Comment at end
6th July, 2009
FOUR YEARS ON, THEY’VE NOTICED THE OBVIOUS
THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED!!!
THE CONTEMPT OF COURT ACT ACTS AGAINST JUSTICE AND OUR COUNTRY’S INTERESTS
The Contempt of Court Act, which became law in 1981, says that once someone has been arrested, any kind of publication that creates “a substantial risk that the course of justice… will be seriously impeded or prejudiced” is a criminal offence, regardless of intent. This affects what the media can publish or broadcast and what the police can say.
“THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED”
Now… who said that and when and why? Oh yes, Tony Blair in 2005 after 7/7
But despite his being SO right, people such as these (Shami Chakrabarti of “Liberty”) and these (Labour’s Tony McNulty) and these (The Times) blackened his words, reasoning, motivation, intent and even his integrity. We know the rest.
Why has it taken the two gentlemen who have spoken out almost FOUR YEARS since 7/7/2005 to notice what Blair noticed immediately? Worse still, the present government says nothing so far in response to Clarke & Goldsmith. Perhaps because they realise this:
this issue is only ONE of many of fundamental importance to this country’s security and future which need to be tackled, urgently. The present government does not have the guts, motivation, time nor enough political know-how to know where to start.
Oh, for Gawd’s sake. Let’s get this country back under REAL principled leadership.
Labour Party – LISTEN – beg Mr Blair to return to his rightful place and shake some sense into this country’s politics again.
He will have no credible opposition in this fight for OUR democracy and OUR rights. There is no frontbench politician - NONE – with any real grasp of the seriousness of the present situation. And NO understanding of this Act’s (and others’) deleterious effects on our country.
Either that or the opposition are all in the vice-like grip of human righters, their own unprincipled vote-trawling exercise, the PC-high-minded and an untrustworthy, rotten press. The fourth alternative is too worrying to think about.
Failing to get a grip on this and other legal impediments to common sense, this country is now looking at one aspect after another of the threats that came when we refused to see the wood for the trees. Despite Blair’s efforts he was stymied by the competing and conflicting opinions and interests of lawyers, human/civil right activists, his own party’s PC Left, EU legislation and the shameless Liberal Democrats and others weak in the face of danger.
STILL DON’T ACCEPT THAT ANYTHING HAS CHANGED?
Yes, I know the argument that THEY win if WE change our laws or lifestyle. Stupid argument. They are already winning because we have NOT changed. That silly Shame of Chakrabarti woman espouses that facile argument all the time. (Btw, she irritates me greatly – and sorry if this sounds un-PC – but who the hell does she think she is to lecture US about the Magna Carta? MY ancestors probably helped compile it!)
I HAVE A LITTLE LIST …
1. Sharia Courts in Britain: There are now 85 – at last count, starting from just 5, two months after Gordon Brown took over from Blair. These should NOT be recognised under the Arbitration Act says Civitas the Institute for the Study of Civil Society.
1a. Creeping Sharia Finance is stronger in Britain than anywhere else in the western world and is being actively supported and even SPONSORED by the present British and Scottish governments. See the Jerusalem Post. (Hat tip to Sharia Finance Watch.) Odd how foreign publications tell us more than the dhimmified British press on these matters, is it not? The power of the internet.
2. The actions taken against Christian symbols of religion or patriotism, here (no cross at school for teenager, but Sikh daggers are A OK) and here (no British flag or St George’s cross allowed for THIS “racist”) and here (no cross for airport checkout staff, but turbans/hijabs are fine) and here (8- year old in CofE school banned from wearing crucifix and here (no chastity ring, as it is a ‘Health & Safety’ issue!) Meanwhile OTHER cultures and religions can do/wear what the hell they like in OUR country! Ask yourself WHY this capitulation in recent years? The answer – PC nonsense, a blindness to the danger when ultra-liberalism commits suicide, STUPID British & EU LAWS and a misguided desire to keep other cultures sweet. ALL UTTER NONSENSE, NONSENSE, NONSENSE!
3. The freedom with which we allow Muslims who live here to intimidate the natives with their black SHROUDS. We should BAN such separating and imprisoning modes of female dress – see here.
4. Our frequent inability to expel or extradite inciters of terrorism who threaten us. These have NO right by any measure of common sense to remain here and yet WE pay for them to remain in Britain, on the dole, multiple wives in tow, or in our prisons.
5. Our tied hands, because of LAWS, as regards imprisoning or ridding ourselves permanently of homegrown British-born terror supporters such as Anjem Choudary. He says, on video, that he has no allegiance to Britain, only to his “religion”. Choudary, in a TalkBack interview immediately after 7/7: “Just because you are born in a stable that doesn’t make you a horse”. He also said on that sad occasion when asked about the deaths of innocents of ALL religions and none - “only Muslims are innocent.”
