Friday, February 02, 2018


ANOTHER ONE!  British cops charge an innocent man with rape

The Brits do sometimes lock up women who make blatantly false rape allegations. Let's hope they do that this time.  Some deterrent is needed

These are the bombshell messages that cleared a BT engineer accused of rape — including one in which the alleged victim wrote 'I'll see you in court'.

Other messages sent to 19-year-old Connor Fitzgerald - who said his life has been 'ruined' - read: 'If I can't have you, no-one can.' 

Charges were dropped only last week against the teenager when it emerged that the complainant, who is entitled to lifelong anonymity, had sent the texts threatening to destroy him.

One of the messages read: 'I'm not just going to mess up his life, I'm going to ruin it lol [laugh out loud].'

Another read: 'I'll see you in court'.

The case is the latest in a string of investigations or trials that have collapsed after police failed to disclose vital evidence to defence lawyers.

Mr Fitzgerald, from South Norwood, south London, now plans to sue the police and CPS.

He told The Sun: 'It's been heartbreaking. It felt like I was guilty until proven innocent. My life has been ruined. I'm scared to even leave the house because everyone thinks I'm a rapist.'

It comes after Scotland Yard apologised to Liam Allan for failing to provide vital text messages during the 22-year-old's rape trial, in which he was found not guilty.

Mr Fitzgerald was arrested in front of his mother and sister in November when police officers raided the family home. It followed a complaint that a woman made in June.

She alleged Mr Fitzgerald raped her after a drunken night out.

After the arrest he was denied bail and was instead held on remand at HMP High Down, which is a category B prison in Banstead, Surrey.

He was reprieved after Mr Fitzgerald's brother found some of the text messages from the woman on his iCloud account and informed the authorities.

It emerged last week that more than 900 criminal cases were dropped last year due to a failure by police or prosecutors to disclose evidence.

Thousands of rape prosecutions are being re-examined to check whether they have been affected by similar errors.

In London alone, 600 rape cases in the final stages before trial are being reassessed.

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Boris Johnson calls on Jeremy Corbyn to denounce 'hard left mob' for their 'disgraceful' attack on Churchill as MPs slam group who stormed 'Blighty' café inspired by Britain's wartime PM

Boris Johnson has today called on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to denounce the 24-year-old activist who stormed a Winston Churchill-inspired cafe shouting that the wartime prime minister was a 'racist'.

Halimo Hussein, 24, stormed the Blighty UK cafe in Finsbury Park, north London, and urged customers to boycott it for 'colonialism' and chanted 'Churchill was racist'.

The politics student, who is the co-president of Equality and Liberation at SOAS, University of London, later asked the owner to apologise to the local community.

Mr Johnson, 53, was outraged after watching a video of the 'hard-left mob' inside the cafe after they launched a 'disgraceful attack' on the UK's finest ever wartime leader'.   

The group read from scripts as they urged customers inside the packed cafe to boycott the Blighty UK

It comes as other Tory MPs branded Ms Hussein and the other eight campaigners as 'childish' and 'puerile'. 

Mr Johnson tweeted on Monday afternoon: 'Disgraceful attack on our finest ever wartime leader by hard-left mob. 'Jeremy Corbyn should denounce the actions of these 'activists' immediately.'   

Meanwhile, Jack Lopresti, the Conservative MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, said her behaviour was 'ignorant' and praised the 'courage and leadership' of Sir Winston.

He told MailOnline: 'This outrageous behaviour represents the hard left's politics which is of the most puerile and ignorant kind.

'Without the bravery, courage and leadership of Sir Winston Churchill, we would not be living in a free country where we have the freedom to express our personal views, regardless of how, in their case, ridiculous or offensive they are.' 

Michael Fabricant, Tory MP for Lichfield, told MailOnline: 'It is thanks to Winston Churchill that fools like these are able to hold their childish views and not be thrown into a concentration camp.

'They should think about this before the next time they behave like yobs.

'As the local MP, I hope Jeremy Corbyn will join me in condemning these actions.'

Police were called after the nine campaigners stormed the eatery, which has already been under attack from vandals and more Labour activists.

Owner Chris Evans, 47, reported the intruders, who are also leaving scathing online reviews slating the cafe, to police after his staff were left shaken.

He was also forced to remove a giant mural of Churchill after it was daubed with graffiti which branded the former prime minister 'scum' and and 'imperialist'.

Mr Evans said: 'If you cannot celebrate Britain and great Britons you are just erasing history. And if you cannot celebrate Churchill, you cannot celebrate anyone.' 

