Violence has [broken out] between anti-Islamist protesters from the English Defence League and riot police at a May Day march in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Demonstrators hurled coins, glass bottles, plastic flag sticks and cans at officers after the event. Around 200 protesters burst through police lines and scuffled with officers armed with riot shields, batons and dogs. Onlookers said there were no apparent serious injuries.
Around 1,000 members of the far-right group had marched to the town's Market Square, chanting and waving flags. One onlooker said: "As the protesters came to leave the square members of the EDL thought they weren't been allowed out quickly enough and some began pushing and shoving. Soon missiles were been thrown and riot police had to be called in to calm the situation down.'
A Thames Valley Police spokesman said the violence lasted for only a "short period", adding: "EDL surged against police lines against wishes of their stewards. Officers contained them before allowing dispersal."
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EDL: apolitical, against the Islamification of England. No reason to give 'em a hard time with a proxy Police Force, unless your agenda is hidden and you like to get ass-fucked by Moslems at your citizens expense.
*sigh* One hopes the upcoming election will alter the trajectory a bit. One hopes one's hopes are not in vain.
A Muslim protester who daubed a war memorial with graffiti glorifying Osama Bin Laden and proclaiming 'Islam will dominate the world' walked free from court after prosecutors ruled his actions were not motivated by religion.
Tohseef Shah, 21, could have faced a tougher sentence if the court had accepted that the insults - which included a threat to kill the Prime Minister - were inspired by religious hatred.
But - citing a loophole in the law - the Crown Prosecution Service chose not to charge him with that offence and he escaped with only a two-year conditional discharge and an order to pay the council £500 compensation after admitting causing criminal damage.
Yesterday the decision was attacked by politicians and veterans who were shocked by the desecration of the memorial in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Parliamentary Counter Terrorism sub-committee, said: 'This is an outrage against our war dead.'
Shah sprayed the words 'Islam will dominate the world - Osama is on his way' and 'Kill Gordon Brown' on the plinth of the memorial in December. He was arrested after his DNA was found on the discarded spray-can but refused to give an explanation for his actions or show any remorse, a court heard.
A file was sent to lawyers at the Counter Terrorism Division of the CPS in London to see if there was a racially or religiously motivated connotation. However when Shah appeared before magistrates this week, prosecutor Andrew Bodger said: 'It was decided there was not enough evidence to prove this, and they decided it was politically motivated.'
Defending, Mumtaz Chaudry said Shah did not hold extremist views. 'This is nothing to do with his religious beliefs, his family's beliefs or his cultural beliefs,' he said. 'He is just an ordinary guy.
'He is remorseful, but at the time of his interview he was simply answering questions and didn't realise that was the right time to show remorse.'
Community leaders among Burton-upon-Trent's 4,000-strong Muslim population also slammed Shah's actions.
Khadim Thathall, a former president of a mosque in the town, said: 'This young man has clearly been radicalised by groups which are looking to cause trouble and it's a pity that the court hasn't been able to deal with him more strictly.'
Shah - believed to be a former student of De Montfort University in Leicester - uses as his Facebook profile photograph a flaming lion's head superimposed on crossed Kalashnikov rifles. He lives with his parents in a £200,000 detached house and works at his father's car spares shop. Last night, he refused to discuss the case.
Instead he appointed Abdullah Ibn Abbas, who described himself as spiritual leader of a group called Road to Jannah, to speak on his behalf. He said: 'It really doesn't concern us how the British people feel about the graffiti he wrote - the real outrage should be about the thousands of Muslims who are being killed and butchered as a result of British foreign policy.'
The CPS said Shah's offence could not be charged as a hate crime because the law requires that damage must target a particular religious or racial group. It said: 'While it was appreciated that what was sprayed on the memorial may have been perceived by some to be part of a racial or religious incident, no racial or religious group can be shown to have been targeted.'
The case comes after a senior judge ruled on Thursday that Christian beliefs had no right to protection by the courts. Lord Justice Laws told Christian counsellor Gary McFarlane he had no right to appeal after he was sacked for refusing to give sex therapy to a gay couple. The judge said legal protection for views held purely on religious grounds would be 'irrational'.
