his career, he was accused of pedophilia, specifically by victims taken from the 80 Welsh Children's Homes.</b> </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="En tant que « home secretary », c'est-à-dire les affaires intérieures, il a forcément été mis au courant des scandales de réseaux pédophiles ainsi que de leur étouffement systématique.">As Britain's "Home Secretary responsible for internal affairs he managed to stifle all investigations into the paedophile networks. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Apparemment, la police s'est rendue chez lui après avoir trouvé dans sa rue un garçon à moitié nu qui leur a dit avoir été violé par Brittan et ses amis et les a amenés jusque chez lui.">Apparently, the police went to his home after finding a half naked boy in the street who told them he had been raped by Brittan and his friends who had brought him to his house.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Peter Campbell, prof à la Reading University, membre du Monday Club, il a aussi créé leLGBTory en 1975."><b>Peter Campbell, </b>professor at Reading University, <b>member of the Monday Club</b>, he also created LGBTory in 1975. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Ce groupe est revenu en 1991 sous le nom de TORCHE (Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality).">The group returned in 1991 under the name of TORCH<b>(Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality).</b> </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="C'est lui qui a inséré les pubs d'Elm Guest House dans la newsletter du groupe gay du parti conservateur.">It was he who inserted Elm Guest House in the newsletter group gay Conservative.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;">DC Chris Carter, Richmond council</b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;">Jess Conrad, former Pop Star, actor and singer.</b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Chris Denning, ex DJ, notamment à la BBC où il était collègue de Savil et de Gary Glitter, et pédo reconnu puisqu'il a été inquiété pour la première fois en 1974 pour des attouchements."><b>Chris Denning,</b> former DJ, working for the BBC, with Jimmy Savil and Gary Glitter, and a recognised Paedophile because he was questioned for the first time in 1974 for child abuse, </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a ensuite fait 18 mois de prison en 1985 pour la même raison, et encore en 1988, quand il a fait 3 ans de prison pour avoir abusé d'un garçon de 13 ans et pour possession de pédopornographie.">He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 1985 for the same reason, and again in 1988, when spent 3 years in prison for abusing a 13 year old boy and possession of child pornography. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Denning a été grillé comme membre d'un réseau pédophile basé dans une boîte disco pour les jeunes dans le Surrey.">Denning was grilled as part of a pedophile ring based in a box disco for young people in Surrey.<b> </b></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="D'autres membres éminents étaient Tom Paton, le manager des Bay City Rollers, ou Jonathan King, un chanteur et producteur qui a été condamné à nouveau en 2000 pour des agressions sexuelles sur des garçons commises entre 1983 et 1989."><b>Other prominent members were Tom Paton, manager of the Bay City Rollers or Jonathan King,</b> singer and producer who was convicted again in 2000 for sexual abuse of boys committed between 1983 and 1989.</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Denning a du être extradé de République Tchèque pour comparaître à son procès.">Denning had to be extradited from the Czech Republic to appear at his trial. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="En 2008 il a été expédié en Slovaquie où il vivait pour faire face à des accusations de production de pédopornographie, et a pris quatre ans de prison.">In 2008 he was sent to Slovakia where he lived to face charges of production of child pornography, and took four years in prison.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Terry Dwyer, proxénète impliqué avec Barry Haddon dans un réseau pédophile."><b>Terry Dwyer, Barry Haddon </b>pimps involved with a paedophile ring. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Parmi leurs clients, Louis Minster le directeur des services sociaux du coin, Colin Peter, Donald South, directeur de l'éducation à Wandsworth, et une partie des enfants étaient fournis par Niel Kier du Grafton Close Childrens Home.">Their clients include Louis Minster director of social services in the area, Colin Peter Donald South, director of education at Wandsworth, and some of the children were provided by Niel Kier of Grafton Close Childrens Home.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;">Steve Everett, a social worker at Westminster</b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;">Peter Glencross, editor of the newsletter of the Monday Club</b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;">Barry Haddon: Provider children</b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;">Guy Hamilton Blackwell, </b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;">son of the president of Westland Helicopters</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;"> </b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Charles Irving, député conservateur à tendance très nationaliste et membre du Monday Club."><b>Charles Irving, Conservative MP</b> very nationalist and <b>member of the Monday Club.</b> </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Nul à l'école, il a repris la chaîne d'hôtels familiale et s'est lancé en politique à la fin des années 40.">He took over the family hotel chain and entered politics in the late '40s. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Une fois député dans les années 80, il a fondé la National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (Association nationale pour l'aide et la réinsertion des délinquants) et aussi, étrangement, la National Victims Association, probablement pour mieux canaliser et museler">Once MP in the 80s, he founded the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (National Association for Aid and Rehabilitation of Offenders) and also, strangely, the<b>National Victims Association, probably to better harness and muzzle </b></span><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;"><span title="lesdites victimes, notamment en développant la « médiation » et le pardon.">those victims, in particular by developing the "mediation" and forgiveness. </span></b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Accessoirement, il était connu comme étant homosexuel."><b>Incidentally for paedophiles </b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;">Alan Jones Special Branch </b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Colin Jordan, ex leader du National Front et qui avait aussi créé la White Defense League en 1957."><b>Colin Jordan, a former leader of the National Front,</b> which had also created the White Defence League in 1957. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="L'héritière Dior, Françoise, fasciste notoire, l'a épousé en 1963, ce qui facilitera grandement le financement d'une sorte d'internationale néo fasciste.">The heiress Dior Françoise notorious fascist, was married in 1963, which will greatly facilitate the financing of a kind of neo-fascist international.</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Françoise Dior travaillait à l'époque pour la World Union of National Socialists (WUNS), dirigé par Lincoln Rockwell, le chef de l'Amercian Nazi party.">Françoise Dior at the time worked for the World Union of National Socialists (WUNS), led by Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi party. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Dior a beaucoup sillonné l'Europe pour le compte de Jordan.">Dior has a lot toured Europe on behalf of Jordan.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="R Langley, de Buckingham Palace"><b>Langley R, Buckingham Palace</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="DC David Lines, conseil de Barnes"><b>DC David Lines, Board Barnes</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Maurice McCall : probablement l'un de ceux qui fournissaient les enfants."><b>Maurice McCall</b> probably one of those who provided the children.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Sheila McInnes"><b>Sheila McInnes</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Stan Matthews qui tenait le Monday Club de Londres et vivait apparemment du trafic de pédoporno."><b>Stan Matthews was the Monday Club</b> in London and apparently trafficed in Child Porn. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a séjourné à la Guest house et aurait été l'ami de Haddon.">He stayed at the Guest house and was a friend of Haddon.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="WPC Elizabeth Meredith"><b>WPC Elizabeth Meredith</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Richard Miles, du Monday Club"><b>Richard Miles, the Monday Club</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Louis Minster, directeur des Services sociaux de Richmond depuis 1975, où était le Grafton Close Home."><b>Minster Louis, Director of Social Services</b> in Richmond since 1975, which was the Grafton Close Home. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Pourtant, il a déclaré récemment au magazine Exaro qu'il n'avait jamais entendu parler d'Elm Guest house, contrairement à son collègue Terry Earland.">However, he said recently in magazine Exaro he had never heard of Elm Guest house, unlike his colleague Terry Earland.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Colin Peters, QC, qui fournissait des enfants à des clients."><b>Colin Peters, QC, which provided children with customers.</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Donald Naismith, en charge de l'Education au conseil de Richmond."><b>Donald Naismith, responsible to the Board of Education of Richmond.</b> </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a ensuite fait unebrillante carrière dans le secteur de l'éducation où il a contribué à mener les grandes réformes libérales sous Thatcher.">He then a brillant career in the education sector where he helped lead the great liberal reforms under Thatcher.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Harvey Proctor, député et membre du Monday Club."><b>Proctor Harvey, MP and member of the Monday Club.</b> </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="En 1986, sa carrière politique a pris fin quand un magazine a publié des déclarations selon lesquelles Proctor avait battu des prostitués âgés de 17 à 21 ans dans son appartement de Londres.">In 1986, his political career ended when a magazine published claims that Proctor had beaten prostitutes aged 17 to 21 years in his London flat. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="A cette époque, les relations homosexuelles n'étaient autorisées qu'à partir de 21 ans.">At that time, homosexual relations were only allowed from 21 years. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il s'en est tiré avec 1.450£ d'amende.">He got away with £ 1,450 fine. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Apparemment, il s'est vite refait, et en 2004 il régnait sur le château de Belvoir, un château de 365 chambres qu'on peut réserver pour des soirées privées ou des séminaires.">Apparently, it was quickly rebuilt, and in 2004 he prevailed on the Belvoir Castle, a castle of 365 rooms that can be booked for private parties or seminars. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il y occupe le poste de secrétaire privé du duc et de la duchesse de Ruthland.">He served as private secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Ruthland.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Patrick Puddles qui d'après Carole Kasir lui aurait mis la pression."><b>Patrick Puddles</b> that after Carole Kasir would have put pressure. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il tenait un magasin à Richmond et appréciait les séances photos dans le jacuzzi d'Elm guest House, avec des enfants bien sur.">He had a store in Richmond and enjoyed photo sessions in the jacuzzi Elm House guest with children of course.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Cliff Richard, Pop Star, connu à Elm Guest House sous le pseudo de "Kitty"."><b>Cliff Richard, </b>Pop Star, Elm Guest House known by the nickname of "Kitty".</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="John Rowe, membre du MI5 et ancien député à l'époque des faits."><b>John Rowe, a member and former member of MI5</b> <b>at the time.</b> </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="D'après Carole Kasir, c'est lui et Terry Dwyer qui l'ont persuadée de transformer la guest house en bordel homo puis pédophile.">According to Carole Kasir, he and Terry Dwyer who persuaded the guest house turn into fucking homo and pedophile. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="C'est aussi le duo Rowe - Dwyer qui aurait présenté Carole Kasir au père Glencross, qui gérait le magazine Spartacus.">It is also the duo Rowe - Carole Dwyer would have presented the father Kasir Glencross, who ran the magazine Spartacus. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Ce qui laisse penser que le MI5 n'était pas étranger à la mise en place de ce réseau pédophile basé à Elm Guest House.">Suggesting that MI5 was no stranger to the establishment of the pedophile network based in Elm Guest House.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Jimmy Savile : il était un grand ami d'Haroun Kasir et venait régulièrement à la Elm Guest House."><b>Jimmy Savile:</b> He was a great friend of Haroun Kasir and regularly came to Elm Guest House.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="PC Roderick Smeaton"><b>PC Roderick Smeaton</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Cyril Smith, ancien député libéral de Rochdale mort en 2010, impliqué aussi dans l'affaire des orphelinats du Pays de Galles et de Jersey avec Jimmy Savile."><b>Cyril Smith</b>, former Liberal MP for Rochdale died in 2010, also involved in the case orphanages Wales and Jersey with Jimmy Savile. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Deux sources l'ont identifié comme un visiteur régulier d'Elm Guest house, notamment aux partouzes organisées chaque mois.">Two sources have identified him as a regular visitor to Elm Guest house, including orgies organized every month. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Récemment, les flics ont admis qu'ils ont laissé de coté trois opportunités d'envoyer Smith en prison pour des viols de mineurs[14].">Recently, the police have admitted that they have left aside three opportunities to send Smith to prison for rape of minors. [14] </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Un dossier le concernant et que la police a dit avoir perdu est désormais entre les mains du MI5 qui n'en fera probablement rien de plus.">Folder on the police and said he lost is now in the hands of MI5 who do will probably nothing more. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Tout au long de sa carrière, les rumeurs comme quoi il aimait les enfants n'ont cessé dans les rues de Rochdale.">Throughout his career, the rumors that he loved the children have continued in the streets of Rochdale. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Dès le début de sa carrière, il s'est rapproché du domaine de l'enfance, prenant en charge les activités des jeunes, les écoles...">From the beginning of his career, he has approached the field of children, supporting youth activities, schools ... </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a aussi créé un foyer pour les garçons de familles défavorisées, approchait les parents et disait que leur fils serait mieux dans le foyer.">He also created a home for boys from disadvantaged families, parents approached and said that their son would be better in the home. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Financé avec l'argent public et avec des donations privées de businessmans du coin ou du Rotary Club, la Cambridge House a ouvert en 1962.">Funded with public money and private donations from businessmans the corner or the Rotary Club, the Cambridge House opened in 1962.</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Smith avait son propre jeu de clés et était là-bas, chez lui.">Smith had his own set of keys and was out there with him.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="John Stingemore, qui était donc le responsable du Grafton Close Children's Home au jusqu'en 1981."><b>Stingemore John</b>, who was then the head of Grafton Close to Children's Home until 1981. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Travailleur social des services de Richmond, il avait été poursuivi dans les années 80 pour des abus sur des enfants.">Social worker services Richmond, it was continued in the 80s for child abuse. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a été arrêté en février en même temps que le père Tony McSweeney, dans le cadre de l'opération Fernbridge.">He was arrested in February along with Father Tony McSweeney, under the operation Fernbridge.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="DC Ron Thornton, conseil de Richmond"><b>Ron Thornton DC, Richmond council</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="George Tremlett, ancien leader du Conseil du grand Londres"><b>George Tremlett, </b>former leader of the Greater London Council</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Gary Walker, du Sinn Fein (parti nationaliste irlandais pourtant opposé radicalement à l'Angleterre)."><b>Gary Walker, Sinn Fein</b> (Irish nationalist party opposed yet radically England). </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il aurait plusieurs pseudonymes, dont celui-là.">It would be several pseudonyms, including this one.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Ron Wells, Musicien connu à Elm sous le pseudo de "Gladys"."><b>Ron Wells,</b> Elm musician known under the pseudonym "Gladys". </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il s'agit très probablement de Ronnie Wells, qui a commencé sa carrière à la fin des années 50 alors qu'il était enfant.">It is very likely Ronnie Wells, who began his career in the late 50s when he was a child.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="PC Chris Wicks"><b>PC Chris Wicks</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Ray Wire, celui-là est intéressant : c'est un expert en thérapies pour les enfants, mort en 2008."><b>Ray Wire</b>, an expert in therapies for children, HE died in 2008. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il passe pour avoir été un pionnier dans le « traitement » des délinquants et criminels sexuels (notamment via des séances de masturbation), et avait créé à cet effet la Gracewell Clinic.">He is said to have been a pioneer in the "treatment" of offenders and sex offenders (including through masturbation), and created for this purpose Gracewell Clinic. </span><b style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;"><span title="Il passait très souvent dans les médias pour donner son avis au sujet des pédophiles, et conseillait aussi la police et les tribunaux.">He was often in the media giving his opinion about pedophiles, and also advised the police and the courts. </span></b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Bizarrement, il a appuyé les propos d'enfants évoquant des abus sexuels rituels et il a listé des symptômes que présentent les victimes.">Strangely, he supported the children about sexual abuse evoking rituals and he listed the symptoms of potential victims. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Il a aussi fait la liste des comportements que présentent selon lui les délinquants et criminels sexuels.">He also made the list of behaviors which would identify sex offenders. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="Evidemment, cette nomenclature exclut le profil de pédos qu'on trouvait par exemple à Elm Guest House.">Obviously, this classification excludes the profile that was paedofile himself </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4;" title="[1] Dickens a aussi expliqué qu'on avait retrouvé son nom sur la liste noire d'un tueur à gages.">[1]</span></li>
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For decades, vulnerable children from care homes and other institutions were booked to order by rich and powerful men, for sex. This is the allegation put forward in ‘Nightmares at Elm Guest House’, in an interview with Chris Fay of the National Association for Young People in Care. As another significant member of the Conservative party is about to be outed this weekend, we take a closer look at these allegations and ask: how much longer can the UK establishment keep this story suppressed?</div>
