From Watcher:
Standing down the hanging jury.
In Britain today, hating Israel has become a valid criminal defense. This week five criminal defendants charged with destroying property valued at some $285,000 at the EDO MBM arms factory in Brighton during a January 2009 break-in were found innocent of all charges. They were found innocent despite the fact that all five admitted to having committed the crime.
As the Guardian reported, the defendants boasted in online forums at the time of the incident that their crime was premeditated. It took place during the IDF's campaign against Hamas in Gaza. Their declared aim was to, "smash up," the factory. And they achieved their goal.
The jury found the five innocent because the jurors accepted as a valid defense the defendants' claim that they vandalized the EDO MBM plant because they wanted to prevent Israel from carrying out war crimes in Gaza. EDO MBM does business with the IDF, therefore, the defendants claimed and the jury agreed, it deserved to be attacked.
In finding as they did, the jurors were acting in accordance with the guidance they received from the presiding judge. As the Guardian reported, Judge George Bathurst-Norman instructed the jury, "You may well think that hell on earth would not be an understatement of what the Gazans suffered in that time."
What this verdict shows is that in British courts, hatred of Israel has become a license to break the law. This turn of events is the logical flipside of Parliament's abject refusal to amend Britain's outrageous universal jurisdiction law. British lawmakers, government officials and jurists all basically agree that the law - which allows magistrates to issue arrest warrants against foreigners based on allegations filed by British subjects - is a legal travesty. It subverts the capacity of the British government to conduct foreign policy by placing all foreigners at the mercy of political activists.
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Why Obama is Sabotaging U.S. Economic Growth
http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest172.htm
fillon - the same arshole who inaugurated a mosque:
France-Morocco: Paris Sending 600 Mln in Aid by 2012
(ANSAmed) — RABAT, JULY 2 — As well as an agreement for collaboration in the field of civil nuclear power, France is to support Moroccan development with a financial contribution of 600 million euros by 2012. The news came from France’s Prime Minister, Francois Fillon, during a joint press conference with his Moroccan counterpart Abbas El Fassi. “Relations between Morocco and France have never been better, but our countries can, and have decided to do better still”, Fillon said, adding that, apart from the 147 million euros in agreements signed today, “the French Development Agency (Afd) will add its contribution of at least 600 million euros by 2012 to aid Morocco in its development and modernisation efforts”. The amount will go to, among other things, increasing France’s financing of the high-speed rail link between Tangiers and Casablanca and to the planned 500 MW solar power station being built at Ouarzazate. “We are convinced that the solar energy project constitutes and opportunity for strengthening collaboration between Paris and Rabat” Fillon said, pointing out that France is already involved in developing wind power. (ANSAmed).
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME02.XAM20062.html
Analyst: Obama Has U.S. Economy in ‘Death Spiral’
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=173169
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Kerala,-hand-severed-of-Christian-Professor-accused-of-blasphemy-18843.html
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Crowd-of-3-thousand-Muslims-attack-a-Coptic-Christian-community,-25-injured-17876.html
Pakistani Lawyer Petitions for Death of Mark Zuckerberg
Police probe Facebook chief over ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being investigated by Pakistani police under a section of the penal code that makes blasphemy against Muhammad punishable by death.
BBC Urdu reports — according to a Google Translation — that Pakistan’s Deputy Attorney General has launched a criminal investigation against Zuckerberg and others in response to Facebook hosting a “Draw Muhammad” contest on its site late last month. On May 19, Pakistani authorities blocked access to Facebook over the contest, and this ban was lifted on May 31 after Facebook removed the page in Pakistan and other countries.
Asked to comment, a Facebook spokeswoman told us the company does not comment on legal matters.
Last month, according to English-language Pakistani newspaper The News International, a Pakistani High Court judge summoned the police after lawyer Muhammad Azhar Siddique filed an application for a First Information Report (FIR), claiming that the owners of Facebook had committed a heinous and serious crime under Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code. In essence, an FIR launches a criminal investigation. But no charges have been filed.
According to the paper, Section 295-C of the penal code reads: “Use of derogatory remark etc, in respect of the Holy Prophet, whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representation, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly, defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable for fine.”
So, peace be unto Muhammad. But not unto Mark Zuckerberg.
According to two reports — one at Boxcrack.net, a kind of citizen journalism site run by Privacy International, and another at Pro Pakistani, a Pakistani Telecom and IT news site that lifted the news from BBC Urdu — the Deputy Attorney General has indeed lodged an FIR against Zuckerberg, fellow co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, and “Andy”, the German woman who initiated the Draw Muhammad contest under a pseudonym.
According to Pro Paskistani, petitioner Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque said he’s waiting for the police to contact Interpol about making arrangements for the arrest of Facebook’s owners and “Andy”. The site also says that the Deputy Attorney General told the High Court that Pakistan’s United Nations representative has asked to escalate the issue in the UN General Assembly.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17/zuckerberg_faces_criminal_investigation_in_pakistan/
Schoolbook Hunky-Dory With Islam, But Skunks Jesus?
Parent: ‘Class presents version of history that never occurred’
Parents of Florida high-school students are outraged because they say a world-history textbook used in many of the state’s schools portrays Islam and Muhammad in a favorable light.
Members of the public raised concerns with Florida’s Sarasota County School Board about “World History: Patterns of Interaction,” published by Holt McDougal.
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The Sarasota chapter of ACT! for America, a citizen-action network, claims the textbook “has an anti-Western, anticapitalist, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish bias.”
“Conversely it promotes Eastern and Middle Eastern cultures, promotes Islam as a religion, promotes socialism and fails to address world history in a historically accurate manner,” the group said in a statement.
www.wnd.com
What everybody deliberately misses in this report is that it is not the British justice system that makes hating Israel a valid criminal defense. It is a majority of 12 jurors who have likely been placed because of their libtard views.
Exactly the same could happen in America. Would you all be crowing then?
Why Pastorious, is Anonymous allowed to make multiple off topic comments which are tedious and boring. It takes away the point of others commenting and does not enhance this blog in any way.
SSDD
England expelled the jews three times beginning with Eward I.
Les sportes anciennne, n'est pas?
WHere's Helen Thomas when you need her?
Ray,
The Anonymous commenter is helping us out by leaving links to stories he thinks we might want to post.
He's being very helpful.
Perhaps a daily open thread - as some others do - would be a good idea - for non topic comments.
My point is that so many non topic comments detract from the original post and any topical comments posted therein. Just a point :)
I don't think we have enough comments per day to warrant an open thread.
What do other people think?
I'll bet we'll hear crickets chirping.
;-)
OT comments ARE distracting.
But I've never looked once at an open thread in my life
I am distracted by everything, so I guess I don't notice when I get distracted.
Isn't distraction just another word for interesting, and isn't the state of being distracted just another way of saying, curious?
I wonder how many people bother to plough through the many non topic comments - they just scroll through - and likely miss the topical comment which means there isn't any point in commenting.
I understand that Pastorious finds the NTC interesting because there may be a link that could be useful - especially on a quiet day.
However, do what you will, but I do think there is a valid point there. Pity other blog readers didn't chip in with their views - probably didn't bother to read the comments because of the numerous NTC's, some quite long.
Well, as to your point, Ray, if this were happening in America, I would be pretty angry with the American judicial system. As it is, I think the American judicial system is a crapshoot, for any individual. Gradually, it finds it's way to truth (a good deal of the time) if there is money behind the cause, but for individuals it is a crap shoot, and not about justice at all.
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