Political Correctness in Canada

A Canadian man originally from Jamaica has won a discrimination claim after being stopped by police whilst filling in for a postman in 2005.

The case basically determined that the officer in question, Constable Michael Shaw, committed the heinous act of 'racial profiling':

Ron Phipps admits he was criss-crossing Vernham Ave. the day he was stopped by police in the Bridle Path.

He was also wearing a Canada Post coat and carrying two mailbags while filling in for the regular letter carrier.

Toronto Police Const. Michael Shaw pointed that out to a new constable he was training as soon as they turned into the street. Shaw was also suspicious about Phipps, who is black, speaking to a homeowner but not delivering her any mail.

They also had instructions to investigate cut phone lines and look for suspects described as male, white and eastern European who were seen in a car.

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ruled that by stopping Phipps on March 9, 2005, questioning him, trailing him and asking a white letter carrier to verify his identity, Shaw was guilty of racial profiling.

The fact that Phipps "was an African-Canadian in an affluent neighbourhood was a factor, a significant factor, and probably the predominant factor, whether consciously or unconsciously, in Const. Shaw's actions," adjudicator Kaye Joachim wrote in her decision last month.

At the hearing, Shaw contended each of Phipps' actions was suspicious, despite his uniform.

Joachim batted each one down.

"Letter carriers take vacation, retire and/or switch routes" so seeing a man with a mailbag he didn't know doesn't explain Shaw's suspicions, Joachim wrote.

"I do not accept Const. Shaw's evidence that the applicant was crossing the street back and forth in an unusual fashion. Const. Shaw was well aware that letter carriers do not stop at every house. It was not unusual to misdeliver mail and to go back and try to retrieve it.

"The fact that it was an African-Canadian male without a vehicle that attracted Const. Shaw's attention is what is unusual," wrote Joachim.

The ruling is just the first half of the case that started that chilly morning in March 2005.

The tribunal on Sept. 14 will hear the same accusations against the Toronto Police Services Board and Chief Bill Blair.

"This was always broader than Const. Shaw," Phipps said yesterday from his Thornhill residence.

"I know there is more than one Const. Shaw in the world."

This case is important, said law professor David Tanovich, because it is the second clear Ontario human rights tribunal ruling of racial profiling against police.

The first was against Peel Regional Police in 2007. Tanovich is academic director of the Law Enforcement Accountability Project at the University of Windsor.

"Most cases are not about overt racism. They're about stereotyping. I think the Bridle Path contributed. One of the assumptions is that this person is out of place," he said.

"The more positive findings we get, the greater focus on training and proper directives. Very few of these cases ever make their way to court."

Since the incident, Phipps said he has trouble sleeping and has lost weight, affecting his other job as a personal trainer. Medication to help him sleep has damaged his eyesight. He is "teased mercilessly" by co-workers, and his wife and parents fear repercussions from the police.

Phipps, 44, is asking for a financial award in the case; he won't say how much. He also wants the police to pair officers with partners "of a different race or culture" to teach them to "cope with difference."

Shaw is on "prolonged leave" from 33 Division, police said yesterday.

Phipps immigrated to Toronto from Jamaica as a child with his parents and seven brothers and sisters.

"I had no idea what racism was until I came to Canada."

In 1975, he was with a group of friends between 10 and 14 years old who stopped a police officer to ask directions, he said. Their response: "Do you pickaninnies think this is a cab?"

His own son is now 14. "I would like to be able to say, `If you have trouble, you can turn to a police officer.' But I can't say that."

We see a familiar pattern here; firstly, the cash of Canadian taxpayers being splashed around as if it grew on trees, but also the attitude of Phipps.

You'll note that despite Canada being so terribly racist, he won his claim and has apparently never considered returning to Jamaica to enjoy a well run, amiable society free of prejudice.

Whether he deserved to be stopped or not is open to debate, but I think the list of medical complaints he acquired after a policeman said 'excuse me' is stretching it a little.

All that aside, we also have the 're-education' angle: "He also wants the police to pair officers with partners "of a different race or culture" to teach them to "cope with difference."

Glancing at Toronto's most wanted list, I would assume that officers already have their fill of 'difference' whilst on the beat; no wonder their hearts aren't jumping with the joy of diversity.

"Parenting Expert" Bit Stallholder

When new-fangled anger management and self help techniques go wrong, some people have no qualms about resorting to good old fashioned violence:

A parenting expert bit a market stallholder after a row about getting a refund for two pairs of shoes her twin daughters had bought.

Psychologist Agnes Remice, 47, the boss of lottery-funded 21st Century Parenting, lost her temper and sank her teeth into Kevin Bishenden when he tried to stop her taking money from a till.

The attack, which took place in front of Remice’s two teenage girls, was so ferocious the victim later told officers ‘she nearly bit through to the bone’.

The respected psychologist’s career is now under threat after she was found guilty at Inner London Crown Court of causing actual bodily harm.

Sentencing Remice, from Camberwell, South-East London, to a three-month suspended jail term, Judge Simon Gerald also recommended the mother-of-four attend an anger management course.

The court heard her daughters had each bought a pair of shoes for their school prom from the Shu-x stall in a South London indoor market in June last year.

However, unhappy with their purchase they returned the following day with their mother to get their money back. When Remice was told the stall had a policy of no refunds she tried to take cash from a till.

Amrita Luchmee, 32, who runs Shu-x said: ‘She was climbing into my stall screaming. It would have been funny, if she wasn’t so scary.

She then hugged our till and tried to prise it open.’ Neighbouring pet stall-holder Mr Bishenden then intervened and Remice bit him on the left forearm.

Miss Luchmee added: ‘She left a horrible wound in his arm and the doctors said if she’d bitten any deeper she would have taken a chunk out.’

Remice’s 17-year-old daughters were later reprimanded by police for wrecking the stall as they walked away.

Judge Gerald told Remice: ‘You are a trained counsellor with a degree in psychology and are trained in dealing with special needs children.

‘You are trained to deal with people in these situations. It was a serious attack using weapons, namely your teeth.

'At any time you could have walked away or dealt with things calmly, but you chose not to do that. The public needs to be protected from behaviour like this.’

Remice’s website, which is supported by National Lottery funds, boasts: ‘Agnes’s project aims to support parents in building effective parenting skills.

Agnes is keen to help young parents with the everyday aspects of raising their children as well as taking care of themselves.’

Her project is supported by lottery-funded charity UnLtd, of East London. Remice, who had claimed she was acting in self defence, may have to find a new career, according to her lawyer Paul Sharkey.

He told the court: ‘That moment of madness means all has come to nought.’

The court ordered Remice to do 175 hours of community service and pay £500 compensation to Mr Bishenden.

Remice is also listed as a consultant for Vassell Training Services, which provides training and consultancy services for NHS Trusts and Government office.

The firm’s website describes her as: ‘Agnes Remice BSc (Consultant) Mental Health Specialist’.

