DBKP UK PC Roundup
Britain As Hell
Time once again for the DBKP United Kingdom weekly round up, where we explore the zany world of Political Correctness as a way of life.
The British started the week with the Police intimidating another elderly victim. it seems hardly a day can go by without the coppers deciding that criminals are far too dangerous for them, but slapping down the law abiding--and basically defenseless geriatrics--is just too much fun to pass on.
Grandmother arrested on race charges after telling rowdy Asian students to 'go home'
Now I know what you are thinking. Blurting out "Go home!" to a bunch of drunken Muslim thugs (The Koran apparently has multiple interpretations regarding drinking, but only Muslims are allowed to know what, when and how they apply) is criminally racist speech.
Or so the Police thought. The Crime:
After being woken for the third time in one night by a group of drunken and noisy students, Jo Calvert-Mindell was at her wits' end.
The former policewoman got dressed, went outside and shouted at them: 'Why can't you go back to where you come from and make some noise there? I bet your families and neighbours wouldn't put up with it.
She also reported the incident to police, who came and dispersed the eight students.
The 51-year-old grandmother was astonished when four months later she was arrested and accused of being a racist. It turned out that two Asians in the group had complained to the police
In April, Miss Calvert-Mindell, who has never been in trouble with the police before, was charged with using racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour under section 5 of the Public Order Act.
That is right. She wasn't telling them to go back to Pakistan. Just to go home.
But because they were Muslims ("Asian" in Brit PoliCeSpeak), she faced charges. It is important for all to know that freedom of speech is non-existent in Britain, and free thought is is disappearing, as well.
Speaking of Muslims:
Police told to warn criminals before setting canines on them - in case they are FRIGHTENED or ALLERGIC to dog hair
First, a little primer on British PoliCeSpeak. When the Brits talk about Muslims, the only time the word is used is in a positive reference. When it comes to the day-to-day anti-social, Sudden Muslim Grievance Syndrome, terrorism , misogyny, and intolerance that makes this 'religion' such a barrel of laughs, the Brits seem unable to utter the word "Muslim".
From the story:
Being chased by a police dog was never intended to be a pleasant experience.But now handlers are being extra careful to avoid upsetting criminals' sensibilities by giving them advance warning before dogs are set on them. Forces across Britain are being instructed to 'avoid offending' sufferers of cynophobia - the clinical name for a fear of canines - or those allergic to dog hair.The move comes amid fears that suspects whose medical conditions are triggered by dogs may file costly compensation bills against the force which authorised their use during arrests or raids on homes.
So how do we know this is about Muslims, and not the ordinary drug runner or crazy murderer on the run?
Because on July 6, 2008 the British police announced that police dogs would wear shoes when entering Muslim homes.
From Times On Line:
Police sniffer dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of Muslims so as not to cause offence. Where Muslims object, officers will be obliged to use sniffer dogs only in exceptional cases. Where dogs are used, they will have to wear bootees with rubber soles. “We are trying to ensure that police forces are aware of sensitivities that people can have with the dogs to make sure they are not going against any religious or cultural element within people’s homes. It is being addressed and forces are working towards doing it,” Acpo said
But that bit of ass kissing was not good enough. So this week the Brits stooped lower.
Photographing thugs 'is assault', police tell householder snapping proof of anti-social behaviour
A householder who took photographs of hooded teenagers as evidence of their anti-social behaviour says he was told he was breaking the law after they called the police. David Green, 64, and his neighbours had been plagued by the youths from a nearby comprehensive school for months, and was advised by their headmaster to identify them so action could be taken. The youths were aged around 17; he said one threatened to kill him while another called the police on his mobile. And he claimed that a Police Community Support Officer sent to the scene promptly issued a warning that taking pictures of youths without permission was illegal, and could lead to a charge of assault.
Typical yobsOne of Mr Green's pictures shows two hooded teenagers, one making an obscene gesture towards the camera.
What about the thugs that were terrorizing and vandalizing the neighborhood? Don't ask. You could be arrested for anti-social thought. And the story helpfully points out that Mr Green's excessive use of the camera is not an isolated incident.
Last week, the Daily Mail reported that a father was told by a play equipment supervisor he was not allowed to take pictures of his own children on a slide.
British Police are sometimes willing to give a hand.