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The Power of Paedophile connections in Europe and the United Kingdom</h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4;" title="84286729_p.jpgEn Angleterre, on n'en finit pas de découvrir de nouveaux pédocriminels au sein des institutions, et jusqu'au gouvernement.">In England, they continue to discover new paedophiles within various institutions and in the Government. Even in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4;" title="Pour l'instant, si Downing Strret est dans le viseur, la famille royale est toujours préservée."> Downing Street and the royal family paedophiles are found. The Elm Guest House Scandal demonstrates partly how the paedophile network operated</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4;"><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Mais on apprend que le réseau implanté à Elm Guest House n'était qu'une part de la nébuleuse pédocriminelle."><br /></span><span title="Il ya une semaine, on apprenait qu'un député conservateur (mort en 1995) Geoffrey Dickens, avait prévenu le cabinet de Thatcher au sujet de l'étouffement d'affaires de réseaux pédophiles.">A week ago, we heard that a Conservative MP (d. 1995) Geoffrey Dickens warned the Government about paedophiles in the Thatcher Government . Following this warning he received</span><span title="Ce qui lui avait valu des menaces directes et des cambriolages dès qu'il a commencé à évoquer certaines personnes[1]."> direct threats against his life and was the victim of many burglaries.</span></span><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ce qui lui avait valu des menaces directes et des cambriolages dès qu'il a commencé à évoquer certaines personnes[1]."><br /></span><span title="De 1981 à 1985, Dickens a tenté d'alerter le Parlement sur un réseau pédophile qui faisait dans la diffusion de films pédopornos.">From 1981 to 1985, Dickens tried to alert the Parliament on a paedophile network especially about the distribution of child pornography. </span><span title="Mais ces allocutions n'ont eu aucun écho à l'époque.">But no action was taken.</span></span><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Mais ces allocutions n'ont eu aucun écho à l'époque."><br /></span><span title="Pourtant, il avait carrément cité un certain Peter Hayman, diplomate et membre du MI6, comme étant un pédophile qui avait échappé à des poursuites bien qu'il se soit fait pincer avec du matériel pédoporno.">However, he exposed Peter Hayman, a diplomat and a member of MI6, as a paedophile who had escaped prosecution although he was caught with child porn and video equipment, </span><span title="En 1983, Dickens a parlé d'un réseau pédophile qui impliquait des personnalités, « des gens dans des positions de pouvoir, d'influence et qui ont des responsabilités », personnalités qu'il a menacé de balancer au Parlement.">In 1983, Dickens spoke of a paedophile network that involved personalities, "people in positions of power, influence and responsibility," he threatened these people with exposure in Parliament.</span></span><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="En 1983, Dickens a parlé d'un réseau pédophile qui impliquait des personnalités, « des gens dans des positions de pouvoir, d'influence et qui ont des responsabilités », personnalités qu'il a menacé de balancer au Parlement."><br /></span><span title="En 1984, Dickens demandait l'interdiction du Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), une plateforme via laquelle les pédos s'échangeaient photos, vidéos et bonnes adresses[2].">In 1984, Dickens called on the Government to ban the Paedophile Information Exchange ban (PIE), a platform through which the paedophiles exchanged photos, videos and addresses . </span><span title="On soupçonne aussi que le système servait à passer commande d'enfants.">It is also suspected that the system was used to order children. </span><span title="Dickens a aussi évoqué des viols d'enfants qui étaient alors sous l'autorité locale de Leon Brittan.">Dickens also mentioned the rape of children who were under local authority care to Leon Brittan.</span><span title="Dickens a dénoncé l'existence de bordels d'enfants à Islington, dans la banlieue de Londres (justement là où a vécu Tony Blair), et a précisé qu'une quarantaine d'enfants étaient victimes.">Dickens denounced the existence of children's brothels in Islington, a suburb of London (precisely where Tony Blair lived), and stated that forty children were victims. </span><span title="Il a tout donné à Scotland Yard, qui n'a rien fait.">He gave everything to Scotland Yard, But the Police did nothing.</span><span title="En 1984 les flics étaient vaguement en train d'enquêter sur Elm Guest House, cette auberge chic à Londres, dans laquelle des enfants venus des orphelinats voisins étaient viols sous l'œil de caméras, par des députés, juges et autres stars de la pop"> </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="En 1984 les flics étaient vaguement en train d'enquêter sur Elm Guest House, cette auberge chic à Londres, dans laquelle des enfants venus des orphelinats voisins étaient viols sous l'œil de caméras, par des députés, juges et autres stars de la pop">In 1984 the Police were vaguely investigating Elm Guest House, this chic hotel in London, where children from orphanages were raped under the eye of cameras by MPs, judges, pop stars </span><span title=".">and others. </span><span title="Parmi les visiteurs d'Elm Guest House, on a justement Sir Peter Hayman.">Among the visitors Elm Guest House was just Sir Peter Hayman.</span><span title="Finalement, l'enquête a tourné court, de même que celle de 2003.">The Police and </span><span title="Et les autorités chargées des foyers n'ont jamais jugé utile de mener d'enquête bien qu'elles aient été alertées.">Authorities have never conduct a proper investigation into the Paedophile Ring even though they were alerted. </span><span title="Dickens avait aussi envoyé une partie des documents relatifs à cette affaire à l'enquêtrice Andrea Davison[3].">Dickens also sent some of the documents related to this case the interviewer Andrea Davison . </span><span title="Mais, la police les a saisis en janvier 2010 par les flics du Pays de Galles.">But in January 2010 the Welsh Police seized the evidence. </span><span title="Andrea Davison a expliqué qu'à cette époque, les flics avaient très peur que le réseau pédophile des VIP soit exposé à cause des frasques de Savile.">Andrea Davison explained that at this time the cops were afraid that the paedophile VIP Ring would be exposed due to the antics of Jimmy Savile.</span><span title="Elle explique aussi que Dickens avait donné le même dossier à Leon Brittan, dont l'implication n'était pas établie à l'époque, mais qui en réalité faisait partie des visiteurs d'Elm guest House.">She also explained that Dickens gave the same folder Leon Brittan, whose involvement was not established at the time, but actually he was one of the visitors Elm House. </span><span title="Et Andrea Davison avait parlé de Brittan avec Dickens au début des années 90, et « Leon Brittan avait été cité par un certain nombre de survivants.">Andrea Davison had spoken with Dickens in the early 90s, after "Leon Brittan has been named by a number of survivors. </span><span title="C'était crucial pour le réseau pédophile de gagner la sympathie de personnes dans de hautes positions ».">It was crucial for the paedophile ring to have their own people in high positions. "</span></span><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="C'était crucial pour le réseau pédophile de gagner la sympathie de personnes dans de hautes positions »."><br /></span><span title="Il s'est d'ailleurs avéré que le dossier de 50 pages, remis en mains propres par Dickens en 1984, avait disparu du bureau de Brittan au ministère des affaires intérieures (home office).">It is also proved that the record of 50 pages, hand delivered by Dickens in 1984, had disappeared from the, Ministry of Home Affairs (home office) when Leon Brittan was Home Secretary.</span><span title="Quant au dossier de Dickens, il aurait été détruit par la famille à sa mort, car son épouse estimait que ledit dossier était trop sensible pour le garder au domicile familial.">Another copy of the Dickens dossier was destroyed by his family after his death because his wife believed that said file was too sensitive to keep the family home. </span><span title="Mais, des copies existent, reste à savoir où elles se trouvent.">But copies exist, but where they are?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span title="Début février, John Stingemore, ancien dirigeant du Grafton Close Home, l'orphelinat duquel venaient certains des enfants[4] exploités à Elm Guest House (et qui a fermé depuis), a été arrêté, de même que le père Tony McSweeney qui était">In early February, John Stingemore, former head master of Grafton Close </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Début février, John Stingemore, ancien dirigeant du Grafton Close Home, l'orphelinat duquel venaient certains des enfants[4] exploités à Elm Guest House (et qui a fermé depuis), a été arrêté, de même que le père Tony McSweeney qui était">Home, an orphanage which had some of the children [4] exploited in Elm Guest House (which has since closed), was arrested along with his father Tony McSweeney who was </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title=", semble-t-il, un habitué de la guest house.">apparently one of the guests at Elm Guest. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="De fait, certains éducateurs du Grafton Close étaient des pédophiles jamais inquiétés.">In fact, some Teachers at Grafton Close were pedophiles. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Parmi eux, Neil Kier, qui chapeautait le home.">Among them, Neil Kier, who oversaw the home. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Terry Earland, qui dirigeait quant à lui les services de l'enfance du comté de Richmond, où se trouvait le Grafton Close, avait justement arrangé le coup pour que Kier soit l'éducateur qui s'occupe des enfants sortis de la Elm Guest House">Terry Earland, who ran for his services to children in Richmond County, where was the Grafton Close, had just arranged that Kier was a teacher who cared for children taken to Elm Guest House on </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="le jour de la seule et unique descente de police en 1982.">the day of the one and only police raid in 1982.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="le jour de la seule et unique descente de police en 1982."><br /></span><span title="Aujourd'hui, le même Earland, qui est pourtant en bonne place dans le dossier d'enquête sur Elm Guest House, explique qu'il a tenté deux fois d'alerter ses collègues et la police au sujet d'abus sexuels commis dans les">Today, the same Earland, which is nevertheless prominent in the investigation file on Elm Guest House, said he had twice tried to warn his colleagues and the police about sexual abuse in </span><span title="orphelinats dont il avait la charge...">orphanages, he was in charge of ...</span><span title="Il a aussi expliqué qu'il avait été averti à l'avance de la descente dans la guest house par la police elle-même.">He also explained he had been warned in advance of the raid into the guest house by the police itself. </span><span title="D'ailleurs, toutes les autorités étaient au courant, ce qui explique peut-être que l'endroit était quasiment vide[5] alors que les flics s'attendaient à tomber sur une partouze avec une trentaine d'adultes.">Moreover, all the authorities were aware that the raid would take place, which may explain the Guest House was almost empty when the Police came.</span></span><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><br /></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="D'ailleurs, toutes les autorités étaient au courant, ce qui explique peut-être que l'endroit était quasiment vide[5] alors que les flics s'attendaient à tomber sur une partouze avec une trentaine d'adultes.">[5] while the cops are waiting to fall on an orgy with thirty adults.</span><span title="Pourtant, dans le quartier tout le monde savait très bien ce qu'il se passait dans la guest house.">However, in the neighbourhood everyone knew very well what was happening in the guest house. </span><span title="On parlait de ces députés et ces artistes qui quittaient le bordel la nuit, le pas rapide.">We talked about these members and artists who left the brothel at night. </span><span title="On entendait les fêtes qui s'y déroulaient, on voyait les lumières...">You could hear the celebrations taking place there, we saw the lights ... </span><span title="d'ailleurs, ils n'ont pas manqué de s'en plaindre à leurs représentants à l'époque, mais aujourd'hui ces politiciens semblent atteints d'amnésie.">Besides, they have not failed to complain to their representatives at the time, but today these politicians seem to suffer from amnesia.</span></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Aujourd'hui, la police est forcée d'enquêter, et en décembre 2012, une douzaine de victimes - des hommes- avaient déclaré à la police qu'ils ont été violés par des hommes à Elm Guste House.">Today, the police are forced reluctantly to investigate, and in December 2012, a dozen victims told the police they were raped by men at Elm Guest House.</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="On apprenait encore récemment que, Peter Hatton-Bornshin, une victime qui a été placé au Grafton Close Children's home après le suicide de sa mère, disait avoir subi des viols répétés alors qu'il était dans ce home."> Peter Hatton Bornshin was one victim who has been placed in Grafton Close Children's home after the suicide of her mother, He said he had been repeatedly raped. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="En 1994 à 28 ans, il s'est suicidé par overdose de cocaïne, trop marqué par les sévices qu'il avait subis dans son enfance.">In 1994 at age 28, he committed suicide by taking an overdose of cocaine, too marked by the abuse he had suffered as a child. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Il avait pourtant été reconnu comme victime et avait touché une forte compensation.">Yet he had been recognised as a victim and had given high compensation.</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Une autre victime a expliqué aux flics que lorsqu'il était placé à Grafton close dans les années 80, il a été prostitué à Elm Guest House (où de sfilms étaient tournés), mais a aussi été envoyé à Amsterdam, haut lieu de la pédocriminalité"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Une autre victime a expliqué aux flics que lorsqu'il était placé à Grafton close dans les années 80, il a été prostitué à Elm Guest House (où de sfilms étaient tournés), mais a aussi été envoyé à Amsterdam, haut lieu de la pédocriminalité">Another victim told cops that when placed close to Grafton in the 80s, and sent to Elm Guest House, where his abuse was filmed, he had also been sent to Amsterdam as a child sex slave</span><span title="Elm Guest House et les réseaux hollandais">. </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><b>Elm Guest House and Dutch networks</b>!</span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Elm Guest House et les réseaux hollandais"> </span><span title="On a déjà dit que Elm Guest House était liée au réseau Spartacus, qui faisait de la pub pour les partouzes qu'on y organisait.">It has been said that Elm Guest House was connected to the Spartacus network,</span><span title="Spartacus était un guide pour pédophiles diffusé dans 150 pays, qui donnait les bonnes adresses et même des bons de réduction, et qui était gérée par le père John Stamford.">Spartacus was a guide for pedophiles distributed in 150 countries. Spartacus gave the best addresses and even coupons, and was managed by John Stamford. </span><span title="Et allez savoir pourquoi, il existe toujours.">And for some reason, Spartacus still exists.</span><span title="D'après l'enquête d'une travailleuse sociale qui avait rencontré Carole Kasir, la propriétaire d'Elm Guest house à l'époque, Glencross éditait aussi la newsletter du groupe gay du particonservateur[6], la CGHE Newsletter (Conservative Gay Homosexual"> </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="D'après l'enquête d'une travailleuse sociale qui avait rencontré Carole Kasir, la propriétaire d'Elm Guest house à l'époque, Glencross éditait aussi la newsletter du groupe gay du particonservateur[6], la CGHE Newsletter (Conservative Gay Homosexual">According to the investigation of a social worker who had met Carole Kasir, the owner of Elm Guest house at the time, Glencross also edited the newsletter group gay particonservateur [6], CGHE Newsletter (Conservative Gay Homosexual </span><span title="Equality), dans laquelle on trouvait des pubs pour Elm Guest House.">Equality), which contained ads for Elm Guest House. </span><span title="D'après la même enquête, et d'après l'Operation Fairbanks menée par la police, un autre visiteur d'Elm Guest House était George Tremlett, ancien chef du Conseil du grand Londres, ex journaliste et auteur, notamment d'une biographie">According to the same survey, and after Operation Fairbanks conducted by the police, another visitor to Elm Guest House was George Tremlett, former leader of the Greater London Council, alos former journalist and author, including a biography </span><span title="de David Bowie.">David Bowie. </span><span title="Il s'y rendait souvent à l'époque où les abus ont eu lieu.">He often went there at the time the abuse took place.</span><span title="A l'origine, Elm Guest House était une guest house normale."> Originally Elm Guest House guest house was normal. </span><span title="Puis elle est devenue un lieu de rencontres homosexuelles à l'instigation de plusieurs personnes, dont John Rowe et le maquereau pédophile Terry Dwyer.">Then it became a meeting place for homosexuals at the instigation of several people, including John Rowe and mackerel pedophile Terry Dwyer. </span><span title="Ce seraient également eux qui auraient introduit Carole Kasir auprès de Peter Glencross, ce curé qui a hébergé Hubert Védrine et était ami de son père.">This would also be the ones who introduced to Carole Kasir Father Peter Glencross, the priest who hosted Hubert Vedrine and was a friend of his father. </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ce seraient également eux qui auraient introduit Carole Kasir auprès de Peter Glencross, ce curé qui a hébergé Hubert Védrine et était ami de son père."> </span><span title="D'après ce rapport, Glencross était le « business manager » du guide Spartacus.">According to the report, Glencross was the "business manager" Spartacus guide.</span><span title="Lors d'une perquisition dans son presbytère de Saint Léger des Vignes - celui où Védrine a été hébergé quelques années[7] plus tôt et où il vivait avec ses cinq fils adoptifs- au début des années 90, on a trouvé une quantité de matériel">During a search of his rectory of St. Leger des Vignes - where he was hosted Védrine few years [7] earlier and where he lived with his five-adopted sons in the early 90s, was found a quantity of </span><span title="pédoporno[8] et de quoi faire des séances photo.">child pornography [8] including child porn videos. </span><span title="C'est un mois après cette perquisition qu'un autre curé pédophile, le « pasteur Doucé », du Christ Libérateur, a été assassiné, très probablement par la DGSE qui est venue le chercher chez lui (on notera que Doucé était un ancien amant">A month after the raid another pedophile priest, "the pastor Doucé" Christ the Liberator, was murdered, most likely by the DGSE who came looking for him (note that Doucé was a former lover</span><span title="de Philippe Carpentier, pilier du CRIESdont on a déjà parlé).">Philippe Carpentier, CRIESdont pillar was already discussed). </span><span title="Glencross a été incarcéré et est mort rapidement après sa sortie en préventive, d'une crise cardiaque.">Glencross was imprisoned and died shortly after its release in preventive heart attack. </span><span title="Apparemment, c'était Doucé qui distribuait les photos prises par Glencross dans son studio.">Apparently, it was Doucé who distributed the photos taken by Glencross in his studio.</span><span title="John Rowe était un pédophile qui organisait des voyages aux Pays bas pour les membres duMonday Club, un groupe de députés à l'aile droite du parti conservateur[9], et dont certains membres figuraient sur la liste des visiteurs d'Elm Guest House.">John Rowe was a pedophile who organised trips to the Netherlands for members <b>The British VIP Monday Club,</b> <b>a group of MPs on the right wing of the Conservative Party</b> [9], some of whom were on the list of visitors Elm Guest House. </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="John Rowe était un pédophile qui organisait des voyages aux Pays bas pour les membres duMonday Club, un groupe de députés à l'aile droite du parti conservateur[9], et dont certains membres figuraient sur la liste des visiteurs d'Elm Guest House."> </span><span title="Il était indiqué « MI5 » en face de son nom sur la liste des invités d'Elm Guest House, en relation avec un certain Russell Howard Tricker, ancien prof d'anglais condamné pour pédophilie devenu chauffeur pour un tour opérateur pour pédophiles anglais à destination">He said "MI5" in front of his name on the guest list Elm Guest House in connection with a Tricker Russell Howard, former English teacher convicted pedophile become a driver for a tour operator for English pedophiles going to the </span><span title="des Pays Bas, où il s'est réfugié après sa condamnation en Angleterre à la fin des années 80.">Netherlands, where he eventually took refuge after his conviction in England in the late 80s.</span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="D'après l'enquête de Marcel Vervloesem, de l'association belge Morkhoven[10], transmise à la police, il transportait des enfants depuis l'Angleterre jusqu'au Pays Bas grâce à de faux passeports probablement obtenus grâce à ses contacts à">According to the survey of Marcel Vervloesem, the Belgian association Morkhoven [10] referred to the police, <b>he was carrying children from England to the Netherlands with false passports probably obtained through contacts with </b></span><span title="l'ambassade d'Angleterre aux Pays Bas, afin de les envoyer dans des bordels."><b>the British Embassy in the Netherlands</b>,<b> to send them to brothels</b>. </span><span title="En 1995, il a pris 15 mois de prison pour trafic d'images pédopornos, et a été condamné avec une dizaine d'autres personnes, puis a repris ses activités en trouvant des appartements à Amsterdam pour des pédophiles en goguette.">In 1995, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for trafficking in child pornography and was sentenced with ten other people. But he was relesed and then resumed his activities finding apartments in Amsterdam for pedophiles to abuse children. </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="En 1995, il a pris 15 mois de prison pour trafic d'images pédopornos, et a été condamné avec une dizaine d'autres personnes, puis a repris ses activités en trouvant des appartements à Amsterdam pour des pédophiles en goguette."> </span><span title="La bande rencontrait des enfants à Amsterdam et les embarquait pour des partouzes filmées.">The Paedophile group met children in Amsterdam and took them to orgies of abuse which were filmed. </span><span title="On peut aussi noter que John Stamford a été viré des Pays Bas en 1988 pour y avoir vendu des vidéos pédopornos, et s'est alors réfugié en Allemagne où les lois étaient plus laxistes en la matière.">We also note that John Stamford was in the Netherlands in 1988 where he sold child porn videos and later fled to Germany where the laws are more lax in this area.</span><span title="Stamford a aussi été condamné en Belgique, où il était venu prendre sa retraite à côté d'Anvers, après que l'Allemagne ait renforcé ses lois en matière de pédocriminalité."> </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Stamford a aussi été condamné en Belgique, où il était venu prendre sa retraite à côté d'Anvers, après que l'Allemagne ait renforcé ses lois en matière de pédocriminalité.">Stamford was also convicted in Belgium, where he had come to retire near Antwerp, after Germany strengthened its laws on crimes against children. </span><span title="Dans un reportage anglais, des journalistes infiltrés qui s'étaient vus proposer deux garçons à Manille par Stamford (qu'on appelait « l'ange des bidonville »), ont filmé le curé alors qu'il disait « si vous êtes discrets, je">Undercover reporters were offered two boys in Manila by Stamford (called "the angel of the slums") and films. The priest said "if you're discreet, I </span><span title="vous garantis que vous aurez autant de garçons que vous voulez aux Philippines ».">guarantee that you will have as many boys as you want in the Philippines. " </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="En outre, quatre associations suisses de défense des enfants le poursuivaient aussi à la fin des années 90.">In addition, four Swiss associations for the defence of children also continued in the late 90s.</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Enfin, à Amsterdam Tricker faisait partie de ce groupe d'anglais qui organisaient un réseau pédophile avec Warwick Spinks, qu'on ne présente hélas plus."> Finally, Amsterdam Tricker was part of the English group of organised paedophiles which included Warwick Spinks. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Dans ce groupe (et également arrêté en 1995), Derek Brown, qui avait parlé d'un snuff movie qui n'était autre que celui dumeurtre de Jason Swift en 1985, pour lequel une bande de marginaux a été condamnée.">In this group was Derek Brown, who had spoken about a snuff movie made about the sexual abuse and murder of 14year old Jason Swift in 1985, for which a Small number of the group was convicted. