Bloody Foreigners

One of the most disturbing aspects of the phone-tapping scandal is the lack of any substantial debate on the ownership of the press. Can it be right for non-British nationals and non-tax payers to have such a substantial stake in our so-called free press?

Of course the same papers are the first to bleat about foreign football managers and players. Maybe it's because the readership are as stupid as the publishers believe.

There's a pitiful letter in the Guardian by the Director of the PCC, which then gets torpedoed (back to U-boats eh, Eric?) by a short rejoinder published next to it.

• n the coverage about the phone message tapping allegations, the significant action the PCC has already taken to eliminate this deplorable practice seems to have been overlooked. The 2007 convictions of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire sparked a wave of activity to help raise standards and repair public confidence in investigative journalism. Our inquiry across the whole of the British press resulted in six recommendations to newspaper managements to help ensure there would be no repetition. The press code of practice was changed in August 2007 to make it more difficult to justify "accessing digitally held information without consent", and further guidance was published in the editors' codebook.

  We conducted seven two-hour training seminars at the News of the World, at which attendance was mandatory for all their staff, and two seminars in London and Glasgow with the Information Commissioner's Office for other national newspaper journalists, to train them in the correct use of undercover newsgathering methods. Additionally, the industry as a whole - also in conjunction with the information commissioner - issued practical guidance to journalists on the application of the Data Protection Act.

  This record of activity shows that the PCC took the matter extremely seriously, and was determined to ensure that bad practice would not be repeated. We publicised our activity at every stage so there was absolute transparency - and did not act, in Simon Jenkins's random criticism (Comment, 10 July), "behind the scenes".

  Your revelations are extremely concerning about the situation as it was before all this action was taken. Clearly there are separate roles for the police and for non-statutory bodies like the PCC, which have a specific and more limited remit. But if there are any complaints that phone messages have been tapped since 2007 we will deal with them immediately. We are also urgently looking at whether the PCC was deliberately misled at any point during its inquiries two years ago.
  Tim Toulmin
  Director, Press Complaints Commission

• So, the Press Complaints Commission, the chihuahua of the media regulatory world, is back on the case (Watchdog to examine if News of World executives told the truth, 10 July). The News of the World should be afraid, very afraid.
  Geoffrey Rider
  Ripon, North Yorkshire

Gazza Stripped Bare

Our friend Gary Aronsson, star of previous episodes such as this and that has made the pages of the Observer and even the News of The World.
Fortunately for Gaz, the Murdoch press get a bit of a kicking in his backyard so there may not be many people pointing at him in the street (I'm sure that's a regular occurrence anyway judging by his distinctive visage); look Jean, there's that racist with the birth mark resembling Himmler)*



* This is just my opinion; it could just as easily be satan or an eagle.

Finally, today's Independent covers the visit by Griffin to the place of Anthony Walker's murder and makes the sweeping and factually incorrect assertion that the people do not consider it a racist killing.

UPDATE:

Lee John Barnes, the rationally sane 'legal adviser' to the BNP has this to say on his blog:

• Ha ha ha it looks like the morons from the NEWS OF THE SCREWS are online.
  
  SHOULDNT YOU PAEDOPHILES IN THE NEWS OF THE WORLD BE PROCURING MORE YOUNG GIRLS TO TAKE THEIR CLOTHES AND STRIP IN YOUR PAGES, YOU VILE DEGENERATE SCUM.

Yes, Lee, bash that keyboard with your paws and keep that Caps Lock button on. It's so effective. It's great that despite Herr Griffin's dictat to stop posting racist and nonsensical stuff on their personal blogs, one man stands in the middle of the road and cries out 'I've got a Law degree; I don't need sectioning, just you wait until the lizard men arrive.'

And The List Goes On

Over the last couple of days I've noticed that the subject of the BNP has become quite popular. What is apparent - both from the disparate professions of the membership and from people's responses - is that the BNP has definitely managed to implant the notion of respectability.

I'm aware of three people in this locality whose names appear on the roll of shame; only one comes as a surprise. Again, I make no judgment as to whether they are members or not. Given that, through my professional career, I am aware of the approximate locations of some sex offenders in this area, I take the same stance: I'll be damned if I'll publish.

There are exceptions and I'll come to them later.

This is why those - like myself - delighting in the embarrassment of the leak, should urge caution. We would not be happy if a UK version of Megan's Law came in (notwithstanding the watered down version proposed) as mistakes can be made as shown by the News Of The World debacle and attacks on paediatricians.

Such vigilante action must be condemned whoever the victims are. For this reason, I have no problem with referring to barmy Vigilante Guy, Albert Hurwood as the matter is in the public domain and Hugh Muir has mentioned it twice in recent Guardian Diary pieces. So sure of having nothing to hide, his web forum requires membership before entering (thus increasing figures).