Police 'put half-naked rape victim in minicab and made her pay fare home'
Police allegedly marched a rape victim who had been found crying in the street at 1am to a cab firm, and then made her pay the fare home....instead of driving her to a hospital or a police station, the officers took her to a taxi firm close to Southwark Tube station. After it was found no one could collect her, the taxi firm agreed to take her home. The woman reported the incident, which took place on 4 July, the next day but investigators fear important forensic evidence may have been lost. A senior source said: 'It should have been clear that she may have been sexually assaulted. To top it off, they put her in a cab with another strange man.' Police think the woman may have been raped by an unlicensed taxi driver who dumped her in the street.
That story needs no comment.
It says everything one need know about British Police.
by pat
images:
* forbidden planet
* d-boner
* the sun
* guardian
Sources:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
The Weekly United Kingdom Insanity Report
The Nanny State: Off The Tracks
pat
Time again for DBKP's weekly review of the Not So Great Britain, the poster child for the endgame of Political Correctness. The United Kingdom demonstrates with clarity what happens when wishful thinking becomes a cornerstone of government.
Tens of thousands of years of common sense--mixed in with 300 years of civil authority and enlightened humanitarian philosophy--disappear without a trace when the left pushes forward a political agenda concocted in the minds of silly, delusional academics and politicians who view society as the enemy.
First, the whimsical safety concerns of the Nanny State.
Ridiculous' health and safety rules tell carpenters to ban the broom
Yep. The broom is a bit too dangerous for the workplace. The proper use of the broom seems to be something the modern construction worker may not be able to master, at least in Britain.
According to The Telegraph:
Carpenters and woodworkers have been told not to use brooms to sweep up sawdust because they are considered dangerous under "ridiculous" new health and safety guidelines.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) claims that sweeping up wood chippings in dusty workplaces can provoke asthma attacks and long term exposure lead to nose cancer.
Instead they are advising carpentry firms to buy state-of-the-art vacuum cleaners and air purification systems which can cost thousands of pounds.
So, not even the ShopVac will do.
No sir. The government needs the workplace to have a vacuum cleaner with an air purification system. Of course, it is not the government's money, so who cares?
The carpenters, it seems.
The boss of a joinery firm in Tayside, Scotland - who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of more health and safety checks - said: "I've been using a broom since Jesus's old man was a carpenter.
"This advice it totally off the wall. Industrial vacuum cleaners are expensive and they aren't nearly as good as an apprentice armed with a stiff-bristled brush."
Anonymous is a famous commentator in Britain
Unlike here in the American press, Mr and Mrs Anonymous actually exist in Britain. They are a terrified couple, scared of many things, but foremost of all, their own government.
Taking up his side of things, we reviewed Mr Anonymous' argument. Let us start with the nose cancer scare. Fortunately, nose cancer is extraordinarily rare. And fortunately--and overwhelmingly--nose cancer is associated with smoking.
So, unless one needs to smoke while sweeping, the chance that sweeping will cause nose cancer is remote. Note to regulators: need workplace sign.
No Smoking While Sweeping Wood Shavings
There are rare and unspecified associations with some metals and chemicals--none of which are common--in wood, even treated wood. As for asthma, that is more problematic. Each individual has a unique asthmatic allergenic trigger. If wood dust, even if that of a particular species of tree, sets off the same, then carpentry is the wrong trade.
Sorry.
Get out now. Because the fancy vacuum cleaner ain't going to make a whit of difference.
It may kill you.
The latter because these vacuum cleaners require emptying and cleaning. And the HEPA [high-efficiency particulate air] filters, the secondary filters and the tank expose the operator to incredible amounts of allergens--far more than the wood shavings that so scare the British authorities.
Which is why many households with asthmatics leave the vacuuming to more allergen-tolerant household members.
It is a shame that this attention to safety and health was not in play in 2005. That is when the boneheads that run Britain basically deregulated drinking. This again is one of those academic exercises that has crashed into the wall of reality.
We here at DBKP are a libertarian crew, but commonsense has a place in life.
But not in the United Kingdom.
Dead at 24: The tragic story of how a young girl's life was wrecked by cheap alcohol
Lying in a hospital bed, 24-year-old Stacey Rhymes cuddles a childhood toy before putting out an arm to her mother.
