All Discussions Tagged 'for' - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T06:09:43Zhttp://4freedoms.com/group/crime/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=for&feed=yes&xn_auth=no27% of London's prisoners are Muslim: Calls for inquirytag:4freedoms.com,2014-04-30:3766518:Topic:1474052014-04-30T09:38:58.650ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<p>In London, the figure is an “astonishing” 27 per cent, which is more than double the 12 per cent of the capital’s population who are Muslim. In two prisons, Feltham and Isis, a third of the inmates were Muslim.</p>
<p>The data was obtained by Sadiq Khan, the lawyer and shadow justice secretary who is himself a Muslim. He told the Evening Standard that an inquiry was vital to explain why the increase is happening.</p>
<p>“What’s really worrying is the rise, year after year, in the number of Muslims behind bars,” he said, adding: “We need to know why that’s the case if we’re to stop this rising further, reduce crime and prevent people needlessly becoming victims.”</p>
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<p>Half of the top 10 prisons with the highest Muslim populations are in London, including Belmarsh, where the percentage has risen since 2010 from 19 to 29 per cent, Brixton (24 per cent), Pentonville (28 per cent), Thameside (25 per cent) and Wormwood Scrubs (27 per cent).</p>
<p>Mr Khan accused the Government of sitting on its hands after a 2010 call by the Chief Inspector of Prisons for a National Strategy to deal with the growing numbers of Muslims behind bars.</p>
<p>He said: “Four years on and ministers have ignored this call. The Government is utterly clueless about what to do about this growing problem. This is a waste of human talent and a huge drain on the hard-pressed taxpayer.”</p>
<p>Higher offending rates is only one of many possible reasons why the prison population is higher for some groups of the population. Other explanations could be that Muslims are more frequently caught and prosecuted, or sentenced to longer prison terms compared with other offenders.</p>
<p>A Prison Service spokesperson said: “We have already implemented many of the recommendations from the 2010 report.”</p>
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</div> Obama's acceptance of criminality for populist political gaintag:4freedoms.com,2012-10-09:3766518:Topic:1128722012-10-09T02:44:42.189ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<p class="byline large"><a href="http://takimag.com/contributor/JimGoad/205">by Jim Goad</a> <a href="http://takimag.com/contributors/contributor_feed/JimGoad/"><img class="leftX" height="12" src="http://takimag.com/images/global/feed-32x32.png" width="12"></img></a> October 08, 2012…</p>
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<p class="byline large"><a href="http://takimag.com/contributor/JimGoad/205">by Jim Goad</a> <a href="http://takimag.com/contributors/contributor_feed/JimGoad/"><img src="http://takimag.com/images/global/feed-32x32.png" height="12" width="12" class="leftX"/></a> October 08, 2012</p>
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<div id="post"><p id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown">Barack Obama’s greatest talent is his ability to take unabashed lawbreakers or wannabe cop-killers and suddenly turn them into unapologetic cheerleaders for big government. And he’s apparently able to do this solely through the magical mystical powers of his skin color.</p>
<p>The hip-hop artist most commonly known as Snoop Dogg—born Calvin Broadus, formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg, now known as Snoop Lion, and possibly at some interim point known as Snoop Dip-Duh-Dip Rang-a-Dang Diddly Dogg—recently posted on his Instagram account another Instagram user’s handwritten <a href="http://instagram.com/p/QYGWYpP9Pd/">list of ten reasons</a> to vote for Obama and not Romney.</p>
<p>Among the reasons not to vote for Romney:</p>
<blockquote><p>1. He is a white nigga.<br/> 2. This muthafucka’s name is Mitt.<br/> …<br/> 7. He always interrupts and talks over people like he’s better than them. Bitch I will beat the shit out of you.</p>
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<p>Among the reasons to pull the lever for Obama:</p>
<blockquote><p>1. He a black nigga.<br/> 3. That nigga look like he can fight.<br/> …<br/> 5. Michelle got a fat ass.<br/> 6. He’s BFF’s with Jay-Z.</p>
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<p>At a “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/snoop-dogg-obama-romney-instagram_n_1942724.html">Community Sound Off</a>” session on the <em>Huffington Post</em>, a predictably estrogen-charged, fake-ghetto-talking group of commentators referred to Snoop’s list as “pretty entertaining,” “hilarious,” and evidence that Snoop is “a smart guy.”</p>