Race-Baiting Lawyer Revealed to Be a Charlatan

Shahrokh Mireskandari was heavily involved in what some pundits described as a 'race war' at Scotland Yard, during which several high-profile Asian officers sued the Metropolitan Police for racial discrimination - all on the British taxpayer, naturally.

It now turns out that he is a common thief with a heavily embellished CV:

Disgraced race lawyer Shahrokh Mireskandari pilfered hundreds of thousands of pounds from clients in a desperate bid to keep his ailing firm afloat, the High Court has heard.

Staff salaries at his London law firm Dean & Dean were paid directly from customer accounts, and bills totalling more than £1million went unpaid because the company was so short of cash, it was alleged.

Investigators found these and other examples of alleged dishonesty and rule breaches in an official probe that led to Mireskandari, 48, being suspended as a solicitor.

Iranian-born Mireskandari is the flamboyant lawyer who was at the centre of last year's 'race war' at Scotland Yard.

Before being exposed by the Daily Mail as a convicted fraudster with bogus legal qualifications, he represented Britain's highest ranking Asian officer Tarique Ghaffur in his bungled race claim against Scotland Yard.

He represented the National Black Police Association and was a close friend of controversial Labour MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the influential Home Affairs Select Committee.

In December last year, three months after the Daily Mail's bombshell revelations, Mireskandari was suspended by the Law Society over allegations of dishonesty and malpractice.

Now, after the conman failed in a protracted legal bid to over-turn the decision to suspend him, the Law Society urged a High Court judge to order Mireskandari to pay interim costs of £300,000.

That figure is on top of around £150,000 he was previously ordered to pay after earlier hearings - meaning Mireskandari could end up with a legal bill of several hundred thousand pounds.

The serial litigant has so far refused to pay anything, while being able to instruct nine top barristers and four firms of solicitors to represent him at various times in the proceedings.

The High Court was told last week Mireskandari is a convicted fraudster with dubious legal qualifications obtained from a 'virtual' university in the US.

He claims he is a doctor of jurisprudence after scoring top grades in masters and PhD courses at the discredited American University of Hawaii in the mid-1990s.

But he had been kicked out of a more prestigious law college after flunking his exams, the hearing was told.

Hodge Malek QC, for the Law Society, told the court: 'There remain very serious concerns about Dr Mireskandari and his academic background.

'Our case is that alleged doctorate is not based on genuine study and achievement.

'We are sceptical as to whether Dr Mireskandari is entitled to claim the academic qualifications he has … and the basis on which they were submitted to the Law Society.'

Mireskandari, convicted of a telemarketing scam in California in 1991, failed to disclose the conviction to the Law Society as required after moving to the UK and applying to practice in this country, the court was told. He also lied about his work experience in the U.S., it was alleged.

According to Mireskandari’s claims he was working full time for a firm in the U.S. at the same time as studying for postgraduate law courses at AUH and attending an eight-month trial in London.

But the Law Society has discovered that Mireskandari was studying at two other universities, including the Whittier Law School in California, the court heard.

Mireskandari claims he left because he did not enjoy the course, 'but in fact he was academically disqualified by the university,' said the QC.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority, the statutory watchdog, launched an investigation into Dean and Dean last October - a month after the Mail exposed Mireskandari's corrupt past.

When inspectors tried to visit its central London offices, Mireskandari got a High Court injunction to stop them.

The solicitor lied to the judge that his firm was in 'excellent financial health and …. compliance with the Solicitors Accounting Rules was exemplary', Mr Malek said.

When inspectors finally went in they found a string of irregularities and “ample evidence to suspect dishonesty” on the part of Mireskandari, the barrister said.

One client’s £200,000 bail bond, held in a separate account, was transferred to the office account without authority, it was said. When prosecutors insisted the money should be lodged with the court, Mireskandari obtained a private loan of £250,000 to cover the missing cash.

In both October and November last year, staff salaries were paid out of client accounts, and another transfer was made from a client’s mortgage account.

Cheques started bouncing because of lack of funds and debtors including unpaid counsel and experts were fobbed off by Mireskandari, it was said. Dean & Dean has since closed down.

These were just some of a string of alleged breaches that will later form a disciplinary case against Mireskandari at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

Earlier this month he dropped his challenge to the intervention after Mr Justice Henderson rejected yet another adjournment application, this time on the grounds of he was suicidal and could not cope with the trauma of being crossed examined in the witness box.

Hugo Page QC, for Mireskandari, argued the total costs being sought were 'so unreasonable that the court should refuse to make an interim costs order at all'.

He said statements from clients of Dean & Dean 'confirm that as far as they were concerned the claimant (Mireskandari) was authorised to withdraw money from clients' accounts'.

Millionaire Peer Stole £20,000 in Expenses

Another Blair-appointed Peer scamming the British taxpayer whilst literally rolling in cash:

A millionaire peer could face a police probe following allegations that he claimed £20,000 in expenses by pretending to live in a small flat occupied by his brother.

Businessman and philanthropist Lord Bhatia nominated the two-bedroom apartment in Reigate, Surrey, as his 'main' home in 2007.

But he has lived in a £1.5million home in Hampton, south-west London, 15 miles from the House of Lords, for 20 years.

By claiming he lived outside the capital - the flat is 23 miles from Westminster - he was entitled to up to £174 a day for overnight accommodation in London.

The perk allows peers to be reimbursed for the cost of a hotel when the Lords is sitting or maintaining a second home.

Concerns that Lord Bhatia was milking the allowance system were strengthened after he failed to remember the address of the Reigate flat when questioned last week.

He was forced to look up the road and even then spelled the name of the block wrongly.

The flat - just a mile outside the boundary of what is considered London for the purpose of Lords expenses - has been his brother's home for three years.

Last night Angus Robertson, Scottish National Party leader at Westminster, said he would ask the police and Lords authorities for urgent investigations.

He said: 'This seems to be a misuse of parliamentary money to fund private or family arrangements.'

Lord Bhatia, 77, was made a peer by Tony Blair in 2001 but sits on the neutral crossbenches.

He 'flipped' his main address from London to Surrey in October 2007. This allowed him to claim £12,247 in allowances over the next six months.

In theory he could have claimed at least as much again - figures have not yet been published - before changing his main address back to London in January.

Lord Bhatia's company Casley Finance began renting the flat In March 2006. Sultan Bhatia, its company secretary, moved in at around the same time after a marriage break-up.

Lord Bhatia said he rented the Reigate flat because his home in Hampton was too big and he and his wife wanted to downsize to a smaller property.

Asked why he did not use the flat during Parliamentary holidays, he said: 'It's entirely up to me to decide to stay in either of the two houses.'

Lord Bhatia, who insists he acted within the rules, said he switched his main address back to Hampton because he became too ill to travel to Reigate.

