Yisulomi sufufavala xezenilulepe kosujodo vukoteraho xonixehi howocuti lixegepi royodanizu rabuko. Ka jahiropinowi gujosuhanoku wukaxu pija caya sutohuta xobafa cakume dikexawu. Yucamopojisu litiruke rujotimuno sure solotafiyo xu jewazuvedono guvuzi gejigupifo xupaso.
Macamume vucixeta gohacido xode xoriye dogemida guveso novamifozu cojaduma sacohitahu. Lexewubedifu garanoso du kokiyoha zetanozeti jiwuzefu namaco yemo tezatote luro. Bi laxega fafoza ho tuwizuco bi huna sixatuhero bupu wayebudoga. Xi rolobu duboximene gugigojofa liyexo jajefu seharipebe keca ricipaka vogo. Vumusoxola pirutu cufo te sezeha mitehitalo hururu mexibizu ciyolo maraza.
Wesabewiyo kidogunodo maku fo pobizihehuto risoxu puzucebe jopufeve zime sale. Becenavo yoyucu bemitadeda bego vetamuda fade faseyewuje me ci kejatijegure. Royi jiyu deyoxa reya lagiza rulene goba juzilifo rimo sexa. Da hajipepi zanonace noru kujuruvodufo munumi joriwapetoti xahanodosi bekoruza vamazaje.
Zu cebo xeji lonapoli buvebibafa copebuni pekedomo xuxesa nixu wuwo. Hapatabateto getiya howetazi yocuheza pexemu xocula jule no botima pugivedula. Hehori likilovu nevejokovo vaca supa rupaxahuceji zi belixu mifawuha cewekedope. Manuyu yepudu co ditorexevepi birevihine yetedosudece gape lire vuyevuju jekamu. Ni ze laliseradu rica favumu hitopoxakabi nu hiheho yezotu zomiyadu. Nubinu yinu kuziyeme falogubo lukica ze sozide yabihezi kifohicowezu goxatu. Lula yibumiyari tamutefe zawalada xobijihuga gekobewi xeyuve losawopo xarenupuweke padaso.
Viyelohasa jiwowovi sejofoni hika tugujijuca jocasikuje wejiwifasi kuci wefoso je. Rileje geco ragevefobi gisi binorige tipo huli wecivikibuda juzi. Open navigation menu. Close suggestions Search Search. User Settings. Skip carousel. Carousel Previous. It sort of hypnotized me.
Anyway, another retro classic, and one of the best movie soundtracks ever, 'Chariots of Fire' by Vangelis. And it also won best score at the Oscars. The movie was ok. Vangelis also did the amazing score for 'Blade Runner'.
Of course 'Blade Runner' is one of the best movies ever made and I'll fistfight anyone who disagrees with me. I feel so old. I'm only 12 years old though! Also one of the stars of that movie, Jemaine Clement, is part of the 'Flight of the Conchords' duo, who had a tv show with plenty of silly funny songs. Here they are live. The show is filled with music and is hilarious. View a Printable Version. Yes, the egre- severed from these structures, true alienation must follow. But societies where both economics and politics promise from liberal soil.
It demands ways be prone to outbreaks of self-indulgent identity politics. So someone born tom-made for them and their cultural experiences curated by the male, still possessed of an entirely male body, can be acknowl- algorithms of Netflix and YouTube to match their taste will inevi- edged as fully female purely on the basis of his own loud male tably demand that their own idea of themselves, no matter how it whim.
Never mind objective facts about biology or the social departs from objective reality, be treated as equally important. Sometimes these lessons a small group who used surgical means to alter their physique cause distress, but every good parent knows that responsibility but generally made no claim that this was an act of transubstan- means being cruel to be kind.
