The Human Rights Act: Crucifying Logic Again

JUST when you think things can't possibly get any sillier, you open a newspaper and read this. The Human Rights Act is still doing what it does best: shielding criminals from the fumbling, arthritic hand of British justice.
Update: Due to widespread anger over this charade, the Lord Chancellor, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, ever sensitive to public disparagement of the Act, vocally derided the decision of Derbyshire Constabulary not to publish pictures of the fugitives. Although Derbyshire force's Chief Constable David Coleman stubbornly refused to relent over his decision, the pictures were subsequently published by Greater Manchester police.
The Lord Chancellor's vociferous intervention is particularly interesting. Back in July 2006 he vigorously leapt to the defence of 1998's Human Rights Act against its numerous critics, claiming it had made 'no significant impact on criminal law, or on the Government's ability to fight crime.' He also asserted that the Act had been 'widely misrepresented and misunderstood' by the British public, although it looks like this misinterpretation has spread to the constabulary as well. If the Sudbury incident had not come to the public's attention it is questionable whether Baron Falconer would even have bothered to intervene in this manner. But whether or not the Lord Chancellor is sincere in his disapproval, the fact that the Act can be interpreted in this way proves it to be a damaging piece of legislation that needs a thorough overhaul or, better still, scrapping altogether.
PostScript: This shambles has lead to the exposure of this shambles. May the Saints preserve us.

Amnesty Call for Bristol's Illegal Immigrants

Warning: Do not read this article whilst quaffing. The author attempted it with a mouthful of tea and gave his browser a thorough dowsing. Of course it doesn't matter to the lobotomised lefties of Bristol Defend the Asylum Seekers that the reason some illegal immigrants are deemed to be in the country illicitly is precisely because they are criminals in their home countries and will do ghastly things to ethnic Brits and each other if they are given leave to remain here. Retarded is not a strong enough word for the deluded commies who comprise organisations like BDAS.

The EU Propaganda Offensive Begins

BACK in early December it was revealed that the government was gearing up for a taxpayer-funded pro-EU propaganda offensive; according to this story it would appear it has already begun. Conversely, shortly after news of our impending indoctrination a poll revealed that only 34 per cent of UK citizens think membership of the EU is a 'good thing'. However, thanks to our bizarre National Curriculum soon all our children will be singing the tri praises of homosexuality, Islam and the EU. Poland has never looked more attractive… (except, obviously, for its EU membership).

Thirty Facts you should know About the EU

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The Undoubted Financial Benefits of Unfettered Immigration

IT is consoling to know that at least all the death and mayhem caused by a minority of immigrants in the UK (see VPL passim) hasn't all been for naught. Apparently, new research by MigrationWatchUK suggests that migrant labour has resulted in a staggering 'gain of around 4p a week for each member of the native population…' Read more about this wallet-swelling windfall here. Just imagine: if the ruling government lets in millions more (and you know they will) this already substantial sum could rise to an incredible 5p per week! Dare we believe it could one day be so?

Kill Kenneth (Please, Somebody)

WHY has Kenneth R. Livingstone not been hung from a lamppost by enraged Londoners and his lifeless body pelted with refuse? As if praising Sinn Fein and attempting to bring their leaders into the capital at the height of the IRA bombing campaign in the UK back in the eighties and, more recently, inviting Islamist fruitcakes like Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi ('O God, destroy the Zionist, the American, and the British aggressors') into the country and publicly slandering Jews is not enough to confirm his perfidious and subversive nature, the unfortunate denizens of the capital may now have to foot the bill for this insanity.
So, then, just why have Londoners not strung the Red one up, or at the very least chased him, bloodied and whimpering, from office? Is it because the cities' population is largely comprised of retarded cosmopolitan fantasists who wander the reeking streets humming We Are the World whilst blithely ignoring the crack dealers and dodging the muggers and bullets? Just how are traitorous, Britain-hating communist swine like this voted into office? Was everybody too busy watching Emmerdale? Is it because 31.1 per cent of 'Londoners' weren't even born in the UK? Can someone please tell VPL what on earth is going on? And, finally, does anybody have Michael Stone's telephone number?

There May be Trouble Ahead...

