Simon Everitt Murder Verdict.

Today in the news three people have been convicted of the murder of a 17 year old student called Simon Everitt. Apparently the two men and a woman kidnapped the victim, doused him in petrol and then set fire to him in a crime the judge described as being purely motivated by sexual jealousy. For slightly better coverage of the murder and the trial you can check out the BBC's website; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/8073886.stm

Once you know that my real first name is Simon the metaphor behind this story becomes quite obvious. I'm dead and the people who killed me are going to be punished. Of course like every word that comes out of the British States mouth the metaphor is inaccurate and the story is a work of fiction. The two main factual inaccuracies in the story are;

• Clearly I'm not dead. That's purely wishful thinking on the Brits part. In fact no-one in my situation is dead and there is nothing about the situation that cannot be changed just as soon as the will to do so exists.

• No-one's being punished. Quite a few of the people who are responsible for my situation have found their careers ended by events but none of them have been punished. In fact a number of them have been rewarded with either promotion or soft-landings.

It is interesting that the judge has labelled the motive for the crime to be sexual jealousy and this element of the story appears to be pushed to the fore. This is an attempt by the British Establishment to lay the blame for my current situation firmly at the gay communities door. This will no doubt lead to howls of homophobia but is actually fair comment because it is the gay community that holds full responsibility for all events post 2006. You will also notice that three years on they are still to disavow the Bristol Abuse Case as unacceptable behaviour.

Normally I wouldn't waste my breath commenting on Britan's propoganda efforts but this morning my grandmother's sister died of old age so the word dead especially wrankles with me today.

Luton Squabble.

As I briefly mentioned yesterday there was a little bit of trouble in Luton, Bedfordshire on Sunday May 24th when around 500 people went on the rampage attacking Asians and clashing with the police. This is not the first bit of trouble Luton has seen in recent months. Back in March there were angry scenes when a group of pro-Taliban protesters picketed a welcome home parade by the Royal Anglian Regiment who had just returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. This has already been commented on by everybody and anybody including myself who covered it in a series of post entitled National Bullshit Month.

In April a group of local football hooligans, casual racists and some ordinary Luton residents who were pissed off by the events in March staged a small, impromptu demonstration. This led to some minor scuffles with the police as the group meandered through Luton town centre with no clear purpose. I've found this video of that days events.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpDrgrxrR3c

Looking at that footage I don't think any of the demonstrators are involved in politics full time or affiliated with any political party. The tone of the placards would suggest that some of the protesters loosely follow a far right/racist ideology specifically that of the British Peoples Party (BPP). The BPP are a small and relatively new group mainly made up of people who have either been thrown out of or denied membership of the British National Party (BNP) for being too racist, too violent or just too odd for the BNP

While the April protest went largely unnoticed by people outside of Luton it clearly came to the attention of the British far-right movement. A pressure group called March for England http://marchforengland.awardspace.co.uk/blog/ who are connected to both the BNP and the BPP soon set about organising another, larger march on May 24th. Initially Luton's Labour controlled council granted permission for the march to go ahead. Then March for England pulled out of the demonstration presumably because they realised that being associated with violence so close to the European and local elections in June would discourage people from voting forfar right parties. With the association with the BNP broken Luton council withdraw permission for the demonstration.

This didn't stop the locals who took part in the April demonstration and a small number of people from outside Luton who follow the British Peoples Party ideology going ahead. The march started at 17:00. At around 17:15 a group of about 500 broke off from the main march and charged into town looking for a fight with any Asians it encountered. During this time one Asian man was assaulted, three cars had their windscreens smashed and an Asian owned restaurant had it's windows broken. By 17:30 the police had deployed mounted units and officers in riot gear. By 18:30 the group had been contained and then dispersed. As you can see from this video although there seemed to be plenty of people willing to get stuck in it can hardly be called a riot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A37CQTyVRV4

In conclusion while the protests at the Royal Anglian Regiment parade contributed to Sunday's events I think it was just the work of 500 or so local hooligans engaging in what the Territorial Support Group would call a quiet afternoon at the football. If there was any hidden agenda it was being orchestrated by the local Labour party who were trying to associate the BNP with violence in an attempt to get the people of Luton to vote Labour in the local elections of June 4th.

Trouble in Luton.