'Hold my hand, Mum,' she whispers, then slips into a coma. A few hours later, on a spring afternoon earlier this year, the girl with a whole life ahead of her was dead.
The once radiantly pretty Stacey had drunk herself to death on cut-price bottles of wine bought from corner shops, supermarkets and local pubs. She had started drinking at 17 and seven years later her body simply gave up under the constant assault from alcohol.
Losing control: Stacey's alcohol-related illness takes its hold
Her mother, Louise, says: 'I now want the world to know exactly what happened to Stacey and why. It was a terrible way to go.
'Her stomach was like a balloon, as if she was nine months pregnant. Her long hair was falling out, her urine was coloured black and she could not eat. She was scared to look in the mirror because her eyes were canary yellow. The only way to stop the pain at the end was morphine.'
The story of Stacey Rhymes is a salutary one: she is one of the youngest people in modern Britain to die of alcohol abuse. And her mother, speaking for the first time, is determined that the loss of her daughter will not be in vain.
This is insanity.
Drinking is now allowed 24 hours-a-day throughout the country. The streets are crawling with drunks. The social stigma of being publicly drunk has been replaced with a alcoholic bravado. And the Brits are killing the youth of the nation--not to mention productivity and civility
Since the relaxation of licensing laws in November 2005 - which allowed round-the-clock sales of drink in pubs, clubs, shops and supermarkets - the cost to the nation both socially and financially has been huge. Coupled with low prices for alcohol, there is now an orgy of drunkenness that rivals the gin epidemic of early Victorian times..The facts are stark. The numbers dying from alcohol-related health problems is rising. In 1999, there were 4,000 deaths. Today, the figure has doubled, with the age of the victims going down, too. Hospitals admit for emergency treatment more than 9,000 drunken teenagers every year.....Cases of liver cirrhosis in 20 to 30-year-olds - who often started drinking as children - have doubled in less than a decade.
Many Europeans and Asians consider America's take on alcohol quaint. In most cities in the USA, bottle liquor sales must stop between 10:00PM and midnight. Bars must close by 2:00 AM. Dance clubs and private clubs by 4:00 AM.
Many states only allow the sale of alcohol through state-controlled stores. Some prohibit open bars and the sale of alcohol on certain days. Some towns are dry, requiring a drive to get booze. The drinking age is a uniform 21 and underage drinking is severely punished, usually with the inability of the malefactor to get a driver's license. Most States consider the provision of alcohol to one's own child a serious offense.
These quaint laws serve a purpose: they emphasize that drinking is a State concern, as is public drunkenness. They also provide a cooling-off period. Someone on a binge, will most certainly lose the ability to get more booze. These regulated hours provide a sleep period--a time out, if you will--both for the tippler and society: a time when many will sober up, when many will lose the gang mentality of drinking as they go to different addresses to sleep the booze off.
We remember when the pubs of Scotland closed at 10:00PM and those of England at 11:00PM. Something poor Stacey needed badly.
Yet this is not the only catastrophic side-effect [of open drinking hours]. The Cabinet Office admits the real cost of drinking is £20billion a year if you include suicides, alcohol-fuelled crime, anti-social behaviour, depressive illness, family breakdown and domestic violence. Only this month, the Local Government Association - representing councils - warned the 24-hour drinking plan to emulate a European style cafe-culture in Britain had failed miserably.
Stacey's mother is devastated. She has established an Internet site at Facebook as a warning to young drinkers. But it is Britain that needs the lesson: a lesson in what is important and what is just plain stupid.
by pat
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* meetup
* dot state
* daily mail
* daily mail
Sources:
* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2307275/%27Ridiculous%27-health-and-safety-rules-tell-carpenters-to-ban-the-broom.html
* http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/
* http://www.emedicinehealth.com/asthma/page2_em.htm#Asthma%20Causes
* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1036399/Dead-24-The-tragic-story-young-girls-life-wrecked-cheap-alcohol.html
'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her.
'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that -- '
--Lewis Carroll
British Justice. Broken
Ever wonder where the American Justice system will wind up?
How about the propensity of Judges to disregard legislation, make up law, tell elected officials how to run the nation? Apparently, they inhabit a make-believe world wherein they are kings.
What about the tendency of Police officials and law enforcement to view law biding citizens as the enemy and terrorists as the victims? (Been to the airport lately?).
