"ANTI-TERROR MEASURES ARE RUINING LIVES"

Hicham Yezza, a student at the University of Nottingham who was arrested and detained under anti-terror laws for downloading an Al Qaeda manual which he claims was necessary in order to research for his masters degree, spoke to a national radio station about his detention in light of the parliamentary 42 day detention bill.

"I had my academic career, I had my university, but not everyone has their university. If you go around arresting young Muslim individuals, especially men, you are going to find that you are going to ostracise this community. Young Muslims don't need to be ostracised, they need to be engaged." Hicham Yezza

'Engage' also means 'involve'. Now, if we were to invite young, devout Muslims to church or to the pub in order that we might involve them with our community, what reaction do you think we might get?

Read more here.

No change out of Notts Arts Exchange

Nottingham City Council boast on their website that the New Art Exchange in Hyson Green, Nottingham, due to open in 2008, will be the UK's only gallery outside London dedicated to black and Asian artists. Housing public galleries, workshop space, rehearsal rooms and offices, as well as a cafe and shop, it is hoped the centre will become the UK's "very best" for multicultural arts.

The project has been backed by funding from Arts Council England (£2.9m), Nottingham City Council (£300,000), the East Midlands Development Agency (£300,000), the Greater Nottinghamshire Partnership (£534,000) and the European Regional Development Fund (£266,000).

The Neighbourhood Development Company, formerly New Deal for Communities Radford and Hyson Green, which has provided £1.2m, says the Exchange will form a keystone in the regeneration of the area.

Meanwhile, down the road, about ten doors away from the Kyhyber Pass take away, the Muslim Hands Charity boasts the following on its website:

Today Muslim Hands has grown to be one of the UK's foremost charities. Our work encompasses 40 countries, with field offices in over 20, and we spend annually in excess of £7,000,000 on projects ranging from disaster relief and medical aid, to education and tree plantation.

2005
MH appeal for victims of the Tsunami raises almost £1,500,000.

2003
Bam, Iran: Devastating earthquake kills 50,000. Muslim Hands provides food parcels to 3000 families and clothing to 1000. MH receives 4 acres of land from the Mayor of Bam to construct an orphanage.

2002
US led war on Afghanistan brought further suffering to impoverished Afghans. 400 tonne food convoys immediately sent in via Pakistan. Emergency medical clinics, mobile medical units and ambulance service set-up to serve Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Charman and Peshawar. 10,000 school kits and 300 wheelchairs distributed.

2001
Aid agencies pulled out of Afghanistan leaving 7.5 million Afghans facing hunger and winter. Muslim Hands sent aid convoys to Herat, Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar. A medical camp and an ambulance services were set-up.

2000
The sacking of Grozny: Muslim Hands provides regular food, clothing and shelter to 7,000 refugees in Georgia. Also established four schools for children and adults.

1999
Wark in Kosova: 500 tonnes of food, clothing and medicine distributed. 12 ambulances deployed with medical teams. Established a medical warehouse to coordinate international aid flowing in.

Are you thinking what I am thinking?

Stop and search or stand and deliver?

Police stop and searches are the subject of a questionnaire available to people in Notts.

John Clarke, Chair of the Police Authority, said: "Stop and search is very much in the news at the moment and is an issue we know causes concerns especially among minority communities and young people. We felt that it would be useful to have the views of those who have been stopped and searched to see how they felt about their experience.

"We are always searching for new ways in which we can facilitate improvements to service delivery and we hope that the feedback from this consultation will be helpful in that respect." Read more here.

What about finding more money to tackle crime and "new ways" to make our streets safer instead Mr Clarke?

Notts County Council bears down on its electorate over buses

Oh this is good.....

Protesters were threatened with eviction from a Notts County Council meeting today as the cabinet voted for the controversial bus plugs to stay.

Labour members were jeered by a packed public gallery as they voted through the recommendations.

The plugs - which restrict all traffic but buses, pedestrians and cyclists entering part of the A612 Burton Road and Stoke Lane - were put in to relieve congestion at the junction with Shearing Hill in Gedling.

Council officers warned if the plugs were removed more than 11,000 motorists would return to the road.

As this was read out to the cabinet meeting at County Hall protestors shouted "rubbish".

Council leader David Kirkham threatened to evict those shouting from the public gallery.

Cabinet member for environment Stella Smedley pointed to the gallery and said: "The jeering shows a lack of good manners."

Outside the meeting, Margaret Pollard, 62, from Burton Joyce, said she was "incensed" with Coun Smedley's comments.

Several protesters left voluntarily. Pauline Reffin, 69, of Gedling Village, said: "They said that everybody in Gedling is supposed to be for these bus plugs. We want it removed.

"The traffic to me is exactly the same. It just comes around a different road."

Who do Nottinghamshire County Council's councillors think they are? I am surprised Lynn Davis from East View, Bridgford didn't show up and tell them all to "go home and do as you are told....NOW!" Just like she usually does when people assert their rights.

As for David Kirkham, he is the totalitarian, slave driving Labour leader of Nottinghamshire County Council who clamped down on absence and sickness levels amongst council staff as opposed to facing the music over the extremely bad pay and conditions that make his staff ill in the first place.