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One can hope. I wouldn't expect a sea-change, and it's more likely than not that the most loony party re immigrant pandering (the Lib Dems) will end up in coalition government. Probably the only hope for positive change is a Conservative outright majority, but that's unlikely.
Labour have deliberately encouraged mass immigration during their time in power over the past 13 years in an effort to multiculturalise (i.e. Balkanise) the population, to facilitate the left wing practice of divide-and-rule, and to boost their support base with an injection of impressionable and poorly educated individuals. They have partially succeeded in these aims but they're tanking in the polls and Brown is on the way out. The only advantage they have left after all this treachery is a scandalous rural/urban and national constituency bias which could easily result in them coming third in the popular poll and yet still retain the largest number of MPs in parliament.
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Nimble, agreed re UKIP - they have the best policies all-round, but the BNP cater for disillusioned Labour voters who stick to the big, protectionist government mantra but would like all ethnics deported. The BNP is about as genuinely right wing as the Nazi party.
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Nah - IIUC they're mid to far left in every respect, labelled as right-wing only by the Left and the media owing to their racist tendencies. Until the issue of race comes up they sound just like the Lib Dems or (old) Labour.
Most Americans aren't xenophobic or against immigration. I'm quite sure I'm not unusual in having grown up in a bilingual household whose elders immigrated here.
OTOH many Americans are against the failure of the government to enforce laws and to make immigration an ordered process. And they have a distressing tendency to object to violent drug gangs made up of people here illegally taking over their neighborhoods, killing their neighbors and taking increasingly bold high power rifle shots at law enforcement helicopters.
One suspects there's a bit of that attitude going around in the UK these days too.
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Would it be too much to expect Mr. Shah to have an 'accident' whilst walking some some dark and stormy night while some vets just 'happened' to be nearby? That would probably happen here if'n you were to phuck with our boys....
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What law?
BNP advocate arming the citizens, the only party to do so. I won't vote for them as they are indiscriminate in their discrimination, even if I do want my weapon back.
UKIP for out of the EU, even if it's a coalition, to give the Tories some spine. Thinking only of my children...
Following the lead of the Belgian parliament, a German lawmaker says full-body veils, or burqas, worn by Moslem women should be banned across Europe because they rob women of their personalities.
Silvana Koch-Mehrin, a member of Germany's pro-business Free Democrats and a vice-president of the European Parliament, has called for a complete ban on the Islamic full-body covering in an interview with the German Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
In her editorial, Koch-Mehrin said that the full veil "openly supports values that we do not share in Europe." Koch-Mehrin said personal and religious freedom should be defended, but should not "go so far as to take away a person's face in public."
"The burqa is a massive attack on the rights of women. It is a mobile prison," she wrote.
The German lawmaker's comments come just two days after the Belgian parliament voted unanimously, as the first country in Europe, to ban the public wearing of veils that entirely cover the face. The Belgian law, which must still be approved by the upper house of parliament, calls for fines of 250 euros and up to a week in jail.
Some of the 16 federal states in Germany have already imposed bans on the wearing of headscarves by public school teachers.
The Belgian move has reignited the European debate on how to deal with Moslem veils.
The French government has proposed jailing and fining anyone who forces women to wear a full-face veil, as well as fining the wearer. President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to slap one-year prison terms and fines of 15,000 euros ($20,000) on those who make others wear them.
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Progress. With the German reaction against Greek thievery, and the Dutch and Danish reaction against pro-muslim multi-culti insanity, perhaps we're seeing the beginning of a return to something like pride in what it means to be a part of the West.
Well, we can hope, anyway. Have to dump Barry on this side of the pond first.
Being an avid American Thinker reader, and living on the Arizona border in Cochise County, I thought I would provide those who wish to be informed some insight into the truth about the state of the U.S.-Mexican border -- at least in this part of the state.
I moved to Cochise County after retiring from the Army in 2008 to take a position working at Fort Huachuca (pronounced "wa-choo-ka," an Apache word meaning "place of thunder" and referring to the time after the summer monsoon season). Having lived here in 1991 for eight months while attending an Army school, I soon realized that the place had changed considerably in the eighteen years of my absence.