We need look no further than Britain. This nation of moonbats is entering the terminal stages of civil deconstruction. From the ever fascinating Daily Mail:
A violent killer will be given up to £300,000 in compensation after he blamed the killing on trauma he suffered during the Paddington train crash
Gray, a council administrator, suffered minor injuries when the train he was travelling on was hit head-on by a high-speed intercity train on 5th October 1999.
However, he claims that as a result of the accident his personality was profoundly altered. From being a very passive person, he started to experience bouts of uncontrollable rage.
Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he became withdrawn, emotionally unstable and his relationship with his girlfriend deteriorated."
In August 2001, John Boultwood, a father-of-two, drunkenly wandered in front of Gray's car and hammered on his window.Gray, from Tilbury in Essex, started to punch and kick the 42-year-old welder, then stabbed him repeatedly with a kitchen knife.
Was this fellow traveling with the knife?
No. He went home to get it, came back and stabbed the drunk who was lying there. For this, a sympathetic Judge--apparently unaware that Post Traumatic Stress syndrome is not only rare, but virtually non-existent in the described circumstances--awarded him a minimum of $600,000.
Hey! It's somebody else's money after all. But what about the , ah, fellow who died?
Who cares?
The decision was greeted with outrage and dismay by the family of Gray's victim.
Mr Boultwood's mother Edith Sinclair, 74, said: "I can't believe it. So he will get rich by killing a person? How can that man blame it on the crash? It was two years after. He went and got a knife and came back. He knifed my Jonny seven times."
This incident is by no means isolated. From the same paper:
(Frank McCourt: He says he has been 'put through months of hell')
When Frank McCourt's home was targeted by young hooligans hurling rocks and eggs, he challenged them and told them to leave and never return.
But the next day they came back so Mr McCourt, a former soldier, tried to phone the police but was put on hold for 45 minutes.
At the end of his tether, he grabbed one of the louts by the arm and hauled him inside, telling him he was performing a citizen's arrest.
But it was Mr McCourt who was arrested later that day - for kidnap.
The 57-year-old spent six weeks on bail before being charged with the lesser offence of assault. "
"A Sussex police spokesman said: 'An allegation was made and officers duly investigated the facts reported to police. A file was presented to the Crown Prosecution Service in accordance with procedure.
Related:
Brave grandma arrested after standing up to yobs
* Nanny State: Squeezing the Zest for Life Out of the British
*Nanny State Squeezing Zest out of the British
A wild guess here: it is easier to deal with a law biding, compliant citizen that actual criminals, regardless of their age. It is generally believed in this country that the crime rates in Britain are decidedly less than here in America.
This is untrue. The reported crime rate in Britain, with the exception of murder by firearms, is far higher.
And that is only the reported rates. in many instances the Police in Britain--and in fact most of the EU--are under no obligation to file reports and, in fact, discourage the same by the shenanigans detailed here.
Meet the future Of American Justice.
by pat
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* sparklingrose
* teachwithmovies
sources:
* Paddington Train Crash Killer wins Appeal
* Former soldier arrested kidnapping citizens arrest
The English school teacher who was imprisoned for allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" is back home from Sudan.
Gillian Gibbons is relieved, but in a rather low-key English way.Asked if she had been shocked by the punishment handed out to her, she said: "I am just an ordinary middle-aged primary school teacher. I went there to have a bit of adventure and got a bit more than I bargained for."
One group who was not happy about Gibbons' escape from Sudan was B.A.I.R. (Bruins Against Islamic References).
As was reported yesterday, BAIR spokesbruin, T.D. Bear, was still angry over Gibbons escaping with what he called "light punishment". He had call for Gibbons to be eaten by members of his group.
No word yet on BAIR's reaction to Gibbons making it home to the U.K. safely.
by Mondoreb
[notes & graphic: RidesAPaleHorse]
[top photo: AP]
Sources:
CNN - "Toy Row Teacher Speaks of Ordeal"
DBKP - "Teacher Pardoned: Unbearable Punishment Averted"
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
Was the news in the Madeline McCann case a hoax, cruel trick or the work of an attention-starved news junkie?
Back in June, a letter was sent to a Dutch newspaper; supposedly it contained news of Madeline's death and the whereabouts of her body.
