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MAN OF NO TV APPEARANCE
Britain is doomed:
A police force withdrew plans for a televised appeal to help catch an Afghan suspected of sexually assaulting women after a race watchdog warned that it might spark a violent backlash.
Detectives were due to appear on an episode of ITV’s Manhunt to ask for help finding Noorullah Seddiqi, 34 ...
But the Chief Constable of the Devon and Cornwall force, Stephen Otter, told officers not to go ahead with the programme after the Devon Racial Equality Council, funded by and affiliated to the Commission for Racial Equality, said the appeal could lead to a racist backlash.
The BBC reveals that even general alerts on this chap apparently cause offence:
Police have been criticised for putting out a public appeal for Mr Seddiqi in April, three months after he broke bail.
(Via a senior crown prosecutor in the UK, who tells of “deep frustration” over police trembliness. To say the least.)
UPDATE. An open letter on related themes of nannying do-goodness.
It is more than sad, more than frustrating, more than disappointing.
Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 07 22 at 09:05 AM • permalinkReminds me of an episode of Mr logic in Viz where hes a copper. He witnesses a pursenatching by a bald white dwarf. Due to his politicaly correct radio transmission another group of coppers picks up a black tall kid with dreadlocks.
here he is.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 22 at 09:21 AM • permalinkThere is enough Irony here for another verse of Alanis Morrisetes “Ironic”. Is this where positive discrimination ends or begins, I’m confused, i think i was in the wrong queue when my share of positive discrimination was handed out, and this guy got it.
Posted by aguycalledbrad on 2007 07 22 at 09:28 AM • permalinkYeah, I’m still mulling over that race watchdog thing, too.
Look, there’s no use in capturing the guy, cause that’ll also be offensive. So why don’t they give the man a cigar and make him PM?
DICKHEADS.
Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 07 22 at 09:57 AM • permalinkI recall Aussies standing up out of real respect when they played “God Save the Queen” at the pictures, the footy, the theatre, and even at school.
What the hell happened?
England is fucked.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 22 at 10:37 AM • permalinkBritish police succumbing to assinine political correctness to the point that they will stop pursuing a violent criminal. This is beyond pathetic.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 22 at 10:38 AM • permalinkThese moral morons should be required to write an apology to each and every woman in the UK, setting out in detail their calculations re said woman’s personal safety vs. their own sense of political correctness.
I could even write it on their behalf, but they won’t like the result.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 07 22 at 10:59 AM • permalinkI saw on Fox News this morning that the U.S. Congress had voted to strip the funding for the prison at Guantanamo of funding, which means that it will have to be closed. The Senate then voted overwhelmingly not to permit the inmates to be interned in the U.S. I’m not sure what the alternative is. Prison hulks moored off of Key West? Oil platforms converted into penitentiaries? Do space stations have brigs? The same senate that keeps trying to precipitously pull the troops out of Iraq also overwhelmingly passed a resolution that such an action would increase the danger of terrorist attacks in the U.S.
I’ve quoted Mencken on this subject before, but his opinion becomes more apt with every passing day: Democracy is a circus run from the monkey cage.
Laban Tall blogged on this a while ago - as he said
the potential victims of racist attack are more important than the actual victims of rape and sexual assault.
Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2007 07 22 at 11:44 AM • permalinkAnother tragic dimension to Britain’s pathetic decline as a nation is that Her Majesty’s Opposition zealously supports all of the multicultural nonsense responsible for it. Britain is now a Blairite one party state. I fear Australians are now signing on for the same thing, if predictions are right about the prospects of Kevin “Here to Help” Rudd.
The BBC Reports...
After committing a prank
The men whose appearance was blank
Decided to hide
Their weapons inside
The vault of a busy branch bank.Um… well, to be perfectly frank,
It was more of a crime than a prank,
And, um… in this case,
The ‘bank’ was a place
Where blank-blank was practiced by blank.And that’s the news.
I certainly hope that the Telegraph gets a visit from Scotland Yard for insensitively publishing this fine fellow’s photo. Good heavens, some poor cabbie might get scowled at because of this!
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 07 22 at 12:12 PM • permalinkIs there an outrage in the UK from feminist groups I wonder?
Probably not - pandering to this PC mindset means that women are classed as second class citizens , not worth protecting from this scumbag
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 07 22 at 12:21 PM • permalink#1, #18
I too, am glad I saw London when it was still London. I am told I wouldn’t recognise it today. Now I confine my trips much further north.
I fear the entire UK is permeated with this pc plague. Britain needs to get its spine back. So what if it upsets other Afghans. But if his picture is posted (even more than one if they have) why does race have to even be mentioned?
