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Lord Ahmed of Rotherham to face trial on child sex charges
17 April 2019Lord Ahmed of Rotherham spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and nationally
A member of the House of Lords will go on trial in December charged with historical sexual offences against children.
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham appeared for a brief hearing before a judge at Sheffield Crown Court.
He is charged with a serious sexual assault and indecent assault against a boy under the age of 11.
The 61-year-old is also charged with two counts of attempting to rape a girl who was under the age of 16.
The charges relate to dates between 1971 and 1974.
The peer, of East Bawtry Road, Rotherham, appeared under his name Nazir Ahmed along with two of his brothers.
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is a worthy representative of that name.
On Christmas Day 2007, he killed a guy with his Jaguar after sending text messages while driving. In 2013 he blamed a Jewish conspiracy for him having to go to jail for killing that guy with his Jaguar. Then in February of this year he got #MeTooed. And then in March he got charged with bisexually assaulting boys and girls under 13 in Rotherham while he was a teen.
Yep. He’s a Mirpuri Pakistani. They inevitably are.
All the “colorfullness” of Lord Ahmed aside, just the fact that there IS a Lord Ahmed tells us that There’s No England Now.
Tony Blair.
‘Lord Ahmed of Rotherham’.
Something strangely grating and discordant about that title. Rather like Ibn Kevin Smith Ali.
Off topic if I may:
iSteve this is something I hope you will get involved with:
On 3/20/19 Patick Cockburn posted a Brexit article that was so different in factual content inferences from the voluminous journalism on the subject that it seemed strangely unreal, He wrote: “How Brexit Could end 20 Years of Peace in Northern Ireland”.
I have been following Brexit from the perspective of a student of Western Civilization. I am intrigued with forces pull it apart and counter forces resisting. In all my reading Cockburn’s article was the first I came across suggesting a return to the “Irish Wars” (if you will). My respons after reading the article was essentiallu “HUH!” But, I have developed a great deal of respect for him based on years of readinghis work on the Middle East. So I accepted that something was going on in N. Irealand visa vis Brexit about which mainstream media was not reporting.
Today’s news demonstrates that Mr. Cockburn is as cogent an analysiss and report about British politics as he is of the Middle East.
“Journalist Killed By ‘New IRA’ During Riots In Northern Ireland”
ZeroHedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-19/journalist-killed-new-ira-during-riots-northern-ireland
Off Topic if I may:
iSteve this is something I hope you get involved with:
On 3/20/19 Patick Cockburn posted a Brexit article that was so different in factual content inferences from the voluminous journalism on the subject that it seemed strangely unreal, He wrote: “How Brexit Could end 20 Years of Peace in Northern Ireland”.
I have been following Brexit from the perspective of a student of Western Civilization. I am intrigued with forces pull it apart and counter forces resisting. In all my reading Cockburn’s article was the first I came across suggesting a return to the “Irish Wars” (if you will). My respons after reading the article was essentiallu “HUH!” But, I have developed a great deal of respect for him based on years of readinghis work on the Middle East. So I accepted that something was going on in N. Irealand visa vis Brexit about which mainstream media was not reporting.
Today’s news demonstrates that Mr. Cockburn is as cogent an analysiss and report about British politics as he is of the Middle East.
“Journalist Killed By ‘New IRA’ During Riots In Northern Ireland”
ZeroHedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-19/journalist-killed-new-ira-during-riots-northern-ireland
🤡🌎
Whoever doubts these serious allegations is an equally monstrous antisemite. I mean, he must be a major pedophile if he didn’t avoid that guy randomly walking across the highway.
Well that’s your problem right there.
Lord Ahmed’s Wiki entry shows him to be a supporter of the Palestinian cause, in that it’s been edited to show him in as bad a light as possible – not a terribly difficult task.
In other intersectional news, a gay lady journalist has been shot dead by the New Improved IRA. I somehow don’t think Messrs Corbyn and McDonnell will be having tea next week with ‘republican leaders’ this time round.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/19/lyra-mckee-a-proud-and-critical-northern-irish-journalist
Perhaps he was the high ranking protector of the Rotherham sex grooming gang?
So then it was not just a matter of local police afraid of being called racist in a general way, as we were given to believe.
Unless he's involved in backdoor shenanigans (nod-nod, wink-wink).
“bisexually assaulting boys and girls under 13 in Rotherham while he was a teen.” Search on “Romeo and Juliet exception” to statutory rape laws.
Sounds like Ahmed needs to get a personal demonstration of the ancient English practice of drawing and quartering.
He’s a Lord(very English), a Baron(very English), killed a guy with his Jag(very English car). Diddling boys and blaming jews cuts across English and Pakistani cultures but certainly more prevalent among the Pakistani so he doesn’t get any assimilation points for either. Accordingly he’s officially 3/5 assimilated into his host culture.
Naz Shah the Bradford LabourMP and Shadow Minister of State for Women and Equalities
The Vegas shooter’s brother was arrested on child porn charges within weeks. On the other hand …
It’s like being in a prison
There used to be a time when you had to be Christian to be knighted. Now it’s like joining freemasonry : as long as you pretend to worship some Supreme Architect, you’re in.
Okay Brits, lets see if you got any stones.
The English people must immediately obliterate and eliminate the corrupt and evil House of Dirtbag Lords. Most of the scumbag rats in the House of Dirtbag Lords don’t even have Norman ancestry. They are vile rancid money-grubbing globalizer filth who should be forcibly deported from England.
When I attain the presidency in the USA — by means to be determined — I will remove most of the foreigners from England and I will acquire much of the land owned by the current landholders. I’ll start with a 16,000 thousand acre estate and then use that as a base of operations to reclaim England for the English.
Theresa May and David Cameron and Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and the rest of the treasonous globalizer limey rodents better start to make preparations to be forcibly deported and permanently relocated to sub-Saharan Africa.
The answer to 1984 is 1066!
Isn’t this kind of behavior is to be expected as a reaction to the politics of exclusion? Isn’t it time to consider what we might have done to be more welcoming than merely to admit him to the House of Lords?
He could have worked something out if he hadn’t gone and said something about the Jews. That would be considered his unforgivable crime by people like Theresa May. I’m not kidding.
When They Send Their Best Sand People, Lord Ahmed Iz Yo Peerhoodz Future …
Whereas Lord Ahmed’s dress to success campaign praises this little red dress:
I am not defending this “Lord” in anyway, but 1971 was 48 years ago. He is now 61 so that means he is being charged with a sex crime committed when he was 13. Need more information here.