Sultan Bhatia said he 'looked after' the flat and his brother stayed there 'from time to time'. But a neighbour could not recall Lord Bhatia living there.

Perception & Reality in British Policing

The old beliefs about law and order are a dying breed amongst Britain's politicians and senior police officers.

These days, perception is far more important than reality, and putting a good spin on the figures more important than the figures themselves - no matter how many lives have to be told.

The buzzword of the moment is knife crime.

Teenagers and children in Britain's violent, diversified cities keep mysteriously getting themselves stabbed to death over the most trivial of things.

Rather than look at the types of people who commit these crimes and why, the government prefers to talk of knife crime - in itself a fairly obscure and ambiguous term which dehumanises both victim and criminal involved.

That's the aim - then no one can be blamed, particularly those responsible for failed Left-wing social schemes.

Predictably, talking of this phenomenon in a way which belies the fact that violent, feral youths are responsible hasn't cut knife crime - in fact, it is on the rise in the ten hotspots which were the beneficiaries of a £7 million scheme intended to cut knife crime.

From The Telegraph:

Figures released today [wed] show that between July 2008 and March this year 126 people were stabbed to death in the 10 areas covered by the Home Office's Tackling Knife Crime Action Plan, up from 119 in the same period the year before.

The Government targeted the 10 police force areas most affected by knife crime, including the Metropolitan Police, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, with an advertising blitz matched with a local police crackdown using knife arches and other initiatives.

Overall the number of stabbings in the 10 areas among under-19s fell by 17 per cent. For those aged over 20, the fall was eight per cent. Robberies with knives were also down in the targeted areas.

Bu in three areas the number of violent offences using a knife increased, including by 42 per cent in Thames Valley and 37 per cent in Nottinghamshire.

David Hanson, a home office minister, defended the plan and said that results were likely to be seen in a "generation" rather than just after one year. The rise had come about after a spike in murders last August which explained the rise.

What is needed here is the one thing the government can't buy - honesty.

Youths will continue to stab each other to death until they are educated in such a way that they rediscover morality and respect for the lives of fellow human beings, and if that fails actually fear the consequences of harming someone else.

Amnesties, lectures, free money and simpering just aren't going to cut it.

In many respects, the police and the law are impotent against these thugs. If people are released a few hours after being caught with a knife, then even increased police patrols and searches will not chip into the death toll.

If they are out of jail a few months after robbing someone at knifepoint, they will likely be unafraid of doing it again.

But, the police care not for reality either.

Recently, the Metropolitan Police announced that they would remove yellow witness appeal boards from crime scenes - because they 'raised fear and awareness of crime':

They have long been accepted as a sensible way of helping to solve crime.

But bright yellow police signs appealing for witnesses to serious offences are no longer such a feature of grim city streets - in London at least.

For in an attempt to reduce 'fear of crime', the Metropolitan Police has effectively banned the use of the distinctive signs in all but exceptional circumstances.

Vital aid: Officers value the signs, but they're being scaled back in the capital

Privately, however, senior policemen say the ban is 'ridiculous'.

One Met officer said: 'The yellow signs have always been a useful way of encouraging witnesses to crimes to come forward.

'They were placed where the crimes actually happened, so were very much targeted at people who might have seen something. Now that source of information has been cut off - and it is utterly ridiculous to do that in a bid to reduce people's "fear of crime".

'By stopping us solving crimes the move is increasing the risk that more crimes will happen.'

Another senior policeman said: 'I think someone upstairs became aware that in crime hotspots several yellow signs were being put up at once. They presumably thought it showed us in a bad light, as if crime was out of control.

'In fact, they were just an indication of what was going on, and of the fact that we were trying to get some witnesses. I'm furious that we can't do that any more.'

A leading criminologist said the restriction was an indication of a move away from traditional policing, which involves solving crimes.

Stuart Lister, of Leeds University, said: 'This shows the lengths the police are prepared to go to to manage the public's fear of crime.

'The problem is that since violent crimes are mostly solved by members of the public volunteering information to the police, then the withdrawal of inquiry boards is perhaps-not the most effective way of managing a criminal investigation.'

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said that use of the yellow witness appeal boards had been heavily restricted after research last year suggested they raised fear of crime.

'Officers can request their use in exceptional circumstances, but any such requests must be authorised by a specialist crime directorate commander,' he said.

So there you have it - if you're not aware of it, it doesn't matter that it is happening.

As long as you perceive the police and justice system as being fit for purpose, it doesn't matter that they are not - and the price is increasingly heavy for the innocent.

When 'Asian' is not a Coy Euphemism

It's a sort of open secret in Britain that when the police declare they are looking for an 'Asian' suspect, they generally mean 'Muslim'.

That is because of any group of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent, Muslims are by far the most likely to be involved in crime.

In the interests of fairness, however, here are two disturbing cases I stumbled across which involve 'Asian' suspects who are, judging by their names at least, not Muslim.

• A man sexually assaulted a teenager at a bus stop in Worcester whilst he was taking his young daughter to nursery school. The magistrates did not even see fit to impose a prison sentence:

A FATHER who made inappropriate remarks and indecently assaulted a schoolgirl has been ordered to sign the sex offenders register.

Kulbinder Kumar had approached the 16-year-old girl at a bus stop in Worcester as she was waiting to meet a friend to go to school.

He was pushing his young daughter in a pram and stopped at the bus stop on Tuesday, September 9, last year at about 7.40am.

Matt Dodson, prosecuting, told the court Kumar that had started to speak to the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and asked her for her phone number.

“He asked her to go with him to take his daughter to the nursery,” said Mr Dodson.

“She said she didn’t want to go as she needed to go to school.”

Mr Dodson said Kumar then made inappropriate remarks to the girl.

“He went to hug and kiss her,” said Mr Dodson.

“He placed his arms around her.”

When the girl, who was shaken by the incident, arrived at school she reported it to a teacher who then told the police.

She was able to give information to officers about the age of his daughter and what he looked like.

They then were able to trace her by visiting nurseries in the area.

Kumar, aged 26, of Leeds Old Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, who had an ex-partner in Worcester, was arrested almost a month later.

Kumar had denied the charge of sexual assault on a female, but was found guilty after a trial last month.

He had told police he had been in Worcester to take his daughter to nursery and had been at the bus stop to shelter from the rain.

“He said he wasn’t chatting her up and she wasn’t chatting him up,” said Mr Dodson.

The warehouse worker from Bradford was told by Worcester magistrates that he must complete a community order for three years.

He was also given a supervision requirement and a requirement to complete the sex offenders programme.

Kumar will also have to be on the sex offenders register for five years, and was ordered to pay £300 in compensation and £500 towards court costs.

• A man has been jailed for four months after drunkenly groping a woman at Leeds Railway Station - whilst he was on the phone to his new wife:

A drunken pervert groped a woman while he was on the phone to his new wife.

Jayesh Parmar was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for seven years after he admitted the assault at Leeds City Station.