Regarding meetings he attends, Cllr Kirkham says on his web page:

The Deputy Leader and I also continue to hold fortnightly meetings with a representative from the Nottingham Evening Post and Corporate Communications, where current and forthcoming areas of interest are discussed. I also meet with a representative of the CHAD to discuss similar matters.

I also continue to hold fortnightly Communication Portfolio update meetings with the Deputy Leader and officers to discuss how we can best we can keep the people of Nottinghamshire informed through County Council channels about our plans.

What a sinister man! Not a mention of meetings with community groups or listening to people what so ever. Does he seriously expect to win another election?

More propaganda from BBC East Midlands

Thursday - went to a recording of my favourite TV programme at Southwell Minster - the BBC's Antiques Road Show. Could anything be better, be more British? The Minster in its beautiful grounds, the trees in blossom, a quintessentially British town like Southwell, a well behaved, well heeled crowd clutching symbols of their traditional past - their antiques - no white chavs, no so called 'BAME representatives' - except just ONE, a black person amongst the thousands of others; that's all. Even the police were in a good mood, sociable and chatty, and the pay and display machines in the town's car parks were covered over with bin bags - it was heaven. The great Henry Sandon waddled along the queue of visitors chatting, signing autographs, shaking hands with all and sundry.

Inside the Minster, our favourite experts were to be seen wandering about, advising the public on their treasures, and local BBC reporter Quentin Davis was cosying up to Fiona Bruce - it was wonderfully surreal.

I left hours later thinking "this IS the best country in the world".

The evening's East Midlands Today coverage at 6.30 on BBC 1 however showed a different story - out of five short on camera interviews at the start of the piece, there were four white people featured and the one black person I mentioned earlier. Then, after the Fiona Bruce interview, five separate shots were shown of people inside, having their antiques discussed and valued - and, yes, four of them where white and one black, giving an impression of a multiracial programme!

Anyone not there could reasonably assume that 20 or 25% of the attendees at the Southwell edition of the Antiques Road Show were from ethnic minorities, a totally false impression given by the politically correct, state funded BBC who should be brought to account for using an individual to promote the Marxist ideology of their paymasters in this way. This was divisive, manipulative propaganda on their part.

Incidently, talking about propaganda: I noticed a memorial in the Minster commemorating the 14,500 Polish officers murdered at Katyn in 1940. That reminded me of one of my uncles - a Polish veteran of the 1944 Arnhem campaign (who married one of my aunts after the War), who told me that he had understood the Germans were responsible for the Katyn massacre. It was only years later - after the fall of the Berlin wall - that the truth came out: the Russians, not the Germans, were responsible for this terrible crime. But it doesn't say so on the Southwell memorial - could it be that political correctness decrees that the false impression be maintained that Germany and "the nartsis" were to blame?

Radical Islam Over Runs London Streets

Arab Muslim Gangs on Streets of London

RWB "Objections"

I couldn't stop laughing at the 14 page "submission" against this year's proposed Red White & Blue BNP festival, sent to Amber Valley District Council from the so called "Stop the BNP" at a London PO Box!

Looking suspiciously like the product of a kindergarten debating society it contained such objections as "members and supporters...with access to alcohol and music that is whipping them up into a racist frenzy..." and "...an atmosphere of aryan superiority..".

BNP Chairman Nick Griffin never waves at supporters - in case press photographers misrepresent the wave as a "fascist salute" - he gives instead the Churchillian V for Victory sign. Yet in the Amber Valley submission there's a photo of Nick doing just that same V for Victory wave, but - yes - they've cut him off at the wrist, referring to it as a fascist salute!

That's the same trick they do with the famous picture of Stephen Lawrence where they cut off the black power salute he can be seen doing on the full, original photograph.

Needless to say, the council quite sensibly threw out the outrageous and silly list of objections.

BBC Propaganda Machine

The BBC East Midlands Today propaganda machine swung into operation today, persuading us that “foreign nationals” in our region are “not more likely to commit crime” than the rest of us. By an incredible coincidence it turns out, according to a police report, that our foreign nationals – mainly Poles and other east Europeans – commit exactly the same amount of crime, per capita, as we do, around 4% of the total. Nobody knows just how many foreigners there are in our region, but let’s assume that they are 4% of the total population, then last year they were found to have committed, in proportion to the total, 6000 crimes (ie 4%). The BBC glossed over the nature of the 6000 crimes saying that they are "just like the sorts of crimes we do"!

It's also worth bearing in mind that groups like the 20,000 Somalis now gracing us with their presence in Leicester, and no doubt "enriching" that city, are not classed as foreign nationals - most of them claimed asylum in Holland and became EU citizens before walking in to Britain.

Yet another nail in the coffin of the government's point system to keep out all but essential or skilled immigrants.

The police consider that these figures overturn “the myth” that foreigners are more predisposed to criminality than are the rest of us, but are 6000 extra crimes and the suffering for the victims and the cost in police time really worth the 50 p a week we ordinary folk benefit by for their presence? And how much extra will the already outrageously high Nottinghamshire County Council Tax have to increase for the new Foreign Nationals Crime team announced today?