Why I Don't do PC and Why This Country is a Bollocks

This is something I spotted in the dead tree press and is probably the only reason I'm running it. Not that I would be short of similar inanities to employ, not by a long chalk.

Employer told not to post advert for 'reliable' workers because it discriminates against 'unreliable' applicants

When it comes to hiring staff, there are plenty of legal pitfalls employers need to watch out for these days.

So recruitment agency boss Nicole Mamo was especially careful to ensure her advert for hospital workers did not offend on grounds of race, age or sexual orientation.

However, she hadn't reckoned on discriminating against a wholly different section of the community - the completely useless.

When she ran the ad past a job centre, she was told she couldn't ask for 'reliable' and 'hard-working' applicants because it could be offensive to unreliable people.

'In my 15 years in recruitment I haven't heard anything so ridiculous,' Mrs Mamo said yesterday.

'If the matter wasn't so serious I would be laughing out loud.

'Unfortunately it's extremely alarming. I need people who are hardworking and reliable - and I am pleased to discriminate in that way. If they're not then I really can't use them. The reputation of my business is on the line.

'Even the woman at the jobcentre agreed it was ridiculous but explained it was policy because they could get sued for being dicriminatory against unreliable people.

'She told me they'd had lots of problems with people taking them to court for adverts stating something like "would suit school leaver".' more McMail

Jesus and Mo have joined the rest of the cartons.

Kate a Liar! The Tapas Liars! Shurely Shome Mishtake?

Update: Link for this article is dead.

Heading For Rothley

On the very first page of this blog, we asserted that the McCanns had lied about the case from beginning to end. Perhaps readers thought, oh this is blogland, people make all sorts of claims.
No. We repeat, and it is a matter of record, that Kate & Gerry McCann lied from beginning to end of the investigation into their daughter’s disappearance, a claim that will stand up in the libel courts because it is undeniably true.

It began, as we said, with the parents failing to tell the police the truth in their very first interviews. As the case prosecutor, Mr. Menezes, stated in court, in Lisbon, this month: “the couple lied to police about how long they had left Madeleine alone.”

And it ended with the McCanns claiming through their spokesperson that the final report from that same Mr. Menezes concluding the case in August 2008, “cleared” them. That was also a lie, not a misunderstanding, one which they later embellished by claiming that “the courts” had cleared them. Nowhere does the report clear them.

Now, this is not just a problem for Kate & Gerry McCann. It is a very real problem for their friends, the so-called Tapas 7. Why? Because most members of the group confirmed in their own statements the accuracy of what the couple had told the police. And they did not do so by accident, nor by hearsay. more Blacksmith Beurau

These were my thoughts at the time, having watched the Tapas Seven outside the High Court.

My initial reaction was probably the same as many, disbelief followed by outrage as I witnessed this bunch of Liars fraudulently receiving their Thirty Pieces from Express Newspapers.

But on reflection and having just watched Payne give that statement on behalf of THEM ALL and more importantly on BRITISH SOIL, they, the Tapas Seven or better described as loyal troops, have followed their little Caesar and have crossed the Rubicon.

Crossed the Rubicon, burnt their boats or whatever other metaphor that could be employed, the Tapas have done it in Spades.

This is no unaccountable inaccurate statement made to a foreign police force, this is a statement of record given in Britain and as such their lies are now etched in stone.

It won't be today or tomorrow for that matter, but rest assured there will be a day when they will rue crying hail Caesar.

So says I, drive on Tapas Seven, enjoy your "moment of vindication" but fix it firmly in your mind's eye because your day of vindication is also the day you put your collective heads in collective nooses.

When will the trapdoor spring,? I know not, but believe me, it will and the whole sorry bunch of you will sway gently in the breeze.

You're on the road to Tyburn, you just don't know it yet.

Right click, open in new tab.

If all else fails, I still believe that one day justice will be done. If for no other reason than there being just too many people in the know of what happened that fateful night in Priai Da Luz.

Too many people directly involved, too many people have waded in this cesspit, this McCann sewer of filth, lies and deceit, and on each and every one of those people a burden of pressure, increased daily I might add, by the McCanns own ill judged and increasingly bizarre and unacceptable behaviour, that at times this pressure must be virtually unbearable.