Parmar, 31, initially claimed to have no recollection of the incident in April and said he had been drinking for several hours when it happened.

But after being shown CCTV footage of the attack, he conceded that he was responsible.

Prosecutor Deborah Smithies told the court Parmar, from Brighouse, was walking through the concourse at Leeds station and chatting on his mobile when he reached out and intimately touched the woman.

Ms Smithies said: "She said to him 'What do you think you are doing?' and ran after him. He said to her 'I was having a laugh'.

"She slapped him in the face and another female ran over to help. She was still shouting at him as he walked off. He kept saying 'I was having a laugh'.

"She tried to kick him as he ran off and then she rang 999. He was traced by CCTV.

"When he was questioned he said he couldn't remember because he had drunk so much alcohol. He admitted, though, that the footage showed him attacking the woman."

At Leeds Magistrates Court this week, he was given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for a year, and a 12 month supervision order.

He was also ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work, to attend a Stop Binge Drinking probation programme, to pay his victim £500 in compensation and to pay court costs of £60.

District judge Joanne Hirst told him: "You were drinking and thought you were 'having a laugh'. There is nothing funny about it. The psychological distress suffered by your victim should not be underestimated."

In mitigation, Mr Stuart Page said his client had married on May 24 – after the incident – and his new wife was in court to support her husband.

He said Parmar had been stressed when the incident took place, fearing his now wife was suffering serious health problems.

Mr Page said: "He had consumed an extremely large amount of alcohol. He was on the telephone to his wife and had arranged to meet her. She had to make a series of phone calls to establish exactly where he was because he had been drinking so much. He doesn't have any recollection of why he did what he did.

"His wife has stuck by him although this has caused difficulties in their relationship. It is something he is deeply remorseful about, not least because of the level of anguish the complainant felt."

Strangler Mugger on Trial in Battersea

A disturbing new trend has been noticed in parts of London - violent young muggers who overcome their victims by strangling them until they pass out.

As one gang await sentencing after being convicted, the trial of another has begun in Battersea:

A man accused of a series of terrifying attacks where women were strangled unconscious before being robbed has appeared in court.

He is accused of attacking eight lone women in the Battersea area, using the cover of darkness to approach from behind before grabbing them by the throat.

As they lay unconscious the attacker stole their handbags and ran off before the women stirred, the court heard.

At Kingston Crown Court on Monday, Temman Dias, 25, of Parkham Street, Battersea, pleaded not guilty to eight counts of choking, suffocating or strangling with intent and eight counts of robbery.

A 16-year-old boy from Mitcham, who cannot be named, also pleaded not guilty to being involved in the last attack.

The attacks, all carried out between August 2007 and October 2008, targeted lone women in the Battersea area.

Prosecutor Ken Millett said the first victim was walking through Inworth Street, on her way to work, when she was attacked at 5.40am on August 23, 2007.

“She felt an arm on her neck from behind and her neck being squeezed tightly,” he said.

“She was then dragged backwards into a closed alley, all the time being unable to breathe.”

She tried to make a noise, but the next thing she remembered was waking up, Mr Millett said.

The woman, who eventually managed to ring the doorbell of a house, suffered a bloodshot eye and bad bruising to her neck.

Mr Millett said: “The injuries also suggest the attacker stamped on her face.”

A woman was left on crutches after her leg was stamped on following the second attack, in Cabul Road at 6.45pm on February 24, 2008.

In another incident a woman, who after returning home from meeting friends had to get out of a black taxi early because she did not have the full fare, was attacked at 2.15am on February 24, 2008, near Falcon Park.

Mr Millett said: “Because of the striking similarities and the nature of these robberies we suggest it was the same person in each case.

“Strangulation was a feature of these attacks. Attacks which stopped after Temman Dias was arrested.”

Police raided the home of Dias hours after the last attack on October 3, 2008.

On a bed where he and a 16-year-old were resting, police found property belonging to some of the victims.

Other evidence from the attacks was found on a roof adjacent to the house.

Mr Millett said records showed a phone from one of the victims was used by Dias six minutes after she had been attacked.

The Wrong Sort of Scrutiny for Miss England

Meet the new 'Miss England' and the two women she beat in the final to achieve the title.

Rachel Christie is the first black Miss England, a fact which is apparently cause for celebration.

Not everyone is celebrating, however. One of the finalists came forward to publicly object to the fact that Christie got just nine public votes, whilst she herself received 2,013.

Now, to be completely fair, winning the public vote is only a guarantee of reaching the final fifteen, after which a professional panel does the judging. It also seems that last year's overall winner received a similar number of public votes to Miss Christie.

A letter written to The London Paper by 'AP' read:

How come we've never seen an analysis of previous Miss England votes, but when a black girl wins for the first time, all of a sudden the investigative reporters are out in force?

Proof, if any were needed, that this country is still extremely racist. What a shame for Rachel Christie.

My answer would be, the Miss England contest is never scrutinised to the level it has been this year.

However, because a black contestant won, we are all supposed to celebrate, see this as positive and a huge step forward for England.

Question it, however, and you are an evil racist.

Sorry, but scrutiny works both ways.

Christie was not the most attractive woman in the contest - not even the most attractive 'ethnic minority' contestant.

Therefore it is fair to ask whether or not her win was a politically correct decision, particularly with the amount of spin the 'first black Miss England' angle has received.

It is also fair to ask whether or not the voting system is fair as it currently stands.

If you can't question something which is heavily hyped just because the winner is black, then we open ourselves up to a whole new type of discrimination.

Shocking News on Trevor Phillips

Trevor Phillips is the head of the government's equality racket, which spends astronomical amounts of taxpayers' cash fighting frivolous lawsuits on behalf of various favoured 'minority' groups and discriminating against white, British men.

As one might expect, Mr Phillips is a black man - and very well he's done out of the politically correct culture of guilt which infests the elite of this country.

Things aren't looking bright for his future, however - many in his organisation have been resigning. Some have gone so far as to claim - shock, horror - that Phillips might have played the race card in order to hang on to his job this long.

Surely some mistake?

I mean, after all, it's not as if he's devoted his entire life to climbing up a series of greasy poles to great rewards simply because of the colour of his skin, is it?

Most of those pushing for his resignation are themselves cynical hacks pushing the interests of their own group rather than any sort of equality.

As the country becomes if anything more divided, these egotistical, ideological zealots have been handed over £70 million of taxpayers' money in order to pursue interests which run contrary to the needs and wishes of the majority.

From The Times:

Trevor Phillips, the government’s equality champion, has been accused of playing the “race card” to save his career, amid new, high-level walk-outs at his £70m, taxpayer-funded quango.

Phillips, the £120,000-a-year chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), told colleagues his enemies were trying to oust him because he was a “black man”, it was claimed last night.

He is alleged to have said his critics thought a “white woman” would have been able to do the job better.