The letter set off a police investigation of the site mentioned in the letter. Police discovered no body at the location.
It started with the following revelation.IS Madeleine McCann dead? A letter to a Dutch newspaper. And a map showing where her body can be found. It’s credible:
Authorities naturally had to treat the letter as containing genuine information and dispatched police to the site to follow up.
Police in Portugal are investigating an anonymous letter and a map claiming to show where missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann’s body is buried.
The letter, sent to Dutch paper De Telegraaf, identifies an area 15km (9.3 miles) from where Madeleine vanished.Portuguese police say they have not found anything in a search of scrubland nine miles from where four-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing.
The search was carried out after a Dutch newspaper published details of an anonymous letter it received alleging Madeleine’s body was under rocks.
Officers said the line of inquiry had now been “discarded”.
Why was the letter considered a lead? The British press had plenty of theories on both the letter, its contents and its author.It strongly resembles another letter sent to the same newspaper last year, accurately pinpointing where two missing Belgian girls were buried.
Ch Insp Olegario de Sousa said officers were “checking the information”.
Next to a cross and two question marks, the sender writes “vermoedelijke vindplaats Madeleine” - this is the place where Madeleine can probably be found.
A murder investigation. And still only one suspect.
One day on and “BURIED UNDER ROCKS,” says the Mirror’s front –page headline.
The paper notes how the handwriting on the letter is the same as that on the paper giving the whereabouts of Stacey Lemmens and her sister Nathalie Mahy who went missing in Belgium last year.
As the Sun reports, the note says Madeleine is buried “north of the road under branches and rocks, around six to seven metres off the road” in an spot near Odiaxere, close to the Algarve resort from where the girl went missing 42 days ago.
The Mail says the author of this letter and, most likely, the one concerning the Belgian sisters, is unknown to police.
A certain Abdullah Ait-Oud, a convicted paedophile, has been charged with their murders. He denies any involvement. Although police believe he acted with an accomplice who has not been traced.
“MADELEINE IS BURIED HERE,” says the Express on its front page. Portuguese police are searching the area…
That letter proved to be a false alarm in the baffling, and still yet-unfolding, story of the disappearance of the little English girl.
The list of hoaxers and false alarms plagued the case. The letter was neither the first, nor the last.While the McCanns seemed to be getting their message across, the story also attracted hoaxers and fraudsters. One call was received from a man on an unregistered pay-as-you-go phone in Argentina claiming to know the whereabouts of their daughter, but led to nothing, while an anonymous letter and map sent to an Amsterdam-based newspaper claimed Madeleine was buried in scrubland close to the holiday resort. Some 50 officers and police sniffer dogs were sent to search the area but found nothing.
An Italian man and a Portuguese woman were subsequently held on suspicion of trying to extort money from the McCanns, saying they had information on the whereabouts of their daughter. A man in Eindhoven, Holland, was also arrested for attempting to defraud the McCanns by demanding £1.35m in exchange for information on their daughter.
The first signs of a backlash against the McCanns appeared in mid-June. Chief Inspector Sousa said that the fact that so many people had crowded into the room from which Madeleine was taken was making it difficult for the forensic teams to make sense of DNA samples.
At the same time, thousands of yellow ribbons tied to trees and railings in the McCanns' home village were taken down amid concerns they were attracting "grief tourists". Villagers said that Rothley's main square had become a morbid visitor attraction after it was made the focal point for tributes.
Hopes of finding Maddie were once again raised at the beginning of August when a customer at a restaurant in the Flemish town of Tongeren, not far from the Dutch border, said she was "100% sure" she had seen the youngster. The glass from which the child was drinking was removed for DNA testing. It proved to be a false lead.
The case has had its share of false leads and alarms. One lead that seems to be dead now is the theory that the McCanns were responsible for the girl's abduction.
Still another theory, entertained for awhile, that the body of the little girl, discovered in a cooler on a sandbar, near Galveston, TX and named "Baby Grace" might be that of Madeline's. That theory was shelved after the mother last week confessed to beating and torturing 2-year-old Riley Sawyers.
Riley Sawyers was "Baby Grace", not Madeline McCann.
To be the parents of Madeline, kidnapped from her room while on vacation months ago, every bit of news--true or false--causes pulmonary reactions.
