At a time when Tory corruption – their insistence on following their own interests rather than those of the nation – is under the spotlight, this Conservative councillor’s attempt at diversion is in particularly poor taste.
After taxi driver David Perry averted a tragedy at Liverpool Women’s Hospital by foiling a terrorist bomb plot, Cllr Paul Nickerson tried to use it to make a bad joke about former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
He posted a Photoshopped image of Mr Corbyn laying a Remembrance wreath by the burning taxi – presumably for the terrorist.
It was a callback to the days when Mr Corbyn, as Labour leader, had been falsely accused of sympathising with terrorists. There was absolutely no truth in these smears; the former Labour leader is a pacifist.
I’ve been blocked by this Tory councillor for saying this isn’t acceptable for someone in elected office. @councillorpaul_ is mocking events in Liverpool where innocent people could have been killed. Too many idiots like this in local government. pic.twitter.com/ZmM67dlUu0
There is truth in claims that Conservatives are corrupt.
Only yesterday – the same day Cllr Nickerson was posting his grotty attempt at ridicule, his Parliamentary colleagues were learning about the corruption practised by now-former MP Owen Paterson.
Approval of the standards commissioner’s recommendations with regard to this misbehaviour was only prevented by the intervention of filibuster king Christopher Chope.
Some might describe this as a further act of corruption.
Is Cllr Nickerson proud of MPs like these? Or was he so ashamed he tried to take some of the heat away from them? I ask merely for information.
UPDATE: Cllr Nickerson has subsequently apologised for the image. But something doesn’t ring true…
When people with integrity take responsibility for things, I don't preface it by shunting the blame onto others. Unless you're lying, of course, but that would be behaviour that would be unbecoming of a councillor, right? pic.twitter.com/aqkcLKBJRK
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It’s been all over the news but This Writer can’t let the quick thinking of taxi driver David Perry go unremarked here.
Mr Perry picked up 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen from an address in Rutland Avenue, Liverpool, shortly before 11am on Remembrance Sunday (November 14).
The passenger asked to be delivered to Liverpool Women’s Hospital, about 10 minutes’ drive away.
But it seems Mr Perry realised the man had brought what appeared to be a home-made bomb into the cab, so he locked the doors as the device was triggered.
It was after the explosion happened that the driver escaped from the vehicle.
🚨 | WATCH: Shocking moment David Perry’s taxi explodes, and he escapes leaving bomber to die
He’s lucky to be alive – but more importantly, it seems he prevented what could have been a terrorist atrocity.
The UK’s terror threat level has been raised to “severe” – the second most serious level – because of the attack, and the murder of MP Sir David Amess a few weeks ago.
And three men, aged 21, 26 and 29, have been arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Mr Perry was treated in hospital and has since been discharged.
His wife Rachel has posted a message of thanks on the social media to everybody who has expressed concern about her husband’s well-being:
Message from the wife of the taxi driver who miraculously survived the explosion at Liverpool Women's Hospital yesterday.
Why on earth would corporate media hacks doorstep a family in such circumstances? pic.twitter.com/QcG8hxKNtC
In fairness to the reporters who went on the knock at her address: I’ve had to do this after people have died, and it isn’t pleasant. Editors demand it because they think a comment from the family will sell their papers.
But they probably got what they deserved; I always hated doing that job, always apologised for imposing on people who I was sure wanted to be alone – and this consideration often led to an (exclusive) interview – ahead of the pushy types demanding a paragraph before their deadline.
Nowadays, the simple fact is that people involved in events like this are likely to tell us all about it on the social media – so why go around upsetting them?
Instead, This Site can simply agree with the sentiments expressed by the writer of the London Underground service information board, above. Do you?
Jake Davison: from the state of him – both mental and physical, the reason he couldnt get a girl seems clear.
What are the facts?
We know that 22-year-old Jake Davison took a gun (of some kind) and murdered his 51-year-old mother Maxine at their home in Biddick Drive, Keyham, Plymouth, last Thursday.
He then moved out into the street where he murdered three-year-old Sophie Martyn and her father Lee, 43.
Finally, he shot dead 59-year-old Stephen Washington and Kate Shepherd, 66, before turning his weapon on himself.
Also shot were a 53 year-old woman and a 33-year-old man who were sent to hospital with injuries that were not thought life-threatening.
