Tommy’s Latest Osman Warning

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English Defence League
April 6, 2012

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You will see from the two images above, for his appearance on theBBC’s ‘Big Question’ programme, he has been rewarded by the Religion of Peace with another death threat.

For those outside of the UKand for those who don’t know what an Osman warning is, we shall briefly explain. An Osman warning is an official warning given by the police authorities to individuals and their families where they,

the police, have creditable evidence of a threat to the life and person involved. It dates back to 1986 when the Osman family were attacked, and the father killed by a man who had become infatuated with the son. The family won a case in the European Court of Human Rights on the basis that the police had a duty of care to people in such situations irrespective if the victim is him/herself a criminal.

There remains one big question to be answered by the Bedfordshire police force. If you note on the second image, it quite clearly states that they know is making the threat. The question that needs to be answered is, why is this person not being arrested?If members of the EDL quietly enjoying a drink after the Remembrance Day ceremonies can be rounded up and questioned merely on the words of an anonymous twitter because the twitter suggested going to St. Paul’s and getting into a fight with the demonstrators there. Remember this is not known intelligence, it’s not definite, just a rumour and the police acted on it, why have they not acted on the information in the Osman warning? Is this not just another case of not upsetting the local Muslims and reinforcing community cohesion? Is this not another example of the two-tier system of policing and law enforcement we are coming to expect from the police and the Establishment?

It is time for the police and the Establishment to make up its mind either enforce the law as it should be applied, to all citizens of the United Kingdom without reference to colour, creed, ethnicity, religious belief or political beliefs. We need the law to be applied to all equally and fairly.

School discipline: Sparing the rod has spoilt the children

By Katharine Birbalsingh
06 Apr 2012

What can be done to reverse the collapse in discipline since the banning of the cane?

When I was in my second year of teaching, I asked a 15-year-old boy to leave the classroom as he was being disruptive and rude. He refused, and swore at me several times. I wrote down what he was saying – because as a teacher today, your word is never enough. He marched towards me, and stood there, towering above me, his fist raised. “Gimme the paper, bitch!” he shouted, trying to grab it from my hand.

I held on, knowing that if I let go, I’d lose the rest of the class for ever. After several attempts to scare the wits out of me – which, I have to say, nearly worked – he let go of the paper and left the room. His punishment? To sit outside the deputy head’s office for the next couple of lessons.

It comes as little surprise, then, that a report to the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has revealed that a quarter of the union’s members have been physically attacked in the past 12 months. Or that half of the teachers say that low-level disruption has got worse in the past two years. Or, as this newspaper reports today, that teachers are winning hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation for injuries received at their pupils’ hands.

Mary Bousted, the leader of the ATL, claims that part of the problem is that middle-class children aren’t given enough chores to do at home: the result is a generation of spoilt and precious “little Buddhas”. Clearly, families have an important role to play when it comes to instilling discipline. Bousted is right to point out that we have allowed children to take control, with parents running around trying to please them with a bigger television set, the latest iPad, or the most expensive birthday party. Gone are the days when parents were considered to have the authority, and when a teacher’s threat to tell Mum or Dad was enough to keep the child in line. On the contrary, it is rather more common to hear “I’m gonna tell my mum on you!” being shouted at the teacher.

The problem, however, is rather more complex than just children not doing the washing-up. Part of it is the rise in low-level disruption. The inordinate emphasis on group work and the general pressure on teachers to be “facilitators of learning” who roam among a bustling class, rather than teaching to it from the front, is part of the reason why general noise and inattentiveness is considered normal. In some places, it is simply expected.

With the boundaries shifted in this way, so that “good” behaviour is what we would have considered bad some 20 years ago, a naughty child has to go even further to stand out from the crowd and attract attention. This explains why rudeness and swearing at teachers are on the increase. In my experience, children think nothing of responding to teachers with a flippant, derisory “Yeah?”, and expect teachers to ignore it because they have been trained to do so.

Sadly, many younger teachers are made to feel inadequate when they complain about this. It is not unusual for their seniors to believe that if there is bad behaviour, it is the teacher’s fault for not having been engaging enough. I cannot tell you the number of times I have heard children explain away their bad behaviour by saying that the lesson wasn’t interesting enough. The result is that history classes seize upon Titanic or Jack the Ripper because of the gore, English teachers make project work out of The Simpsons, and anything considered “too boring” is pushed aside.

So what’s the answer? Julian Perfect, a teacher from inner London, pointed out at the ATL conference that the decline largely dates from the cane and slipper being banned in 1987, since when no equivalent disciplinary measure has been introduced. That’s certainly true – I have known many children, in particular the naughty ones, who wonder why the cane was ever taken away. Many even wish it would return, so as to “help them behave”. Detentions are sometimes effective, but when children come from chaotic families, they can be actively grateful for them, since it allows them to stay away from home for longer. Exclusion is another option, but schools shy away, because of the harsh repercussions if they are seen to exclude too many children.

But while reintroducing the cane might be effective, it is also a bit of a red herring. In the old days, it was normally used only in extreme cases. What kept the vast majority of children in their chairs was not fear of corporal punishment, but a sense of right and wrong – of duty, pride and obedience, of not bringing shame on their parents’ heads.

