surely US citizens cannot tolerate such intrusion in private lives any longer.Or is this the type of Big Brother behaviour we can all come to expect? Obama controls the banks, the car industry, the trade unions, trying to control health care, trying to establish control of the internet and clearly now trying to control your private lives. HOw much more loss of rights will the US citizens tolerate before revolting. Sadly I can see a new style civil war emerging within the US sooner rather than later. The political correctness issue now appears to have gone that step to far.
Man arrested for making coffee in own home while naked
An American man who made coffee in his own home while nude is facing charges of indecent exposure.
Published: 12:40PM BST 22 Oct 2009
Eric Williamson, from Springfield, Virginia, was brewing coffee in his kitchen when a woman and a seven-year-old boy walked past the window and saw him.
The woman complained to police who arrested Williamson shortly after the incident on Monday morning.
Williamson, 29, insisted he did nothing wrong and that any exposure of his private parts were accidental.
"Yes I wasn't wearing any clothes but I was alone, in my own home and just got out of bed. It was dark and I had no idea anyone was outside looking in at me," he said.
Williamson, who has a five-year-old daughter, added: "I am a loving dad. Any of my friends and anyone knows that and there is not a chance on this planet I would ever, ever, ever do anything like that to a kid.
"I never had a conversation with anyone, never saw anyone. Didn't cross my mind, came and got coffee. I mean if I stood and seemed comfortable in my kitchen possibly it's natural. It's my kitchen," he insisted.
A spokesman for Fairfax county police, Mary Ann Jennings, said Williamson was arrested because officers believed he wanted to be seen naked by the public.
The 29-year-old faces up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine if he is convicted. He is fighting the charge and seeking damages from police.
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Nine-month nightmare for school helper hauled to court after marching yob from class
By Chris Brooke
Last updated at 9:26 AM on 23rd October 2009
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A classroom assistant accused of assaulting a pupil broke down in tears yesterday as he was cleared at the end of a nine-month nightmare.
Mark Ellwood was fingerprinted, held in a cell, and banned from living with his children during the ordeal, which began when he escorted a foulmouthed schoolboy out of a lesson.
The 46-year-old claims he was 'hung out to dry' by the authorities and warned that a climate of fear in schools means pupils are often beyond control and that teachers are too frightened to discipline them.
Cleared: Former kick boxing champion Mark Ellwood, pictured with his wife Julie, leaves Hull Magistrates Court on Monday after being cleared of assault on a school pupil
Speaking outside court, Mr Ellwood, a married father of two teenage girls, said: 'Any confidence a teacher may have will have been sapped out of them after what has happened to me.
'On a daily basis, staff are threatened with being stabbed.
'Swearing is endemic; the respect is simply not there and if you pick a pupil up on their language they tell you where to get off. The teachers are scared of the pupils anyway and they know it.
'I lost my job, was removed from my family and faced a criminal conviction, only to be found not guilty. If the power is in favour of the pupil you have not got a hope in hell.'
Mr Ellwood's ordeal began last January, three months after he began work at David Lister School in Hull, which had recently been placed in 'special measures'.
Mr Ellwood in action during his World Middleweight kickboxing back in 2003. The former champ had been banned from living with his children
As a 'classroom mentor', Mr Ellwood helped deal with children who had been removed from general classes and placed in a special unit because of bad behaviour.
The incident occurred when he noticed a 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, playing with a mobile phone during an art lesson and still wearing his jacket.
When he asked the boy to take his coat off and put away his phone, the 15-year-old responded by threatening to stab him, adding: 'I will have you killed.'
The boy, who was taken out of the class, along a corridor and into the car park, then tried to kick Mr Ellwood in the shins.
Hull magistrates heard how the classroom assistant - a former kickboxing champion - responded by skilfully and 'gently' sweeping the boy's legs from under him to prevent any further attack.
Although the teenager suffered no injury, a complaint from his mother led to Mr Ellwood being charged weeks later with common assault.
Mentor: Mr Ellwood had helped deal with children who were removed from general classes to a special unit, because of bad behaviour, at David Lister School in Hull (pictured)
Police revealed the boy had claimed he had been thrown on to the classroom floor.
'This did not happen at all,' Mr Ellwood said. 'The teacher was in the classroom at the time and he denied seeing anything untoward.
'He landed with his back on the floor. It was done gently and he suffered no injury.'
