Facebook shows its own two faces.

This is very disturbing. It would appear that Facebook is basically deciding what political groups can use facebook and which ones cannot. I have always distrusted facebook for my own reasons but this is far worse than I would have thought it to be. If anyone has an active political group or indeed a group of any kind on facebook, and I direct this at Coptic groups especially, download your full member contact info, make sure your subscribers send you their real world contact info such as non-facebook email etc. (This all goes for youtube as well) Get your own webpages and operate off of those. Facebook is attempting to determine what can use its social networking and what cannot and so far the list on both sides I find disturbing.

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NYT Video on Egyptian state failing

While this is typically sanitized, and ‘sectarian violence’ is referred to, as if somehow the attempted ethnic cleansing at best and genocide at worst of the Christian-Egyptians was ‘sectarian violence’, at least it gives some idea of what Egypt is like now. (Please note that all posts from yesterday were lost in the transfer to the new server VLADTEPESBLOG lives on)

New English Review: Set the BBC record straight on EDL related events.

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

BBC’s report of Tommy Robinson’s trial omits certain key details.

The BBC says –

A group of English Defence League supporters clashed with youths outside a magistrates court as their founder faced charges inside. EDL leader Stephen Lennon was attending West London Magistrates Court in Hammersmith. He was facing charges over an Armistice Day poppy-burning stunt by Islamic extremists. About 65 people were involved in the fracas. The Met’s Territorial Support Group made five arrests.

For ‘youths’ read ‘Muslim youths’ some of whom were way past the age of 21.
During the ‘fracas’ eye witnesses are reporting that a young woman was punched in the face by a muslim male; her nose may be broken and she may require stitches. The EDL members were then kettled in a pen.
They report that Emdadur Choudhury was fined £50 for burning a poppy on Armistance day but completely fail to mention that for trying to drag down the treasonable black flag of jihad that flew above the burning poppy Tommy was order to pay fines and costs of over £300. He and his wife work, of course; Choudhury is on benefits which we taxpayers provide.

Ontario conservatives spew unintelligible hot air on their promise to scrap the ‘Human Rights Commissions’

What a crying shame. No one in Ontario is going to bat for rational individual rights. No one. I am truly disappointed. I would vote NDP at this point if I could be sure they would actually scrap the HRC’s and not replace it with anything. Our court system already exists to address grievances and legal wrongs. That is all we need. The quest for a perfect world, like it always has, results in totalitarianism.

Bell Canada uses CRTC proceedure to cheat Canadians of alternate voices

This story is complex and subtle, especially if you do not live in Canada.

Here in the true north strong and… OK we are neither strong or free, but here’s hoping, we have an agency called the CRTC which grants licences on Frequencies, itself a preposterous notion as there is no limit to available Hz. Now with this power, and the fact that the CRTC mandates what all Canadians HAVE to get with a cable package, that the CBC, a fairly biased left wing opinion manufacturing machine to the tune of 1.1 BILLION dollars a year, (yes a Carl Sagan Billion with a capitol B) of government money and various other networks all of whom are dependant in one way or another on their relationship with government, either through direct funding like the aforementioned CBC, or through regulations which guarantee market share like the CTV.

The new non-leftist and conservative friendly SUN Media TV network has now been dropped by Bell, one of Canada’s largest cable suppliers and that is because they are refusing to pay SUN for the signal. Meanwhile, other networks have to be provided through Bell by law.

Here is Ezra Levant on this matter.

AT LAST! Politician in UK addresses issue of Islam. Press attempts to destroy him.

Controversy over MP election vote in Leicester this Thursday

So total is the fear of press reprisal that mainstream UK politicians have so far been totally silent on the enormously negative impact that Islamic immigration and its consequences, have had on Britain. Crassly dismissing movements like the EDL as “racists” because of the predominant colour of their participants, and lumping them together with nutty white-supremacist nobodies like the BNP.

That was until last week.