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Brown a été condamné aux Pays Bas en 1989 pour production de films pédos avec des enfants hollandais et marocains, et était ami avec Mark Enfield, qui aurait été complice du meurtre de Jason Swift mais n'a jamais été inquiété.">Brown was convicted in the Netherlands in 1989 for making child porn videos using Dutch and Moroccan children, and his friends Mark Enfield, who was also an accomplice in the murder of Jason Swift, but has never been questioned. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="On reviendra très vite sur cette affaire Jason Swift, qui est loin d'être claire.">We'll be back very soon on this case of Jason Swift, which is far from clear.</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;" title="Quant à Warwick Spinks, on peut dire qu'il a beaucoup voyagé jusqu'à son arrestation en 2012 au retour de République Tchèque, qu'il est impliqué dans le pédoporno y compris des snuff movies, et qu'il est devenu très riche.">As for Warwick Spinks, one can say that has travelled extensively until his arrest in 2012 to return to the Czech Republic, he is involved in child porn video's including snuff movies, and he became very wealthy. </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Quant à Warwick Spinks, on peut dire qu'il a beaucoup voyagé jusqu'à son arrestation en 2012 au retour de République Tchèque, qu'il est impliqué dans le pédoporno y compris des snuff movies, et qu'il est devenu très riche."> </span><span title="A Amsterdam, il traînait dans des bars gays où on fournissait aussi des enfants, et était en contact avec énormément de pédophiles venus d'Angleterre ou même d'Autriche, comme un certain René Osterwalder, médecin suisse émigré à Amsterdam, qui voulait prendre des">In Amsterdam, he spent time in gay bars where they also provided children, and was in contact with a lot of paedophiles from Britain and Austria, as a René Osterwalder, a Swiss Doctor who emigrated to Amsterdam, he wanted </span><span title="enfants roumains pour les massacrer dans des snuff movies[11].">Romanian children to kill in snuff movies [11]. </span><span title="Il a ensuite monté ses propres bordels, où on vendait des enfants « derrière le comptoir ».">He then opened his own brothels where children were sold "behind the counter". </span><span title="Spinks était au croisement de plusieurs réseaux, dont celui de Zandvoort, via ses contacts avec Norbert de Rijke et Lothar Glandorf.">Spinks was at the crossroads of several networks, including Zandvoort, through its contacts with Norbert de Rijke and Lothar Glandorf.</span><span title="Ensuite, Dwyer et un certain Barry Haddon ont transformé la guest house en bordel pour pédophiles."> </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Ensuite, Dwyer et un certain Barry Haddon ont transformé la guest house en bordel pour pédophiles.">Then some Barry Dwyer and Haddon have transformed the guest house into a brothel for pedophiles. </span><span title="Pendant ce temps, on apprend que Haroun Kasir, l'ex mari de Carole Kasir et propriétaire de la guest house, se prépare à quitter l'Angleterre pour rejoindre son fils aux Etats Unis.">Meanwhile, we learn that Kasir Haroun, former husband of Carole Kasir and owner of the guest house, is preparing to leave England to join his son in the United States.</span><span title="On apprend aussi que le conseil de Richmond a préféré payer un arrangement à l'amiable avec une victime qui a porté plainte plutôt que de risquer un procès, et cela avec l'argent des contribuables."> We also learn that the board of Richmond Council chose to pay a settlement payment to a victim who complained rather than risk a trial, and so they used the taxpayers' money to get them off the hook. </span><span title="Apparemment, d'autres poursuites au civil ont eu lieu.">Apparently, other civil proceedings took place but no criminal prosecutions. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="[1] Dickens a aussi expliqué qu'on avait retrouvé son nom sur la liste noire d'un tueur à gages.">Dickens also explained that he had found his own name on a hit list </span><span title="[2] Le PIO a été créé par Peter Righton, expert anglais de la protection de l'enfance, et le trésorier était Charles Napier.">[2] </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="[2] Le PIO a été créé par Peter Righton, expert anglais de la protection de l'enfance, et le trésorier était Charles Napier.">The IOP was created by <b>Peter Righton,</b> <b>an expert in England on child protection</b>, and the treasurer of IOP was <b>Charles Napier.</b> </span><span title="Une descente a eu lieu chez Righton (de son vrai nom Paul Pelham) en 1992, et on a retrouvé des films pédopornos souvent hard core, tournés à Amsterdam ainsi que toute une correspondance avec des pédos à travers le monde, qui prouvaient qu'il">A raid took place at the home of <b>Righton (real name Paul Pelham) in 1992, and police found child porn videos, often hard core, shot in Amsterdam and correspondence with paedophiles around the world, proving that </b></span><b><span title="avait exploité, violé et prostitué des enfants.">had exploited, raped and prostituted children. </span><span title="Pour cela, Righton a pris 900£ d'amende.">He recieved from the judge a £900 fine. </span><span title="On a aussi appris que l'amant de Righton tenait une école pour enfants émotionnellement perturbés."> </span></b></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="On a aussi appris que l'amant de Righton tenait une école pour enfants émotionnellement perturbés.">Righton also founded a<b> </b>school for emotionally disturbed children. </span><span title="Quant à Napier, il avait déjà été condamné 1972 pour des abus sexuels sur mineur, puis est allé en Suède en 1978 où il a été enseignant, puis il a quitté le pays pour devenir prof d'anglais au Caire.">Like Napier, he had already been convicted in 1972 for sexual abuse of a minor, then he<b> </b>went to Sweden in 1978 where he was a teacher, then he left the country to become an English teacher in Cairo. </span><b><span title="Là, il s'est vanté de pouvoir envoyer des vidéos par valises diplomatiques anglaises.">There he boasted he sent child porn videos by British diplomatic bags.</span></b><span title="Napier a aussi contribué à créer une école en Turquie...">Napier has also helped to establish a school in Turkey ... </span><span title="En 1995, il fait 15 mois de prison pour un viol commis dans les années 80.">In 1995, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for a rape committed in the 80s. </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="En 1995, il fait 15 mois de prison pour un viol commis dans les années 80."> </span><span title="Righton, en tant que chef de l'éducation en Angleterre, a même pris sa défense en 1972 pour dire que Napier n'était plus un risque pour les enfants, et même qu'il était un bon prof !">Righton, then head of child education in England, wrote a report in Napiers defense in 1972 saying that Napier was no longer a risk to children, and even that Napier he was a good teacher!</span><span title="[3] Celle-ci a travaillé pour les renseignements britanniques, avant de retourner sa veste et de dénoncer l'existence d'un réseau pédophile d'élite impliquant des politiciens de premier plan, et dont les victimes provenaient souvent d'orphelinats.">[3] </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="[3] Celle-ci a travaillé pour les renseignements britanniques, avant de retourner sa veste et de dénoncer l'existence d'un réseau pédophile d'élite impliquant des politiciens de premier plan, et dont les victimes provenaient souvent d'orphelinats."> Andrea Davison worked for British intelligence before denouncing the existence of a pedophile elite involving prominent politicians, whose victims often came from Childrens Homes. </span><span title="Elle a été poursuivie pour recel de documents et a subi de nombreuses procédures si bien qu'elle a demandé l'asile politique aux Etats Unis.">She was prosecuted for concealing documents and underwent numerous procedures so she sought political asylum in Argentina.</span><span title="[4] Au moins sept garçons.">[4] </span></span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><b>R</b></span><b style="line-height: 1.4;">AID ON ELM GUEST HOUSE</b><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="[4] Au moins sept garçons.">At least seven boys.</span><span title="[5] Seul un ado de plus de seize ans, deux flics soi disant sous couverture et les patrons de la guest house étaient là ce jour-là.">[5] Only a teenager more than sixteen years, two undercover cops and supposedly the owners of the guest house were there that day.</span><span title="[6] Qui comptait 171 membres en 1983.">[6] Whilst members numbered 171 in 1983.</span><span title="[7] Lorsque Védrine a été parachuté par Mitterrand dans la Nièvre et qu'il lui fallait une adresse, pour la campagne de 1977.">[7]</span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><b>MITTERRAND CHILD PORN AND GLADDIO</b> </span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="[7] Lorsque Védrine a été parachuté par Mitterrand dans la Nièvre et qu'il lui fallait une adresse, pour la campagne de 1977."> When Vedrine was dropped by Mitterrand in Nièvre and he needed an address for the campaign of 1977. </span><span title="A ce sujet, Védrine a écrit dans « Les Mondes de François Mitterrand » : « Mais comment, lui demandai-je [à Mitterrand], être candidat dans une commune où je ne connaissais personne ?">In this regard, Vedrine wrote in "Worlds of François Mitterrand": "But how, I asked [Mitterrand] candidate in a town where I knew no one? </span><span title="Il allait s'en occuper, me dit-il, en me mettant en contact avec des amis, les Maringe, qui me mettraient à leur tour en relation avec le curé de Saint-Léger-des-Vignes, le père Glencross, un anglais">He would take care of me, he said, putting me in touch with friends, Maringe, which in turn put me in connection with the parish priest of Saint-Léger-des-Vignes, Father Glencross, an Englishman </span><span title="original échoué dans le Nivernais depuis la guerre, adoré de ses paroissiens et très proche des animateurs de la jeune équipe socialiste, Robert Billoué et Guy Leblanc."> failed in the Nivernais since the war, adored by his parishioners and very close to the leaders of the young team socialist Billoué Robert and Guy Leblanc. </span><span title="Ainsi fut fait ».">So it was done. " </span><span title="Védrine a ensuite gagné les élections, de même qu'en 1983 et 1989.">Védrine then won the elections, as well as 1983 and 1989.</span><span title="[8] Cela, en lien avec le réseau appelé Toro Bravo, qu'on n'a jamais découvert totalement.">[8] This, in conjunction with the network called <b>Toro Bravo</b>, which has never been fully discovered. </span><span title="Le réseau a refait parler de lui en 1996, après qu'on ait trouvé des vidéos sur lesquelles apparaissaient des membres du réseau qui ont été laissés tranquilles.">The network has about him again in 1996, after being found videos which appear of network members who have been left alone. </span><span title="72 arrestations s'en suivirent, dont celle de Bernard Alaptetite, réalisateur de films pédopornos, en lien avec un autre réseau appelé « Ado 71 », dans lequel on a compté plus de 800 perquisitions, 686 interpellations, 103 mises en examen et 15 suicides">72 arrests ensued, including that of Bernard Alaptetite, filmmaker of child porn in connection with another network called "<b>Teen 71"</b>, <b>in which there were more than 800 searches, 686 arrests, 103 indictments and 15 suicides </b></span><b><span title=".">. </span><span title="Des clients de Toro bravo avaient aussichez eux la revue Spartacus.">Customers had aussichez Toro bravo magazine Spartacus them. </span><span title="La plupart ont eu du sursis et étaient amnistiables un an plus tard.Michel Caignet, un néo nazi pédophile qui fournissait des cassettes pédopornos, proche de Doucé et des réseaux Gladio, faisait partie de ce réseau.">Most have had amnesty and were suspended a year tard.Michel Caignet, a neo-Nazi pedophile who provided child porn videos tapes, near Doucé said Gladio was part of this network. </span></b><span title="Il organisait aussi des tournages depuis la Colombie avec des mineurs.">He also organized shoots from Colombia with minors. </span><span title="Là-bas, il collaborait avec Jean-Manuel Vuillaume, prof à Paris VIII en technique vidéo, qui tenait un bordel à Bogota.">There, he collaborated with Jean-Manuel Vuillaume, professor at Paris VIII in video technology, who ran a brothel in Bogota.</span><span title="Caignet a dit qu'il achetait des vidéos pédopornos à Vuillaume pour 3.500 à 5.000F par original.">Caignet said he bought child porn videos from Vuillaume in 3500 by 5.000F original.</span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="[11] Il est aujourd'hui en prison à vie et a été extradé des Pays bas avec sa copine pour avoir enlevé, violé et torturé des enfants.">He is now in prison for life and was extradited from Netherlands to be with his girlfriend they kidnapped, raped and tortured children.</span><span title="[12] Le fait que Bell soit un pédophile notoire n'a probablement pas été un frein pour cette Légion d 'honneur, bien au contraire.">[12] The fact that Bell is a convicted pedophile has probably not been a hindrance to the Legion of Honor, quite the contrary.</span><span title="[13] Certains disent que c'est Ted Rothschild qui l'avait recommandé, et Ted Rotschild était un espion à la solde d'Israël.">[13] Some say that Ted Rothschild who had recommended, and Ted Rothschild was a spy for Israel.</span><span title="[14] Barry Fitton, une de ses victimes, a déclaré qu'on ne l'avait jamais cru quand il avait parlé des viols commis par Smith.">[14] </span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="[14] Barry Fitton, une de ses victimes, a déclaré qu'on ne l'avait jamais cru quand il avait parlé des viols commis par Smith."><b>SIR CYRIL SMITH </b></span></span><br /><br /><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span title="[14] Barry Fitton, une de ses victimes, a déclaré qu'on ne l'avait jamais cru quand il avait parlé des viols commis par Smith.">Barry Fitton, one of his victims said they had not believed when he told the Police he had been raped by Smith. </span><span title="Alan Neal, une autre victime de Smith dans les années 60, a dit que certaines de ses victimes s'étaient donné la mort à force de passer pour des menteurs.">Alan Neal, another victim of Smith in the 60s, said that some of his victims committed suicide because they were not believed. </span><span title="Neal a été violé et frappé par Smith quand il avait 11 ans et qu'il était dans un foyer en 1964.">Neal was raped and beaten by Smith when he was 11 and he was in a fire in 1964. </span><span title="En 1969, une enquête portait sur les accusations de huit garçons du Cambridge House Hostel (créée par Smith) à Rochdale ont dénoncé des viols commis par Smith entre 1961 et 1969.">In 1969, a survey focused on accusations of eight boys from Cambridge House Hostel (created by Smith) in Rochdale who said they were raped by Smith between 1961 and 1969. </span><span title="En 1997, une nouvelle victime de Smith parle aux flics de viols commis à Cambrige House entre en 1965 et 1968 et en 1999 ce sont de nouveaux viols, commis entre 1962 et 1965 qui sont dénoncés.">In 1997, another victim of Smith told the police of rape in Cambridge House between 1965 and 1968 and in 1999 and of further rapes committed between 1962 and 1965 .<b> </b></span><span title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><b>Nothing was every done.</b> .</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="long_text" lang="en" style="line-height: 1.4;"><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."></span></span>
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">Notes:</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[1] Dickens also explained that they had found his name on the black list a hitman.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[2] The IOP was created by Peter Righton, English expert in child protection, and the treasurer was Charles Napier. A raid took place at Righton (real name Paul Pelham) in 1992 and was found pédopornos films often hard core, shot in Amsterdam as well as a correspondence with paedo worldwide, which showed that had exploited, raped and prostitute children. To do this, Righton took £ 900 fine. We also learned that the lover Righton ran a school for emotionally disturbed children. As in Napier, he had been convicted in 1972 for sexual abuse of a minor, then went to Sweden in 1978 where he was a teacher, then left the country to become an English teacher in Cairo. There he boasted to send videos by British diplomatic bags. Napier also helped to establish a school in Turkey ... In 1995, he made 15 months in prison for a rape committed in the 80s. Righton, as head of education in England, even took his defense in 1972 that Napier was no longer a risk to children, and even he was a good teacher!</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[3] This worked for British intelligence before returning his jacket and expose the existence of an elite pedophile network involving prominent politicians, and whose victims often came from orphanages. She was prosecuted for concealing documents and has undergone numerous procedures so she sought political asylum in the United States.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[4] At least seven boys.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[5] Only a teenager more than sixteen years, two so called undercover cops and the owners of the guest house were there that day.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[6] Who had 171 members in 1983.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[7] When Vedrine was parachuted by Mitterrand in Nièvre and he needed an address to the 1977. In this regard, Vedrine wrote in "Worlds of François Mitterrand" "But how, I asked him [Mitterrand] be a candidate in a town where I knew no one? He would take care of, 'he said, putting me in touch with friends, Maringe, which in turn put me in relation to the parish priest of Saint-Léger-des-Vignes, Father Glencross, an English original failed in the Nivernais since the war, adored by his parishioners and very close to the leaders of the young socialist team Billoué Robert and Guy Leblanc. So it was done. " Vedrine then won the elections, as in 1983 and 1989.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[8] This, in conjunction with the network called Toro Bravo, which has never fully discovered. The network has about him again in 1996, after it was found videos which appear of network members who were left alone. 72 arrests ensued, including that of Bernard Alaptetite, director pédopornos movies in connection with another network called "Teen 71", in which there were more than 800 searches, 686 arrests, 103 indictments and 15 suicides . Customers Toro Bravo had them aussichez magazine Spartacus. Most have been suspended and the amnesty was a year tard.Michel Caignet, a neo Nazi pedophile who provided pédopornos cassettes, close Doucé and Gladio networks were part of this network. He also organized the shooting from Colombia with minors. There, he collaborated with Jean-Manuel Vuillaume, teacher at Paris VIII in video technology, who ran a brothel in Bogota. Caignet said he bought videos pédopornos to Vuillaume to 3,500 to 5,000 F per original.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[9] So right extremists and packed in 2001, the Monday Club was suspended from the Conservative Party. In fact, it was the beachhead of English neo colonialist movement, which even made a sort of coup in 70 years against the government of Harold Wilson.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[10] Association who discovered the so-called Roma Zandvoort CD in which it has more than 80,000 images of children being abused. The survey was smothered in some countries and has not even started in others, such as France. We remember especially the substitute Yvon Tallec declaring JT 20 hours needed "minimize" the scope of the LARC so the entire network is behind, and I hope to return to this dark character very soon.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[11] It is now in prison for life and was extradited from the Netherlands with his girlfriend to have abducted, raped and tortured children.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[12] The fact that Bell is a notorious pedophile probably has not been a hindrance to the Legion of Honor, quite the contrary.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[13] Some say it is Ted Rothschild had recommended, and Ted Rothschild was a spy in the pay of Israel.</span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite."><br /></span></span><span class="long_text" lang="en"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22px;" title="Il n'y a jamais eu aucune poursuite.">[14] Barry Fitton, one of his victims said they had never believed him when he spoke of rapes committed by Smith. Alan Neal, another victim of Smith in the 60s, said that some of his victims had caused the death of force pass for liars. Neal was raped and beaten by Smith when he was 11 and he was in a home in 1964. In 1969, a survey focused on charges of eight boys from Cambridge House Hostel (created by Smith) in Rochdale denounced rape by Smith between 1961 and 1969. In 1997, another victim of Smith talking to the cops of rape in Cambrige House between 1965 and 1968 and in 1999 it was further rapes committed between 1962 and 1965 are reported. There has never been any prosecution.</span></span></div>