Holding their breath, a sigh of relief, an angry hiss, the sharp intake of breath: all were likely to have been the McCann's reactions to various bits of news over this long stretch of waiting and wondering.
The news of the Dutch letter and the subsequent investigation was a false alarm. Both the police and the parents sort through bits of news.
Both have their own questions. Most of the questions are the same.
Who removed her from their room? Where is Madeline now? Where will all lead?
Police and parents alike are still working on the answers.
At this point, all that can be offered to Madeline's long-suffering parents is speculation.
by Mondoreb
Sources:
Police Probing Madeline Letter
Finding Madeleine McCann’s Body - “Vermoedelijke Vindplaats”
Madeleine McCann: No Breaking News; No Body Found
Madeline: The story six months on
Baby Grace, Riley Sawyers: Mother's Grim Tale of Torture and Abuse
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
On the same day that gruesome details of how Riley Sawyers ("Riley Sawyers Mother Tortured Her: Little Riley Never Had a Chance") died were released, news of what investigators now believe happened to Madeline McCann come to light.
It is not good news for those who had hoped she is still alive.
Police investigators in Portugal, where the 4-year-old was abducted, now believe that a pedophile killed her during a break-in at the resort room where she and her parents had been vacationing.
They were put out by the Telegraph in "Madeleine 'killed in moment of thwarted desire'":Madeleine McCann was killed by a paedophile in a moment of "thwarted desire" before being taken from her Algarve holiday apartment, police investigating her disappearance believe, it has been claimed.
Her parents have all but been ruled out as suspects now. Originally, police had offered her mother a two-year sentence if she would confess.Detectives now believe she was taken by an intruder who panicked and suffocated her to stop her from screaming, it was alleged.
They are close to abandoning the theory that Kate and Gerry McCann were responsible for their daughter's disappearance and will instead focus on the man seen walking away from the apartment carrying a child in his arms.
The U-turn has been suggested after a review of the case by senior detective Paulo Rebelo, 45, who took over the investigation in October.
Respected Portuguese daily Publico on Monday published a chilling recreation of what it claimed police now believe may have been Madeleine's final few seconds of life.
"It was a moment. An unexpected event thwarted the prospect of desire. Madeleine cries as she wakes from her sleep. Her fear makes itself heard," the newspaper said. "She has to be silenced. Violence, suffocation probably. And unexpected death.
"All over in minutes. Now he had to get her out of there. Close the door. Flee as fast as he could.
"The theory this is the explanation behind Madeleine's McCann's disappearance, the night of May 3, was practically ruled out previously by police investigators.
"Now though, it's gaining strength in the centre of the investigation."
Private detectives hired by the McCann family are investigating a possible link between Madeline and a local girl that was abducted in 2004.Joana Cipriano, 8, disappeared from her home in the Algarve village of Figueria, 10 miles from Praia da Luz in September 2004. She has never been found.
Sad news on both the Baby Grace/Riley Sawyers and Madeline McCann cases on the same day.
Her mother Leonor, 36, and uncle, Joao, 35, were convicted of murder after Ms Cipriano confessed to the crime during police questioning.
She later retracted her confession, claiming it was forced during a beating by detectives, but was found guilty and sentenced to 16 years in jail. Her lawyers claim she is innocent and are appealing.
On Monday it emerged that Metodo 3 are looking into Joana's case to see if there is anything to link it with Madeleine's disappearance.
"There may be a connection," one of the Spanish detectives told Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias.
"We are following all leads," he said.
For Riley Sawyers' family, the hope that she was still alive has been extinguished. The details of how she died are not pretty.
For the family of Madeline McCann, there still burns a small spark of hope that she might still be alive.
Today's news did nothing but dampen that spark.
by Mondoreb
notes by Little Baby Ginn
[image: The Telegraph]
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
Good thing the British keep a stiff upper lip. Otherwise, they'd be laughing themselves silly at their schizophenic government's policies.
Talk about mixed signals.
The multiculturally-inclined are warning Brits not to offend anyone. Meanwhile, another division of the government puts "terror signs" on buildings and stadiums and pleads with citizens to "be vigilant".
More on the latest tool in the fight against terror from the Mirror's
Public Buildings Get Terror Signs:Posters warning people what to do in a bomb attack are to be put in shopping centres and airports, it was revealed yesterday.
