My responce to Leo McKinstry.

This is my responce to the daily mail artical (found here: http://tiny.cc/leo679)

ALEX NELSON: Sorry not to join the liberal wailing: Daily Mail writers deserve to die.

This morning, barring an unlikely last-minute reprieve, convicted Daily Mail Writer LEO McKINSTRY was executed by firing squad, having been found guilty of poising the minds of the British public with bigotry and offensive journalism.

His case has prompted outrage in this country from politicians and from the secretly racist morons, for whom racism is a fashionable habit rather than serious criminal offence.

Yet for all this orchestrated wailing, is it not possible that it is right to put McKinstry to death?

Indeed, I would argue that Britain’s enfeebled, self-destructive approach to reading shit in the papers has been graphically highlighted by China’s ruthlessness in tackling  uneducated and offensive tabloid writers’.

In contrast to New Labour’s policy of appeasement and surrender, the Chinese Government acts vigorously to defend its people from the misery caused by the tabloid papers.

My regret is not over tough action by Beijing, but the fact that we in this country do not possess the moral clarity or strength of purpose to deal ruthlessly with Daily Mail writers and other enemies of our society.

A morally bankrupt man with a chequered history of lying, a tangled personal life, and an obsession with creating a fear climate, McKinstry was arrested with his pen still dripping with shit.

As the Chinese police point out, this is a big enough amount to have killed 27,000 people.

In China, the death penalty can be invoked against anyone who is known to be purposely creating ignorant moral outrage -  and that is one obvious reason why China, proportionally, has nothing like the problem that we have in Britain.

Serious Daily Mail writers and abusers know they could be looking down the barrel of a gun if they are caught.

It is the height of hypocrisy for the Labour government, the human rights brigade and celebrity loudmouths to lecture China when Britain’s own strategy has failed so disastrously, with a large majority of the public still being taken in by the lies of the Mail.

Thanks to the climate of institutionalised leniency, our society is awash with writers who bring widespread crime, violence and family breakdown in their wake.

Writers and professional shit peddlers conduct their business knowing they have absolutely nothing to fear from our courts. Far from condemning racism and bigotry, our achingly ridicules culture glamorises their possession.

Vacuous supermodel Jan Moir was caught spouting homophobia by undercover reporters, most of the fashion world rallied behind her with a sense of moral indignation, protecting her lucrative contracts and behaving as though she were a victim. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8322147.stm)

In tabloid circles there was speculation for a long time that homophobia was not Jan’s only bigotry of choice  -  that she had also spouted racism and fascism.

More….

At time of writing it is still unknown what has happened to Akmal Shaikh. I am still hoping for the best.

Bring The Troops Home Hyde Park to Downing Street – Diary Of My Day

This is a Diary of my day at the bring the troop’s home protest in London, arranged by the Stop the War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The protest started in Hyde Park and moved down to Trafalgar Square, and later on to Downing street.

Saturday 24th October 2009

10.00 am – Left my house and meet my friend on the train.

11.00 – Got to Hyde Park and start to look at the stalls there, having a chance to talk to them and see why different people are there.

12.00 – lots of people now, up to around 2000. The King Blues set up their portable PA system and start to play.

12.15 – we move over to the start of the rally and line up with everyone else ready for the march.

1.00 – The march gets going. By this time there is up to 5000 (according to BBC) of us on the streets and we start our walk towards Trafalgar.

2.30 – Get to the square. When everyone got there speakers took the stage. Some very moving speeches, including Tony Been, different MP’s, Lance Cpl Joe Glenton (Currently facing court martial for refusing to go back to Afghanistan) and family members of troops who have died due to the war.

4.15 – After the talks and a final song and poem from the King Blues we are invited to walk down to downing street where a petition with 3000 names on will be given to Mr Brown. Around 300 of us walk down and after some chanting and being moved to the other side the road they let someone in to deliver the petition to the front door.

Below are a selection of my pics of the day. Click on them and have a look, all comments always welcome at the bottom of the page.

Sites

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/

http://www.cnduk.org/

The BNP at the BBC – Diary Of My Day

This is my diary of the day the BNP where allowed to be on the BBC and the demo in which i took part in with “Unite Against Fascism” at the BBC television center, Wood Lane, london.