I've heard some reports that the police in Luton, Bedfordshire have clashed with protesters after a march to protest against Muslim extremists who staged a protest at a welcome home parade for soldiers of the Royal Anglican Regiment back in March. It's a holiday weekend and the events only happened 6-7 hours ago so all the information I really have at the moment is this rather short BBC report;

Nine men were arrested after trouble broke out at a march through Luton.
Police said up to 400 people set off on a planned peaceful protest held
against demonstrations at an Armed Forces homecoming parade earlier this year.
Officers said an Asian man was assaulted, a shop window was smashed and
several cars were damaged in the town centre on Sunday evening.
In March, a group of anti-war protesters demonstrated at a parade for the Royal Anglian
Regiment.
Bedfordshire Police said officers were studying CCTV footage and
said further arrests could be made in the coming days.
A spokeswoman said Sunday's march started in Manor Park at 1700 BST
They added that by 1730 BST
several groups had peeled off from the main protest and had started causing
problems in the town centre.
The situation was under control by 1830 BST.
The nine men were in custody after being arrested on suspicion of a variety
of public order offences, criminal damage and assault, officers said.
The spokeswoman said: "The peaceful marchers formed up in Manor Park - however,
other large groups who had been in the town centre pubs all afternoon did not
join the march.
"It was clear that some were determined to cause trouble and
broke away from the main march in several groups and up some of the side streets
running off George Street."
About 10,000 people were expected to take part
in the Luton Carnival on Monday. Police said about 250 officers would be there.
Story from BBC
NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8066515.stmPublished:
2009/05/24 23:23:54 GMT© BBC MMIX

I'll try and have a closer look at things tomorrow but phrases like "The trouble started at 17:30" and "the trouble was brought under control by 18:30" make me think this was just a small local ruckus of the sort you occasionally get after football matches rather then something more serious and orchestrated.

Disgusting

Regular readers of this blog will already be familiar with the Baby P case. It is the case of a 17 month old boy who was beaten and tortured to death by his mother and her boyfriend while Haringey Social Services and the Metropolitan Police sat back and watched. In November 2008 Baby P's mother and step-father were convicted of causing or allowing his death. On Friday 22nd of May 2009 the pair, along with another man, were finally sentenced for that lesser offence.

In his closing statement the trial judge, Stephen Kramer, described the crime as one so severe that no decent person could help but be appalled by it. He then spent the next five minutes detailing the 22 injuries that Baby P sustained in the last 8 months of his life. These include a broken leg, a broken spine a fingernails that had been torn from the nail beds. Turning to the defendants Judge Kramer described the step-father's role in the crime as extraordinary and abhorrent. Of Baby P's mother he said that she was a manipulative and self centered person with a temper. Having listed the severity of the offence and the unquestionable guilt of the defendants Judge Kramer then handed absurdly lenient sentences.

For Baby P's step-father, Steven Barker, the Judge could have awarded a maximum sentence of 34 years. Instead he automatically reduced the sentence by two years because Barker had also been convicted of anally raping a two and a half year old girl. He then ordered that the sentences to the two crimes could be served at the same time rather then one after the other. As a final insult the judge ordered that the sentence could further be reduced by half in return for good behaviour leaving a total sentence of just 10 years. Given time already served on remand Steven Barker will be released in just 7 years.

For Baby P's mother, who had a second child whilst on remand, the judge could have awarded a maximum sentence of 14 years. Instead he automatically reduced the sentence by a third for entering a guilty plea even though she plead not guilty throughout the trial. Judge Kramer again allowed the sentence to be furthered reduced by half in return for good behaviour. That leaves a total sentence of just 5 years and with time already served Baby P's mother should be out of jail in time to be the guest of honour at the 2012 Olympics.

To make matters worse Baby P's mother won't serve her sentence in the general prison population. Instead she will serve her time in Holloway Prisons Life Sentence Unit. This is a specialist unit to house prisoners who will never, ever be released from prisoner. To keep these women with nothing left to lose under some sort of control the LSU is more luxurious then a normal prison wing with each inmate being given their own cell and special privileges like money, TV's and games consoles. Holloway's LSU made the headline last year when it emerged that it had spent £3000 throwing a Christmas party for the inmates. With only a five year sentence I'm not sure how Baby P's mother qualifies for this special treatment.

5 years and 10 years. If that's all the punishment you get in Britain for torturing and killing an infant I'm not expecting much to come from the MP's expenses scandal.

Lucy Gordon Suicide.

