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TAKE IT EASY ON MUSLIM EXTREMISTS, POLICE TOLD



Police will be urged to turn a blind eye to provocative acts by Muslim protest groups

Saturday July 11,2009

POLICE will be ordered not to charge Muslim extremists in many hate crime cases – to stop them becoming more militant.


Guidelines will tell forces to press for conviction only in cases of clear-cut criminal acts.

Officers will be advised not to proceed when evidence of lawbreaking is “borderline”.

Examples of crimes to which a blind eye may be turned include incitement to religious hatred or viewing extremist material on the internet.

Last night critics warned that the move could mean Islamic radicals being give the freedom to encourage violence.

Some saw the move as a politically correct attempt to appease extremists who hate Britain.

It could even mean officers tolerating many activities of Muslim preachers of hate like the hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza.

Tory MP David Davies said: “This sounds like abject surrender. Everyone should be equal in the eyes of the law.

“It doesn’t matter whether someone is suspected of incitement to hatred or shoplifting – they should all face the same risk of prosecution.

“There should be no special favours or treatment for any section of the community.”

Officials insist there is no suggestion that people who have clearly committed offences will avoid prosecution.

Instead, they want to avoid alienating Muslims on the fringes of extremism by dragging them to court over petty allegations unlikely to result in conviction.

One fear is that some young Muslims are falling under the influence of extremist preachers while serving prison sentences or on remand awaiting trial.

A senior Whitehall official said the guidance was being drawn up as part of a drive to use persuasion rather than the criminal justice system to fight extremism.

He added: “The aim is to stop people being dragged into extremism.

“We are not talking about letting someone off who has committed a clear offence, but where it is unclear if an offence has been committed.

“For instance, where there has been incitement or someone has been on the internet there can be a grey area where there is some discretion and it would be more sensible to avoid going down the criminal route.”

The Government’s counter- terrorism board is drawing up the advice, which will be sent to all police forces, including the Metropolitan, later this year.

The move follows an updated Home Office counter-terrorism strategy announced earlier this year. The new strategy urges preventative measures to win round potential extremists instead of arrest and prosecution.

“We need to be able to provide support for individuals who are drawn into criminal activity,” the document says.

Councils, community groups and the Government’s youth justice board will be among organisations expected to identify those drawn into extremism or at risk.

Social workers, teachers and other professionals will be asked to try to work with some Muslim youths to reduce the likelihood of them turning into extremists.

But the new strategy is likely to reduce the likelihood of prosecutions against Islamist extremists protesting against troops.

In Luton earlier this year, protesters displayed placards bearing the words “butchers” and “animals” at a homecoming parade for 2nd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment. There were no arrests for incitement.

A Home Office spokesman said: “Preventing people becoming radicalised is a key priority for the Government. The police response needs to be proportionate to deal with crimes people commit while reducing the risk to public safety.”

The latest move represents a reversal of the policy introduced under Tony Blair in the wake of the terrorist attacks in London in 2005, when as Prime Minister he called for an overhaul of the criminal justice system to root out and prosecute extremists.

Past attempts to win over potential Muslim radicals have frequently run into controversy. Millions of pounds have been pledged to fund Muslim groups, drawing claims that they are receiving special treatment.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/113182/Take-it-easy-on-Muslim-extremists-police-told

NWN: If only Sheppard & Whittle were muslims ? Just what is the best we can say about 'our' Police now ?

Eight British troops killed TODAY in Afghanistan ...............


Breaking News 10:11pm UK, Friday July 10, 2009

The soldiers, from the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, were killed near Sangin, Helmand Province, this morning.

Next of kin have been informed.

A spokesman for Task Force Helmand said: "While there are no words to ease their loss, our heartfelt sympathies go to their families, friends and fellow soldiers at this very difficult time.
"Their deaths were not in vain," Lieutenant Colonel Nick Richardson added.

The news comes just hours after three others died in separate incidents in what has been one of the darkest days for British armed forces fighting in Afghanistan.

Fifteen soldiers have died in the last 10 days in southern Afghanistan, taking the number of British troops killed since the start of operations in October 2001 to 184.

This is more than the number who died in the bitter Iraq campaign, which lasted from March 2003 until the end of combat operations in April this year.

It comes on the same day that the bodies of another five British servicemen killed in Afghanistan over the past week were returned to the UK.

Eight of the most recent fatalities came during Operation Panchai Palang, or Panther's Claw, a major British assault against the Taliban in Helmand ahead of next month's Afghan elections.
Some 3,000 troops are involved in the operation, which began on June 19 and has seen fierce fighting and significant casualties on both sides.

The top US commander in the Middle East has warned of tough months ahead in the fight against the Taliban.

