IF IT WAS TRUE THEN...
The BBC reports that Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman is due to publish his report into the alleged involvement of a priest in a 1972 IRA bombing in County Londonderry. Nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed in the village of Claudy in one of the most controversial incidents of the Troubles.
I covered the topic here. It was such an atrocious act that even writing about it now angers me.
There was an alleged deal between the UK government and the Catholic Church not to arrest Father James Chesney. Fr Chesney was moved across the border to sanctuary as part of this deal and no prosecution ever took place. He died in 1980.Well then, three points to be made here;
1. The Roman Catholic Church needs to offer an apology to the people of Northern Ireland for this wicked sheltering of a mass killer in their ranks. Not just paedos, it appears.
2. Does the Roman Catholic Church have any other things it wants to tell us about those who served in it and the IRA? Was this the ONLY cleric who killed in his spare time?
3. If the British Government colluded THEN to protect Father Chesney, is it possible it is colluding NOW to protect Machine Gun McGuinness - the IRA leader alleged to have given the OK for this despicable operation? Surely not?
Wonder will the BBC and its legions of investigative journalists pursue any of those angles? Just wondering...
THE NASTY PARTY...
>> WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2010
The BBC leads the Radio 4 news this morning with the shock horror revelation that the June budget will hit poorest families hardest, or so alleges the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Yes, those Nasty Conservatives are back in power and instantly hurting the poor and disadvantaged, thank goodness we have the BBC to repeat this claim. Tomorrow. Tories eat their own babies? It strikes me that the BBC has become the official opposition to the Colaition, doing the work of Labour whilst it seeks to reconstruct itself.
Hannan Calls BBC Bias On Elected Police Chiefs
The excellent Dan Hannan MEP raises the issue of BBC bias in the issue of directly elected police chiefs on his Telegraph blog today:
There was a snotty, sneering, superior piece about elected sheriffs on Radio 4’s PM programme this evening. Inevitably, it included an interview with Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. Sheriff Joe admires the Republicans, thinks there is too much illegal immigration, is beastly to scoundrels and enjoys vast support. This, in Beebworld, makes him a one-man argument against democratic policing. Indeed, until now, BBC audiences might have been forgiven for believing that Mr Arpaio was the only sheriff in the United States.The tone of the BBC article and their hostility to elected police chiefs is understandable. The BBC and ACPO will defend each other because circling the wagons is the only way to prevent accountability being forced on them.
Today’s feature branched out very slightly, and interviewed one other sheriff candidate, a chap from rural Alabama who seemed to have been chosen because a) his accent would make British listeners think of Mississippi Burning and b) his name was Jimmy Ray Swindle.
You get the idea. Allow people to choose who directs their local police force and you are likely to get racists, half-wits or crooks – often with hilarious redneck names. Just in case we missed the message, the correspondent spelt it out with his closing words: “While popular elections may increase direct accountability, it [sic] doesn’t necessarily lead to better policing”.
Qualifications Not Required
Writing on her blog in 2006 Katia Moskvitch says "In about a month I will finally graduate and become a "real" journalist!"
How's that working out for her? Becoming a Russian reporter for the BBC was only the start - having demonstrated her scientific prowess with this Junior Wikipedia and GCSE textbook-fueled report on nuclear power we now witness her inevitable rise to:
BBC News - Geoengineering 'not a solution' to sea-level rise
By Katia Moskvitch
Science reporter, BBC News
BBC Science at its best: Believe in global warming? Good. Know anything about science? Okay, doesn't matter, you're in anyway. Can you start on Monday?
Hat-tip to Englishman's Castle
THE NIQAB EMPOWERS BUT DOES THE BBC DECEIVE?
>> TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2010
A Biased BBC reader writes...
Newsnight (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tkx6p/Newsnight_23_08_2010/ 13 minutes in) had a go at explaining how the niqab is an empowering choice made by Muslim women without pressure from husbands or brothers or indeed clerics. (Yes, seriously)
I watched it and then by coincidence was clearing out old newspaper clippings when I found one from the Sunday Times in 2006 about the teacher, Aishah Azmi, who wanted to wear the veil in class. She at first insisted it was her choice to wear it but later admitted that it was as a result of a fatwa from Yusuf Sacha, a Muslim cleric in West Yorkshire.
