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Category Archives: Selective enforcement
U.S. keeping tabs on Myanmar violence
H/T Michael Laudahn:
No selective enforcement here at all. None whatsoever.
Think there will be any US demands to allow churches in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan?
Didn’t think so.
UPI.Com
Published: Aug. 9, 2012 at 3:36 PM
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) — All parties to violence in Myanmar are called on to uphold the basic principles of religious tolerance, a U.S. State Department official said.
Washington in July dispatched Farah Pandith, special envoy to Muslim communities, to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, to meet with leaders from religious and ethnic groups in the region.
“She discussed areas for cooperation with Muslim communities in Burma, including education, rule of law, and economic opportunity, with a particular focus on young people,” the State Department said in a briefing on her visit.
A youngster punches a police officer’s face four times: Case closed!
DHNet.Be:
Alil does not yet have the habit to ‘beat police officers’!
A youngster punches four times into a police officer’s face: file closed!
Brussels: Alil, 23, has beaten, free of charge, a police officer: He has been acquitted, without any consequences, by the Brussels prosecutor’s office.
Last thursday, around 11 in the morning, Alil rides on his 50 cc moped a one-way street in the wrong direction – Gineststraat, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode towards Sint-Lazarusplaats -, suddenly facing a vehicle. The driver, a 37-year old police officer [apparently in plain clothes] of the Nord [police] zone, prepares to follow his duties. Alil immediately insults the cop – who himself drives in the right direction… ‘You wanted to kill me, dirty son of a bitch. You were trying to drive over me, dirty son of a bitch…’
The officer keeps his cool, responding that it’s he who rides in the wrong direction, that it’s he who rides like a madman, and that it’s he who is wrong. Alil, identifying his victim as a police officer: ‘You are a cop?!’
The officer confirms that Alil’s insight is correct and glances at the rear end of his scooter, hoping to see his licence plate. ‘No chance, there’s no licence plate, but I will stop’, Alil scorns him. The youngster dismounts his moped, resuming the situation the way he perceives it: ‘You don’t even wear a uniform, you have nothing to tell me, you wanted to kill me…’
So the cop tries to call reinforcements, but Alil decides not to wait endlessly. When the officer puts his hand on his forearm, to make him understand to wait for the reinforcements’ arrival, he receives three punches in his face.
As usual, a crowd has formed: The curious crowd demand that Alil ‘calm down’ and that the officer ‘let him go’…
Suddenly Alil realises that he is in the middle of ramadan: ‘You’ve also broken my ramadan, dirty son of a bitch’, he shouts at the officer, while giving him a fourth punch right into his face.
Put at the discretion of the Brussels’ prosecutor’s office, his file was closed within 48 hours. An convenience decision motivated by the absence of previous criminal records on part of the youngster
[Translator: wouldn’t this have been a chance to start with them?]
Put differently, no consequences because Alil doesn’t have the habitude to beat! The officer himself has been put on a six-days sick leave.
Pensioner ranted at police as race row got heated
Worcesternews:
5:00pm Thursday 9th August 2012 in News
Pensioner ranted at police as race row got heatedA PENSIONER who claimed he had been the victim of racist abuse ranted at police because he believed his complaint was not taken seriously because he was white.
Retired mental health social worker James Evans, of Bath Road, Worcester, admitted a section five public order when he appeared before a district judge at Worcester Magistrates Court .
The court heard how the 65-year-old shouted at staff at Worcester police station where he was attempting to report what he believed was an offence against him at around 11am on July 25.
Sam Webley, prosecuting, said Evans became agitated at having to wait and accused one of the counter staff of being incompetent.
A constable asked Evans to calm down and not be abusive to counter staff.
Mrs Webley said: “He is described as red in the face and asked for the PC’s badge number. He said he was being asked to wait like a little dog.” He was arrested and taken to the custody suite where he continued to be abusive. “He said: ‘If I was Asian this wouldn’t have happened,’” said Mrs Webley.
Evans, who represented himself, told the court that he had been distressed at the time and was concerned that the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon people of Britain are completely erased from any considerations of race.
“I went to ask an Asian chap if he would mind moving his car because we couldn’t see to get out of our drive,” said Evans.
“I was met with a tirade of abuse and was told that you whites had better watch your step. I felt really betrayed and distressed. “I know from my experience as a social worker that had my actions been by an Asian person or by any other racial group but my own they would have been taken more seriously and treated in a completely different way.”
Tis one law for me, another for thee
Did you hear about the guy who was fired from his retail job because he was wearing a Che T shirt at a leftist rally? You know Che? Castor’s personal torturer and the man who believed in slaughtering whole villages if it meant forcing communism on the area would be achieved? You didn’t hear about that?
Well how about the civil servant who was let go because he belonged to a communist party on his own time and who wanted to destroy the capitalist system and impose a new communist order.
No? doesn’t ring a bell?
OK how about the guy who was fired from his union trades job because of his affiliations with the Occupy movement as well as taking part in other illegal protests like BDS, the belief that Israel must be destroyed by having no international commerce with them at all.
