I'm posting this article from the telegraph, not for its news value, but as a shining example of the mindset of those that have no place in any society, let alone a modern, sophisticated and tolerant one, such as we like to consider ourselves to be.
And for those that wish to tell me this isn't "Islam" well I've got news for you, it is. Complete with all its intolerance, misogyny, ignorance and delusional arrogance that personifies this insane, backward ideology.
Death, death, death, the Muslim answer to everything that they don't happen to agree with on any particular day. Just how much hate does a person have to carry around that blowing total strangers to bloody pieces is an acceptable and normal part of your persona?
Non-Muslims have 'sex like donkeys' and deserve to be blown-up, said 'terror plot' leader
Westerners have 'sex like donkeys' so 'why shouldn't we terrorise them?' the alleged leader of a terror plot was recorded saying.
By Tom Whitehead
25 Oct 2012
The leader of alleged suicide bomb plot said non-believers deserved to be attacked because they “have sex like donkeys”, orgies and took drugs, a court heard.
Ifan Naseer said the whole world was **** and people deserved to be terrorized.
The al-Qaeda inspired gang is accused of plotting to use eight suicide bombers detonating rucksacks packed with explosives in crowded places to cause “mass death” and carnage on the streets of Britain.
Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27, all unemployed from Birmingham, are the alleged “senior members” of the group and were among 12 people arrested and charged last year.
They all deny the charges against them.
Naseer, a trained chemist and alleged ringleader, was secretly recorded by the police trying to justify the plot.
He said: “You know the main thing is bro all this world is **** bro, you like know what it is the only thing which is good yeah, is Allah’s Deen (faith).”
Criticising others, he went on: “They wanna you know have sex like donkeys on the street, they wanna club, act like animals and why shouldn’t we terrorise them, tell me that?”
“No, you think about it, if someone came in your house yeah and started dancing and throughout the night and started basically having orgies and smoking drugs and stuff, yeah, would you do Sabr (Patience) or would you look, you would, you would terrorise them ainit, yeah, there you go, so it’s on Allah’s earth, it’s Allah’s earth, then Allah created it, everybody and Allah gave you everything as well, then you tell me that one.”
Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, told the jury: “He is disdainful of Western values so why should he not terrorise them.”
Naseer also raised the prospect of a second wave of suicide bombers after his group’s plot.
At one stage Naseer is explaining the destruction just a small bomb weighing 1kg could do, “especially if shrapnel like nuts or nails were sellotaped to it”, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
He said: “You put it in the middle (of a street) both ways people at both ends would be harmed.”
He added that “you probably kill about 25 people with one kg one” and “injure about 60, 50”.
Naseer also spoke about using bombs on timers with an alarm clock.
The secret recording was played to the jury, the first time they had heard Naseer's voice.
He said the "kuffars" - non-believers - would wet themselves and "probably die of a heart attack" because of the noise, which is as loud as "50 bullets together".
Naseer also talked about 7 or 8 bombs on different places with timers to all go off at the same time. "Boom boom boom everywhere", he said.
Yesterday it emerged that the cell applied for “pay day loans” to help fund their plot and were worried about exorbitant interest rates suggesting they would not be around to pay it back.
The gang, from Birmingham, also looked in to bank loans worth between £15,000 and £18,000, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
The group also planned to set up an Islamic learning centre to act as a “beautiful cover” and a mystery benefactor had offered £50,000 to help set it up although he did not know about the terror plot.
At the time, the men were based at a property in White Street, Birmingham, and when police raided it they discovered evidence of plans to make a bomb.
A partially burnt note was discovered contained formulae and diagrams, Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, told the jury.
Naseer, who has a pharmacy degree, was recorded talking about items needed including quantities of chemicals, syringes to be used to create a detonator, glue and drinking straws.
He also discussed nail polish remover, powder from match heads, electrical wiring, the use of batteries, sulphuric acid, hydrogen peroxide, ice packs and alarm clocks.
They planned to extract ammonium nitrate from sports injury cold packs, the jury was told.
Bush, Blair wanted for war crimes: Boyle
Oct 20, 2012
A prominent international lawyer says former US President George W. Bush, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair stand guilty of crimes against peace, war crimes and torture, Press TV reports.
In November 2011, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, in which Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois, led the prosecution team, convicted Bush and Blair of crimes against peace and humanity, and genocide over their roles in the Iraq war.
On May 11, 2012, the tribunal also found Bush, former US Vice President Dick Cheney and former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld guilty of the crime of torture.
"We will keep after Bush and Blair for sure for crimes against peace, war crimes and torture in general," Boyle told Press TV in a recent interview.
"We got them both convicted of a Nuremberg crime against peace," he added while referring to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the principles of international law recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal.
According to Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances are crimes "punishable" under international law.
In September, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Blair and Bush should be taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague over their roles in the Iraq war. "We are making efforts now to do this," Boyle stated, adding, "We tried to get Bush in Switzerland, but his lawyers advised him not to go to Switzerland. I tried three times to get Bush in Canada, but unfortunately the Canadian government protected Bush."
"The wheels of justice might turn slowly, but they do turn."
Boyle also criticized the ICC for its failure to bring to justice US, UK and Israeli criminals.
"So far, they are just going after black thugs from Africa and not dealing with this wholesale mass murderers and criminals from the United States, Britain and Israel," he said.
Boyle condemned the Israeli regime for "inflicting outright genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza," adding that there will be hearings in November in Malaysia on the issue of Palestine. Press TV
This is a bizarre story, it's certainly an eye opener.