General David Petraeus, head of the US Central Command, described the battle in the south of the country as "the longest campaign".

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Afghanistan-More-British-Soldiers-Killed-Just-Hours-After-Three-Other-Troops-Confirmed-Dead/Article/200907215335584?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15335584_Afghanistan%3A_More_British_Soldiers_Killed_Just_Hours_After_Three_Other_Troops_Confirmed_Dead

NWN : Bring the troops home now ! How many more have to die ?

Heretical two jailed for 'race-hate' crimes

A Selby man who fled to the United States after waging a campaign of hate against Jews and other minority groups has been jailed.

Simon Sheppard, 52, was convicted, along with Stephen Whittle, 42, of a number of race hate crimes. He was sentenced to four years and 10 months, while Whittle was jailed for two years and four months at Leeds Crown Court.

The pair had two lengthly trials. During the first, in July last year, the pair skipped bail and fled to California, where they sought asylum claiming they were being persecuted for their right-wing views.
They were deported back to the UK last month.

The investigation into the men began when a complaint about a leaflet called "Tales of the Holohoax" was reported to the police in 2004 after it was pushed through the door of a Synagogue in Blackpool.

It was traced back to a post office box in Hull registered to Sheppard.
Police later found a website featuring racially inflammatory material. Other published material included grotesque images of murdered Jews alongside cartoons and articles ridiculing ethnic groups.

The pair were charged with publishing racially inflammatory material, distributing racially inflammatory material and possessing racially inflammatory material with a view to distribution.

Sheppard, of Brook Street, was found guilty of 16 offences and Whittle, of Avenham Lane, Preston, Lancashire, was found guilty of five.

Judge Rodney Grant said: "I can say without any hesitation that I have rarely seen, or had to read or consider, material which is so abusive and insulting ... towards racial groups within our own society."
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Selby-man-jailed-for-racehate.5449572.jp

Seventh soldier dies in grim fortnight for British forces in Afghanistan

The seventh British soldier to die in Afghanistan in just over two weeks has been killed in a helicopter incident.

The soldier was from 22 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers. He died on Monday while the helicopter was taking off in Zabul province in southern Afghanistan. Next of kin have been informed.

His death brings the number of British fatalities in Afghanistan since 2001 to 175, four short of the 179 deaths recorded during the six-year military campaign in Iraq. The vast majority of the deaths in Afghanistan have occurred since the operation in Helmand province began in the early summer of 2006.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6657102.ece

Review ordered as defence spending hits crisis level

The Government has ordered a full-scale strategic defence review to try to solve the biggest crisis in Armed Forces resources for decades.

Work is to begin immediately on the consultation process and the results will be published in a Green Paper early next year with the review to be launched after the general election.

The need for a full review has been obvious for some time and ministers and senior officials at the Ministry of Defence have been talking privately about the issue for months.

The last strategic defence review was held by the incoming Labour Government in 1998 when George Robertson, now Lord Roberston of Port Ellen, was Defence Secretary.

The move has been forced by an increasingly constrained defence budget. Real-term increases over recent years have failed to keep pace with the cost of equipment and the intensity of the operational commitments overseas, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Treasury has been forced to spend billions of pounds from the reserves to buy better armoured vehicles off the shelf when it became clear that the models sent to Afghanistan, such as the Snatch Land Rovers, were too vulnerable to Taleban roadside bombs.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6657875.ece

NWN: More troops are being killed , and the Government isn't spending enough to protect them.The Armed Forces are short of helicopters and specially armoured vehicles. This is what happens when Lib/Lab/Conservative send 'our' troops out to fight 'their' wars. Afghanistan, like Iraq , has got nothing to do with Britain.

It's time to pull our troops out - NOW !

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Nick Griffin’s Life is Unsafe as terrorist group on Facebook is planning to Kill Him

£1,000,000 to assasinate nick griffin

Leinad Keet Earlle

“everyone hates these fuckin BNP shitheads now as chance to join a cause worthing. if we get enough peeps, who knows….nick may just have a mysterios crash on the way to his country side house.”

Here’s a message that someone named Toby left

“Toby wrote at 11:19am on June 5th, 2009Bnp are racist scumthat should be wiped off the face of the earth…well, we’re the F’ing cleanex my friends!”

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=95765311230

Tory and Labour at loggerheads over who is the more gay- friendly party !

The Tory party and Labour have become locked in a battle as to who is the more gay friendly party as they vie to win over the UK's three million pink voters.
The war of words escalated ahead of the Gay Pride march in London today after a Cabinet minister accused the Tories of being 'plagued by homophobia'.

Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw claimed last night that many Conservative MPs were prejudiced against people in same- sex relationships.