This guy obviously should never have been allowed to immigrate to the England
However, this also touches on another woke area: abolishing statute of limitations.
Here is a case where Harvard is getting sued for receiving pictures of slaves.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705382289/harvard-profits-from-photos-of-slaves-lawsuit-claims
In this case Harvard is being sued for something that wasn’t illegal and happened 100+ years ago.
So simply because something wasn’t a crime and happened before you were born doesn’t mean you can’t be sued over it in our woke world.
Dogs that don’t bark.
Referring to the linked Wikipedia article, Nazir Ahmed first achieved prominence in 1993 (age ~36), when (after 3 years as a the first Asian Labour Party councillor in Rotherham), he became the chair of the South Yorkshire Labour Party. Tony Blair made him a peer and gave him a seat in the House of Lords in 1998 (~41 years old).
In terms of the pre-1993 accomplishments that led to leadership within the Labour Party, Wikipedia has little to say, and the Times of London 2013 profile, less.
In terms of notable pre-1993 activities, there is only a reference to what the BBC disclosed: last month, Lord Ahmed, along with his two brothers, was charged with sexual assault of a 10-year-old (or younger) boy and attempted rape of a 15-year-old (or younger) girl, the alleged incidents taking place between 1971 and 1974.
Neither Wikipedia nor the BBC make reference to the ethnic identities of the children (white, Sikh, or Pakistani?), which is quite relevant in the context of the findings of the 2014 child sexual exploitation report.
Presumably, there are other meritorious, or “meritorious” activities that spurred the South Yorkshire Labour Party to catapult Lord Ahmed to his first position of political prominence.
It would be very interesting to know what those achievements were, again in the context of Rotherham. But I wouldn’t expect that many journalists would want to pursue that story. No telling what you’d find.
The Conservatives pushed for Sayeeda Warsi to become a baroness just because she is a Muslim woman that joined Conservative party.
Currently Baroness Warsi is on the media circuit accusing the Conservative party of being Islamophobic.
Indeed. Allthough it’s not clear that the nobility were really loyal to the actual nation of England anyway, even when they were an actual English (or at least European) nobility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazir_Ahmed,_Baron_Ahmed
Rather amusingly, some hacker has changed Ahmed’s political affiliation from non-affiliated to nonce-affiliated. For North Americans: nonce is a North of England term for sex offender, particularly a paedophile.
I guess this Lord Ahmed fellow just didn’t have the right connections.
Lord Janner inquiry: Senior police ‘influenced decisions’
I suppose that, in this most solemn of weeks, some may draw some tiny comfort from seeing that the Mother Country may be even more f—ed than we.
Referring to the linked Wikipedia article, Nazir Ahmed first achieved prominence in 1993 (age ~36), when (after 3 years as a the first Asian Labour Party councillor in Rotherham), he became the chair of the South Yorkshire Labour Party. Tony Blair made him a peer and gave him a seat in the House of Lords in 1998 (~41 years old).
In terms of the pre-1993 accomplishments that led to leadership within the Labour Party, Wikipedia has little to say, and the Times of London 2013 profile, less.
In terms of notable pre-1993 activities, there is only a reference to what the BBC disclosed: last month, Lord Ahmed, along with his two brothers, was charged with sexual assault of a 10-year-old (or younger) boy and attempted rape of a 15-year-old (or younger) girl, the alleged incidents taking place between 1971 and 1974.
Neither Wikipedia nor the BBC make reference to the ethnic identities of the children (white, Sikh, or Pakistani?), which is quite relevant in the context of the findings of the 2014 child sexual exploitation report.
Presumably, there are other meritorious, or "meritorious" activities that spurred the South Yorkshire Labour Party to catapult Lord Ahmed to his first position of political prominence.
It would be very interesting to know what those achievements were, again in the context of Rotherham. But I wouldn't expect that many journalists would want to pursue that story. No telling what you'd find.
The party affiliation in the Wikipedia entry is funny, and might sent Americans to the urban dictionary for the definition of a very British word.
Edit, also, what a scumbag, what a town, what a party, what a country, what a world, what an age. Christ.
No. He’s there. That’s their problem right there.
Referring to the linked Wikipedia article, Nazir Ahmed first achieved prominence in 1993 (age ~36), when (after 3 years as a the first Asian Labour Party councillor in Rotherham), he became the chair of the South Yorkshire Labour Party. Tony Blair made him a peer and gave him a seat in the House of Lords in 1998 (~41 years old).
In terms of the pre-1993 accomplishments that led to leadership within the Labour Party, Wikipedia has little to say, and the Times of London 2013 profile, less.
In terms of notable pre-1993 activities, there is only a reference to what the BBC disclosed: last month, Lord Ahmed, along with his two brothers, was charged with sexual assault of a 10-year-old (or younger) boy and attempted rape of a 15-year-old (or younger) girl, the alleged incidents taking place between 1971 and 1974.
Neither Wikipedia nor the BBC make reference to the ethnic identities of the children (white, Sikh, or Pakistani?), which is quite relevant in the context of the findings of the 2014 child sexual exploitation report.
Presumably, there are other meritorious, or "meritorious" activities that spurred the South Yorkshire Labour Party to catapult Lord Ahmed to his first position of political prominence.
It would be very interesting to know what those achievements were, again in the context of Rotherham. But I wouldn't expect that many journalists would want to pursue that story. No telling what you'd find.
From the inferences, grooming child prostitutes, participating/organizing/leading sex crimes against minors might be his pre-1993 accomplishments that led to his elevation as a local party leader. But that’s just speculation…
Agreed. How could there possibly be any decent evidence after all this time? Even the victims could hardly be relied upon to identify the right persons.
Of course, it’s possible that there was a police investigation at the time and new evidence has come to light. The article provides no details whatsoever.
This, as hilarious as that headline is, I fear that this is a sop to distract the hounds. Pay no attention to the hundreds of organized rapists who successfully corrupted the local police and destroyed thousands of victims, here’s one guy who played spin the bottle back when Louis Malle released Little Baby in normal theaters. I like this as much as I like entrusting Theresa May with an unambiguous task.
Happy Good Friday y’all, did you know that your right to vote has been taken away from you?
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To summarize, this bill means that participating states will hand over the entirety of their electoral college votes to whichever candidate wins the NATIONWIDE popular vote, regardless of how the local population voted. In my state we had no say in this and it was passed with utter media silence until it was too late.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/05/new-mexico-joins-national-compact-casting-electoral-college-votes/3374747002/
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Texans cast just under nine million votes in 2016. Trump's margin was eight hundred thousand.