The Disgusting Rivalries of Webcam Extortionists: Kody Maxson, Viper, and r0
By Patrick McGuire
In
my writing this week about the sexual extortion of Amanda Todd by an
online blackmailer, I connected a man named by the New Jersey sect of
Anonymous (which, by the way, suddenly appeared on the internet in the
wake of Amanda’s suicide) to a horrifyingly wretched group of mentally
ill pedophiles that convince young girls to strip on webcam, and then
record it. Then they use this footage to blackmail the girls into
providing them—and a large audience of pedophiles who follow the
blackmailers’ conquests—with further strip shows, which they continue to
record. While the mainstream media has failed to catch up to this story
with the level of detail and attention it so desperately deserves, they
have been very eager to follow Kody Maxson out of his court appearances
for “unrelated... charges of sexual assault and sexual interference
with a minor” and discuss the Anonymous leaks that blame Kody and a man
who goes by the screen name “Viper” for Amanda’s suicide.
After
further investigation into this emotionally exhausting and highly
disturbing world of online blackmailers, I have found that this
community not only follows and shares the screen captured images and
videos of these girls, but monitors internal rivalries among the
blackmailers. This competition has led me to question whether or not
Kody is the sole perpetrator in Amanda’s blackmail, and has made me
realize the size and depth of this horrible online culture.
The
article I published on Wednesday reported that Kody Maxson (who is
known online as Kody1206) blackmailed an underage girl named Peyton, as
detailed in a video from a series called the Daily Capper. If you
haven’t read that article, the Daily Capper is basically an online
newscast for the pedophile world, hosted by a news anchor developed
using footage from the kids’ show Crashbox, speaking with a dubbed-over
computerized voice. Amanda Todd, who was known to this community for
singing on webcam, appears in a Daily Capper video published on December
19, 2010.
In a video from October 31,
2010, the anchor reports: “Peyton claims that she is free of her
blackmailer’s clutches. She went on BlogTV earlier this week and shared
her story with the world about how Kody blackmailed her.” Peyton told
her side of the story in a video the Daily Capper ran, which was
recorded off of BlogTV: “A month ago, he recorded me for the first time
and then I was stupid enough to keep doing it because he said he was
never going to do it again... and he didn’t want to ruin our
relationship.” It is this deception of an underage girl that won Kody
the “Blackmailer of the Year” award from the Daily Capper. In that
video, Peyton describes Kody’s actions over a chilling, electronic
musical score that was added in for effect by the Daily Capper: “Now I
know that everyone that told me that he was like, a sick pedo that
records girls, were right. If he threatens me I can just threaten him
right back.
”
Kody Maxson has told the mainstream media that someone with the username
Viper, who New Jersey Anonymous is also after, is to blame for Amanda
Todd’s blackmailing. In a Daily Capper video from December 5, 2010, the
newscaster discusses the relationship between Kody and Viper: “Many have
been saying that Viper has always been a role model for Peyton’s
blackmailer, Kody1206. It seems Kody was also working to win
‘Blackmailer of the Year’ by screening caps of Peyton on BlogTV.”
Evidently, Kody and Viper were very much aware of each other, as they
traveled online in the same pedophiliac circles, and if this video is
correct, Kody saw himself as Viper’s apprentice.
In
an email I received yesterday, an anonymous reader showed me a profile
that Kody Maxson had registered for what appears to be a site that
enables Halo players to join up in teams and compete against each other.
If you look at his profile right now, you can see that his username on
the site is Kody. The official administrative posts from the site are
credited to a “Kody” as well, which suggests that he may have been
running this gaming site. more
Far too early in the morning for a rant, drive on.
Saudi moral committee threatens to cover “tempting” women’s eyes
Manar Ammar
16 November 2011
Women with sexy eyes in Saudi Arabia may be forced to cover them up, according to the spokesperson of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) in the conservative Gulf kingdom.
Spokesman of the Ha’eal district, Sheikh Motlab al-Nabet said the committee has the right to stop a women whose eyes seem “tempting” and order her to cover them immediately.
Saudi women are already forced to wear a loose black dress and to cover their hair and in some areas, their face, while in public or face fines or sometimes worse, including public lashings.
The announcement came days after the Saudi newspaper al-Watan reported that a Saudi man was admitted to a hospital after a fight with a member of the committee when he ordered
his wife to cover her eyes. The husband was then stabbed twice in the
hand.
The CPVPV is Saudi’s Sharia, Islamic law, executive arm and was founded in 1940 to ensure Islamic laws are not broken in public, yet over the years, the committee has been largely criticized over its human rights violations.
In 2002, the committee refused to let female students out of their burning schools in Mecca for “not wearing the proper head cover,” which contributed to a large number of dead. (See previous)
15 young girls died in the fire and dozens more were injured. The CPVPV men banned the firemen and policemen from accessing the girls as “it is not okay for girls to be seen without their full Islamic dress in front of strangers.”
The committee, which only accepts and trains volunteers, has questionable powers on the Saudi street, as they operate under the supervision of the King himself.
A Wikileaks document released last year mentioned that “wild Western-style parties” are regularly held at royal palaces in Jeddah, away from the reach of the committee, who stands helpless against any royal violations.
