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Police Officer Rachel Webb of the Wiltshire police force is a credit to the police service. It take guts to be a whistle-blower. Her brave action has, I am sure, gone some way to neutralise the damage to police reputations that the brutish criminal action of Sergeant Mark Andrews has done. Listen to me ladies and gentlemen of the police service if you want the support of every sector of the public – be like her.  Police brutality is a world-wide pandemic. Click to enlarge. All police cells have CCTV and Sergeant Mark Andrews knew this – he was the custody sergeant on the morning of Ms Somerville’s arrest. He must have been confident of getting away with the serious assault because he slammed 59-year-old Ms Somerville onto the concrete floor of cell and left her without even checking if she was hurt. She laid there still for about a minute before staggering to her feet and revealing a severe face injury gushing blood. Ms Somerville is a mere 5ft 2in tall and of petite build. The police thug is a burly 6ft 3in. She managed to stumble towards the help button, leaving a trail of blood on the cell floor. Eventually she was attended by a police doctor and the police thug who had inflicted the wounds. This all happened not in one of the big UK cities where police assaults and abuse are routine but in the sleepy Wiltshire market town of Melksham. Fortunately brave woman police officer Rachel Webb was so disgusted she reported the incident to her superiors and thug Mark Andrews was brought to justice. PC Rachel Webb is to receive a commendation but will she be able continue her career with the shit that is coming her way from her corrupt colleagues? Sergeant Mark Andrews was convicted at Oxford Magistrates Court and will be sentenced later. Police brutality is a world-wide pandemic that is spreading because of the reluctance of the authorities to bring law-breaking police officers to justice. The police are NOT our protectors – they are the enemy within. It is now clear that the less contact we citizens have with the police the better it will be for us all. Here is the video:
 Take No Glory logo Every minute two children are trafficked for sexual exploitation. Fifty-percent of the 27 million modern slaves are children. 80-per-cent of all modern slaves are females. Take No Glory call themselves musicianaries. This is how they describe themselves on Twitter, “Take No Glory is a non-profit musicianary band. These musicianaries offer all their music through mp3 downloads FREE on their website.” To put it simply they people of faith preaching through music. As I am an atheist you might think it is strange that I would feature such a band on The Duck Shoot but as I believe that most people are good, including the deluded, I have no qualms at publicizing their efforts. Their recording ‘Beautiful Slave’ is about human trafficking & child slavery and anyone fighting this most despicable of crimes has to be on the side of the good guys. Run the video and think what you can do about stopping the evil criminals that buy and sell their fellow human beings.  On May 7, 2004, in the Longshan Forced Labor Camp, two policemen handcuffed Ms. Gao Rongrong to a heating pipe and shocked her with three electric batons continuously for seven hours, burning her face to a crisp. This photo was taken 10 days later. On June 16, 2005, Ms. Gao Rongrong died in police custody. (Click image to enlarge) On July 20th, 1999, the former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin launched a campaign to eliminate Falun Gong. It continues to this day. Practitioners follow the teachings of Falun Gong, which expound upon the universal characteristics of Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, and practice gentle exercises and meditation to maintain their health. Throughout China’s labour camps and police stations, practitioners have been subjected to torture and humiliation. It has been particularly bad for women and both male and female police performing acts of the most horrendous torture and sexual abuse. There has been sexual torture, including stripping 18 women of their clothes and forcing them into the jail cells of male criminal offenders where they beaten and gang raped. Some women have been subjected to forced abortions. Some have been force-fed urine and faeces. They have ripped off women’s clothes in public and shocked them with electric batons. Iron wire has been used to pierce nipples. They have sexually violated women using eggplants, toothbrushes and plastic water bottles. In one Female Labour Camp located in Jilin Province, the police inserted hot pepper powder into women’s vaginas in order to force them to give up their belief and practice of Falun Gong. They have forced electric stun batons into female practitioners’ vaginas to torture and shock them. Many women have died from the torture others are mental and physical wrecks. But men also are being tortured by the Chinese police. They also are sexually tortured, burned with hot irons, beaten, deprived of sleep and shocked with electric batons. The following links are just two articles exposing the persecution of Falun Gong devotees. Ms. Gao Rongrong tortured and murdered by chinese police Falun Dafe Clear Wisdom – various accounts of persection, torture and murder by the Chinese State The dialogue on the following video is mostly Chinese.