Under my arithmetic, Texans would have cast 340 million votes, and Trump's margin would have been over thirty million. Unbeatable!
The national popular vote is a scary idea. The two main practical (leaving aside the "losing your vote" aspect which is even more important) I see are:
1. This is going to drive voter fraud in dark blue states (and cities) to new levels.
2. How long after the election will it take to get all of the votes counted?
It does make an interesting end run around the current system. It is amazing to see so many states eagerly signing away their individual power like this. That signifies two things to me.
1. The truly amazing power of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
2. The complete confidence Democrats have that they will be winning the national popular vote for the foreseeable future.
I foresee an epic battle in store for when they start getting close to 270 and a contested state makes a serious effort to do this.
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
All authority to appoint electors rests with the state legislature. The state legislature does not even have to allow the state's citizens to vote for how those electors are selected. It was after the War of Yankee Aggression before all states allowed citizens to vote for president.
Your state legislature probably allows you to vote. But they could pick who gets the state's votes themselves or they could allow the electors to be picked by a chicken crapping on numbered boxes.
This dude looks like an extra in the original version of “Gunga Din”. Not looking very regimental right now.
To think that not long ago most of these guys were wearing loincloths. As Dead White Male Cicero wrote: “O tempora! O mores!”
Referring to the linked Wikipedia article, Nazir Ahmed first achieved prominence in 1993 (age ~36), when (after 3 years as a the first Asian Labour Party councillor in Rotherham), he became the chair of the South Yorkshire Labour Party. Tony Blair made him a peer and gave him a seat in the House of Lords in 1998 (~41 years old).
In terms of the pre-1993 accomplishments that led to leadership within the Labour Party, Wikipedia has little to say, and the Times of London 2013 profile, less.
In terms of notable pre-1993 activities, there is only a reference to what the BBC disclosed: last month, Lord Ahmed, along with his two brothers, was charged with sexual assault of a 10-year-old (or younger) boy and attempted rape of a 15-year-old (or younger) girl, the alleged incidents taking place between 1971 and 1974.
Neither Wikipedia nor the BBC make reference to the ethnic identities of the children (white, Sikh, or Pakistani?), which is quite relevant in the context of the findings of the 2014 child sexual exploitation report.
Presumably, there are other meritorious, or "meritorious" activities that spurred the South Yorkshire Labour Party to catapult Lord Ahmed to his first position of political prominence.
It would be very interesting to know what those achievements were, again in the context of Rotherham. But I wouldn't expect that many journalists would want to pursue that story. No telling what you'd find.
No meritorious activities at all. British politicians give out peerages to Muslims all the time for votes from the community.
The Conservatives pushed for Sayeeda Warsi to become a baroness just because she is a Muslim woman that joined Conservative party.
Currently Baroness Warsi is on the media circuit accusing the Conservative party of being Islamophobic.
OK, but for Lord Ahmed, the peerage was in 1998, when he was 41. In 1993, he was an up-and-coming 36 year old whose accomplishments got him elevated to the chair of the Labour Party for South Yorkshire.
I'm wondering what those accomplishments were, exactly, that brought him acclaim from the other Labour Party councillors of South Yorkshire. There must have been something, even if Wikipedia and the Times of London are silent on this point. Maybe it's innocuous, like "being Asian, speaking to the camera in complete sentences, and having a pulse." Or, Rotherham being Rotherham, maybe there's more to the story.
It always strikes me as weird the way that Labour politicians and others socialists accept peerages, knighthoods or end up in the House of “Lords”. They profess animosity towards the aristocracy and the English class system, but as soon as the toffs invite them to join the club, they hop right on board.
It’s almost as if the only thing they really care about is personal wealth and power.
The House of Lords is a bizarre parody of the US Senate, but with a higher turnover rate.
They should put Chrissie Hynde in there. She has her faults, but this sort of thing isn’t one.
How are any of us supposed to be monarchists in the era of Lord Ahmed of Rotherham? How is anyone supposed to call himself a “conservative”?
At least it’s sort of equal justice. That’s why I couldn’t get very angry at the flimsy rape charges against Assange; that’s what all the other men in Sweden have to deal with.
It’s almost as if the only thing they really care about is personal wealth and power.
I agree but I don’t think it’s safe to assume such people have sold out. They will accept a seat in the Lords or a senior fellowship at the Harvard school of whatever and still work to destroy our institutions.
We collectively got into this mess because we thought the newcomers would cherish our culture simply because the first ones wore tweed and knew which fork to use.
Parliament has had a Jewish scandal within memory about simply buying the government and now they have a Muslim scandal about raping children and killing people. It seems that stereotypes are never more true than they are in Westminster.
I am entirely in favor of paying attention to all complaints that are, so to speak, “on behalf of the Jewish people,” provided we completely ignore all the confected manipulative hoaxes and media stunts.
Background, which you already know, but this guy is claiming he didn’t: some Irish, often the type you don’t want to start a political discussion within a dark pub, view their recent history as rhyming with the Palestinian situation. Nationalist murals have placed Irish and Sinn Fein colors next to Palestinian and PFLP flags. This is a long-established thing that goes out to actual organizational cooperation in the field and joint training exercises. It’s not a colored wristband. It’s not really something I would ask about in a pub I’d never before patronized.
https://extramuralactivity.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/06151-2018-09-12-supports-israel.jpg?w=636&h=477
http://britam.org/pics/clifford2a.jpg
https://extramuralactivity.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/2014-08-25-ballyduffflags.jpg
Oddly, the types in England that are most pro-white-displacement are also fervent royalists. My theory is that they think its stability camouflages the dramatic changes going on everywhere else so they can get away with more. “What do you mean all your neighbours are called Ahmed now? Look at the queen, she’s still there! You’re imagining things!”
Sadly, that sounds believable. Anyone who still believes in the imaginary monarchy would also believe the television when it tells them multiculturalism is working.
There is far more proof of the existence of God than of the existence of the Queen. I know Elizabeth Windsor and her family exists but then so do shopping mall Santas. That doesn't count.
I believe that there is another ‘Lord Ahmed’ sitting in Westminster’s House of Lords.
Like his namesake, this Ahmed owes his unwarranted elevation to the peerage to Tony Blair and New Labour, the urge to ‘diversify’ and bag the ethnic vote.
The other Lord Ahmed is a ‘television executive’ and a flamboyant open homosexual.
Peter Mandelson was ‘instrumental'(!) in ‘raising’ him to the peerage and ‘offering him a seat’ – as the Westminster vernacular goes in the Lords.