It has now emerged that the group's leader, Ms Hussein, is an avid Labour supporter and Jeremy Corbyn fan.

Ms Hussein, whose family fled the civil war in Somalia, could be heard shouting: 'We have nothing to lose but our chains.'

Ms Hussein, who who studied at William Morris Sixth Form in Hammersmith, west London, also uploaded a picture on her Facebook page which read: 'No Tories on my profile.'

She also posted a photograph of her with fellow Labour supporter, comedian Russell Brand, on her Facebook page.

In 2015, the student also said 'another five years of austerity, snaking the poor, students and migrants' after David Cameron was re-elected.

And when Corbyn was elected the leader of the Labour Party in 2015 she uploaded an image of the moment he found out he was in charge.

She wrote: 'Found my cover photo' and she added that the moment had 'made her day'.

Ms Hussein was elected Co-President of Equality and Liberation by her fellow students and said 'I F***ING WON' when the news was announced.

Outlining her policies and aims before the vote, she said: 'Decolonial politics should be at the forefront in pushing for institutional change.

'I want to fight against the exploitation of our tutors and cleaners, SOAS claims to be committed to living wage yet disregards workers rights.'

Ms Hussein also left a scathing online review of the cafe which read: 'Bland breakfasts and awful watery tasting coffee, toilets filthy.'

It also emerged that she has backed the anarchist online trend which uses the hashtag #RobThisEngland.

People on social media who use the hashtag are seen to be committed to not paying for services and goods.

In 2016 she wrote on Facebook: 'I will live and embody the spirit of #RobThisEngland from not paying back tuition fees to not paying for TV license.'


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The feminist war on attractive women heats up

Feminist shrieks describing as sexism the employment of attractive women is getting results

The Australian Grand Prix will be the first Formula One event without grid girls after the governing body decided they weren't 'appropriate or relevant' to the competition.

Grid girls have been a mainstay of each event for years, holding the driver's names and numbers above their car prior to races, lining the hallway to the podium for the successful racers and joining the winners on stage for the post-race festivities.

Jane Stewart, the managing director of Promotional Models Australia and former grid girl, told Daily Mail Australia F1 is the more 'glamorous' sector for models and she is 'concerned' for the ramifications the decision could have on the industry.

'The grid girls are the complete package when it comes to Formula One, it is very different to Superbikes or ring card girls, the way they're dressed is conservative,' Ms Stewart said.

'It is going to affect the sport, and they also need to take into account from a models perspective these girls choose to do the job.' 

Grid girls have been a mainstay of each event for years, holding the driver's names and numbers above their car prior to races, lining the hallway to the podium for the successful racers and joining the winners on stage for the post-race festivities

F1 decided grid girls have no place in its future, releasing a statement Wednesday saying they would no longer feature the models.

'While the practice of employing grid girls has been a staple of Formula 1 grands prix for decades, we feel this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms,' commercial operations managing director Sean Bratches said.

We don't believe the practice is appropriate or relevant to Formula 1 and its fans, old and new, across the world.' 

PMA employs 1,500 models across Australia and Ms Stewart said whenever the F1 grid girls come up she is inundated with applications. 'Every girl wants to be a grid girl, They love it. It's glamorous, it's renowned,' she told Daily Mail Australia.

'These jobs from a models perspective is in high demand. This is every model's dream, put them on the grid, it sets up their career.'    

The ongoing presences of the glamorous models had come under review in recent months, with the internationals darts competition making the decision to stop the use of women often in little clothing.

Formula One had recently moved away from the over-sexualisation of its grid girls and used models dressed in attire relevant to the culture of the race's nation.

The clothing of the grid girls at Melbourne's Australian Grand Prix saw a huge change in 2017,  with plunging necklines and black leather as seen in years gone by replaced by green and white playsuits.

Jane Stewart, the managing director of Promotional Models Australia and former grid girl, told Daily Mail Australia F1 is the more 'glamorous' sector for models and she is 'concerned' for the ramifications the decision could have on the industry.

'The grid girls are the complete package when it comes to Formula One, it is very different to Superbikes or ring card girls, the way they're dressed is conservative,' Ms Stewart said.

'It is going to affect the sport, and they also need to take into account from a models perspective these girls choose to do the job.'

PMA employs 1,500 models across Australia and Ms Stewart said whenever the F1 grid girls come up she is inundated with applications.

'Every girl wants to be a grid girl, They love it. It's glamorous, it's renowned,' she told Daily Mail Australia.