You might want to repeat that which is already said by many, that these are a callous heartless bunch devoid of any conscience. I think you would be in error were you to do so.

Basically they are little different from you or I or anyone else for that matter, the same strengths and the same frailties that we all posses, though obviously to varying degrees.

And it would be well to remember that there are far more than just these seven that must carry this most unenviable burden on there shoulders, there are plenty more, there are many that can be counted as belonging to this exclusive little club.

One day one of them will crack.

And all the plagues and sorrows known to humanity will come spilling out.



It was some time later that I had this whimsy, whimsy or caprice? whimsy I think, for I recall the description of a caprice from none other than the darling Oscar.

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."

Did this motley collection of liars have any say in accepting damages from Express Newspapers, or was it in fact presented to them as fait accompli, having been instigated by McCann and his lawyers in order to ensure their silence?

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Just a small reminder of the time of year.

Something a Little Different: Bits n' Bobs

What with our genocidal war criminal and ex PM being in the news, I thought I would throw up a bit of stuff from the archives.

In the main it is other peoples work, but I have put a neutral border around it should anybody wish to lift any of it.

There's a bit for everybody, not least the Yankee Doodles among you. There's even one for my Deutsch visitors, but remember, German humour is no laughing matter!








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I have uploaded the rest of them here, but before you go over there you might want to press a few buttons,(after the intro, lies and costumes interchangeable) on the Dishonest Dubya Doll.

Tony, You Need To Come Up With Something Better Than This

Or perhaps I might put it this way, you cannot be serious.

Mind you, how Nick Robinson is privy to all this, I have no idea.

Tony Blair is set to mount a spirited defence when he is questioned in public for the first time about his decision to take the UK to war against Iraq.

He will be questioned at the Iraq war inquiry for six hours on the build-up to the 2003 invasion and its aftermath.

Controversial government dossiers justifying action will be discussed.

BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the ex-PM was expected to say Saddam Hussein had the "capacity and intent" to build weapons of mass destruction.

He added: I'm told that Tony Blair will claim that the fall of Saddam has improved and saved the lives of many Iraqis.

"He'll argue that despite the terrible bloodshed since, it has been worth it for Iraq and the world as a whole.

Demonstrators outside the inquiry venue will demand to know from Mr Blair where the weapons of mass destruction were that Saddam was supposed to have, the BBC's Nick Robinson went on.

"His answer, I'm told, is this. The weapons inspectors found Saddam had both the capacity and intent to build them at speed." more BBC

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I never said that! It's worth watching.

Fiona Govan A Rare Breed. God Love Her

.A reporter, God bless her.

Having no wish to cast aspersions or demean in the slightest, that which this lady has written and presented to us, but I must speak out, I must speak out to, I cannot call them her peers, only her colleagues.

It's not difficult is it?

I'm sorry if I am two weeks late with this, but I have only just, this few minutes past. happened upon it.

By Fiona Govan in Lisbon
Published: 10:30PM GMT 12 Jan 2010

Madeleine McCann's death 'covered up by parents who faked kidnap', court hears.


Madeleine McCann died in an accident in her family's Algarve holiday apartment and her death was covered up by her parents who then concocted a tale of kidnap, a Portuguese court was told.

Kate and Gerry McCann, both 41, were in court to hear how the detectives leading the investigation into their daughter’s disappearance believed they had lied to hide the truth.

“She died in the apartment as a result of a tragic accident and the parents simulated an abduction after failing to care of their children,” Tavares de Almeida, former chief inspector at Portimao police station during the initial months of the investigation, told the court in Lisbon.

“These were the conclusions of a police report signed by me on September 10 2007,” he added.

The allegations against Kate and Gerry McCann, both 41, were presented in court on the first day of a hearing to challenge the publication of a book written by Algarve detective Goncalo Amaral.

Lawyers for the detective, who led the team that made the McCanns arguidos – suspects – in their daughter’s disappearance, called witnesses to support the claims outlined in his book. The McCanns arguido status was lifted after ten months in July 2008 when the Attorney General ruled there was no evidence against them.

The pair, from Rothley, Leics, came face to face with their detractor for the first time since they were officially made argiuidos in September 2007, four months after they daughter vanished days before her fourth birthday.