Mr Bradshaw, one of the first MPs to enter into a civil partnership, spoke out ahead of the Gay Pride march in London today, as a poll suggested that increased numbers of the UK's three million 'pink voters' were turning to the Tories.

Row: Ben Bradshaw claimed some Tory MPs were still homophobic, but Conservative MP Alan Duncan has accused Labour of 'stirring up hatred'

'A deep strain of homophobia still exists on the Conservative benches,' he claimed, adding that David Cameron 'talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk' on the issue.

Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant, who is openly gay, said: 'I think if gays vote Tory, they will rue the day very soon.
'I don't think David Cameron is homophobic personally, but I don't trust him on these issues,' he added.
More...Cameron apologises to gays for Section 28: 'Law to ban promotion of homosexuality in schools was wrong'
First Glastonbury... now Sarah Brown is 'to march in Gay Pride parade'

But Shadow Leader of the Commons Alan Duncan accused his Labour counterparts of 'stirring up hatred' and using 'desperate' tactics to shore up flagging support.
He said: 'This is the last gasp of Labour's desperation.
'Bradshaw and Bryant are simply trying to stir up hatred and division from the last century and it's both unwarranted and unworthy. It's simply untrue.


Civil partnerships are allowed in Britain, but campaigners say neither Tories nor Labour support full gay marriage
'I believed we had reached the happy point where politics had been taken out of this altogether. But these remarks show that Labour is actually the nasty party.'
Mr Duncan is one of two gay Shadow Cabinet ministers, along with Nick Herbert.
A poll by Jake, a networking organisation for homosexual professionals, found 38 per cent of its members would vote Tory at the next election.
Apology: David Cameron and George Osborne leave the gay pride fundraiser last week where the Tory leader spoke
Labour came behind the Liberal Democrats on 20 per cent, even though 86.6 per cent of those surveyed admitted it was the party that had achieved the most for gay people.
Gordon Brown is due to greet organisers at a reception at No. 10 this morning, while his wife Sarah is expected to join the one million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender marchers at the rally in London later today.

This week Mr Cameron apologised for his party's backing of Section 28 in 1988 - a controversial law banning local authorities from portraying homosexuality in a positive light.
The first Tory leader to speak at a gay pride event, Mr Cameron said: 'I am sorry for Section 28. We got it wrong. It was an emotional issue. I hope you can forgive us.'
Ben Summerskill, chief executive of gay rights campaign Stonewall, described the apology as 'historic', adding that it would remove a major obstacle in the way of many of Britain's three million gay people voting Tory.

Harriet Harman, the Leader of the Commons, said that David Cameron’s apology was 25 years too late.

Labour MP Chris Smith was the first to come out publicly in 1984. Currently 11 MPs are openly gay - a figure that is expected to rise after the next election.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197146/Tory-Labour-loggerheads-gay-friendly-party.html

NWN: Have you noticed there seems to be a queue of the 'ruling elites' i.e. Chief Constables and here, the wife of the Prime Minister, making a public point about attending these 'activities' ?

I think some people ought to read 'The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons'.

BNP falling apart AGAIN !

Read about this on the NWN Forum.

The truth of Jenny Noble's demise, is now out. She had a crisis of conscience and complained to Griffin when she saw that every pound and penny paid into the 'Trafalgar Club' was instantly withdrawn and paid into a bank account owned by Nick and Jackie Griffin.

For more click here >>> http://www.nwn-forum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1558

LePen's daughter in National Front victory

Mainstream parties rush to prevent far-right from seizing control of council

REUTERS

Marine Le Pen casts her vote in Hénin-Beaumont on Sunday.

The French political establishment scrambled yesterday to try to block a significant electoral breakthrough by the daughter of the veteran far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.


Marine Le Pen, 40, and her running-mate topped the poll on Sunday night's municipal by-election in Hénin-Beaumont, an impoverished former coal mining town near Lens in the Pas de Calais. Having won nearly 40 per cent of the votes cast in the first round, the Le Pens' National Front party is in a strong position to capture its first town hall for seven years in the run-off ballot this Sunday. It would be the first time that the ultra-nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-European party has taken control of a town council in the depressed industrial areas of northern France. Victory would also strengthen Mme Le Pen's chances of inheriting, and attempting to modernise the NF, when her 81-year-old father retires in the next two to three years.

All other French parties, from the far left to President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre right, appealed yesterday for the creation of a "republican front" to block Mme Le Pen this weekend. They appealed to all voters to support the independent, left-wing candidate, Daniel Duquenne, who came second in the first round with just over 20 per cent of the votes.