The first thing I noticed was how many border patrol vehicles were on the roads in the city of Sierra Vista. The Border Patrol has a large station near here in the city of Naco. There are far more Border Patrol vehicles in the area than SV police cars. They come in many forms -- trucks for off-road work, trailers carrying all-terrain vehicles, pickups with capacity for carrying large numbers of people once apprehended, and even a staff car for the area chaplain. The Border Patrol presence has grown substantially, so one would think the border area was nice and safe.
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However, much less has been discussed about the shooting of rancher Robert Krentz.
What attention there was from the Arizona media was due to Mr. Krentz's leaving water out for the illegals crossing his ranch. Had he the habit of calling the Border Patrol instead, his murder would've been pretty much ignored.
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This has been floating around for a week or two now. I got it in an email. Supposedly it's from a recently retired BP agent:
As you know, one of the local ranchers was murdered in Douglas two weeks ago. His funeral is tomorrow. I received three messages similar to the one below from different officers within the Rangers and law enforcement.
Yesterday afternoon I talked to another rancher near us who is a friend of ours and whose great grandfather started their ranch here in 1880. These are good people. He told me what really happened out at the Krentz ranch and what you won't read in the papers. The Border Patrol is afraid of starting a small war between civilians here and the drug cartels in Mexico.
Bob Krentz was checking his water like he does every evening and came upon an illegal who was lying on the ground telling him he was sick. Bob called the Border Patrol and asked for a medical helicopter evac. As he turned to go back to his ATV he was shot in the side. The round came from down and angled up so they know the shooter was on the ground. Bob's firearm was in the ATV so he had no chance. Wounded he called the Cochise County Sherriff and asked for help. Bleeding in the lungs he called his brother but the line was bad so he called his wife but again the line was bad.
Several ranchers heard the radio call and drove to his location. Bob was dead by this time. The ranchers tracked the shooter 8 miles back towards Mexico and cornered him in a brushy draw. This was all at night. The Sherriff and Border Patrol arrived and told them not to go down and engage the murderer. They went around to the back side and if you can believe it the assassin managed to get by a BP helicopter and a Sherriff's posse and back to Mexico. So much for professional help when you need it.
One week before the murder Bob and his brother Phil (who I shoot with) hauled a huge quantity of drugs off the ranch that they found in trucks. One week before that a rancher near Naco did the same thing. Two nights later gangs broke into his ranch house and beat him and his wife and told them that if they touched any drugs they found they would come back and kill them.
The ranchers here deal with cut fences and haul drug deliveries off their ranches all the time. What ranchers think is that the drug cartels beat the one rancher and shot Bob because they wanted to send a message. Bob always gave food and water to illegals and so they think they sent the assassin to pose as an illegal who was hungry and thirsty knowing it would catch Bob off guard.
What is going on down here is NOT being reported. You need to tell people how bad it is along the border. Texas is worse. Near El Paso it's in a state of war. 5000 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez last year and it's over 2000 so far this year. Gun sales down here are through the roof and I get emails from people wanting firearms training. Something has to be done but I don't hold out much hope. These gangs have groups in almost every city in the US.
This is serious business. The Barrio Azteca and their sub gangs are like Mexican Corporations and organized extremely well. If this doesn't get dealt with down here you guys will deal with it on your streets.
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Sierra Vista is a nice town - visited several time when #1 son was training at the Fort. They have a surveillance blimp to track smugglers. Just east is Tombstone. Perhaps we need to restart traditions?
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Sierra Vista is a nice town
Frank
And then there is Bisbee.....a bit more laid back.
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Besoeker, I lived in Cochise county for ten years: 1980-1990. There was an unofficial motto: "There are many laws but very little justice in Cochise County." I was there when the Aerostat (Blimp) was launched - for all the good it did. I have never lived in such an uptight atmosphere as that of Sierra Vista - retired military martinets everywhere (and I'm very pro-military). For three years I resided in Bisbee - and frequented the various Brewery Gulch saloons for entertainment: Sierra Vista is to Bisbee as Dubuque,Iowa is to Las Vegas. In both sites, many local, county, and federal officials were corrupt to the max. One example, I was stopped outside of Bisbee by a Border Patrolman who stopped me for "speeding" and I spent the night in the Bisbee county jail. MY attorney informed me that Border Patrolmen cannot stop people for speeding - furthermore I was driving an old Ford Escort up a mountain at 20mph! I later found out that I (being single) had been dating one of the Border Patrolman's mistresses - the real reason for my harrassment (and I was driving her car to boot!). I guess he stopped me expecting some booty and found me in the drivers seat!).
