PC FAIL: School says no to 500 year old traditional English folk dance because somebody might take offence... of the traditional black face paint

from the right wing tabloid let's kill teh immigrants... The Guardian newspaper.

A troupe of morris dancers who smear black makeup across their faces as part of their traditional costume were prevented from performing at a primary school in Gravesend, Kent, because of fears that they could cause offence. Peter Hargreaves, of the Motley Morris group, said the school asked if they would perform without blackened faces but they refused. Hazel King, headteacher at Chantry primary, said: "We found ourselves weighing up any potential offence versus not wishing to compromise the morris dancers' tradition. It's a 'damned if we do, damned if we don't' scenario."

Welcome to the 21st century where "potential" "offence" means that traditions that stretch back centuries are effectively completely censured by imagined "offence" - that terrible and pervasive disease of modern times, anyone can catch it any time and the results are dire. A bit like swine flu.

Sorry to be so boorishly predictable and terribly "right wing", but I wonder if any ethnic dances or expressions will be redacted or withdrawn for potential offence at this school? I wonder if some of the less than Gentlemanly verses from the Quran will be censured during Religious Studies? ... I wouldn't mind so much -- if there was a hint of consistency in any of this hyper-political correctness guff.

UK Prisons are "universities of terror"

So says Professor Michael Clarke at The Independent.

The director of Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) warned a series of successful police operations have turned prisons into "universities of terror".

He said security services may look back at the last eight years as a "golden age of counter terrorism" marked by success and good luck.

Mr Clarke said: "The phenomenon will not wither away in the near future: it is likely to be generational.

"All the available evidence is that radicalisation of alienated Muslim youth in the UK can taken place very rapidly as long as it is based somewhere on personal contact."

Mr Clarke said the evolution of recruitment and terrorist techniques of British cells is "entirely possible" as they learn from their mistakes.

He added: "Most of the plotters have left behind a trail of forensics behind that has led some police professionals to predict that this will seem like a golden age of counter terrorism, when we were both successful and lucky."

Prison staff urgently need to be trained to combat radicalisation and prison gangs need to be severely dealt with.

There's been a terrible mixup... you're son is black

...there was a terrible mix-up when the wrong sperm was mistakenly used by the hospital fertility clinic the couple attended in their hope of becoming parents.

The result is that while Keith, 47, and his 46-year-old wife Catherine are white, their son is black.

Hahahaha! Hahaha, hahaha. I'm sorry it's just the way they have managed to word it. From none other than the Daily Mail.

"James W. Von Brunn and the Poison of Racist Collectivism"

On Wednesday, according to news reports, James W. Von Brunn, a longtime belligerent racist and anti-Semite, walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and opened fire, murdering a security guard before he himself was shot and neutralized. Good people everywhere recognize the vicious criminality of his attack, and the particular insidiousness of his motivation to lash out where he did.

In reflecting on this tragedy, it is an appropriate time to contemplate the sanctity of innocent life, the horror that is unleashed by bigotry and intolerance, and the fragility of peaceful human relations. We should all be thankful that such hate-motivated violence is rarer in modern America than it has been in other places and times.

Unfortunately, many commentators have found a political, even partisan, lesson to be learned. They have said this vindicates the Department of Homeland Security document circulated earlier this year that warned against "right-wing extremists." Specifically, they have said that those who criticized the report were wrong all along.

But what were the criticisms? I recall no one arguing that anti-Semitic murderers were not criminals whose acts were horrific and uncivilized. There was no critic of the report, so far as I know, who complained that such antisocial elements as Ku Klux Klan members, Timothy McVeigh wannabes, and bigoted criminals, did not deserve the condemnation that all of civil society heaps upon them.

The problem with the report was that it painted all so-called "right-wing extremists" with an absurdly and obscenely broad brush. It lumped together the above violent agitators with peaceful political activists and recently returning veterans. It warned about people who are anti-government, anti-Federal Reserve, anti-gun control, anti-illegal immigration and anti-abortion.

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YouGov president 'startled' that 59% of BNP voters were Labour sympathisers

YouGov President Peter Kellner gives his views on the findings of their unique survey into BNP voters and their attitudes

But perhaps the most startling finding came when we tested anecdotal reports that many BNP voters were old Labour sympathisers who felt that the party no longer speaks up for them. It turns out to be true. As many as 59 per cent of BNP voters think that Labour "used to care about the concerns of people like me but doesn’t nowadays".

Channel 4 News

It begs the question why would it be such a surprise?

I think the answer lies in the BNP = right wing meme, which fails at many levels with their socialist and protectionist economic ideas, Griffin's sniping at privatisation and big greedy corporations etc. As Dizzy put it the other day; the BNP are ignorant white-power socialists.

Fascism and National Socialism were seen as "the third way, neither right nor left". It's true they incorporate elements from both left and right. So how exactly does the ring-wing tag make sense?

Muslims, Fuck Yeah!

Muslims opposing the scum bag wankers

I thought the Daily Mail was supposed to be the 4th Reich... Perhaps they have let their propaganda department slip...

Hat tip HP

The Guardian's Dream Team, Che and Fidel, And What You Can Really Achieve!

The lessons of Che and Fidel

The friendship of Guevara and Castro reminds us what Latin Americans can achieve by taking politics into their own hands

Oh what one can achieve! Oh my! If only!

Well here's a few pointers on what they could achieve; courtesy of Edmund Standing @ Harry's Place

1. Hatred. Che wanted to see 'Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine'. He considered Americans to be 'hyenas … fit only for extermination'.

2. Mass murder. Che wanted to launch a nuclear attack on New York City. He desired 'atomic extermination' of the 'hyenas' (read civilians) who lived there and in November 1962 he boasted to The London Daily Worker of the nuclear weapons, 'We would have used them against the very heart of the US, including New York City'. Even Che's sympathetic interviewer from the Daily Worker considered him to be 'crackers from the way he went on about the missiles'. It's only thanks to the intervention of Nikita Khrushchev that Che's plans came to nothing.

3. Terrorism. With the nuclear attack plans shelved, Che instead attempted to launch a terrorist campaign in New York City. Had it have worked, Macy's, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal would have been hit with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. To give some perspective, the 2004 Madrid train bombings used 100 kilos of TNT and killed and maimed almost 2,000 people.

4. Sacrificing the people of Cuba. At the First Latin American Youth Congress in July 1959, Che proudly claimed: 'These people [of Cuba] you see today tell you that even if they should disappear from the face of the earth because an atomic war is unleashed in their names … they would feel completely happy and fulfilled'.

5. Executions without trial. Che delighted in ordering and carrying out executions and considered the need to present a legal case and to give the accused the right to defend him or herself to be 'archaic bourgeois details'. 'I don't need proof to execute a man, I only need proof that it's necessary to execute him!', Che declared in 1959.

6. Persecution of gay men. In Che's Cuba, 'effeminate behaviour' became a crime and gay men were consigned to forced labour camps with the words 'Work Will Make Men Out of You' posted over the entry gates.

7. Totalitarianism. Che demanded that 'individualism must disappear!' Perhaps his greatest support for this principle is found in his relationship with the USSR. Indeed, according to KGB official Alexander Alexiev, 'Che was practically the architect of the Soviet-Cuban relationship'

Those whom get all dreamy eyed about these despots, are frankly, cunts.

And while I'm there; there's too many of these trustafarians and the prolier-than-thou champagne socialists like privately educated Zoe Williams (who think that privately funded schools should be banned and kids educated there should be 'sent to the back of the queue') who actually get paid to write this kind of crap for the Guardian.