The NOTW may be running a story at the weekend about the BNP as, according to a spokesman, Arthur Kemp was doorstepped. Kemp? Rings a bell! Ah yes, as I said here, he's the author of that Christmas stocking filler, March of the Titans, a history of the white race, as detailed by Lancaster Unity here. Note the brown jacket like the one favoured by Richard Barnbrook. In that article - written in September - Kemp denies it is recommended reading. So as I said before, funny how it is highlighted as White History Month Book on the White Pride site linked to by the main BNP site below. Note the not-loaded question under it!

It contains some other gems that these bastards want children to be taught:

• The attack on the World Trade Center, New York, 11 September 2001. The attack, by Muslims, was caused directly in retaliation to the support given to Israel by the USA, which in turn is driven by the Jewish domination of the American mass media and government. Such attacks are set to increase as long as the White West allows its politics and mass media to be dominated by Jewish groups.

Link

• here are four ways through which a nation's population can vanish:

  1. Through obliteration in war;

  2. Through their lands being swamped by labor-driven immigration;

  3. Through physical mixing with newcomers; and

  4. The second and third factors above combined with a decreasing birth rate amongst the original population.

• The prospects for the future of Western civilization are therefore, bleak. Whites will be increasingly squeezed out of their great cities, increasingly replaced by Third World non-Whites and mixed-race populations.

  And so society will change its outer manifestations to reflect the new populations, and the last White-created civilization will vanish along with the declining White population.

  The ancient end of the world in Norse mythology was the Ragnarok, the fiery fall of the Gods in Valhalla: this fate seems destined to come true after all - unless there is a conscious and determined shift in the political, demographic and social trends prevalent in the West today.

Link

Finally, the BNP site is claiming that a number of BNP members have been detained by police in Liverpool. The group included Peter quiggins of Breach of Liverpool 08 copyright fame and peter Molloy of Fathers 4 Justice superhero status.

I've been meaning to do a piece on the nutters from F4J for some time so I must remember to write something on this sinister band.

Normally, I wouldn't be interested in what rabid old sons of Fascists get up to behind closed doors, but Max Mosley's alleged indiscretions have produced another one of those jaw-dropping moments of Mail hypocrisy. Maybe he was invited to a 'Nuremburg Rally' party and thought this was just Bernie Ecclestone organising a Le Mans-type event at the Nurburgring.

Formula One boss Max Mosley 'exposed as sadomasochist in Nazi orgy with five prostitutes' bellowed this guardian of our morals. The headline was altered slightly a couple of days later as it emerged the Formula 1 'boss' had instructed lawyers against The News of the World for the original expose as reported in The Times.

The Mail, of course, makes much of the fact that Max is the son of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Strangely, no mention is made of the Mail's infamous support for the man and its headline, 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts'. Nor is there any report of the Mail's owner in 1930s sympathetic treatment of the Nazis and support for appeasement.

Given the obsession of the Mail and others on immigration, gypsies and lefties, little appears to have changed. The worry is that the constant scapegoating of these groups will lead to consequences we hoped had been confined to European history.

NOW that's what I call ignorance

A short post today. I watched the Perseus meteor shower last night. For once the sky was clear and the sight was worth staying up for. I do have a stiff neck though. It is amazing to think that the flying particles that shoot across the night sky are little more than the size of a grain of sand.

A million times smaller than that is the brain of a News of The World reader. I don't normally find myself peering at the filth and lies they vomit, but I noticed the large number of comments about a story that a local council was decorating and refurbishing some properties used to house asylum seekers.

Obviously, the vast majority of readers believe that they should live in septic tanks and eat dust. The usual racist morons trotted out the tired cliches about asylum seekers getting free cars, mobile phones etc. Newspapers like the NOW like to stir up matters with such exaggerated hate-filled gutter journalism. Myths become fact. Light the blue touchpaper and exeunt.

The comments are not worthy of a reply, but one particular rant caught my eye as I enjoy idiots being hoist upon their own petard.

So, today's Academy Award for outstanding stupidity in a sea of ignorance, goes to :-

lea fahy

The comment posted by "CONCERNED". Why dont you learn our language before you try stick your nose into British buisness. Maybe if you took the time to learn how to read, write and spell this language, Then maybe us brits would actually take notice of what your saying.
Or maybe not, Why dont you go back to your own country and work your butt off for the next 20 years, Then ill bring all my family over be tret like kings and queens and see how you like it!!!!
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If you know someone called Lea Fahy (and I have every confidence that she can spell her own name correctly), you should point at her in the street. it's the only way they'll learn.
NB She even lambasted the wrong person!

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