Why?
It seems the authorities don’t know Davison’s stated reasons for the rampage – the worst mass killing on UK soil since 2010.
But he has left behind information about his political beliefs that provide us with a workable theory: he reckoned he was an “Incel”.
What on Earth is an Incel?
It’s a term apparently coined in the early part of this century to denote men who believe they are “INvoluntarily CELibate” because women are unfairly withholding sex from them.
Looking at their other beliefs, it becomes apparent that anybody withdrawing from contact with these crazies is likely to have had extremely good reasons for it!
Dr Louise Raw described the Incel philosophy in an article way back in 2018:
They specifically feel entitled to sex with women they perceive as the most attractive — “Stacys” — and resent both them and the “Chads” — romantically successful men — they date. When these are men of colour, the hatred steps up a gear.
This all seemed pitiful until it turned deadly.
Pitiful is right!
The fact is that pretty much every man on the planet might describe himself as “involuntarily celibate” at one time or another.
But – as a rule – we don’t blame women – as a group – for “withholding” sexual contact that we feel we have a right to have. It doesn’t work like that. Sex is the most intimate thing that two people can do, and that’s why most women won’t do it with any Tom, Harry or Dick that turns up. It is perfectly reasonable for them to want a little security in their choice first.
Nobody is “entitled” to it. In fact, if you believe in Darwin’s laws of natural selection, procreation is a privilege that should be awarded only to those who are most fit for the job. There’s evidence for that in the mating displays carried out by the males of other animal species in order to impress the females.
So, as an attitude to relationships, we can safely say that anybody holding this view is a wretched sexual and social inadequate who is just looking for a shortcut to sex that will hide their interpersonal failings.
But there’s another aspect to this: politics.
Incels, it seems, ally themselves with opposition to feminism. The idea is that an improvement in the lives of women must bring with it a worsening of men’s position, and this leads to hatred of women – also known as misogyny.
And misogyny has long been a pathway into support for fascism – in the same way that racism has been.
Incels are therefore most likely to be white men who are misogynistic racists; if they see women they consider attractive with men of colour, then the hatred steps up a notch.
This makes them easy to recruit into far-right organisations, and there is evidence that American alt-right groups have been doing just that.
Davison was certainly prime material for radicalisation of this kind. According to the Daily Beast,
Davison expressed his admiration for Donald Trump on Facebook and posted multiple self-pitying YouTube videos in which he identified himself as part of the incel community.
In one post from 2018, Davison shared a Trump quote and, when his friends ridiculed him in the comments, the suspect hit back: “You may not agree with his political views (I do) but he is different from the scum like Hillary or the people running our country like the neo-con sellout that is [then-British Prime Minister] Theresa May.”
Davison’s Facebook likes suggest he was obsessed with conservative U.S. politics. He followed the pages of Trump, all of his children, and several Trump businesses, as well as pages for the NRA, Fox News, Breitbart, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and one called “Ted Nugent for President.” In one comment, he said it was his dream to move to the States.
It has been noted that these associations were suppressed by domestic news organisations like the BBC in their early reports:
BBC bias just confuses me. I watched coverage of the Plymouth terrorist attack on both the BBC and ITV lunch time news shows. Only ITV detailed what’s so far know about his politics: right wing, gun loving, Trump supporting. Why would the BBC not want to mention this? pic.twitter.com/bfFt6uvz1J
Tricky. And these waters were muddied by the BBC (et all) failing to identify his political leanings…
No white man is ever called a terrorist unless he’s a socialist.
— Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️🌈 (@TheMendozaWoman) August 13, 2021
At first, Devon & Cornwall Police denied any link with terrorism:
I wrote 3 years ago about the danger of ‘Incels’. Many people have now died both sides of the Atlantic. But the police immediately said #Plymouth ‘wasn’t a terrorist incident’. Yes it was, & there will be more if these vicious radicalised misogynists aren’t stopped. https://t.co/srfDaIusAZ
UK law defines terrorism as: “Use or threat of action, both in and outside of the UK, designed to influence any international government organisation or to intimidate the public. It must also be for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.”
Personally, then, I don’t think Davison’s actions would constitute terrorism as defined here.
I don’t think he was trying to influence government or intimidate the public because firstly, he didn’t demand anything and secondly, he would need to be alive for any intimidation to work.