Enough said.
I’m not following your sarcasm. Are you for or against Lord Ahmed of Rotherham?
Honk honk
A Knoxville (TN) mosque has assured the public that the argument-born stabbing of a Muslim inside the mosque by a white man known to him was not a hate crime. How? Is this because the white guy was a congregant?
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/man-charged-after-stabbing-in-knoxville-mosque/
When I attain the presidency in the USA -- by means to be determined -- I will remove most of the foreigners from England and I will acquire much of the land owned by the current landholders. I'll start with a 16,000 thousand acre estate and then use that as a base of operations to reclaim England for the English.
Theresa May and David Cameron and Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and the rest of the treasonous globalizer limey rodents better start to make preparations to be forcibly deported and permanently relocated to sub-Saharan Africa.
The answer to 1984 is 1066!
The House of Lords is almost the only institution holding Britain back from being dumber than it is.
Per Gilbert & Sullivan (Iolanthe), the House of Lords, “Does nothing in particular, but does it very well!”
Anon said:
To summarize, this bill means that participating states will hand over the entirety of their electoral college votes to whichever candidate wins the NATIONWIDE popular vote, regardless of how the local population voted. In my state we had no say in this and it was passed with utter media silence until it was too late.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/05/new-mexico-joins-national-compact-casting-electoral-college-votes/3374747002/
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https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status
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Texas has 38 electors. Go back to the old way where each is chosen individually, as in West Virginia 100 years ago. (It led to a split slate in 1916.)
Texans cast just under nine million votes in 2016. Trump’s margin was eight hundred thousand.
Under my arithmetic, Texans would have cast 340 million votes, and Trump’s margin would have been over thirty million. Unbeatable!
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Hawaii
Illinois
Massachusetts
Maryland
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Rhode Island
Vermont
Washington
And the District of Columbia, which has three electoral votes.
>but those are all blue states anyway
It's spreading because of the media silence, it's proposed but not yet passed in more states, see map:
https://postimg.cc/gxXGLwcw
Texans cast just under nine million votes in 2016. Trump's margin was eight hundred thousand.
Under my arithmetic, Texans would have cast 340 million votes, and Trump's margin would have been over thirty million. Unbeatable!
Based Texas has not even heard a version of the bill proposed. Fallen Michigan has passed this bill through one of its venal houses but not signed it into un-Constitutional law. The states that have completely passed it are
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Hawaii
Illinois
Massachusetts
Maryland
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Rhode Island
Vermont
Washington
And the District of Columbia, which has three electoral votes.
>but those are all blue states anyway
It’s spreading because of the media silence, it’s proposed but not yet passed in more states, see map:
https://postimg.cc/gxXGLwcw
Anon said:
To summarize, this bill means that participating states will hand over the entirety of their electoral college votes to whichever candidate wins the NATIONWIDE popular vote, regardless of how the local population voted. In my state we had no say in this and it was passed with utter media silence until it was too late.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/05/new-mexico-joins-national-compact-casting-electoral-college-votes/3374747002/
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https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status
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Except there is nothing to enforce it.
Say Michigan narrowly votes Trump again while he loses the popular vote.
The actual electoral college members will still be our loyal party hacks as always, and they will be all carefully advised that the law is unenforceable and unconstitutional. So they all vote Trump.
What worries me about MI/PA/WI isn’t crap like that, it is the big swing back to the Dems in 2018 in all three of those states. Combined with someone like Biden or Bernie who are both more appealing than Hillary, and it’s game over.
The B’s will also probably choose someone stronger than Tim Kaine for VP, and likely from a GL state.
Florida is worrisome too. It was one swing state the Dems didn’t gain big on in 2018, but they also ran some pretty terrible candidates.
To win Trump needs to get moving on the border wall, interior deportations, blocking the Honduran invasion, and finally impose round 2 of China tariffs.
Trump’s nomination of Steve Moore and Herman Cain is what I said he should do in 2017: stop appointing hard money banksters and start putting in either political loyalists or private-sector-trade-union economists.
There is increasing evidence that Trump ordered Homeland Security to take executive action against illegal migration and they disobeyed him. So the housecleaning could be the beginning of getting that department in line. DoJ has been doing great under Jeff and and now Barr too, so this is a realistic hope.
I want to believe. The way the Democrats have been behaving, I don't want to have to wait for a Supreme Court decision (which I do expect would savage this parallel construction-like nonsense) or an ethical bureaucrat. Let these current Democrats take the right positions for an hour and it's Checkers Wednesday.
It took the better part of a century, but the Irish nationalist position on these matters has completely reversed. In the early to mid 20th century, Irish nationalists were generally sympathetic to the Zionist cause (they’re fighting the English!).
Of course, in 1900, Irish nationalists loved the Boers in South Africa. Large numbers volunteered for the Boer Army and John MacBride (later hanged for participation in 1916 Easter Rising) commanded a Brigade and held the rank of major.
FWIW, John’s son Sean MacBride was head of the IRA, an Irish Prime Minister, and was awarded the Nobel Peace and Lenin Prizes.
Those Irish who today admire the MacBrides are all strong Palestinian supporters.
In other intersectional news, a gay lady journalist has been shot dead by the New Improved IRA. I somehow don't think Messrs Corbyn and McDonnell will be having tea next week with 'republican leaders' this time round.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/19/lyra-mckee-a-proud-and-critical-northern-irish-journalist
But perhaps Nancy Pelosi has?
Anon said:
To summarize, this bill means that participating states will hand over the entirety of their electoral college votes to whichever candidate wins the NATIONWIDE popular vote, regardless of how the local population voted. In my state we had no say in this and it was passed with utter media silence until it was too late.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/05/new-mexico-joins-national-compact-casting-electoral-college-votes/3374747002/
Archive Version: https://archive.fo/zJwxf
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status
Archive Version: https://archive.fo/GqHto
Sounds like a good time for everyone to exercise their right to vote to send a message to whoever passed this (state legislators?).
The national popular vote is a scary idea. The two main practical (leaving aside the “losing your vote” aspect which is even more important) I see are:
1. This is going to drive voter fraud in dark blue states (and cities) to new levels.
2. How long after the election will it take to get all of the votes counted?
It does make an interesting end run around the current system. It is amazing to see so many states eagerly signing away their individual power like this. That signifies two things to me.
1. The truly amazing power of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
2. The complete confidence Democrats have that they will be winning the national popular vote for the foreseeable future.
I foresee an epic battle in store for when they start getting close to 270 and a contested state makes a serious effort to do this.