“The issue here is not race at all but serious sexual violence. It is as if the victims are being forgotten in this case.”
exactly, Yvonne, now go catch the bastard.Does that mean the complainers will no longer go to work because traveling by car or train might result in an accident and they might die? Will they stop eating, too, because they might accidentally swallow food the wrong way and choke to death? Will they stop swimming, crossing streets, playing sports, etc., etc. because something might go wrong that will hurt them? Just wondering.
As far as I can see, the only thing that might cause a racist backlash is if we start letting people get away with crimes based on their race.
#20: Odd - and enraging, actually - how multiculturalism has come to mean a situation in which a country’s traditional culture, that may have existed for hundreds of years and have religious and philosophical underpinnings going back thousands, is transformed into nothing more than one among competing, alien and largely inimical cultures that act in a parasitical way on the original host, enjoying the benefits of its civilization while slowly emptying it of its character, and paralyzing its will and, ultimately, its physical capacity to defend what was once a unique and dynamic social and political entity. The great tragedy - as is almost always the way with tragedies of this magnitude - is that it doesn’t have to happen, it isn’t bound to happen, but it will almost certainly happen as the self-confidence of the host country is undermined by the fatuous cultural egalitarianism of its leaders, by the collapse of popular belief in the worthiness of the nation’s own traditions, and the sheer moral and intellectual sloth that can take hold of large numbers of people just as easily as can some burning and militant fanaticism.
I say release them at Harvard, Columbia and Berkeley.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 12:44 PM • permalinkBetter a few women quietly raped, than a possible riot if they go after the rapist too aggressively, sounds like.
Nice.
Remind me to never go to the UK.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 22 at 01:16 PM • permalinkThis kind of thing is exactly what will cause a Racist Backlash. The public’s patience is limited, and I’m very much afraid such racially-motivated idiocy will result in many innocents being lynched when people snap.
If we’re lucky, it will be like Maroubra, where no-one was actually strung up.
The BNP must be laughing, it’s exactly what they want, as a previous commenter so accurately observed.
#28 Paco - I wish you were correct in your assertion that British culture and identity are just one of a plethora competing for dominance on the Sceptered Isle, but I’m afraid that, though the statement is broadly true, the reality is far worse. Amongst the chattering classes, Britishness is largely considered prima facie illegitimate to the point that it is significantly hobbled in all aspects short of having a millenium of inertia.
Nor is this a new phenomenon - in 1991 I went diving in Key West with a British couple who were shocked at the display of the stars and stripes here in the US. The further informed me that simply flying the British flag was considered ‘racialist’ and highly frowned-upon even then. The process of hollowing out the British psyche was well under way.
I, too, remember fondly my first trip to London in 1981 when I stayed at a youth hostel a stone’s throw from St. Paul’s. I may have passed Andrea in a park or on the streets. I also remember being shocked at how much it had changed, and not for the better, when I returned in 1986.
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 07 22 at 01:43 PM • permalinkThey have watchdog racing in Britain? I thought that it was usually greyhounds.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 22 at 01:47 PM • permalinkThe Brits are a lot more interested in using the power of government to maintain order, than to guarantee and protect the rights of their citizens.
Hence, cases like this…
They’d rather have rapists and thieves run loose than have a population that can and will defend itself.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 22 at 01:56 PM • permalinkThe fruits of multiculturalism:
“Honor killing” of a young Kurdish woman in London
I forget, though - the monsters who perpetrate such murderous, vile acts are just acting in a culturally appropriate manner and should not be judged by evil Western imperialists like me.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 22 at 02:35 PM • permalinkPaco—the cadets are too disciplined.
New York fire houses.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 02:57 PM • permalinkBetter not mention that the suspect is a man because that would be racist. Best not to give an estimated age, because we don’t want any cries of ageism, either.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 07 22 at 02:59 PM • permalinkOoops, meant SEXIST.
/I need chocolate. And to remember what that key that says “preview” means.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 07 22 at 03:00 PM • permalinkThe Chinese response is somewhat more vigorous.
I would shake my head in wonder at the foolishness of the sheeple, but my sheep have a much higher developed sense of self-preservation.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 07 22 at 03:06 PM • permalink"I saw on Fox News this morning that the U.S. Congress had voted to strip the funding for the prison at Guantanamo of funding, which means that it will have to be closed. The Senate then voted overwhelmingly not to permit the inmates to be interned in the U.S. I’m not sure what the alternative is."
The alternative is to simply execute them all. Summary execution is, and always has been, a lawful measure for dealing with spies and saboteurs. It’s permitted under the Geneva conventions. Creating the Guantanamo facility to house these people instead was an act of mercy. But if the Democrats in Congress insist on shutting it down, then the inmates should simply be lined up and shot. Their lives were forfeit the moment they participated in attacks and espionage against the U.S. while disguised as civilians.