It was reported that the parties had alcohol, drugs, dancing and sex, according to American consulate wires published by the whistle-blower organization. bikyamasr.com
The report below is but a short version the state of things at Fukushima Daiichi, for a more comprehensive and more scary report, follow the Natural News link. The featured video has embedding disabled, so you will have to follow the link for that one too.
Ground under Fukushima Unit 4 sinking, structure on verge of complete collapse
ByAdonai
October 16, 2012
Though the mainstream media has long since abandoned the issue, the
precarious situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in
Japan is only continuing to worsen, according to a prominent Japanese
official. During a recent interview, Mitsuhei Murata, the former
Japanese Ambassador to both Switzerland and Senegal, explained that the
ground beneath the plant’s Unit 4 is gradually sinking, and that the
entire structure is very likely on the verge of complete collapse.
This
is highly concerning, as Unit 4 currently holds more than 1,500 spent
nuclear fuel rods, and a collective 37 million curies of deadly
radiation that, if released, could make much of the world completely
uninhabitable. As some Natural News readers will recall, Unit 4
contains the infamous elevated cooling pool that was severely damaged
following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that struck on March
11, 2011.
According to the Secretary of former Japanese Prime
Minister Naoto Kan, the ground beneath Unit 4 has already sunk by about
31.5 inches since the disaster, and this sinking has taken place
unevenly. If the ground continues to sink, which it is expected to, or
if another earthquake of even as low as a magnitude six occurs in the
region, the entire structure could collapse, which would fully drain the
cooling pool and cause a catastrophic meltdown.
“If Unit 4
collapses, the worse case scenario will be a meltdown, and a resultant
fire in the atmosphere. That will be the most unprecedented crisis that
man has ever experienced. Nobody will be able to approach the plants …
as all will have melted down and caused a big fire,” said Murata during
the interview. “Many scientists say if Unit 4 collapses, not only will
Japan lie in ruin, but the entire world will also face serious damages.”
Because
there are 31 nuclear units of a similar type to Unit 4 in the U.S., the
American government has been downplaying the disaster to protect its
own reputation, alleges Murata. This is, in fact, the primary reason why
so little has been reported on the severity of Fukushima following the
disaster. The American empire, in other words, does not want the world,
nor the American people, to know that there is the possibility of
literally dozens of Fukushima situations occurring on American soil,
should the right disaster situations arise.
Nothing I need to add really, between what I have said previously and the content, it pretty much says it all I guess.
But if the blog had a tag: How many lives can we ruin today, for no good reason, then this story would fit it to a tee.
In actual fact, - lives ruined forever - will get you a result in the search bar.
But I don't think anything is going to prepare you for that part of the article that involves Louisiana. Sick puppies is the term that first springs to mind, and I ain't talking about the offenders, I'm talking about the State.
Pariahs among us: Sex offender laws in the 21st century Stringent sex offender laws in the United States destroy lives and do little to mitigate repeat offences.
Charlotte Silver
14 Oct 2012
Maybe it is not so surprising that all we can think to do with a
subject we are simultaneously obsessed with and repulsed by is to shout
our alarm about it at every opportunity.
Sex crimes: The only kind of offence in the United States that
compels all convicted perpetrators to register their name, address, date
of birth, fingerprints and a photograph on a public website.
And what constitutes a sex crime? The breadth of this damning
classification is alarming and includes public urination, consensual
teen sex, sale of sex and exposure of genitals (including in the case of
children) - as well as violent rape.
One poignant example of the irrationality and senseless devastation of overreaching sex offender laws is the story of Evan B, as told by
Lara Geer Farley. When Evan was in high school he was arrested for
exposing himself to a group of his female peers. A court sentenced him
to four months in prison, but after he was released he was obliged to
register as a sex offender. The stigma drove Evan to drop out of school,
leave his home in Salina, Oklahoma and move to Tulsa, where the arduous
requirements associated with his sex offender status meant that he
could not maintain employment. A month before he should have turned 20,
Evan shot and killed himself.
And this: A comprehensive Human Rights Watch report,
published in 2007, draws attention to the common case of teenage boys
aged 15, 16, 17, who have consensual sex with their teenaged
girlfriends, finding themselves charged with pedophilia. They will be
labelled and publicly registered as "pedophiles" for the rest of their
lives.
In some states, boys as young as 10 who expose themselves to their
female friends or relatives are forced to register as a "sex offender"
before they understand what sex - or exposure - is.
Outcasts
Additional laws that govern the lives of sex offenders after they are
released from prison (if time is served) vary from state to state. But
for all, surveillance and stringent notification guidelines are key. In
addition to publicising one's status on a website, some states require
registrants (the preferred moniker) to inform their neighbours, future
employers, landlords, delivery men - or any other solicitor or visitor
who knocks on their door - of their status as a "sex offender".
Some states require convicts to wear GPS devices, so that law enforcers can monitor their whereabouts at all time.
Louisiana requires registrants to advertise their status in large red type on their driver's licence.
Other states require periodic plethysmograph tests, in which a
pressure sensitive wire is connected to the registrant's penis while
being shown various sexual images. The test is designed to detect
"sexual deviance".
The registrant is required to attend therapy and "behaviour
modification" sessions, check in with probation officers, as well as, of
course, engage the services of an attorney, none of which is cheap.
Most of these costs are carried by the offender, or as is often the
case, his parents.
In addition to adopting legislation that inverts the life of anyone
cast as a sex offender - making him quite literally a public spectacle -
hundreds of counties have established "exclusion zones". These are
areas that surround various public places - parks, schools, libraries,
etc - where registrants may not live, work or even walk by.