Final point: easy money breeds corruption on both sides of the border. Do we really know what happens t all the pot and cocaine seized by the Border Patrol? Methinks there is the possibility of mucho recycling going on...
New Delhi: The Centre on Saturday said all bottlenecks' hindering access to the 26/11 accused, David Headley, have been removed and a new team will be sent to the U.S. to pursue the matter.
All the bottlenecks are removed and we have a way forward. So it's up to us to operationalise the plan forward,' said Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam, who has just returned from the U.S. after holding discussions. The law officer told journalists: Once we are ready to constitute our team, and get off board from India, the access should be possible.'
Mr. Subramaniam appreciated the unstinted cooperation' from the U.S. authorities and said he had a very fruitful' round of discussions with them.
His five-day visit was aimed at understanding the U.S. legal system within which India could get access to Headley, a Pakistani-American, sources said. He discussed with officials of the U.S. Justice Department modalities of access to Headley, a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, in an appropriate legal format.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The United Nations (UN) is the candidate to solve Iraq's current problems, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told the press on Saturday.
This is not an internationalization of Iraq's local issues, but an attempt to get help,' Zebari said. He described the UN as candidate mediator for this mission.
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...because they did so much to get you to the point you've reached today with those endless rounds of sanctions and harshly worded warnings to the previous owner-operator of the place. /sarc off
Special Representative in Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 others killed in the Canal Hotel bombing of August 19, 2003 along with nearly everyone who has served in Iraq, might beg to differ.
ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Massoud Barazani called on the United States of America to solve Iraq's problems before ordering troops to depart the country.
Problems between Kurdistan's regional cabinet and Iraq's federal government have to be solved prior to U.S. withdrawal from Iraq,' Barazani said on Saturday according to the Kurdistan regional cabinet's Web site.
He noted that the post-election phase proves Iraq is not an easy-to-run state. Iraq should be built on real partnership, unified understanding, and democracy,' Barazani stressed.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi policeman accidentally killed an army soldier in an incident on Saturday northwest of Mosul city.
The policeman was on duty at a checkpoint while the soldier was not on duty,' a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He explained that the policeman opened fire on the soldier when the former thought the latter was a gunman attempting to attack the checkpoint. The soldier died instantly,' the source noted.
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Seventeen people were detained overnight in the search for suspects in Friday¹s shooting of Pinal County Sheriff¹s Deputy Louis Puroll by suspected drug smugglers in an isolated area of south-central Arizona.
Pinal County Lt. Tami Villar says 14 of those detained are suspected of being illegal immigrants, while three match the description of the shooters given by Puroll. The 14 suspected illegal immigrants are being held by Border Patrol, while the three suspects are being questioned by the Pinal Sheriff's Office.
The Sheriff's Office is also conducting an internal investigation into the shooting, standard policy whenever a shooting involving an officer takes place.
Villar added that evidence recovered from the scene is only now being processed, but would not comment on if weapons had been found.
Puroll, who had been shot with an AK-47-type weapon around 4 p.m., according to the Sheriff's Office, has declined requests to be interviewed.
The rugged desert area where the shooting took place, near the junction of Interstate 8 and Arizona 84 in south-central Arizona, is considered a high-traffic drug- and human-smuggling corridor.
A massive hunt of 100 square miles that included helicopters with night-vision equipment and more than 200 officers, including SWAT teams, from 13 agencies was still pursuing the shooters late Friday. More than one helicopter came under fire during the evening as officers rescued Puroll, who had been shot with an AK-47-type weapon around 4 p.m., according to the Sheriff's Office.
Puroll suffered a flesh wound above his kidney that tore off a chunk of skin. He was treated at Casa Grande Regional Medical Center and released Friday night.
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4 oclock in the afternoon! And Nappytrolliono says we are safe as ever here in AZ. Guess she's sucking too much of that DC air. I think all those idiots from NY and DC that are calling is faciasts should come live here for a while, but then we are a "Fly over" state and deseve being ignored!
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Deport the lot to the nearest large oak tree for hemp rope solution.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