Thursday 22nd October 2009.

11:30am – Meet at the main entrance Kingston University. Police pull up and tell us are banners that read “The BNP is a Nazi party – smash the BNP” are offensive to members of the BNP and we will be arrested unless we stopped showing them of. We do stop as we didnt want to be arrested before we got to the demo.

12:00 – Leave the uni with 20 people with us and go to the BBC center in London to voice are view.

13.15 – After missing the first train and waiting a long time for the connecting one later on we finally get to Shepard’s Bush and walk up to the television center. Once we get to the BBC there is around 50 protesters already there and police telling us we where protesting on the wrong side of the road, and if we stayed outside the BBC we could be arrested. we all quickly ignore him and join the others in their chants.

15.00 – there is by now 200 or more protesters outside the BBC, we are still chanting loudly. The police presence is getting larger and larger (reportedly there was 300 police by the end the day)

16.00 – The protest has extended to around 800 people (according the UAF website 2000, i think this is a little over the top. Police say 500, a little low i feel) it is around this point that the protest moves from the office entrance to the two main gates. we continue to chant loudly as a group try to get over the gates and into the grounds of the BBC. (The BBC stops work and stands and watches us from the building)

16.15 – The police respond by starting to try and pen (or kettle) us in the area we are at. to combat this everyone links arms and walks into the road. We continue to hold the chain and walk down Wood Lane, causing all traffic to stop (however most motorists where cheering and agreeing with us as we walked past) the police one again try to kettle a smaller group behind us, we turn around and break the chain again.

16:45 – whilst walking down Wood Lane we walk to the back gate where there are more police.

(it is at this point that i have to leave and travel back to Kingston and go to work, the rest of this account is what i have been told by fellow marchers and read online so times have been left out)

After i left more roads were closed off by protesters, Nick Griffin got into the studio and did the show (available on BBC iPlayer). around 17.00 25 people broke into the BBC via the main gate. (anyone who thinks they saw me on the news at this point, i was gone by then) they stood in the main reception of the building and were surrounded by the police and dragged out by the police. As the night progressed the BBC went into lock down and the groups outside had speakers, but eventually the police used tear gas against the protesters and according to accounts looked ready to use violence.

I would also like to point out that on the day i was a peaceful protester, and do disagree with the actions of some of the people who were at the demo today (only a very small amount of people as it goes). (Anyone who injured the police on purpose)

Below are a selection of my pictures from the day. Thanks for reading, and as always all comments welcome.

Cant gag the internet.

This mouring the Guardian Newspaper was stopped from reporting parliament. Below is an extract from the Guardian site. and below that is the question they have been banded for asking.

The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.

Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.

The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret.

The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.

Below is the question that can not be asked.

“Questions for Oral or Written Answer beginning on Tuesday 13 October 2009″

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N Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect (a) whistleblowers and (b) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by (i) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and (ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.

Related links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/12/guardian-gagged-from-reporting-parliament

http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5417651/british-press-banned-from-reporting-parliament-seriously.thtml

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Minton_report:_Trafigura_Toxic_dumping_along_the_Ivory_Coast_broke_EU_regulations%2C_14_Sep_2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/16/trafigura-oil-ivory-coast

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/13/guardian-court-parliament-reporting-gag

Back And Talking About Boris, Obama and Newspapers.

Welcome back.

So its been a little while, 2 and a bit months, since i posted the last blog so i felt it was time to do one, and hopefully get back into doing this as a regular thing.

This first blog is going to be a collection of things that i have been thinking about the last couple of days and should be a collection of short articles.

Free London Papers.

Anyone who has been to london will be aware that at train stations, bus stations and on the street in London you can pick up a free newspaper to read on your travel that day. Since i last blogged “The london Paper” has stopped publishing, and “The Evening Standard” has become a free paper (from today in fact).

As an idea this is a very good one, allowing people who otherwise might not have the time/want to read the news that day a perfect opportunity to find out what is going on. Be it not from the most informative papers in the world.