The proliferation of sex offender registration and residency
restriction laws began in 1994 when the US Congress and Senate
unanimously passed the Wetterling Act, which required convicted sex
offenders to register their information with the state of their
residence. Over the past two decades, the federal government has passed
law after law that publicised the registry, tightened its stringency and
perhaps most crucial, broadened its domain.
In 2006, Congress passed the Adam Walsh Act, which aimed to eliminate
the inconsistencies among different states' sex offender laws. However,
the ugly reality is that it expanded the "sex offences" that demanded
registration and thus doomed juvenile, non-violent offenders to,
potentially, a lifetime of registration. The law was easily renewed by
the US House of Representatives this August - a true indicator of just
how politically expedient these laws are.
Even Patty Wetterling, the woman responsible for the enactment of the
Wetterling law, in 2006 lamented the direction the country had taken to
handle sex offences: "People want a silver bullet that will protect
their children, [but] there is no silver bullet. There is no simple cure
to the very complex problem of sexual violence."
Advocates of "sex offenders" speak up
Hard evidence
and reason suggest that registries and residential requirements do
nothing to protect society from sexual assaults. Arguments in support of
registration laws rest on a fear-based assumption that notification
will protect children, but that assumption is baseless: As many as 90 per cent
of sexual assault cases are conducted by family members or
acquaintances. Furthermore, recidivism rates among sex offenders are
under 25 per cent.
While sex offender laws provide the illusion of "security", the
reality remains that rapists continue to walk free. According to statistics compiled
by the US Department of Justice, 91 per cent of rapists will never be
prosecuted, and only a fraction of those will be convicted or spend time
in jail.
Nevertheless, these laws keep coming.
This year in Southern California, as Halloween approaches, some
counties have passed ordinances banning registrants from decorating
their houses with cobwebs and pumpkins, instead requiring they post a
placard that notifies all passersby that there are "No candy or treats
at this residence". Furthermore, registrants may have no outside
lighting on October 31.
California's branch of the national coalition, Reform Sex Offender
Laws, has filed a lawsuit against the ordinance on behalf of five
unnamed sex offenders, as well as three of their spouses and two of
their children. The suit claims the ordinance violates the plaintiffs'
first amendment rights - by both forcing speech and denying their right
to celebrate the holiday.
In the meantime, a San Francisco law firm has filed a case against the stringent residency restrictions placed on registrants in four counties in Southern California.
These lawsuits in California are some of the first legal challenges
to the mounting set of restrictions placed on a broad class of
"criminals" throughout the country.
News of lawsuits challenging punitive legislation is appearing next to headlines reporting that some states may well reject
the Adam Walsh Act because they simply don't have the funds to
implement its burdensome requirements (Texas estimated it would cost
$38m) or are ethically opposed to legislation that would place juvenile
offenders on a registry for life.
The hypocrisy of sex offender laws that allege to combat sexual crime
by pouring millions into surveillance and registry programmes is
reflected in the difficulty experienced by rape support centres that are
struggling to merely survive.
The National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV) reported in a 2012 Rape Crisis Center Survey
that 67 per cent of rape crisis centres were forced to reduce the
amount of hours they spend dedicated to prevention and awareness
programmes; 50 per cent of programmes have eliminated staff in the past
year; and 65 per cent of programmes have a waiting list for counseling
services.
Sex offender laws have enabled the creation of a being - the pariah -
the very notion of which is rooted in an unenlightened (and assumed by
most of us to be discarded) view of humanity. A society must surely
protect its vulnerable members from violence and assault. Draconian sex
offender laws do not further that aim. They have simply accorded the
state the power to brand an individual as undeserving of the most basic
human and civil rights.
Footnote: for what it's worth, Blogger has a complete bollocks made of the HTML on this new mandatory interface. It used to be so very simple, now it's like mad woman's shit, it's all over the place.
It's somewhat of a pity that the header of this short clip gives the game away to a certain degree. I had rather hoped to ask you to watch the clip prior to any disclosure as to who the fellow really was.
I can still do that I'm thinking, the fact that you know he's a Pol won't detract too much I don't suppose, and let's face it, it's not as though Paul Broun is a household name outside America, or inside for that matter I shouldn't wonder.
So with no display of the header from the original article, might I ask you to watch this one minute clip first and then go to the text and enjoy that "You cannot be serious" moment.
Every American has every right to be religious. And every American has
every right to make religious speech (just not in places where others
are compelled to listen to it or participate in it, like public
schools). And every American has the right, if they so choose, to deny
reality. You can argue that aliens created human technology, Santa
Claus, whatever – you have that right. . . blah blah
Now comes the cracker and the gist of the piece.
. . . The real problem, and what frustrates me to no end, is that the Republican Party would place someone like Paul Broun, who obviously has a disdain for science and the factual reality of the world around us, to THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY! Forget the fact that he’s been married four times. Forget the fact that he’s a Conservative Evangelical. These aren’t the problem. The problem is that, based upon his fundamentalist religious convictions, he DENIES the fundamental tenets of science. Yet, despite this, the Republicans named him the CHAIR of the SCIENCE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT! Go to article
Footnote: I was tempted to make the header read: Republicans And They Wonder Why We Laugh At Them but to be fair, I'm sure there are plenty of Democrats who equally fit the same bill.