Coinciding with national local-government elections, and a referendum on voting reform, the British constituency of Leicester South is having a by-election this Thursday, to decide who to send as a new MP to Westminster. And the candidate for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Abhijit Pandya, has caused quite a stir.

Pandya has been a common sight on the streets of Leicester campaigning under the slogan, “No to immigration. Yes to Jobs.” While the other parties have been nowhere to be seen. Unemployment is the biggest concern of ordinary folk in Leicester.

Responding to calls by the citizens to finally air the ordinary people of Leicester’s views in public, Mr Pandya wrote a blog post which was uncompromisingly frank about the true nature of Islam, and its social consequences, as demonstrated in government statistics on Muslim unemployment and welfare dependency. He did not mince his words:

A theological system that fundamentally encourages discrimination between those who believe it and those who don’t, treating the latter as second-class citizens, is backward. A system that treats women as slaves without chains is morally flawed and degenerate in its treatment of women. Cultural practices in many parts of the world which include child marriages and the death penalty for practising homosexuality are reminders that man is capable of going back to the dark ages very quickly.

The local Left-wing press, which has been significantly infiltrated by Muslims, was quick to respond. Under its headline, “Outrage as prospective Leicester MP condemns Islam on his blog” the Leicester Mercury sought to bring an immediate end to debate. The usual methods were employed, with Mr Pandya’s coruscating examination of Islamic reality above, being reduced to this sentence by the paper:

In the article, Abhijit Pandya called Islam “morally flawed and degenerate” and said he backed a controversial Dutch politician, who called Islam a retarded ideology.

We all know who that “Dutch politician” is… Pandya is in fact the head of the UK’s most prominent free speech society and is a significant admirer of Geert Wilders. He is a respected barrister and law professor, and also runs several charities dedicated to tackling youth crime in deprived areas. But that didn’t stop the Leicester Mercury smear job, and the paper wrote a further article, demanding that their readers not vote for UKIP; a clear violation of electoral law.

But the subtext of the newspaper’s reports were clear enough: get him.


It didn’t matter that Pandya had rigorously referenced his arguments, he had to be presented as an ignorant hate-monger, so he could be eliminated. Not as a principled politican deeply concerned about the employment-status of all his potential future constituents. A person who wants to save both Mulsim and non-Muslim alike from, “the abyss of exclusion and welfare.”

There have already been reports of UKIP canvassers facing harassment, threats and attack as a result of the Leicester Mercury’s distortion. While the national press has of course imposed a total silence lock-down over the issue, so fearful is the establishment that the counter-jihad message could finally penetrate the mainstream and affect the national elections on May 5th. You’ll find the story in media as far away as India, but not on any UK-wide MSM whatsoever.

In the meantime Pandya has been frequently stopped by people of all ethnicities in Leicester, and openly hugged in the street.

Pandya’s selection as the candidate for Leicester South is a cunning masterstroke by Nigel Farage and UKIP. His name and ethnicity (even though he is a committed Christian) automatically preclude the press using the “racism” label which naturally underpins all attempts to silence justified criticism of Islam. Leicester South in particular is the most diverse society in England, and is the city most likely to be the first non-native majority English town. At the same time it has been described by the State Department as having, “the most conservative Islamic community in Europe.” It is a painful example of how every community can coexist peaceably, except the Islamic one, because Islamic doctrine unambiguously proscribes such coexistence.

Should Pandya be successful this could represent the sea-change in British politics many have longed for. But the obstacles UKIP faces are considerable. First of these is the solid Labour party vote, dominated by people who feel voting for anyone else, but their own crazily pro-immigration party, endangers the welfare state. This is a tragic irony as Pandya’s most persuasive point is that the welfare state is doomed if Britain does not oppose an Islamic future.