Mr Amaral, 50, led the initial investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3 2007 while her parents dined with friends at a tapas bar nearby. He was sacked from the case, which remains unsolved.

His book, entitled “The Truth of The Lie”, published in July 2008 claims that Madeleine died in the apartment and questions her parents’ account of events that evening.

It became a bestseller in Portugal selling more than 200,000 copies and went on to be published in six languages and made into a documentary film.

After a year long campaign the McCanns succeeded in getting a temporary injunction banning further sales and it was withdrawn from shelves last September. The couple are suing for libel becuase they believe that the book is damaging the search for their daughter by asserting that she is already dead.

They are expected to ask a judge for around £1million in damages which they will use to pay for their own continuing hunt for their daughter, who they believe was kidnapped and could still be alive and being held somewhere.

Mr de Almeida told the court: “We have always spoken of a tragic accidental death – not homicide. The McCanns did not kill her but they concealed the body,”

Mr de Almeida, who worked under Amaral and was also taken off the case in September 2007, said the decision to designate the McCanns 'arguidos' was made by police after sniffer dogs brought to Portugal from England had carried out their searches.

Giving evidence, Mr de Almeida said that the dogs had identified blood and the scent of a human corpse inside the childrens’ bedroom and the dining room of the McCanns’ holiday flat.

The animals also reacted to traces on a piece of cloth in a villa rented by the McCanns after they left the apartment and in the boot of a rental car hired by the family several weeks after Madeleine disappeared.

Mr de Almeida also complained that Portuguese police efforts to investigate the McCanns had been frustrated by their British counterparts. “We were told that the UK would not accept any investigation of the McCanns – there was a lack of cooperation,” he said.

But later he said that the theory that the parents had covered up Madeleine’s death as outlined in Amaral’s book was one reached by British police on the ground in Portugal too.

“This wasn’t something invented by Amaral,” he insisted. “It was a conclusion reached by the team of Portuguese investigators as well as British police.”

Mrs McCann wearing a dark coloured floral dress sat impassively in the front row of the court room beside her husband. The pair held hands and exchanged occasional whispers and nods as they were passed notes by interpreters informing them of court proceedings, which were carried out in Portuguese.

Mr Amaral, dressed in a dark suit and purple tie, was seated at the bench beside his legal team, fifteen feet away from the couple. He spent much of the proceedings with his eyes closed avoiding the direct gaze of the McCanns.

Tuesday’s court hearing in the Portuguese capital was an opportunity by Mr Amaral to have the temporary injunction against publication of his book overturned. Neither he nor the McCanns will be called to give evidence in the hearing which is expected to last a minimum of three days.

A third witness said the turning point of the investigation came following a tearful call from Mrs McCann who, after a dream, told police where to search for her daughter’s body.

Police Inspector Ricardo Paiva, who acted as a liason between the McCanns and Portuguese police in the days following their daughter’s disappearance told the court he had received the phone call in late July 2007.

“Kate called me, she was alone as Gerry was away and she was crying,” he said. “She said she had dreamt that Madeleine was on a hill and that we should search for her there.

“She gave the impression that she thought she was dead – it was a turning point for us.”

The senior detective said the land was searched but nothing was found. “That is when we decided to send the specialist dogs in. British police informed us about how they could detect the scent of death.”

He admitted that the police had been suspicious of the McCanns from the start of the investigation. “They disobeyed our request to keep quiet about the details of their daughter’s disappearance while we conducted our investigation. Instead they turned it into a media circus and that gave rise to some suspicions.”

He said that the McCanns should have faced prosecution for leaving their children alone. “They should have been pursued for neglect. People have been arrested for far less – even in the UK.”

The case continues. The Telegraph

h/t JKH

Having Propelled The Force To What!!!

The chair of Leicestershire Police Authority believes the challenges that face its new chief constable will require someone capable of being one of the top police officers in the country and he is determined to attract the best......

The police authority recently interviewed three applicants for the post but chose not to appoint any of them.......

Not godly enough, or not bent enough?

Mr Rhodes believes the force has been very fortunate to have had an outstanding chief constable in Matt Baggott; responsible for neighbourhood policing nationally, awarded a CBE and achieving promotion to one of the top jobs in policing as chief constable in Northern Ireland.