Why a member of the Polish underground sent himself into the infamous prison camp
David de Sola
5 Oct 2012
WARSAW -- There are very few places that can accurately be described as hell on Earth. One of these is the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, where as many as 1.5 million people died during the five years the camp was in operation.
The Polish resistance had been hearing horrific first- or second-hand accounts about the conditions inside Auschwitz. These early accounts came primarily from released prisoners, but also from casual observers like railway employees and residents of the nearby village of Oswiecim. The resistance decided they needed someone on the inside.
It is into this environment that Witold Pilecki, a 39-year old veteran of the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921 who fought against the initial Nazi invasion and a member of the Polish resistance, volunteered himself in 1940. Pilecki's mission was to allow himself to be arrested and, once inside Auschwitz, to collect intelligence for the Polish resistance in the country and the government-in-exile in London, and to organize a resistance from inside the camp.
"I think he knew, he realized what he was getting himself into," said Jacek Pawlowicz, a historian at Poland's Institute of National Remembrance. "But even so, he was not prepared for the things he was actually able to witness."
During the next three years, Pilecki was involved in one of the most dangerous intelligence-gathering and resistance operations of the war. He authored three reports about life inside the camp for the Polish resistance. During his incarceration, Pilecki witnessed from the inside Auschwitz's transformation from a detention facility for political prisoners and Soviet soldiers into one of the Nazis' deadliest killing machines.
An English translation of Pilecki's third and most comprehensive report -- a primary source for this article -- was recently published as a book titled The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery . It is a fascinating first-hand account of virtually all aspects of life inside the camp. The original document is in the custody of the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust in London.
"He was there in all of Auschwitz's worst periods, because he arrived at the moment when the camp was being created and was there until [1943]," Pawlowicz explained. "So while there he saw the camp growing, he saw [Birkenau] being built -- where the ovens were. But the ovens were not only in [Birkenau], there were gas chambers and crematoria on the territory of Auschwitz I.
"
Pilecki's family was kept out of the loop regarding his activities for security reasons. His son Andrzej Pilecki recalls, "There was secrecy because of the danger, so that the children would know as little as possible. But I felt something. My father was in Warsaw. We were 100 kilometers away. We came to visit him sometimes and my father would teach us how to behave during the occupation."
Pilecki began preparations for his mission in the late summer of 1940. While staying at a safehouse, he found identity papers belonging to a man named Tomasz Serafinski, who was erroneously presumed killed in September of 1939. Because the Nazis asked for the names and addresses of inmates and their relatives as a method to keep the population under control, Pilecki wisely decided not to give his real name or those of his immediate family. Pilecki placed his photograph on Serafinski's papers and memorized his details. His plan was to be arrested and booked under the Serafinski alias.
In the early morning hours of September 19, Nazis did a roundup in Warsaw and arrested as many as 2,000 people. According to Adam Cyra and Wieslaw Wysocki's 1997 biography Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, Pilecki was in the apartment of Eleonora Ostrowska the morning of the roundup. A caretaker and member of the resistance came in and made several suggestions to Pilecki for how to avoid being caught. According to Ostrowska, "Witold rejected those opportunities and didn't even try to hide in my flat." When a German soldier knocked on the door and asked who lived there, Pilecki walked out. As he was saying goodbye to Ostrowska, he quietly whispered to her, "Report that I have fulfilled the order."
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, who later became Foreign Minister of Poland, was arrested in the same roundup and taken to Auschwitz in the same transport as Pilecki, which left the morning of September 21 and arrived at the prison camp at 10 p.m. that same day.
"At the time we were not aware of what Auschwitz was," he wrote. "The underground movement was compelled to investigate what was happening to those people, to check the possibilities of organizing them somehow, possibly of helping them. And Witold Pilecki embarked on that tremendous task. It was his aware and voluntary decision to join another huge round up in Warsaw."
Pilecki was not happy with the behavior he saw of his fellow Poles. "What really annoyed me the most was the passivity of this group of Poles," he later wrote. "All those picked up were already showing signs of crowd psychology, the result being that our whole crowd behaved like a herd of passive sheep."
"A simple thought kept nagging me: stir up everyone and get this mass of people moving."
Pilecki was booked under the Serafinski alias, and was assigned the prisoner number 4859. Once inside, Pilecki immediately began work on organizing a network among the inmate population. In his own words, his objective was to set up a military organization on the inside to keep up morale, provide news from the outside world, distribute food and clothing to members, smuggle camp intelligence to the outside world, and to prepare detachments to take control of the camp by force if the order were given.
He called his network the Union of Military Organization, known by its Polish acronym ZOW, and would be part of the Home Army, the Polish resistance. The secrecy of the ZOW's existence was paramount. To ensure its continuity in the event of discovery by Nazi guards or informants, Pilecki created a highly compartmentalized system of five-man cells. The leader of each cell would be people of utmost confidence, committed to the Polish resistance and able to withstand possible interrogation or investigation by the German guards. Each cell leader swore an oath to Pilecki himself and only knew of the four men under his command, but not of the existence of any other cells. By doing so, Pilecki effectively minimized the risk of exposure to the entire network.
Pawlowicz estimates that Pilecki's network included some 500 inmates at Auschwitz by March of 1942, but notes this number may have doubled by the time of Pilecki's escape the following year. In time, Pilecki was able to place informants and allies in key positions throughout the camp. In time, these would prove crucial for Pilecki and other ZOW members. more
I'm glad that is to be the case; no doubt she will be clearing up a discrepancy or two.
Perhaps she might like to start here with this little lot.