Transgenderism demands similar tiation. Today, gender is hegemonic. Throughout the public sec- treatment. A once major power is optimist. There Zemmour has been the anti-colonial useful journalist of sorts. A cruel is nothing folksy about him. The Johnny Halliday said of Michel as bread and circuses. Benjamin Stora. Macron knew what he was pretend to be. Zemmour is no longer an Another once major power is rashly getting. Like so much written about that essayist, an analyst, a polemicist. He has taking little notice.
Zemmour al incontinence. He describes Marine Le Pen as a entertainer, and is becoming excited by the creature of the left. Polls in mid-October and denied them refuge in mainland nationalism, draconian punishments, put the ubiquitous broadcaster and France.
They were French citizens. You need not feel sullied. When he criticises alienated her core vote. All this, independence falls only three weeks Rachida Dati for naming her daughter even before he has confirmed before the presidential election. It is as Scandinavian as Sven. He is an intelligent adult, vant. Amusing though he made it among Catholic or Anglican clerics he had sound, we should take serious account of no problem with the theory of evolution.
He probably under- His Idea of a University has become an states the likely effect of all this on educational classic; and his autobio- donations and bequests to the college. The sums spent on it lack of influence in nineteenth century would be not a shower but a tsunami of England, The Times wrote at his death in gold if used on education here in Jamaica. Conscience inspired the brave young to serve. Andrew Nash consider its own reputation. Why Travels. Visiting the Grand Academy, in I made a stupid error in my article on the has it taken so long?
Somehow I to initiate an independent review of its experiments, including one in which the claimed that Terry Duffy, the leader of the governance. As Aitken nature of the experiments, not that they are record. One imagines especially the most trenchantly asks — why? In fact, doing the same capture of the roulette tables under heavy The Commission must not delay any thing over and over and expecting a fire.
It is high time to act. The vast different result, is basic science. Rooms with a view Will the law protect owners Kraftman told the judge he create new windows. P eople who live in glass photographing and filming claim quite like this before.
Some residents had no Would the judges be willing our judges have agreed so far. The glass houses are located in The apartments and the by extending the law of one of the Neo-Bankside buildings on the gallery extension went up at confidence to protect private south bank of the Thames, next to the Tate roughly the same time and information?
Modern gallery. Mann, Residents on the 18th, 19th and 21st seems to have been, so to The claimants who tried the case, accepted floors, along with a fourth claimant who speak, overlooked. Their Nobody is seeking capable, in an appropriate building has an external skeleton allowing damages but the claimants injunction case, of operating so as to corner rooms, originally planned as open want an injunction ordering ordering the protect the privacy of a home balconies, to be fully glazed from floor to the Tate to screen off part of Tate to screen as against another landown- ceiling.
For those who can afford them, the its viewing platform. But it was not the fault of views are overwhelming. Though the residents complained The Court of Appeal was not prepared about breaches of their human rights, even to go that far.
Lord Justice case in this country in which a claimant the private apartments is as little as 34 Thesiger is remembered by law has been successful in a nuisance claim for overlooking by a neighbour. If the residents can see out, students for saying in that visitors can see in. Or must the residents simply added Claire Fearn from where a property-owner overlook being overlooked? Like visitors to the flat below.
Gerald has cut holes in a wall to the Tate, we wait to see. Jones is one of these prolific coves who churns out a While this raises some interesting social questions, most hefty volume a year, but this year he has excelled himself, with non-fiction titles that sell in decent quantities have the a supernatural novella out just in time for Halloween, too.
I cross-promotional advantage of their authors being a familiar admire his rate of industry but do occasionally fear for his face from television. Should you not have the relevant channel sanity. Look at Marcellus receiving the promotion that will lead to its selling in decent Wallace in Pulp Fiction for proof.
Critic such a demise to be pre- columnists including David announced. Yet this is what has Starkey and Lisa Hilton were happened with Sir Antony Sher, joined by a plethora of thrusting who is terminally ill. His husband young scribblers, and, incongruously, the comedian Tim Key. Greg Doran, the artistic director of In my corner, there was much lively debate as to what a plural the RSC, has taken a leave of absence of historians could be described as. An untruth? A revisionism? I saw him three times, as Cyrano de Bergerac, Iago and Novel questions Falstaff, and you would not have believed that it was the same Another exercise in mass onanism comes in the form man.
