"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
They tried to warn us, but their warnings were in vain. After all, who could have imagined it? It transcended in magnitude anything mankind had ever known.
Nothing in all previous human history could have prepared us for the sight of Jennifer Aniston in a purple bikini.
UPDATE: “Clearly I have much to learn.” Yeah. Sandra Bernhard nude? Dude, that’s just so wrong.
A report on the sexual exploitation of British girls as young as 12 by a gang led by two 28-year-old Muslim men found that cultural issues were “a critical factor in making [the victims] easy targets for abusers.”
Official agencies “missed opportunities” to protect two victims of the gang, according to the newly released report by the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board (PDF).
England was shocked this week by the news — made public after the conclusion of three trials in which nine men were convicted — that at least 27 girls in Derbyshire had fallen prey to the gang led by Abid Saddique and Mohammed Liaqat, “each British-born and of Pakistani origin with an arranged marriage,” according to the U.K. Daily Mail. Authorities say the gang may have had dozens more victims.
Saddique and Liaqat cruised the streets in a BMW looking for young girls, sometimes approaching them near schools or shops. The men would use cell-phone calls and text messages to “groom” the girls, then ply them with alcohol and drugs and invite them to parties where they would be sexually assaulted. One girl said she was gang-raped by eight men. Continue reading Report: ‘Issues of Culture, Ethnicity and Identity’ Raised in U.K. Rape-Gang Case →
. . . the Department of Homeland Security would be cracking down on the Internet. And they were right!
Out-coached. That is all.
Last week, we told you about the TSA agent arrested for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. This week, it’s a TSA agent who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman.
And guess what? He’s got a prior record of stalking and harassment.
Come to think of it, “stalking and harassment” is pretty much the job description at TSA, isn’t it?
A Harvard-educated, AIDS-infected, Internet-cruising, marijuana-using gay British expatriate presumes to speak for Americans who reject Sarah Palin because of “a meanness, a disrespect, a vicious partisanship.”
We await a response from Sarah Palin’s uterus. Meanwhile, let me suggest to Sarah Palin a campaign promise that will unite the GOP coalition: The first thing you do, after completing the oath of office on January 20, 2013, sign an executive order for Andrew Sullivan’s deportation.
“Forget about the Mexican drug cartels — save us from the AIDS-Infected British Dope Menace!”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Sept. 11, 2009
On Nov. 9, South Florida talk-radio host Joyce Kaufman was named as chief of staff for newly-elected Republican congressman Allen West. That night, Rachel Maddow aired a video of Kaufman giving a fiery speech at a Tea Party. A shooting threat Nov. 10 led to the shutdown of Broward schools, and Kaufman’s resignation was announced Nov. 11.
Two weeks later, the truth emerged: The shooting threat came from Ellisa Martinez, a left-wing Green Party activist:
The FBI says that after Martinez saw a tape on MSNBC of Kaufman at a July 3 Tea Party rally, she fired off a threatening email that led to a lockdown at all Broward County schools.
(Hat-tip: Weasel Zippers.) Martinez was arrested Tuesday after fleeing to California. She was arraigned Wednesday in Los Angeles and will be extradited back to Florida. All along, West’s supporters suspected this was a hoax. MSM headline you’ll never see:
MSNBC Inspires Left-Wing Hate Hoax
Why does this remind me of “Send the Body to Glenn Beck“?
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! My guess is that Professor Reynolds linked me because he knows how depressed I am about . . . I don’t want to say it. Anyway, I blame Nick Saban.
Also thanks to the Rhetorican for the link. Meanwhile, if you think you can handle it, Jennifer Aniston in a bikini.
The most horrifying story you’ll read today:
At home, Abid Saddique and Mohammed Liaqat, both of whom were married with young children, were considered clean, upstanding family men as well as devout Muslims.
But once they left their front door and their wives behind, they turned into vodka-swilling, cocaine-binging paedophiles who spent every available moment randomly targeting young girls on the street, befriending them, and then horrifically abusing them.
The 28-year-olds were at the head of a 13-strong gang who would film the assaults on their mobile telephones. . . .
The victims, aged between 12-18 . . . were predominantly girls with a troubled background.
They would pick their victims up night and day and from anywhere — at train stations, on estates, in the city centre, walking home from school. . . .
In one incident, Saddique, who was convicted of 14 of the 29 charges he faced, was accused of engaging in sexual activity with a 12-year-old in Derby’s picturesque Darley Park, while his accomplice Liaqat, who was convicted of 10 crimes of the 18 charges he faced, had sex with a 14-year-old in the BMW.
Another time, a 14-year-old girl was filmed having sex with three of the gang in a hotel room as cheers ring out.
The group faced 75 charges between them relating to twenty six girls, but police believe there are many more victims who have not come forward. . . .
Read the rest. Is this a triumph of multiculturalism? The Daily Mail has mug shots of the gang members and, although most of them have names like Faisal and Mohammed, one of their members was Graham Blackham (pictured). The gang also had diverse victims, the Daily Mail reports:
Up to 100 ‘vulnerable’ girls may have been groomed, abused or supplied cocaine . . .
[Derbyshire Police Detective Sean Dawson] said that although all of the victims were white except for three mixed-race girls and two Asians, the men were ‘out for whatever sex they could get’ and did not care what race their victims were. The oldest victim was 18 but most were aged between 14 and 16. . . .
Many attacks were filmed on mobile phones as ‘trophies’.
UPDATE: Another angle from the Telegraph:
A SCHOOLGIRL, who was in the care of the city council when she fell victim to a gang of Derby perverts, had been groomed and sexually abused by another man only months earlier, the Telegraph can reveal.
The youngster was placed in a children’s home by Derby City Council for her own protection after police arrested Ansar Hussain, who targeted her when she was just 13.
But despite being under the supervision of social workers, she fell into the clutches of evil Abid Mohammed Saddique and Mohammed Romaan Liaqat – the ringleaders of a gang who raped and abused 27 girls.
UPDATE II: Just now discovered that Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs had this story yesterday, viewing it as an example of “Islamic supremacism.” Pamela also highlights points I had omitted: The two 28-year-old gang leaders were “both British-born and of Pakistani origin with an arranged marriage.”
UPDATE III: Most of the victims were from broken homes. One victim explains what that meant to the predators: “[T]hey knew the difference between a girl that goes home to her family at the end of the night and a girl that doesn’t. I didn’t have anyone to protect me or look after me and thought they were going to look after and care for me.”
UPDATE IV: Watch this news video from ITN/Telegraph:
Doesn’t the social-worker woman talking about “therapeutic intervention” seem . . . off-target?
Let’s hypothetically transpose this situation: Suppose that a bunch of British men had been accused of gang-raping girls in Pakistan. Would the TV news in Islamabad be interviewing social workers talking about “therapeutic intervention”? No, they’d be interviewing imams talking about “death to the infidels.”