But this also creates a large problem with what to do with the papers at the end of the day, Westminster City Council recently estimated that free newspapers are responsible for 25% of all rubbish in the west end. Obviously a major issue, as much of this went un recycled

I would like to see the continuation of free papers in the UK, as in Germany and Japan this service has been stopped. I would also like to see more recycling bins at stations and bus stops in and around london to try and combat the problem.

Obama Wins Peace Prize.

Couple days ago Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, despite only being in charge for 10 months, and only being President for 12 days before the cut of date for nominations.

This has already raised large amounts of confusion and controversy. I will now give you a quick pros and cons of Obama winning and let you make up your own minds.

Pros

1. The prize is not necessary meant for people who have achieved any massive achievements in the peace movement, the prize can also be awarded to someone they feel would benefit from it. As sort of seal of approval. With Obama being given this award it gives him more international backing and momentum in achieving his aims. Making it a tool rather than a prize.

2. Obamas foreign policy has also been praised for his peaceful approach, opening up conversations with North Korea, China and Nuclear disarmament talks with Russia.

3. As well as his stance on climate change.

Cons

1. How can a president that is currently at war with two other states and increasing troop numbers in Afghanistan be a winner of a PEACE prize.

2. Only been president for 10 months. Can easily be seen as jumping on the Obama bandwagon.

3. It’s all been talk and no action so far.

All comments welcome at the bottom of the page on this story.

Boris Does Something Right

Belive it or not but Boris ‘got the job by being an idiot’ Johnson, the Major of London, has done something right! His plan is to have the anyone using the busiest roads in london will have to pay extra pound to drive on them, on top of the Congestion charge. The idea of this is to improve public bus times by reducing traffic, reducing the amount of CO2 the city gives out, improve the lives of london cyclists. He also plans to introduce hydrogen powered buses in the city by 2010, create so called “mega cycle roads” and introduce the new bigger busses that can hold more people within a couple of years.

It took a couple of years, but Boris has done something right.

Thanks very much for reading.

And as always tell your friends and comment below and let me know how you think.

Ridiculous Newspaper Headline Of The Week! 3

So its been a little bit since i posted anything, so i decided the first thing i should do is add a new headline.

Saw this yesterday whilst i was out and about in north london. Made me smile.

Hope you enjoy it, im off to write my first real blog in months. check back in the next hour or so and it should be up.

The UK’s shame

Before I get into the blog just want to say I know it’s been ages since I have done a blog, but this is due to me having uni work, laptop issues, moving and me not being as angry recently. But welcome back to my blog and I’m hoping to get it back up and going again now I have some time free.

I decided to write this blog today due to this story in which Nick Griffin (who since my last blog has become a MEP) thinks the best way to stop immigration into the EU is to sink the boats the immigrants are coming in on, which on its own is a horrible idea to put the lives of innocent people in danger but also it completely ignores the peoples legal right to claim asylum from poverty and mistreatment. This blog is going to try and look at the sort of people who vote BNP for this I will be picking an article on the BNPs website and having a look at the comments on it, examining the UK’s shame to vote for racists and holocaust deniers.

A quick look at the BNP’s website www.BNP.org.uk will bring you up many policies and articles’ about the group and what they work towards, the first one which took me was this one anti-bnp fanatics exposed as liars and fascists in which the BNP claim that the group “Unite Against Fascism” are a group of “extremist totalitarian and anti-white political group with strong links to Islamic extremism” and claims they are a “Marxist organisation that uses Nazi methods to pursue its purpose”. When in fact the UAF is a cross party group who has members and supporters ranging from holocaust survivor Henry Guterman, head of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality Edie Friedman and Conservative Leader David Cameron. And the BNP claims that they use Nazi style propaganda are unfounded and hypocritical. At the bottom of this article there is a comment section. Below are some extracts from it (as they are on the site, italics are my comments on some of them):

“These people, are not genuine people at all. i would like all asylum seekers given student places in univercity, instead of left wing students. I also would like to see student housing of lefties, given to asylum seekers” – rare cockney.