Having propelled the force to the top echelons of policing, the challenges for Mr Baggott’s successor remain exceptional. The force is still dealing with the fallout from the deaths of Fiona Pilkington and Francecca Hardwick with an ongoing IPCC investigation. The temporary chief constable and his team has weathered the resulting storm exceptionally well, but the new chief will be expected to implement any recommendations, move the force forward and rebuild the public’s confidence.more if you must, but it's only a circle jerk.

Christian Police Association Ten Grand For What!!!

I think it best if I let the son of my personal saviour, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, speak for me, for it is as one that we speak on this tale of incredulity.

A religious police group which believes the power of prayer can help catch crooks has been given a £10,000 Home Office grant to fight crime.

The Christian Police Association was handed the one-off cash payment to help publicise its message - which includes encouraging members of the public to pray that criminals are swiftly brought to justice.

The group also believes praying can help police to solve crimes, protect officers from injury on duty and reduce anti-social behaviour.

The cash helped the group launch the CoAct project to encourage Christians and police to help fight crime together - and even provides a set of guidelines advising people what to pray for.

The guidelines also suggest worshippers find out about trouble hotspots in their area and pray for their salvation.

The CoAct website states: ‘Do some research, read local newspapers, talk to your Neighbourhood police officer, check out the police website, find out the trouble hotspots, listen to local radio and TV news and use relevant items as prayer fuel.

‘Be informed when praying and be specific. As you find out about a particular issue, continue to pray about every aspect of it. Keep praying and keep watching.

‘It is important to let groups know you are praying.’

Asked whether the power of prayer could help reduce crime or be used to solve crime, a spokesman for the CPA said: ‘There is circumstantial evidence to suggest that prayer may help to reduce crime and community tension.’

Its website adds: ‘Praying specifically for your local policing situation may well bring tangible results.

‘Individuals and churches in neighbourhoods can, so to speak, “adopt a cop” by praying for specific officers, staff and teams at their local police station, as well as places and issues, and so offer that prayerful support.

‘Specifically find out the names of your local neighbourhood policing team and commit to praying for them.’

Don Axcell, the executive director of the 2,000-strong CPA and a retired sergeant for the Met, told Police Review today: ‘In one particular area, an officer was investigating an incident but he had not been able to apprehend a suspect.

‘He encouraged a church to pray for him and within days a suspect had been arrested and charged.

‘In another area, an officer encouraged churches to pray about domestic burglary and over the year it came down by 30 per cent.

‘We do not discount good police work, which is why we call it circumstantial evidence.’

The CoAct website continues: "Pray for you police. Prayer is key, powerful and changes things, it is the slender nerve, which moves the hand of God and we are asking him to intervene in our community.’

One officer, who did not want to be named, said: ‘If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I would not have believed it.

‘The government have given £10,000 to a group within the police to encourage people to pray that crimes are solved and criminals are brought to justice.

‘It's like asking the fairy Godmother to bring in all the criminals on the run - it would be nice, but it's not going to happen.’

Matt Baggott, chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and president of the CPA, said CoAct was a 'great way of giving police officers the support, care and encouragement that they need and value'.

A Home Office spokesman said: ‘We have given the Christian Police Association a one-off grant of £10,000 to support its ongoing work to improve community safety, tackle antisocial behaviour and reduce violence.’

The guidelines include praying for:

Neighbourhood police officers and frontline cops all over the UK
Success is preventing and detecting crime
Catching offenders and bringing them to justice
Sick and injured officers
Officers to 'resist corruption' and to be able to 'relax' when they are off duty
Local streets or housing estates plagued by crime - they are told to pray for 'God's
peace and protection' for the area

A reduction in crime' Daily McMail

Would You Like Lies - Sorry Fries With That - Fingerprint Food

Something a little a different for a change.

It was just twelve months ago that I wrote this.

Every story I have ever read on building a national data base of the soon to be next generation always cites enabling students to be able to buy their lunch.

I won't say does this government think we're fucking stupid because the answer is patently obvious, as patently obvious as the contempt that it holds for its citizens.
Another Nail In The Coffin of UK Civil Liberties

And as a result of opening a link that I received today, guess what?

No food without fingerprints - in one London school

Giving a new meaning to the concept of a "finger buffet", St. John's Secondary School, in Epping, is introducing a new "biometric cashless catering system" which involves taking fingerprints of all its pupils.

