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Only On The BBC ...

>> TUESDAY, AUGUST 04, 2009

There's concern about the number of prisoners released early from prison on license who go on to kill or commit serious crime while still under 'supervision' :

Criminals on probation committed more than 1,000 serious crimes over the last two years, including nearly one murder a week in England and Wales.

The government figures give details of the 1,167 offences committed by people being supervised by probation officers.

The total included 94 murders, 105 rapes and 43 arson attacks.

Only a BBC producer could decide that the best person to interview on the topic is someone who believes the problem to be, not that criminals are being released early from prison, but that they were sent there in the first place. 

As I've pointed out before, Frances Crook of the Howard League For The Abolition of Punishment must be able to find her way to the Today studios blindfold by now.

HOW YOUR LICENSE TAX IS USED!

Few will doubt the calibre of person the BBC employs.

A BBC television presenter who left a teenager scarred for life after attacking him with a 3ft wooden pole is facing jail. Former Watchdog and Holiday reporter Ashley Blake admitted his career was in ruins after he tried to cover up the confrontation at a bar he owned. Blake, a host on regional news show Midlands Today, swung the patio umbrella pole above his head before striking Greg Jones in the face. Mr Jones was 17 at the time of the incident last January. It has emerged that Blake had held down several prestigious reporting posts at the BBC despite having a lengthy criminal record. He has previous convictions for theft, handling stolen goods and driving while disqualified.

Wow - the BBC must have a fascinating recruitment process that can facilitate such a person to obtain such a lucrative position.

TALKING PANTS

Lubna Hussein may be the first trouser martyr. She is getting lots of publicity from the BBC for her noble fight in trying to get the law in Northern Sudan changed to allow women to wear trousers lest they fall foul of Sharia and get 40 lashes for wearing such garments. Fair enough, I suppose, although I was intrigued by Ms Hussein's suggestion that "I want to change this law, because hitting is not human, and also it does not match with Sharia law," she told the BBC.

Would this be the same Sharia law that mandates the stoning to death of adulterers and hanging of homosexuals, for example? Might this be the same Sharia Law that mandates "honor killings", that advocates whipping for those who drink and gamble, that allows husbands to hit their wives; that commands that a thief's hand be cut off? Forty lashes for wearing trousers is harsh but then again when it comes to Sharia, violence and inhumanity are central. Trying to sanitise the sheer awfulness of Islamic law by reducing it to whether trousers may be worn or not seems trivial to me. Maybe Ms Hussein's employers - the UN - will issue a statement condemning this brutal system or maybe thinking that is just, well, pants?

SO, HOW IS THE STATE BAIL OUT DOING?

After the non-State subsidised Banks dared to release decent financial profits yesterday, look out here comes Northern Rock and a 3/4's of a BILLION loss. What a shrewd investment by Mr Brown to bail them out with our cash. The ghost of the oddly spoken Peston was on followed by Universal Vince who offered his opinion and we can only hope that universal McFall will also be given media time later today. I wonder if the Conservatives have any views on this issue? I guess not since the BBC seems to think them unworthy of interview. Now, back to Universal Vince and his contradictory economics.

IT'S TORTURE TUESDAY!

It really IS torture!

I refer to listening to the State Broadcaster continually providing a bully pulpit for those who would seek to blacken the reputation of our security forces and give succour to Islamic terrorists everywhere. On Today at 7.16am, Clive Baldwin of Human Rights Watch was given a free warm up canter to accuse the UK of being complicit in the torture of Islamic terror suspects. No opposing view, naturally. Then at 8.10, there is another ten minute session in which the accusations are once more dragged across the airwaves that the UK has allowed itself to co-operate with those who would treat Islamic terrorists badly. Were this not enough, the main Today portal has a picture of our favourite innocent Islamic Brit (via Ethiopia) Binyam Mohammed to illustrate how caring the BBC is on this subject. For an alternative non BBC approved take on Binyam the Brit - read this.

