Category Archives: Totalitarianism

Melanie Phillips: The state is now the bully.

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20 February 2012

When a seven year-old is branded a bigot

Published in: Daily Mail

The word ‘Orwellian’ has become over-used to the point of cliche. Yet there is really no other way to describe the deeply sinister, upside-down onslaught upon common sense that has extended even into the school playgrounds of politically correct Britain.

The aim was originally to create a kinder, gentler world — with a commitment to eradicating racial or any other type of prejudice.

Supporters of these beliefs profess to loathe and detest bullying, with teachers instigating school playground patrols and ‘anti-bullying weeks’ to stamp out this hateful practice.

And yet, in pursuance of these aims, we have witnessed the rise of the widespread state-sponsored bullying of children.

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seven-year-old boy was told to sign a school form admitting he was racist

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1984, only a decade or three late. but it arrived.

“I don’t know when fascism will come to _________ but when it does come it will call itself ‘anti-fascism'” -Anon

The Daily Mail:

Boy, 7, branded a racist for asking schoolmate: ‘Are you brown because you come from Africa?’

By Russell Myers

Last updated at 11:43 PM on 18th February 2012

The mother of a seven-year-old boy was told to sign a school form admitting he was racist after he asked another pupil about the colour of his skin.

Elliott Dearlove had asked a five-year-old boy in the playground whether he was ‘brown because he was from Africa’.

His mother, Hayley White, 29, said she received a phone call last month to say her son had been at the centre of a ‘racist incident’.

She was then summoned to a meeting with Elliott, his teacher and the deputy head of Griffin Primary School in Hull.

Hayley WhiteSummoned: Hayley White was called to her son Elliot’s school to deal with the ‘racist incident’

Ms White, an NHS healthcare assistant, said: ‘When I arrived at the school and asked Elliott what had happened, he became extremely upset.

‘He kept saying to me, “I was just asking a question. I didn’t mean it to be nasty” and he was extremely distressed by it all.’

Ms White claimed she was asked at the meeting to read a copy of the school rules and in particular its zero-tolerance policy on racism.

‘I was told I would have to sign a form acknowledging my son had made a racist remark which would be submitted to the local education authority for further investigation,’ she said.

‘I refused to sign it and I told the teacher in no way did I agree the comment was racist. My son is inquisitive. He always likes to ask questions, but that doesn’t make him a racist.’

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Iran Shut Down Gmail , Google , Yahoo and sites using “Https” Protocol

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Iran Shut Down Gmail , Google , Yahoo and sites using “Https” Protocol

February 10, 2012
Iran Shut Down Gmail , Google , Yahoo and sites using "Https" ProtocolBase on reports received from Iran , governments has blocked access to the major sites plus websites using certain “Https” protocol .

At the same time nobody can even use banking websites in Iran because all of them using “Https” to encode the sensetive data .

Most of Internet providers companies applied this restriction on their users from yesterday . We received reports from many major cities including but not limited to Mash’had , Rasht , Tehran , Bushehr , Karaj , Shiraz and Isfahan .

Gmail , Google(all the associated services) and Yahoo are affected by this limitation . Also BMI.ir , BPI.ir and Parsian-Bank.com serving online banking services can not be used at this situation . Online gateways are affected too .

People estimate this condition will be continue until Esfand(next month in Persian calender) after the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution .

It’s Official! Islam Is Not A Race.

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I’m on a stack of mailing lists, as well as twitter for fun and education.

One of those is for the Council of American-Islamic Relations, which would probably be better named as the Council of American/Islamic Re-education.

I don’t read them every day, as there are simply not enough hours in the day for that while still working, sleeping, pretending to do housework and most importantly indoctrinating bringing up the next generation of nilknarfs.

This one is important, though, because as someone who routinely gets labelled as a racist, it’s nice to get a bit of validation from the Other Side.

With the tagline of, “American Muslims Pose Little Threat, Study Says (NY Times)” the CAIR mailout linked to this little gem:
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Iran begins blocking access to Gmail, other sites

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WAPO:

When Thomas Erdbrink, The Washington Post’s correspondent in Tehran, logs on to the Internet in Iran, he never knows whether Gmail and Google Reader, The Post or Facebook will open for him. Increasingly, this is the error message he sees instead of the page he was trying to reach:


(Thomas Erdbrink)

Translation: “According to computer crime regulations, access to this Web site is denied.”

Iranian bloggers have long used a workaround, by connecting to the Internet and then switching to a special connection that bypasses the country’s extremely effective firewall. But Erdbrink reports Thursday that the software recently has stopped working.

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Parfumier on Trial Today in Paris for “Racism”

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Written by: Diana West
Thursday, February 09, 2012 4:34 AM 

For years now, we’ve watched an increasingly totalitarian Europe arise in the courtrooms of infamous speech trials in Holland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, France, England and elsewhere as dictatorial government authorities use the courts to maintain their political power against political rivals and freethinkers who dare call out the dishonesty and deceptions of the State. With the speech trial today of a fabled and elderly parfumier in Paris (described below), however, we see a strain of totalitarianism that is qualitatively different but equally sinister.