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Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-49286361215641058332014-03-14T23:12:00.003+00:002014-03-15T11:36:33.077+00:00Tea, Tears And Tony Benn<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>LIKE MANY</b> on the left I have been left reeling this week following the tragic deaths of two legendary characters of the British labour and trade union movement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Tuesday we lost <a href="http://www.rmt.org.uk/home/" target="_blank">RMT</a> leader and class fighter <a href="http://www.socialist.net/bob-crow-militant-trade-union-leader.htm" target="_blank">Bob Crow</a>. A devastating blow to the union movement, he represented a determination to fight for working people that is missing from the leadership of most other unions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We barely had time to register this sad loss when news hit on Friday morning that iconic left-wing former Labour MP and Cabinet minister <a href="http://www.marxist.com/tony-benn-an-outstanding-leader-of-british-left.htm" target="_blank">Tony Benn</a> passed away after a long fight against serious illness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Whilst both men certainly reflected the widest possible antithesis of the class system; a rail track worker at one end and son of a Viscount at the other, they both had one central objective in common; a determination to fight injustice and make the world a fairer and better place for all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One other characteristic they both shared, in death, was the outpouring of respect showered on them, even from unexpcted quarters such as the reactionary press, and the revisionist and Tory political classes; the very people who had attacked and mocked them; had attempted to crush both them and the movement they held dear; had been confirmed enemies of, in every sense and in every way. Of course we should not be surprised by the fraudulent platitudes that spew from these class enemies, but we must give them credit for recognising these men reflected something that they themselves will never achieve in their snearing and contemptious lives; the genuine admiration and reverential respect held amongst the British people. It is no exaggeration to categorically state that even prior to death they had both become <i>National Treasures</i>. This makes the tributes from the right-wing even more ironic as they have spent the post-war generation trying to convince us there is something terribly <i>un-British</i> about socialism, social justice and fraternity of working class struggle. One thing they must now never, ever, be allowed to forget it that Socialism is as British as a pot of tea, a pipe and Tony Benn!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Much has already been spoken and written about Tony Benn, which can be found reproduced elsewhere, so I'll just share my experiences with the great man (despite my close family ties to the NUR/RMT I sadly never met Bob Crow) and finish with my favourite quotes. But firstly on to the important subject of tea...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Royal Society of Chemistry published <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jun/25/science.highereducation" target="_blank">research results</a> in 2003, timed for release on the centenary of the birth of writer George Orwell, who would roll over in his grave if he heard the news, that they claimed (erroneoulsy in my humble opinion) that tea should be poured into the cup AFTER the milk (madness, I know!) During his lifetime Orwell is quoted as hating three things: fascism, totalitarianism and people who poured milk into the cup first, with the tea crazily following after.<br /><br />Research project leader Dr Andrew Stapley took <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.newsru.com/world/24jun2003/tea.html&prev=/search%3Ftbs%3Dsbi:AMhZZithRDNyjHBzGQXzgAEDXY4zz8QSq7GI8wIYzoalOqOXxpxpVR-gKCmRnydvonuPZUhwwOxnugnG2EUSgRvmk9XGjShuzaL3R4cpX1R_1jxyHOkIyLo6jKSn9ftST8xQtKD5VoUyzi_1Zi_1iUTSN1OcftWrqZ2Yak6upR4y2DEJeO5iq2L9DbK_1peGTcfs7u972nMufZSlT09cRC2LCHiIePH2X0rGawrXYOyrqhgHyc15a8I6m3AW-vWnG3Xoye7prDK5ccFxRhnILWLU_1MPLvGgxRKuBqr9P5PcLJaac0Cvl9rZSgmEB_19yLwdzP_1q_1Vj8CmqpejsKRLik62HYQC4-yuJJvzet0ElfH6TTUbTsMvf5wOskUuF5aX7Ho-dQKVzUPFgOE0NbwmqUl0TTyGU1FFtzMBJfabuzt7eGPzr1WPzCIKrRcZPjH0ZXmLQB8p_1oJN3ok9Jhv_12V7DjiDHyDAdg4DUIjsgpjT0cp1Ljqqblj3GiG59pxAD7fjF0TD1ipdY1wcB1JKc-PHVcYxE0izb-CvuplfFSu1_1I7khqAoULth-zy2mLMIFEtxMCaaD6O18F7J2eDaxVr9cZQCGphT7bGMNtzohDj61hiljtSKSwJrNij2TPVNa7hv6EEvOFuZ13olGAqpuCerudYikwZ1RSDVBUAJNBJEXqbOrYUrB6-hBWBzK-2bqR4KAPffWM154ZWQUCOYVifbEnLDbdSOE7yfeABJQxaJlpa0grBapQS2gc8eUlR0X_1f3QHSgurjjHR2HtSUlzq6gHhnDYE8Y3PnEGRsC2dSSK63re-BdWKFyVc0l-zrfIZ3AcPPTkwR8roOkX8I_1OfifM-p-XhuzFjao7Lpv9zfQk3u41MGGihWJCDmXFhbg5lCK-6VaKudwCFftKkpSOGg7RbgNz2Qitq1B3cLvqd4oyiaYGFaQcLYHbmLVAy55RuRWgR9MVyeJ2GU1mj1jPoLXpDWIt_1p4szx2rH4oErXX0iWvjORrej8ZnR5R-e1doTKKtbx0ilTXFST9tOToA1_1OvJbEUVvHv0oNF3mJ_1eyeY-lcKcntm3X0lHifdxCxsnE41yGycVMs2-kEgvD8wtXeHnZ8eqPfPMjwgEpUOr9Q8hvcsBhwAMRNCQvnp8qLjUFRe8OBUglaZ6ccBWMuxvAmen0URb0t54ykqVTvkDvPE-1w3e7W7g7uLqKUmUaCD4BtG2m6rXbh-SAUbHOi94k68f_1XYK-GAXfh72jEYjY-duDKd0JzzozvP_13ye0bUYjKv7GX8vwl61RnkIXIfaStwlzs0mohDJcIt-XQ" target="_blank">three years and two months</a> to reach such a bizarre conclusion. But thankfully our Tony came to the rescue of common sense in tea making. Reportedly an <i>"Englishman who drinks NINE litres of tea a day"</i> (a staggering </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">27,375 gallons in 60 years!) Tony explained the only logical way to make a brew:<br /><br /><i>"Heavenly! Terrific taste, but I still agree with Orwell. First you have to pour the tea and then milk. Indeed, how else to determine how much milk will be needed to achieve the perfect colour?"</i> asked Comrade Benn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The first time I met Tony was at a Labour Party Conference in Brighton when Labour's traitorous leadership were yet again fully embroiled in their witchunt against <a href="http://www.marxist.com/hbt/p-5.html" target="_blank">Militant</a>, the Marxist tendency within the Labour Party. I was sat with the Militant editorial board (despite being expelled from the party back in 1983 it was a small and pleasing anomally allowing them press passes that could not be refused) when Tony popped into the bar and made a beeline for the Militant camp. Militant's Political Editor <a href="http://www.socialistappeal.org/analysis/theory/1075-ted-grant-a-brief-biography" target="_blank">Ted Grant</a> jokingly told him that <i>"he'd be next"</i> before introducing me; proudly boasting that I was the youngest delegate at the annual conference (he who has the youth has the future and all that jazz), confirmed Militant supporter and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_Young_Socialists" target="_blank">LPYS</a> activist. One thing both men had in common was an incredible patience and interest in the younger generation. They both encouraged and supported young people and, even in debate, would listen and value your ideas and opinions even if they differed from their own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Over the years I had reason to correspond with Tony regarding the various causes I was involved in from Anti-Apartheid to <a href="http://www.militant.org.uk/Militant.html" target="_blank">YTURC</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Britain_Anti-Poll_Tax_Federation" target="_blank">Anti-Poll Tax Federation</a> and was astonished, as countless others can also testify, that he managed to find time to respond personally to all contact; always expeditious, always courteous and always fraternal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The last time I saw him was in the ornate surroundings of Portsmouth's Victorian <a href="http://www.newtheatreroyal.com/" target="_blank">New Theatre Royal</a> on his tour, <i>Writing On The Wall</i>, with folk guitarist <a href="http://roybailey.net/" target="_blank">Roy Bailey</a>. Admittedly it was more of an urbane lecture for <i>Guardianistas</i> then a rousing revolutionary rally (more so even then a promotional book event he had given at the somewhat more youth-orientated Portsmouth <a href="http://www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk/" target="_blank">Wedgewood Rooms</a> several years earlier) but, even in advancing years, the twinkle in his eye, the honesty and passion in his voice and the peerless wealth of historic and political knowledge shone through. The fact that he merrily smoked his pipe on the stage in such opulent and plush surroundings, well after the smoking ban came into force, was a testiment to a fiery, rebellious soul that could not be subdued, even against the tyrannical and despotic arm of the anti-smoking lobby. Irony of ironies the show was promoted by a leading lobbyist for <a href="http://www.ash.org.uk/" target="_blank">ASH</a>, the oppressive anti-smoking 'charity'; and even they dared not tell Comrade Benn to extinguish his pipe. But then again, who would have the temerity let alone the courage?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Will we see the like of Tony Benn again? Well the labour movement isn't as leaderless and spent as bourgeois commentators would have us believe; the likes of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dennis-Skinner/60783991559" target="_blank">Dennis Skinner</a>, <a href="http://www.john-mcdonnell.net/" target="_blank">John McDonnell</a>, <a href="http://www.jeremycorbyn.org.uk/" target="_blank">Jeremy Corbyn</a>, <a href="http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/about_pcs/about_us/whos_who_at_pcs.cfm" target="_blank">Mark Serwotka</a> and <a href="http://jerryhicks.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jerry Hicks</a> provide an unbroken thread, way back to the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Levellers</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers" target="_blank">Diggers</a> and the <a href="http://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/index.php?page=martyr-s-story" target="_blank">Tolpuddle Martyrs</a>, in the proud tradition of socialism and class struggle in Britain. And thank God for that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> Tony Benn: In His Own Words...</b></span>
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<li><i>It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name , as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.
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<li><b>The Benn Heresy</b> (1982)</li>
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<li><i>If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.</i>
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<li><b>Interview with Michael Moore in the Movie <i>Sicko</i></b> (2007)</li>
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<li><i>An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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<li><i>Ibid</i> (2007)</li>
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<li><i>I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.</i>
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<li><i>Ibid</i> (2007)</li>
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<li><i>People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They
always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor
in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that
represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.</i>
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<li><i>Ibid</i> (2007)</li>
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<li><i>Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don’t have the freedom to choose.
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<li><i>Ibid</i> (2007)</li>
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<li><i>I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world,
because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your
community.</i>
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<li><i>Ibid</i> (2007) </li>
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<li><i>Well I came across Marx rather late in life actually, and when I
read him, two things: first of all I realised that he'd come to the
conclusion about capitalism which I'd come to much later, and I was a
bit angry he'd thought of it first; and secondly, I see Marx who was an
old Jew, as the last of the Old Testament Prophets, this old bearded man
working in the British Library, studying capitalism, that's what 'Das
Kapital' was about, it was an explanation of British capitalism. And I
thought to myself, 'Well anyone could write a book like that, but what
infuses, what comes out of his writing, is the passionate hostility to
the injustice of capitalism. He was a Prophet... </i>
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<li><b>Interview with John Cleary</b> (23 February 2003)</li>
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Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-62722835478818298132014-03-08T02:42:00.000+00:002014-03-08T17:24:07.568+00:00One Female Too Far...<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Comedy Chain Cancels Comic...For Being Female</b></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>A NATIONAL</b> UK comedy chain is expected to come under heavy fire and a possible boycott by their own stand-up acts after it cancels a female comic on the eve of <a href="http://www.internationalwomensday.com/" target="_blank"><b>International Women's Day</b></a>...for being a woman!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Female comic <a href="http://www.jennycolliercomedy.com/" target="_blank"><b>Jenny Collier</b></a> received an email on Friday afternoon cancelling an appearance in Haslemere, due to take place on 15th May, because <i>"the venue have decided they don't want too many women on the bill and unfortunately we need to take you out of this one." </i>They retrieve their manners *cough* to end the brief and bluntly shocking email<i>, "We hope that this doesn't cause any inconvenience."</i> I'm unsure if they mean inconvenience to her personally (obviously cancelling a booking is somewhat inconvenient) or to the entire female gender who no doubt feel inconvenienced that their chromosomes dictate the employment they may obtain under patriarchy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Perhaps they perceived Collier as not up-to-scratch; certainly not the case as her live and radio work will testify; a finalist in Channel 4's annual Stand-Up competition and described as <i>"very likeable"</i> by the oft-scathing London comedy critic Bruce Dessau she isn't a newcomer to the circuit nor a time-filler by any means. Perhaps they didn't realise she was a woman!?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A brief search of comedy venues in the Haslemere area seemingly finds only one establishment hosting a comedy club on Thursday 15th May; <a href="http://www.hemingwayscoffeeshop.co.uk/Events.html" target="_blank"><b>Hemingways of Haslemere</b></a>. That club, if it is the one refered to in the email, is booked by national comedy chain <a href="http://www.mirthcontrolcomedy.com/venues/haslemere/hemmingways/" target="_blank"><b>Mirth Control</b></a>, founded and run by <a href="http://www.mirthcontrolcomedy.com/artists/geoff_whiting/" target="_blank"><b>Geoff Whiting</b></a>. Industry insiders confirm the email subject heading and scant message content bares a remarkable similarity to those issued by the chain, which acts as an agency and venue booker for small pubs and clubs throughout the UK as well as a smattering of clubs in Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Looking at the listings for Hemingway's March show [left] we can see that they have nine acts (including a double act) plus a compère, all but one of which is male. It seems the venue has a 'quota' of one female act per month and clearly the May show had exceeded it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is an unwritten rule (until Friday's email placed it firmly in black & white) within the comedy industry that a club, unless specifically targeted at the female, LGBT or leftfield market, will generally only host one female comic on any particular night, usually sandwiched in the middle of the show between their male counterparts. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This doesn't seem to deter self-proclaimed faux-feminists such as the sanctimonious and desperately unfunny Mirth Control regular, Joe Wells (or as one critic succinctly put it, <i>"he isn't quite the full-blown comedy revolutionary"</i> [he thinks he is])</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> who is happy to take the money and run; I guess Marxist [<i>sic</i>] principles don't pay the bills.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But when Wells hopes fellow comics <i><a href="http://sean-ruttledge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/dappergate-mobbing-and-cyber-bullying.html" target="_blank"><b>"die in the most painful and degrading way possible"</b></a></i> perhaps principles aren't his strong point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It appears for all it's leftist acts and it's 'alternative' heritage the "new rock'n'roll" is still stuck in the middle of the last century. Two men walk into a bar, the woman was cancelled by email.</span>Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-68818094387920846402014-01-16T13:20:00.001+00:002014-01-16T13:20:27.223+00:00The Police Memory Stick Killing<h1 id="ext-gen141" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">When police lost a data card with names of 1,000 informants, they questioned this father - then cleared him. Two months later, they shot him dead</span></h1>
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An unarmed man shot dead by a police marksman as he sat in a car was wrongly suspected only weeks before of stealing a computer memory stick containing the names of 1,075 police informants.</div>
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The missing stick was stolen after a detective had taken it home. It held a mass of highly confidential data about police inquiries into drug trafficking – plus hundreds of real names and addresses of secret contacts who gave information about gangsters to police.</div>
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Father-of-two Anthony Grainger was questioned about the theft but formally cleared four months later. Meanwhile, the loss of the stick was exposing the informants to grave potential danger.</div>
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Family man: Father-of-two Anthony Grainger, 36, pictured with his partner Gail and a relative's baby, was shot to death by police weeks after he was cleared of suspicion of stealing a memory stick of sensitive information</div>
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It is believed at least one of those contacts was attacked and beaten at his home. Soon after that incident, Grainger, 36, was shot dead by Greater Manchester Police officers as he sat in the parked vehicle with two friends on March 3 last year.</div>
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Police records of the incident reveal he was shot at close range through the lungs and heart during a night-time operation which involved marksmen armed with sub-machine guns, pistols, Tasers and tear gas.</div>
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A chilling statement from the crack-shot who killed him describes how he aimed his sub-machine gun at the car’s windscreen and ‘switched the safety catch to fire’.</div>
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He levelled his laser-aiming device ‘and fired one round to the centre mass of the driver’ – Grainger’s chest.</div>
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Now a Mail on Sunday investigation based on exclusive access to hundreds of pages of official documents has revealed that:</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">- Days</span> after police decided they had no evidence against Grainger over the theft, they began six- weeks of covert surveillance called Operation Shire directed at him and two associates. It involved nearly 100 officers.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">- Statements</span> by the Operation Shire team reveal no sign that Grainger or the others had weapons or access to them. But on the morning of the incident, the 16-strong police armed response team involved in his shooting was briefed that he and his friends were highly dangerous and likely to fire at police if challenged.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">- In the wake of his death</span>, legal documents show, police searched Grainger’s house and those of his associates – and seized numerous computer memory sticks. None of them was the missing device.</div>
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Almost 14 months on, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has still not finished its investigation into the killing, although the armed officers all made statements – obtained by The Mail on Sunday – within five days of the shooting. An IPCC spokeswoman said it would soon be sending a file to the Crown Prosecution Service, which will have to decide whether any officer should be charged with murder or manslaughter.</div>
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The delay has left both Mr Grainger’s family and Greater Manchester Police deeply frustrated. ‘We can’t say anything because it’s with the IPCC,’ a police spokesman said yesterday.</div>
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Grainger’s cousin, Wesley Ahmed, from the #Justice4Grainger campaign, compared the case with the shooting of Greater Manchester Police officers Nicola Bone and Fiona Hughes by Dale Cregan last September. ‘Cregan was in the dock, charged with murder, five months later,’ Mr Ahmed said. ‘But if the police shoot a member of the public, the process is interminable.’</div>
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The memory stick theft took place from a detective’s home in the Grotton area of Oldham in July 2011.</div>
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Ten months earlier, a similar stick containing sensitive Greater Manchester Police data had also gone missing. This prompted David Smith, the Deputy Information Commissioner responsible for policing and security issues, to make a formal recommendation that all such sticks should be encrypted.</div>
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But the second stolen stick, which was inside an officer’s wallet in his kitchen near an open back door, was not encrypted nor protected by a password. Mr Smith described this as a ‘significant failing’.</div>
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He added: ‘The consequences of this type of breach really do send a shiver down the spine.’</div>
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As well as the names of informants, the stick contained details of police operations, names of officers involved in them, and those being targeted for arrest. The Information Commissioner’s Office has since fined the force £120,000.</div>
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Mr Smith said: ‘In this particular case the data subjects would suffer from substantial distress knowing their sensitive personal data may be disclosed to third parties.’</div>
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If this has actually happened, they were likely to suffer ‘further substantial damage’, and be ‘exposed to physical harm’.</div>
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Police made the link between the stick and Grainger the month after it was stolen, when he put some Volkswagen Golf airbags up for sale on eBay. Grainger was working for his friend, Colin Waters, 42, who owned a car-breaking and spare parts business in Bury.</div>
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Why did the police think this significant? Because along with the memory stick, the officer from Grotton had lost the keys to his Golf. This was also stolen and not recovered.</div>
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Grainger had no convictions for violence, but he did have a record for car crimes, although he had committed all but one of them more than a decade earlier.</div>
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On September 29, Grainger and Waters were arrested and questioned about the memory stick at Chadderton police station.</div>
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Mr Waters said yesterday: ‘Anthony was a good friend. He lived in my house from 2009 until a short while before he was shot. We used to buy and sell parts all the time, and he put a lot of them up on eBay.</div>
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‘When the police interviewed us, all they wanted to know about was the memory stick. They claimed the airbags were from the same model as the VW stolen from the officer. But that proved nothing. We knew nothing about that stick, and we never had it.’</div>