No?
Well that’s because to the best of my knowledge, none of those things ever happened.
This did though…
Chris Knowles of ICLA interviewed by Michael Coren
“They make it up as they go along, Mr Knowles a good friend of ours, is living in a Kafkaesque nightmare.
Please take the time to watch this important interview of him by Michael Coren.
“Mr Knowles was dismissed with immediate effect and without the right to appeal. Mr. Knowles was told that Leeds City Council viewed the ‘offence’ committed by Mr Knowles to be so grave, even though it has never been named nor described, that he would not even be allowed to have a disciplinary hearing at which he could refute any evidence that was brought against him. No evidence was presented against him.”
Personally I think Both of them have missed the point. It doesn’t matter one bit what this man’s values or views are. it only matters if they impact his job performance. If they cause him to make judgements that are against the purposes of his employment. The fact that both these intelligent men are even discussing what his values are mean they have lost the war already.
One could argue that the very definition of a free society is innocent until proven guilty. This means you can’t get fired for what you think, believe, or except in very specific cases, even for what clubs you belong to or what your extra-caricular activities may be unless it crosses over into your work-life in a way that negatively impacts your performance.
Interesting video about the hypocrisy of the Olympics
To be honest, I was sick of the story about the lack of a minute of silence the second time I heard it. But then new facts keep appearing which make it clear that there was more than a little cowardice and perhaps a little antisemitism here.
Sacked from Leeds City Council for his private political views.
More evidence of the soft totalitarian methods of the UK. A person should not be fired for their personal beliefs unless it can be shown that it has effected their performance at work in a negative or illegal way. I begin to see why some Canadians have noticed an influx of British immigrants recently. We may not call them refugees just yet. But…
Chris Knowles has been a good friend of mine for several years, and has known Ned (the Baron at Gates of Vienna) even longer. Up until today, Chris had been an employee of the Leeds City Council for about seventeen years. Last autumn, during the hysteria after the Breivik massacre, The Sunday Times started investigating Chris and other Brits associated with ICLA. After the ST published an article “outing” him, Chris was suspended from his job. Finally, today he was sacked. Chris has never said or done anything that would remotely warrant his being fired.
Teachers who belong to far-right groups could be kicked out school
One of the most common, and effective, tricks of the totalitarian regime is to create a label most can agree is unacceptable to the (classically) liberal mind, then paint that label on to any group you want to get rid of. The Soviets did it, the Nazis did it, all psychotic genocidal regimes do it and frankly even moderate and soft post-democratic regimes do it to a lesser degree.
This is the UK doing it. Pretend the EDL are ‘far-right’ and ignore the fact that center-traditional Islam in fact reflects what people think of as ‘far-right’ almost to the letter (loathing of Jews, contempt for women, religious fanatics etc) and then pass laws saying that people who can be called far right, as opposed to those who really are, can be summarily dismissed from any job in government. And of course, in a socialist state like the UK, probably close to 65% of all jobs are government. I believe it was Mark Steyn who pointed out that the British Health Services are the world’s third largest employer after the Chinese military and the India railway company.
Also, if the UK teachers union is anything like the American or Canadian teachers unions it is virtually impossible to fire a teacher for anything short of actual cannibalism of students. So if they can fire them for a trumped up version of political opinion, the UK will have sunk that much deeper into a very bad place indeed.
From The Scotsman:
High profile of far right groups has concerned teachers groups. Picture: Jane Barlow
By CHRIS MARSHALL
Published on Monday 4 June 2012 00:00
Scotland’s teaching regulator is facing calls to strike off members of the profession with links to far-right groups such as the British National Party and the Scottish Defence League.
Members of the country’s largest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), have tabled a motion to their upcoming AGM calling on the General Teaching Council for Scotland and the Scottish Government to “minimise the influence” of such groups in schools.
However, it is expected that delegates at this week’s meeting will go a step further and call for members of the profession with links to extremist groups to be removed from the teaching register.
Currently, teachers working in Scotland’s schools do not have to declare whether they are the member of a political party or other such group.
The General Teaching Council for England was axed after it failed to take action against a BNP activist who described immigrants as “savage animals” on an internet forum.
A good data point on the influence of the totalitarian impulse in the USA today
Michael Coren discusses the fall out from a couple of highly innocuous but conservative statements from the owner of a chicken joint in the US.
A couple of mayors of large cities actually stated they would block those restaurants from opening because, among other things, the owner felt that it was good if people did not cheat on their spouses. The same mayors had allowed Islamic people who were outspoken advocates of having gay people murdered. Every one of them. A “working deal with the Nation of Islam” who owns restaurants within these same cities.
Grotesque bias and selective enforcement. Muslim? Its ok to want to murder gay people. If you own a chicken stand, you aren’t even allowed to support traditional marriage
This actually really pisses me off.
Michael Coren and David Menzes do a fantastic bit on the burka and double standards within law and culture for wearers of the ‘burka’
This is fabulous watching. Well worth getting a beer and a ham sandwich and enjoying fully.
Ontario govt puts political correctness far above its own laws. Like everywhere else.