After being charged with assault, social services visited Mr Ellwood's home before ordering him to move out pending an inquiry.
He was forced to sleep on a gym floor for two weeks before being allowed to move back into his home. After the verdict was announced, magistrates chairman Christopher Buren told Mr Ellwood to 'forget about this and restart your life'.
The classroom assistant said he is considering his career options.
Stuart Todd, David Lister School's new headmaster, said that Mr Ellwood would be 'welcome back' at the school.
Common Sense, aka C.S., lived a long life, but died from heart failure at the brink of the millennium. No one really knows how old he was, his birth records were long ago entangled in miles and miles of bureaucratic red tape.
Known affectionately to close friends as Horse Sense and Sound Thinking, he selflessly devoted himself to a life of service in homes, schools, hospitals and offices, helping folks get jobs done without a lot of fanfare, whooping and hollering. Rules and regulations and petty, frivolous lawsuits held no power over C.S.
A most reliable sage, he was credited with cultivating the ability to know when to come in out of the rain, the discovery that the early bird gets the worm and how to take the bitter with the sweet. C.S. also developed sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn), reliable parenting strategies (the adult is in charge, not the kid) and prudent dietary plans (offset eggs and bacon with a little fiber and orange juice).
A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, the Technological Revolution and the Smoking Crusades, C.S. survived sundry cultural and educational trends including disco, the men's movement, body piercing, whole language and new math.
C.S.'s health began declining in the late 1960s when he became infected with the If-It-Feels-Good, Do-It virus. In the following decades his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of overbearing federal and state rules and regulations and an oppressive tax code. C.S. was sapped of strength and the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, criminals received better treatment than victims and judges stuck their noses in everything from Boy Scouts to professional baseball and golf. His deterioration accelerated as schools implemented zero-tolerance policies. Reports of 6-year-old boys charged with sexual harassment for kissing classmates, a teen suspended for taking a swig of Scope mouthwash after lunch, girls suspended for possessing Midol and an honor student expelled for having a table knife in her school lunch were more than his heart could endure.
As the end neared, doctors say C.S. drifted in and out of logic but was kept informed of developments regarding regulations on low-flow toilets and mandatory air bags. Finally, upon hearing about a government plan to ban inhalers from 14 million asthmatics due to a trace of a pollutant that may be harmful to the environment, C.S. breathed his last. Services will be at Whispering Pines Cemetery. C.S. was preceded in death by his wife, Discretion; one daughter, Responsibility; and one son, Reason. He is survived by two step-brothers, Half-Wit and Dim-Wit.
Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Institute for Rational Thought.
Farewell, Common Sense. May you rest in peace.
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How long would it take for the 4m people Ireland to be wiped off the face of the earth if they lived in the US and were the only victims of violent crime?
I counter your question of how does the rest of the world view us.. with... how much longer do we tolerate the rest of the world?
You like apples? how you like dimm apples?
Sincerely, JW
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October 23 2009, 4:54 PM
Crime is not the issue here.
This article is about the systematic stripping of US citizens and their right to privacy.
If this had been a coloured man in his home, then this would have been escalated beyond the bounds of any sensible reason by the current regime and deemed a racist attack, a breach of human rights, an invasion of privacy etc
whether you love or hate glen beck and the fox news station, they are telling it as it is. Fox new has become the most watched news program outside of the US because it faces and presents the facts.
So we can assume that Mr.I P Freely is in favour of the big brother attitude adopted by the current administration.
where is the american land of the free, protector of human rights that you so often bleat about spirit. The show of navy strength, Be men stand up to this horrendous invasion of human rights.
Remember you have the best part of 4 more years of this regime and it will get worse before it gets betters. Only the US citizens can fight back.
nothing to do with outside involvement, we did not elect the regime, that was so loudly applauded last november.
where are all those promises now, where is the support to your army from your commander in chief. You better believe there are more people abroad who feel for your army and the service it is giving to the world. it is the lack of support shown and total disregard for your field officers shown by the WH to this and other issues that are the problems of the US nothing else.
By the way you are not alone, in britain we have to suffer a new type of dictatorship in Gordon, a man who sees no wrong in his way of governing, a man who has never been elected to position, a man who rules his party by fear, a man who is leading his party to such a heavy defeat in the next election that they will no longer be electable.
the laws of big brother are not exclusive to the US and it is time that people fought back and regained their right to privacy, right to investments, but most of all right to be respected.
