http://www.nnseek.com/e/uk.current-events.general/ Posts for uk.current-events.general Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:33:45 PST http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/img/64.png 64 64 NNSeek http://www.nnseek.com/e/uk.current-events.general/the_metropolitan_police_echg_english_churches_housing_67729437t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/uk.current-events.general/the_metropolitan_police_echg_english_churches_housing_67729437t.html Hammersmith & Fulham Council and The Metropolitan Police is still
continuing. Does anyone know any good solicitors - who are willing to
take on a homophobic harassment case?

I do love these Internet doctors - who I have never met nor do they not
know about my personal circumstance or are willing to look into to
daily hate I have to experience - but are very willing to make a
prognosis beyond their ken.

The last time someone tried to get me certified under the mental health
act fail - because the evidence speaks for itself.

See: -
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1304/031nl0.jpg

I am dealing with a group of small-minded criminals who are using their
position of authority to make my life a living nightmare.

As part of the Hate campaign my tormentors have bugged my computer - I
do know what I am talking about - you can check my computer
qualifications with Microsoft.
See:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/transcripts
Transcript ID: 697024
Access Code: filmnight

My computer is not connected to the Internet and I don not have a phone
- but when I use the System Monitor Tool, I find Terminal Services is
running and it is showing network traffic - what my tormentors have
done, it to use a wireless connection to bug my computer.
See:
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5310/qff7.png

This all started when I found out this development should be to be a
Hostel for people with special need, I made a official complaint to the
Independent Housing Ombudsman and the Local Government Ombudsman -
which lead to a legal agreement that ECHG should move me and carry
several repairs on my flat - which ECHG had no intention of honouring
this agreement. ECHG and the Council decided to lie to both the
Independent Housing Ombudsman and the Local Government Ombudsman for
this to succeed they needed to have to the police to confirm their
lies. Instead of sorting out this mess, when I found out about what
they have been doing - my tormentors decided to run a hate campaign
against me.
See:
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http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/5599/024xc.jpg
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5210/035rr.png
And
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/7707/ab9rb.png
Also See:
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http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/722/02ky4.jpg
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7858/03zj1.jpg
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/6968/04mr5.jpg

My Tormentors have no intention in sorting out this mess, as at the
moment they are enjoying running their hate campaign too much.

When the whole truth comes out of what has happened - you will find
that I am a Law-abiding citizen and a veteran of the Falklands
Campaign.

This is what happens to the underclass in this country - because
these people know I do not have a voice - they know how the system
works and have got lying to a fine art.

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Britain fails to defend human rights law: Amnesty

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The Irish Times - Jan 16, 2007
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2007/0116/1168875280465.html

Britain failing to defend human rights law

Tony Blair's government deserves praise for the Northern peace process
but its wider human rights record has been found wanting.

by Se

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Brit Who Was Champion Hangman of All Time

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The Times of London - Jan 15, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2548900,00.html

The British expert who ensured a swift, clean death

by David Brown

Techniques perfected by the renowned British hangman Albert Pierrepoint
were said to have been studied by the Iraqi executioners.

If that is so, then the most prolific British executioner of the 20th
century would have been horrified by the decapitation of Barzan al-Tikriti.

Mr Pierrepoint was meticulous in his preparation to avoid such errors,
which were not uncommon before he was appointed chief hangman in 1946.

Most important was the art of judging the "drop" -- the length of rope
required to kill the condemned as quickly and painlessly as possible. Too
long and the force of the fall would decapitate the prisoner -- as happened
in Baghdad -- too short and it would slowly strangle him.

Mr Pierrepoint carefully recorded the height and weight of those to be
executed in a series of log books. The length of drop was calculated using
the 1913 Official Government Table of Drops.

However, the tables were only approximate and the hangman's skill lay in
sizing up the prisoner the night before, usually by looking through a
secret observation window. On one occasion Mr Pierrepoint disguised himself
as a warder to enter the cell to get a better look.

He had his own white hood to place over the head of those to be hanged, a
tape to measure the drop and a hanging rope of a quality superior to that
provided by the Home Office.

Mr Pierrepoint, who came from a family of executioners and learnt his trade
by practising on a dummy, expected to complete the execution within eight
to ten seconds of entering the execution chamber and was appalled by the
traditional drink enjoyed by some hangmen before the drop and by rowdy
behaviour in the execution room.

During his 25-year career, first as assistant and later chief hangman, he
dispatched 433 men and 17 women. They included William Joyce, the traitor
known as Lord Haw Haw, and Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in
Britain. He also served as an executioner after the Nuremberg trials,
hanging 200 Nazi war criminals -- 27 on one day.

After resigning in 1956 Pierrepoint wrote: "Capital punishment in my view
achieved nothing except revenge."

Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd.

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Bush Wanted Hundreds More UK Troops; Blair Said No.

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The Scotsman - Jan 14, 2007
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=69462007

Blair rejected Iraq troops plea

By BRIAN BRADY
WESTMINSTER EDITOR

TONY Blair formally rejected an American appeal to send hundreds more
British troops to Iraq to help with US "surge" tactics, Scotland on Sunday
can reveal.