How best to act in case of a nuclear attack? The Brown government could have saved a lot of pounds by just reprinting that old poster from the 60s and 70s: "In case of nuclear attack, put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.
Senior security sources want the signs where they think terrorists might strike. The "target sites" also include sports stadiums.
They would be similar to the fire procedure notices seen in most public buildings telling people what to do in a blaze.
But instead they would advise people how best to act if there was a bomb - or chemical, biological or nuclear attacks.
But government bureaucrats are serious about protecting the country agsinst terror. How? By giving the potential bomb victims a list of instructions?The emergency notices will have a list of instructions.
Be vigilant and report anything suspicious. Good advice it would appear.
These include to stay inside if a blast goes off outside a building, in case there is a second bomb in the area, and to stay away from windows, lifts and outer doors to avoid more blasts.
The chemical, biological and radiological attack posters warn people about the dangers of contamination and how to avoid spreading it.
They will also remind people the best defence against terrorism is vigilance and urge everyone to report anything suspicious.
But not too suspicious. The government is always on guard against potential backlash against Muslims. This occurs every time a British Muslim is caught with plans, bombs or both.
The signs the British people notice far more are those they see of increasing lawlessness and chaos They are warned against paying too close attention. Another name for the terror sign program may be familiar: CYA.
The government hopes the terror signs on buildings will make people feel safer.
Average Brits may disagree: last year nearly 400,000 fled England for safer, saner climes. The ones who left get their chance to start over in places where more common sense about terror prevails.
The ones left behind get terror signs.
by Mondoreb
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
Was this another case of "misadventure?" You be the judge.
From the Mirror:
A naked man died after pulling a condom filled with laughing gas over his head, an inquest was told yesterday.
Unemployed Gary Ashbrook, 31, was found dead in bed at his home in Newhaven, East Sussex.
Housemate Michael Young said: "He had been putting a condom on his head for sexual gratification. I'm sure his death was an accident."
Verdict: Misadventure.
Source - The Mirror - Man Killed By Condom
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 3 scene 2
By LBG
Image [Growabrain.com]
DBKP.com - Bigger, Better!.
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
On the evening of May 3rd, 2007, just a few days shy of her fourth birthday, little blond haired Madeleine McCann disappeared from her families' apartment while on holiday in the resort town of Algarve, Portugal.
Source: Wikipedia
Image [BringMadeleinehome]
Three year old blond haired Deonna Shipman was reported missing July 12th in Liverpool, New York. Deonna was last seen with her father, 46 year old Jeffery Shipman. Shipman suffers from depression and once told his wife that if he couldn't have his daughter, "no one will."
Source: America's Most Wanted
On August 27th two year old blond haired Karen Matusiewicz was reported missing along with her two sisters in Middletown, Delaware. They were purportedly abducted by their father, 40 year old David Matusiewicz.
Source: Missingkids.com
October 23rd two year old blond haired Celestia Langille and her sibling, Everett, were reported missing in Taylor, Pennsylvania. They were considered to be with their non-custodial father.
Source: Crimeweb.net 
On October 29th a fisherman on Galveston Bay in Texas found a storage container, inside the body of a little blond haired girl whom authorities named "Baby Grace".
Source: Houston Chronicle
Unable to identify "Baby Grace" authorities in Galveston turned their attention to cases of little girls missing from across the country, Deonna Shipman, Celestia Langille, and Karen Matusiewicz.
GALVESTON — Three little blonde girls with light-colored eyes from across the country have captured investigators’ attention.
They’ve all been reported missing in the past four months, seemingly abducted by noncustodial parents.
But most interesting to the investigators at the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office is that their height, age and weight are similar to the characteristics of the girl they’ve named Baby Grace, whose body washed ashore last week.
Source: Galveston Daily News
There was also the report that the Galveston authorities were looking into the case of the still missing Madeleine McCann.
Investigators haven’t formally ruled out the possibility that Baby Grace is Madeline McCann, the 4-year-old British girl who went missing from her parent’s Portuguese hotel room in May, Tuttoilmondo said. But he said despite an Internet effort to link the two, officers are fairly confident the child wasn’t McCann. Sheriff’s office detectives are collaborating with officials in Great Britain and Portugal to see if dental records and DNA tests can confirm the two cases are separate.