The BBC has had to backpedal on a string of lies lately, the British police have lost the plot and British local councils are well, being
local councils.Maybe they need a few Glaswegians to set about them.
BTW and OT, I think the commenters here could significantly add to this list.
I saw on Fox News this morning that the U.S. Congress had voted to strip the funding for the prison at Guantanamo of funding, which means that it will have to be closed. The Senate then voted overwhelmingly not to permit the inmates to be interned in the U.S. I’m not sure what the alternative is."
Wow! At last we can say it: Thank God for the CIA’s nonexistent foreign secret prisons…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 04:55 PM • permalink#39: They have watchdog racing in Britain?
Yeah, but it’s not too exciting. The dogs are usually so busy keeping an eye on each other that every race ends in a photo-finish, with most of the mutts nosing across the finish line simultaneously. Very difficult to get decent odds from the turf accountants.
Paco—yes but since they’re all so busy watching each other it’s usually a winner by an ear.
I understand bassets have a big advantage…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 05:54 PM • permalink> The Senate then voted overwhelmingly not to permit the inmates to be interned in the U.S. I’m not sure what the alternative is.
I think the explanation there is that we tricked the Democrats into voting for that amendment, (and BTW that’s an amendment to another bill; it’s not yet existing law and the bill may very well not pass).
The amendment was worded with ain’t not type of stuff, so you had to vote yes to mean no, and versa vice.
Harry Reid was either too busy to notice or tell his peeps which way to vote, and… he got “Mitch slapped”.
Anyway! That’s some sick shite going on in Brittania; good thing girls can carry concealed handguns over there!
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2007 07 22 at 06:10 PM • permalinkI fail to see what is racist about a program stating that Mr X is wanted for alleged crimes. He is x years old, last seen in x, and is a former citizen of Afghanistan. He is x tall, of olive skin colour, hair is brown, has a tattoo of x on his x, bearded, and answers to the call of “fresh white meat”.
Apart from that last bit, where is the racism? To say someone is of olive skin colour, or a former citizen of afghanistan? This is not racism, this is fact. You cannot be racist for saying this. It would be like someone saying I’m a white Australian. And? So? That is not offensive - it is who I am ffs. c’mon man, this is
getting toinsanity.paco - 28 - it is interesting to consider what this merging of cultures will bring - history has rarely seen such mass migration and integration on a global scale. There would be very few Western countries spared the immigration impact. So what will become of these countries, this great mixing of cultures? Will world wars be more difficult to start when countries share many common peoples? Will they fracture along cultural lines? Will these new peoples come to change their ways to any extent, taking on cultural values of their new countries? or vice versa? Think in terms of generations.
#12 Pedro:
What the hell happened?
For the first 18 years of my Aussie yoofdom I stood and sang God Save the King, FFS.
My first passport, issued in Sydney, Australia, in 1966 was a British Passport with greetings from the Queen inside the front cover.
But then, Labor decided “It Was Time” and Gough was elected.
He lasted just long enough to do irreparable damage to our culture.
Political correctness became law and the wheels fell off.
And that, IMHO, is what the hell happened.Although I hate to say this, I now believe that krudd, bargearse, the bald minstrel, various Sussex St thugs et al will form the next government of this land, throwing us back into a triumh of leftism to compare with whitlamism, made more so because they will have a full house across the land. Why do I think they will win?.....
Forget the polls -it’s what the bookies are saying!
Well, I finished the San Giovanese and chocolate, time to start thinking about Sunday dinner…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 08:21 PM • permalink#28
The apparent Brit tolerance of extremist Muslim behaviour is largely PC window dressing by the pollies and leftist meeja?
Such apparent tolerance could be dangerous if it gets enacted into law, e.g. MV’s religious vilification scare campaign in Oz.
Suspect that your average Brit is, privately, far less tolerant (’Rule Britannia’) than your average Aussie.
There are examples of brave souls such as John Smeaton, the baggage handler who foiled the airport attack; the ilk of the football gangs would likely riot against territorial grabs in the nature of the Oz Cronulla riots.
Islam may be insidious, but PC is largely lip service, which, hopefully, minorities realise.Folks, such as Murph, could prolly give a UK man-in-the-street take on this.
Saint—well, I can see the Pokemon one. But they better leave HALO and World of Warcraft the fuck alone…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 08:24 PM • permalink#69
How is the betting going?
It’s not a poll of who the punters will vote for, it’s who they think the majority will vote for.According to The Age’s Michelle Grattan, recent polling says that the youth vote is now ‘leaving Howard in droves’.
It’s weird that he should have had such support, but why would they leave in droves?