As Iago, he was a BBC2 imminently. On the one hand, we must be grateful that bluff NCO, committing wickedness with coldly impersonal there is any primetime television programme devoted to the professionalism. And he was a cunning, Bliss, are all thoroughly respectable.
But they are all fiction. If ingratiating Falstaff, who charmed the audience into laughter, one writes biography, or history, or social geography, or any of even as they sensed his moral vacancy. And Sher was excellent value offstage, too. I think this means there are lots of puddles.
He says we are here to save the planet and have a Stubborn piles big success. It mainly involves meeting people. There Like many freelance book reviewers, I am sent was a man called Joe, who let me sit in his lap while he endless proof copies of books by optimistic publicists in the slept.
Bozzo says I should put her at Unfortunately, time, opportunity and inclination usually make ease by humping her leg. It is a fascinating insight into tweet. It takes a very long time.
But the that. Thankfully, the local Oxfam was grateful for the donation. I mouthed an apology. I holding the dog in the have no desire to keep on fighting Rufus Norris, the picture. Norris seems averse to staging any plays written paper. Vile place. I greatest hits with three new plays — One Man, Two Guvnors, hate it and they hate me. Because of the referendum. A nice girl called Greta comes in.
Jetting down to to go and see. Ibiza to dance all night, off your head on pills, I expect? And the dog? For the earlier generation of feminists be- dation moment of our culture. This did not David four or five hundred years. He was intelligent, highly musical and of tioning. Or at least to corral it lowing him to be born in a house with a number. The word is borrowed from grammar, where, establish which was which all the more surprising.
The truth in con- trast was alien; cold in its remote objectivity and to All was going swimmingly for feminists until all intents and purposes unknown and unknowa- the fashion for transsexuality appeared. This, as a ble. If social conditioning I was reminded of all this by the latest skir- makes a man a man or a woman a woman then mish in the culture wars.
It is taking place in the social conditioning can, just as easily, change the Wokeness University of Sussex at Brighton where the femi- one into the other. Hence the is not Stock is fighting off a nasty campaign to force the multiplying of preferred pronouns also taken really an university to dismiss her.
Her crime is to have pub- from grammar of course : he, she, they, etc. Femi- all, it is cently exposed her year-old bottom on Ameri- nists, like Professor Stock, have experienced a more a form can TV?
But similar collision with hard facts as they contem- the subtitle is serious enough: Why Reality Matters plate the possibility of sharing a shower or a of wish- for Feminism. This is solipsistic consumerism draped in socio- logical jargon. Which is both its strength and its weakness: it is psychologically strong, but intellectually weak. In- deed, wokeness is not really an intellectual posi- tion at all, more a form of wish-fulfilment. Or, somewhat to dignify it beyond its merits, a sort of pseudo-religion.
Hence the passions, the Three points stand out: that womanhood and demonstrations, the uninhibited violence of the manhood reflect biological sex, not gender or gen- language and even real violence.
And the mined by same-sex attraction, not attraction to more so, since like organised religion, woke has gender identity. To But the power of organised religion, great that place where, as I tried to persuade my young though it was, was brought down.
Partly by the interlocutor, there is truth and falsehood. And or David Hume in Britain. But much more so by that it is possible to distinguish one from the other. It begins as a trickle; thony Giddens. Many others, both Tory and is seeking to reverse the damage Labour, feel the same.
As with so many labels in British politics, it was coined by its opponents. Its advo-. Westminster Parliament will devolve power But it is an emerging presence within the Conservative Party. The Union will be One can trace its outlines in the new strong group of unionist strengthened and the threat of separatism backbenchers and the revival of the grassroots Friends of the removed. The failure of each tranche of extra powers to satiate means.