“The sort of people who make up the majority of its membership are people who are mentally ill. They need someone else to hate, they cannot live a normal harmonious life and the UAF offers them just such a target to release their own self-loathing in the form of the BNP.” – Andastre. Do the BNP not just offer someone to hate? And everyone in the UAF is mentally ill?

“These majority of members are simply used as fodder to advance the real agenda behind these movements which is the annihilation of the white indigenous British people” – Andastre. UAF is a equal black and white organisation.

“UAF members seems very similar to Islamists: hate democracy, hate anyone who disagrees with them, easily resort to violence, use language which condemns others for having the attributes they themselves embrace (i.e. fascism, racism, etc.)” – Stefcho.

“In a word, SCUM!” – presidentrustem.

“Such an insane organisation could only be ran on lies and misguidance, and with hipocrites in charge i.e bonafide fascists!” – Dracoscorpius. Hypocritical?

“Their brains must be mangled from all the drugs they consumed in the 60’s!” – Dracoscorpius

“Yet me who is going to spend the day making mince pies and shortbreads with my daugther is classed as a racist knuckle dragger for voting BNP!” – yagooks. I’m not sure that racists refuse to make cakes?

“That’s why I’ve written before that some people who look like us, really aren’t like us. Inside, they are alien to us because they lack the form of the gene that we have that allows us to see the genocide that is being waged against us.” – HJ.

“Can it ever be possible for these poor unfortunate people to have a normal family life, hold down a job or be a useful member of society ? All they seem to do is hate, hate and hate.” – orion.

“As soon as these UAF idiots open their mouths normal people realise what a bunch of nutcases they are.” – Andeastre.

It is interesting to see how they describe the members of the UAF group, claiming they are mentally ill and are fuelled by hate.  To make sure I’m not just picking the worst comments please go onto this article and the others on the BNP site and have a look at the comments posted on there. It makes me feel ashamed to see that these views are around in the UK and are tolerated by so many. Keep an eye on the UAF website for upcoming activities and events.

As always please add comment and your view below and thanks for reading.

At Home With Mr And Mrs Obama

100 days have passed for the first black president of the USA, has he lived up to the hype and the hope? What’s he done? What’s he already failed to do?

What he has done

· First day in office he meet with the chief officials in charge of the war in Iraq he “asked the military leadership to engage in additional planning necessary to execute a responsible military drawdown from Iraq” – White house press office

· Allowed Cuban Americans to have unlimited trips to and be able to send money to family in Cuba.

· Invested more money into renewable energy.

· Tax credits for people who buy hybrid cars.

· Got his children a puppy.

· Lifted restrictions on stem cell research.

· Ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay and other ‘black sites’ (whilst also releasing memos detailing what torture was used under the bush administration).

· Grants for energy efficient buildings.

· Extend the children’s health insurance fund.

· Gave a speech at a major Islamic forum to reassert that the USA is not at war with Islam, and he wishes to sand aside Islamic countries to help fight the troubles.

· Overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling that it’s ok for women to be paid less.

· Offered a new beginning to relations with Iran, as well as inviting Egypt and Palestinian leaders to the white house.

· Called for a global summit on Nuclear weapons, as well as pledging to reduce the amount of stock piled weapons in the USA, and meeting with Russia to help create a new arms control treaty.

· Created a $787 billion economic stimulus pack

What he hasn’t done

· Has not ended income tax for pensioners earning under $50,000

· Has not allowed five days of public comment before signing bills, as promised

· Recognise the Armenian genocide

· Failed to create $3000 tax credit for businesses that create jobs

As you can see from the evidence above, it’s clear that he has achieved more in the first 100 days then a lot of previous presidents have, and has also achieved more positive than negative policys in the 100 days. There is still a lot of work to do with the Middle East as currently it is only words with no actions, along with continuing to work on the economic stimulus pack helping to move the money to the places its needed. Obamamania is still with us and does look to continue for some time to come, and in my opinion he has so far lived up to the seemingly impossibly high expectations everyone had for him at the beginning of his term.