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October 23 2009, 5:37 PM
I have always practiced in a business model in which the foundation consisted of transparency... full disclosure... so big brother watching has never nor will it ever be an issue for myself.
In smaller transactions.. secrecy may hold more value... but I have always been more of a bull in a china shop that some clandestine 007 type.. Not that I do not LOVE! my James Bond movies and / or any other form of the story..
But the rule book was thrown out by Bush.. and Obama has re-enforced and added to the throwing out of the Book to be sure..
The problem with America is not the leaders.. we get what we deserve here like any place else that is free.. the problem with America is the lobby.. in all its forms.
What money wants.. money gets.. its the same all over the world.
Obama.. is a puppet of the Lobby.. like George before him.. Clinton was as bad.. but Clinton shifted the debt offshore.
Reagan started the ball rolling with cheap credit bundled into Bonds..
Government spending is a hobby of mine.. past and present.. being in front of the next big push holds tremendous value or upside.. if you are infront of the Government monies flooding into the area of interest, you will always do well riding the tide..
I hope that all is well with you and yours, JW
I would ask in all sincerity how your Grand Daughter is doing but I am affraid you will just assume the worng things.. again. But my hopes and prayers even are for the best for any and all children, everywhere. So may all of God's good graces be with her in any fight(s) she may have. Or the US Marines if need be.
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October 23 2009, 6:15 PM
I now understand why you called yourself Mr. I P Freely,
this is not about US lobby and its working #
this is about invasion of privacy, taking away the rights of people in their homes
Mr P Freely, simple question do you believe this arrest is correct or is it an invasion of your rights within your own home? the issue that you continue to decline to comment on. For a long time on this forum you have been a champion of US activities abroad, where is your voice now to support your fellow americans suffering such unacceptable invasions of privacy in their own homes. Perhaps their is a law in the US banning nudity in the home?
where is the backbone that the US citizens have shown over the years, have they all disappeared now that they realise the errors of their ways at the last elections, or have they become so down trodden that to stand up for rights is now the subject of the racist card. YOu have a chance to redeem yourselves in the forthcoming elections reduce the majority that the house have and make it a fairer balance and lets see how this regime will act.
US citizens are losing their freedom of speech, your right to choice and we in the UK are not far behind you.
Big Brother is ruling and we must obey or become a victim of the current regimes, the comments of one of the czars in a major address, telling of her respect of marxism, is this a sign of what the world now faces? Years of fighting to release the world from such tyranical grips, for freedom of speech, for equality and to instal democracy, we now face a fight to maintain these rights on our own doorsteps.
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October 23 2009, 6:55 PM
Freedom of speech is not the issue with regard to the nekkedness in question..
The reality.. is... like anything else in America.. can you afford freedom..
That is to say.. that if you have financial freedom.. you are free to do as you please.. if you lack financial freedom.. then you are not truely free.
As for agreeing or dis-agreeing with what the naked gentleman in question was the victim of? not really a question.
If I am naked.. in my front yard.. and the police show up.. and speak to me in a tone that I find less than pleasant.. I would then of course cause such financial duress to the local in which the balckswan we all now suffer would pale in comparison..
But I can afford to litigate.. for the sake of watching someone else bleed money for my personal entertainment.
So.. no.. I do believe in privacy.. but I also am realist.
Sincerely, JW
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Blue,
It's about the same though I must say this article is rather interesting.
BNP on Question Time: Nick Griffin uses BBC to attack Islam and defend the Ku Klux Klan
The BBC was under siege last night after the leader of the BNP used his appearance on Question Time to attack Muslims and homosexuals while defending the Ku Klux Klan.
By Robert Winnett and Rosa Prince
Published: 7:00AM BST 23 Oct 2009
Nick Griffin said Islam was not compatible with life in Britain, while describing homosexuals as "creepy".
However, he admitted sharing a platform with the Ku Klux Klan, which has carried out racist attacks across Americas Deep South, and defended leaders in the organisation as "non-violent".
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BNP: history of the far right in Britain The remarks provoked indignation from other members of the BBC panel and hostile parts of the audience, some of whom booed, calling him "a disgrace".
The BNP leader said he could not explain for legal reasons why he had previously sought to play down the Holocaust and had now changed his mind. He was challenged by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary and a fellow panellist, who said there was no such law.
