If I hear the “Police are institutionally racist” one more time today, I think I’m gonna scream

Right, I get off the bus today and see two cops with a young black man who they need to speak to.

Enter, stage left, (exiting the bus just like me) two black men and a woman who may have been their mother.

Mom said, “they’re looking for a black man”

One of the men said, “I thought they were coming after me”.

I turned around and said, “ohh, what a relief, I thought they were after me”.

Unimpressed, the trio turned around to approach the police who were having an unremarkable chat with the young man. I’m sure it’s always helpful to have the uninformed question your every move as you try to do your job.

That brings me to this little gem

A Metropolitan police officer was found not guilty today of racially abusing two teenagers.

PC Mark Jones, 42, a member of the force’s Territorial Support Group, was accused of subjecting the youths to a physical and verbal attack while on patrol in a marked police van in west London in June 2007.

It was alleged that during the incident he accused one 16-year-old Kuwaiti of “robbing people while British soldiers are getting killed in Iraq”.

But Jones denied any wrongdoing in connection with the incident and the jury of five men and seven women at Kingston crown court cleared him of two charges of racially aggravated common assault following the three-week trial.

Jones and four colleagues, PC Neil Brown, 33, Sergeant William Wilson, 52, PC Steven White, 31, and PC Giles Kitchener, 31, who stood trial alongside him, were also found not guilty of misfeasance in public office.

The jury spent five hours deliberating before clearing all the officers.

None of the officers showed any emotion as the verdicts were read out.

During the trial, the court heard the officer was travelling with colleagues from London’s Paddington Green police station to patrol Lambeth during the evening rush hour when officers spotted a group of youths allegedly mouthing obscenities at them.

When they came to a stop, three teenagers were allegedly taken into the van one by one and subjected to taunts.

“Whistle blower” PC Amechi Onwugbonu, who had been in the van, gave evidence against Jones during the trial.

He said the officer swore at one teenager, Omar Mohidin, who was 16 at the time, before kicking him off the carrier.

He accused him of walking over another youth, Ahmed Hegazy, when he lay handcuffed on the floor of the vehicle.

He said a third teenager, Basil Khan, was brought onto the van before he was sworn at, punched, kneed and slapped in the face.

But Jones consistently denied acting in an unprofessional manner and PC Onwugbonu later admitted that he and Jones were “not best buddies”.

To PC Onwugbonu and the three jackasses at the bus stop today, I salute you for doing your bit to foster good race relations with your utterly spurious accusations.

I suggest the Metropolitan Police kit every officer with a San Jose “ear video camera” and bring an end to this bullshit.

To Be A Gay Man In Hackney These Days

Maybe isn’t as bad as being a lesbian in South Africa – where “raping women straight” appears to be the accepted view -

But you’re likely to get your ass kicked outside the George & Dragon.

The Guardian reports:

We’re in the midst of a new wave of anti-gay hate crimes.

No shit. Hummm, and who might the perpetrators be?

Internet chatter has increasingly discussed that such increases in homophobic hate crime is the result of the failure of multi-cultural policies to address the widening gulf between the views of new citizens from countries where homosexuality is seen as morally wrong and those UK citizens who don’t. Comments posted invariably state that most perpetrators of homophobia have been either of black or Asian origin. Many site the growth of Islam and religious fundamentalism as being a catalyst for such problems.
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Once again, I thank Labour for their cultural relativism – my rights (erm, the right to walk down the street minding my own business without getting my head kicked in) have been sold down the river to pander to other cultural points of view.

Come on, Guardian. It’s time to tell the whole truth.

And for all you squriming relativists – here is an excellent op-ed by Antonia Senior:

The logical flaws are also obvious. Take female genital mutilation. I think it is an abhorrent, evil crime. Yet the woman slicing out the clitoris of a child with a rusty knife thinks she is doing the right thing. Clearly, one of us is absolutely right and one of us is deluded. If your culture believes in genital mutilation and mine does not, then my culture is right and good and yours is wrong and bad.

This is an argument made persuasively by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch MP and political activist. Ali argues that Western feminists retreat into silence when faced with the subjugation of their Islamic sisters, hobbled by their unwillingness to criticise other cultures.

Sing it, sister.

Tags Stay – Banksy Goes

12-09-09_1618 I guess the Sheriff of Tombstone and his crack graffiti busters missed this small tag-ette on the gates of Abney Park Cemetary on Stoke Newington High Street.

What planet are Hackney Council on? If I were gunning for Banksy, I’d at least try not to make it so obvious and scrub off some of the tags on public property while I was at it. I’ll let that be a lesson – never underestimate how dumb Hackney Nu-labour can be.