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Police seized computers, cash and mobile phones, and released Grainger and Waters on bail. Then, on January 6, 2012, they told them there would be no further action.</div>
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In fact, the police were about to launch Operation Shire. Ostensibly, this was directed at three men – Grainger and two associates, David Totton and Robert Rimmer – and was based on suspicions they were planning to commit armed robberies. Documents show the undercover surveillance was intense, and covered every detail of the three men’s lives. For example, on the evening of February 20, Detective Constable John Mills wrote how he covertly observed Mr Rimmer when, ‘together with a white female dressed in black’, he entered a Jamie’s Italian restaurant.</div>
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In none of the dozens of Operation Shire records obtained by this newspaper is there even a hint that the men had access to weapons.</div>
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The evidence they were planning robberies also amounted to nothing more than the fact that they were sometimes seen in places where there were commercial premises, such as supermarkets and banks.</div>
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However, the briefing given by an unnamed detective from Operation Shire to 16 officers from the Greater Manchester Tactical Firearms Unit who reported for duty at 4.30am on March 3 last year, reflected none of this uncertainty.</div>
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The armed officers made their statements five days later. They are not named, but are identified by their ‘deployment numbers’.</div>
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The fullest account of the briefing is in the statement by ‘Q9’, who describes himself as a ‘close-quarter combat live fire instructor’ – one of the unit’s most senior members and ‘a veteran of many deployments’. Before the briefing, his statement says, he drew his Heckler & Koch MP5 sub-machine gun and a 30-round magazine from the armoury, together with a self-loading Glock 17 pistol, more ammunition and a Taser.</div>
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Then, it goes on, he and his colleagues were told what to expect from Grainger and his associates:</div>
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‘The intelligence suggested that the subjects were responsible for a robbery in Preston in 2008 where they broke into a bank and lay in wait for the staff.</div>
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‘When the staff arrived they held them at gunpoint . . . and stole a substantial amount of cash.’</div>
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Q9’s statement adds: ‘It was within my knowledge that this group of offenders were in some way linked to a robbery at a bank in Bolton where one offender had opened fire on an attending police patrol.’</div>
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No evidence has been disclosed to support either of these assertions, and none of the men has ever been charged with these crimes.</div>
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But Q9 said that in his mind: ‘I was facing extremely dangerous criminals who committed robberies whilst armed with firearms.</div>
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‘I believed that members of this organised crime gang had discharged firearms towards police in the past in order to evade arrest.’</div>
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The last piece in the surveillance jigsaw was supplied by DC Steven Brown at 6.41pm, more than 14 hours after the armed officers had reported for duty that day and told to remain in a state of readiness.</div>
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He saw the car: Grainger and the two men were in a red Audi which had been stolen by unknown persons three months earlier and equipped with false number-plates.</div>
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Brown watched it enter a car park in Culcheth, a Cheshire village 15 miles west of Manchester and outside the Greater Manchester force area. By now it was dark, and unbeknown to the police, the three men in the Audi were not the group targeted by Operation Shire: Rimmer was absent, and one of the passengers was another man entirely – Joey Travers.</div>
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The police decided to deploy the armed unit in three cars. They got to the car park at 7.09pm. Q9 was in the back seat of the lead or ‘alpha’ vehicle – a grey Audi estate.</div>
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His statement says: ‘I had hold of my MP5 by the pistol grip in my right hand and my left hand on the electric window button on the door. W4 [the driver] increased the speed of our vehicle when we were halfway along the car park.</div>
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Q9 saw Grainger move his right hand downwards – he says ‘suddenly’ – though a statement from one of the other officers say this movement was slow.</div>
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The officer levelled his laser- aiming device ‘and fired one round to the centre mass of the driver’ – Grainger’s chest.</div>
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It was only afterwards that Q9’s colleagues shot out the Audi’s tyres and lobbed two tear gas grenades inside the vehicle. By then – around three seconds after the ‘alpha’ car had screeched to a halt – Grainger was already dying: no tear gas was found inside his lungs.</div>
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For some time, most of the officers remained unaware Grainger had been shot, and one even says he thought he was trying to resist arrest, so tried to pull him out of the driver’s seat window until he noticed his chest wound.</div>
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Totton and Travers were arrested and charged, along with Rimmer, with conspiracy to commit robberies. In September they were tried but the prosecution case consisted only of the records of Operation Shire, and there was no mention of the supposed previous robberies cited by Q9.</div>
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In evidence, all three men said they had been in Culcheth to help Grainger recover money that was owed to him.</div>
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It took a jury just 45 minutes to find them not guilty.</div>
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Grainger’s death left his two children from an earlier relationship, who he used to visit every weekend, fatherless – and his partner, Gail Hadfield, with whom he had just moved in, bereaved.</div>
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As for his family, Mr Ahmed said: ‘There are too many unanswered questions. Who gave that briefing, and why did they say they were armed and dangerous? Why were the armed unit on duty for so long, and why was he shot so quickly?</div>
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‘I am convinced that Anthony’s death is somehow linked to the memory stick. Was someone trying to send a message to whoever really had it?</div>
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‘The only way to get at the truth is a full-blown public inquiry, and that’s what we’re demanding.’</div>
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<br />Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-83666960195515582642013-12-13T22:23:00.000+00:002013-12-13T22:23:09.442+00:00Cutest and Funniest Young Authors on the Net<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">[or <i>'Kids Say the Darndest Things'</i> for my America readers ;) ]</span></span></strong>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-24.jpg"><img alt="via http://acidcow.com/pics/5738-funny-dear-god-notes-16-pics.html" class="size-full wp-image-4354" height="585" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-24.jpg" width="625" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://acidcow.com/pics/5738-funny-dear-god-notes-16-pics.html" target="_blank">acidcow.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div style="float: none; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">6.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4357" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-1.jpg"><img alt="via http://redd.it/1eslxy" class="size-full wp-image-4357" height="450" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-1.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://redd.it/1eslxy" target="_blank">reddit.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">7.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4356" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-19.jpg"><img alt="via http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/03/02/the-joys-of-motherhood/#8" class="size-full wp-image-4356" height="814" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-19.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/03/02/the-joys-of-motherhood/#8" target="_blank">passiveaggressivenotes.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">8.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4355" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-25.jpg"><img alt="via http://iamlesbianandproudheya.tumblr.com/post/17004444078/sapphos-ghost-ok-headcanon-this-was-found-in" class="size-full wp-image-4355" height="800" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-25.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://iamlesbianandproudheya.tumblr.com/post/17004444078/sapphos-ghost-ok-headcanon-this-was-found-in" target="_blank">iamlesbianandproudheya.tumblr.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">9.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4348" style="width: 510px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-12.jpg"><img alt="via http://hahanice.com/kid-logic/" class="size-full wp-image-4348" height="669" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-12.jpg" width="500" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://hahanice.com/kid-logic/" target="_blank">hahanice.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">10.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4350" style="width: 635px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-14.jpg"><img alt="via http://imgur.com/zi2w1wL" class="size-full wp-image-4350" height="469" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-14.jpg" width="625" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://imgur.com/zi2w1wL" target="_blank">imgur.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">11.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4341" style="width: 510px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-5.jpg"><img alt="via http://ohfunniest.com/post/67282248398/celestial-sexhair-billcosplay-i-had-a-book" class="size-full wp-image-4341" height="667" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-5.jpg" width="500" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://ohfunniest.com/post/67282248398/celestial-sexhair-billcosplay-i-had-a-book" target="_blank">ohfunniest.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">12.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4342" style="width: 635px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-6.jpg"><img alt="via http://imgur.com/8FYcGoH" class="size-full wp-image-4342" height="469" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-6.jpg" width="625" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://imgur.com/8FYcGoH" target="_blank">imgur.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">13.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4336" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-23.jpg"><img alt="via http://erinmccarson.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html" class="size-full wp-image-4336" height="511" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-23.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://erinmccarson.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html" target="_blank">erinmccarson.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">14.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4335" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-22.jpg"><img alt="via http://pat-aviewfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2011/09/incorrect-test-answers-from-kids.html" class="size-full wp-image-4335" height="446" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-22.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://pat-aviewfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2011/09/incorrect-test-answers-from-kids.html" target="_blank">pat-aviewfromtheedge.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">15.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4334" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-21.jpg"><img alt="via http://www.e-radio.gr/blog/post.asp?langID=2&uid=5462" class="size-full wp-image-4334" height="771" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-21.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://www.e-radio.gr/blog/post.asp?langID=2&uid=5462" target="_blank">e-radio.gr</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">16.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4333" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-20.jpg"><img alt="via https://images.nonexiste.net/popular/tag/card/" class="size-full wp-image-4333" height="449" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-20.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="https://images.nonexiste.net/popular/tag/card/" target="_blank">images.nonexiste.net</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">17.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4339" style="width: 622px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-3.jpg"><img alt="via http://imgur.com/0tyH7gK" class="size-full wp-image-4339" height="816" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-3.jpg" width="612" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://imgur.com/0tyH7gK" target="_blank">imgur.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">18.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4338" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-27.jpg"><img alt="via http://stuffkidswrite.com/2011/09/08/mom-is-not-your-boss/" class="size-full wp-image-4338" height="298" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-27.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://stuffkidswrite.com/2011/09/08/mom-is-not-your-boss/" target="_blank">stuffkidswrite.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">19.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4337" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-26.jpg"><img alt="via http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/03/29/the-passive-aggressive-wunderkind/" class="size-full wp-image-4337" height="444" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-26.jpg" style="opacity: 1;" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/03/29/the-passive-aggressive-wunderkind/" target="_blank">passiveaggressivenotes.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">20.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4330" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-2.jpg"><img alt="via http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/nine-year-old-zacs-letter-of-apology-to-little-brother-for-pinching-his-nuts-hits-facebook/story-fnet0he2-1226615182109" class="size-full wp-image-4330" height="338" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-2.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/nine-year-old-zacs-letter-of-apology-to-little-brother-for-pinching-his-nuts-hits-facebook/story-fnet0he2-1226615182109" target="_blank">news.com.au</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">21.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4331" style="width: 610px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-18.jpg"><img alt="via http://imgur.com/v1m8o" class="size-full wp-image-4331" height="800" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-18.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://imgur.com/v1m8o" target="_blank">imgur.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">22.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4346" style="width: 476px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-10.jpg"><img alt="via http://imgur.com/62Ep0" class="size-full wp-image-4346" height="556" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-10.jpg" width="466" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://imgur.com/62Ep0" target="_blank">imgur.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">23.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4351" style="width: 635px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-15.jpg"><img alt="via http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1mllgt/my_son_the_consummate_smartass_i_think_third/" class="size-full wp-image-4351" height="352" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-15.jpg" width="625" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1mllgt/my_son_the_consummate_smartass_i_think_third/" target="_blank">reddit.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">24.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4344" style="width: 635px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-8.jpg"><img alt="via http://reddit.com/r/funny/comments/184vun/my_daughter_left_me_a_note_she_was_right/" class="size-full wp-image-4344" height="813" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-8.jpg" width="625" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://reddit.com/r/funny/comments/184vun/my_daughter_left_me_a_note_she_was_right/" target="_blank">reddit.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">25.</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_4352" style="width: 566px;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-16.jpg"><img alt="via http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1jfiwu/my_cousin_did_this_hes_a_boy_and_hes_7/" class="size-full wp-image-4352" height="546" src="http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hilarious-notes-kids-16.jpg" width="556" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1jfiwu/my_cousin_did_this_hes_a_boy_and_hes_7/" target="_blank">reddit.com</a></span></span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><h3>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">26.</span></span></h3>
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Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-24996355548361643892013-12-06T22:07:00.000+00:002013-12-06T22:23:36.844+00:00Cameron Hung Nelson Mandela<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyone with the briefest interest in politics and world affairs will be aware that Tory leader, David Cameron, is a hypocrite for marking
Nelson Mandela as a hero.</span></h1>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The viral memes (<a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BazVCbRCYAAWHHP.jpg:large" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BazVCbRCYAAWHHP.jpg:large" target="_blank">here</a>) that have been doing the rounds on social media sites for a year or so refer to Mandela’s grave illness and continues <i>"When he
does die, and David Cameron jumps on the Mandela bandwagon, remember
that in 1985 he was a top member of the Federation of Conservative
Students, which produced the 'Hang Mandela' posters."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some establishment apologists and reactionary, right-wing commentators are attempting to paint a picture that is a little more opaque. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cameron and the current
Tory head boys are acknowledged toffs, cast in the image of Harry
Enfield’s <i>‘Tory Boys’</i> that the Conservative Party under William
Hague tried in vain to rid itself of in the 90′s. Of course any attempt at a Blairite 'modernisation' of the Tories is doomed to failure because it is inherently a party of the rich, for the rich; much like the New Labour facelift which tired to deny, worse still sever the proletarian roots of the political wing of the trade unions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But are Cameron and Co merely
upper-class buffoons or is there a truly malevolent vein running through
the clique? We must examine the post-war history of young Conservatism and also look back to their university years...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Following the Second World War and the Conservatives’ loss of power,
the Young Britons Organisation was reformed to cater for boys and girls
aged 6-16, whilst over 16s were accommodated by the creation of the catchily-named </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Federation of University Conservative and Unionists Associations (FUCUA), later rebranded as the
Federation of Conservative Students (FCS), and the Young Conservatives
(YC). The Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) was created as the
official university-based student-wing of the Conservative Party,
although many students were also members of the YC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Those that seek to defend Cameron, such as the author of <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/david-cameron-didnt-produce-hang-mandela-posters-during-the" target="_blank">this misleading Buzzfeed piece</a>, claim that Cameron can be absolved of any and all responsibility for the <i>Hang Mandela</i> and pro-Apartheid rhetoric of the time because our David was not even ‘political’ in University and there is little evidence he was a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Conservative_Students" target="_blank">FCS</a>,
although he likely was a member of YC. The FCS became well-known for
its ‘Hang Nelson Mandela’ posters and badges, as well as, slogans such
as ‘Execute Arthur Scargill!’, or ‘Smash the NHS!’ ‘Kill the Wets’.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some members of the top level of FCS negotiated with the BNP. Although divided into three main factions the FCS
leadership at the time were far-right, libertarian in outlook and fashioned themselves as
shock troops for the right-wing of the Conservative party, adopting the
moniker <i>‘Maggies Militant Tendency’</i>. The satirical magazine <i>Private Eye</i> alleged
that members of the FCS at Aberystwyth wore springbok jerseys, racially
abused ethnic minority bar staff at the student bar and organised a
night out in Aberystwyth town centre to celebrate the anniversary
of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This from <a href="http://guidoforks.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/tory-student-leader-in-racist-party.html" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>, 31st May 1986:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tory student leader in ‘ racist ‘ party link / Paul
Delarie-Staines of FCS attempts to form pact with British National Party
in Hull by David Rose a leader of the Federation of Conservative
Students wrote to an organiser of the British National Party proposing
joint ‘direct action’ to disrupt the meetings of leftwing students.