Stamp him and his like out of our country, before he stamps us out.
6. The rise of extremist right-wing behaviour. Whatever the ’cause’ we know the effect. THIS too has no place in Britain.
7. The continued spread of LIES on the “lies” of politicians by the press over the so-called ”disastrous” war in Iraq. They fail to notice that people in Iraq NOW live FREE from dictatorship after 30 years of Saddam in the only FREE democracy in the Middle East after Israel.
You still think the rules of the game haven’t changed? Well, I give you this – they have changed for SOME, but not for the well-being of most in Britain.
Iraq: Improved security has allowed pools to re-open for families escaping the heat [GALLO/GETTY
MORE ON CLARKE & GOLDSMITH
Mr Clarke headed the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command and was National Co-ordinator for Terrorism Investigations until last year. Lord Goldsmith was the Attorney General under Tony Blair, and was often in the uncomfortable spotlight over the Iraq war and terror issues.
TOO SLOW TO CATCH ON TO THE POWERS OF THE INTERNET
You’d think the existence of the internet itself, for at least a couple of decades now, would have brought the powers and credibility of this increasingly failing act to the attention of the “deciders” far earlier. No-one in free democracies controls internet content, particularly content from external legal jurisdictions. So outside agencies, reporters or interested parties can report as they like, often, presumably, fed the information from within Britain. And then it spreads via the net.
Apart from the fact that censorship is impractical internationally and frankly inoperable even within geographic boundaries, there is huge resistance to any form of censorship within and across free democracies. Because of the powers of lobbying “interest groups” the consequences have been highly detrimental to our views of OUR OWN COUNTRY and OUR OWN DEMOCRACY.
We have been conned by those who wish to do us harm and by those who would not recognise harm if, aas it frequently does, it jumped up and bit them on the nose.
NO SANCTIONS AGAINST INTERNET LIES & PROPAGANDA
Yet it has been clear for many years that the act, although applying to websites as well as printed publications, was powerless under the onslaught of thousands of web comment and opinion from far and wide. No charges would ever stick since original sources could be argued and would mostly be unable to be proven or disproven. The Contempt of Court Act as it is presently constituted belongs to the pre-internet age. As someone once said, “the rules of the game have changed.” Pity it has taken “formers” to bring this to our attention and not present government ministers. Running scared? See why I suggest this here. ….add below
So those with political agenda and the civil/human righters have had free run to accuse the authorities of heavy-handedness over civil liberties. It was ALWAYS rubbish and yet the myth has so deeply penetrated the “intelligentsia’ swritings that many peole believe the myths. Dictatorial government, prejudice against Muslims – you name it they have been accused of it.
Mr Clarke says reporting restrictions can damage public confidence in police
I wonder if Peter Clarke’s challenge to the government in suggesting a “review” of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act will be listened to, or acted on? Somehow I doubt it. This government has other things on its mind.
So far the present Attorney General has not commented on this, nor has anyone in governnment. So you may be forgiven for wondering if this is kite-flying or just the laying down in the public psyche of the thought that at last someone with some sort of authority is beginning to notice the effects this Act has had on certain members of the community and through them on the rest of us.
As an example of earlier unwanted the inadequacies Mr Clarke cites the Police’s raid on the Finsbury Park mosque in 2003 and its repercussions within Muslim communities. The Police themselves AND the government were prevented from explaining WHY this had been done. The result - those with an axe to grind ground it, and with it British democracy beneath their feet. Those who had issues with the police and/or the government accused both of exaggerating the threat, which Mr Clarke descibes as “massively frustrating”. It was. To both important strands of our democracy – the government and the Police. It was even more frustrating to many of us who preferred to trust the Police than the spokesmen of interested groups and such as “Shame of ” Chakrabarti of so-called “Liberty”.
He told the BBC that the law, designed to ensure fair trials by limiting reporting of cases, made it harder for anti-terrorism police to do their jobs. It was vital to ensure trials were fair but juries must be trusted, he said. The Act made counter-terrorism policing more dificult because it prevents the police and government explaining what the police are doing, so arousing suspicions and unease in the populaton.
The former Attorney General , Lord Goldsmith felt he had been in a “no win situation”, criticised by all sides.
What took them so long to realise all of this? And what is the motivating factor in this NOW? Retirement?
Probably. Governments rule with the consent of the people. And while people are so heavily and dangerously influenced by the writings, thoughts and prejudices of a liberal-minded, anti-establishment, anti-authority, anti-war elite, government’s hands are tied. Very little can government offer as change or limitation for the good of the majority which will NOT be interpreted as ONLY of use to the government’s agenda. This crowd of press truth-benders are the “Enemy Within”, NOT the government.