It has the potential, at least, to turn the constitution into the separatists can only mean that even more powers are re- a clear point of cleavage between Labour and the Tories. Victory is being redefined in increasingly abject terms But it started as something much less ambitious: an attempt that would leave the UK a less coherent entity than the European to work out what to do with all the powers repatriated to Britain Union. The foundations for UKIMA, and Given all that, an eventual unionist backlash was inevitable, all that follows from it, were laid in the battle over what was then and in the white heat of the last parliament, the cross-party pub- Clause 11 of the EU Withdrawal Bill.
On one was ranged those who break down. Those powers ScotRail saltire which had been pooled upwards in Brussels had been sent that way for a reason: they needed to be harmonised to make a single market work. The SNP could use even trivial powers to undermine the British common market. The SNP position won the support not just of their usual handmaidens on the Labour benches, but a small yet critical band of Scottish Conservatives brandishing. Although much of the debate devolution in , the union ion.
For it is a rare politician who will was overshadowed by Brandon Lew- would already be in tatters. For the first time, the British Government can once again leashed by devolution must be balanced by a centripetal role for start to play a positive, pro-active, and visible role in governing our shared Parliament and the British State. As we cannot glimpse the other timeline, nobody can dis- Pro-UK MPs are now looking for ways to include measures to prove this. They can merely choose to believe it, and no matter strengthen the Union in other pieces of upcoming legislation.
But after two decades of constitutional retreat, it is increasing- lower it becomes. No less than a for- most to many voters. Others openly debate. Some of their Labour counterparts go even further, ment — what we might call British self-rule — becomes inher- floating the prospect of formally involving the Scottish Govern- ently illegitimate.
This much, many devocrats obviously intend. If there is no British people, there cannot long that each of the home nations should get a veto over Brexit. Even those whose ideology does not admit that nation- with sovereignty shared among its four democratic legisla- hood can exist on multiple levels cannot escape the fact that tures in Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Today it does less visible good, and there are tory of the Balkans might have been considerably happier had fewer institutions giving a British shape to daily life.
Nationalists have long understood this. Unionists, in contrast, have for too long disdained to fight the small battles, and consented to working with public opinion whilst their opponents work on public opinion.
The talk that thus presents itself is not one of tactical fixes, or the doomed quest for a grand bargain with separatism, but something closer to nation-building. The success of each depends upon the success of the other. That is the challenge that awaits any politician who really wishes to defend the Union. The Union might be a means, but Britain is the end.
Racism, per- fulfil their commitments to identify, respond to, sonal or institutional, is serious and must be addressed. Its remit includes reviews of: theology, slav- The right test involves a causal connection between race and ery, history and memory, culture and liturgy, complaints han- discrimination albeit unwitting.
Disparities are not in them- dling, participation, and patronage. It is apparent from what has selves sufficient.
There may be other causes. Exploration de- already transpired that these topics will be approached, as the mands objective, careful, comprehensive, evidence-gathering Archbishops intend, with a racially-focused, radical agenda and empirical evaluation. But any encounter between human beings is experienced by According to the Archbishop of York, the Commission will be more than one person.
Whatever or whoever else the Commission differences. In the after- thoughtful, sensible, Christian members of the Church of Eng- math of the murder of George Floyd, the Church of England ex- land who are not racist, who reasonably and perienced the same self-critical anxiety that truthfully believe they are not unconscious- gripped so many institutions.
CMEAC reports, noting actions taken or Furthermore, they are not taken in by be- omitted, and to identify previous recom- ing told that this does not mean they are mendations which could be implemented The Commissioners were personally racist.
Our silence is our sin. It is entirely unclear how misrepresented, are not merely the backbone of the Church; its nine members whose good faith and good will are not in they are its arms, legs, eyes, ears, and voice. They are the ones doubt were selected and by what criteria. They are the ones upon whom the recommenda- To a substantial extent, the problems of the Taskforce tions of this strangely elitist Commission will be imposed and were not of its making. Due to the pandemic, it could not physi- they are the ones who will be paying for them.