Secrecy, he emphasised, was essential: ‘The Reds would simply go wild if
they got to hear of a BNP-FCS link.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I would personally be in danger of being expelled from the
Conservative Party.’ The author of the letter is Mr Paul
Delarie-Staines, the chairman of the federation’s 50-strong branch at
the Humberside college of Higher Education. Mr Delarie-Staines, who is
in his first year of a degree course in business information studies,
wrote on May 22 to Mr Ian Walker, a BNP organiser in Hull. He was, he
said, against several of the aims of the BNP, which campaigns for the
repatriation of black citizens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mr Delarie-Staines said he did not share the BNP view on immigration:
as a member of the ‘libertarian’ faction of the FCS he advocated the
free movement of labour, albeit with the caveat that ‘you come here to
work – or starve. ‘He went on: ‘I share a lot of your objectives.‘ These
included a return to leadership and statesmanship, the abolition of the
welfare state, and ‘the elimination of Communism in Britain – the mass
media, the trade unions, and the schoolroom. ‘Mr Delaire-Staines
continued: ‘Nevertheless, even though we have our differences, I know a
lot of BNP people at college do support the FCS (some are members of the
FCS). I can certainly envisage some degree of cooperation.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Paul Staines in question is better known now as drunken right-wing blogger Guido Fawkes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Norman Tebbit disbanded FCS in 1986 as he viewed it as too extreme;
they had accused former Tory PM Harold Macmillan of war crimes in extraditing
Cossacks to the Soviet Union.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Before this prominent members included – Michael Forsyth (member of
John Major’s cabinet, knighted in 97 and appointed to the Lords in 99) and
John Bercow (current speaker of the House of Commons and the last chair
of the FCS. Bercow is something of a self-made man, and there is a
simmering animosity between him and Cameron. Son of a taxi-driver,
educated in state schools he is the ‘Loadsamoney’ Thatcherite compared
to Cameron’s ‘Tory Boy’ descendant of King William IV. Cameron’s father
was a stockbroker, mother served as a magistrate and he went to prep
school before Eton). Matin Callanan (leading the Conservative European
Parliament section and seen by analysts as one of the trinity really
leading the Tories along with Tom Strathclyde and Cameron).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">YC, which shared members with FCS before their respective
disbandments, was not as extreme as FCS – at least overtly – and it was
suffered until William Hague’s decision to disband it in 1998. With less
emphasis on political fundamentalism it was something more of a social
club or marriage bureau, although responsible to a large extent for
Churchill’s re-election in 1951, akin to Ireland’s Young Fine Gael or
Ogra Fianna Fáil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">However this is not to say that Cameron was oblivious of the
right-wing nature of his political allegiance.In the Buzzfeed article defending Cameron we<span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[4ti9i].[1][3][1]{comment10153563077320594_45279375}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]">
only have the word of his official biographer that he wasn't
"political" as a student; despite the fact he took Politics at 'O' level, 'A'
level <b><i>AND</i></b> Degree; that he did work experience with his godfather,
who was Tory MP for Lewes; and that most of his ancestors sat in the
House of Lords. Are we really to believe he was not involved in politics
until he finished his degree...and then walked straight into a prestigious
job at Tory Party Central Office? For some reason, and I have no idea
why, I smell a rat. There is no reason why Cameron could
not have been a member of FCS whilst studying his 'A' levels, a full two years before he went to
University...where the apolitical [sic] Cameron went to study...<i>Politics</i>. Of course this is all speculation, as
are most of the "facts" cited in the Buzzfeed piece.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[4ti9i].[1][3][1]{comment10153563077320594_45279375}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In 1989, 23yr old Cameron
was working at the Conservative Research Department and was seen as
future leader material. We do know for certain that he accepted an apartheid-lobbyist trip to South
Africa, whilst Nelson Mandela rotted in prison, on what</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[4ti9i].[1][3][1]{comment10153563077320594_45279375}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"></span></span> was called a <i>‘sanction-busting jolly’</i> by critics. His host
was Strategy Network International (SNI), created in 1985 specifically
to lobby against the imposition of sanctions on South Africa. Thatcher
at this time had called Mandela a terrorist and the Conservatives were
defiantly anti-sanctions. While this is circumstantial it can be noted
that Cameron has surrounded himself with former FCS and YC members, the
very people that regarded themselves as more Thatcherite than Thatcher.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[5jkke].[1][3][1]{comment668690239819002_94152574}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]">If
I said <i>"Adolf Hitler was a diamond, stand-up bloke with fab policies"</i> [he wasn't, obvs] could you infer
from that that I, at this moment in time, supported Hitler, his beliefs
and his manifesto? Yes, I rather think you could. Ergo, when Cameron
praises and worships Thatcher that is exa<span data-reactid=".r[5jkke].[1][3][1]{comment668690239819002_94152574}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]">ctly what he is doing. <br data-reactid=".r[5jkke].[1][3][1]{comment668690239819002_94152574}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[1]" /><br data-reactid=".r[5jkke].[1][3][1]{comment668690239819002_94152574}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[2]" />Did
Thatcher call Mandela a terrorist? Yep. Did Cameron support Thatcher's
anti-sanctions, pro-Apartheid policies? Yep. (he was actually a "rising
star" of the Conservative Research Department, lest we forget!). Did Tory MPs like Teddy
Taylor and the FSC call for Mandela's execution? Yep. Did Cameron attend
a sanction-busting all-expense jolly to Apartheid South Africa whilst
Mandela was incaerated on Robin Island by that very same regime? Yep. Are leading members of the
Cameron's Tory Cabinet - his personally hand-picked colleagues,
including leader of the House John Bercow - those responsible for the
<i>Hang Mandela</i> propaganda of the FSC in the 1980's? Yep. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[5jkke].[1][3][1]{comment668690239819002_94152574}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]"></span><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[39it0].[1][3][1]{comment10153563077320594_45277510}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]">Whether Cameron was actually directly involved in the production of the Hang Mandela material is pretty irrelevant; he was was complicit with the campaign. It depends how pedantic
you want to be but the key point, backed with evidence,
really is the fact that behind Cameron's platitudes lies someone who
helped the Apartheid state to continue for far longer than it should
have. It's his hypocrisy that is the issue, not his use of a photocopier
in 1985.</span></span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[5jkke].[1][3][1]{comment668690239819002_94152574}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0]">Unless
Cameron condemns Thatcher's pro-Apartheid, anti-sanctions,
<i>Mandela-is-a-terrorist</i> rhetoric he must still either complicitly support
it or be trying to whitewash it from history, because last time I
checked he still has his slimy little tongue lodge up Maggie's
maggot-infested arse.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club" target="_blank">Bullingdon Club </a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_Club" target="_blank">Monday Club</a> influence
on Cameron, his cabinet, speech writers, advisors and supporters is
more relevant than whether or not he wore a ‘Hang Mandela’ badge or tie
like so many of his colleagues. The select few that came through the YC,
FCS and the two example clubs are in charge and largely share the same
platform. They were anti-communist, pro-apartheid,
anti-immigrantion or straightforwardly racist (although Libertarian and
other peculiarities muddy the water here <i>eg</i> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2002637/John-Bercow-I-liked-I-realised-I-immigrants-referred-to.html" target="_blank">this account</a>
by Derek Laud), anti-republican, anti-Irish, fanatically
pro-privatisation and defiantly upper class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cameron sports fifteen old
Etonians in his cabinet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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It is a deep thing that people still celebrate the survival of the early colonists at Plymouth -- by giving thanks to the Christian God who supposedly protected and championed the European invasion. The real meaning of all that, then and now, needs to be continually excavated. The myths and lies that surround the past are constantly draped over the horrors and tortures of our present.</div>
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Every schoolchild in the U.S. has been taught that the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony invited the local Indians to a major harvest feast after surviving their first bitter year in New England. But the real history of Thanksgiving is a story of the murder of indigenous people and the theft of their land by European colonialists--and of the ruthless ways of capitalism.</div>
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In mid-winter 1620 the English ship Mayflower landed on the North American coast, delivering 102 exiles. The original Native people of this stretch of shoreline had already been killed off. In 1614 a British expedition had landed there. When they left they took 24 Indians as slaves and left smallpox behind. Three years of plague wiped out between 90 and 96 percent of the inhabitants of the coast, destroying most villages completely.</div>
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The Europeans landed and built their colony called "the Plymouth Plantation" near the deserted ruins of the Indian village of Pawtuxet. They ate from abandoned cornfields grown wild. Only one Pawtuxet named Squanto had survived--he had spent the last years as a slave to the English and Spanish in Europe. Squanto spoke the colonists' language and taught them how to plant corn and how to catch fish until the first harvest. Squanto also helped the colonists negotiate a peace treaty with the nearby Wampanoag tribe, led by the chief Massasoit.</div>
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These were very lucky breaks for the colonists. The first Virginia settlement had been wiped out before they could establish themselves. Thanks to the good will of the Wampanoag, the settlers not only survived their first year but had an alliance with the Wampanoags that would give them almost two decades of peace.</div>
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John Winthrop, a founder of the Massahusetts Bay colony considered this wave of illness and death to be a divine miracle. He wrote to a friend in England, "But for the natives in these parts, God hath so pursued them, as for 300 miles space the greatest part of them are swept away by smallpox which still continues among them. So as God hath thereby cleared our title to this place, those who remain in these parts, being in all not 50, have put themselves under our protection."</div>
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The deadly impact of European diseases and the good will of the Wampanoag allowed the settlers to survive their first year.</div>
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In celebration of their good fortune, the colony's governor, William Bradford, declared a three-day feast of thanksgiving after that first harvest of 1621.</div>
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<img align="right" alt="Early North America as Native peoples and Europe settlers collide" src="http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/_49_tribe_terr_s.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; float: right; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px; max-width: 425px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But the peace that produced the Thanksgiving Feast of 1621 meant that the Puritans would have 15 years to establish a firm foothold on the coast. Until 1629 there were no more than 300 settlers in New England, scattered in small and isolated settlements. But their survival inspired a wave of Puritan invasion that soon established growing Massachusetts towns north of Plymouth: Boston and Salem. For 10 years, boatloads of new settlers came.</div>
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And as the number of Europeans increased, they proved not nearly so generous as the Wampanoags.</div>
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On arrival, the Puritans and other religious sects discussed "who legally owns all this land." They had to decide this, not just because of Anglo-Saxon traditions, but because their particular way of farming was based on individual--not communal or tribal--ownership. This debate over land ownership reveals that bourgeois "rule of law" does not mean "protect the rights of the masses of people."</div>
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Some settlers argued that the land belonged to the Indians. These forces were excommunicated and expelled. Massachusetts Governor Winthrop declared the Indians had not "subdued" the land, and therefore all uncultivated lands should, according to English Common Law, be considered "public domain." This meant they belonged to the king. In short, the colonists decided they did not need to consult the Indians when they seized new lands, they only had to consult the representative of the crown (meaning the local governor).</div>
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The colonists embraced a line from Psalms 2:8. "Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." Since then, European settler states have similarly declared god their real estate agent: from the Boers seizing South Africa to the Zionists seizing Palestine.</div>
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The European immigrants took land and enslaved Indians to help them farm it. By 1637 there were about 2,000 British settlers. They pushed out from the coast and decided to remove the inhabitants.</div>
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Where did the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies of Puritan and "separatist" pilgrims come from and what were they really all about?</div>
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Governor Winthrop, a founder of the Massachusetts colony, said, "We shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us." The<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Mayflower</em> Puritans had been driven out of England as subversives. The Puritans saw this religious colony as a model of a social and political order that they believed all of Europe should adopt.</div>
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The Puritan movement was part of a sweeping revolt within English society against the ruling feudal order of wealthy lords. Only a few decades after the establishment of Plymouth, the Puritan Revolution came to power in England. They killed the king, won a civil war, set up a short-lived republic, and brutally conquered the neighboring people of Ireland to create a larger national market.</div>
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The famous Puritan intolerance was part of a determined attempt to challenge the decadence and wastefulness of the rich aristocratic landlords of England. The Puritans wanted to use the power of state punishment to uproot old and still dominant ways of thinking and behaving.</div>
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The new ideas of the Puritans served the needs of merchant capitalist accumulation. The extreme discipline, thrift and modesty the Puritans demanded of each other corresponded to a new and emerging form of ownership and production. Their so-called "Protestant Ethic" was an early form of the<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> capitalist</em> ethic. From the beginning, the Puritan colonies intended to grow through capitalist trade--trading fish and fur with England while they traded pots, knives, axes, alcohol and other English goods with the Indians.</div>
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The New England were ruled by a government in which only the male heads of families had a voice. Women, Indians, slaves, servants, youth were neither heard nor represented. In the Puritan schoolbooks, the old law "honor thy father and thy mother" was interpreted to mean honoring "All our Superiors, whether in Family, School, Church, and Commonwealth." And, the real truth was that the colonies were fundamentally controlled by the most powerful merchants.</div>
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The Puritan fathers believed they were the Chosen People of an infinite god and that this justified anything they did. They were Calvinists who believed that the vast majority of humanity was predestined to damnation. This meant that while they were firm in fighting for their own capitalist right to accumulate and prosper, they were quick to oppress the masses of people in Ireland, Scotland and North America, once they seized the power to set up their new bourgeois order. Those who rejected the narrow religious rules of the colonies were often simply expelled "out into the wilderness."</div>
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The Massachusetts colony (north of Plymouth) was founded when Puritan stockholders had gotten control of an English trading company. The king had given this company the right to govern its own internal affairs, and in 1629 the stockholders simply voted to transfer the company to North American shores--making this colony<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> literally</em> a self-governing company of stockholders!</div>
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In U.S. schools, students are taught that the<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Mayflower</em> compact of Plymouth contained the seeds of "modern democracy" and "rule of law." But by looking at the actual history of the Puritans, we can see that this so-called "modern democracy" was (and still is) a<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> capitalist</em> democracy based on all kinds of oppression and serving the class interests of the ruling capitalists.</div>
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In short, the Puritan movement developed as an early revolutionary challenge to the old feudal order in England. They were the soul of primitive capitalist accumulation. And transferred to the shores of North America, they immediately revealed how heartless and oppressive that capitalist soul is.</div>
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<img align="right" alt="European colonists attack the Pequot village" src="http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/800px-pequot_war.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; float: right; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px; max-width: 425px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In the Connecticut Valley, the powerful Pequot tribe had not entered an alliance with the British (as had the Narragansett, the Wampanoag, and the Massachusetts peoples). At first they were far from the centers of colonization. Then, in 1633, the British stole the land where the city of Hartford now sits--land which the Pequot had recently conquered from another tribe. That same year two British slave raiders were killed. The colonists demanded that the Indians who killed the slavers be turned over. The Pequot refused.</div>
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The Puritan preachers said, from Romans 13:2, "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." The colonial governments gathered an armed force of 240 under the command of John Mason. They were joined by a thousand Narragansett warriors. The historian Francis Jennings writes: "Mason proposed to avoid attacking Pequot warriors which would have overtaxed his unseasoned, unreliable troops. Battle, as such, was not his purpose. Battle is only one of the ways to destroy an enemy's will to fight. Massacre can accomplish the same end with less risk, and Mason had determined that massacre would be his objective."</div>
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The colonist army surrounded a fortified Pequot village on the Mystic River. At sunrise, as the inhabitants slept, the Puritan soldiers set the village on fire.</div>
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William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, wrote: "Those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword; some hewed to pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so that they were quickly dispatched and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire...horrible was the stink and scent thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them."</div>
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Mason himself wrote: "It may be demanded...Should not Christians have more mercy and compassion? But...sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents.... We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings."</div>
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Three hundred and fifty years later the Puritan phrase "a shining city on the hill" became a favorite quote of conservative speechwriters.</div>
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This so-called "Pequot war" was a one-sided murder and slaving expedition. Over 180 captives were taken. After consulting the bible again, in Leviticus 24:44, the colonial authorities found justification to kill most of the Pequot men and enslave the captured women and their children. Only 500 Pequot remained alive and free. In 1975 the official number of Pequot living in Connecticut was 21.</div>
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Some of the war captives were given to the Narragansett and Massachusetts allies of the British. Even before the arrival of Europeans, Native peoples of North America had widely practiced taking war captives from other tribes as hostages and slaves.</div>
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The remaining captives were sold to British plantation colonies in the West Indies to be worked to death in a new form of slavery that served the emerging capitalist world market. And with that, the merchants of Boston made a historic discovery: the profits they made from the sale of human beings virtually paid for the cost of seizing them.</div>
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One account says that enslaving Indians quickly became a "mania with speculators." These early merchant capitalists of Massachusetts started to make genocide pay for itself. The slave trade, first in captured Indians and soon in kidnapped Africans, quickly became a backbone of New England merchant capitalism.</div>
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In 1641 the Dutch governor Kieft of Manhattan offered the first "scalp bounty"--his government paid money for the scalp of each Indian brought to them. A couple years later, Kieft ordered the massacre of the Wappingers, a friendly tribe. Eighty were killed and their severed heads were kicked like soccer balls down the streets of Manhattan. One captive was castrated, skinned alive and forced to eat his own flesh while the Dutch governor watched and laughed. Then Kieft hired the notorious Underhill who had commanded in the Pequot war to carry out a similar massacre near Stamford, Connecticut. The village was set fire, and 500 Indian residents were put to the sword.</div>
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A day of thanksgiving was proclaimed in the churches of Manhattan. As we will see, the European colonists declared Thanksgiving Days to celebrate mass murder more often than they did for harvest and friendship.</div>
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By the 1670s there were about 30,000 to 40,000 white inhabitants in the United New England Colonies--6,000 to 8,000 able to bear arms. With the Pequot destroyed, the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonists turned on the Wampanoag, the tribe that had saved them in 1620 and probably joined them for the original Thanksgiving Day.</div>
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In 1675 a Christian Wampanoag was killed while spying for the Puritans. The Plymouth authorities arrested and executed three Wampanoag without consulting the tribal chief, King Philip.</div>
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As Mao Tsetung says: "Where there is oppression there is resistance." The Wampanoag went to war.</div>
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The Indians applied some military lessons they had learned: they waged a guerrilla war which overran isolated European settlements and were often able to inflict casualties on the Puritan soldiers. The colonists again attacked and massacred the main Indian populations.</div>
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When this war ended, 600 European men, one-eleventh of the adult men of the New England Colonies, had been killed in battle. Hundreds of homes and 13 settlements had been wiped out. But the colonists won.</div>