Today (21/5) a British actress named Lucy Gordon committed suicide at the Canne film festival. Ms Gordon, 29, was most famous for her appearance as a news reporter in the Spiderman film(s). I must confess that I've not actually seen Superman, hell I only today got to see Hot Fuzz but I did in my time once meet a woman called Lucy Gordon although I'm sure it was not the same woman.

The Lucy Gordon I used to know was a high school teacher in Brighton. She decided to have sex with a friend of mine in front of his girlfriend breaking up that relationship and causing me a whole end of stress. Because I needed her out of the game I made the mistake of accidentally leaking intimate details of her sex life to the students in her form room.

While I have little idea what happened to Canne's Lucy Gordon I have three theories of why she died;

1. She only got the job because she shared the name of my Lucy Gordon. In the stress and the heat of a Canne summer she realised she wasn't up to her job and decided to take her own life.
2. MI6 decided that because she shared a name with my Lucy Gordon killing her would cause enough stress and panic to confuse people about the more important issues of the day.
3. Another agency decided that killing her would cause me so much stress that I would spill all the details of my Lucy Gordon.

Right now I'm trying to find the time to go to bed before I have to wake up at an ungodly hour tomorrow to go and speak to a builder so I'm off to take a piss.

Un - Burgled.

As I think I've mentioned, in quite colourful language, my father has been in contact with Croydon Council. On Tuesday, 19/5 he invited members of Croydon Council's "Stay put. Stay Safe!" team round to discuss certain jobs he wanted doing in the property. During the course of this conversation he presented them with a task list that included; #12. Tree over Playroom and #14. Secure Bathroom Window.

Within minutes of the Council team returning to the office the neighbour whose tree was mentioned in item#12 received harassing phone calls in order to get them to cut the tree themselves. Then today, 21/5, my- father's window cleaner turns up of his own accord and proceeds to spend the next hour going over every inch of every window in the property. Sadly this was so big, so loud and so obvious that my father realised that for once it might be his shit under threat and got into a panic telling the whole Internet about it so we remained un-burgled.

Even without a criminal offence being committed this unfortunate turn of events would normally give the police probable cause to open a serious and organised crime investigation. The purpose of that investigation would be to examine if a tax payer funded and council run operation set up to protect retired people from burglary was instead being used by burglars to identify pensioners that would be easy targets for robbery.

Depending on how much time I have tomorrow I might bring the matter up with the Croydon branch of Her Majesties Constabulary. I'm not sure I can be bothered though because, as we've already established, there is more then enough evidence to bring Croydon Council under emergency measures.

Queen Backs Down Over Ghurkas.

Since the collapse of the British Empire in the 1950's the Ghurka's, a regiment of Nepalese soldiers who've fought with the British Army for almost 200 years, have been fighting for the right to come and settle in the UK with their families. Their campaign scored a massive victory in 1997 when the return of Hong Kong to China forced the newly elected Labour government to grant an automatic right to remain to any solider who signed up to serve as a Ghurka. While this was a significant victory it still left the problem of what would happen to those men who served with the Ghurkas before 1997. Since then the remaining Ghurka's have been campaigning, without much success, to get the right to remain extended to those who left the regiment prior to 1997.

In April 2009 the British Establishment suddenly threw their support behind the campaign meaning it started getting lots of media attention and Joanna Lumley, the campaigns photogenic spokesperson was able to have lots of dramatic showdowns with the Labour governments immigration minister.

The problem the Ghurka's faced was the immigration law that grants foreign citizen's the right to remain in the UK makes no distinction between those who had served as sworn soldiers in the British Army, like the Ghurka's and those who served as civilians working in support of the British Army on overseas operations. This second, much larger, group includes all those who worked as translators in Iraq, those who did the laundry on British bases in Afghanistan and those who performed similar roles in the former Yugoslavia and every other theatre the British Army has operated in since the second world war. So if the government were to allow the first group they'd have to allow the second group in as well are there in lies the catch 22 for the labour government. If they refused entry to the Ghurka's they'd face outrage for turning their back on those who are prepared to die for the country. If they'd allowed the Ghurka's in the government would face outrage for allowing millions of new immigrants, many of them Muslims, into the country at a time when the UK is experiencing a fierce recession and rising unemployment.

Fortunately for both the Ghurka's and Gordon Brown the Queen decided to relent. This has allowed the government to make an exemption in the law for the Ghurkas so they can be allowed to stay without opening the floodgate to all those dirty Arabs.