I thought I would take this opportunity to bring together on one page certain discrepancies relating to the night of May third 2007. These discrepancies, or McCann sound bites if you will, are fundamental, nay, they are the cornerstone for the McCann's claim that Madeleine was a victim of stranger abduction.
That this case has progressed to the point it has without these inconsistencies and disparities being addressed, I find not only staggering, but scandalous. That such conflicting and contradictory statements made by the parents have never been investigated by any law enforcement agency in this country, is, as I say, not only scandalous, but shameful. And please, don't give me it's jurisdiction issue.
That parents, in a case of a three year old girl seemingly disappearing off the face of the earth, can make such contradictory statements with impunity, says much for the state of this Nation, it's law enforcement, and not least it's Government.
It matters not that books are written, that documentaries are made, or whatever tripe the press wishes to print in their obsession to sanctify this loathsome pair , it matters not because it is all worthless, it is all utterly without worth until these fundamental questions are answered.
And do you remember this little bit of damage limitation after the cornerstone of the abduction, the window, now given the status of red herring, by someone sounding increasingly more desperate by the day.
[Kate McCann] The window: I described to the police officers exactly what I found that night, as it was and is highly relevant and I knew that every little detail could be helpful in finding my daughter which is our only aim. The window which is a ground floor window was completely open and is large enough for a person to easily climb through it. Whether it had been opened for this purpose remains unknown.It could of course have been opened by the perpetrator when inside the apartment as a potential escape route or left open as a 'red herring'more Complete article now below: Let's Not Concern Ourselves.
Damage Limitation
Kate McCann's attempt at damage limitation after a few previously known and unknown facts became available to a wider audience after the Lisbon hearing.
eta: If this statement is anything to go by, the book is going to be a doozy.
We are currently in Lisbon for the trial to determine whether the injunction against Mr Amaral's book and DVD should remain in place. This trial is about whether the book is a true reflection of the official judicial process in to Madeleine's disappearance and whether its contents damage the ongoing search for Madeleine, her siblings and our reputations.
Mr Amaral's book and DVD contains some information from the PJ files but there is a lot in the files which is not in Mr Amaral's book. Hence it is highly selective and therefore biased. Mr Amaral's book contains his opinions rather than fact. His opinions differ from the findings in the PJ file. The conclusions of the latter are: 1.there is no evidence that Madeleine is dead and 2. there is no evidence that Gerry or I are involved in Madeleine's disappearance. This is very different to the theories and conclusions of Mr Amaral. It is logical and common sense that spreading these theories as Mr Amaral did (and continues todo) damages the search to find our little girl. If the general public (and the Portuguese people in particular) are bombarded day in and day out with such theories, this will eventually 'colour' their understanding and judgement -lies and inaccuracies become fact. If people subsequently believe that Madeleineis dead and that we are involved in her disappearance then they will not look for Madeleine, will not consider any suspicions about others which they may have and will not come forward with information. We consider this highly detrimental to the search for Madeleine.
There are few points which have been raised in the last few days which I would like to address specifically:
Abduction theory:For us, there is only the abduction theory possible because we were not involved in Madeleine's disappearance and we know Madeleine did not wander off by herself. It is obvious and right that the police should consider other theories initially.
The window: I described to the police officers exactly what I found that night, as it was and is highly relevant and I knew that every little detail could be helpful in finding my daughter which is our only aim. The window which is a ground floor window was completely open and is large enough for a person to easily climb through it. Whether it had been opened for this purpose remains unknown. It could of course have been opened by the perpetrator when inside the apartment as a potential escape route or left open as a 'red herring'
The dogs: We realise that the behaviour of the dogs was the turning point in the investigation for the PJ. The use of dogs has proved to be problematic and unreliable in previous cases
(please refer to the Jersey ‘Haut de La Garenne' case and other research published about their use and reliability). It is vital to note that alerts by such dogs are classified as intelligence rather than evidence, as police officers familiar with their use will verify. These alerts must be supported by forensics in order to be used as evidence. The results of the forensic examinations did not identify any blood or Madeleine's DNA. To suggestor use the dogs´ reactions as evidence is simply wrong and abusive.
The proposed reconstruction: The suggestion of a reconstruction of our movements and other key witnesses at the crime scene and/or surrounding area in the early days following Madeleine's abduction was declined by the PJ as 'not usual' for Portugal. When the PJ finally requested a reconstruction to take place in 2008, Gerry and I were still arguidos and as such would have attended for a reconstruction. Some key witnesses (including some of our friends)declined to attend the planned reconstruction as they were not convinced of the aims and usefulness of it. In particular, as the reconstruction was not to be shown to the media (and hence the general public), they did not feel it would help to find Madeleine. Had the intention been to show it to the general public, it may have 'jogged' memories and encouraged people to come forward with information. It should be added that other key witnesses were not invited to attend.
Our team is confident that the injunction will remain in place because none of the witnesses thus far have been able to prove in court that Mr. Amaral's right to express his opinion is superior to the rights of our family to peace, respect and protection of reputation, and above all, the right to continue the search for our daughter Madeleine effectively and without hindrance. As has been made clear this week, Mr Amaral's ‘thesis' is not supported by any evidence. The search for Madeleine must go on until we find her and bring her abductor(s) to justice.
Just what does it take to get arrested by the Leicester police?
The corner stone of this nonsensical abduction story offered by the McCanns has always centred around the window and the "jemmied shutters."