 Torture Victim Kathryn Winkfien Kathryn Winkfein a 72-year-old great-grandmother, tortured by Taser, says she drives to Austin about twice a month to do her shopping and on Monday afternoon, a Travis County Constable deputy pulled her over for speeding. The great-grandmother admits to speeding, but denies the rest of the deputy’s allegations, and has hired an attorney to represent her, she tells a Fox News reporter. Winkfein showed FOX 7 her Taser scars. “Here and here. Two places, side by side. It’s unreal. It’s like an electric shock,” she said. “I wasn’t argumentative, I was not combative. This is a lie. All of this is a lie, pulled away from him I did not,” she said.  Constable Richard McCain the investigator with buckets of white wash Arrested and jailed The great-grandmother was taken to the Travis County Jail, where she was booked for resisting arrest and detention. She was released shortly after. I am not sure how the US system works but in the UK a booking is not the same as being charged. Anyway it seems Winkfein did not go to court to answer charges but she did hire attorneys to protect her rights. Police say it’s OK to torture old lady Constable Richard McCain investigated the incident for the police department and said “yes it was appropriate to Taser Winkfein”. Really? Is being argumentative or combative a reason to Tase someone? The video shows an old lady just standing in front of this cretinous excuse for a “trained law enforcement officer”. She does not appear to be threatening him and she is unarmed so why did this moron consider it appropriate to torture her?  Deputy Constable Christopher Bieze the torturer Note the names of these morons. The cop who tortured Kathryn Winkfein is Deputy Constable Christopher Bieze. The investigative officer was Constable Richard McCain he cleared Bieze of “any wrong doing”. His internal investigation found that Bieze had violated no policies, and he was not disciplined. Typical cowardly cop bullshit. Police admit guilt by paying compensation A Travis County grand jury declined to indict Bieze with a charge of injury to an elderly person. Further evidence that official inquiries are just white wash. Despite the former she later won a settlement of $40,000 from Travis County. Fox News Report: Actual Dash Cam Video:  Warning! Your privacy is about to be invaded
In the USA electronic body scan images, like those taken at airports in the United Kingdom, are being kept according to the U.S Marshals Service. Thousands of images from these machines are being stored despite the various agencies and the capitalist manufacturers claiming images “cannot be stored or recorded”. The agencies that have previously lied to the public are the UK Border Agency, United States Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals Service and Transportation Security Administration (TSA). It is now coming to light that these images can and are being stored. And the question is; ‘if individuals cannot be identified, why is there a need for blurring?’ Furthermore the mystery surrounding the capability of these machines is also gradually being unravelled. The images can be enhanced. Already the authorities say they blur faces but is that during the scanning process or when they prepare shots for publication to the general public. Civil liberties organisations, some religious groups and thousands of individuals have concerns and there are already lawsuits under way challenging the legality of these machines. Being a born again skeptic I never believed the authorities about the capabilities of body scanners nor the so called safe-guards the claimed were “built-in”. More on this subject soon.  WikiLeaks Hour Glass Logo The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly secret documents and video. WikiLeaks has in the last few years released more top-secret documents than the rest of the world’s media combined. This small group of activists, who keep WikiLeaks going on a voluntary basis, is able to release more of that type of information than the established press the world over. Recently they had so many documents, 92,000 would you believe, that they recruited the help of The Guardian, New York Times and Der Spiegel to help them sift and interpret the documents. This led to some of the media who never got a bite of the cherry to attempt to smear WikiLeaks and to spread the official government The stark truth is – it is governments illegally invading foreign lands, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, who kill the young men in the armed forces. WikiLeaks has shown up these governments and war crimes by their armed forces, something the world’s media won’t do for fear of upsetting their political buddies. That is “why the world needs WikiLeaks”. It isn’t only government cover-ups and outright lies that WikiLeaks exposes. It blew the whistle on the Icelandic banks who had gambled with depositor’s funds so that when they went bust it was found that they owed more than sixty-two billion dollars. That’s about six times it’s gross domestic product (GDP). Founder Julian Assange, who’s rumoured as being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED’s Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has achieved — and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US air-strike in Baghdad. Here is the interview: Long live WikiLeaks!
 The Taser an instrument of torture - used by mindless cops and prison guards El Reno, Oklahoma. Lonnie Tinsley called 911 to ask for medical assistance for his disabled, bed-ridden grandmother. He’d asked for medics to come to assess her because she was unable to confirm that she’d taken her medication. What happened is unbelievable. 10 cretins turned up, commonly known as cops Instead of the medics TEN, yes TEN, cretinous cops turned up and invaded the old lady’s home. She told them to “get out of my apartment”. Feeling threatened by a citizen verbally defending her home under the Constitution the lead officer, let’s call him Deputy Cretin #1, ordered a second deputy cretin to torture her with a Taser. In his police report, officer Durgan (probably Deputy Cretin #1) asserted that Varner “took a more aggressive posture in her bed,” evidently causing him to fear for his and his officers’ lives. Grandson threatened and arrested When Tinsley objected and pleaded “Don’t Tase my granny!” the officers threatened to Taser him and promptly arrested him and put him in a squad car. They released him without charge some time later. Meanwhile, the lawsuit alleges, officers “stepped on Varner’s oxygen hose until she began to suffer oxygen deprivation.” Officers Tasered her twice, causing her to pass out. The cops then ordered that Varner be sent to the psychiatric ward of St. Anthony’s Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was held for six days against her will. Lawsuit filed The lawsuit, which names the city of El Reno and 13 police officers as defendants, alleges that Varner’s rights were violated under the Fourth and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution, and that “the defendants caused the plaintiffs to be wrongfully seized, assaulted, battered, physically harmed, humiliated [and] emotionally harmed.” Lona Varner and her grandson will probably receive a substantial award but the Cretins will go marching on because cops in the USA are above the law and no charges will be brought against them. Sad day for America.  Marijuana just a harmless plant No one has ever died of marijuana use but millions die from smoking tobacco and alcohol abuse. Both tobacco and alcohol are drugs too but they are not illegal despite health problems and death caused by them. I found this brilliant animated video that illustrates how society could be so different if we stopped this irrational prejudice against this very useful plant. The animation is called The Flower and it contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited. The animation is a meditation on the social and economic costs of marijuana prohibition.