Second, are Conservative voters who refuse to realize that voting for the Tories would be utterly wasted in sending a signal to the government. And third of course, is the Lib Dem candidate Zuffar Haq, a Muslim who is busily organizing the production of thousands of postal votes through the local mosques. Plus ça change…

But the chief barrier to success is the carefully constructed wall of silence that surrounds Pandya’s candidacy and his remarks. No doubt the establishment feel if they can just keep the people of Leicester ignorant and far far away from the polling booths this Thursday, then UKIP, who have finally it seems decided to grab the Islamic bull by the horns, will lose heart.

And in so doing pave the way politically, for Britain’s Islamic destiny.

Watch as America commits suicide by political correctness.

Keep in mind, they are protesting because the shcool board wants to take a particular course on Mexican history and make it elective instead of compulsory. The people who are chaining themselves up here feel they have a right, to take away the right, from people to decide not to imbibe their leftist agenda by force.

h/t Gates of Vienna

The NDP know how to have a good time.

I will credit Jack with one thing. Well probably he uses cash for this not credit. But still, the media hypocricy on this is truly disgusting. Criminal actually. There should be a law against this kind of media selective bias.

Maybe I should have made the headline, “Stephen Harper busted with Asian prostitute’ and linked to the real story about Jack Layton. That would amuse me but I don’t like being misleading.
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OMBUDSMAN FOR MINORITIES DOESN’T WASTE TIME, SEEKS TO INVESTIGATE TRUE FINNS MP FOR INCITEMENT AGAINST AN ETHNIC GROUP

The architects of multiculturalism bring out the long arm of political correctness against the new parliamentarian, and already threaten the man from Viitasaari with incitement of an ethnic group.

Teuvo Hakkarainen, newly elected member of parliament in the True Finns party from Central Finland, mentioned the word “negro” and minarets in a Helsingin Sanomat interview, and quickly got into trouble.

The entire political elite was aghast at Hakkarainen’s use of the “N” word, as well as his warning about minarets, accompanied by him mimicking the Islamic call to prayer. This is  a major stab in the heart to free speech, and major triumph for tyranny. KGS

The Ombudsman for Minorities requested an investigation of Hakkarainen’s statements

The Ombudsman for Minorities Eva Biaudet has asked the General Prosecutor to assess whether the True Finns MP is guilty of ethnic agitation, or other offense in the Helsingin Sanomat video interview.

Biaudet says MP Hakkarainens deeply offensive statements towards certain ethnic groups do not include constructive criticism such as points on immigration, but his views are essentially racist and offensive to human dignity.

The Ombudsman for Minorities has asked the General Prosecutor to assess the opinions of Hakkarainen that go beyond the limit of freedom of expression.

Biaudet deems Hakkarainen’s opinions of immigrants, asylum seekers, of dark skin color people as well as Muslims defamatory and abusive.

-“They can provide misleading impression that a certain group of people are criminals, and inferior,” says Biaudet.

According to Biaudet the freedom of speech within a democracy is not absolute. She refers to the Penal Code 11 Chapter 10 which forbids all so-called hate speech.

Minister of Justice Tuija Brax does not want to assess the Ombudsman’s call for an investigation.

Buddhists in Thailand finally fight back. Media fails to celebrate.

This is a new bit I have been thinking on how to describe for a couple of days now. I find it to be perhaps one of the best examples of what has gone so very wrong in the Western world at some point since the 1960s.

After years of murder, torture, rape and horror by Muslims to the Buddhists in the ‘restive’ areas of Thailand (Video not available since youtube closed my channel, will try and replace it) Buddhists are doing something they learned the very hard way. “The way of peace cannot work against those who have closed hearts” (paraphrasing the Dalai Lama on Islam) These Buddhists have formed militias in cooperation with local police and are attempting to protect themselves, their culture, history, religion, women, nation and ancestral homes against an invading Islam. The reporter who covers this story manages to explain these facts yet somehow still make both sides equally in the moral wrong. It staggers the imagination. He manages to find someone to quote who accuses the defenders of exacerbating the situation by defending themselves.