Something strangely grating and discordant about that title. Rather like Ibn Kevin Smith Ali.
Or President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
Background, which you already know, but this guy is claiming he didn't: some Irish, often the type you don't want to start a political discussion within a dark pub, view their recent history as rhyming with the Palestinian situation. Nationalist murals have placed Irish and Sinn Fein colors next to Palestinian and PFLP flags. This is a long-established thing that goes out to actual organizational cooperation in the field and joint training exercises. It's not a colored wristband. It's not really something I would ask about in a pub I'd never before patronized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0a3HWM_FM
The Greens have been pro-Pali and Orangemen pro-Israel since the 1960s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PUj0bU-JDw
>but surely the benevolent conspiracy will save us
I want to believe. The way the Democrats have been behaving, I don’t want to have to wait for a Supreme Court decision (which I do expect would savage this parallel construction-like nonsense) or an ethical bureaucrat. Let these current Democrats take the right positions for an hour and it’s Checkers Wednesday.
Something strangely grating and discordant about that title. Rather like Ibn Kevin Smith Ali.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
Oddly, the types in England that are most pro-white-displacement are also fervent royalists.
Sadly, that sounds believable. Anyone who still believes in the imaginary monarchy would also believe the television when it tells them multiculturalism is working.
There is far more proof of the existence of God than of the existence of the Queen. I know Elizabeth Windsor and her family exists but then so do shopping mall Santas. That doesn’t count.
I know Lord Ahmed, a wonderful brave man. He visited me in Palestine, he invited me to speak in the Parliament.
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/jews-and-the-empire/
I am positive he had been framed by these “victims” who remember what happened to them 40 years ago.
I would like if readers of Steve and Steve would show a bit less prejudice and a bit more of discernment. A man who risked all to defend Palestine deserves to be defended.
The British legal establishmemt will do nothing to stop rape happening now and will actually attack the victims, but it's all action for a case from forty years ago which must have no evidence or witnesses. What's even sadder is in the US it would never get this far (Omar is a freak occurance in our lower House). A Senator would never be a Palestine advocate.
Lmao. You had to be the “right kind” of Christian. I don’t think Liz the First knighted many papists.
That’s Barack Hussein Obama to you.
The Conservatives pushed for Sayeeda Warsi to become a baroness just because she is a Muslim woman that joined Conservative party.
Currently Baroness Warsi is on the media circuit accusing the Conservative party of being Islamophobic.
> No meritorious activities at all. British politicians give out peerages to Muslims all the time for votes from the community.
OK, but for Lord Ahmed, the peerage was in 1998, when he was 41. In 1993, he was an up-and-coming 36 year old whose accomplishments got him elevated to the chair of the Labour Party for South Yorkshire.
I’m wondering what those accomplishments were, exactly, that brought him acclaim from the other Labour Party councillors of South Yorkshire. There must have been something, even if Wikipedia and the Times of London are silent on this point. Maybe it’s innocuous, like “being Asian, speaking to the camera in complete sentences, and having a pulse.” Or, Rotherham being Rotherham, maybe there’s more to the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_peers_and_baronets
This document has a list of minorities who were members of the British House of Lords at the time of its publication. There were about 30 in 2014.
http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/LLN-2014-017/LLN-2014-017.pdf
I see Tiny D*ck has found a solution to his spelling and content problems.
Chase Bank shuts down ‘alt-right’ accounts
‘First we get silenced on social media … then I get debanked’
https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/major-u-s-bank-shuts-down-alt-right-accounts/
http://archive.is/jZeFT
Chase Bank is shutting down accounts of people and organizations with controversial political views, according to an undercover investigation by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.
O’Keefe’s latest probe found that Chase, without explanation, abruptly closed the account of a political activist that had existed for 15 years in good standing.
Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the Proud Boys activist group and owner of a website that sells provocative political merchandise, spoke to Chase representatives who could not explain why his business account was about to be terminated.
Tarrio recorded the calls and provided them to Project Veritas.
Chase banker Marcel Smith told Tarrio: “I see nothing that indicates any reason why the account should be closed. I don’t see any outstanding transactions or anything ridiculous.”
I don’t like the guy just off this post…but charging him with crimes from 1974 seems a bit excessive. For an American jury trial I would want to see a video taped confession, or a video of him raping a child on the original recording media
It got bad already by the day of Sir Elton and Sir Paul (McCartney, you know, the guy from that band called “Wings” or something?). Decent people, but should they have been knighted? Nah, WWKAHS?
Nice take on the matter, Mr. Walsh. I guess he should get 3/5 of a vote in Parliament, once he gets his ankle bracelet fitted, that is.
Rumor: Charlotte (NC) may have some Rumsfeldian democracy soon. Two years ago a BLM fake controversy over a police shooting was hyped into riots, with highways blocked and the National Guard called. Now (this past Monday) there has been another police shooting of an uncooperative black man.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article229265544.html
Anons claiming to be Charlotte residents (but possibly agents for glorious Rossiya) are talking about weapons, body armor, alternate routes, and monitoring police scanners. Then again, it’s been four days, maybe (hopefully) people will be calm.
One:
a lot of the clan based voting the UK Labour party relies on is organized by the local businessmen / politicians who run the grooming gangs (they pay the gangs to provide forced child prostitutes to service the 100s of illegal workers who work in their businesses).
However, this also touches on another woke area: abolishing statute of limitations.
Here is a case where Harvard is getting sued for receiving pictures of slaves.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705382289/harvard-profits-from-photos-of-slaves-lawsuit-claims
In this case Harvard is being sued for something that wasn't illegal and happened 100+ years ago.
So simply because something wasn't a crime and happened before you were born doesn't mean you can't be sued over it in our woke world.
Beautiful! Hope it leads to more lawsuits just like this against every liberal institution in the country. No one deserves it more. Maybe someone will sue NBC for Amos and Andy.
‘Lord Ahmed of Rotherham’ sounds like a Sacha Baron Cohen character.
Semi Off topic: I don’t recall this story getting much attention. What’s unusual is you have the black police chief stating explicitly: “All (12) of the victims (women and GIRLS) were white females”. I doubt anyone but the most willfully blind or dishonest leftist would argue this man chose his victims at random.
It leads to a question about the nature of what constitutes the “hate” in “hate crime”, a question I don’t need to explain on this blog the powers that be don’t want to have.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/04/us/south-carolina-spartanburg-suspect-rape-arrest/index.html
LOL the white prosecutor saying he doesn’t hate the man, he hates what he did. He must have high office aspirations.