<div class="pullquote">“Double standards are by their very nature designed to keep people divided.”</div>
<p>This is the same Snoop who has several convictions for drug possession, illegal possession of firearms, and was the driver during a gang-related killing. It’s the same “smart guy” who at one point, according to Wikipedia, made a mid-career marketing decision to abandon “his ‘gangster’ image and embrace…a ‘pimp’ image” and also claims that around 2003-2004 he literally worked as a pimp. He’s also a member of the Nation of Islam, which teaches that white people were created by <a href="http://takimag.com/article/the_secret_relationship_between_rahm_and_lou_jim_goad/print#axzz224yy6PG">an evil scientist named Yakub</a>.</p>
<p>Still, none of this has prevented Snoop from doing multiple lucrative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop_Dogg#Endorsements">ad endorsements</a>, appearing in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTL8Ny398f0&feature=youtu.be">a children’s Christmas special</a>, having his own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop_Dogg%27s_Father_Hood">reality show</a> that demonstrates what an upstanding father he is, and rocking the house on the old <a href="http://www.vixbase.com/v/73375">Donny & Marie</a> program.</p>
<p>Mega-millionaire rapper Jay-Z, who was mentioned on Snoop’s list, also possesses the mysterious ability to be an unabashed criminal who somehow still finagles giant ad endorsements and supports the Almighty State now that there’s a black president. Jay-Z <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/09/19/jay-zs-past-includes-being-crack-dealer-stabbing-record-producer">shot his own brother</a> when he was 12. He was also a crack dealer by age 13 and pled guilty to <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/09/19/jay-zs-past-includes-being-crack-dealer-stabbing-record-producer/">a 1999 stabbing</a> of a record producer.</p>
<p>He is also <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1694108/jay-z-obama-bromance.jhtml">a personal friend of Barack Obama</a>‘s and recently raised a reported $4 million at an Obama fundraising dinner. And, like Snoop, Jay-Z said he voted for Obama because he’s black. He even did <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk4ggD_01E4">a song</a> about it. And although he once recorded a song referring to a rival MC as a “<a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jayz/takeover.html">fag</a>,” Jay-Z now says <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1685099/jay-z-obama-gay-marriage.jhtml">he always supported gay marriage</a>, presumably because, you know, now there’s a black president and it’s some sort of civil-rights issue or something.</p>
<p>Jay-Z’s former hip-hop blood enemy Nas, the aforementioned “fag,” has also recorded a song cheering the fact that we have <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T36xZTeMmd0">a black president</a>, even though Nas reportedly owes the IRS <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nas#Personal_life">over $6 million in back taxes</a>.</p>
<p>Barack Obama and the hip-hop community have a long history of mutual love and respect. In 2006 while an Illinois Senator, Obama had <a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/15972471/ns/today-entertainment/t/sen-obama-rapper-ludacris-meet-chat/">a private meeting</a> with Atlanta rapper <a href="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/8/23/1345738070896/Barack-Obama-and-Ludacris-010.jpg">Ludacris</a> to discuss “black youth issues,” despite the fact that Ludacris had spit <a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jermaineduprijd/welcometoatlanta.html">lyrics</a> that seem to call for murdering policemen (“Oink Oink, Pig Pig, do away with the pork”). But during the 2008 presidential campaign when some harsh Ludacris lyrics against John McCain threatened to derail Obama, Ludacris was <a href="http://www.englisc-gateway.com/bbs/topic/8830-obama-rejects-anti-white-ludacris-black-rap-lyrics">thrown under the same bus</a> as Reverend Jeremiah Wright.</p>