VPL wishes a peaceful and prosperous New Year to one and all, and also a happy Eid al-Adha to our Muslim brother and sisters. Indeed, isn't ethnic and religious diversity great and wouldn't Britain be a much less colourful place without it?

The Cop Shop is Closed

ANYBODY who has had the misfortune to have been on the receiving end of what is today erroneously considered 'minor' criminality will know how utterly ineffective the police generally are in dealing with it. They simply lack the appropriate power and incentive to respond decisively to these lesser incidents, which although 'minor' are nevertheless extremely unpleasant for those innocents involved, and this helplessness plainly shows in the harried faces and grim attitudes of older officers who are able to recall a time when things were very different. Even if an arrest is made it is very unlikely the culprit, if charged, will receive a meaningful sentence. Legislation like 1984's Police and Criminal Evidence Act (admittedly modified somewhat by Labour's headline-grabbing 2005 Serious Organised Crime and Police Act) and, more recently, the Human Rights Act have rendered the police virtually impotent, and it is undoubtedly these restrictive enactments alongside the decline of a visible police presence upon our streets which have played a significant role in the upward trajectory of wanton criminality in the UK.
A clear impression of this physical absence was provided by the discovery that over the preceding 14 years a staggering 880 police stations have closed, with a mere 376 opening in their stead; the overall net loss being 504 by March 2006. Of those remaining stations less than six per cent are open 24 hours a day, many closing overnight. This desertion en masse by those charged with our protection from the depredations of the criminal classes has had a palpable effect on the confidence of both the law-abiding public and the criminal: the former is demoralised and afraid, whilst the latter is energised and emboldened. Only by maintaining a visible and proactive police presence on our streets supported by a genuinely punitive justice system is the canker of crime, which daily gnaws at the very fabric of our society, to be extricated.

Homosexual Rams Controversy

A FURORE has erupted over experiments into altering the sexual orientation of homosexual rams. The research, conducted at Oregon State University and Oregon Health and Science University respectively, drew fire from a veritable who's who of prominent homosexuals (though not, strangely, Hari) who fear that when perfected the treatment could be used by pregnant women to 'reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual'. The vehement verbal salvo unleashed by the pink ones and their chums (most of whom probably endorse stem cell research and abortion) against those conducting the experiments provided the world with further proof of the undemocratic nature of 'equal rights' campaigners, whose real agenda seems to be the elevation of minority groups and their various cultural nuances to a privileged and unassailable position above that of the reactionary and bigoted majority.
One response, literally vibrating off the newssheet with righteous indignation and which deserves repetition for its sheer irrationality, was made by one Udo Schuklenk, Professor of Bioethics at Glasgow Caledonian University, who posited:

'I don't believe the motives of the study are homophobic, but their work brings the terrible possibility of exploitation by homophobic societies. Imagine this technology in the hands of Iran, for example. It is typical of the US to ignore the global context in which this is taking place.'

Yes, Mr Schuklenk, because let us face it that there is surely nothing more desirable than being a homosexual in the Islamic Republic of Iran, except, perhaps, than being a Jew in Nazi Germany or a kulak (or anybody, really) in Bolshevik Russia. If we are to live in a society that allows parents to destroy their unborn baby simply because the unfortunate infant has a cleft palate, why on earth shouldn't they also be able to determine the child's sexuality?