I have written about the shear impossibility of such a scenario here, and Dr Martin Roberts addresses the same likelihood and can be found at this link.
Below in black and white and on video tape are the accounts of McCann family members and friends, etched in stone as it were, and there is only one indisputable source for these accounts, Kate and Gerry McCann.
But firstly, prior to reading these accounts, we have to take a good look at the latest incredible words of Kate McCann.
This single paragraph is but one of many taken from the McCanns feeble effort to limit the fallout from what came to light in Lisbon. This latest blog entry written by Kate McCann? after their failed and misguided attempt to silence Goncalo Amaral and as such silence the truth.
The window: I described to the police officers exactly what I found that night, as it was and is highly relevant and I knew that every little detail could be helpful in finding my daughter which is our only aim. The window which is a ground floor window was completely open and is large enough for a person to easily climb through it. Whether it had been opened for this purpose remains unknown.It could of course have been opened by the perpetrator when inside the apartment as a potential escape route or left open as a 'red herring'
In the immortal words of John McEnroe, you cannot be serious, you really really cannot be serious.
Apart from a few lines by way of introduction, I have just posted the relevant parts of various articles.*
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Agony as 3-yr-old vanishes from holiday flat
A HUGE hunt was going on last night for three-year-old Maddy McCann, feared snatched from her holiday flat.
Maddy is believed to have been taken as she slept in the complex on Portugal's Algarve as her doctor parents ate at a bar 120ft away. Her scent was picked up by a police sniffer dog. But it petered out after 400 yards.
Yesterday, 24 hours after the young child vanished in quiet Praia da Luz, anguished parents Gerry and Kate, both 38, of Rothley, Leics, begged for her return.
A friend said: "Kate rang us totally hysterical, saying Maddy was abducted. They're devastated."
The appalling news that three-year-old Maddy McCann was feared kidnapped from her holiday flat came in a distraught phone call early yesterday from her dad.
Heart specialist Gerry McCann rang his sister Trishin Scotland after Maddy vanished from her cot placed between two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
Trish revealed yesterday: "He was breaking his heart, saying 'Madeleine's been abducted, she's been abducted'."
Trish said: "When Kate checked, she came out screaming. Maddy had gone. The door was open andthe window in the bedroomand shutters were jemmied open.Nothing had been touched and no valuables taken.
"They think someone must havecome in the windowand gone out the door with her."
Close family friend Gill Renwick, of Liverpool, who also spoke to GP Kate yesterday, said: "Poor Kate and Gerry don't know where to turn.
"Madeleine has obviously been taken. She couldn't have gone out on her own and the shutters were forced."
"The window shutters, which had been closed since we arrived on Saturday, were open along with the window. They can be opened from the outside.
"The window opens on to a car park. The door to the room was shut. It looks as ifsomeone has come through the windowand possibly left through the door."
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Close family friend Jon Corner, of Liverpool, told how tearful Kate sobbed down the phone early yesterday: "Someone has taken my little girl."
Jon, godparent to the McCanns' twins, said: "She was in an absolutely hysterical state - very, very distressed. She blurted out Madeleine had been abducted.
"Kate said the shutters of the room were smashed.Madeleine was missing It looks as though someone had gone straight past the twins to get to her. Kate was incredibly upset. I've spoken to her since, and she's still completely devastated.
"She's also very upset that the police don't seem to be doing more to find Madeleine. She thinks there's too little happening."
Mark Warner management denied there were signs of forced entry at the flat claiming instead that roller shutters had been slid up and the bedroom window opened.
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Jon Corner, a close friend of Mrs McCann and godparent of the twins, said Kate telephoned him in the middle of the night distraught.
He said: "She just blurted out that Madeleine had been abducted. She told me,'They have broken the shutter on the windowand taken my little girl.'
"They had left the apartment lockedwhile they were having their meal, butwhen they went back the last time they saw the damage."
After speaking to her a second time, he repeated his earlier account, but this time in stronger language
He told how tearful Kate sobbed down the phone early yesterday: "Someone has taken my little girl."
He continued: "She was in an absolutely hysterical state - very, very distressed. She blurted out Madeleine had been abducted.
"Kate said the shutters of the room were smashed.Madeleine was missing It looks as though someone had gone straight past the twins to get to her. Kate was incredibly upset. I've spoken to her since, and she's still completely devastated.
"She's also very upset that the police don't seem to be doing more to find Madeleine. She thinks there's too little happening." (Get it in early.)
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Brian Healy Grandfather.
"Gerry told mewhen they went back theshutters to the room were broken, they were jemmiedup and she was gone," said Mr Healy. "She'd been taken from the chalet. The door was open."
I reiterate, Just what does it take to get arrested by the Leicester police?
Madeleine McCann was a three year old girl and a Leicestershire resident.
4003 to 4004 Email from Stuart Prior to the PJ (in English)
15-Processos Vol XV Page 4003 to 4004
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Fax
Date: 18th January 2008
From: Stuart Prior
To: Ricardo Paiva
Subject: BC4 Memo, Gail Cooper doc. Gail Cooper statement, Iris Morgan doc, report Morgan doc, Rex Morgan doc.
Ricardo,
All the docs attached in this and the next two emails as discussed earlier today.
We are still working on one or two aspects and I will get back to you over this and for any further direction from yourselves over facial recognition.
As we have discussed I have given Gerry a brief update just saying that the other descriptions are different to the artists impressions completed by Gail and identified by Jane. That the witnesses appeared genuine which indicates a number of charity collectors in the area prior to Madeleine being taken. I informed him everything has been forwarded to yourselves.