The pupils will have to scan their fingers on a panel in order to buy school meals, with a computer system telling staff how much money they have to spend.

The school says the new system will speed up the serving of meals, reduce the need for pupils to carry cash and help monitor the diets of children.

Similar uses of the technology at other schools have attracted criticism from parents and lobby groups, amid fears that identities and personal information could be at risk, but the company behind the technology insists that the system is safe and that all data is secure and that fingerprints will only be stored in the form of a numerical code. However St John's has said that parents can choose for their child to opt-out of the fingerprinting.

The scheme is set to be introduced when children return from their half-term break on Monday February 22.

Simon Richards, Director of The Freedom Association, said that, "respect for privacy should take precedence over claims of administrative convenience. Adult diners in a London restaurant would not be willing to be subjected to this kind of treatment, so there is no excuse for treating school pupils in this fashion." source

Then from across the pond, with all the subtly of a turd in a swimming pool, we have the Yankee way. Grab 'em young and indoctrinate them.

I used to have a set of images, but I can't put my hand on them, depicting a similar scenario, only it was police weaponry, exactly the same end game, get the next generation to accept without question the militarisation of police forces.*









I did however know where to put my hands on this short scary clip, which, having viewed it again after so long, turns out to be the source for some of my talking points, and the realisation that I don't actually have a relative series of photographs on the subject.



Nearing the point of embarrassment, yet again h/t to Ironside. I remember too what it was like when I used to have the time to do the rounds collecting my blog content for the day, such luxury.

Clarence Mitchell You're Such a Twat

There are times that I don't wonder if Mitchell isn't an entirely different species altogether, how can one man talk so much bollocks? I just don't know how he dreams them up.

The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell told The Sun: ‘Everything Mr Marsden alleges is entirely untrue, as is everything Mr Amaral claims.

‘Lawyers will take action if anything defamatory is said.’
Mr Marsden says that because he lives in America, the McCanns won’t be able to sue him for libel.

No link, it's only bollocks afterall.




With yet another threat of suing from bollocks, I went in search of the record "A Boy Named Sue" but this little gem showed it's face, pennies from heaven!

Thus Spaketh the Father

Certainly we thought it was possible that (the publicity) could hurt her or her abductor might do something to her eye....but in terms of marketing, it was a good ploy. - Gerry McCann

Thus Spaketh The Mother

“I’m pleased we took this action,” said Mrs McCann. “It’s been shown again that there is no evidence that Madeleine came to any harm and no evidence that we’re involved. - Kate McCann

Thus Spaketh The Detective

"If the path were easy, what would our merit be?" - Goncala Amaral

Kate: God Love Her, Her Sun, and Her Sun's Whores

And nobody said a word.

Kate: Our 1,000 days without Maddie

By ANTONELLA LAZZERI and NEIL SYSON

Published: Today

MADELEINE McCann's parents will today mark a THOUSAND days since she vanished - with a vow NEVER to give up searching for her.

Doctors Kate and Gerry are to host a fundraising dinner as a thousand lanterns are poignantly released into the sky around the world.

Anguished Kate, 41, will tell guests in London how she struggles to even say the landmark number. Opening her heart, the mum, of Rothley, Leics, admits in her speech: "It's difficult sometimes to understand how we've been able to keep going and survive without Madeleine."

The event bears the poignant title: "Still Missing, Still Missed: An Evening for Madeleine". She was three when she vanished on a 2007 holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

Vowing to "turn every stone" her mum will declare: "We will never give up on Madeleine." Poet Simon Armitage will unveil a specially-written sonnet entitled The Beacon. The grim anniversary comes as a SECOND vile book - Faked Abduction - accuses the McCanns of lying about Maddie's disappearance.

Brit Steve Marsden repeats claims in a book by ex-Portuguese cop Goncalo Amaral. Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "Everything Mr Marsden alleges is entirely untrue."Sun

Poem for Maddie

By ANTONELLA LAZZERI

THIS is the moving poem Kate and Gerry McCann commissioned to mark today the 1000th day of Maddie being missing.

Poet and playwright Simon Armitage penned the poem called The Beacon after meeting the McCanns.

He told how he talked to Kate about her greatest fears of what had happened to her daughter, saying: "One of the things I talked to Kate about was how difficult it must be to keep out that fear and that doubt and darkness.