DNA Database: A Challenge to our Liberty

IT was something of a shock to learn back in January 2006 that Britain has the largest DNA database of its citizens in the world, according to figures obtained from the Home Office. It was admitted that some 3 million people were on the UK National Criminal Intelligence DNA Database (around 5 per cent of the entire population), a figure expected to rise to 4.25 million, or one in 14, by 2008. What was most disconcerting, however, was the revelation that in 2005 113,000 people arrested but not charged with a crime were added to the database. The total in of such individuals back in January stood at 139,263, with a further 200,000 of those on the database being charged but not prosecuted.
However, revised figures quietly released on 11/12/06 have painted a rather different, and far more sinister, picture. The Home Office now claims that almost one in three of the 3,457,000 individuals genetically catalogued at present do not have a criminal conviction. In a parliamentary answer ministers admitted only 2,317,555 of those registered had a criminal conviction or caution registered on the Police National Computer. This startling admission arrived shortly after a survey of countries by the Privacy International Group chillingly described modern Britain as a society living under 'endemic surveillance,' comparable to that Russia of China, where there has been 'a systematic failure of legal mechanisms to protect us against the emerging surveillance society.'
Now, it must be asserted that issue is not being taken with DNA and its employment in the detection or prevention of crime; indeed these details have been used to good effect in the apprehension of countless murderers and rapists (in 2005 the crime detection rate was 26 per cent, rising to 40 percent where DNA evidence existed) and, of course, DNA is also a potent ally in the case for the reintroduction of capital Punishment, but despite this a national database which contains the genetic details of those wrongfully arrested is some cause for concern. Why not simply destroy the details of those 1,139,445 unfortunates who were not charged or found not guilty at trial? In November Professor Alec Jeffreys, a geneticist who played a leading role in pioneering the use of DNA profiling in the UK, voiced his concerns over the database, commenting: 'When the database was initially established it was for DNA from criminals so that if they reoffended they could be picked up. There are now hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent people populating that database.'
Prior to 2001 the police were only permitted to take samples of those actually charged with a crime and if they were subsequently found innocent or the charges were dropped the sample would be duly destroyed. However, in the aforementioned year the passing of the Criminal Justice and Police Act meant that such sensitive and private information did not have to be destroyed even in the event of a non-conviction, and in April 2004 the Criminal Justice Act came into force (being passed on 22/03/03, the second day of the Iraq War) expanding this so that anybody arrested could be swabbed and their details end up on the national database. This of course conforms precisely to the government's deluded presumption that everybody is a potential law-breaker (remember that according to socialist dogma criminality is the logical consequence of economic deprivation, and not of any moral failing) and that, accordingly, we should all be treated as suspects.
Even in the hands of a conscientious, responsible government the stockpiling of such sensitive personal information would be disconcerting enough, but in the hands of our current regime - one chiefly characterised by its almost complete lack of moral and ethical scruples and which displays an excessive interest in the private affairs of its citizens and with persecuting any who vocally oppose their creepy socialist orthodoxy - it is positively terrifying. Regarding the January figures Mr Philip Booth of NO2ID commented that, 'There are all sorts of ways in which this could be commercially usable. When government spending spirals out of control, what is to stop them from selling the data to recoup some of the losses?'

PostScript: When the figures were disclosed in January the revelations also opened another can of worms: that of race and criminality. Apparently the DNA profiles of around 37 per cent of all black males in the UK are on the database, compared to 13 per cent of Asian males and a mere 9 per cent of white males. Naturally the leftist media howled that this disproportion was the result of policing bias against minority ethnic groups, just as they habitually condemn those countless crime statistics released by the Home Office which document the ethnicity of offenders and which consistently expose the pronounced involvement of black men (and, to a lesser degree, Asian men) in criminal behaviour. As then Home Secretary Jack Straw said back in 2001: 'A higher proportion of black people commit street crime. That's a fact.' Get over it.

What the…?

SPEAKING on Radio 4's Today programme on 22/12/06 Metropolitan Police Commissar (sorry, Commissioner) Sir Ian Blair opined:

'The Government must in due course, and as quickly as it can, get greater control of the borders [of the UK]. I know that we stopped our monitoring of people leaving and coming into the country, and in the end we must have a better system than we have.'

The collective thud of listener's jaws hitting the ground apparently registered a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale.

The Farce of Mustaf Jama

THE tragic murder of WPc Sharon Beshenivsky by a multi-ethnic collective took on an unexpectedly farcical aspect when it emerged missing suspect Mustaf Jama fled the country, disguised as a veiled Muslim woman.

Our Criminal Young

A RECENT survey has revealed that around 25 per cent of 10 to 25-year-olds interviewed admitted (or more likely, knowing the amoral and imbecilic narcissism of modern British youth, boasted) to committing a crime in the preceding year. Whether it be the reintroduction of National Service, caning at school, and/or tougher policing and sentencing, this country seriously needs to take firm grasp of our burgeoning criminal class and the moronic pop-culture which glorifies criminality and give them both a damn good shaking, otherwise in a few generations the UK will end up with a problem akin to that which besets Godless hell-holes like South Africa (minus the lions and heat, obviously).

The Undoubted Benefits of Ethnic Diversity II

BUSINESS as usual in the land that commonsense forgot.