Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

 

 

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the would be Christmas day airplane bomber has told investigators that he was inspired and trained by Al Quaeda to carry out his failed attack, he goes on to say their are 25 more “British “ suicide bombers

Acknowledging this information to be true a  security service spokesman said yesterday “we are aware of these individuals  they are due back into this country within the next two months”,  we will put them under 24 hour observation.

I cant believe that response no wonder the US  security services call London, Londonistan, it beggars belief that we know these individuals and are allowing them back into the country, and before anyone reminds me about their human rights, stuff their human rights.

We had a lucky escape the other day when the bomb did not explode, it malfunctioned because of a  a technical reason, that coupled with the bravery of a passenger on board the plane saved nearly 300 lives, but we cannot expect to be that lucky every time.

When is our Government going to stand up and and come down on the side of its citizens safety and say enough is enough, anyone with any sort of proven terrorist links is out, deported from this country no right of appeal, no chance of coming back, and if their rights are infringed, tough they should have thought about their rights as they  planned our destruction.

Isn’t it amazing how hard these people fight to get into this country and how hard they fight to stay here, when they hate us so much, they hate our way of life but have no problem taking our benefits accepting our free housing and letting their children be taught in our “infidel” schools and use our “infidel” health system.

There is no way this  group of 25 currently in the Yemen training should be allowed to set foot in this country again , I don’t care how many human rights laws we break to make that happen.

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Akmal Shaikh

Akmal Shaikh faces the death sentence — most likely to be carried out by injection — for having four kilograms (8.8lbs) of heroin when he flew into the western city of Urumqi, in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, two years ago.

Calling for mercy, his supporters say that Shaikh, 53, a father of three, has bipolar disorder and should not be held responsible for his actions. China’s Supreme Court turned down his final appeal last week and set December 29 as the date of execution. Shaikh has not been informed of the date and will learn his fate today.

What a load of rubbish that a bi polar condition caused him to smuggle drugs, lots of people suffer from that and don’t smuggle heroin, least of all to a place like China that clearly warns anyone entering their borders that they will be executed for bringing drugs into their Country.

You have to abide by the rules of the Country that you visit, this is not some naive teenage girl duped into transporting drugs, this man knew what he was doing, you can make up to a 1000% profit on your outlay selling Heroin.

The Chinese are right to have such strict laws to control the influx of drugs into their Lands, in Countries where Governments were slow to react to the threat of drugs and I will use Mexico as a example though there are many more, there have been 15000 murders in the last three years, FIFTEEN thousand lives wasted in turf wars fighting for the control of the lucrative drug trade. that is 13 murders a day every day all connected to drugs .

Not all nations problems are as severe but where drugs are a part of a society’s make up  crime is on the increase. Can you imagine what this Country would be like if we had 13 murders a day for 3 years connected to drugs, actually imagine what it would be like if we had 13 murders consecutively for 3 days let alone 3 years  and you see the scale of the problem.

So as terrible as it is to condone the taking of someone's life in this case I have no sympathy with Mr Shaikh and applaud the Chinese for sending a strong message, I wish our leaders were as strong.

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Seasons Greetings

A very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year to my friends and  family and not forgetting all the new friends I have made through these pages.

Boy George

I am amazed at the fuss at the decision to not allow Boy George to appear in next weeks TV show Celebrity Big Brother.

Mr Justice Bean dismissed the application, saying that an offender serving the non-custodial part of a sentence should not be allowed to “take part in a high-profile television production”.

Lawyers acting for the  musician, whose real name is George O’Dowd, had claimed that the ban was imposed amid fears that the Probation Service would come under attack from the media if he was allowed to take part in the show, which begins on January 3. He was expected to have earned £400,000 for his appearance.

Yesterday there were radio shows that dedicated huge sections of their programme to that decision, most of them that I heard were criticizing the Judge, these people who are backing George today are the same ones spouting of the rest of the year about how weak and ineffectual our justice system is, how there is one law for the rich and one for the poor.

George was not jailed for a traffic offence or non payment of a fine,  or even for using drugs where you could argue that he was only hurting himself.

Have these people have forgotten what it was he was jailed  for. it was for  assaulting and falsely imprisoning Auden Carlsen a male escort that George had hired for the evening, following a trivial argument George chained him to a radiator and beat him with a chain, his ordeal only ended when he managed to escape George did not release him who knows what George had in mind for, this could have ended in more serious injury or worse with  murder.