Alright kids, you know the drill:

Hackney Council v Banksy

What is it with Hackney Council? How long did the geniuses spend planning their latest shower of incompetence…

This is what the Banksy looked like yesterday. In fact, that’s what it’s looked like for years.

Then this morning, our friends from Hackney, the people who know what’s best for us all, did this…

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I did have a short conversation with one of these guys…

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The poor man had tears in his eyes.

“We knew it was a Banksy, love. It’s a Stoke Newington landmark; we know that. We told them, but they wouldn’t listen”.

Here’s what gets me. The wall that the Banksy was/is on is PRIVATE PROPERTY. The OWNER of the property was outside pleading with the Council officer to stop the insanity.

I wouldn’t wish to speculate, but I wonder how much that Banksy was worth? I wonder it there is a civil case that could be brought by the owner against the Council for the loss?

Hell, I wonder if the owner could bring a complaint to the Police against Hackney Council for criminal damage?

Hey Kids, never mind! It was a “mistake”

Your thoughts?

You’re Not Welcome In The Borough, Dude

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Thanks to the Hackney Gazette for letting us know what Hackney Labour are doing to keep Tim Larkin, a self-defence guru out of this borough:

Cllr Patrick Vernon, of Queensbridge ward, said Larkin was not welcome in the borough.

He said: “This training simply glorifies violence and is purely a money-making exercise targeting vulnerable people or exacerbating fragile relationships with the gangs and postcode turf wars locally.”

Darell Philip, a communications officer with the Hackney Seventh Day Adventist Church in Haggerston Road, said: “This training provides no solutions to the root cause of violence, but just puts young people’s lives at more risk.

” “Our message was that they should put down the guns and knives and treasure their life and their community. How can this be achieved by promoting combat violence techniques?”

Larkin, from Las Vegas, California, has more than 20 years’ experience training members of the US Navy Seals, FBI and US marshals.

Erm, while Cllr Patrick Vernon is playing Sheriff of Tombstone, perhaps he’ll have a word with the gauntlet of scrotes on the High Street and outside Nandos and tell them to clear off as well.

And to Darell Philip, “a communications officer with the Hackney Seventh Day Adventist Church in Haggerston Road”, I don’t think I’d have the luxury of  giving much thought to the “root causes of crime” if someone had their hand around my throat and was going to rape me; I’d like to know how to save my life and get out of the situation.

What would Patrick Vernon and Darell like me to do – roll over and die?

Don’t answer that.

oh shit – better ban these guys too.

Anjem and Me

London’s favourite islamist, Anjem Choudary, was hanging down at Dalston’s [in]famous Kingsland Shopping Centre today.

While I didn’t get a pic of the man himself, I did get some snaps of his death cult followers and have posted them on TwitPic for your information.

Most notable was the ocassional frission between the black Christians and the islamists. This encounter was fairly tame; although I did see it kick off a bit between the sides, I didn’t think it prudent to be taking obvious pics of the handbags.

Quote of the Day: “Jesus was a muslim“.

What Better Protects the Right to Life?

navyseals Our learned friends at the Foreign Office have told the Royal Navy not to return Somali pirates to Somalia as said pirates may face sharia law justice and punishments.

Why oh why is the torture, possible or real, of a foreign criminal in his home country MY problem? I can understand this country’s European obligations but why is the FBI preparing a case against the world’s luckiest pirate, possibly to be heard in the USA?

Perhaps it’s time to have a shift from the post WWII “rights based” paradigm.  I really don’t fancy a compo payout to yet another islamist jackass because “his Article 3 & 6 rights” may be violated, particularly when said jackass seeks to import his terror from a foreign country.

I prefer a “liberty” based paradigm, where we send foreign criminals to their homes; and a recognition that the only thing standing between me and the terrorists, protecting my liberty, my right to life, are the SAS/US Navy SEALS – not the lawyers and certainly not the Human Rights Act. _946400_rights2_act300

Christmas 2008

25-12-08_0033 This snap was taken on the walk home from midnight mass at St Mary’s (the “new” church) on Stoke Newington Church Street.

It’s nights like this where one really appreciates Stoke Newington’s village-ness. All the people in the photo are walking home from the church service. There will be more later, breathing community life into the street, from the Rose & Crown Christmas Eve lock in.

Later this morning, Clissold Park will be busy with kids riding their new bikes and later today, the Rose & Crown will be packed with friends having a pre-Christmas lunch drink.

I’ll be missing out a bit on my usual Stoke Newington Christmas as I am meeting friends at the Victory. Maybe we should do a fly-by of the Punchbowl too.

UPDATE

LOL. You’ll never guess who I saw at the Victory, yes – The Victory, for lunch today. Too bad I wasn’t sat at his table. I might of asked him about his latest suspension / compo claim over a chipolata.

All I want to know is which member of the Armed Forces invited that asshat.

