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  • 'Paedophiles should NOT face criminal charges for looking at child porn': Britain's top [tr]

    02/28/2017 5:56:12 AM PST · by C19fan · 98 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | February 28, 2017 | George Odling
    Paedophiles should not face jail for looking at pornographic images of children unless they are a physical threat to youngsters, says Britain’s most senior child protection officer. Officers should instead focus on the most dangerous offenders who have access to youngsters or are directing abuse online, said chief constable Simon Bailey.
  • The Brits hurrying to become German citizens

    02/27/2017 11:25:21 PM PST · by Berlin_Freeper · 24 replies
    bbc.com ^ | 27 February 2017 | BBC
    The Brexit debate in the UK is focusing on the rights of EU migrants in the country, among them about 300,000 Germans. Many people are worried about what will happen to them after Brexit. But how are the 100,000 Brits in Germany feeling? The BBC's Damien McGuinness says many are hurrying to apply for citizenship. "So, when are you becoming German?" It's one of those questions that always seems to crop up when I'm chatting to British friends here in Berlin these days. Most are either applying for German citizenship or counting the days until they've spent enough time here...
  • PETER HITCHENS: A fight for equality? No, it's a plot to wipe out marriage

    02/27/2017 5:03:40 AM PST · by Nextrush · 14 replies
    DailyMail.com ^ | 2/25/2017 | Peter Hitchens
    The campaign to get rid of marriage has not gone away. Civil partnerships for heterosexuals were not thrown out by the Appeal Court last week, only put off till later. They will come. In fact, after 20 years of New Labour government (some of it nominally Tory) we can now look back and survey the smoking ruins of marriage. It's not that the New Labour radicals and their Tory imitators wrecked marriage on their own. It's just that they have more or less finished it off. The very words 'husband' and 'wife' have been erased from official forms and even...
  • Brexit economy: can consumers keep shoring up the UK?

    02/24/2017 11:02:41 PM PST · by Berlin_Freeper · 20 replies
    theguardian.com ^ | February 22, 2017 | Katie Allen
    Rising fuel and food prices are eating into household budgets as the impact of the Brexit vote on the value of the pound pushes up inflation, according to a Guardian analysis that casts doubt over how much longer consumers can continue to shore up the UK economy. Cracks are starting to show in the picture of economic resilience seen since last summer’s vote to leave the EU. Wage growth is slowing just as people’s living costs start taking off. Businesses are also feeling the pressures of the weak pound more intensely as it ramps up the cost of imported raw...
  • £10,000 Award For NI Man Who Didn't Get Derry Job Due to Political Opinions

    02/24/2017 3:45:42 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Belfast Telegraph ^ | February 24 2017
    Man wins £10k payout after tribunal rulingGary McClean believed he was not appointed as his political stance did not fit in with the approach of Sinn Fein and the DUP towards community services.1 1 Gary McClean believed he was not appointed as his political stance did not fit in with the approach of Sinn Fein and the DUP towards community services. A Northern Ireland man has won a £10,000 payout after a tribunal found he wasn't offered a job because of his political opinion, despite him being the best candidate for the post. A fair employment tribunal has held that,...
  • Why Tony Blair is WRONG: New poll finds Britons just want to GET ON with Brexit

    02/24/2017 10:14:28 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    UK Daily Express ^ | 02/24/2017 | Alison Little
    The ex-prime minister’s call for pro-Europeans to “rise up” came as a poll found the vast majority of voters wanted politicians to get on with quitting. Mr Blair’s arrogant speech sparked outrage and even some Remain supporters were aghast at his bid to reverse June’s historic decision to leave the European Union. Respected pollsters ICM revealed that 68 per cent of voters now agreed the Government should “get on with implementing the result of the referendum... and in doing so take back control of our borders, laws, money and trade”. That was up from 54 per cent in December when...
  • Top Academic Calls for Sex Offenders-Style ‘Hate Crime Register’, Restricting Access to Jobs

    02/24/2017 6:12:40 AM PST · by C19fan · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | February 24, 2017 | Virginia Hale
    Head of Durham University Law School Professor Thom Brooks has told a Commons inquiry that people found guilty of committing ‘hate crimes’ should be put on an official register. A professor of law and government at the university, Brooks advised that a ‘Hate Crime Offenders Register’ would work in a similar fashion to the sex offenders register, putting restrictions on what jobs people who are listed are allowed to do.
  • Ex-PM Ted Heath accused of raping 12 year old boy