Another disturbing interracial rape case. Wild guess: the jury was, uh, diverse.
https://mynbc15.com/news/local/questions-raised-after-pensacola-rape-suspect-acquitted-despite-video-evidence
Well he is a British citizen, so that means he’s British, and Brits have to live with him or they should leave if they don’t like it. He certainly shouldn’t be removed from Britain. If anything he should be put in a tax payer funded prison for the rest of his life where he can continue to partake in buggery and write Op-eds for The Mirror.
I’m sorry… I’m just trying out my civnat identity.
Can’t even muster up some stupidity of your own? Sad, Ducky, sad.
https://youtu.be/fZd5kbeVM40?t=715
Didn’t Naz Shah and Lord Ahmed appear on Nipsey Hussle’s last album?
I have never seen the exception apply if the victim is under the age of 13. Under 13 and it is usually a rape with a “child” rider that makes it worse.
Sounds like Ahmed needs to get a personal demonstration of the ancient English practice of drawing and quartering.
OK, but for Lord Ahmed, the peerage was in 1998, when he was 41. In 1993, he was an up-and-coming 36 year old whose accomplishments got him elevated to the chair of the Labour Party for South Yorkshire.
I'm wondering what those accomplishments were, exactly, that brought him acclaim from the other Labour Party councillors of South Yorkshire. There must have been something, even if Wikipedia and the Times of London are silent on this point. Maybe it's innocuous, like "being Asian, speaking to the camera in complete sentences, and having a pulse." Or, Rotherham being Rotherham, maybe there's more to the story.
Not sure if this is why, but it sure is ironic in a very disgusting way: “(Ahmed) has been on the board of several organisations, including a period as president of South Yorkshire Victim Support“.
Anon said:
To summarize, this bill means that participating states will hand over the entirety of their electoral college votes to whichever candidate wins the NATIONWIDE popular vote, regardless of how the local population voted. In my state we had no say in this and it was passed with utter media silence until it was too late.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/05/new-mexico-joins-national-compact-casting-electoral-college-votes/3374747002/
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https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status
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And it is entirely Constitutional.
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.”
All authority to appoint electors rests with the state legislature. The state legislature does not even have to allow the state’s citizens to vote for how those electors are selected. It was after the War of Yankee Aggression before all states allowed citizens to vote for president.
Your state legislature probably allows you to vote. But they could pick who gets the state’s votes themselves or they could allow the electors to be picked by a chicken crapping on numbered boxes.
That’s been the rumor, er, I mean rumour for years.
https://extramuralactivity.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/06151-2018-09-12-supports-israel.jpg?w=636&h=477
http://britam.org/pics/clifford2a.jpg
https://extramuralactivity.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/2014-08-25-ballyduffflags.jpg
It’s enough to make you want to drag out the banjo and play some Irish rebel music.
Isn’t there some kind of statute of limitations on sexual assault charges? Not that I care.
Also, just because you’re guilty does not mean the Jewish Conspiracy isn’t out to get you.
my guess is it's either part of the Jewish vs Muslim battle going on at the moment inside the UK Labour party or there's a lot worse to come (possibly both)
So then it was not just a matter of local police afraid of being called racist in a general way, as we were given to believe.
I don’t think the peerage has that kind of power.
Unless he’s involved in backdoor shenanigans (nod-nod, wink-wink).
Nor did her grandfather knight any dirty heretics.
Anon said:
To summarize, this bill means that participating states will hand over the entirety of their electoral college votes to whichever candidate wins the NATIONWIDE popular vote, regardless of how the local population voted. In my state we had no say in this and it was passed with utter media silence until it was too late.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/05/new-mexico-joins-national-compact-casting-electoral-college-votes/3374747002/
Archive Version: https://archive.fo/zJwxf
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status
Archive Version: https://archive.fo/GqHto
But they can’t “hand over” their electoral votes. Those votes are cast by electors. You may choose electors on the basis of their promise to abide by the national result, but really they’ll end up being party hacks like they are now.
Also, just because you're guilty does not mean the Jewish Conspiracy isn't out to get you.
California eliminated the statute of limitations on rape and sexual assault charges from 2017, I believe.
That is, there is no statute of limitations in CA for any rape or sexual assault occurring from 2017 forward.
I imagine they think they will be able to prevent Barron Trump from gaining the presidency!
Frankly, I find this incredible. In Ahmed's case, these supposed victims had decades to come forward and say what happened, but only now speak up? Is there a money pot dangling in front of them?
OT:
Beattie is a good follow, this is an interesting story – Mencken getting unpersoning treatment, the Examiner trying to virtue signal and failing miserably.
iSteve this is something I hope you will get involved with:
On 3/20/19 Patick Cockburn posted a Brexit article that was so different in factual content inferences from the voluminous journalism on the subject that it seemed strangely unreal, He wrote: “How Brexit Could end 20 Years of Peace in Northern Ireland”.
I have been following Brexit from the perspective of a student of Western Civilization. I am intrigued with forces pull it apart and counter forces resisting. In all my reading Cockburn’s article was the first I came across suggesting a return to the “Irish Wars” (if you will). My respons after reading the article was essentiallu “HUH!” But, I have developed a great deal of respect for him based on years of readinghis work on the Middle East. So I accepted that something was going on in N. Irealand visa vis Brexit about which mainstream media was not reporting.
Today’s news demonstrates that Mr. Cockburn is as cogent an analysiss and report about British politics as he is of the Middle East.
“Journalist Killed By 'New IRA' During Riots In Northern Ireland”
ZeroHedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-19/journalist-killed-new-ira-during-riots-northern-ireland
If Ireland remains in the EU and Britain leaves, this has implications for the Republic of Ireland/UK border; it will have to be hardened to control the flow of people somewhat more and the flow of goods much more. The line was drawn in the 1910-1925 time frame to both ensure a Protestant majority in Northern Ireland and to include as much population and territory as possible in Ulster as opposed to the semi-independent Irish Free State, which became the ambiguous “Eire” (No longer pledging allegiance to the Crown but not outright declaring independence) which in turn became the Republic (as of 1943.) It (the boundary) therefore runs through Catholic majority rural territory on both sides, a recipe for trouble if the border is hardened. Personally, I don’t understand why ireland or any country would want to stay in, or join, the EU which is a monstrosity. I agree with the sentiments of the British people concerning Brexit, and abhor the attitude of the Establishment, however, some thought must be given to the UK/Republic of Ireland border question. A joint Irish/British force guarding the border is one idea which I think should be considered.
It's the Irish Republic that would end up enforcing the border, because most goods are cheaper in the UK (i.e. the North). One in eight Irish shoppers made a trip North last year.