Speaking of delusional whack-jobs with a persecution complex, wot in the world is Channel 4 thinking of by inviting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to give it’s “alternative Christmas speech“. I suppose if it were WWII, these idiots would be giving equal time to Lord Haw Haw.

The Queen’s Christmas Message here.

Are You Obama In Disguise?

Both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have been falling all over themselves to claim Obama – like two girls fighting over some guy. (He’s mine. No, he’s MINE!). Today, Gordon took it that step too far. Oh, how we all laughed.

Kreep By Name, Kreep By Nature

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Urrrrrgggg. Honest to God, this picture of the California attorney behind the suit“Obama ‘fake’ Birth Certificate” lawsuit makes me want to vomit.

Yes friends, in a last ditch, utterly pathetic attempt to keep Obama from being sworn in as President, and on the basis of conjecture and a 9-11 truther-esq obsession, lawyers and other dimwits are flooding the courts with spurious certiorari and mandamus applications – despite thisand the fact that 50 state Secretaries of State are required to determine eligibility before authorising a Presidential candidate’s name on their state’s ballot.

Our learned friends at World Net Daily explain: “The petition is a request for the Superior Court of California in Sacramento County to issue a peremptory writ barring Secretary of State Debra Bowen “from both certifying to the governor the names of the California Electors, and from transmitting to each presidential Elector a Certificate of Election, until such documentary proof is produced and verified showing that Senator Obamais a ‘natural born’ citizen of the United States and does not hold citizenship of Indonesia, Kenya or Great Britain.”errrr, how does one show he is not a citizen of a foreign country? Produce a, “no I’m not a citizen of Great Britain passport?”

It continues with a request for a writ barring California’s electors from signing the Certificate of Vote until documentary proof is produced”

The only more laughable pleadings I’ve ever read are contained in attorney Philip Berg’s motionto resurrect his application for the District Court to compel Obama et al to produce said Mr Obama’s birth certificate. One will see here that Souter J is unmoved.

To quote His Honour Judge Samuel B. Kent in Bradshaw v Unity Marine Corporation (2001): Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact — complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words — to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed.

Thus, with Big Chief tablet readied, thick black pencil in hand, and a devil-may-care laugh in the face of death, life on the razor’s edge sense of exhilaration, allow me to explain – as it appears that Messrs Berg and Kreep were absent on the day law was taught at their respective law schools:

The first issue is standing. Go on, click on that link. You’ll see that there are three constitutional standing tests which must be met for the Court to be able to hear the matter: Injury, causation and redressability.

Now would one of these barrack-room lawyers please explain to me Philip Berg’s or Alan Keyes’ injury? Care to have a stab at “causation”. Go on, roll out that “redressability” argument.

Allow me. Philip Berg’s pleadings re standing include his learned and highly persuasive argument that his “injury” is the “hundreds of billable hours spent [drafting this shite]“

Firstly, it took him “hundreds of hours”?
Secondly, how is Obama the “cause” of his insanity?

But our barrack-room friends point to Alan Keyes. “Ah ha! Alan Keyes’ standing emanates from his own failed Presidential bid”.

Wrong. As a contributer on this helpful blog explains, Alan Keyes cannot blame Obama for his loss. Keyes lost because nobody voted for him; Obama cannot be blamed for that.

Included in the “world and his wife” class of Respondents Keyes et al have named is the Secretary of State of California. Implicit in their argument is the speculation that she didn’t satisfy herself of Obama’s filing credentials. But knowing that time has passed, as she already authorised his name on the ballot, Keyes and gang appear to ask the Court to add additional duties to the Electors in her role as Secretary of State.

I’m perplexed. Usually our barrack-room friends abhor “activist judges” ruling beyond the scope of their powers….

Even the Secretary of State wouldn’t have standing against Obama, as it was in her discretion to judge the validity of his documents. If she was not satisfied [with the evidence of compliance by Obama of the "natural born" requirement], she would not have authorised his name on the ballot. Then, it would have been for Obama to petition the Court!

Sensing they might be onto a loser after all, the brighter of the barrack-room boys ask, “but what about the merits”. You mean, is it possible that Obama isn’t a natural born citizen? Again, as our friends here explain, it’s for Congress to determine what is “natural born” – and it appears they’ve never done so.

Nevertheless let’s look at Dr Corsi’s conjecture that Obama was really born in Kenya. Got any proof? Bueller?

So while indeed it may be possible that Obama was born in Kenya, just as it may be possible for pigs one day to fly unaided, these cases are going nowhere. But don’t let that get in the way of cranking out idiot “radio“.

Next week, why Marbury v Madison is good law and my observations as to how you got it hung ’round your neck.

PS: As you will see, here, Mr Marbury DID have standing…