That is the position the previous prime minister found himself in during the last few years of his premiership. Press lies over his Iraq decision had traduced his reputation SO completely that we were led to believe that HE was the problem, not the answer. So, so wrong. So disastrously wrong.
The Mail - (all right, all right, I know! But they are sometimes right even if unintentionally) – has an excellent, if ironic caption to this picture on the issue of reporting and LIES. Just don’t ask WHOSE LIES they refer to.
Atrocity: Laws don't stop lies being told about terror attacks like 7/7 (above)
MEANWHILE, IN THE RUN-UP TO THE IRAQ INQUIRY (and the hoped-for ritual/virtual ‘hanging’ of Tony Blair)
The press may be limited in their ability to prejudice upcoming trials BUT they are NOT limited in their freedom to question the government and Police’s approach to trying to protect us, the people. For years we have had our brains washed in the murky waters of these people, to the extent that only brain transplants can remedy our malady. (But worry not, scream the conspirators, the government is ALREADY doing that!)
Give me strength!
Internet articles, blog posts and opinion and conspiracy theories abound, including supporting commentary from a duped public. Thus many of my recent posts on the press’s Rights without Responsibilities.
RELATED
RUMOURS LIES AND EXAGGERATION
- India’s ‘The Hindu’, 19th September 2005 – “Blair’s battle royal with judges over rights”
- The Independent reports more fairly than often before AND since on Mr Blair and his call to overhaul Rights Laws
- On 7/7 conspiracy, “Facts not Fairies blog: “Daily rumours that swell.” Aided and abetted by sprog blogs, of course.
ISLAM, SHARIA
- MEMRI: Iranian Regime-Affiliated Organization: Europe and America Are Turning Muslim – An Opportunity to Spread Shi’a Islam
- Sunday Mercury: Ismalic Sharia Courts operating in West Midlands
- Jihad Watch: Islamists kill 5, injure many in the Philippines. What? It’s not just in Britain they’re a problem?
- Mail: ‘WHO Can’t we kick out as Gary faces US jail?’
CHERIE & ALASTAIR ETC
- Alastair Campbell blog: On the ‘Daily Scumbag’.
- Strathearn Herald: Labour Accused of Talking Nonsense - Cherie Blair-Booth and former Scottish Labour leader on prisons in Scotland.
- Bernie Ecclestone – what a WALLY!
THE ONGOING BLAIR
Read the whole (pdf) 37 page paper from Tony Blair
- Tony Blair Office: Blair sets out “practical technical solutions” to tackle climate change
- The Climate Group – Who are we and What do we do
- Greenbang on Energy Efficiency - the 70% solution to carbon cuts
- Climate Cafe: M.E. leaders in Laquila, Italy – will they set the stage for success in Copenhagen?
- Herald: Blair optimistic over global warming
- Spectator has the gall to say “Blair is right about climate change. Read the comments for brainwashed “knowledge” at its worst.
- This envy-laden blogger says on Blair: “Wealth can be ageing”. Nothing to do with responsibility, of course!
- Yet here, a few days before his “black eye” picture, Blair doesn’t look too “aged” to me. At the G8 foreign ministers’ meeting in Trieste on June 26, 2009 Tony Blair gestures during the Middle East quartet meeting press conference.
- Politics Daily: “Blair never rests, but still can’t outrun the Iraq war” (If HE can’t, neither can Bush.)
MIDDLE EAST
- Is Obama sending the wrong message to Iran? – In its June 18, 2009 editorial, the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram criticized the international community’s cautious stance on the unfolding events in Iran. According to the editorial, this caution gives the Iranian regime the impression that the international community will overlook the crackdown on opposition protests so as not to adversely affect talks on the nuclear issue.
Following are excerpts from an interview with Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, the general commander of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on June 22, 2009. Go here to view the full clip on MEMRI TV.
Former Iranian Parliament Speaker Hadad Adel: BBC Teeming with Bahais; Stands for ‘Bahai Broadcasting Company’
To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit here.
Hadad Adel: “The BBC sympathizes with these people. It is the same BBC network that is teeming with Bahais, who take vengeance against the Iranian people. In fact, the managers of many departments in BBC Farsi TV, which began airing a few months ago, are Bahais. I think that the Iranian people should no longer view the word BBC as an acronym for ‘British Broadcasting Company,’ but as an acronym for ‘Bahai Broadcasting Company.’ In other words, it is the voice of the Bahais – not that there is such a big difference. After all, the English created the Bahais. The people should not trust this network.”
A regular commenter from the states just sent me this: “Well, why not. We have the ALL Barack Company, (ABC), Naturally Barack Company, (NBC) and Completely Barack System, (CBS).”
BRILLIANT stuff. Wonder if Amanutjob gets the joke?
Well, that’s alright then. The doodler was only the richest man in the world, and great philanthropist.
Let’s move on, guys, so I can fool some more poor saps, er, I mean save the world.