In theory, this should be enough to defeat Mme Le Pen and prevent her local chieftain, Steeve Briois, from taking over the Hénin-Beaumont mayor's office. A scattering of warring left-wing candidates and the moderate right captured more than 55 per cent of the vote on Sunday.

However, attempts to create "republican fronts" against the NF have backfired in the past. The party is never happier than when it can argue that its moderate opponents are all the same, all "rotten" and in permanent alliance against "the people".

This argument will have especial resonance in Hénin-Beaumont, which has been run by left-wing parties for more than 70 years. The by-election became necessary when the Socialist mayor, Gérard Dalongeville, was arrested in April on multiple accusations of corruption and favouritism. It provided an electoral windfall for Mme Le Pen, a town councillor who has been nursing the local constituencies in national and European parliamentary elections.

The youngest and most political of Jean-Marie Le Pen's three daughters, she has the overt support of "papa" in the struggle to succeed him as the head of the NF. She is, however, detested by the hard-line, xenophobic and socially conservative wings of the party because she is regarded as too liberal (pro-abortion) and too willing to abandon the party's traditional, red-meat racial issues.

A victory in Hénin-Beaumont, where she has campaigned as an anti-EU, anti-globalist populist, would strengthen her case that the NF needs to change its tactics to survive. After reaching 16.9 per cent of the national vote in the first round of the 2002 presidential election, M. Le Pen slumped to 10 per cent in 2007 and his party took only 6.3 per cent in the European elections this month.

The NF captured four town halls in the south and in the Rhône Valley in 1996 and 1997 but lost them all over the next five years through defections, splits or electoral defeats. A victory in Hénin-Beaumont, a town of 26,000 people where the unemployment rate is 20 per cent, would justify Mme Le Pen's hunch that the future of the party lies in depressed former industrial areas, rather than its traditional hunting grounds in the deep south and east.

Hénin-Beaumont, whose last coal mine shut in 1970, closely resembles the areas of Lancashire and Yorkshire where the British National Party, which has links to the French National Front, scored well in the European elections.

The BNP won its first two seats in the 736-member parliament and far-right parties tasted success in countries including Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/le-pens-daughter-in-national-front-victory-1724476.html

NWN: There seems to be a competition in nationalist parties as to who can get rid of their racial policies the quickest. Will it be Nick Griffin or will it be Le Pen ?

British Homes for British Workers

Labour vows to put Britons at the front of council house queue in bid to win back voters from the far-Right

British-born families will jump ahead of immigrants and asylum seekers in the queue for council housing under far-reaching plans unveiled today.

Gordon Brown will tear up the rules in a bid to win back Labour's working class heartlands, where support has grown for the far-Right British National Party.

The 'British homes for British workers' plan, if it succeeds, will force councils to end the unfairness which sees immigrants with large families vault to the top of the council house list.

It is part of a list of measures that Mr Brown wants to use to relaunch his premiership.

Under the proposals, Labour hopes that council chiefs will be given more freedom to shape their own rules and told to give priority to those with local links, family ties, an existing job and claimants who have been longest on the waiting list.

But in a policy about-turn, the Prime Minister will stake his political future on a Blairite agenda which hands more rights to parents and patients along with promises to strip away top-down targets in favour of 'entitlements'.

Other ideas include:

Handing cancer patients a legal right to see a specialist within two weeks and get treatment within 18 weeks.

Ripping up Labour's aversion to private healthcare by using taxpayers' money to send them private if they can't get local treatment in time on the NHS.

Giving everyone over 40 a firm entitlement to a free health check-up.

Letting schools take parents of bullies and disruptive pupils to court.

Promising every pupil struggling with English or maths the right to personal private tuition.
Handing parents the power to rate their child's school and help decide its place in national league tables.

Mr Brown appears determined to fight the final year of his premiership with policies that ape Tony Blair's plans for 'choice' in the public services, which he conspired to block when he was Chancellor.

His plans will reignite the row with the Tories over spending, which is becoming the defining issue in the run-up to the next general election.

Lord Mandelson, who is now deputy prime minister in all but name, today insisted the policies were new and 'not reheated' and were aimed at helping the government 'live within our means'.

'Being fiscally responsible is an important principle of New Labour. The new policies being announced today by the Prime Minister reflect a reprioritising of expenditure both within and between departments,' he said.

He dodged a question about cuts in departmental budgets but went on to reveal the Government would not be publishing another spending review before the next election.

'I believe the Chancellor has made that judgment, yes,' he told the BBC. 'The spending period currently operating in Government stretches beyond the next election and therefore it is reasonable to review public spending at that time. We have decided to base our spending plans on reality rather than speculation.'

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196195/Labour-vows-Britons-council-house-queue-bid-win-voters-far-Right.html