    02/22/2017 2:45:04 PM PST · by Sgt_Schultze · 11 replies
    Russia Today ^ | 4 Aug 2015 | Unknown
    Former Tory Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath has been accused of rape by an alleged victim, who was 12 years old at the time of the claimed assault. A police inquiry was opened on Monday urging others to come forward. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) launched an inquiry into the alleged cover-up of a criminal investigation after a suspect threatened to expose Heath as a child abuser. Heath served as a Conservative PM from 1970 to 1974. He died in 2005 at the age of 89. He is the most high profile figure to be accused of historic child...
  • This fake story made me feel sympathy for Donald Trump

    02/22/2017 2:30:17 PM PST · by markomalley · 22 replies
    The Spectator (UK) ^ | 2/22/17 | Will Heaven
    There was a great commotion in central London last night. A police helicopter hovered over The Spectator‘s office making a din, police sirens sounded and thudding music rattled the windows. I found out why when I left the office and walked via Parliament Square to Whitehall.There was an anti-Trump protest outside Parliament – #stoptrump was the theme – coinciding with the (non-binding and pointless) debate inside Westminster Hall, about President Trump’s state visit to the UK later this year. The protest was a very slick affair. There was a massive TV screen broadcasting anti-Trump videos, and speeches blared out over a speaker...
  • ISIS suicide bomber in Iraq was former Guantanamo prisoner

    02/22/2017 8:35:32 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/22/2017 | Rick Moran
    An ISIS suicide bomber in Iraq who detonated a truck bomb at an army base outside Mosul has been identified as a British citizen who was held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba. Ronald Fiddler, also known as Jamal al-Harith after he converted to Islam in the 1990s, was captured in a Taliban prison in 2002.  He was suspected of having links to Osama bin Laden and was transferred to Guantanamo. Al-Harith claimed he was mistreated at the prison camp and that British agents were complicit.  He was transferred back to the U.K. in 2004 and was awarded a million...
  • Former Gitmo detainee blows himself up in Iraq, ISIS claims responsibility

    02/21/2017 6:22:54 PM PST · by SJackson · 21 replies
    The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Mosul it said was carried out by a British suicide bomber, the SITE Intelligence Group reported. “The martyrdom-seeking brother Abu Zakariya al-Britani — may Allah accept him — detonated his explosives-laden vehicle on a headquarters of the Rafidhi army and its militias in Tal Kisum village, southwest of Mosul,” the claim quoted by SITE said. The ISIS statement did not say when the bombing occurred. Abu Zakariya al-Britani was identified by BBC as Ronald Fiddler, a Brit who was seized by US forces in Afghanistan and taken...
  • The ISIS suicide bomber who was paid $1.25MILLION in compensation by the British government because

    02/22/2017 6:10:39 AM PST · by scooby321 · 10 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2/21/2017 | Alex Robertson and Chris Greenwood and Ian Drury and Jim Norton and Anna Hopkins
    A British ISIS suicide bomber has been revealed as a former Guantanamo prisoner who was handed the equivalent of $1.25million in British taxpayers' money as compensation before fleeing to Syria.
  • Milo Is the Mini-Donald

    02/21/2017 6:42:54 PM PST · by madprof98 · 69 replies
    New York Times ^ | 2/21/17 | Frank Bruni
    If you halved Donald Trump’s age, changed his sexual orientation, gave him a British accent and fussed with his hair only a little, you’d end up with a creature much like Milo Yiannopoulos. He could be Trump’s lost gay child. In fact, Yiannopoulos, 33, has a habit of referring to Trump, 70, as “Daddy.” Trump the father and Yiannopoulos the son are both provocateurs who realize that in this day and age especially, the currency of celebrity isn’t demeaned by the outrageousness and offensiveness through which a person achieves it. Both are con men, wrapping themselves in higher causes, though...
  • Why Salon's Virtuous Pedophile is not so Virtuous

    09/23/2015 12:00:20 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 31 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/23/2015 | John Sexton
    Is there such a thing as a virtuous pedophile? That’s the claim made in a piece published Monday by Salon. But it’s worth asking just how virtuous the author really is. This Salon think-piece by self-described pedophile Todd Nickerson is written in the form of a redemption story, except Nickerson swears up front he has never done anything at all needing redemption. To confess a sexual attraction to children is to lay claim to the most reviled status on the planet, one that effectively ends any chance you have of living a normal life. Yet, I’m not the monster you...
  • Pedophile beaten to death by angry preschool parents