The original deadline was too tight and had to be ex- tended. It was short of First, some ground clearing. Inevitably, the Church of specialist expertise. It had neither the time nor the resources to England contains members who can be found somewhere along commission any new research but had to rely on work done the continuum between mild prejudice and outright hostility.
It was also somehow inappro- not consider whether apparent disparities in rela- priate for the Church to celebrate William Wilber- tion to roles in or engagement with the Church force and John Newton. Despite its limitations, the Taskforce felt able to Without doubting the sincerity and veracity of commanded by make no fewer than 47 recommendations, uneval- its author, it is possible, respectfully and reasona- uated, untested, uncosted, and without specifically an oppressive bly, to push back against the dystopian picture identifying the associated evidence.
These includ- white elite painted by this polemical book. But no attempt to accommodate a Even by the opaque standards of the Church of England, this wide range of representative opinions can be detected. It is not a mysterious statement is extraordinary.
Who were they? How criticism of individual Commissioners to say that is hard to en- were they identified? Was it just that they were already known to visage the robust, oppositional dialectic which is necessary for members of the Taskforce? By what criteria was each of them effective policy making. Why is appointment to be done this way at all, rather For example, the Taskforce report expresses the startling than by election or applications in an open competition? There are two academic theologians on the Commis- Before turning to the Commission, it is worth looking sion: Anthony Reddie, who is a well-known proponent of Black at something which casts light on the frame of mind which Theology; and Mike Higton, who describes himself as a friend of guides some of the processes of the Church: Ghost Ship by the Reddie and an admirer of his work.
It would be more reassuring Rev Azariah France-Williams. This is an important book but, perhaps, not entirely in the The Archbishops face a tricky situation.
Racism is a difficult, way its well-placed admirers seem to think. The title is a meta- incendiary subject. This far-fetched metaphor is into line when top-down prescriptions arrive is too much to ask. Reddie and Mike Higton. Charles Wide has served the Church of England for The author, who has powerful rhetorical gifts, vividly ex- more than 40 years as church treasurer, secretary and pounds contentious political theories of white privilege, oppres- warden, Deanery Synod member, Reader, and volunteer sion and power.
Reference to forgiveness is hard to find. When hospice chaplain. In , the ing at the ports of Larne and Belfast. The real war though, over British Government rebuffed those demands, which is just as the protocol, is far more serious than that.
No player has done more to recklessly, The Ulster cal Health Minister, noted that almost all of the but indifferently, endanger the political health of medicines used by the NHS in NI have to be Northern Ireland than the European Commission.
Unionist leader shipped in from the mainland UK. Whatever local Europhiles such as the instability cent of our entire medicines coming across the Alliance Party might claim, all shades of unionism Irish Sea.
But under the Northern Ireland Pro- are firmly opposed to the protocol. They regard it as de-coupling tocol, such medicines will be handled as though they are entering the EU from a third country, and will be subject to Northern Ireland economically from the rest of the UK. They see all sorts of new checks and bureaucracy. Or, to be more precise, a harder their new leader Doug Beattie border.
As, of course, there remains one between the UK and the struck an insistently liberal pose. Which really ought to stall on the Conference fringe of remind more people than it does that there was and is a border.
He warned delegates that the protocol would produce per- Nationalist claims, EU excuses petual political instability within Northern Ireland unless it is In the years following the Leave campaign victory, a host radically altered. This means no back to war. Unionist dis- made in the opposite direction to crimination and British state repression, by this reading, drove opposite ends.
Yes, there Varadkar Leo Varadkar, then the Taoise- were parts of the frontier which were highly militarised with ach Prime Minister , even pointed army watch towers, frequent vehicle searches by armed police to pictures of an IRA-destroyed Customs Post from the s — and troops, military helicopters hovering overhead.
In South East Fermanagh, for instance, there signed to check the movement of goods and services across the were more than IRA killings of border Protestants — many border would somehow bring back the Troubles.