Much like General Petreaus when he spoke of Pastor Jones, I suppose they feel it would make it much safer for all of us if we just surrendered and converted to Islam instead of actually defend our own moral and legal codes.

Here is the video from the AP:

…arrested on suspicion of racism

This goes beyond imagination. England has clearly now gone sprinting past Orwell and moved into Kafka territory. Possibly Evelyn Waugh.

From The Daily Mail:

Pub singer arrested for racism after Chinese passers-by hear him perform Kung Fu Fighting

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:50 PM on 27th April 2011

  • Later that night, he was phoned at a Chinese restaurant and then arrested

A pub singer has been arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the classic chart hit Kung Fu Fighting.

The song, performed by Simon Ledger, 34, is said to have offended two Chinese people as they walked past the bar where he was singing.

The entertainer regularly performs the 1974 number one hit, originally by disco star Carl Douglas, at the Driftwood Beach Bar in Sandown, on the Isle of Wight.

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Entertainer Simon Ledger was singing Kung Fu Fighting as a Chinese man and his mother walked past which later prompted the complaint to the policeEntertainer Simon Ledger was singing Kung Fu Fighting as a Chinese man and his mother walked past which later prompted the complaint to the police

The Driftwood Beach Bar in Sandown, Isle of Wight, where Mr Ledger played the song on Sunday afternoonThe Driftwood Beach Bar in Sandown, Isle of Wight, where Mr Ledger played the song on Sunday afternoon Continue Reading →

The Dearborn case comes just weeks after the Westboro Baptist Church won a landmark Supreme Court case protecting right to protest outside military funerals. (of gay soldiers)

From Detnews

with thanks from reader, Chris.

Dearborn’s First Amendment barbecue

Henry Payne / The Michigan View.com

By burning the First Amendment, Dearborn mayor John O’Reilly Jr. and his Wayne County cronies have managed to make nutty pastor Terry Jones a free speech hero, united the left-wing ACLU and right-wing Thomas More Law Center, stereotyped Muslims as intolerant zealots, and put Dearborn on the map as a bastion of small-town ayatollahs.

With friends like Mayor O’Reilly, who needs enemies?

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O’Reilly’s outrageous action against the Quran-burning quack — resulting in a Wayne County jury’s conviction of Jones for planning a demonstration in front to the Dearborn Islamic Center on Good Friday — has made Dearborn the laughingstock of First Amendment constitutionalists everywhere.

“We were arrested for something we had not done,” said Jones, who has retained the conservative More Center in a lawsuit against the City of Dearborn.

“This should have never come to this point to begin with,” said Rana Elmir of the ACLU of Michigan. “The judge should have dismissed the case. It’s a complete abuse of the court process, and all those involved should be ashamed.”

“(District Judge Mark Somers) should have thrown this case out of court immediately,” agreed Wayne State Constitutional scholar Robert Sedler. “And (Wayne County prosecutor) Kym Worthy should know the law. People have a right to use the public street to express their views.”

Alas, Judge Somers only threw gasoline on O’Reilly’s fire by ordering Jones to stay away from the mosque for three years. Worthy defended her prosecution, claiming that “these proceedings were solely about public safety.”

Worthy, Somers and O’Reilly were surely concerned about a repeat of the deadly riots in Afghanistan that erupted after Jones barbecued a Quran last month (not to mention their election chances if they defied Dearborn’s mob). But it’s not hard to see where their paranoid policing of free speech leads.

Should Big Labor be denied the right to protest in Lansing for fear their Snyder-as-Hitler posters would lead to violence? Should Sarah Plain be denied a platform to “target Democrats for defeat” for fear of another Tucson massacre?

Indeed, the Dearborn case comes just weeks after the Westboro Baptist Church won a landmark Supreme Court case protecting right to protest outside military funerals.

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From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110426/MIVIEW/104260343/Dearborn-s-First-Amendment-barbecue#ixzz1KeYMHml9