When parfumier Jean-Paul Guerlain (picture above) told an TV interviewer in 2010 that in order to create the popular perfume Samsara (“blends notes of ylang-ylang, jasmine, sandalwood, and tonka bean”) “for once, [he] started working like a negro,” he threatened no government power structure, he called out no deception. He made a banal comment, simply not worth parsing although it’s hard to resist noting that he chose the simile to convey something he is obviously proud of —  a sustained and apparently arduous effort to create something beautiful. But that is utterly and completely beside the point: The French state here is more and more inserting itself into the regulation of its citizens’ minds, not in an overt attempt to maintain political power (Wilders, Dewinter), not to destroy facts and principles that threaten its fabrications (Sabbaditch-Wolff, Hedegaard, Robinson), but rather, in the evil tradition of Communism’s relentless social engineers, to rewire all thought processes down to the most trivial. It is the totalitarian effort to create the New Man.

The Australian reports:

THE creator of some of the world’s best-loved perfumes will go on trial in Paris today accused of racism for using the word “negre” (n****r) on television in a case that campaigners say illustrates the spread of prejudice in France.

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India orders google to scrub religious or politically ‘offensive’ material from the available internet.

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I can’t think of too much worse than this.

Perhaps one doesn’t know one is in paradise or in a golden-age until one is thrown out or it ends. It sure feels that way at the moment as the world slides into barbarism, totalitarianism, theocracies and primitive oppression.

Egyptian comic sentenced to three months jail for insulting Islam

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The artistic community of Egypt must be so relieved at getting rid of the tyrant and dictator Mubarak and getting the Islamic-democratic government in it’s place.

One thing though..

No one will be able to mock, ridicule or criticize the new government in pretty much any-way without being a blaspheme, which for now is punishable by jail, but pretty soon by death I would estimate.

I hope the Western and especially Canadian Art community is paying close attention. You know, the ones who think Stephen Harper is a tyrant and that Canada needs it’s own Arab spring?

This story from Reuters by way of Weasel Zippers

North Korea threatens to punish mobile-phone users as ‘war criminals’

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The Telegraph:

 North Korea has warned that any of its citizens caught trying to defect to China or using mobile phones during the 100-day mourning period for Kim Jong-il will be branded as “war criminals” and punished accordingly.

North Korea threatens to punish mobile-phone users as 'war criminals'

Kim Jong-il died on December 17 after suffering a heart attack that North Korean media has reported was brought on by overwork Photo: AP

By Julian Ryall, Tokyo

6:55AM GMT 26 Jan 2012

There are reports from within the isolated state that food supplies are again dwindling and that there has been an increase in the number of people attempting to cross the border into China. Many of those that do manage to cross the frontier eventually manage to reach South Korea, where an estimated 23,000 defectors have now settled.

The Workers’ Party has issued the stern warning in an effort to deter more from attempting the already perilous journey, apparently in an effort to ensure the stability of the new regime of Kim Jong-un, who took over from his father, according to Good Friends, a South Korean relief group.

People who are caught attempting to flee the poverty and political oppression in the North, as well as those detained in China and sent back over the border, usually end up in the North’s network of hard labour camps, human rights groups have reported, while repeat offenders can expect to be executed.

Kim Jong-il died on December 17 after suffering a heart attack that North Korean media has reported was brought on by overwork. He was 69.

The regime has been weakened by years of economic mismanagement and stagnation and there are apparently fears in Pyongyang that the death of Kim could trigger public unrest.

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Canadian Iranian-expat sentenced to death in Iran: “convicted of ‘insulting and desecrating Islam’ and sentenced to death.”

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‘Execution imminent’ for Canadian tortured into ‘confessing’ he ran a pornography website in Iran

By Michael Zennie

Last updated at 3:46 PM on 22nd January 2012

 

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    • A Canadian Iranian software engineer is facing imminent execution in Tehran for allegedly operating a pornography website after the Iranian Supreme Court rejected a final appeal from his lawyers.

Saeed Malekpour, 35, says he was tortured into making a confession about the website on live TV and Iranian officials used the broadcast to give him the death sentence.

The software engineer’s family says the web software was only designed for uploading and sharing photos and that adult sites used it without is knowledge.

Human rights campaigners believe the hardline Islamist regime wants to use Malekpour as an example as it cracks down on Internet freedom ahead of elections.

Saeed MalekpourSentenced to die: Saeed Malekpour lost his final appeals in Iranian court after being convicted of ‘insulting and desecrating Islam’

Saeed MalekpourCanadian Iranian: Malekpour is a permanent resident of Canada who was on his path to citizenship when he was arrested in Tehran

Malekpour, who is a permanent Canadian resident on the path the citizenship there, returned to his native Iran in 2008 to visit his dying grandfather.

He was picked up off the street by plainclothes Iranian policemen and taken to Evin Prison.

 

He later appeared on Iranian TV with a video-taped confession admitting to posting pornographic images.

On the basis of that confession, he was convicted of ‘insulting and desecrating Islam’ and sentenced to death.

Evin Prison

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Iranian model told not to return to Iran

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From the Telegraph:

Iranian actress banned from homeland after naked magazine shoot

An Iranian actress has been told she is no longer welcome in her homeland after she posed naked in a French news magazine as a symbolic protest against strictures on women.

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Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.

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 Even google is against these bills along with Wikipedia. 

Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.

The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.