The Al Queda franchise director must be delighted at the interest the BBC pays in this subject and the fact that we fund this dhimmi media makes it all the more galling. I do not know IF the UK intelligence services were involved in any way in torturing Jihadists, I would hope they were since those who set out to kill us forfeit any mercy but I do know that Al Queda makes it clear that when captured, all good little Jihadi should whimper "torture" confident that our dhimmified media will promote their every claim. True to form, the BBC obliges.

THEY COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER...

Talk about men at work! I listened to this BBC report this morning concerning the police success in foiling an alleged terrorist attack in Australia. There is afour minute discussion about the aborted terror attack but one pesky aspect of it seems missing. Can you guess what it might be? Let's see. It concerns four "Australian nationals of Somali and Lebanese descent". OK. What else? Seems they were planning a suicide attack on an Australian military base. Mmm. OK. Anything other details? Well, it seems that the plot was uncovered when some of the alleged culprits had tried to get a fatwa to justify the attack. A fatwa, eh? So, to summarise a group with links to Somamlia/Lebanon plans a mass terror attack using a fatwa as justification for their planned killing frenzy. Hey - lucky they're not Muslims....whoops....

THOSE BAD JEWS

>> MONDAY, AUGUST 03, 2009

From first thing this morning until last thing this evening, the BBC has been running the story of how the international community, led by Obama's regime, has damned Israel for daring to evict "nine Palestinian families living in two houses in occupied East Jerusalem". The BBC breathlessly informs us that "Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 and later annexed it, a move not recognised by the world community. The removal of the 53 people was also condemned by the United Nations, the Palestinians and the UK government. "

So, what does the BBC not tell us? Well, Jerusalem has been the capital for the Jewish people for 3000 years. I suppose that is just a mere technical detail to those fine minds at the UN? Just as important is the fact that the Arab families concerned presented documents that appeared to show Arab ownership of the homes dating back to the Ottoman period. However, the court found that the documents had been forged, and that the documents presented by the Jewish plaintiffs were legitimate. The neighborhood in question is located near the 2,000-year-old gravesite of the Jewish sage Shimon HaTzaddik. The neighborhood was founded in the first half of the 20th century by Jewish families, but fell under Jordanian rule following the 1948 War of Independence and was quickly populated by Jordanian Arabs.

How about Jordan takes back its own? Something the BBC will never discuss...

HALF THE TRUTH, ALL THE TIME..

Anyone catch the BBC report on Brown's new citizenship points plan? Have a read of this, it is quite a lengthy report. All good? No. For example, the BBC is mute on the fact that immigrants are to be given tips on how to access benefits and other public services - and learning how to claim will even help them earn British citizenship!

"Mentors will be provided to coach those wanting to settle permanently in the UK while local authorities will be expected to lay on "orientation days" to provide advice on services, under plans unveiled on Monday. It is part of moves to introduce a points-based system for those wanting British citizenship and attendance of one of the days would provide additional points towards that goal. "

Wow - now that IS getting tough! It's remarkable to see the BBC spinning away for the truly wretched Phil Woolas but I suppose it's multiculti uber alles for the State Broadcaster all the time.

YOU CAN BANK ON BIAS..

The BBC are horrified that Barclays and HSBC have turned in some reasonably decent financials. Robert Peston has returned to haunt our screens again with his unique "insights" on the subject. It's interesting to note that those Banks which refused State bail-outs are performing well, whereas those which took the Brown danegeld are forecast to announce even more losses. Maybe the lesson we could draw from all of this is that State intervention is counter productive in controlling banking and setting priorities? Then again, the State should have no role in bankrolling the BBC. 

I note that one persistent BBC meme on this is that "Big Bonus culture" is an evil that must end. That's why the comrades at Broadcasting House are enraged that those within Barclay's that have helped bring in these results might get....gasp....big bonuses! Oh no. The horror, the horror. Why not just come out and just say that capitalism is wrong and that the State should determine what we are paid, for that is what lies at the bottom of all this jealousy.