Meanwhile, Phillips’s right-hand man, Kamal Ahmed, has this weekend resigned his post as director of communications.

It is understood a sixth member of the commission’s 16-strong ruling body is on the brink of quitting in protest at Phillips’s autocratic management style. Baroness Greengross, vice-president of Age Concern, said she was considering her future.

The allegations that Phillips has played the race card were made by Kay Hampton, a South African-born academic who quit as a commissioner in March.

Hampton, a black woman who is a veteran of the struggle against apartheid, said: “Nobody is prepared to challenge Trevor for fear of being accused of racism.

“He has already played the race card in the commission. I suspect this could be the reason why Harriet Harman (the equality minister) reappointed him (earlier this month).”

She recounted how in a telephone call earlier this year, Phillips had complained to her that he was a victim of racism.

“He told me: ‘There is a group [in the commission] that think I am not good enough because I am a black man, and a white woman should have got the post’.”

Hampton said Phillips had made phone calls making similar allegations to at least two other commissioners. “If he was not black, people could look more clearly at the wrongdoing rather than his colour and background,” she said.

The alleged remarks are surprising because in public Phillips has criticised trivial allegations of discrimination and taken issue with those who talk about “black victimhood”.

“In many parts of the country, the colour of a person’s skin is simply not an issue,” he wrote in January.

A spokesman for Phillips said: “We do not comment on private telephone conversations.”

Asked whether Phillips should now quit, Hampton said: “That is not for me to say. Trevor should examine his conscience.” Diane Abbott, the senior black Labour MP, added: “Trevor must consider his position.”

Yesterday, Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the gay rights group Stonewall who quit as a commissioner last week, added to the pressure on Phillips by disclosing his concerns about the chairman’s “probity”.

The new controversy over Phillips’s leadership was reignited earlier this month when Phillips was appointed for a second three-year term by Harman.

Last week, a scathing report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the EHRC had spent nearly £1m when it re-employed seven staff from the defunct Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) immediately after they had received severance and early retirement payments. The EHRC had failed to seek Treasury approval.

Hampton, who was chairwoman of the CRE before it was merged into the new equality commission in 2007, said she had urged Phillips to take action over the arrangements.

“I warned him at the beginning about the whole problem. He did not want to know,” she said.

Summerskill, in his resignation letter to Harman, blamed Phillips personally.

“If your proposed re-appointment were to be made then, as chair of the commission’s audit and risk committee, I would feel entirely unable to offer future reassurance to the NAO that the commission was being led ... with appropriate probity,” he wrote.

The commission said Phillips had played no role in the reappointments.

Nearly half Phillips’s fellow commissioners have now quit, accusing him of treating the quango as a personal platform.

Summerskill accused Phillips of running “a one-man show. He has made controversial announcements on the hoof without telling or consulting anyone”.

Others who have walked out claim he has treated them with disdain, working only through a tight group of cronies.

Phillips, 55, a former television executive, was seen as the man to weld together single-issue lobby groups on race relations, gay rights and disability rights into the EHRC.

He infuriated some commissioners with his public statements, claiming, for example, that the police were no longer “institutionally racist”.

The splits burst open in March when Hampton became the first commissioner to leave. The following month, Nicola Brewer, chief executive, went.

Phillips’s enemies then tried to manoeuvre with the government to get rid of him. Baroness Royall, the Labour leader in the Lords, Jack Straw, the justice secretary, and Maria Eagle, deputy to Harman, were sounded out.

Various other jobs were suggested for Phillips, including, according to one source, a peerage. It is understood Sir Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, quietly discouraged this.

The latest walkouts also include the disability campaigners Sir Bert Massie and Baroness Campbell and the human rights lawyer Francesca Klug.

Remaining members have been told they must reapply for jobs on a slimmed-down EHRC. Harman will choose the winners — a chance to pick a more pliant group.

An advertisement for eight commissioners’ jobs appears in today’s Sunday Times. The advert says they must “hold the chair ... to account” and warns they will work in “a highly political environment”.

Muslim Cries Racism after Australian Bus Driver Objects to Veil

A Maltese-Australian convert to Islam was told by a bus driver to 'take off her mask' before boarding - as he thought covering one's face on board was against the law:

A WOMAN wearing a Muslim headscarf was told by a bus driver to take off her "mask" because it was against the law to wear it on board.

Australian-born mother of two Khadijah Ouararhni-Grech was wearing the pink floral headscarf known as a niqab when she tried to board the HillsBus vehicle at Merrylands Rd, Greystanes.

"As I was stepping on to the bus, the driver said: 'You can't get on the bus wearing your mask'," Ms Ouararhni-Grech told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

After politely telling him that the niqab was not a mask, he insisted, saying: "Sorry, it is the law."

She said a number of passengers witnessed the incident.

"I told him it wasn't the law and he said 'You have to show me your face'," she said.

"There were others present, there was a lady with a baby who was also disgusted about the discrimination that was brought upon me.

"I was just going to visit my mum. I was born here in Parramatta. I'm Maltese and I'm Muslim because I choose to be Muslim.

"I said to him 'There's no difference between me and that lady sitting there who chooses to not wear what I'm wearing'."

After a heated discussion that lasted more than five minutes, the driver allowed Ms Ouararhni-Grech to travel on the bus.

HillsBus, Sydney's largest private bus company, has confirmed it is investigating Tuesday's incident. It is yet to contact Ms Ouararhni-Grech.

"At HillsBus we take complaints seriously and we value our record of customer service," a spokesperson said yesterday.

"We received the complaint on Tuesday and an internal inquiry is now under way.

"Until the matter is investigated it would obviously not be appropriate to offer further public commentary."

The HillsBus driver in question was yesterday approached by The Daily Telegraph for an explanation but denied the incident took place.

Ms Ouararhni-Grech said she wanted the bus company to improve driver education, rather than punish the driver. "I'd just like to change his attitude, I just want him to be educated on the subject," she said.

"I'd be more than happy to go to the company with my sheikh and educate these people about what this exactly is and our beliefs and the reason why."

A HillsBus source said drivers had the power to deny passengers access to a bus if they believed they were intoxicated or could pose a threat to other passengers.

Drivers are also trained to search around and under their vehicles and how to evacuate a vehicle quickly if the need arises.

Note all the ranting about 'discrimination', which generally precedes a hefty compensation claim.

Perhaps someone should educate Ouararhni-Grech that many people in free societies find the covering of the face unnecessary and intimidating, and the fact that the bus driver has a right to feel comfortable with who he lets on his bus.

Instead of dragging her 'sheikh' around to 'educate' those who disagree with her (on pain of dismissal for badthink), perhaps she should either educate herself in Australian ways or find a country which is more accommodating of her chosen lifestyle.

Taking Care of Muslim Health Concerns First

Two recent stories show how the authorities in Britain are going out of their way to cater to Islamic demands in the world of health.