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In their victory, the settlers launched an all-out genocide against the remaining Native people. The Massachusetts government offered 20 shillings bounty for every Indian scalp, and 40 shillings for every prisoner who could be sold into slavery. Soldiers were allowed to enslave any Indian woman or child under 14 they could capture. The "Praying Indians" who had converted to Christianity and fought on the side of the European troops were accused of shooting into the treetops during battles with "hostiles." They were enslaved or killed. Other "peaceful" Indians of Dartmouth and Dover were invited to negotiate or seek refuge at trading posts--and were sold onto slave ships.</div>
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It is not known how many Indians were sold into slavery, but in this campaign, 500 enslaved Indians were shipped from Plymouth alone. Of the 12,000 Indians in the surrounding tribes, probably about half died from battle, massacre and starvation.</div>
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After King Philip's War, there were almost no Indians left free in the northern British colonies. A colonist wrote from Manhattan's New York colony: "There is now but few Indians upon the island and those few no ways hurtful. It is to be admired how strangely they have decreased by the hand of God, since the English first settled in these parts."</div>
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In Massachusetts, the colonists declared a "day of public thanksgiving" in 1676, saying, "there now scarce remains a name or family of them [the Indians] but are either slain, captivated or fled."</div>
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Fifty-five years after the original Thanksgiving Day, the Puritans had destroyed the generous Wampanoag and all other neighboring tribes. The Wampanoag chief King Philip was beheaded. His head was stuck on a pole in Plymouth, where the skull still hung on display 24 years later.</div>
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The descendants of these Native peoples are found wherever the Puritan merchant capitalists found markets for slaves: the West Indies, the Azures, Algiers, Spain and England. The grandson of Massasoit, the Pilgrim's original protector, was sold into slavery in Bermuda. Runaways and Rebels</div>
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But even the destruction of Indian tribal life and the enslavement of survivors brought no peace. Indians continued to resist in every available way. Their oppressors lived in terror of a revolt. And they searched for ways to end the resistance. The historian MacLeod writes: "The first `reservations' were designed for the `wild' Irish of Ulster in 1609. And the first Indian reservation agent in America, Gookin of Massachusetts, like many other American immigrants had seen service in Ireland under Cromwell."</div>
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The enslaved Indians refused to work and ran away. The Massachusetts government tried to control runaways by marking enslaved Indians: brands were burnt into their skin, and symbols were tattooed into their foreheads and cheeks.</div>
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A Massachusetts law of 1695 gave colonists permission to kill Indians at will, declaring it was "lawful for any person, whether English or Indian, that shall find any Indians traveling or skulking in any of the towns or roads (within specified limits), to command them under their guard and examination, or to kill them as they may or can."</div>
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The northern colonists enacted more and more laws for controlling the people. A law in Albany forbade any African or Indian slave from driving a cart within the city. Curfews were set up; Africans and Indians were forbidden to have evening get-togethers. On Block Island, Indians were given 10 lashes for being out after nine o'clock. In 1692 Massachusetts made it a serious crime for any white person to marry an African, an Indian or a mulatto. In 1706 they tried to stop the importation of Indian slaves from other colonies, fearing a slave revolt.</div>
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Looking at this history raises a question: Why should anyone celebrate the survival of the earliest Puritans with a Thanksgiving Day? Certainly the Native peoples of those times had no reason to celebrate.</div>
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The ruling powers of the United States organized people to celebrate Thanksgiving Day because it is in their interest. That's why they created it. The first national celebration of Thanksgiving was called for by George Washington. And the celebration was made a regular legal holiday later by Abraham Lincoln during the civil war (right as he sent troops to suppress the Sioux of Minnesota).</div>
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Washington and Lincoln were two presidents deeply involved in trying to forge a unified bourgeois nation-state out of the European settlers in the United States. And the Thanksgiving story was a useful myth in their efforts at U.S. nation-building. It celebrates the "bounty of the American way of life," while covering up the brutal nature of this society.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">1.</span> The most perfect moment that ever happened.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">3.</span> The surprisingly well-prepared bucket head.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline">8.</span> This pug that is ashamed of his dancing abilities.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Secret British Army hit squad posed as dustmen and meths drinkers to 'shoot and kill unarmed IRA suspects'</span></h1>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Soldier said the people he killed were hardened criminals not innocents 'we were hunting down hardcore baby-killers'</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Former
members of the Military Reaction Force (MRF) have revealed that they
wore disguises as they tracked down potential terrorists in Belfast</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The
unit, which was disbanded in 1973, would allegedly patrol west Belfast
around the clock and would shoot suspected IRA members</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Ministry of Defence has referred disclosures to police</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Allegations made in BBC Panorama programme, Britain's Secret Terror Force, to air tonight</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A former British solider at the centre
of revelations about the killings of unarmed civilians in Northern
Ireland has denied his secretive unit acted outside the law.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tonight's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03jprmx" target="_blank"><b>BBC Panorama</b></a> programme claims that an undercover unit of the British Army in Northern Ireland tasked with
'hunting down' IRA members killed unarmed suspects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the episode, entitled <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03jprmx" target="_blank"><i>Britain's Secret Terror</i></a>, former members of
the Military Reaction Force (MRF) revealed that they wore disguises as
they tracked down potential terrorists, labelled by one as 'hardcore
baby-killers', in Belfast as the Troubles raged in the early 1970s.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Revelations: Alongside uniformed British
soldiers, shown here working to combat rioting in West Belfast, 1976,
undercover unit, the Military Reaction Force, was also in operation and
hunting IRA members. The unit has today been accused of killing unarmed
suspects</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The unit, which was disbanded in 1973,
would allegedly patrol west Belfast around the clock in unmarked cars
and would shoot suspected IRA members.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Panorama also alleges that there were several ‘drive by’ shootings
carried out by MRF soldiers, in which people were killed and wounded -
even though there is no independent evidence that any of them were armed
or were members of the IRA.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Speaking
publicly for the first time on Panorama, some ex-members of the unit
admitted firing on groups of people on the streets of Belfast even if
they could not be sure they were carrying weapons. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One
former MRF member has admitted killing, but denied operating outside
the rules of engagement which covered the British Army in Northern
Ireland at that time. The ex-intelligence officer, who wrote the book
‘MRF Shadow Troop’ which prompted the Panorama investigation, protects
his identity for fear of IRA reprisals and now operates under the name
Simon Cursey. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><i>'We were there to protect the innocent people of
Northern Ireland,”</i> said Cursey, who was recruited to the MRF at its
inception in 1972.</span></span>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'If people got in our way and they were armed,
they were dealt with. It’s as simple as that. I can not recall any
situation whereby any member of our unit ever opened fire on innocent or
unarmed people.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'But we were right in the middle of the hard areas,
surrounded by terrorists or terrorist sympathisers. We were working
alone or in very small units most of the time, We did not have the
support of a whole platoon with tanks or guns. When you are alone like
that, you can’t mess around.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I killed people. But I’ve never had
nightmares about it or a loss of sleep. Nothing, nothing like that. The
people we were dealing with killed women and children. They murdered
people for nothing.</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We were acting a counter-terrorist unit and, as
far as I am concerned, we never did anything wrong. We did not target
innocent people, we did not need to. We never opened fire on innocent
people, we just targeted people with weapons. There were so many people
running around the streets of Belfast with weapons that we did not need
to target innocent people.'</span></span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Panorama revelations come after the Attorney
General in Northern Ireland proposed an 'amnesty' for those suspected of
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spoke to Panorama reporter John Ware about their involvement in the
unit, while three of them appeared on camera, although they were heavily
disguised with make-up and had their voices altered.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
three men told Panorama that they believed they had saved the lives of
many innocent people who were caught in the crossfire of the Troubles.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Speaking
anonymously, the former members claimed they had posed as Belfast City
Council road sweepers, dustmen and even 'meths drinkers' to conduct
their operation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One former member of the unit said: <i>'We never wore uniform - very few people knew what rank anyone was anyway.</i></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We were hunting down hardcore baby-killers, terrorists, people that would kill you without even thinking about it.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We were not there to act like an army unit, we were there to act like a
terror group,' said one former MRF soldier. </span> </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We were there in a
position to go after IRA and kill them when we found them.'</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The men addressed each other by first name and
dispensed with ranks and dog tags.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One
described their mission as to <i>'draw out the IRA and to minimise their
activities... if they needed shooting, they'd be shot'.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">All seven former MRF soldiers acknowledged that they sometimes acted
in contravention of the ‘Yellow Card’ - the strict rules carried by
every soldier, which spelt out the circumstances under which they could
open fire and stay within the law. Generally, lethal force was only
lawful when the lives of security forces or others were in immediate
danger. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, another MRF soldier explained: <i>'If you had a
player who was a well-known shooter who carried out quite a lot of
assassinations…</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added: <i>'It would have been very simple, he had to be taken out.'</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">All the soldiers denied that they were part of a 'death' or 'assassination squad'. The Ministry of Defence said it had referred the disclosures to police.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Panorama identified 10 unarmed civilians shot, according to witnesses, by the MRF:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Brothers John and Gerry Conway, on the way to their fruit stall in Belfast city centre on April 15, 1972;</span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Aiden McAloon and Eugene Devlin, in a taxi taking them home from a disco on May 12, 1972;</span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Joe Smith, Hugh Kenny, Patrick Murray and Tommy Shaw, on Glen Road on June 22, 1972; and</span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Daniel Rooney and Brendan Brennan, on the Falls Road on September 27, 1972.</span></b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
Ministry of Defence refused to comment on claims that soldiers involved
in specific shootings had been members of the MRF, and said that the
armed forces serving in Northern Ireland were accountable to UK and
humanitarian laws. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">According
to the Panorama programme, the MRF consisted of around 40 men, hand
picked from across the British Army, and was disbanded 40 years ago
after just 18 months in operation. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Patricia McVeigh told the BBC her father, Patrick McVeigh, had been shot and killed by plain clothes soldiers on May 12, 1972, </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">as he was stood by a car in west Belfast</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The father of six was a member of the </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Catholic Ex-Servicemen's Club, whose members had been manning barricades in Belfast.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Victim: Daniel Rooney, 18, was allegedly killed
by members of an MRF patrol on September 26, 1972. The Army claimed he
was an IRA gunman but the IRA have never claimed him as a member.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 44-year-old died two minutes later after being hit in the back - despite being unarmed. Mr McVeigh's family have been campaigning for justice for him ever since. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><i>'He
was an innocent man, he had every right to be on the street walking
home. He didn't deserve to die like this,'</i> she told the programme.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Although
soldiers involved in the shooting of Mr McVeigh made statements to the
Royal Military Police saying they had been shot at, Panorama says there
is no evidence that McVeigh or anyone beside him were members of the
IRA. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tony Le Tissier, a Major in the Royal
Military Police, told Panorama: <i>'They were playing at being bandits,
they were meant to be sort of IRA outlaws. That’s why they were in plain
clothes, operating plain vehicles and using a Thompson sub-machine
gun.'</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The MRF soldiers told
Panorama they agreed to be interviewed because they believed their role
in the fight against the IRA had gone unrecognised.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
police are currently re-investigating Bloody Sunday, with relatives of
those killed having long campaigned for the soldiers allegedly involved
to be prosecuted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">John Larkin QC, the Attorney General in Northern Ireland, </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">has called for an end to 'prosecutions, inquests and other inquiries' into deaths before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 1998 Omagh bomb, which happened after the Good Friday Agreement was signed, would not be covered by</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> Mr Larkin's suggestion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr
Larkin said this would not amount to an amnesty - the pre-1998 offences
would still be crimes but they would no longer be prosecuted.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Ruling out an amnesty, David Cameron told the Commons it would be 'rather dangerous' to block possible future prosecutions. Former
US diplomat Dr Richard Haass is trying to achieve political consensus
on a number of issues as yet unresolved during the peace process – one
of which is how the province addresses the legacy of its violent past
and the seemingly endless unanswered questions over killings carried out
by all sides. Mr Larkin outlined his controversial proposals in a submission to Dr Haass.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">An
MoD spokesman said on the claims that the MRF shot unarmed civilians: <i>
'The Armed Forces served with full accountability to the law and the MOD
continues to support and cooperate fully with all ongoing
investigations dealing with Op Banner legacy issues. The
UK has strict rules of engagement which are in accordance with UK Law
and International Humanitarian Law. These applied to operations in
Northern Ireland.</i></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">
'Soldiers were at all times subject to general criminal law on the use
of force which was made clear to them in training and before operations;
specifically on the use of the Yellow Card which clearly explained the
circumstances in which it was permitted to open fire. Where
allegations of criminality are involved it is up to the Police Service
of Northern Ireland to consider whether any investigation is necessary
and, if appropriate, to take it forward. </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The Ministry of Defence has cooperated fully with their inquiries. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Whilst
the Armed Forces and MoD recognise the contentious nature of certain
issues relating to its involvement in Operation Banner (1969-2007), the
invaluable work and personal sacrifice by tens of thousands of military
personnel contributed to establishment of the framework allowing today’s
political progress and peace.'</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Speaking
today, Colonel Richard Kemp said that thousands of British Army
soldiers stuck to the rules of engagement in Northern Ireland, but said
that where there was evidence of murder it should be investigated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><i>'Thousands
of forces went through Northern Ireland and stuck to the Yellow Card,
to keep a soldier operating within the law. It may be that some didn't,'</i>
he said.</span></span><br />
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the Whiterock Road, Belfast, where it is alleged that fruit sellers John
and Gerry Conway were mistaken for IRA gunmen and shot by plain clothes
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Soldiers often speak with bravado, and I wonder how many people on the programme say that they shot people themselves.'</span></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He
added: <i>'If there is evidence that soldiers acted unlawfully they need
to be charged. But I also believe at the same time that all the cases of
alleged murder should be investigated with the same vigour.'</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Speaking today </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Miss McVeigh said:</span> <i><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'There
was nothing brave about shooting an unarmed man and the fact that my
father was shot in the back shows they didn't follow the Yellow Card
rules,' she said. 'These men were forensically tested (to show they were
unarmed). These men were compensated by the Ministry of Defence but no
one was charged with any crime ever.'</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She added that she wants the men responsible to stand trial.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'That
is what we expect - some form of justice. When you kill someone you
have to be brought to court no matter how long ago that was.'</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03jprmx" target="_blank">Panorama: <i>Britain’s Secret Terror Force</i></a> is on BBC One 9pm on Thursday 21st November.</span></b></span><br />
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Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-17303810177730191332013-09-04T07:34:00.001+01:002013-09-04T07:40:48.138+01:00Femen: 'Feminism' of Patriarchy<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you know me you will be aware of the low esteem I hold for 'third-wave' feminist [sic] campaigns like Femen and so-called Sl*twalks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was not at all surprised by this latest revelation on this circus troop "protest" movement; colonialist, Islamaphobic, orientalist, ignorant and, not surprisingly, created and funded by a rich, male media oligarch...</span><br />
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It’s the Ukranian feminist group that embarrassed President Putin.
Its activists have staged many protests against sexual and political
repression by stripping to their waists in carefully choreographed media
stunts.</span><br />
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“Our mission is protest, our weapons are bare breasts,” runs their
slogan. Now, a new documentary screening at the Venice Film Festival has
revealed that Femen was founded and is controlled by a man.<br />
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<i>Ukraine is not a Brothel</i>,
directed by 28-year-old Australian film-maker Kitty Green, has “outed”
Victor Svyatski as the mastermind behind the group. Mr Syvatski is known
as a “consultant” to the movement. According to the Femen website, he
was badly beaten up by the secret services in Ukraine earlier this
summer because of his activities on behalf of the group.<br />
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However,
Ms Green reveals that Svyatski is not simply a supporter of Femen but
its founder and éminence grise. “It’s his movement and he hand-picked
the girls. He hand-picked the prettiest girls because the prettiest
girls sell more papers. The prettiest girls get on the front page...
that became their image, that became the way they sold the brand,” she
says.<br />
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Today, several of the original members of Femen – among them
its best known campaigner Inna Shevchenko – are due in Venice for the
launch of Ms Green’s documentary. In recent days some of its original
members have moved abroad to escape persecution in their home country,
claiming that they have been “systematically harassed, severely beaten,
kidnapped, and repeatedly received threats” from the authorities, while
in June two French and one German member were jailed following a topless
protest in Tunisia.<br />
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Until now, the full extent of Mr Svyatski’s
influence over Femen has not been realised. The film claims it was he
who sent Femen activists on one of their most terrifying missions to
Belarus where (according to testimony in the film) they were arrested by
secret service agents, stripped, humiliated and abandoned in a forest
close to the Ukranian border.<br />
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Ms Green accompanied them on this trip. She told <i>The Independent</i>
that her footage was stolen by the KGB and that she was abducted, “kept
in confinement for about eight hours,” and then deported to Lithuania.<br />
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In
the documentary, Ms Green pays tribute to Mr Svyatski’s organisational
abilities and charisma but questions his influence over the group.<br />
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“He
can be really horrible but he is fiercely intelligent,” she said of Mr
Svyatski, who is interviewed on camera in her film. Ms Green spent a
year living in a tiny apartment in Kiev with four of the Femen members
and filming their stunts. “I would shoot their protests and they would
take them and put them on their website,” she said.<br />
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Only gradually
did she become aware that Mr Svyatski was pulling the strings behind
the scenes. “Once I was in the inner circle, you can’t not know him. He
is Femen.”<br />
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Initially, Mr Svyatski refused to allow Ms Green to
film him but she was determined that he should feature. “It was a big
moral thing for me because I realised how this organisation was run. He
was quite horrible with the girls. He would scream at them and call them
bitches.”<br />
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When the Femen founder finally spoke to Ms Green, he
sought to justify his role within the organisation and acknowledged the
paradox of being a “patriarch” running a feminist protest group. “These
girls are weak,” he says in the film.<br />
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“They don’t have the
strength of character. They don’t even have the desire to be strong.