Mr Griffin defended his use of Sir Winston Churchill on BNP literature on the basis that his father had fought in the Second World War. He claimed that Churchill would have been a member of the BNP and was "Islamophobic" by "todays standard".
Asked whether he denied that millions of Jews and other minorities had been killed by the Nazis, Mr Griffin would only reply: "I do not have a conviction for Holocaust denial."
He was then chastised by David Dimbleby, the host of the programme, for smiling.
The controversial statements were made in response to intense questioning by members of the audience from ethnic minorities.
BBC Television Centre in west London came under siege as filming took place, with MPs joining hundreds of protesters behind lines of police. There were six arrests as dozens of protesters attempted to storm the studio.
BBC studios in Hull, Scotland and Wales were also targeted by demonstrators. The cost of the police operation was estimated to have been more than £100,000.
The BBC was certain to be questioned over why it allowed Mr Griffin to air such controversial views but executives were hoping that the intensive questioning that he faced would justify their decision to invite him on the Question Time panel for the first time.
The BBC, which Mr Griffin denounced on the programme as "ultra-Leftist", had claimed that impartiality rules meant that it had little choice but to invite him on to the programme after the BNP won seats in the European Parliament in elections this year.
He was joined on the panel by Mr Straw, Baroness Warsi, the Tory spokesman on community cohesion, Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, and Bonnie Greer, a black American playwright.
Mr Griffin was seated next to Miss Greer.
One of the most controversial moments came when Mr Dimbleby asked the BNP leader why he had been pictured with David Duke, the former leader of the Klan. Mr Griffin claimed that parts of the racist group, officially classed as a "hate organisation" in America, were "non-violent".
However, he insisted: "Im not a Nazi and never have been." He claimed that he was "the most loathed man in Britain" among British fascists.
He was questioned over his views on Islam and said it had "good points" but "does not fit in with the fundamental values of British society".
He described white Britons as "aboriginals here". "The indigenous people of these islands, the English, the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh, the people who have been here for the last 17,000 years, are the aboriginals. The majority of British people are descended from people who have been here since time immemorial.
"You people wouldnt allow us to have our name on the census form thats racism."
Amid angry scenes, one Asian member of the audience asked Mr Griffin where he would like him to be sent, and added: "Youd be surprised how many people would have a whip round to buy you and your supporters a ticket to go to the South Pole thats a colourless landscape, itll suit you fine."
Questioned over whether he believed that British people had suffered genocide at the hands of successive governments, Mr Griffin said: "That is the case. Its about destroying a culture."
On the subject of homosexuality he said "a lot of people find the sight of two men kissing in public really creepy". "That is how a lot of us feel, a lot of Christians, a lot of Muslims," he said. "I dont know why, thats just the way it is."
Speaking after filming had finished, Mr Griffin claimed that he had been able to "land some punches" and acknowledged that his appearance would "polarise normal opinion" but expressed confidence that it would have an impact.
"A huge swath of British people will remember some of the things I said and say to themselves theyve never heard anyone on Question Time say that before," he said. "Millions of people will think, That man speaks what I feel."
About one million people voted for the BNP at the European elections, leading to Mr Griffin taking up one of its two seats in the European Parliament. As a result, the BBC said impartiality rules effectively forced it to include the party in Question Time.
Mark Thompson, the director-general, said the Government should ban the BNP if it felt that Mr Griffin should not have been allowed to take part in the broadcast.
"If there is a case for censorship, it should be decided in Parliament," he said. "Political censorship cannot be outsourced to the BBC or anyone else."
He said the BNP had "demonstrated a level of support that would normally lead to an occasional invitation to join the panel on Question Time".
Politicians from minor parties, including George Galloway, the Respect MP, and Caroline Lucas, the leader of the Green party, regularly appeared on Question Time.
Mr Thompson insisted that Mr Griffin had been invited so that the public could challenge his views, rather than any "misguided desire to be controversial".
Speaking before the programme, Gordon Brown said the BNPs appearance was a matter for the BBC and that he was confident that Mr Griffin would be exposed for his "unacceptable" views.
"I hope that the exposure of the BNP will make people see what they are really like," the Prime Minister said.
However, there were fears that Mr Griffins appearance would lead to an increase in support. He had said he was hopeful his party would be propelled into "the big time" as a result of the broadcast.
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watched the program in full Will while i do not agree with the principles and politics of the BNP it was definitely a set up to attempt to kill off the party.
however he made one strong point that most of the country agrees with and neither of the main political party seated dealt with.