Of course I could not talk about Obama’s first 100 days without commenting on Michelle Obama’s first 100 days as first lady, and what roll I think she will be taking over the course of the Obama administration. In her first 100 days she has been able to take the media by storm, and used them to create a popular and positive image around her. She has been able to bring herself into homes across America, helping to create a approval rating of 79% (Mr Obama’s is only 64%) as well as being labelled one of the “Best 10 dressed people in the world” (Vanity Fair) and one of the “25 most inspiring women in the world” (Essence). As it looks at the moment she will continue to have this positive image amongst America for the rest of the term.

After only 100 days in office it is important to remember that there is still 1357 days to go until the end of the term, but as it looks at the moment it should be positive, for both Mrs and Mr Obama.

My New National Curriculum

 

In the UK there is a national curriculum that is set out to dictate what all children from the point of starting school, till finishing at 16 should have learnt. I think that there are many things in this curriculum that could be dropped and many more that should be added. Many of the things I wish to add are there for real world situations that are needed in life, rather than just in the class room to pass exams.

The first thing I believe should be added is basic level economics into maths lessons; this is so that students can understand the meaning of inflation, deflation, VAT, APR, the economic cycle and interest rates (etc). I think this should be added so that in real world situations when people are trying to find mortgages, or borrowing money from the bank they can understand what they are agreeing to more so than currently. As well as understanding what they are being told on the news and reading in the papers in realistic terms rather than a vague misunderstanding of the words.

The focus of history lessons should also be changed. In England we have a rich history of kings and queens which is strongly focused on in history lessons, when in fact if we focused on civil rights and human rights more people could understand and fight to protect are rights, rather than fighting for the opposite and claiming they are useless. With more people understanding the Human Rights Act, Magna Carta, abolishing the slave trade and the suffragette movement then they are more likely to protect the rights as well as use them to protect themselves.

The next major thing I would change is the complete remodelling of PSHE (Personal, social and health education). For anyone who doesn’t know what PSHE is, it’s a lesson that takes place one hour a week and is used by students to do nothing, this is not necessary the fault of the student. From what I can remember of PSHE we were taught not to walk on the train tracks (at the age of 16) as well as an hour of sex education once in the 5years and basic drug education (but without showing the consequences). What I would also add to this lesson is a basic knowledge of the political system, so people know what they are complaining about, along with adding more information about career options, job interviews, CVs and how to pay bills and understand basic home maintenance (reading gas and electric meters, Along with car TAX, MOT and insurance). Whilst also expanding sex education to include more in depth discussion of STIs, teenage pregnancy and contraception.

I would also like the schools to increase their emphasis on learning a foreign language, as well as adding basic map reading skills to geography, as currently I (and most people I have spoken to) find it hard to locate cities on the map of their own country. Along with creating more funding for music so that you can learn more than just ‘seven nation army’ on the single piano in the class.

If you can think of anything else to add to this, please feel free to add it into the comment section below (no sign up necessary). Thanks for reading.

Something Good From Something Bad

Anyone entering secondary education (age 11) in the UK from 2011 will be the first group to continue their education until the age of 18, rather than 16 as it stands at the moment. As part of this the national curriculum will be extended to include 50hours of community service for every pupil. Whilst in the extra two years of education pupils will have to undertake standard academic courses or vocational skill based courses.

As far as I see it this could create many problems.

The first being that by forcing, instead of giving the choice, students to train to take up skilled tradesman jobs there is the danger that there will be too many people over populating the skilled trades and mean that there will be more unemployed people who are skilled workers.

The second is that whilst I was in 6th form, from the age of 16 to 18, it was much more enjoyable then school due to the fact that you are treated as an adult and the people who didn’t want to be there, weren’t there. Under the new system they will still be there, so exam results could drop as classes become more disrupted again, whilst losing its more adult environment.

The final problem is that the people who have previously gone through the system will have their qualifications devalued, with all people getting A-levels or vocational degrees.

The good that comes from this new system however is that more people will leave the education system with skills and qualifications, but also that by each student completing 50 hours of community service it means that this could become the norm and mean that more people in later life still give up their time to help others.

There is currently 3.6 million students enrolled in secondary education In the UK that is a amazing 1,800,000,000 hours of community service if each pupil does 50hours over the course of their secondary education. A good thing I think you will agree.

All comments welcome as always.

Links to artical

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7995652.stm