Of course, there are schools today that maintain discipline, despite the challenges. They do so by offering a structured environment, imposing extremely high expectations and refusing to accept the excuse that discipline is the job of the family as a justification for bad behaviour on their premises. Many other schools would do well to learn from their example.

Marion Barry and the Left’s Hatred of Asian Entrepreneurs

by Michelle Malkin
Apr 6th, 2012

Marion Barry’s mouth set him up. The disgraced former mayor of Washington, D.C., who was caught on tape in a 1987 crack cocaine sting, made an even bigger disgrace of himself and his city on Tuesday. Celebrating a Democratic primary victory, the city councilman attacked small businesses owned by “Asians” in his district. Then the race-baiting clown doubled down.

Barry told supporters in D.C.’s Ward 8: “We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. They ought to go.” Once pushed out, Barry promised, he would replace the foreign invaders with “African-American business people.” Barry then took to the social networking platform Twitter to expound on the perils of “dirty” Asian shops in his neighborhood.

As documented by my Twitter curation start-up Twitchy.com, Barry posted photos of supposedly hazardous stores — including Chinese restaurants surrounded not by trash or toxic waste, but by Plexiglas barriers and reinforced doors. Barry explained that Asian-owned businesses that had the audacity to protect themselves from crime were “lowering standards” in his constituents’ communities.

In Barry’s bizarre world, law-abiding entrepreneurs who take steps to prevent robberies are the ones who threaten Ward 8′s quality of life — not the armed thugs who threaten honest livelihoods in the first place. Vigilant wealth creators taking care of their families? Scourge of D.C. Profanity-spewing drug addicts inciting hatred against successful achievers of the American Dream? Model citizens!

Crazy Barry doesn’t just need another round of rehab. He needs a reality check.

As a commenter on DCist.com noted, 2010 Census data showed that “Asians made up 0.4 percent of the Ward 8 population (blacks made up 93.5 percent, a 1 percent increase from 2000). If anything, Asians are moving out, not in — the Asian population decreased 13.6 percent (from 301 people to 260 people) between 2000 and 2010. Meanwhile, the child poverty rate in Ward 8 sits at 48.3 percent, a 1.2 percent increase since 2000 — in contrast, the District’s overall child poverty rate decreased 3 percent since 2000. Now that’s what I call defying the odds.”

If Barry’s ignorant slurs had come out of the mouth of, say, former GOP Gov. George Allen of Virginia (pummeled for his “macaca” gaffe), there would be calls for his head from every civil rights organization in the Beltway. While the Washington Post reported that Barry “apologized,” he showed typical fake penitence for “offending” Asians and claimed he was “taken out of context.”

By “Asian,” he blubbered to a local TV reporter, he didn’t mean “Asian.” He really meant all “those persons (who) come into our community, whatever color they are; it happened to be Asian initially.” Put the prejudice pipe down, buddy.

Instead of showing true remorse, Barry dug in deeper with even more divisive, entitled and militant us vs. them propaganda: “We’re spending our money there, and we demand respect,” he told the Washington Post. “We demand they participate in community affairs. We demand they give jobs to Ward 8 people regardless of their cultural situation. That’s as American as apple pie.”

Spoken like a true racial racketeer.

But Barry’s not alone. His incendiary rhetoric echoes other liberal black leaders who have long made a sport of scapegoating Asian immigrant entrepreneurs across the country. Just this February, Jeffery Muhammad, the veteran Nation of Islam leader in Dallas, lashed out at Asian-American business owners for being “just the latest in a long line of people who have come to this country — like Jews, Italians, Indians and now Asians — who have sucked the blood of and exploited the black community.”

Just a fringe sentiment, you say?

Rapper Ice Cube, now a mainstream actor and comedian, penned “Black Korea” to demonize Korean store owners in South Central Los Angeles:

So they watch every damn move that I make.
They hope I don’t pull out a gat and try to rob
they funky little store, but b***h, I got a job.
… So don’t follow me, up and down your market,
or your little chop suey ass’ll be a target
of the nationwide boycott.

And Al Sharpton, now a prominent MSNBC host, was caught on tape stoking hatred against Chinese-owned chicken restaurants and Korean grocers:

“We’re the black chicken friers of the universe. We gonna go buy some Col. Sanders chicken. Then the Chinamen comin’ and (inaudible) … Koreans sell us watermelons. We eat watermelons all our lives. But they gonna come cut it up, put it in a bucket with a rubber band around it, and we gonna buy it like it’s somethin’ and we didn’t know what it was.”

Few dare to call out black racism against Asians. Those who do are met with nasty racial epithets, of course. Last year, when I called attention to flash mobs of black assailants in Denver, Wisconsin, Philadelphia and New York who were explicitly targeting Asian students and elderly Asian women for brutal assaults, my e-mail box filled with vitriol:

“(D)oes your family still live in poverty? Not anymore, since you married into the tribe ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME GI.”

“Shut up whore.”

President Obama, commander-in-chief of post-racial America, was unavailable for comment.