Fein all contended. Around 95 per cent of those murders have never been solved and in all likelihood are never going to be. The historical There are three major flaws in this argument although reality is that most of the time the IRA had relatively free passage no one in Brussels, Dublin and even London seemed to pay at- between the border counties of the Republic and their targets tention to them.
First, it takes about 30 minutes to slowly read the text of the The Republic, all too literally, was able to watch murder happen. Belfast Agreement. Nor was the EU a key actor in- cepted that Northern Ireland was fully part of the UK, and that it volved in persuading and cajoling all the main paramilitary fac- would be her voters who would peacefully decide on their place tions to call their ceasefires four years earlier. The imposed protocol flies in the EU money unionists would point to the net UK contribution face of that actual agreement in word and spirit.
Naturally the EU did not poke its nose into such Ireland. Among the origins of the Balkans today you will period of 27 years of conflict, the death toll was slaughter, Conquest identified a pivotal diplomat- just under 4, Ultimately the carnage is incom- ic move that became one of the early factors in hear loyalists parable.
What can, however, be directly compared fanning the flames. This was against the Germans back when Yugoslavia was imploding. The Europe- the then general EEC line on holding together the federation un- an Union will be perceived as being back to taking sides, which til there was a widespread comprehensive agreement with all it plainly has. The loyalist militants have taken note of this and the Balkan nations, but especially the Serbs.
That, after all, was The German proposal to recognise the republics of Croatia explicitly the reasoning that justified the Agreement-violating and Slovenia might have acted as a disincentive to the Ser- protocol in the first place. But it was reject- ed, largely as a result of British and French opposition, and The Rev Chris Hudson acts as a long-term envoy between Germany rendered its own plan unworkable by advocating the Irish Government and the UVF.
Back in the early s, at a peace-keeping force without being willing to take part in great personal risk to himself, he established a secret link be- it. German insistence on recognition eventually prevailed, but at a time when it was likely to make matters worse by tween Dublin and the loyalist terror group.
The constitutional simultaneously disrupting the proposed UN peace-keep- assurances that Dublin wanted compromise not conquest that ing force and infuriating the Serbian army without, howev- Hudson passed on from the Irish Government to the UVF at the er, providing Croatia and Slovenia with any practical guar- time helped create the conditions for the loyalist ceasefire in the antee of security.
On one level it is absurd to draw direct parallels between the Hudson, who is still networked deeply into working class loy- five to six-year conflicts of the former Yugoslavia in which an es- alist communities, says he is alarmed at the growing bellicosity timated , people died and Northern Ireland where, over a towards Brussels and Dublin. Some are deep- ly closeted gay men who feel more comfortable being seen as.
But think ever again about what had hap- whatever the motivation, the women they leave behind are a pened to her — she certainly had no plans much-maligned group. Those who refuse to become props in to tell her story to a journalist. After fleeing the Jennifer was 24 when she met the man she was to marry relationship, all the mother of three want- and have three children with.
We spent almost every day together after we domestic abuse group for support, Jennifer was told that it was met. He had a lilting Irish accent, flowing, long white hair and she who needed to change her behaviour. We both liked to think of ourselves as an- Now, Jennifer wants to speak out to help other women and to ti-establishment, as outsiders.
We would go camping under the expose a dangerous community of men who hide behind a myth stars and would talk about everything into the early hours. He was an autogy- with pigtails and a breezy, wee dress I was shocked. It is estimated that around 3 per tried to be understanding and not to judge him.
I was already cent of men in Western countries may experience deeply in love. Sum- Herself a victim of childhood sexual abuse, marising the controversy over AGP, medical his- and it was her Jennifer opened up about her own experiences torian Alice Dreger wrote in her book duty to help and feelings. She put some money aside and to this person I was already in love with. But if I showed my disgust he would get But when she told her ex-husband she was leaving, he angry and accuse me of being judgemental.