Imagine the roles reversed and the escort had done the same to Gorge he would have got at least 5 years, so for George to get sentenced to 15 months only was a good result for him and out of that he served only 4 months, and is out on licence until April of 2010, the terms of his licence state that he may not change his address and must be able to be visited by his social worker daily.

As these terms would be violated if he entered the Big Brother house his request was rightly  denied, why should he be treated preferentially because of his celebrity status.

Hats of to Justice Bean for treating George as the criminal that he is.

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Kim Peek-Savant

Kim Peek, the autistic savant who inspired the Oscar-winning film Rain man has died, aged 58,  He suffered a heart attack on Saturday night.

Born in 1951 in Salt Lake city, Mr Peek was diagnosed as severely mentally retarded and his parents were advised to place him in an institution and forget about him. Thirty years later, he was classified as a "mega-savant," a genius in about 15 different subjects, from history and literature and geography to numbers, sports, music and dates.

He had read and memorised over 9000 books by the time of his death, he would read 8 books a day each taking only 10 seconds a page, also incredibly reading 2 pages  at a time, his left eye reading one page while his right eye read the other. He can read the books even if they are upside down or laying sideways, he is the only Savant in the world who can do this.

This remarkable man for all his genius though could not do simple things like dress himself or comb his hair and needed constant care, care that was provided by his father Fran who after meeting Dustin Hoffman (who portrayed him in the Oscar winning Rain Man) was advised by the actor to “share him with the world” and not hide him away.

Following that advice Kim was put on the stage where he astounded audiences by answering the most obscure of questions while they tried to catch him out.

I have since watching Rain Man been fascinated by a “Savant” and like everybody else would love to know how they do what they do, having a mind that cant remember how to dress but yet can look at the sky and notice a change in star formation, that can retain and repeat word for word thousands of books, yet is unable to make his own dinner.

Sadly Kim has died at a young age, but there are other Savants in the world though none in the class of Kim, maybe scientists will one day unlock the secret of their amazing minds.

His obituary makes fascinating reading, published in today’s times newspaper.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6965115.ece

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Ahmadinejad running out of time

President Ahmadinejad has denounced as an American government forgery a secret nuclear document unearthed by the Times, as the top general in the United States warned that military force could not be ruled out against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

It shows  how unstable the Iranian leader is when he was shown the documents he replied,  “No, I don’t want to see this kind of document,” Mr Ahmadinejad said. “These are some fabricated papers issued by the American Government.”

It’s about time The Americans stopped pussyfooting around Ahmadinejad and let him know exactly what will happen unless he reins in or better still completely stops his nuclear programme, if he is seriously looking for nuclear power for energy purposes only he would not object to the plan whereby Russia would enrich uranium for Iran.

In the past it has been reported that in the event of an attack on Iran they would Blockade the Gulf, especially the Straits of Hormuz blocking vital shipping lanes, I never understood why that was a big deal if the Iranians put ships there the Americans are more than capable of blasting them out of the water.

As for their threat of launching missiles at Israel, if attacked Israel is more than capable of looking after itself,  Ahmadinejad should know by now that the Israeli response wont be proportional it will be excessive and brutal.

I suspect that the Iranian leader is gambling that the west lack the will to attack, a certain Saddam Hussein took the same gamble and ended up swinging from a rope.

So no more talk lets deal with this issue now and put it to bed, I said some months ago that I thought there would some sort of military action by year end, I may be a little out on the timescale but an attack on their installations  looks inevitable with American Generals talking about Military action for the first time.

Personally my money is on Israel launching a strike first.

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Obama is all talk

Western governments united to denounce Iran’s test-firing of a long-range ballistic missile yesterday, warning that it would only increase international determination to press for more sanctions on Tehran if it refused to negotiate over its nuclear programme.

I am getting a bit sick of keep hearing this, its warning warning warning, that’s all we read, it reminds me of the dance that the West had with Saddam before eventually having to take action.

Iran has made it clear by saying they will not under any circumstance stop their Nuclear programme, so the West and by the West I mean specifically America has to make a decision and act on it,  the longer this drags out the scarier it gets there will be a point when Iran will announce we have the bomb, after that they will be untouchable.

If Obama hasn’t the balls for military action then he should  take the shackles of Israel and let them deal with Iran, so far he has been all talk with no substance regards Iran,

I am amazed that Israel have been this restrained, but its getting to the point that with or without US blessing Israel will deal with this soon.

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