Should you decide to immigrate to another country you should reside and abide by the laws of that country.
the uk's problem is that it is so multi-cultural now that the minority group is in fact those born within the uk and of uk parentage.
article from same paper
Labour let in migrants 'to engineer multicultural UK'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:06 AM on 24th October 2009
Huge increases in immigration over the past decade were a deliberate attempt to engineer a more multicultural Britain, a former Government adviser said yesterday.
Andrew Neather, a speechwriter who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, said Labour's relaxation of controls was a plan to 'open up the UK to mass migration'.
As well as bringing in hundreds of thousands to plug labour market gaps, there was also a 'driving political purpose' behind immigration policy, he claimed.
Official policy: Huge increases in immigration over the past decade were 'a deliberate attempt to engineer a more multicultural Britain'
Ministers hoped to change the country radically and 'rub the Right's nose in diversity'. But Mr Neather said senior Labour figures were reluctant to discuss the policy, fearing it would alienate its 'core working-class vote'.
On Question Time, Mr Straw was repeatedly quizzed about whether Labour's immigration policies had left the door open for the BNP.
Writing in the Evening Standard, Mr Neather revealed the 'major shift' in immigration policy came after the publication of a policy paper from the Performance and Innovation Unit, a Downing Street think tank based in the Cabinet Office.
The published version promoted the labour-market case for immigration but Mr Neather said unpublished versions contained additional reasons.
'Earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.
'I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended - even if this wasn't its main purpose - to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.' The 'deliberate policy', from late 2000 until 'at least February last year', when the new points-based system was introduced, was to open up the UK to mass migration, he said.
Mr Neather defended the policy, saying mass immigration has 'enriched' Britain and made London a more attractive and cosmopolitan place.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the Migrationwatch think tank, said: 'Now at least the truth is out, and it's dynamite. Many have long suspected that mass immigration under Labour was not just a cock-up but a conspiracy. They were right.
'This Government has admitted three million immigrants for cynical political reasons concealed by dodgy economic camouflage.'
The chairmen of the cross-party Group for Balanced Migration, MPs Frank Field and Nicholas Soames, said: 'We welcome this statement which the whole country knows to be true.
'It is the first beam of truth that has officially been shone on the immigration issue in Britain.'
we now have the case here in the UK where the Muslim community hold no respect for british courts and are instead lobbying for their own country system based on their own religion.
the world is going crazy. I for one moment dont believe that if we immigrated to Saudi Arabia we would be allowed to conduct english or uk justice, instead of their court system. So whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
abide by the rules of where you reside or move back home.
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An article in todays daily Telegraph
surely US citizens cannot tolerate such intrusion in private lives any longer.Or is this the type of Big Brother behaviour we can all come to expect? Obama controls the banks, the car industry, the trade unions, trying to control health care, trying to establish control of the internet and clearly now trying to control your private lives. HOw much more loss of rights will the US citizens tolerate before revolting. Sadly I can see a new style civil war emerging within the US sooner rather than later. The political correctness issue now appears to have gone that step to far.
Man arrested for making coffee in own home while naked
An American man who made coffee in his own home while nude is facing charges of indecent exposure.
Published: 12:40PM BST 22 Oct 2009
Eric Williamson, from Springfield, Virginia, was brewing coffee in his kitchen when a woman and a seven-year-old boy walked past the window and saw him.
The woman complained to police who arrested Williamson shortly after the incident on Monday morning.
Williamson, 29, insisted he did nothing wrong and that any exposure of his private parts were accidental.
"Yes I wasn't wearing any clothes but I was alone, in my own home and just got out of bed. It was dark and I had no idea anyone was outside looking in at me," he said.
Williamson, who has a five-year-old daughter, added: "I am a loving dad. Any of my friends and anyone knows that and there is not a chance on this planet I would ever, ever, ever do anything like that to a kid.
"I never had a conversation with anyone, never saw anyone. Didn't cross my mind, came and got coffee. I mean if I stood and seemed comfortable in my kitchen possibly it's natural. It's my kitchen," he insisted.
A spokesman for Fairfax county police, Mary Ann Jennings, said Williamson was arrested because officers believed he wanted to be seen naked by the public.
The 29-year-old faces up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine if he is convicted. He is fighting the charge and seeking damages from police.
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