When I add this data on to the fact that the Ontario Govt. worked 3 shifts to ban smoking in peoples private bars and restaurants and then lied to the public saying it had actually increased sales, and to prove it was lying, actually continued to allow smoking at Ontario Government owned and operated casinos well after the province wide ban was in effect because they really did know how much revenue they would lose, well, you get an idea of what the Ontario government really is. Just a sort of less malignant organized crime than the TV variety.
‘Son who pelted Jews with eggs is no racist’
I wonder what would happen if an indigenous British person were to throw some pork rolls at a Muslim and shout “Fucking Mustards”. Think he would get off with a light fine?
London Evening Standard:
05 July 2012
The parents of a Muslim university student convicted of a religiously motivated attack on young Jews said: “Our son is no racist.”
Mohammad Khalifa, 19, was fined for hurling eggs and yelling “Oi, Jews” and “f***ing Jews” at passers-by while driving his father’s BMW through Golders Green with three friends.
But his father, a paediatrician, today claimed the victims had misheard and the students had shouted “Oi, you.”
Dr Khorshid Khalifa said: “My son has never been racist. All he said was, ‘Oi you,’ and people took it as, ‘Oi Jew,’ but that’s all it was.
“It’s very stupid. The solicitors said the case should have been dropped.” Willesden magistrates heard the four friends were driving to watch a film at the O2 Centre in Finchley Road in December when they stopped to buy eggs, which they threw at a group of women and a group of teenage boys.
The women were “angry and startled”, magistrates heard. Fifteen minutes later, two teenage boys heard one of the four yell ‘f***ing Jews’ before they were targeted, ending in one egg cracking on a 14-year-old’s trousers.
‘I thought the innocent were protected … it’s been a hard lesson’: Celebrity photographer kicked by Muslim woman she tried to help tells of pain at being charged as a racist
Daily Mail:
By Polly Dunbar
PUBLISHED: 16:05 EST, 7 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:05 EST, 7 July 2012
Ordeal: Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury says the experience left her ‘terrified’
She has heard them many times over the past few days, but speaking the words ‘racially aggravated assault’ still causes Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury’s entire body to shake and tears to stream down her face.
Her name may have been cleared, but it is obvious the scars of being accused of a vicious hate crime will be more difficult to erase.
Last Thursday, a jury at Isleworth Crown Court in West London took just 15 minutes to acquit her of shoving a pregnant Muslim woman to the floor and calling her husband a terrorist during a row in Tesco. Despite Miss Heathcote-Drury’s relief at the verdict, her sense of bewilderment at what has happened remains her overwhelming emotion.
The investigation that led to the celebrated photographer – whose work hangs in the National Portrait Gallery – being tried was described in court as ‘a shambles’.
To her, it often felt like being trapped in a dystopian world in which she could not make her version of events heard, no matter how hard she tried.
Although, in fact, she says she was the victim of assault, her own accusations were dismissed while her accusers’ claims were pursued by police.
Today the elegant 41-year-old is exhausted, but grateful finally to have her chance to explain the truth about this strange and disturbing case.
‘I’ve been going out of my mind since this all happened,’ she says. ‘I’ve been on antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills because of the stress.
‘I didn’t even tell any of my friends about the charges until April, because I couldn’t bear to say them; they were too hideous. I have a lot of friends of different ethnic backgrounds and I didn’t want to plant even the smallest doubt in their minds about me.
‘Before this, I believed that if you were innocent and told the truth, you would be protected by the system, but I’ve learned some very hard lessons.
‘I kept waiting for my story to be investigated, and it never was. Of course it was an enormous relief to be acquitted so quickly, but I find it absolutely terrifying that the case against me could have gone as far as it did.
‘The sense of powerlessness at what was happening was overwhelming.’
On trial: Isleworth Crown Court had heard Heathcote Drury called a Muslim family ‘terrorists’NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY STAR: THE NEWS IN CINNAMON’S PICTURES
Eleven of Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury’s portraits hang in the National Portrait Gallery, including a pensive shot of London Mayor Boris Johnson and one of broadcaster Zeinab Badawi.
Her career began in 2000 when she asked Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman to pose for the gallery section on news gatherers.
Her other subjects include politician Kenneth Clarke and War Horse author Michael Morpurgo.
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The couple became infuriated. ‘The husband came up behind me and said in my ear, “You f*** off,” which I found very intimidating,’ Miss Heathcote-Drury says. ‘I wanted to get out of the shop as quickly as possible, but he approached me again.’
She called for a security guard and when one arrived, he began speaking to the man. Meanwhile, Miss Heathcote-Drury, who had paid for her shopping, was making her escape down the aisle when she claims she felt a sharp pain in her left shin and stumbled.
‘The woman was standing with her hand on her hip and smirking. She wanted to humiliate me. Then she hit me on the left cheek.’
According to Miss Heathcote-Drury, a struggle ensued in which she was kicked in the right shin and her hat was wrenched from her head before the woman lost her balance and fell.
The security guard called the police while the couple continued to put their shopping through the till.