The idea of advancing Incel as a cause is self-defeating; even those who identify as members of that group don’t want to be in it!
And his lunatic right-wing ideology will have taken a public relations hammering as a result of his murders.
That being said, there is plenty of evidence to show that people who identify themselves as Incels need to be tracked down and challenged. Perhaps the easiest way to do this would be to accede to the wishes below, and define misogyny (and therefore also its counterpart, misandry) as a hate crime.
After the Plymouth Shooting & the shooters involvement with Incel will the government finally acknowledge misogyny as a hate crime?
We're way overdue a serious interrogation of how online-facilitated cultures which champion misogyny and masculine fantasies, to devastating effect, with loneliness and a loss of security. https://t.co/n93Z3tMcen
It seems to me that the expression of misogynistic opinions in the way carried out by the Incels indicates a desire to harm – and a lack of concern about the consequences – that crosses the line of acceptability.
It also seems reasonable to me that, if alerted to such expressions of opinion, police should challenge those responsible and, following on from that – if necessary – take appropriate steps to prevent acts of violence such as we saw last week in Plymouth.
It would be possible, also, to use such interviews as ways to research whether these people are indeed being radicalised by right-wing organisations for the purpose of committing terrorist crime – and to devise ways of combating such activity.
Connected with this, of course, is the fact that Davison owned a gun. His own social media posts and YouTube videos confessed that he was mentally unstable, and therefore it seems logical that he should not have been in possession of a firearm, yet his licence had been renewed only recently.
And it isn’t as though we haven’t been aware of the risks:
I've been calling for tighter gun controls for over 30 years.
* Ban storing guns at home * Renew gun licences annually * Mental health tests annually for gun owners * Public register of gun owners
Ah, but Chris Williamson is a socialist – and therefore might as well be a terrorist himself – right?
You see how these debates can be twisted by political dogma – especially when news organisations like the BBC distort or omit important facts?
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Tories call this terrorism: if enough people realise the threat of climate apocalypse caused by their policies, it might affect their profits.
On the weekend when the Doctor Who episode was about the dangers of ignoring climate change, the Conservative government is trying to ignore it.
Priti Patel defended the decision to order police to include climate activist group Extinction Rebellion on a list of extremist groups.
XR has threatened legal action after it was revealed it had been placed on a list of ideologies that should be reported to the authorities running the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme to prevent terrorism. Police now say that was an error.
Sir Peter Fahy, who was head of Prevent from 2010 to 2015, subsequently said such categorisations risked Prevent losing confidence from communities.
But Ms Patel said: “Everything has to be based and calibrated upon risk.
“They’re obviously a protest organisation. But everything has to be based in terms of risk to the public, security risks, security threats. That is based on information from the police, and various intelligence that we will receive
“That’s the proper thing to do. You develop your policy approach accordingly.”
So she thinks the “proper thing to do” is to marginalise a group that campaigns peacefully for our continued survival, lumping it in with terrorists.
Labour’s Keir Starmer took time off from kowtowing to the Board of Deputies of British Jews to say something sensible about this.
He said: “It’s completely wrong and counterproductive to describe Extinction Rebellion as an ‘extreme ideology’.
““Climate change is a real and present danger that requires an immediate policy response.”
I think Ms Patel has delivered that response.
The Tories don’t want to even acknowledge climate change because such a long-term threat gets in the way of their short-term profits.
It has been said that Boris Johnson has been warned off discussing climate change because that might jeopardise the trade deal he wants to do with Donald Trump – at a huge disadvantage to the UK.
I guess it’s nice to know who your national leader answers to.
His “scorched Earth” policy means he wants the whole planet to go beyond the point of no return and into climate apocalypse but – hey! – that’s what the UK voted for.
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According to official advice to the police, John, 92, who was arrested for protesting about climate change outside the Cabinet Office, should be treated in the same way as terrorists who want to blow it up.
I don’t think I can put this better than George Monbiot already has:
It's official: those of us who care about the living planet and the future of humanity are extremists, and should be reported to Prevent. Those who couldn't give a shit about other people and the rest of life on Earth are, of course, moderates. https://t.co/NIheRltCKr
I wonder if Greta Thunberg, who changed her Twitter handle to “Sharon” after a mistake by a contestant on Celebrity Mastermind, will now change it to “Terrorist Sharon” as a result of this deliberate directive?