I'd prefer the Gardai to do it, because the brave bhoys are less likely to shoot them or blow them up.
Another Mirpuri. The pakis built a dam there and all the local dross moved to england. Would have better not to have bothered telling them.
Lol! Point taken.
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
All authority to appoint electors rests with the state legislature. The state legislature does not even have to allow the state's citizens to vote for how those electors are selected. It was after the War of Yankee Aggression before all states allowed citizens to vote for president.
Your state legislature probably allows you to vote. But they could pick who gets the state's votes themselves or they could allow the electors to be picked by a chicken crapping on numbered boxes.
There’s a provision on the Constitution that interstate compacts must be approved by Congress.
I don't support it. But then I would limit all voting to men 45 years old or older who are married, have kids, own property, and had a direct male ancestor in the British colonies before 1776. No one else should be allowed to vote or hold public office.
Also, just because you're guilty does not mean the Jewish Conspiracy isn't out to get you.
it is odd, people at his level are usually protected until they die
my guess is it’s either part of the Jewish vs Muslim battle going on at the moment inside the UK Labour party or there’s a lot worse to come (possibly both)
https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1119301194982227969?s=20
Beattie is a good follow, this is an interesting story - Mencken getting unpersoning treatment, the Examiner trying to virtue signal and failing miserably.
Mencken hasn’t been fully unpersoned, has he? There’s been plenty of talk about his antisemitism recently, but I thought he was still useful against “Puritanism,” religion generally, and bumpkins.
The idea that someone would have to leave their job because they attended a conference named after possibly the most famous journalist in U.S. history is amusing.
https://extramuralactivity.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/06151-2018-09-12-supports-israel.jpg?w=636&h=477
http://britam.org/pics/clifford2a.jpg
https://extramuralactivity.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/2014-08-25-ballyduffflags.jpg
Well of course, their religion is more Jewish than Christian and always has been.
'First we get silenced on social media … then I get debanked'
https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/major-u-s-bank-shuts-down-alt-right-accounts/
http://archive.is/jZeFT
Chase Bank is shutting down accounts of people and organizations with controversial political views, according to an undercover investigation by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.
O’Keefe’s latest probe found that Chase, without explanation, abruptly closed the account of a political activist that had existed for 15 years in good standing.
Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the Proud Boys activist group and owner of a website that sells provocative political merchandise, spoke to Chase representatives who could not explain why his business account was about to be terminated.
Tarrio recorded the calls and provided them to Project Veritas.
Chase banker Marcel Smith told Tarrio: “I see nothing that indicates any reason why the account should be closed. I don’t see any outstanding transactions or anything ridiculous.”
I wonder if it’s legal to close a bank account for no reason? I sure couldn’t evict a tenant who ran a little organization I disapproved of out of an office he rented.
No, it’s older than 2017. They extended the statute of limitations for 10 years, then 20, then more. conservatives were warning about this all along, that you’re going to get bogus accusations that can be neither proven nor dis-proven. At this point, all you need to prove is that you were alone with the accused 20 years ago and he has no defense. He could have molested or raped you and no witnesses or evidence are required.
Frankly, I find this incredible. In Ahmed’s case, these supposed victims had decades to come forward and say what happened, but only now speak up? Is there a money pot dangling in front of them?
If this guy gets any worse, we can accuse him of being an Irish priest.
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/jews-and-the-empire/
I am positive he had been framed by these "victims" who remember what happened to them 40 years ago.
I would like if readers of Steve and Steve would show a bit less prejudice and a bit more of discernment. A man who risked all to defend Palestine deserves to be defended.
Was he also, by any chance, the kindest & warmesst human being you have ever known?
‘…The 61-year-old is also charged with two counts of attempting to rape a girl who was under the age of 16.
The charges relate to dates between 1971 and 1974….’
So he was between thirteen and seventeen himself at the time of the alleged offenses?
And be prepared for years of wrangling over if this is a compact or not.
I don’t support it. But then I would limit all voting to men 45 years old or older who are married, have kids, own property, and had a direct male ancestor in the British colonies before 1776. No one else should be allowed to vote or hold public office.
iSteve this is something I hope you will get involved with:
On 3/20/19 Patick Cockburn posted a Brexit article that was so different in factual content inferences from the voluminous journalism on the subject that it seemed strangely unreal, He wrote: “How Brexit Could end 20 Years of Peace in Northern Ireland”.
I have been following Brexit from the perspective of a student of Western Civilization. I am intrigued with forces pull it apart and counter forces resisting. In all my reading Cockburn’s article was the first I came across suggesting a return to the “Irish Wars” (if you will). My respons after reading the article was essentiallu “HUH!” But, I have developed a great deal of respect for him based on years of readinghis work on the Middle East. So I accepted that something was going on in N. Irealand visa vis Brexit about which mainstream media was not reporting.
Today’s news demonstrates that Mr. Cockburn is as cogent an analysiss and report about British politics as he is of the Middle East.
“Journalist Killed By 'New IRA' During Riots In Northern Ireland”
ZeroHedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-19/journalist-killed-new-ira-during-riots-northern-ireland
If this starts up again, Ireland will be re-partitioned. Northern Ireland will become the Pale of Belfast.
OK, but for Lord Ahmed, the peerage was in 1998, when he was 41. In 1993, he was an up-and-coming 36 year old whose accomplishments got him elevated to the chair of the Labour Party for South Yorkshire.
I'm wondering what those accomplishments were, exactly, that brought him acclaim from the other Labour Party councillors of South Yorkshire. There must have been something, even if Wikipedia and the Times of London are silent on this point. Maybe it's innocuous, like "being Asian, speaking to the camera in complete sentences, and having a pulse." Or, Rotherham being Rotherham, maybe there's more to the story.
The British hand out life peerages to minorities, but as far as I can tell from google, have given no hereditary peerages to non-whites since the days of the British Raj.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_peers_and_baronets
This document has a list of minorities who were members of the British House of Lords at the time of its publication. There were about 30 in 2014.
http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/LLN-2014-017/LLN-2014-017.pdf
“Lord” Ahmed is one of at least three Muslims elevated by Tony Blair to the House of Lords all within the space of a month, and all in his first year as prime minister. The Labour Party of corse then threw the door wide open to massive levels of immigration unseen in over a millenium, if ever.
From 2001 (an auspicious year that) to 2011, the number of Muslims in the UK nearly doubled to almost 3 million, and ethnic Britons became a minority in their own capital city.