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<p>In 2010, Michelle Obama invited <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/10/white-house-invite-political-rapper-stirs-controversy/">a rapper who calls himself Common</a> to the White House for a delightful evening of poetry. Common’s lyrics include a metaphorical reference to how he wears his gun in “a black strap to make the cops run” and about “burning” George W. Bush. Common has also expressed support for Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Malcolm X, and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. He is also an outspoken critic of <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/05/300425/">interracial dating</a>.</p>
<p>When certain outlets complained that it was a little, well, <em>weird</em> for such a person to be invited to the White House, they were mocked and dismissed as unhip and uptight. But the same scoffers seemed to have no such problems when their cohorts’ outraged screeching effectively shut down <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2011/05/10/flashback-laura-bush-forced-to-cancel-white-house-poetry-event-after-leftists-freak-out/">a 2003 poetry event</a>sponsored by Laura Bush because it was scheduled to include passages from such undeniably unacceptable pimped-out cop-killing nigga thug gangstas as Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.</p>
<p>Barack Obama recently said that if he’s elected to a second term, he will perform lyrics by Atlanta rapper <a href="http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-music-scene/2012/04/30/president-obama-namechecks-atlanta-rapper-young-jeezy/">Young Jeezy</a>, who was arrested in 2005 on suspicion of being involved in a gang shooting in Miami. (The charges were later dropped.)</p>
<p>Rapper Ice-T, AKA “The Original Gangster” and singer of the song “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_Killer_%28song%29">Cop Killer</a>,” is a former member of the Crips, former weed dealer, former car-stereo thief, and one of the first rappers to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izuMg1GGnMc">explicitly mention LA gang culture</a> in his lyrics. He has more recently switched sides to play a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit">police detective</a> on TV and now says that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/14/ice-t-obama-rap-hip-hop_n_1596579.html">hip-hop music is what put Obama in the White House</a>.</p>
<p>Egged on by the eternally flatulent Cenk Uygur, rapper <a href="http://community54.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/IceCubeAtFirst.jpg">Ice Cube</a> recently said <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiRDfmk_iY">he thinks Obama is doing a good job</a>. This is the same Ice Cube who came to fame as a lyricist and rapper for the ultraviolent LA rap crew N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitudes) and afterwards had a solo musical career where he criticized his former bandmates for allowing “a white Jew tellin’ you what to,” rapped about performing “a home invasion point-blank on a Caucasian,” and released a charming ditty called “<a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/icecube/cavebitch.html">Cave Bitch</a>” about how he would prefer not to have sexual intercourse with “stanky” white women.</p>
<p>Yet none of this has prevented Ice Cube from becoming <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2LaVHZcr3s">a corporate ad spokesman</a> and a movie star in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_we_done_yet">wacky family comedies</a>.</p>
<p>Ice Cube’s former partner in Niggaz Wit Attitudes, multi-million-selling producer Dr. Dre, who once rapped about “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bFmiKodg1tc#t=167s">keepin’ the smile off the white face</a>” and produced a record about how it was “time to rob and mob and break the white man off something lovely,” now does commercials for <a href="http://dimewars.com/Video/Dr--Dre-s-Commercial-For-His-Own-HP-Computer--Talk-About-Endorsement-Paper-.aspx?bcmediaid=26744b0b-ad58-441b-9754-cd0729b9b779">Hewlett-Packard</a> and<a href="http://www.mostwatchedtoday.com/tag/dr-dre-car-commercial/">Chrysler</a>.</p>
<p>How might one account for this odd and possibly unprecedented fusion of open lawlessness, pro-government sentiment, and mainstream acceptance? How to explain a cultural climate that turns <a href="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4uy8ts9tk1qbhde4o1_1280.jpg">convicted rapists into saints</a>?</p>
<p>Some might argue that America has always had a fascination with outlaws. Still, I don’t remember Billy the Kid being invited to any of James Garfield’s presidential barbecues. Nor do I recall Bonnie and Clyde working with Herbert Hoover to “empower the youth.” I never saw John Dillinger hosting $40,000-a-plate fundraising dinners for FDR.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, I never saw Charles Manson on <em>Live With Regis and Kathie Lee</em>. Has ABC ever produced <em>An Aryan Brotherhood Halloween</em>? When was the last time you saw a skinhead cracking up the cackling hens on <em>The View</em>? Did I miss the VH1 series where heavy-metal musicians who threatened to beat up Obama are made to live together in a beach house?</p>