As others have stated, mainstream polling techniques are becoming an anachronism ... they don’t even call cell phones, so how are they to accurately gauge mainstream youth’s opinions?egg_ - We are seeing similar polls in the US, and I think they may very well be valid.
Why? One word, quite simply… they are “youth”, and will simply look at the generation in fron of them, even just five to ten years older, and do different for the sole sake of doing different. And unless they have a friend personally murdered by jihadists, or been beaten up by same, or in SOME way have been forced to confront the primary issue of the day by a direct event that has actually changed their life, choosing Rudd(?) over Howard, or Hillary over (insert GOP winner here) is like choosing a McChicken over a Big Mac, today. Six of one… whatever.
One reason why I have never been enamored of the “youth vote”.
78 :)
SmAge poll: Time to go?
Should John Howard lead the government to the election?Voting currently:
Yes - 40%
No - 60%
Total Votes: 5392From a lefty rag.
#28 your apt description has a literary precedent, see The Midwich Cuckoos; allowing a “Cuckoo culture” to take over the host culture.
As you point out (summary) it is the host culture allowing itself to be taken over...my question is why? Part of it I think is lack of experience with people/cultures who really DO wish to take over.
Similar phenomena can be witnessed in some households and workplaces where there is usually the one or two destabilising types who cause mischief, play people off against each other, rumour-mong, and work their way up the hierarchy happily causing chaos along the way. they are always excellent at garnering support from the top, people realising what they’ve been up to only when it’s too late.
When you don’t have experience of these types it’s hard to recognise and battle.
Even when you do it’s difficult!Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 22 at 10:45 PM • permalinkegg_ The problem is it wont be light on substance when it counts...... krud will go to the polls with a “Howard Lite” series of policies(witness today’s forestry “policy"), do all the talking himself, and could win quite comfortably. Then we shall see the real policies revealed as bargearse, mr baldy etc swing into action. Think of the damage this lot will do in 2 1/2 years!!!!
Smart people will start to reduce their exposure to the stock market.
#77 #82
I can see the gullible youth swallowing Rudd’s lip service to AGW, etc. throughout the entire campaign, not at the last minute.
Laura Tingle (and Christian Kerr) a while back were discussing polls saying older voters were supporting Rudd, youth Howard - WTF!
Why the drastic change of late? ... suspect it’s the nature of the polling questions themselves have changed (coupled with crud polling technique - nil cell phone).RodC
Reckon it will be close and share your concern.
Keating’s ousting was a shock that the polls didn’t predict?
Likewise, Howard’s non-ousting will be a shock that the polls didn’t predict?#81 Carpefraise: I think Kipling was on the right track.
#88 Rod C
Look on the bright side Rod. If Krudd et al win, the surely we can look forward to years of the ABC/Age etc etc, flogging the government of the day and thereby holding them to account?That’s what they’re doiung isn’t it? Holding the government of the day to account without fear or favour?
Via a senior crown prosecutor in the UK, who tells of “deep frustration” over police trembliness. To say the least.
None of this should really be surprising. This is the Labor party’s “vision” of society realised. Anyone who voted Labor, voted for this.
Posted by DropDeadUgly on 2007 07 23 at 04:22 AM • permalink#46 - paco - good link.
This next Australian election is pretty important, as was the Turkish one over the weekend. If we get ALP in all states and at Fed level, things will go downhill. Before you know it there will be the Pom sort of PC crap going down here too. Back to pandering to the various minorities while the backbone of the nation suffers scoliosis.Give all of you folks a hint?
How many people of the Islamist faith join the military? Give you a hint about Australia’s, very bloody few. And I bet the same thing goes for the US and UK. If you are bred to believe that the culture around you is corrupt, why would you sign up to defend it with your life?
I would think that (God forbid) this sort of situation (the subject of the post) ever got MSM coverage, average folks, (yes, your John Smeatons, if you will) would not be all that multi - culti minded. Given their history, not at all. I know at least a dozen ex Brit Army who have come to Aussie to join ours, and every one hates what the UK has become. My 11 year old nephew says I’m like the Borg in Star Trek - assimilate or die.
Probably true, but 6 generations of my family have defended this country, and my children, or theirs (if I am ever lucky enough to have them) won’t live under a frickin’ bastardised Caliphate.
We like beer, boobs and bacon too much. :)Money Quote from Pommygranate:
‘1984’ was written as a warning, not a &^%#ing instruction manual.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 07 23 at 11:44 AM • permalink
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I’m glad I went there after college. I’ll always have my memories from 1981 of the tea house at Bath, walking around the parks in London, riding the train through Scotland. (Even then Arabic graffiti was all over the place. My mother and I, after experiencing the British idea of food, ate at quite a few kebab places.)