The Prime Minister was confronted with the request for extra help to
supplement the thousands of American reinforcements on their way to
Baghdad, during conversations with President Bush before Christmas.

But he turned down the plea for around 2,000 extra British troops - to add
to the 7,200 already stationed around Basra - because it would conflict
with the government's hopes of scaling down Britain's Iraq presence in the
coming months.

Defence sources last night claimed Blair feared the political impact of
allowing a revival of the Iraq dispute to overshadow his final months in
office.

Details of the intense diplomatic dialogue continuing between coalition
powers over the future of Iraq emerged only days after Bush confirmed his
intention to send more than 20,000 extra US soldiers to Baghdad, bringing
American troop levels in Iraq to more than 150,000.

The White House claimed the "troop surge" was required to crush terrorists,
insurgents and rogue militias and help Iraq's security forces take control
of the country by November.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard, whose country has some 800 troops
stationed in Iraq, backed the Bush strategy. And although his aides
insisted Bush had not asked for more support on the ground, he refused to
rule out boosting Australia's presence in Iraq.

But Britain has so far remained reluctant to offer more than supportive
words. Instead, in the hours after Bush's troops plan was confirmed,
politicians were beset with strong rumours that the government hoped to cut
the British presence in Basra by 2,700 before May this year.

Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett praised the President's stance, but
insisted that Britain was "not in the same position" as that in which the
Americans found themselves in Baghdad.

The British-controlled zone, in Shi'ite southern Iraq, is regarded as less
dangerous than elsewhere.

"It is not our intention at the present time to send more troops," Beckett
said. "We are progressively handing over responsibility to Iraqi forces and
to Iraqi police. That is continuing."

But Ministry of Defence (MoD) insiders confirmed that the government had
staved off American pressure to "show willing" by boosting its commitment
to Iraq, and even to offer to send reinforcements to the US zone if
required.

"It is now common knowledge here that the Americans were asking for more,"
one source said. "It was nothing like their 20,000, but they were looking
for at least a proportionate increase, which would work out at something
like 1,000 - maybe even double that.

"Sending reinforcements to their zone was an outside bet, as they are very
territorial, but I understand it was floated as a possibility.

"But the whole thing ran completely against our plans for the deployment."

Opposition politicians maintained that the government should concentrate on
pacifying its own zone, and ultimately getting British troops home as early
as possible.

Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said he hoped "a substantial number"
of British troops could be withdrawn from Basra this year.

He added: "The most vital step now is for the Iraqi government to push
forward internal reconciliation and the build-up of its own effective armed
forces, so that they can take genuine control of their own affairs.

"Our troops are working very hard there but they may have reached the limit
of what they can do. The emphasis must be on training Iraqi troops so that
they can take over as soon as possible."

The lukewarm international backing for the President's proposals to salvage
his Iraq predicament was reflected in growing domestic opposition to the
plan.

In what is looking to be the most significant confrontation between
Congress and the White House over military policy since the Vietnam War,
leading members of the President's national security team found themselves
in pitched exchanges with politicians at special hearings on Iraq.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defence Secretary Robert Gates, and
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace sought to rally support a
day after Bush announced plans to send over 21,500 more US soldiers to
Iraq.

But the three had to fend off mocking challenges and scepticism over the
controversial decision in both the House and the Senate.

Bush yesterday challenged opponents of his new Iraq plan to put forward
their own strategy for stopping the violence in Baghdad.

"To oppose everything while proposing nothing is irresponsible," Bush said
in his weekly radio address.

Rice said recent US military raids against Iranians in Iraq were authorised
by Bush but do not mark a widening of the conflict.

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Independent Edit'l: Blair's Mendacious Attack

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The Independent - Jan 13, 2007
http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article2149715.ece

Lead editorial:

A mendacious attack by Mr Blair to cover up his fatal misjudgement

For all Mr Blair's personal salesmanship at the time, this began
as a highly unpopular war, and it remains one

The Prime Minister used the latest of his "legacy" speeches to share his
thoughts on war and peace. His argument was that this country's diplomatic
reach would be severely curtailed if we restricted ourselves to such
activities as peacekeeping, administering development aid and combating
climate change. Britain, he argued, must not fight shy of using military
force; for this country, "hard" power will remain as important as "soft".

Now there is room for different opinions about the balance between these
different applications of power - the debate Mr Blair belatedly called for.
But there was a second strand to his argument on which there is no room for
debate at all. In seeking to blame the media for what he sees as the growing
distaste of the British public for war, the Prime Minister is quite simply
wrong. If there is, as he suggested, a crisis of confidence in the benefits
of military force, it is one that he has brought upon himself.

Mr Blair observed, rightly, that modern technology makes it impossible for
governments to shield the civilian public from the unpleasant reality of war
- - as was possible, for instance, during the Falklands war or, to a lesser
extent, during the Gulf war. Government censorship, on political or taste
grounds, is now almost impossible. As we saw with the execution of Saddam
Hussein, eyewitnesses have the means to gainsay the sanitised version. The
truth, however gory and dishonourable, will out.