<p id="">Double standards are by their very nature designed to keep people divided. It is clear that the government-media complex’s open-armed bear hug of racism and criminality apply to only a certain <em>kind</em> of racist criminality. And if Obama wins the election next month, I think this is cause for concern, whether or not this makes me an uptight cracker devil who needs a bullet in the dome.</p>
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<h1 class="story-header" id="">Slavery case girl tells court of abuse by Eccles couple</h1>
<div class="caption body-narrow-width"><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/58481000/jpg/_58481641_ashars304.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Tallat Ashar (left) and Ilyas Asha"/><span>Ilyas Asha and his wife, Tallat Ashar, deny charges of false imprisonment and human trafficking</span></div>
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<p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1">A deaf girl allegedly kept in a cellar, raped and treated as a slave in Greater Manchester has told a court of years of beatings and cruelty.</p>
<p>The girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told the jury of the alleged abuse after being trafficked to the UK from Pakistan in 2000.</p>
<p>Ilyas Ashar, 83, and his wife, Tallat Ashar, 66, from Eccles, have denied charges at Minshull Street Crown Court.</p>
<p>Among the charges they face are false imprisonment and human trafficking.</p>
<p>The orphaned youngster was slapped, beaten, sexually abused and hit with a rolling pin while forced to work for no money during the day at the couple's home in Eccles, Salford, the court heard.</p>
<p><span class="cross-head">'Sad and weak'</span></p>
<p>At night the girl was made to sleep on the concrete floor of a cellar, the door bolted, the jury was told.</p>
<p>Her true age is not known, but it is thought she was aged between 10 and 12 when she came to the UK.</p>
<p>Asked about her life, she told the jury using sign language via an interpreter: "I was sad and weak because I was working so hard. I used to cook and clean for hours.</p>
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<div class="byline"><span class="byline-name">Nick Ravenscroft</span><span class="byline-title">BBC North of England correspondent</span></div>
<p>The practicalities of hearing this case are extremely complex. The alleged victim is giving evidence via videolink, which is not unusual when a witness is deemed to be vulnerable.</p>
<p>But with her at a remote location are two interpreters and an intermediary. He is registered by the Ministry of Justice and his role is to make sure she understands fully what is happening.</p>
<p>All exchanges between the judge and young woman have to be interpreted by a deaf signer and the intermediary, who is also deaf. Effectively everything is being done in triplicate.</p>
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<p id="story_continues_2">"They used to hit me from being very very little, all the time."</p>
<p>Shown a photo of Mrs Ashar, to identify her alleged abuser, the girl said: "That's the woman who used to hit me and beat me all the time as I was growing up.</p>
<p>"All through my life she's been hitting me.</p>
<p>"She used to hit me with her ring, she used to hit me in the face and cut my face with her ring. It hurt. She would scratch me.</p>
<p>"I would be down in the cellar, sitting alone and very upset. I could not get out."</p>
<p>The girl would put cups and crockery down on tables but Mrs Ashar would complain she put them down too hard and made too much noise - and so would slap her, she told the court.</p>
<p>She was also shown a photo of Mr Ashar, who is accused of raping the girl.</p>
<p>"The old man, he's bad," she told the court. "He's the one who has sex with me."</p>
<p>The court heard the girl has no family in the UK and has never been to school in the UK or Pakistan and cannot read or write.</p>
<p>Mr and Mrs Ashar both deny two counts of human trafficking into the UK for exploitation and a single count of false imprisonment.</p>
<p>Mr Ashar also denies 12 counts of rape and Mrs Ashar denies one count of sexual assault and unlawful wounding. The couple deny charges of benefit fraud along with their daughter Faaiza, 44.</p>
<p id="">The trial continues</p>