A comment on gun crime in the UK

Below is a comment by Ms Vaughan, which I received in response to my Gun crime in the UK post (11/09/06). I decided to publish it here because of its current relevance.
22 February 2007, 12:31:43 | Ms Vaughan
I am a Connexions Personal Adviser working in South London and I come into contact with young people [...]

Mirza Tahir Hussain: a long wait for “justice”

Mirza Tahir Hussain is to have his death sentence commuted by President Musharraf (click source). This is great news. However, questions remain.
Why did it take Musharraf so long?
Will Mirza receive any compensation for the eighteen years of his life that were taken from him on the strength of an unsafe conviction under a dubious legal [...]

Gun crime in the UK

While gun ownership in the UK is perhaps more tightly controlled than in any other European country, with gun crime constituting less than 1% of total crime, it is a fact that guns and incidents involving firearms are a quotidian feature of modern city life. So much so that out of the almost 11,000 firearms [...]

24 rules of disinformation

This has been floating on the net in one form or another since the late ’90s at least. I’ve shortened a few things and made a couple of changes to make it scan better.
You can find the unabridged version at 9/11 Truth.
1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Regardless of what you know, don’t discuss [...]

Secret spy-camera network legitimized by “terror threat”?

Installation of a network of secret Automatic Number-Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras has been completed this month throughout Scotland.
And Alan Burnett, overseer of the project for the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland, has revealed on-going plans to expand the system to local authority CCTV networks.
“We understand some people are worried about this being Big [...]

Mirza Tahir Hussain: further stay of execution

Leeds man Mirza Tahir Hussain, sentenced to death under Sharia law 18 years ago, has been granted a further stay of execution until 1 October.
The article below, which I wrote and first published in May of this year, provides a background to the case.
It was nearly dusk when Mirza Hussain reached Rawalpindi.
He had arrived in [...]

Terror Plot: C.P.S press release

21 August 2006
Susan Hemming, Head of the CPS Counter Terrorism Division, today made the following statement in relation to an alleged plot to detonate explosives on board aircraft:
“I was briefed in relation to these allegations before the arrest and asked to advise on some preliminary legal issues both before and just after arrest. Together with [...]

Priceless comment

I was browsing the online version of the Scotsman newspaper the other day and came across the headline:
Three jailed after birthday party ends in frenzied cleaver attack
I read the report, which concerned Stephen O’Donnell, a young man in his late teens who, having been dumped by his girlfriend, becomes depressed and is subsequently prescribed prozac.
One [...]

Summary justice

For some time now Tony Blair has been behind a drive towards what he has described as a “re-balancing” of the criminal justice system.
This week we hear that Mark Rowley, Surrey’s Assistant Chief Constable and ACPO’s spokesman on modernising police methods, is pressing for new powers that would effectively make front-line police officers unaccountable to [...]

Our children will be next

A few days ago, according to official government figures, the death toll exacted by Israeli (U.S.) bombing raids against the Lebanese people was estimated at 900.
That number has by now surely swollen to well over a thousand.
90% of victims have been civilians.
Historically, this is by no means a unique state of affairs.
Airwars have always been [...]