We have not spoken with Jane at all and will not share our e fits with anybody except yourselves unless you request this from us. It appears there were at least three charity collectors if not more in the area in the weeksprior to Madeleine being taken.
I am told that the artist impression by Gail Cooper is likely to hit the media over the weekend and I will update you on the effects of this next week, although we are not involved in this in any way at all.
Hope all is well.
Spk soon.
Stu
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Your witness.
At around 10pm, the interviewee went to check on the children. She went into the apartment by the side door, which was closed. She noticed that the door to her children's bedroom was completely open, the window was also open, the shutters raised and the curtains open,while she was certain of having closed them all as she always did. Kate McCann, in a statement to the Policia Judiciária, may 4th, 2007
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At 10pm, Kate went to check on the children. She went into the apartment, using her key and saw that the bedroom door was completely open,the window was also open, the shutters raised and the curtains open.The doors were locked except the one at the back as already noted above. Gerry McCann, in a statement to the Policia Judiciária, may 4th, 2007
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It wasn’t until Kate walked into the villa at 10 and felt a sickening breeze—the front window had been jimmied open—that she realized something terrible had happened. “The scene was stark,” Gerry tells me. On one bed the twins lay sleeping. In the next lay only the plush cat toy Madeleine was never without. That was when Kate came out screaming, “Madeleine has gone!” Vanity Fair January 10, 2008
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K: I did my check about 10.00 ‘clock and went in through the sliding patio doors and I just stood, actually and I thought, oh, all quiet, and to be honest, I might have been tempted to turn round then, but I just noticed that the door, the bedroom door where the three children were sleeping, was open much further than we’d left it. I went to close it to about here and then as I got to here, it suddenly slammed and then as I opened it, it was then that I just thought, I’ll just look at the children and I could see S and A in the cot and then I was looking at M’s bed which was here and it was dark and I was looking and I was thinking, is that M or is that the bedding. and I couldn’t quite make her out. It sounds really stupid now, but at the time, I was thinking I didn’t want to put the light on cos I didn’t wanna wake them and literally, as I went back in,the curtains of the bedroom which were drawn,… were closed, … whoosh … It was like a gust of wind, kinda, just blew them open and cuddle cat was still there and her pink blanket was still there and then I knew straight away that she had, er, been taken, you know. Kate McCann in C4 Cutting Edge documentary - Madeleine was here, april 2008
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Kate: Yeah, so I thought well I'll just close it over again, and as I went to close it over it slammed shut and I thought and it was like sort of you know a draught had caused it to shut so I turned behind me and I thought are the patio doors open and they were closed and I thought well that's strange so then I opened the door thinking I'll open it ajar a bit again and that was when I kind of looked into the room and when I just looked and it was quite dark and I was just looking and looking at Madeleine's bed and I was thinking is that her that I was looking for why isn't Madeleine there? And then in the end I walked over and thought oh, she's not in bed and then I thought maybe she's wandered through to our bed and that's why the door's open so I went through to our bedroom and she wasn't there and then I kind of see then I'm starting to panic a bit and I ran back into their room and literally as I went back into their room the curtains that were drawn over just "foooosh" flew open and that's when I saw that the shutter was right up and the window was pushed right open. And that was when I just knew that erm someone had taken her. So I, I mean I ran to the window and I didn't know what I thought was going to see but I ran to the window and then I quickly hmm quickly looked through the wardrobes I had I suppose this temporary thought she was cowering in a wardrobe or something anyway she wasn't there and I just ran out and soon as... Kate McCann on the Oprah show, may 2009.Your Witness Stu
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A couple of clips and a link relative to this nonsense.
Trish Cameron: They last checked at half past nine; they were all sound asleep, sleeping; windows shut; shutters shut. Kate went back at ten o'clock to check; the front door was lying open; the window had been tampered with; the shutters had been jammied open... or whatever you call it, and Madeleine was missing.
McCann Files: 'Frantic search for toddler' Video BBC
Straight from the off we get a lesson in McCann style child care, better to leave the kids on their own rather than with a baby sitter they don't know. But it's not Phil McCann's spin that really concerns us here, it's other stuff, stuff like:
Gerry and Kate are in a clear line of sight of their kids.
No they weren't. and
It is obvious that someone with malicious intent went through that window and took Madeleine from the safety and security of her family.
No they didn't, nobody went through the window and took Madeleine 'from the safety and security of her family'
A little later:
Ian Woods: And it must be very frustrating for them to just be sitting, waiting for news. Is there... is there a temptation for them to... to get out and... and try and search themselves,
Philomena McCann: Yeah, well, I mean, for Gerry and Kate, they want to get out there. They want to search everything; they want to leave nothing unturned but,....... source McCann Files - 'It Is Abhorrent To Suggest Bad Parenting'
And we all know about getting out there.
Footnote: It's not an impossible scenario to imagine, although a lot less likely, (and even less likely knowing the parents) although a lot less likely because of the age of the child involved, but I have taken other people's kids on on foreign holidays. And anybody who has ever had kids of their own will know why, Daaaad, Muuum, I'm bored.
But had for instance the McCanns taken one of our Matty's sprogs, or our Stu's kids abroad, and one of them was "abducted." I can't help but ask myself, would 'because Gerry McCann says the kid was abducted' be good enough for any of these parents and upholders of the law?