It is not known yet whether the other major motorsport codes will make the same decision.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted V8 Supercars and Australian Superbike Championship for comment.

 The Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, which begins on March 25, will be the first without the models.

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Why Professing Christ is Becoming a 'Hate Crime' in the West

What is the source of dhimmitude-which in many ways paralyzes responses to Islam-in the West?

First a definition: "dhimmitude," which was coined by the late Christian president of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, and popularized by writer Bat Ye'or, is a neologism based on the Arabic word, dhimmi-that is, a non-Muslim (generally a Christian or Jew) who falls under Islamic rule and, as a price for maintaining his religion, accepts an inferior social standing.  Simply put, the dhimmi must know his or her place and never rock the boat, including by seeking equal rights with Muslims.

While this is the classic and original manifestation of dhimmitude, a new and unprecedented form has arisen in the West: in the Muslim world, where might naturally makes right, Muslim majorities impose an inferior status onto non-Muslim minorities; but in the West, it is the West itself-or at least homegrown elements-that in certain fields impose an inferior status on a non-Muslim majority.

The question becomes, Why?  Why would a stronger civilization impose the unjust and supremacist stipulations of a weaker, hostile civilization, onto itself, and thereby paralyze itself against that same hostile civilization?

The answer is evident in the words of an ancient strategy: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."  The Western elements that are forever protecting and empowering Islam, and which operate under various names-"Liberals," "Leftists," "Marxists," "Progressives," "Social Justice Warriors," etc.-ultimately care little about Islam; rather, Islam is for them a tool to combat their real and much closer enemy: Christianity, and the mores and civilization borne of it and culminating in the West.

This is evident everywhere and in a myriad of forms.  Most recently, the British government "refused to say whether telling people about the Christian faith could be a hate crime."  Lord Pearson of Rannoch, a UKIP peer, asked the House of Lords if they would "confirm unequivocally that a Christian who says that Jesus is the only son of the one true God cannot be arrested for hate crime or any other offence, however much it may offend a Muslim or anyone of any other religion?"  Government spokesperson Baroness Vere of Norbiton responded by equivocating, saying that the legal definition of "hate crime" has been the same for the past 10 years.

But as Pearson explained in a later interview, the current definition of "hate crime" is subjective and revolves around whether the "victim" feels offended-thus leaving the door wide open to charging those who proclaim Christ and the Trinity of committing a hate crime, especially vis-à-vis Muslims, who adamantly object to the claim, as Pearson himself acknowledged: "Certainly the stricter Muslims do feel offended by Christianity and our belief in Jesus being the only Son of the one true God."

Pearson also pointed to a double standard in how "hate crimes" are applied: "You can say what you like about the Virgin Birth, the miracles and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, but as soon as you say ‘come on, is Islam really the religion of peace that it claims to be,' all hell breaks loose."

Indeed, and there is a reason for that: unlike Islam-which many Western elite feel no (direct) connection to and thus no threat therefrom-Christianity is the faith of their forefathers; it is ever present in their societies, judging them-and they hate it for it.  But rather than seek to suppress it openly, they operate indirectly, including by propping up always angry and easily "offended" Muslims against it, while they play the role of "impartial" secularist or progressive-people who will make themselves (meaning others, notably Christians) walk on eggshells lest the "feelings" of the "other" are hurt.

From here one understands why liberals and progressives who forever whine against any vestige of traditional ("oppressive") Christianity habitually make common cause with Islam-despite the latter's truly oppressive qualities.  Feminists denounce the Christian "patriarchy"-but say little against the Muslim treatment of women as chattel; homosexuals denounce Christian bakeries-but say little against the Muslim execution of homosexuals; multiculturalists denounce Christians who refuse to suppress their faith, including by banning Christmas phrases and images, to accommodate the religious sensibilities of Muslim minorities-but say little against the entrenched and open Muslim persecution of Christians.

From here one understands the ultimate reason why domineering Western elements are imposing the unjust and stifling effects of dhimmitude on and thus making the West weak and vulnerable:  "The enemy [Islam] of my enemy [Christianity] is my friend."  As this most recent example from the UK shows, Muslims are now even being used to make the central claim of Christianity-which the progressive elite especially despise hearing as it convicts their godless lifestyle-a "hate crime."

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Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the  incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.

American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of  other countries.  The only real difference, however, is how much power they have.  In America, their power is limited by democracy.  To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already  very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges.  They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did:  None.  So look to the colleges to see  what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way.  It would be a dictatorship.

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