    01/24/2017 12:12:58 PM PST · by Red Badger · 54 replies
    www.wave3.com ^ | Thursday, December 8th 2016, 2:25 pm CST | By Ray Daudani, Digital Content Director
    BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (WWBT) - When a pedophile convicted of molesting five preschool children was released from jail after just four years behind bars, a group of angry parents reportedly took the law into their own hands and beat him to death. Marcelo Fabian Pecollo was arrested in 2007 for abusing a 4-year-old child, reports AFP, which led to six more cases coming to light. Five of those cases went forward in court and he was later found guilty and sentenced in 2010 to 30 years in prison. However, AFP reports he was released in 2014 after his sentenced was...
  • I’m a pedophile, but not a monster (redefining deviancy alert)

    09/21/2015 11:51:48 AM PDT · by DemforBush · 155 replies
    Salon ^ | 9/21/15 | Todd Nickerson
    -SNIP- "I’ve been stuck with the most unfortunate of sexual orientations, a preference for a group of people who are legally, morally and psychologically unable to reciprocate my feelings and desires. It’s a curse of the first order, a completely unworkable sexuality, and it’s mine."
  • CNN Finds Humor in UK Parliament Insulting Trump to Downgrade State Visit

    02/21/2017 6:49:39 PM PST · by markomalley · 50 replies
    CNN via Newsbusters ^ | February 20, 2017 11:55 PM EST | Nicholas Fondacaro
    Debate raged in the United Kingdom’s Parliament Monday over whether or not President Donald Trump should be extended the warm welcome of a full state visit. As insults targeting Trump flew back and forth, CNN seemed to get a good laugh out it all. “Insults flying over Trump's invitation for a formal state visit to the UK,” hyped Erin Burnett during her show OutFront, “One Member of Parliament today likening it to quote, “pimping out the queen.’” All while the on-screen headline read “Can God Save the Queen…From Trump?” “President Trump doesn't just get people stirred up at home. Look...
  • [LONDON] STRAIGHT COUPLE LOSE COURT BATTLE TO ENTER INTO CIVIL PARTNERSHIP

    02/21/2017 6:29:28 PM PST · by markomalley · 28 replies
    BREITBART LONDON ^ | 2/21/17 | Donna Rachel Edmunds
    A heterosexual couple have lost their legal battle to enter into a civil partnership.Academics Rebecca Steinfeld, 35, and Charles Keidan, 40, wanted to secure legal recognition of their seven-year relationship by entering into a civil partnership, rejecting marriage as they claim it carries “patriarchal baggage”. However, they have been prevented from doing so because the Civil Partnership Act 2004 stipulates that only same-sex couples are eligible.In November the couple, who have a seven-month-old daughter, challenged a decision by High Court judge Mrs Justice Andrews to dismiss their judicial review action. But on Tuesday their challenge was in turn dismissed by the Court...
  • Racist dodges jail after SPITTING in baby’s face and yelling: ‘Whites shouldn’t breed'

    02/21/2017 6:18:36 PM PST · by markomalley · 37 replies
    Daily Star ^ | 2/21/17 | Joshua Nevett
    Callous Rezzas Abdulla spewed saliva all over the pram of little Layla-Jean in the sickening race-hate attack last January. Stunned mum Rebecca Telford, 25, was walking through South Shields with the tot when Abdulla launched his unprovoked attack, a court heard. The 33-year-old leant over the baby’s pram and spat in her face before shouting the racially motivated tirade, prosecutors said. Abdulla was convicted of racially aggravated common assault at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court. But Abdulla, who has two previous convictions for race-hate attacks on white females, walked free from court without a jail term.
  • British man who launched ISIL suicide attack was Guantanamo Bay detainee awarded £1m compensation

    02/21/2017 3:58:52 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 26 replies
    Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 21 February 2017 • 7:40PM | Gordon Rayner
    A British Islamic State fighter who carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq this week is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was paid £1 million compensation by the government. Jamal al-Harith, a Muslim convert born Ronald Fiddler who detonated a car bomb at an Iraqi army base near Mosul, was released from the US detention camp in 2004 and successfully claimed compensation after saying British agents knew or were complicit in his mistreatment. He was freed following intense lobbying by Tony Blair’s Labour government.Al-Harith, who used the nom de guerre Abu-Zakariya al-Britani, entered Syria via Turkey in 2014 to...