Here’s The Guardian:
Counter-terrorism police placed the non-violent group Extinction Rebellion (XR) on a list of extremist ideologies that should be reported to the authorities running the Prevent programme, which aims to catch those at risk of committing atrocities, the Guardian has learned.
The climate emergency campaign group was included in a 12-page guide produced by counter-terrorism police in the south-east titled Safeguarding young people and adults from ideological extremism, which is marked as “official”.
XR featured alongside threats to national security such as neo-Nazi terrorism and a pro-terrorist Islamist group. The guide, aimed at police officers, government organisations and teachers who by law have to report concerns about radicalisation, was dated last November.
So there you have it.
As far as the UK’s police services are concerned, caring for the environment is an extremist ideology whose adherents should be treated as though they are terrorists.
Conversely, a lunatic who supports fracking, who supports the UK’s dependence on fossil fuels, and who (if reports are correct) has been ordered to ignore the reality of climate change if he wants a (toxic) trade deal with Donald Trump, is just fine and dandy to be our prime minister.
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How tasteless of the Tories to try to blame Labour for a tragedy that they caused.
People have died and both Home Secretary Priti Patel and prime minister Boris Johnson have tried to turn the atrocity into a political football.
For clarity: convicted terrorist Usman Khan murdered two people on London Bridge last Friday (November 29).
Both Mr Johnson (see the link below) and Ms Patel have tried to blame the fact that he was free and able to commit these murders on an early release policy which they say was imposed by a Labour government.
Both Mr Johnson and Ms Patel were telling an untruth.
Khan had been jailed under Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) – a policy imposed by Labour, but abolished by a Conservative Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, in 2012.
It is because the Conservatives abolished IPP that Khan was able to appeal against his sentence – successfully. It was reduced to 16 years, meaning he was released on licence in December 2018.
Labour had nothing to do with it.
If you read the article (link below), you’ll see that Mr Johnson changed tack – to claim that his government could not be responsible because he has only been prime minister for 120 days. What drivel.
The UK has been under continuous Conservative rule since 2010. The same Conservative government that repealed IPP is now being run by Mr Johnson. The only differences – of cabinet members and prime minister – are cosmetic.
So don’t let Boris Johnson and his Tory cronies make a fool of you.
His government was responsible for Usman Khan’s release and as leader, he should take responsibility for it.
The fact that he is desperately trying to slither out of it is more proof of his unsuitability to govern.
Make sure he doesn’t get the chance to cause any more harm. Vote Labour on December 12.
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Bosses at right-wing radio station LBC may well be regretting their decision to misrepresent a comment by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on the death of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Here’s the headline – and the relevant part of the interview:
Jeremy Corbyn told LBC that the "right thing to do" would have been to arrest IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after he was killed in a US operation. pic.twitter.com/mohDt3IIbC
It is clear that Mr Corbyn did not say arresting al-Baghdadi was “the right thing to do” – he said he did not know the circumstances of what happened.
Speaking in terms of international law, he said if it were possible to arrest such people, then that would be the right thing – but that is not the same as what LBC suggested.
And the public were on the case.
Jerry Tresman pointed out: “He didn’t say that at all. Shows how the lazy are influenced by one-line false headlines, when the video of what is actually said is in front of them. He said “if possible they should be arrested” and was referring mainly to previous situations where they were executed.”
Here‘s Andy Mills: “Play it back then change your disingenuous headline….it may not appeal to some of your sheeple but at least you could call it journalism!”
Paul Cracknell: “‘If it would have been possible to arrest him, I don’t know the details of the circumstances at the time.’ Those were his words. You make it sound like he’s saying he should have been arrested after he was killed. Muppets.”
‘GenuinelyInterested’: “LBC are being a little bit economical with the truth. What Corbyn actually said was (and I paraphrase), if (double underlined) it were possible to arrest Baghdadi, then we should have done so, so that he could stand trial in the Hague just like Milosevic. What’s wrong about that?”
Even Matthew Collins: “I’m no Corbyn fan but he actually said (twice) ‘if it were possible to arrest him that would have been preferable’. He did not say ‘he shouldn’t have been killed’ or ‘he should have been arrested’.”