There’s a great scene in the movie “Dances With Wolves” that pretty much sums the whole situation up quite well. Kevin Costner’s character has chosen to be posted to the American frontier (i.e., Indian Country). When asked why he says ‘I’d like to see it before it disappears.’
The character he is speaking to looks at him like he’s an idiot, but in less than 50 years the frontier would indeed be gone.
That is exactly what is happening in England (and America and Canada and Sweden and Germany and Australia and so many other Western countries) right now. In 50 years we will, in any meaningful sense, be gone. The difference is that while Native Americans were overwhelmed through technological superiority, we have no excuse for we we are allowing it to happen to us.
If you haven’t seen England yet I suggest you do so. Before it’s gone.
Hear, hear. There is still a lot of rural beauty and there are many pretty towns full of historic buildings, open country with great walking trails, unspoilt coastline, woods, forests, stately homes, river gorges, scenic railways, lakes, mountains, rolling chalk hills, trout streams, and much more. And the same applies to the other countries in the Union. Wales is a special love of mine.
But there's great pressure on the countryside from housing development driven by population increase, which in turn comes from the immigration of hundreds of thousands of people who don't like us and have no sympathy with our culture. And perverse planning regulations encourage farmers to build vast blank-walled barns, usually in the middle of formerly unspoilt land.
Don't panic - yet - but come soon. And by the way, although some over-excited commentators depict it as a hell-hole, London is still a good place to visit. Away from the main tourist spots there are a lot of quiet urban villages with interesting old pubs and restaurants, and open spaces with good views, like Hampstead Heath.
There was some controversy when Queen Victoria knighted an actor way back in the 19th century.
He was assaulting Romeo and Juliet? Allegedly.
I think the Brits would be quite happy not to police the border, although given free movement in the EU there’d probably end up being a de facto border in the Irish Sea i.e. ferries from Ulster would get more passenger checks.
It’s the Irish Republic that would end up enforcing the border, because most goods are cheaper in the UK (i.e. the North). One in eight Irish shoppers made a trip North last year.
I’d prefer the Gardai to do it, because the brave bhoys are less likely to shoot them or blow them up.
The Anglican/Catholic split is relatively recent in a historical perspective.
https://extramuralactivity.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/06151-2018-09-12-supports-israel.jpg?w=636&h=477
http://britam.org/pics/clifford2a.jpg
https://extramuralactivity.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/2014-08-25-ballyduffflags.jpg
Brexit might require England, Scotland, and Wales to disassociate from Northern Ireland due to reconcile the border with the EU, Republic of Ireland.
I don't support it. But then I would limit all voting to men 45 years old or older who are married, have kids, own property, and had a direct male ancestor in the British colonies before 1776. No one else should be allowed to vote or hold public office.
You sure wouldn’t want my father or one of my brothers voting or holding office Other brother is OK.
So then it was not just a matter of local police afraid of being called racist in a general way, as we were given to believe.
Excellent question.
Background, which you already know, but this guy is claiming he didn't: some Irish, often the type you don't want to start a political discussion within a dark pub, view their recent history as rhyming with the Palestinian situation. Nationalist murals have placed Irish and Sinn Fein colors next to Palestinian and PFLP flags. This is a long-established thing that goes out to actual organizational cooperation in the field and joint training exercises. It's not a colored wristband. It's not really something I would ask about in a pub I'd never before patronized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0a3HWM_FM
What a disgusting specimen Tuvia Tenebom is.
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
All authority to appoint electors rests with the state legislature. The state legislature does not even have to allow the state's citizens to vote for how those electors are selected. It was after the War of Yankee Aggression before all states allowed citizens to vote for president.
Your state legislature probably allows you to vote. But they could pick who gets the state's votes themselves or they could allow the electors to be picked by a chicken crapping on numbered boxes.
So it’s Contitutional to confect a law that takes all the force out of Constitutional provisions and federal law. Sure it is. The Supremes don’t just go by quoting the Constitution, they work out in their minds how things would work. If this is allowed then you can defang US code cover to cover, you can gut the IRS. This would not survive a challenge.
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/jews-and-the-empire/
I am positive he had been framed by these "victims" who remember what happened to them 40 years ago.
I would like if readers of Steve and Steve would show a bit less prejudice and a bit more of discernment. A man who risked all to defend Palestine deserves to be defended.
Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are, “/pol/ was right again.”
The British legal establishmemt will do nothing to stop rape happening now and will actually attack the victims, but it’s all action for a case from forty years ago which must have no evidence or witnesses. What’s even sadder is in the US it would never get this far (Omar is a freak occurance in our lower House). A Senator would never be a Palestine advocate.
So, like…a kind of…”Three-Fifths Compromise?” Hmm, that sounds familiar. I cannot put my finger on it, but I’ve a vague recollection the term suggests something that doesn’t work out well in the end….
From 2001 (an auspicious year that) to 2011, the number of Muslims in the UK nearly doubled to almost 3 million, and ethnic Britons became a minority in their own capital city.
There's a great scene in the movie "Dances With Wolves" that pretty much sums the whole situation up quite well. Kevin Costner's character has chosen to be posted to the American frontier (i.e., Indian Country). When asked why he says 'I'd like to see it before it disappears.'
The character he is speaking to looks at him like he's an idiot, but in less than 50 years the frontier would indeed be gone.
That is exactly what is happening in England (and America and Canada and Sweden and Germany and Australia and so many other Western countries) right now. In 50 years we will, in any meaningful sense, be gone. The difference is that while Native Americans were overwhelmed through technological superiority, we have no excuse for we we are allowing it to happen to us.
If you haven't seen England yet I suggest you do so. Before it's gone.
“If you haven’t seen England yet I suggest you do so. Before it’s gone.”
Hear, hear. There is still a lot of rural beauty and there are many pretty towns full of historic buildings, open country with great walking trails, unspoilt coastline, woods, forests, stately homes, river gorges, scenic railways, lakes, mountains, rolling chalk hills, trout streams, and much more. And the same applies to the other countries in the Union. Wales is a special love of mine.
But there’s great pressure on the countryside from housing development driven by population increase, which in turn comes from the immigration of hundreds of thousands of people who don’t like us and have no sympathy with our culture. And perverse planning regulations encourage farmers to build vast blank-walled barns, usually in the middle of formerly unspoilt land.
Don’t panic – yet – but come soon. And by the way, although some over-excited commentators depict it as a hell-hole, London is still a good place to visit. Away from the main tourist spots there are a lot of quiet urban villages with interesting old pubs and restaurants, and open spaces with good views, like Hampstead Heath.