The ready availability of uncensored information, however, is not the only,
or even the chief, reason why the British public is less supportive of armed
intervention than once it was. Traditionally, the British public has had a
strong stomach for military ventures; as a nation, we retain a fierce pride
in the professionalism of our armed forces. The public was largely
supportive of Mr Blair's justified interventions in Sierra Leone and Kosovo.

There was support, too, for the initial deployment in Afghanistan. Contrary
to what Mr Blair said yesterday about the reluctance of opinion to
countenance long campaigns, "especially when the account it receives is via
a modern media driven by ... pictures", there was a broad understanding that
British troops would be in Afghanistan for the long haul.

No, what we are looking at now is not a general crisis of confidence in the
use of British military force, fostered by the sensation-driven modern
media; it is a particular crisis of confidence precipitated by the d

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British TV to Put Tony Blair on Trial

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Granma Daily - Jan 10, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art60.html

British TV to Put Tony Blair on Trial

LONDON.-- Britain's Channel 4 TV will soon broadcast a full length film
about the fictional retirement of Prime Minister Tony Blair and his trial
for war crimes.

The Trial of Tony Blair, which takes place in the year 2010, will be aired
on January 15, reported AP on Tuesday. In the film, Hillary Clinton is the
president of the United States and Gordon Brown is the British Prime
Minister.

Blair, played by Robert Lindsay, is obsessed with his legacy and hounded by
the continuous massacres in Iraq. He ends up at an International War Crimes
Tribunal.

Channel 4 sources said they hope their message is taken seriously.
Spokesperson Gavin Dawson commented: "Part of our mission is to question
authority; we want to provoke the audience to think about the world we live
in."

"It is a satirical drama that obviously raises questions [...] I don't
believe the Republicans (in the United States) will like it, but I think
they should see it first," said Dawson.


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Blair refuses to match US troop 'surge' in Iraq

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Daily Mail (UK) - Jan 9, 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=4272...


Blair refuses to match US troop 'surge' in Iraq

Blair will not send more troops to Iraq

Tony Blair will make clear this week that Britain is not going to send more
troops to Iraq even if the US pushes ahead with a "surge" of 20,000 extra
soldiers.

The Prime Minister will insist that the UK will stick to its own strategy
of gradually handing over to the Iraqi army, as it has been doing with
success in Basra and the south. [HUH? "Success?" and Basra IS in the
south.-NYTr]

President Bush will announce a new US policy for Iraq either tomorrow or
Wednesday. There are currently 140,000 US troops in Iraq, compared to 7,000
British servicemen and women. Mr Blair, in a rare distancing from White
House policy, has been keen for Britain to be seen to be acting under its
own initiative.

Chancellor Gordon Brown said yesterday that as Prime Minister he would
conduct a foreign policy based firmly on British interests.

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Blair Breaks His Silence on Saddam Lynching

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sent by Dave Muller (southnews)

Reuters - Jan 10, 2007 6:49AM (Australia)

Blair berates manner of Saddam's hanging

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has broken his silence on Saddam
Hussein's hanging, calling the manner of the execution "unacceptable"
and "wrong".

Other ministers in Blair's government have condemned the way Saddam was
hanged.

But Blair - US President George W Bush's main ally in the invasion of
Iraq - had not spoken out publicly until now, despite rising pressure to
do so.

"As everybody saw, the manner of the execution is unacceptable and it's
wrong, but we should ... not allow that ... then to lurch into a
position of forgetting the victims of Saddam, the people that he killed
deliberately," Blair told a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe.

A mobile phone video showed observers taunting Saddam with shouts of "Go
to hell" and chanting the name of a Shi'ite cleric before he fell
through a gallows trapdoor on December 30.

The images provoked international criticism and further inflamed
sectarian passions in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has
pledged an investigation.

Blair was on holiday at the Miami home of pop star Robin Gibb of the Bee
Gees when the execution took place.

A spokeswoman for Blair said on Sunday the prime minister believed the
manner of the execution was completely wrong but British media clamoured
for Blair to speak out personally.

"The manner of the execution of Saddam was completely wrong but that
should not blind us to the crimes he committed against his own people,
including the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, one
million casualties in the Iran-Iraq war and the use of chemical weapons
against his own people, wiping out entire villages ...," Blair said.

"So the crimes that Saddam committed do not excuse the manner of his
execution and the manner of his execution does not excuse the crimes,"
he said.

On Sunday, finance minister Gordon Brown condemned the way Saddam was
hanged as "deplorable".

Brown is expected to take over as premier when Blair steps down this
year after a decade in office and his intervention was seen by some
media as undermining Blair's authority.

The execution placed the British government in a difficult position as
it opposes the death penalty.

Bush has said Saddam's hanging should have been carried out in a "more
dignified way" but argued that he received justice, unlike his victims.

Brown faces a tough challenge stepping into Blair's shoes.

The Labour government has been undermined by the war in Iraq and is
beset by scandals, while the opposition Conservatives have revived their
fortunes under leader David Cameron.

) 2007 Reuters,

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