At the time of writing, LBC doesn’t appear to have changed its line. Instead, it appears to have doubled-down on it:
Speaking to LBC, Jeremy Corbyn addressed the death of ISIS leader Abu al Baghdadi, stating that, if possible, arresting him 'would have been the right thing to do'. @darrenadam asks: Should terrorist leaders be executed by troops or put on trial by civilians? pic.twitter.com/Dv4Rg6B0sE
Perhaps there should be stronger regulation of the press, along the lines proposed by the Leveson Inquiry.
But will you vote Labour into office, to enact it?
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A few days ago, Jeremy Corbyn came under attack when Jo Swinson claimed he would refuse to pull the trigger in a nuclear war.
They’re currently reporting that he’s a bloodthirsty terrorist sympathiser.
These two positions are mutually exclusive – he can’t be both.
So, which is it, media types?
Make up your minds.
Corporate Media attacks on Jeremy Corbyn be like:
• Monday- He's a terrorist • Tuesday- He's a pacifist • Wednesday- He's a terrorist • Thursday- He's a pacifist • Friday- He's a pacifist • Saturday- He' a terrorist • Sunday- He's a pacifist
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Fireball: The explosion on Bishop Street, Londonderry was caught on camera.
Terrorism has reared its ugly head again in Northern Ireland, it seems – although interestingly the mass media are steering away from the word.
A car bomb – in a hijacked pizza van, we’re told – exploded outside a courthouse in Londonderry at around 8.10pm on Saturday (January 19).
Police were informed at around 8pm, leaving less than 10 minutes to evacuate people from neighbouring buildings which included a hotel, Freemasons’ hall, and a youth club. There were no casualties.
The lack of notice has led police to describe the attack as “unbelievably reckless”, and it is these words that the mainstream media have adopted, rather than referring to terrorism.
In fact, there seems a strong attempt to play down the incident:
Car bomb in Derry around 8.30 last night. A bleak reminder of troubles, but also a reminder of how little Northern Ireland counts in London – as far as I can see not on any front pages.
But investigations have centred on the New IRA, one of a handful of republican groups that have rejected power-sharing and the Good Friday Agreement, and which makes a point of targeting police and courts.
Police Service of Northern Ireland says officers' main line of inquiry is that the dissident 'new IRA' group is responsible for the car bomb attack in Londonderry and two people have been arrested
Two men have been arrested. But the incident raises an important question:
Why now?
The timing seems significant as not only has the power sharing system brought about after the Good Friday Agreement stalled, but it seems Theresa May is determined to sideline the needs of Northern Ireland in her Brexit deal with the European Union.
There has been no government in Stormont since early 2017, after a row between Sinn Fein and the DUP over a botched renewable energy scheme.
And of course Brexit has revived concerns over the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, and over NI’s constitutional status.
The Conservative government in Westminster seems conspicuously relaxed about both situations.
Doesn’t the attitude of Theresa May and her government seem deliberately provocative to people in Northern Ireland who were unhappy with the peace process in the first place? I’m not suggesting she is responsible for the actions of other people, but she certainly has a responsibility to prevent any return to the so-called “Troubles”.
Aren’t the delay over restoring the government in Stormont, and the failure to overcome the border controversy, an opportunity for such republicans to claim the peace process has failed and go back to violence?
Isn’t that what happened in Derry on Saturday night?
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Police presence: A police car outside the Islamic centre.Isn’t it incredibly hypocritical that an incident in which a Muslim crashes a car into pedestrians outside Parliament is an act of Islamic terrorism, but the same organisation can’t bring itself to label one in which a driver crashes a car into pedestrians outside a Muslim centre – shouting Islamophobic slogans – as an act of anti-Islamic terrorism.
What gives, BBC?
You reported that the police were treating it as a hate crime. Explain why you didn’t report it as a terrorist attack. I really want to know, and I don’t think I’m the only one.
Remember, terrorism is defined as “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims” – and I think the fact the perpetrator(s) shouted Islamophobic slogans shows a political aim.
How do you expect average British citizens to have a zero tolerance attitude towards islamophobia when our government tolerate it and consistently brush it under the carpet with islamophobic MPs 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
The Conservative government is a racist, Islamophobic organisation, therefore it does not acknowledge attacks on Muslims as racist or Islamophobic, let alone terrorist.
Does anybody, in all seriousness, need me to provide examples of Tory racism when Boris Johnson and Theresa May are still in public life?
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