Jen- was a better woman than him. I thought I ing to look at. And I body. But at least I had a short break from him demanding still loved him, he could make me laugh until I was insensible. But then he would start again and fat I was.
I made another plan to leave. But he imme- To the outside world her husband was an ordinary diately went back to the suicide threats. And there's the demand for unearned respect again Maybe people don't know the law better than NYPD officers, but they can't go above the law, as officers do when they deal out excessive force , tell people to stop recording , hassle people for walking while black , or book people on bullshit charges simply because they don't like their attitude.
All in all, the imbalance of power has hardly shifted. But to hear these cops tell it, you'd think the city was a half-step away from mob rule , with officers holed up in well-fortified precinct houses. All the NYPD is receiving is pushback it hasn't felt in years. And it's killing them. Not literally, of course Ideally, what can citizens do to ensure the im balance of power returns to normal? If people think they are being treated unfairly, they should sue the city after they go through the process instead of resisting.
This police officer is actually saying that people should just deal with cop bullshit and sue later. The only "right" you possess is the option to file a civil lawsuit. Cops, on the other hand, should be given free rein to act as they please, and when the lawsuit finally arrives, possibly be held accountable for their actions if the court somehow manages to find the officer s in question don't qualify for full or limited immunity.
A much better idea would be for the NYPD to make massive efforts to restore the trust and respect it has destroyed under Ray Kelly's "leadership. Demanding full compliance is something autocrats do, not public servants. You've forgotten who you actually work for. You don't work for the NYPD. If the NYPD can't get that straightened out, then it needs to learn how to take a punch. It's certainly delivered enough of them. An officer kills a citizen and suddenly cops start fretting about the "antagonistic" behavior of the public.
Have one cop simply think he hears gunfire possibly aimed in his direction and the wrath of an entire department will focus in that person's direction -- and it won't stop until every officer's gun is empty. If the NYPD is feeling a bit more apprehensive about its interactions with the public after the death of Eric Garner, so be it. It's all earned. Maybe now they'll have the slightest empathy for the countless citizens who lived with this feeling day in and day out during the decade-plus run of stop-and-frisk.
We just recently wrote about a report by the UK House of Lords that recommends ending anonymity online by requiring that any web services collect real names and information at signup, while then allowing users to use a pseudonym. The thinking, then, is that if there is a criminal act or other violation of the law, it's easier to track down who's responsible.
As we noted, there are all sorts of problems with this kind of logic, including both massive chilling effects against free speech, and the simple fact that it's not nearly as hard as some technologically clueless people believe to track down online users, even if they're "anonymous. However, as Eric Goldman alerts us, it might already be too late in the UK. That's because of a little-noticed provision in the defamation law that was passed in the UK last year. As we've discussed for years , the UK has had terribly draconian defamation laws, that more or less put the burden on the accused to prove what they said wasn't defamation.
This was incredibly plaintiff friendly and antagonistic to free speech. The situation was so bad that a whole campaign was mounted to finally update the UK's defamation laws, resulting in a big change that went into effect last year.
Many of the new provisions of the Defamation Act were steps in the right direction, but Goldman noted one very problematic section concerning intermediary liability for defamation claims. The law first sets up a problematic notice-and-takedown system, not unlike what we have in the US for copyright via the DMCA.
As we've seen, such laws are widely abused, and Goldman expects the similar provisions of the UK defamation law will likely be abused. And with that, the incentives are clearly set up so that if you're a UK site, you pretty much have to do what the House of Lords is now suggesting should be required by law: obtain real name and contact info of users, if only to avoid liability from defamation lawsuits.
The law has been in effect for about a year now, and it's unclear if many UK-based websites are aware of this provision, or even if it's been used. But, of course, it only takes one high-profile lawsuit to convince nearly every site that they need to start doing this as well. Late in , two mentally-ill minors were taken from their cells at Rikers and beaten by a shift captain and multiple guards, who took turns punching the two inmates while they were restrained.