"We talked about the night Madeleine went missing, those terrible hours of darkness before it became light again and they could resume the search. It was like meeting in the middle."

Kate and Gerry, both 41, from Rothley, Leicestershire, wrote him several pages of thoughts about their daughter who disappeared on May 3 2007.

He said: "The McCanns are optimistic, I think you can call that optimism hope. They have hope and that's what keeps them going.

"One thing Kate will say is that they don't have any concrete evidence to say that she's dead.

"For as long as that's the case, they have a parent's duty and it's their fierce desire to keep looking for her. And they have faith, they are strong Roman Catholics.

"That sense of lighting a candle, saying a prayer, keeping hope burning - I was trying to tap into that as well."

The father of a ten-year-old daughter Mr Armitage said he felt terrible sympathy for the McCanns.

He said: "Parents can identify with the McCanns losing something that is your whole world, around which things orbit. For most of us it's an unimaginable loss. That's one of the reasons that their story is so powerful."

He says the McCanns have described the poem as "beautiful" and have told Mr Armitage that it captures many of their feelings and the issues around the loss of their daughter.

A handwritten copy of the poem will be auctioned at the celebrity dinner being hosted by the McCanns tonight.

The last line is inspired by the iconic photo of Maddie aged three and the candle kept burning in the square in Rothley.

Mr Armitage said the line "Somewhere out there there has to be life", reflects the McCanns' hope that their daughter may still be alive.

He said: "They have hope and that's what keeps them going."

The Beacon

Dusk, doubt, the growing depth of an evening sky, dark setting in as it did that night, the forever vastness of outer space reflecting the emptiness here inside, shadowing, colouring, clouding the mind.

But somewhere out there there has to be life, the distance only a matter of time, a world like our own, its markings and shades as uniquely formed as a daughter's eye, distinctly flecked, undeniably hers, looking back this way through the miles and years to a lantern cupping a golden blaze, its candle alive with a fierce blonde flame for the thousandth time, for as long as it takes.Sun

What unmitigated fucking drivel.

“Kate will be at her fundraising night in London – God love her, she’s worked so hard on that – but there will also be a lantern release in Rothley.”

Mummy mummy, nights left alone

Searching forever until I am grown

Why do you lie about what happened that night?

The night when I died in the dark without light.

We were so afraid but you just did not care

Much more important to wash your blonde hair

Now daddy and you are both very rich

For an IVF baby...life sure is a Bitch.

Courtesy of Ironside.

The McCann's Party

In all my life I can honestly say, that never, have I witnessed anything as so utterly tasteless as this party, never.

And nobody has said a word, and I am shamed.

Brunty Of The Yard, No Less, You're Such a Little Tart

It's 1,000 days since Madeleine McCann vanished and even now there are intelligent, sane and rational people, in Portgual and in the UK, who still believe that her parents Gerry and Kate phoned Sky News before they called the police.

They didn't.

Even the Portuguese police know they didn't.

Anyone who believes they did rather blows a hole in other things they think they know about the Madeleine case. Sky

I heard on the grapevine that Gerry McCann's cock tastes salty.

Is there any truth in this?

h/t Ines

Hype The Threat - Implement The Legislation

I intended to move this one down the page, but I think it sits well here.

Facebook battles attack by child protection chief

Gamble unfriends social networks

Facebook has defended itself against criticism from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) that it has refused to join a reporting scheme.

Jim Gamble, the chief executive of CEOP, today took to the airwaves and newspaper pages to attack Facebook and MySpace for declining to publish his organisation's "CEOP Report" button.

The button, a small icon that links to this website, offers information on bullying, computer security, illegal content and allows CEOP to gather reports of inappropriate behaviour online.

Gamble's public admonishment of Facebook and MySpace follows the announcement yesterday that Bebo will publish the button. The site, which has a young audience, has agreed to insert it in every profile page.

"I do not want my criticism to be taken as a swipe at the online industry. The vast majority of players are doing a good job and doing their best to make the environment safe," Gamble said. more The Register

From the Register Forum.

So.. lets get this straight.

The UK police want to 'in the name of child protection' get a button onto every UK myface users page.