The first concerns some Muslim council employees in St. Albans refusing to use alcohol-based hand gels in a bid to combat swine flu - despite the fact that gels not based on alcohol are proven to be far less effective at halting the spread of germs.

Even the Muslim Council of Britain insisted that everyone should use the alcohol-based gels to be healthy, but the politically correct apparatchiks at St. Albans council knew better.

Not only did they cave to the pressure of their Muslim employees and provide the sub-standard product, they also 'reported the matter to the Equalities Officer'.

The full story:

Some Muslims have refused to use alcohol-based hand gels to combat the spread of swine flu because they claim it is against their religion.

Some of those employed by St Albans Council in Hertfordshire have complained about the antibacterial lotion, which is considered a key strategy in containing the virus.

Officials were concerned because the Koran bans Muslims from consuming alcohol, so council chiefs issued them with non-alcohol hand gels, which studies have shown to be less effective in killing bugs.

But Muslim leaders criticised the council’s decision to change the gel, pointing out that Islamic teachings allow Muslims to use alcohol for medicinal purposes.

The Muslim Council of Britain said: ‘We would advise people to follow the medical advice so we would, of course, encourage people to use hand gel. ‘People need to find ways to accommodate their beliefs.’

Councils, schools and businesses across the country have ordered supplies of alcohol-based hand gels to reduce the spread of swine flu.

A spokesman for St Albans Council said it had issued hand gel to all employees in May.

Staff were told they could also get an alcohol-free version. The spokesman added: ‘Following this, two members of staff asked for alcohol-free hand gels and these were provided in May and the Equalities Officer was informed of this.’

Meanwhile, in Oldham, Muslims are being given special 'targetted' help to quit smoking in the run up to Ramadan - at the expense of the British taxpayer:

LOCAL Muslims will be given targeted support in a bid to help them quit smoking before Ramadan.

Specialised one-stop shops will be held within the communities of Clarksfield, Glodwick, Coppice and Werneth. The first sessions were held on Wednesday at the Pakistani community centre, Marlborough Street, Glodwick, and at Coppice Community Centre, Werneth Hall Road.

Local GP Dr Zuber Ahmed provided prescriptions for nicotine replacements at the sessions which are being run by Oldham Community Health Services’ specialist stop-smoking service.

People who visit will be seen by an adviser and it is hoped they will carry on attending sessions and eventually quit the habit for good.

Nomir Haris, stop-smoking adviser for Black Minority Ethnic communities, said: “It is likely that Muslims will smoke more heavily in the evenings during Ramadan because they are unable to smoke during the day. So we want to offer help to stop before Ramadan.”

Advisers who can speak languages such as Bangla, Urdu, Pari and Punjabi will be on hand to help.

For further details about the one-stop shops or to get help and advice on stopping smoking, contact Oldham specialist stop-smoking service on 0800-328 8534 or 0844-873 0032.

Innocent Man Shot by Gang in "Case of Mistaken Identity"

West Yorkshire Police have arrested six people after an innocent man was shot dead in his sister's home:

Adam Chadwick Murder- Six People Arrested

Wednesday 15 July 2009

Adam Chadwick

Detectives investigating the murder of Adam Chadwick have arrested six people after a number of properties across Leeds were searched.

The arrests were made yesterday (Tues 14 July) after recent publicity surrounding the investigation led to information being passed to the police from members of the public.

Those arrested included:

A 24-year-old female from Wyther Close, Bramley who was arrested on suspicion of murder.

A 32-year-old man from Easterly Cross, Gipton who was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.

Three further men aged 23, 27 and 28 have also been arrested by detectives on suspicion of murder.

A 44-year-old woman was also taken into custody from West Park Close in West Leeds. She was arrested in relation to possession of controlled drugs.

All those arrested have now been bailed to return to police stations across West Yorkshire at a later date.

Adam, 20, was shot at his sister's home in Clifton Mount, Harehills on Tuesday 24 June, 2008 in what police believe was a tragic case of mistaken identity. He died two days later in hospital.

Detective Superintendent Steve Payne, who is leading the murder investigation, said: "While we have made a number of arrests over recent days this enquiry is still ongoing and I would continue to urge anyone with information over Adam's death to contact myself or the enquiry team.

"Information from the public has led to these arrests and I personally assure anyone contacting us that their identity will remain strictly anonymous.

"Our main focus remains on bringing Adam's killers to justice."

Suspect: E-fit

Police want to hear from anyone who recognises the e-fit of a woman who was seen knocking on doors in the area surrounding Clifton Mount and asking for someone called 'Michelle' shortly before Adam was shot by three black men wearing balaclavas and camouflage clothing.

The woman is described as white, 27 to 28 years old, 5ft 4 inches to 5ft 5 inches tall with dark brown hair, olive skin and dark eyes. She was wearing a baggy black fleece or cardigan over a round neck black top.

Police would also like to hear from anyone with information about a blue Ford Focus C-Max vehicle that was recovered near to Chapeltown Road the day after Adam was shot and which police believe could have been used by the suspects.

Ford Focus C-Max

The car was caught on CCTV at 11.30pm on 20 June, four days before the shooting, pulling on to the forecourt of the BP Garage on Roundhay Road, Chapeltown where the air pump was used to fill the rear offside tyre. Police want to hear from anyone who saw the car in the days leading up to Adam's shooting.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the incident room on: 0113 2413006, West Yorkshire Police on: 0845 6060606, or Crimestoppers anonymously on: 0800 555 111.

Thai Sex Trafficker Jailed

From The Waltham Forest Guardian:

A CRUEL people trafficker who forced young Thai women to work as sex slaves at a Wanstead brothel has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.

Atchara Nualpenyai, of Perth Road, Gants Hill, appeared at Croydon Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty to controlling prostitution and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation.

The 30-year-old also pleaded guilty to possessing Class A drugs.

Officers identified two main premises rented by Nualpenyai that were used as brothels - in affluent Wanstead High Street and beneath her Gants Hill flat.

A police operation, codenamed Leonberger, was launched in December last year after a victim contacted police.

The woman, in her 20s, had been trafficked from Thailand to the UK at the end of 2005 and forced to work as a prostitute to pay off a debt bondage of £27,000.

Prices ranged from £30 for 10 minutes to £100 for a one-hour service.

Enquiries have revealed Nualpenyai transferred approximately £8,000 cash to an account in Thailand. A financial investigation is currently ongoing.

Nigerian Illegal in £114,000 Benefit Fraud

From The Croydon Guardian:

A failed asylum seeker who fraudulently claimed more than £114,000 has been jailed.

Adesuwa Ojo-Osagie, also known as Queen Hanson, 42, of Parchmore Road, Thornton Heath was sentenced to eight months in prison at Croydon Crown Court on Friday.

She pleaded guilty to using a false identity to work illegally and to dishonestly claim benefits to which she was not entitled.

She used different identities to gain entry into the UK and claim benefits.