 About 150 migrant children left to survive on their own in Greece have gone on a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment on a Greek island where conditions have been described as “abominable” by one European human rights body. Amnesty International are calling on the Greek authorities to immediately review their policy of locking up irregular migrants and asylum-seekers. Irregular migrants and asylum-seekers, including many unaccompanied children, are routinely detained in substandard detention centres with no or limited access to legal, social and medical aid. Amnesty International’s new report documents their treatment. “Asylum-seekers and irregular migrants are not criminals. Yet, the Greek authorities treat them as such disregarding their rights under international law,” said Nicola Duckworth, Europe and Central Asia Programme Director for Amnesty International. A message from the Hope not Hate Campaign:  HOPE not hate: Celebrating modern Britain">HOPE not hateCelebrating modern Britain Day by day the violent and racist English Defence League are becoming more dangerous. This shocking video exposes the truth behind this self professed “peaceful” group. The English Defence League (EDL) exists for one simple reason – they want to spread fear and hatred throughout the UK – and it’s only going to get worse. In a few weeks the EDL will be invading Bradford for what they’re calling “The Big One.” Once again they plan on attacking the Muslim population. We’ve been down this route before – the riots in Bradford in Oldham were sparked by small groups of violent racists attacking the local community. We simply can’t let that happen again, please watch this video, share it with your friends and get as many of them as possible to sign-up to our campaign.  The Guanabara Bay Basin is formed by the areas of 16 municipalities that also form part of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region. Not all the municipalities are entirely contained inside the Basin, such as the case of the Rio de Janeiro city and Niterói, for instance. Red line is the boundary of Guanabara Bay Basin. Year 2000 an underwater oil pipeline leaked in Guanabara Bay outside Rio de Janeiro. It was Brazil’s worst oil disaster that 10 years on is still having a devastating effect on the ecosystem. The spill, around 8000 barrels total, it is tiny in comparison to the BP oil leak in the US Gulf of Mexico. That Estimated as only 25% of the daily US oil spill – if you believe the lowest estimates – you can understand why it is bad news for people directly affected by the BP spill. And what is bad news for them is bad news for the rest of us. Petrobras the largest Brazilian oil company has spent 200 million dollars cleaning up and yet 10 years on the bay area, once covered in lush green mangrove, has only lifeless black mud. Once teeming with fish and crabs it is now difficult for fishermen to earn a living. Fisherman Evo da Silva laments the past and has an ominous warning for the US citizens affected by the BP catastrophe. See for yourself watch this Al Jazeera video reported by Gabriel Elizondo.  Nelson Mandela 92 Today (July 18, 2010) The world is marking the first Nelson Mandela International Day (July 18) to commemorate the birthday of South Africa’s first black president, who turns 92 today Sunday July 18. Happy birthday and best wishes to a great man. A concise history of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela according to WikiPedia. “Born 18 July 1918, served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his party in the negotiations that led to multi-racial democracy in 1994. As president from 1994 to 1999, he frequently gave priority to reconciliation.” “In South Africa, Mandela is often known as Madiba, an honorary title adopted by elders of Mandela’s clan.” “Mandela has received more than 250 awards over four decades, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.” 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.  Bruno Fernandes Brazilian goalie going to prison Usually kept under the radar - domestic violence in Brazil has hit world-wide headlines recently. Bruno Fernandez had his ex-girlfriend tortured, killed, cut up and fed to dogs. The Flamengo football club’s goalkeeper is now in a Rio de Janeiro jail awaiting trial. A full report on the case can be read on the Guardian web site. The video below is from Al Jazeera, here’s their report. “The brutal killing of a young woman linked to a Brazilian football star has not only made world news headlines, but also highlighted the serious problem of domestic violence in the country.” “Brazil currently ranks 12th in the world for murders of women.” “A study by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, a Geneva-based non-governmental organisation, says one in four women in the country will be victims of domestic violence in their lifetime.” “In 70 per cent of the cases, women are beaten inside their homes. And 40 per cent of the time, the incident results in serious injury.” “Victims say the authorities are often slow to react.” Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo reports from Sao Paulo. 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