I just had a look at the CEOP page, apart from the 'my god they are using M.Mcann to jerk a tear' moment I could not find any info about the 'button'. I was hoping to find a way I could link it to my site of course.. I want to know what it is, just a graphic you host yourself and a link? or must you cross-site link to them (making it a webbug) or worse, a full-blown flash/java/whatever applet, allowing all kinds of mischief.......

Bluster & Hyperbole

I, too, heard Mr Gamble on the Radio this morning (BBC Radio4). He sounded quite bullying himself - but that tends to be his calling card. Implicit in his comments was a suggestion that if any site refuses to host a CEOP 'panic button' they are failing in their duty of care to the young and there must, therefore, be something 'wrong' with them. It's no surprise to hear such attitudes from an organisation like CEOP, which has grown so powerful on the back of the current paedohysteria - and an almost wholly uncritical media.

Mr Gamble, who's fondness for dropping 'keywords' into his interview responses ('predator', 'grooming', etc) is a past-master at hyping up the sensationalism - hardly surprising at a time when so many competing 'partner agencies' (another favourite Gambleism) are looking for funds from an ever-dwindling pot.

I was surprised to hear him tell the BBC interviewer that the CEOP panic button receives 10,000 hits a month. Really? 10,000? A month? Naturally, the BBC interviewer let that little gem slip past completely unremarked upon. If it's true - and as ever with CEOP we have no mechanism for establishing that - then surely it represents a headline story of unimaginable proportions?

Ironically, given the context, I have little doubt Facebook will eventually be bullied into having to accept CEOP's unwanted presence on their site: the Paedogeddon will brook no argument, no dissent, after all, and after Mr Gamble's tirade against them this morning on live radio (and no doubt by now across a more than accommodating media) I suspect they will have no option but to cave in to his demands or risk more name-calling in the future.

In the end, it's worth remembering CEOP is a public/private company (and also part of the UK police service). Yes, it's a company. Mr Gamble is it's CEO. It receives the bulk of it's funding from the UK government (i.e. taxpayers) and from private sources (step forward Microsoft, BT, O2, Virgin, VISA, etc, etc) which all runs into £millions every year. It makes a bit of cash on the side flogging off training seminars, publications and instructional packs to 'stakeholders' (yes, there's another Gambleism). As a commercial concern, CEOP cannot insist companies like Facebook carry it's marque - but Mr Gamble seems to think they should be forced to do so. Of course, he knows that by wielding the trusty 'won't someone please think of children?' banner (along with his usual bluster and well-rehearsed hyperbole) wherever he goes he can almost always get his own way.

Gotta love the Paedogeddon. It's GREAT for business! more The Register Forum

h/t maccanfiles

CEOP Let Us Have A Little Reminder About The Merits Of Your Guest Speaker Gerry McCann

Today at the CEOP.

Agenda
09:00 Registration
09:30 Welcome: Jim Gamble, Chief Executive, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
09.45 Multiple case research: Jim O. Beasley III, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
10.30 An holistic approach: Adam Gregory, Senior Behavioural Investigative Adviser, National Policing Improvement Agency
11:00 Break
11.30 Operation Paris – the Shannon Matthews investigation: Detective Superintendent Andy Brennan, Detective Inspector Andy Walker, West Yorkshire Police
12:30 Lunch
13.30 False allegations of abduction: William Donaldson, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
14:30 Break
14.45 Insight from the minds of child abductors: Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Hill, Dr Joe Sullivan, Consultant Chartered Psychologist, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
16.00 Closing speech: Gerry McCann
16.30 Questions and answers session: All speakers

And let us not forget this, they didn't make "A" mistake, this was a program, the first night apart, that was in place EVERY night. A three year old and two two year olds left alone in the pitch black of night.

Unless of course the perceived neglect is a lesser thing than what really happened to the girl, but that is for another time and another place than here and now.




Believe me, this was originally meant to be a far more damning post than this, but quite frankly I'm sick to fucking death of it all today.

Gerry McCann is responsible for his daughter's death and he has dropped her body in a hole somewhere, or the equivalent of.

But there will be a more damning post be assured, I just need to get cleaned up a bit, I've been wading through the McCann sewer for far too long and I stink of shit.

And if you want to try and shut me up, bring it fucking on, bring it fucking on with your shyster fucking lawyers and all.