Newsnight only revealed the first name of one of the interviewees as Ramaisa(spelling?) and that she was a professional. Looking at the clipping Azmi looked the spit of 'Ramaisa'.....even though wearing the niqab she has distinctive eyes....her accent is also very, very similar to that on a youtube clip.
Her photo is available on the internet.
I wonder if I'm right....I'd lay money I am and that the BBC has used an Islamic campaigner and changed her name to present the image they want to.
Note also that these women started to wear the veil 8 years ago....2002...just after 2001, just as the 2 brothers at 'Forest Gate' started becoming more Islamic due to the influence of 9/11 as Bin Laden intended....a battle cry.....as Lawrence of Arabia recognised: 'Such people demanded a war-cry and banner from outside to combine them, and a stranger to lead them, one whose supremacy should be based on an idea: illogical, undeniable, discriminant: which instinct might accept and reason find no rational basis to reject or approve. This was the binding assumption of the Arab movement; it was this which gave it an effective, if imbecile unanimity.'
SCUM STATE...
B-BBC readers may recall a small furore over my tweet a few months ago that the Hate Flotilla should be stopped in it's tracks and "no messing this time". Gosh but the BBC were so VERY keen to hear what I meant by that with my political opponents claiming that this was "incendiary" and indeed verging on "bigoted" and "hate speech". I rather got the impression that the dear old BBC seemed to relish this dross, almost as if blackening my name was a good day out for them, perish the thought.
Anyhoooo...I'm waiting for the BBC to move on the news that the head of Amnesty's Finnish branch, Frank Johansson, has told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that he stands by his statement that Israel is a “scum state.”
"Scum State"? Oh dear - sounds a bit...incendiary to me, maybe even a tad bigoted and possibly "hate speech". Can't wait for those eager beavers at the BBCto get an Amnesty spokesman tomorrow morning on to ask him to condemn Johansson.
"Scum State" - the words of a senior Amnesty spokesman. Why is the BBC holding back????
(DOUBLE) BENDING HISTORY...?
Marie Stopes, the birth control pioneer, is an icon of BBC lefties, feminists and trendies, as this glowing tribute posted today on the BBC website makes clear. Reporter Howard Falcon-Lang shows his breatheless admiration for what he portrays as a saintly pioneer of Darwinian science (thousands of brownie points in the BBC lexicon)and ensuring that women should be "liberated" through sex manuals (another brownie point subject, especially for contemporary ones that denigrate men and are aimed at five-year-olds).
What Mr Falcon-Lang leaves out of his eulogy is a few other less savoury but rather more important facts about Ms Stopes. Like that her views on evolution led her to become an ardent admirer of Hitler, and that she wroteto him a month before the war broke out in 1939 telling him so. The reason? Well, she was a central figure in Anglo-US eugenics movement (along with leftie friends like George Bernard Shaw) and believed in every element of his views about race and selective breeding. This heroine of the left was as much a believer in racial superiority and getting rid of lesser races as most Nazis.
As with the inconvenient truths about Islam, the fanatics at the BBC airbrush out with wearying predictability the facts that don't fit with their systematic bending of history.
Update: Paulo states (below) that the version of the Stopes story he saw mentioned Hitler and that I must have only skim-read the story. Not true; that's never my approach. I've double-checked the edition I read when I posted the story and it definitely did not contain the reference to Hitler. Mmm...curious, that. This was the intro on the edition I have:
Marie Stopes (1880-1958) shook the world. She wrote a best-selling sex-manual for women and was a controversial birth control pioneer.
When Stopes set up her first birth control clinic in 1921, all assumed that she had trained in medicine.
Yet, bizarrely, she was an expert on fossil plants and coal.
So how did this young palaeontologist come to transform Western society and become one of the most infamous women in history?
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