Instead, they show submissiveness, spinelessness, lack of punctuality,
and many other factors which prevent them from becoming political
activists. These are qualities which it was essential to teach them.”<br />
Mr
Svyatski insists to Ms Green that his influence on the group is
positive. However, when he is asked directly whether he started Femen
“to get girls”, he replies: “Perhaps yes, somewhere in my deep
subconscious.”<br />
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One of the Femen campaigners talks of the
relationship between the women and the movement’s founder as being akin
to “Stockholm syndrome”, in which hostages feel sympathy for their
captors.<br />
“We are psychologically dependent on him and even if we
know and understand that we could do this by ourselves without his help,
it’s psychological dependence,” she says.</div>
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Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-52608113740734207192013-08-29T16:09:00.001+01:002013-08-29T16:20:17.138+01:00Statement of Arab academics and intellectuals against the American military aggression on Syria<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our hearts all bleed for the growing bloodshed in Syria, which has increased in recent days; this is being used to justify within the media and political efforts of Arab and Zionists to pave the way for a U.S. military intervention in Syria. The frequency of media reports have i</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ntensified</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> within the last hours,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> alluding to the possibility of the United States, Israel and Britain, France and Turkey, and the governments of Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, taking part in a military strike against Syria, under the guise of it being accused of using chemical weapons against civilians in Ghouta Damascus Eastern. A claim is still under investigation by a specialized committee of the United Nations, and that the Russian government rejected, and submitted to the Security Council documents show that the terrorists are the users of these weapons, not the Syrian Arab army.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This comes after the political activity, sabotage and terrorism that is an hallmark of Saudi intelligence, which included car bomb attacks in Iraq's cities and towns, and in the southern suburbs of Beirut and Tripoli, claiming the lives of hundreds of women, men and children, along with the subversive role of the Saudi regime in Egypt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The conflict in Syria, as evidenced by the eye, is not an idealised struggle between the regime and the opposition, but rather a regional conflict on an international stage; its fuel the blood of Syrians, and its goal smashing the state, the army and society in Syria, until it hits Syria's regional role as advocate and supporter of Arab resistance against the Zionist enemy, and besieging resistance Allbannanah and Palestinian, and re-forming the entire region to ensure the interests of the Zionist entity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The support of the Zionist enemy has always been, and still is, one of the most important determinants of U.S. policy and its standards in the region. That is why the United States now claim concern for the blood of Arabs, blood which has been shed for more than sixty years on the bayonnet of American arms; you will fool no-one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We, the undersigned, declare:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(1) absolute and we stand with the Syrian people and their choices, and with the Syrian Arab Army and the Lebanese resistance, in this great national battle against Israel and the United States, Britain, France, Turkey and the governments of Jordan and the Gulf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">( 2) we see that all who lift arms in Syria in the face of the Syrian Arab Army, and supports U.S. aggression on the Syrian nation, are the enemy of the Arab nation, and stand at the side of Israel and the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(3) we see that every government, political party or political group, or political or cultured person working in the public domain, who do not announce standing against the reactionary imperialist aggression against Syria, are infact standing in a row the United States and Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(4) the solution in Syria is the only national solution. We call on the honorable of the regime and the opposition to sit down at the negotiating table to agree on a national strategy to consolidate efforts and monitoring of rows against the American-Israeli aggression, and against all gunmen who receive support from the United States, Turkey, France, Britain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. And follow it, work hard and effectively to develop a national plan for Syria's transition to a stable democratic situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(5) We call on everyone to beware of attempts in sedition and sectarianism, maliciously supervised and funded by the ancillary systems and Arab masters, fueled by means of these media, and tools in Anizqh. We emphasize that the first beneficiary of fabricating a rift between Sunni, Shiite, Christian or Muslim, is the Zionist enemy and its occupation of Palestinian land.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(6) We call on all honorable Arabs to rally around the option of resistance, and to turn this crisis into bloody historic opportunity to achieve a historic achievement in the Israeli project defeated Saudis/Americans, simulates a defeat that befell this project in July 2006 .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Signatories</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Atef Cy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's sword</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ahmed Khalifa</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Useful ud</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Khalil Palm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ashraf Bayoumi</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SZ Morsi</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adel Samara</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Capt. preferred</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Munir Akash</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kamal behind the long-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ali Abdel Aal</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yahya Abu Ghida</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rashid Jamal al-Din</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Walid Halees</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Munther Suleiman</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jafar Jafari</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Massad Arbid</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mohammed Al - Abdullah</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amal Saad - strange</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ahmed Abdel Aal</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diane Khaled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shawqi Kassis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daoud Khairallah</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fadia talk show</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nader judge</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ruba Abu Ghida</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adnan al - Khatib</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Samir Seikaly</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shawki Court</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ziad Daoud</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ali Mallah</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ibrahim Odeh</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Herzallah activist</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Majid grace</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abbas Ali</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nader Abu forehead</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Badri</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mahmoud Arts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hani Mendes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Source:</b> <a href="https://www.al-akhbar.com/node/189819?fb_action_ids=10151624243768175&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151624243768175%22%3A629765197057591%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151624243768175%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D">https://www.al-akhbar.com/node/189819?fb_action_ids=10151624243768175&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151624243768175%22%3A629765197057591%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151624243768175%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Translation:</b> Paul Nelson</span><br />
<br />Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-36337230076651541212013-08-28T17:48:00.001+01:002013-08-28T21:58:57.936+01:00Joshua Bonehill, Nikki Pilkington and Lee Rigby’s grave robbery that never took place<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fascist Nutjob and Fantasist Joshua Bonehill-Paine</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In recent months a rather nasty fellow of a far-right political persuasion and some clear mental health issues has been publishing a Facebook page and blog (entitled <i>Daily Bale</i>) where he creates vile, libelous story out of thin air, does a quick Google search for any image he can find, and then publishes it to a tiny band of self-proclaimed patriots, white supremacists and racist knobheads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to introduce you to failed Tory candidate, UKiP supporter and no doubt soon to be at Her Majesty's pleasure, one <b><a href="http://edlnews.co.uk/index.php/latest-news/latest-news/1124-woolwich-strong-turns-into-damp-squib-for-joshua-bonehill" target="_blank">Joshua Bonehill-Paine</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the tender age of 18 he had already shot to notoriety <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8681806/Young-Tory-broke-into-a-police-station-and-stole-inspectors-uniform.html" target="_blank">stealing from a Police Station</a>, and now he seems to be getting himself into a bit of a pickle, with even his extremist fascist chums rejecting him; firstly over claims he has pocket the money from merchandise sales through <a href="http://edlnews.co.uk/index.php/rss/1111-the-far-right-behind-the-woolwich-strong-movement" target="_blank">Woolwich Strong</a> for murdered soldier Lee Rigby and then an astonishing and bizarre attack on <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/popular-leicester-pub-the-globe-forced-to-close-after-false-antimilitary-facebook-rumours-8773393.html" target="_blank">Leicester Pub, The Globe</a>. It's only a matter of time before his collar is well and truly felt by the Old Bill. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His latest victim was wrongfully accused of robbing from the grave of Lee Rigby (the irony of this, after his sticky fingers were seemingly caught in the till of Rigby fundraising efforts, is not lost on me). She released the full story, republished below, on her website which has immediately come under a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" target="_blank">DDoS attack</a> and forced the host to suspend it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the interests of fair play, and believing this woman has the right to defend herself from the lies of this deranged lunatic, here's her the story. Please read on...</span><br />
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Joshua Bonehill, Nikki Pilkington and Lee Rigby’s grave robbery that never took place</h3>
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*Please note, throughout this blog post I have posted pictures of the messages and comments I have received on my business Facebook page and my personal Facebook profile – please excuse the language of the comments, I am just posting what the commentors wrote.</div>
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HOW IT ALL BEGAN</h2>
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So, on <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/friday" rel="rottentomatoes" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9c8a6a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Friday">Friday</a> evening, after putting my 3 year old daughter to bed and settling down for an evening of TV watching with my partner, we receive a Facebook message from a friend saying ‘Hope Nikki is OK after the nasty story about her’.</div>
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Story? What story? I decide it can wait until the morning and we carry on watching TV.</div>
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Then my phone starts pinging – message after message on Facebook; some from people expressing worry for me and some wishing me dead. I also have about 40 friend requests from people I have never heard of.</div>
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A quick <a href="http://www.nikkipilkington.com/google/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9c8a6a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Google">Google</a> search revealed this story (click for bigger version):</div>
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<a href="http://joshbonehead.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/bale.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9c8a6a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Image" class="size-full wp-image" id="i-6" src="http://joshbonehead.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/bale.jpg?w=650" style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: auto; margin: 5px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a></div>
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Along with a lovely picture of me and links to all of my profiles, was a libellous allegation that I have robbed someone’s grave.</div>
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For the record, I haven’t. Of course I haven’t. I had to look up who Lee Rigby was, and once we found out he was buried in Bury, I had to look on a map to find where that was! It’s over 200 miles away from where I live…</div>
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At this point I just laughed and said ‘Don’t worry about it – it’s probably some nutter who just liked my picture’. My partner was more worried when he saw the other sites this had been posted to – Neo Nazi sites, among others.</div>
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I refused to let it worry me and ruin my evening and we went to bed.</div>
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THE NEXT MORNING</h2>
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After breakfast I decided to read the messages I was being sent. Hundreds of them, from idiots who actually believe this website’s claims. Among other things I’ve been called:</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">vile</li>
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The messages and comments threatened me with:</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">public lynching</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">public villification</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">being anally raped with a dead man’s penis</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">having my children hurt / raped / killed</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">having my house torched</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">having my car torched</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">BEING torched</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">having bricks put through my windows</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">having my business destroyed</li>
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I have to admit, I still didn’t really take it seriously, but I did begin to wonder how many idiots there are on the Internet (and why none of them seem to be able to spell or construct a sentence).</div>
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MY SUPPORTERS</h2>
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Thankfully I had a lot of support. From friends, from business acquaintances, from clients and from people I had never even met who knew that Joshua Bonehill was known for spreading lies, and his followers were pretty much all well known trolls.</div>
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But still the nutters kept coming. All weekend they were posting, yet not a peep from Mr Bonehill? Maybe he wasn’t as brave as he thought he was? Maybe my blase reaction took him by surprise? Maybe the massive support I got unnerved him slightly? Maybe his mum had banned him from the computer? Who knows, but he was conspicuous by his absense.</div>
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So I started to look into him a little more…</div>
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JOSHUA BONEHILL AND THE DAILY BALE</h2>
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It seems our Josh has a history of picking on women, but why me? A quick search reveals that he’s in a spat with my step sister Maggie Chapman, who has outed him over allegedly stealing money he made from selling tshirts for the Lee Rigby charity. Did he do this? I have no idea. And to be honest I don’t care. Although it is a little ironic that someone accused of stealing from a dead soldier is now accusing me of doing the same…</div>
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Other stories came to light – he’s a bonkers right wing supporter, wanted to be a politician, got arrested a couple of years ago for dunkenly stealing a policeman’s uniform and has a lot of haters out there. Poor wee boy – hope his mummy gives him lots of cuddles.</div>
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He also changes supportive comments on his site. One of my friends posted a supportive (of me) comment that was then changed to ‘I hate black people’ – another posted a message of support only to have it changed to ‘Burn the bitch’. My gorgeous daughter Leigh posted a comment only to have it changed to ‘She’s my mum and she beats me’ – well, I am very competitive I guess <img alt=":)" src="http://www.nikkipilkington.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 5px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div>
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SO WHY NIKKI PILKINGTON?</h2>
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It seems the only sin I have is sharing the same mother as Maggie. Nothing more, nothing less. He had been threatening her with attacking her family and I was easy to find and probably looked pretty well connected. So he attacked me.</div>
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He shouldn’t have. I’m not one to roll over and die, and I wasn’t going to get all upset and worried. I found the whole thing pretty peurile and amusing, and still to some extent do.</div>
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His followers posted an address that doesn’t belong to me and encouraged each other to go and ‘torch the place’. It hasn’t been done, thankfully.</div>
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I haven’t been raped, buggered, torched, killed or slapped. No one has approached me in the street and shouted at me. My kids are both still safe. I still have my sense of humour and I’ve not lost any sleep over it.</div>
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JOSHUA BONEHILL TARGETS LEIGH QUANTRILL</h2>
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Some of you know my eldest daughter Leigh. She spent a good part of the weekend sticking up for me and finding out more about Mr Bonehill.</div>
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He didn’t like that, bless him…</div>
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So<a href="http://joshbonehead.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/cats.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9c8a6a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Image" class="size-full wp-image" id="i-16" src="http://joshbonehead.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/cats.jpg?w=650" style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: auto; margin: 5px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a>he posted this ludicrous story:</div>
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Yes, that’s an altered image of Leigh. A badly altered image it has to be said. Bonehill claims that my daughter is facially disfigured and cuts the heads off cats for fun. Of course she does… Leigh can’t chop raw chicken without gagging, yet she can saw off a feline’s bonce…</div>
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Apparently she’s ‘fled to France where she takes part in Left Wing marches’…</div>
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Err, she has lived in France since 2007 and wouldn’t know Left Wing if it marched right past her.</div>
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Targeting me, that’s fine. Mess with my kids and you’re in trouble…</div>
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A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME</h2>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">I am the least political person you will ever meet – I had to have it explained to me what left and right wing politics were, and what the political organisations being mentioned were</li>
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A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LEIGH</h2>
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A LITTLE BIT ABOUT JOSHUA BONEHILL</h2>
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SO WHAT NEXT?</h2>
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Well, this has all been reported to the police, who are investigating. The Facebook profiles of every single person who has attacked or threatened me have been handed over. There WILL be arrests made.</div>
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I will continue to smile and ignore the idiots who believe these malicious slurs against me and my family.</div>
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I will still be a bitch, and still NOT be political.</div>
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Thank you to everyone who has supported me – I have so many messages to reply to that it will take time, but I will reply.</div>
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They say keep your friends close but your enemies closer – Joshua Bonehill, you and I are going to be VERY close soon and I would suggest it’s better for you if it’s across a courtroom and not in the street. Nice try, sonny, but you picked on the wrong people this time…</div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(For the first time in my blogging life I am refusing to accept rude or negative comments. Anyone who wants to <a href="http://www.nikkipilkington.com/contact/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9c8a6a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="contact">contact</a> me or say something is welcome to post on my<a href="http://www.facebook.com/nikkipilkington" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #9c8a6a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Facebook profile</a>, which I will continue to leave as public, but I’m not prepared to moderate the loons I’m afraid)</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Red Misterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08556152259650096156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526922201282846774.post-1499128048868568252013-08-13T11:37:00.000+01:002013-08-13T11:38:16.628+01:00White Women and the Privilege of Solidarity<h1 style="padding-left: 60px;">
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would, first of all, like to thank the <a href="http://islamcatala.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Junta Islamica Catalana</a> for
having organized this colloquium, which is a real breath of fresh air in
a Europe that is shriveling up in upon itself, wrought up in xenophobic
debates and increasingly rejecting difference/alterity.</span></span></div>
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hope that such an initiative will be able to take place in France.
Before getting into the subject at hand, I would like to introduce
myself, as I believe that speech should always be located.</span></span></div>
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live in France, I am the daughter of Algerian immigrants. My father was
a working-class man and my mother was a housewife. I am not speaking as
a sociologist, a researcher or a theologian. In other words, I am no
expert. I am an activist and I am speaking as a result of my experience
as a political activist and, I might add, my own personal sensibility. I
am insisting on these details because I would like to be as honest as
possible in my reasoning. Truth be told, until today, I hadn’t really
thought about the question of Islamic feminism. So why am I taking part
in this colloquium? When I was invited, I made it quite clear that I
lacked the authority to speak about Islamic feminism and that I would
rather deal with the idea of decolonial feminism and the ways in which, I
believe, it should be related to the more general question of Islamic
feminism. That is why I thought I would lay out a few questions that
could prove useful for our collective questioning:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First Question: Is feminism universal? For
me, it is the question of all questions when adopting a decolonial
approach and when attempting to decolonise feminism. This question is
essential, not because of the answer but rather because it makes us, we
who live in the West, take the necessary precautions when we are
confronted with ‘Other’ societies. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let’s take, for example, so-called,
Western societies that witnessed the emergence of feminist movements and
have been influenced by them. The women who fought against patriarchy
in favour of an equal dignity between men and women gained rights and
improved women’s circumstances, which I, myself, benefit from. Let’s
compare their situation, that is to say our situation, with that of
so-called “primitive” societies in Amazonia for instance. There are
still societies here and there that have been spared by Western
influence. I should add here that I don’t consider any society to be
primitive. I think there are differing spaces/times on our planet,
different temporalities, that no civilization is in advance or behind on
any other, that I don’t locate myself on a scale of progress and that I
don’t consider progress an end in itself nor a political goal. In
other words, I don’t necessarily consider progress to be progressive but
sometimes, even often, it is regressive. And, I think that the
decolonial question can also be applied to our perception of time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Getting back to the subject at hand, if we take as our criteria the
simple notion of well-being, who in this room can state that the women
from those societies (who know nothing of the concept of feminism as we
conceive of it) are less well-off than European women who not only took
part in the struggles but also made available, to their societies, these
invaluable social gains? I, myself, find it quite impossible to answer
this question and would consider quite fortunate anyone who could. But yet
again, the answer is of no importance. The question itself is, for it
humbles us, and curbs our imperialist tendencies as well as our
interfering reflexes. It prevents us from considering our own norms as
universal and trying to make other’s realities fit into our own. In
short, it makes us locate ourselves with regards to our own
particularities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having
laid out that question clearly, I now feel more at ease to tackle the
second question dealing with the relationship between Western feminisms
and Third World feminisms. Obviously it’s very complicated but one of
its dimensions is the domination of the global south by the global
north. A decolonial approach should question this relationship and
attempt to subvert it. An example:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
2007, women from the <a href="http://www.dialogoglobal.com/granada/documents/MIR-Founding-Statement.pdf" target="_blank">Movement of the Indigenous of the Republic </a>took
part in the annual 8th of March demonstration in support of women’s
struggles. At that time, the American campaign against Iran had begun.
We decided to march behind a banner that’s message was “No feminism
without anti-imperialism”. We were all wearing Palestinian kaffiyehs and
handing out flyers in support of three resistant Iraqi women taken
prisoner by the Americans. When we arrived, the organizers of the
official procession started chanting slogans in support of Iranian
women. We found these slogans extremely shocking given the ideological
offensive against Iran at that time. Why the Iranians, the Algerians and
not the Palestinians and the Iraqis? Why such selective choices? To
thwart these slogans, we decided to express our solidarity not with
Third World women but rather with Western women. And so we chanted:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
meant: why should you, white women, have the privilege of solidarity?
You are also battered, raped, you are also subject to men’s violence,
you are also underpaid, despised, your bodies are also instrumentalised…</span></span></div>
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dimension. It wasn’t so much the fact that we reminded them of their
situation as Western women that shocked them. It was more the fact that
African and Arab-Muslim women had dared symbolically subvert a
relationship of domination and had established themselves as patrons. In
other words, with this skillful rhetorical turn, we showed them that
they <i>de facto</i> had a superior status to our own. We found their looks of
disbelief quite entertaining.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After a solidarity trip to Palestine, a friend was telling me
how the French women had asked the Palestinian women if they used birth
control. According to my friend, the Palestinian women couldn’t
understand such a question given how important the demographic issue is
in Palestine. They were coming from a completely different perspective.
For many Palestinian women, having children is an act of resistance
against the ethnic cleansing policies of the Israeli state.</span></span></div>
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you have two examples that illustrate our situation as racialised
women, that help understand what is at stake and envisage a way to fight
colonialist and Eurocentric feminism.</span></span></div>
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on from that question, is Islam compatible with feminism? This question
is purely provocative on my behalf. I can’t stand it. I am asked this
question by a French journalist who believes they are asking a really
pertinent question. As for me, I refuse to answer out of principle. On
the one hand, because it comes from a position of arrogance. The
representative of civilization X is demanding that the representative of
civilization Y prove something. Y is, therefore, put in dock and must
provide proof of her/his “modern-ness”, justify her/him-self to please
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that the Islamic world is not monolithic. The debate could go on forever
and that is exactly what happens when you make the mistake of trying to
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Is the French Republic compatible with feminism? I can guarantee you one
thing: ideological victory is in the answer to this question. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
France, one woman dies every three days as a result of domestic violence. The
number rapes per year is estimated around 48 000. Women are underpaid.
Women’s pensions are considerably less substantial than those of men.
Political, economic and symbolic power remains mostly in the hands of
men. True, since the 60’s and 70’s, men share more in household duties:
statistically, three minutes more than 30 years ago!!! So I ask my question
again: are the French Republic and feminism compatible? We would be
tempted to say no! Actually, the answer is neither yes nor no. French
women liberated French women and it’s thanks to them that the Republic
is less macho than it was. The same goes for Arab-Muslim, African and
Asian countries. No more, no less. With, however, one extra challenge:
consolidating within women’s struggles the decolonial dimension, that is
to say the critique of modernity and eurocentrism.</span></span></div>
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to legitimize Islamic feminism? For me, it legitimizes itself. It
doesn’t have to pass a feminist exam. The simple fact that Muslim women
have taken it up to demand their rights and their dignity is enough for
it to be fully recognized. I know, as result of my intimate knowledge of
women from the Maghreb and in the diaspora, that “the-submissive-woman”
does not exist. She was invented. I know women that are dominated.
Submissive ones are rarer!</span></span></div>
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would like to conclude with what, in my opinion, should be priorities
for decolonial feminism. You have all heard about <a href="https://twitter.com/aminawadud" target="_blank">Amina Wadud</a> and her
involvement in the development of Islamic feminism. She became well
known the day she lead the prayer, a role usually reserved for men. Out
of context, I would say that it could be thought of as a revolutionary
act. However, in an international context that saw the Iranian
Revolution and 9/11 (as well as growing Islamophobia, demands that Islam
update and modernize itself), a much more ambiguous message was brought
to light. Was it answering strong demands, an urgency, the fundamental
expectations of women from the Umma? Or were these expectations of the
white world? Allow me to dwell on the latter hypothesis. Not that there
aren’t any women who find it an injustice that only men be allowed to
lead the prayer but because women’s priorities and urgent needs are
elsewhere. What do Afghan, Iraqi and Palestinian women want? Peace, the
end of the war and the occupation, the rebuilding of their national
infrastructures, legal frameworks that guarantee their rights and
protect them, access to sufficient food and water, the ability to feed
and educate their children under good conditions. What do Muslim women
in Europe and more generally those who are immigrants and who, for the
most part, live in lower income neighborhoods want? A job, housing,
rights that protect them not only from state violence but also men’s
violence. They demand respect for their religion, their culture. Why are
all of these demands silenced and why does the issue of leading the
prayer make its way across the globe when Judaism and Christianity have
never really made apparent their own intransigent defense of the
equality of sexes?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To finish up with this example, I believe that Amina
Wadud’s act was, in fact, quite the opposite of what it claimed to be.
In reality and independently of the theologian’s own wishes, this act,
in my opinion, was counter-productive. It will only be able to adopt a
feminist dimension once Islam is equally treated with respect and once
the demands to lead the prayer come from Muslim women themselves. It is
time to see Muslim men and women how they really are and not how we
would like them to be.</span></span></div>
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conclude here and hope to have shown the ways in which a true
decolonial feminism could benefit women, all women when they,
themselves, deem it to be their path to emancipation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.indigenes-republique.fr/bloghouria" target="_blank"><b>Houria Bouteldja</b></a></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.decolonialtranslation.com/english/white-women-and-the-priviledge-of-solidarity.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Translated by Amy Fechtmann</span></span></a></div>
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