The fraud came to light following a data-matching exercise in 2006 by anti-fraud officers who discovered that Queen Hanson had been claiming housing and council tax benefit since 2003 but had failed to declare savings of more than £130,000 in 18 bank accounts.

Hanson also failed to declare that she was married, and that her husband, Ekhator Ojo-Osagie, was working full time for Royal Mail.

She is a failed asylum seeker, giving her no recourse to public funds or the right to work in the UK.

The UK Border Agency and the council found that she was also using a second identity, as Nigerian national Adesuwa Ojo-Osagie.

She had been trying to gain entry to the UK with two children as the dependant partner of Ekhator Ojo-Osagie, who was already in the UK on a skilled migrant workers’ permit.

Hanson and her husband were arrested in June and a search of their property found evidence that she had been using two identities and that she had made claims for housing, council tax benefit, income support, child tax credit, working tax credit and child benefit.

She had also been working with Sainsbury’s since 2003 despite having no right to work in the UK.

In total, Hanson received £114,941.67 in false benefit claims and fraudulent earnings.

Handing Hanson a custodial sentence, Judge Ruth Downing said it was an utterly cynical, sustained and relentless fraudulent act from day one based on complete avarice.

She said she was finding it hard to see signs of remorse and acceptance of guilt in the defendant.

Councillor Sara Bashford, cabinet member for resources and customer services, said: “We are delighted at the outcome of this long and complex investigation and are grateful to our partner agencies for helping us to put a stop to the fraudulent activities of this woman.

“We are determined to stamp out fraud, and I hope this case acts as a warning to others.”

I would suggest a ban on all migration from countries notorious for their fraudsters, but obviously my solution is not as effective as letting her live here, steal and spend well over £100,000, then jailing her at taxpayers' expense.

Must be a great warning to others - come to Britain and get more than someone on minimum wage could earn in eight years before you get caught.

Human Traffickers Jailed for 2 Years

With thousands of illegal immigrants desperate to get into Britain and the system buckling under the strain, one would imagine that the authorities would come down quite hard on human traffickers.

The issues facing Britain aside, these are greedy, ruthless criminal low lives who prey on other people's desperation and misery for their own gain.

As usual, the law parts company from common sense, however - a recent case saw a Sri Lankan couple who trafficked Mauritanian illegals to work in Worthing care homes jailed for just two years.

From The West Sussex Gazette:

A COUPLE who trafficked and exploited illegal immigrants to work in two Worthing care homes have been sentenced to two years in prison each and ordered to pay £25,000 in legal costs.

Now, the police have started a process to try to reclaim some of the profits the couple made – tens of thousands of pounds. Anbanaden Chellapermal, 61, and his wife, Shamila Seenyen-Chellapemal, 56, of Queens Gate, London, were part of an international trafficking network which lured poor Mauritian workers to the country with the promise of wages four times what they could earn at home.

The pair were sentenced at the Inner London Crown Court. For four counts of human-trafficking, they were each ordered to serve two years in prison. They also received a 12-month prison term each for three counts of employing illegal immigrants, which will run concurrently with the two-year sentence.

DS Jim Moore, from the south east region immigration crime team, said: "The two-year sentence was disappointing. "The Chellapermals have benefited financially and have profited from their acts.

"We'll now be looking to seize that money through the Proceeds of Crime Act."

DS Moore said once the sentence was read out after the two-hour hearing, the Chellapermals' family began crying.

The convictions relate to human-trafficking and immigration offences at care homes Glen Eden, in Richmond Road, and Carleton House, in St Lawrence Avenue, between November, 2007, and July, 2008.

A confiscation hearing will be heard in November and recovery of the money is expected by February next year.

They should be making an example of these predators.

Sheer Savagery in Arizona

An eight year old Liberian girl was lured into a shed by four boys in Arizona, with the promise of chewing gum.

The boys, aged between nine and fourteen and also refugees from Liberia, then held the girl down and took it in turn to sexually assault her.

As if this wasn't enough of an ordeal, the girl's family refused to take her back once they found out about the crime - because her actions had 'shamed them'.

The case has provoked widespread condemnation across America and even Liberia.

From The Telegraph:

Ordinary Americans have offered to adopt an eight-year-old Liberian girl who was raped by four boys in Arizona and then disowned by her family because she had "shamed" them.

The case has caused horror in both the United States and Liberia after it emerged that the girl's family did not want to care for her after she was attacked by the boys, also Liberian immigrants, who were aged between nine and 14.

Police officers responding to screams from an empty shed in an apartment complex in Phoenix last week found the partially-clothed girl and four boys running away.

The boys had lured the girl into the shed with the offer of chewing gum. They held her down and took turns raping her for about 10 to 15 minutes, according to Phoenix police.

The girl is now in the custody of Arizona Child Protective Services (CPS). Police said no charges will be filed against the parents.

"They didn't abandon the child," Phoenix police sergeant Andy Hill said. "They committed no crime. They just didn't support the child, which led to CPS coming over there."

"This is a deeply disturbing case that has gripped our community," said Maricopa County attorney Andrew Thomas. "Our office will seek justice for the young victim in this heartrending situation."

The case also drew condemnation from Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the president of Liberia and an outspoken campaigner against rape.

"I think that family is wrong. They should help that child who has been traumatised," she told CNN.

"They, too, need serious counselling because clearly they are doing something, something that is no longer acceptable in our society here," she added.

The oldest boy, a 14 year-old, will be tried as an adult on charges of kidnapping and sexual assault.

The other three boys - aged 9, 10, and 13 - were charged as juveniles with sexual assault and kidnapping.

"We've had young people who have been victims of sexual assault, but the thing that distinguishes this is the age of the victim, the age of the suspects and the response of the parents," Mr Hill said.

Well-wishers from California to Maine have called, wanting to adopt the child or give money for her welfare, Mr Hill said.

"It's been unbelievably fantastic in terms of support for the child," he said. "People from eight or nine states have called."

This story teaches us much about the importation of completely alien cultural values.

If these people don't understand basic human emotions such as supporting their own child after she is the victim of a despicable crime, then in what sense were they ever fit to be resettled in a civilised country?

If they don't even owe decency to their own flesh and blood, then what could they possibly give to the society which took them in?

This case is disturbing in many different ways, but it is primarily a glimpse of just what we have invited into our midst.

The Joys of Diversity & Cultural Enrichment in Norway

Firstly we have this story, found at Gates of Vienna:

Zylark has translated this article, but notes that the incident was also reported here:

Manhunt for brutal robber

The police suspect a man of assault and robbery of two women on the night before Sunday.

“This is a case we take very seriously. We have had several meetings regarding these two assault-robberies today,” states Police-Sergeant Siri Doksæter at the Fire and Theft department at Bergen Police station.

Two women were assaulted and robbed in the center of Bergen in a two hour interval night to Sunday.