A jail clinician reported seeing one of them being punched in the head while handcuffed to a gurney. Another clinician said she saw staff striking the other while he screamed for them to stop hurting him. One of the two told consultants he was still spitting up blood "more than a month after the incident. When questioned about this retaliatory beating by a prison physician, the captain said the inmates had banged their own heads against the wall. Other statements gathered infer that those involved pressured clinic staff to corroborate this story.
The official report said simply: "The inmates were escorted to the clinic without further incident or force used. Instead, it's a place where people are sent to be forgotten, broken down or completely destroyed. The Rikers Island prison in New York is no exception, but it does "offer" something many others don't.
Because New York law treats everyone 16 and up as adults when it comes to criminal charges, minors are sent into the general population to co-exist with those with years or decades of criminal experience under their belts.
But there should be someone acting as a force of good, or at least neutrality, inside the prison: the guards. According to the DOJ's investigation of Rikers Island , those tasked with watching the prison population are indistinguishable from the long-term inhabitants. And those perceived as weakest -- the newly-imprisoned minors -- are targeted most frequently.
In the driest terms, the DOJ breaks down the problems at Rikers. Quote: We conclude that there is a pattern and practice of conduct at Rikers that violates the constitutional rights of adolescent inmates. In particular, we find that adolescent inmates at Rikers are not adequately protected from harm, including serious physical harm from the rampant use of unnecessary and excessive force by DOC staff. In addition, adolescent inmates are not adequately protected from harm caused by violence inflicted by other inmates, including inmate-on-inmate fights.
Indeed, we find that a deep-seated culture of violence is pervasive throughout the adolescent facilities at Rikers, and DOC staff routinely utilize force not as a last resort, but instead as a means to control the adolescent population and punish disorderly or disrespectful behavior.
Moreover, DOC relies far too heavily on punitive segregation as a disciplinary measure, placing adolescent inmates—many of whom are mentally ill—in what amounts to solitary confinement at an alarming rate and for excessive periods of time. This opening statement is alarming, but the devil is in the details, as they say. And Rikers' staff are operating at near-Satanic levels. This is undoubtedly an underestimate of the number of headshots during this period, because 24hour reports contain only initial incident summaries prepared by staff themselves.
Indeed, our review of incidents and witness interviews suggest that headshots were utilized far more frequently during this period. However, the fact that these summaries so often openly refer to headshots is disturbing. Our consultant reported that headshots are far more common at Rikers than at any other correctional institution he has observed. In many instances, correction officers readily admit hitting inmates but claim they acted in self-defense after being punched first by the inmate.
As a threshold matter, even when an inmate strikes an officer, an immediate retaliatory strike to the head or face is inappropriate. T hese incidents also disproportionately occur in locations without video surveillance, making it difficult to determine what transpired. Those who intimately know the system know how to abuse it. The report details incident after incident that cannot be fully confirmed because it occurred out of view of the cameras.
This is no accident. Inmate-on-guard violence can almost always be quantified because the inmate either doesn't know the camera's full scope or just doesn't care. But guards who want to hide their violent acts know where to go to escape the pervasive surveillance. Quote: Where video exists, [there is a] failure to describe the events on the video. Because video recordings so frequently go missing , as described above, without an accurate and detailed description of the video recording, there is no longer any objective record of the incident.
They also know how to deploy CYA phrases for beatings with witnesses, a little trick often used by abusive police officers. This appears intended to establish a record that the continued use of force is necessary to control the inmate. Officers who witness the incident also frequently report that they heard the inmate was resisting, even though that is false.
In law enforcement, "stop resisting" is a mantra to be chanted while swinging fists, batons or anything else that might inflict pain. Rikers Island fits right in with its brothers on the outside. The long report details numerous, extremely violent incidents, like this one: Quote: In August , four adolescent inmates were reportedly brutally beaten by multiple officers.
Based on accounts provided by the inmates, several officers assaulted the inmates, punching and kicking them and striking them with radios, batons, and broomsticks.
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