Source: Galveston Daily News
Four little lost blond girls still missing. One little girl found, her skull fractured, her body placed in a plastic storage container and left out on the waters of Galveston Bay. No word yet if Baby Grace is one of the four little lost girls. If she is there will still be the mystery of the welfare and whereabouts of the remaining three. Until then who Baby Grace is, who killed her and left her body adrift in Galveston Bay is still unknown. Madeleine has now been missing for over six months. Authorities in Portugal are no closer in solving her disappearance. No one knows where Deonna or Karen and her two sisters are as well as Celestia and her sibling, Everett.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of these little girls, to Baby Grace and the authorities who seek to put together the pieces of puzzle of who Baby Grace is and what happened to her.
By LBG
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Somebody call a doctor!
The head of the Muslim Council plays the victim card and increasingly, even the British are not feeling guilty.
Dr. Bari discusses the reasons for tensions in the Isles in the Telegraph:Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, the leader of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), thinks the Government is stoking the tension.
This is MAD magazine material. One wishes the interviewer--or someone in the Gordon government--would make the straightforward observation: the "disproportionate amount of discussion" will cease when the disproportionate amount of bombers blowing up British citizens ceases to be Muslim.
"There is a disproportionate amount of discussion surrounding us," he says. "The air is thick with suspicion and unease. It is not good for the Muslim community, it is not good for society."
Simple, huh?
Not for the doc.
He's like a growing number of his countrymen these days: fearing for Britain.
"Britain must", he warns, "beware of becoming like Nazi Germany."
He really did say that. Yes, he did. And ehe interview didn't mention anything about him doubling up in an abject fit of laughter while saying it.
As Robert Spencer put it in Jihad Watch:Nothing really surprising here. When have we ever seen a Muslim leader in the West say, "Yes, we have a serious problem in our community, and it's up to us to clean it up"?
Britain's possible march to a National Socialist future will halt the day Muslims assimilate to the culture of the country in which they've chosen to settle. It will also halt when the government and newspapers quit tiptoeing around the whining of these "community leaders" and issue some straight-talking statements.
Until then, the prescription for the U.K. and it's seething minorities is the same: assimilate with all due haste or perhaps you'd be better off elsewhere.
The British living in crime-ridden neighborhoods and wondering when the next terrorist bombing will occur will not agree with Dr. Bari. And Gordon Brown is slowly sensing that they don't agree with his government's handling of this matter, either.
Dr. Bari doesn't like the discussion? Start a new one; one that doesn't hold common sense up and call it "oppression". Start a discussion on why second- and third-generation Muslims are hot for jihad in England. It might also dampen his fear of Nazis.
If that discussion doesn't start soon, the British people might seek a second opinion.
by Mondoreb
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A serious examination of the connection between multiculturalism, societal suicide and rising anti-semitism in the United Kingdom is overdue.
Red Planets Cartoons steps up to the plate and delivers a case study.
Modern polling methods and the use of focus groups give their users instant information. But in the case of Great Britain, where issues of multiculturalism is concerned, the information can't be found.
The elites in the U.K. and all over Europe still practice the art of the tin ear on non-assimilated immigrants and unrest in their societies as a result. The information being has no trouble being digested in the streets--outside the halls of power.
In the coming showdown, one side will feature the ordinary citizens of many European countries. The other side will consist of smug political elites, the forces of multiculturalism and others eager to use the opportunity to increase their power.
A recent discussion in the blogosphere centers around the parties that have arisen to speak for the people in the streets: the native Europeans remaining in their countries while their countrymen flee to safer, more settled locales.
The discussion is about the purity of these parties and the unsavory elements associating themselves with the dissent. In many cases, those elements are Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist in nature. The ultra-nationalists are using the unrest to infiltrate legitimate political movements.
In that coming struggle, this scenario seems likely: the ordinary people, frightened by what they see and the lack of response by their elected leaders, will turn in desperation to any who promise help.
If history and current events are any guide, that help will come in jackboots. Neo-Nazis are on the rise in Europe. Truly, the people of Europe are caught between two bad situations.
If no middle ground is staked out by their leaders, there soon may not be any middle ground to claim. A serious examination of where multicultural obsession is leading Great Britain and Europe is overdue.
If the political elites won't conduct that examination, Neo-Nazis and others like them will.
by Mondoreb
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