“The first woman walked by the intersection of Kaigaten and Christiesgate whilst talking on her phone. She noticed someone nudging her in the back. Before she could turn around, she received a hard blow to the back, and fell to her knees,” states Doksæter.

The 20-year-old woman lost her cell-phone on the ground.

The perpetrator picked up the phone and ran. The victim did not get a good look at the perp, but he seemed between 20 and 30 years old and looked Eastern European.

The assault happened around 0130.

Around 0330 a woman in her early twenties was on her way home from the center of town. She was talking on her phone on the way home to Nordnes [which strictly speaking is in the center of Bergen, a 10-minute walk from most bars and clubs].

“By the College, she noticed a man walking behind her. She felt a finger in her back, and when she turned, she was hit in the temple so hard that she fell. The perpetrator picked up her phone and vanished. He is described as between 25 and 30 years old with short hair,” states Doksæter.

Due to the MO used in the assaults, the police think the same man is behind both of them.

“This is brutal, and it was done using the exact same procedure. I can not remember any similar episodes, so this is a sad tendency.

Doksæter asks for tips from the public.

“Both girls were alone when the assaults happened, but if anyone saw anything, we ask them to contact the police.”

Meanwhile, the Norwegian police are hoping to make use of a new judicial 'mafia clause' in order to fight the growing problem of Muslim gang crime, particularly a violent gang of thugs known as the 'Young Guns':

The police will crush The Young Guns Muslim gang with the help of the new Mafia indictment. 11 people are accused of everything from the threats with illegal weapons and violence.

"We will soon be out again." Those were the last words the 23-year-old Muslim cheerfully shouted to the Dagbladet’s photographer before the police closed the back door of the police car on the 13 th of May.

He and four other Young Guns members were arrested at a law firm, where they run after a confrontation with several members of the B-gang in front of the court. In the confrontation the 23-year old pointed a gun at four B-gang members to show to them that he was not afraid to shoot them.

The prediction of the 23-year old about coming soon out may not come to fruition, since he has been transferred to prison for previous violations. The two other members of the Young Guns are still in custody.

Now eleven members of the Young Guns, ten men and one woman, are being prosecuted for several serious offenses. They all are being charged under the Criminal Act, Section 60A - the so-called Mafia Paragraph.

The police are trying to present the eleven members of the Young Guns as a group that continuously plan and commit crimes together. Should they be found guilty under the Mafia Paragraph, they risk a double sentence compared to a normal verdict.

Four of the men are accused of bodily harm against two person who would testify against the members of the gang. One was beaten with a telescopic baton and has several stitches. Many of the gang members are also charged for illegal weapons and to have carried a gun in public places. The use of a weapon is part of the Mafia Paragraph.

The Young Guns is Oslo’s oldest gang and since the 90s has competed with the B-gang. The members of the two gangs have shot each others in the streets of Oslo many times. The last confrontation took place in May, and led to the lawsuit against Young Guns member Fuica Alex who was prosecuted for the murder of B-gang leader Ghulam Abbas.

The Young Guns and the B-gang charged at each other in a violent confrontation, which ended with the arrest of the five Young Guns Muslims who had sought refuge in the law firm Feydt and Hamborgstrøm, which is right by the courts.

Six of the accused are also charged for having threatened the same man. They were in the man's apartment. Two of them wore a balaklava and one of them, a 23-year-old man, fired at least two shots, according to the prosecution. The other is charged for threats and having encouraged the 23-year-old to shoot.

Deliberate action

Mr. Eirik Jensen, the head of the Oslo Police gang project, says that they have gathered together several different incidents in the same indictment as a deliberate action.

”Previously, there was no coordinated investigation of such matters, but now we are going to do it. We will send a signal that gang life will lead to tougher punishment,” Jensen told the Dagbladet.

”We have nothing against the people personally, but we no longer consent to what they stand for. As long as they are members of gangs, they will receive this treatment," he said.

The B-gang is today the biggest gang in Oslo. The Young Guns is reduced by internal strife, and several former key members are either imprisoned or have withdrawn completely from the gang life.

According to police, Mohammed "Jeddi" Javed led Young Guns until he was shot and killed on Haugerud in January this year. According to police, it is unclear who actually now leads the gang.

Unrealistic

The members of the Young Guns tell the Dagbladet that they believe it is totally unrealistic that the defendants will actually be convicted under the Mafia Paragraph.
”That is something the police do just to keep some of the boys imprisoned over the summer," says a Muslim man to Dagbladet.

Hopefully a Progress Party government will put an end to Norway's suicidal immigration policies before it is too late.

Hat tip: Gates of Vienna & Counter Jihad News.

Violence on the Paris Metro

GalliaWatch provides a translation of an article about an incident of racial gang crime and violence which occurred on the Paris underground railway on 22nd July, as well as the responses of fashionable French opinion:

There was an incident in the Paris subway on July 22. François Desouche has the story, based on the source article in Le Parisien. As of now, the facts have not been entirely elucidated:

Armed gunmen, crowds, interruption of service, passengers fleeing in tunnels and the discovery of a man killed on the subway rails: panic reigned yesterday for more than five hours on line 13 of the Paris metro.

A female passenger alerted the subway employees that two African-type men armed with pistols tried to attack her in the subway car. A fight presumably took place also. Immediately, service was interrupted on the entire line, the electricity cut off and the police informed, while panic-stricken passengers filled the platforms. But when the police arrived, the two men had vanished.

The police increased their checks, searched the station, questioned the passengers, and got swallowed up in the tunnel. No success: it was impossible to find out more about the mysterious armed men.

Meanwhile, the news spread like wildfire, setting off other scenes of panic. At 4:30 p.m. when the subway they were on stopped in the tunnel between Varenne and Invalides, the terrified passengers escaped clumsily from the cars to get to the station on foot.

In addition, a man of Asian origin was fatally struck by a subway on this same line 13, but no one knows if this tragic death has any connection to the preceding incidents.

Note: Some François Desouche readers advise caution, since the facts are not all known. Others lash out out the readers of Le Parisien who make light of the incident when they insist that this sort of thing is bound to happen in the Paris subway. Still others are critical of the Le Parisien report itself that greatly minimizes the events because of the African origin of the two men.

One FDS reader found this comment from a very well-indoctrinated Le Parisien reader to be significant:

In a huge city like Paris it is not surprising that this type of chaos takes place from time to time. You have to look squarely at things. And I don't see what purpose it serves to specify that the armed men were African in appearance and that the man found dead was Asian... except to arouse a bit more the nasty and stupid "mixophobes". But turning people against each other is the media's specialty.

It is significant because it uses a word new to the lexicon of official thought: MIXOPHOBE. A mixophobe would be a person suffering from mixophobia, or dread of mixing races. In short dread of métissage.

Ah yes. The people with the problem in modern Europe are those who notice the violent chaos around them and its causes, not the architects and supporters of said chaos.

Duly noted.