Jun 1, 2021 03:46 AM
(This post was last modified: Jun 1, 2021 04:16 PM by C C.)
China jails blogger who 'slandered' dead in India border clash
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chi...ar-AAKA4lj
EXCERPTS: China has jailed a popular blogger for "defaming martyrs" after he suggested the death toll of the China-India border clash last year was higher than the official count of four. Qiu Ziming -- with over 2.5 million followers on China's twitter-like Weibo -- was sentenced to eight months in prison, the court in the eastern city of Nanjing announced Tuesday.
He is the first person to be jailed under a new provision of China's criminal law that bans the "defamation of martyrs and heroes". [...] Beijing passed a law in 2018 that made a civil offence of "defamation of martyrs and heroes", including war-time heroes idolised in Communist Party history and modern-day figures such as fallen firefighters and soldiers.
It was made a criminal offence in February. (MORE - details)
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Cynical Sindee: Ironic that priggish, uptight China is one place where a member of a communist activist clique could probably not burn the flag of the host country.
EDIT: Wonderful update with respect to the stuff below. Here's a piece about an historical revisionist Home Office report from five months ago clarifying that "grooming gangs" -- including arguably the very term itself -- have no basis in members being of Pakistani heritage or the crypto-Asian usage in these articles.
So someone needs to modify this Wikipedia article about the earlier Huddersfield grooming gang along with its sources. It begins here with the first 20 men convicted being all of Asian – mainly Pakistani – origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddersfie...rpetrators
Nice to know that the Inner Party's retroactive solution to all problems in "1984" is being recruited to eliminate these perpetrated misconceptions in the non-ficitional world. Even if it does confusingly make one feel as if they stepped into a parallel universe with an alternate history.
UK: "Failure to tackle grooming gangs is a national scandal"
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/01...l-scandal/
EXCERPTS: The authorities’ inability to tackle group-based child sexual exploitation cases across England is nothing short of a national scandal. A recent investigation by The Times makes for particularly grim reading.
The investigation found that vulnerable children as young as 11 are slipping through the cracks in the system. It concludes that the police are failing to protect thousands of underaged girls at risk of systematic sexual abuse. These findings come a decade after The Times revealed the industrial-scale exploitation of more than 1,400 children – girls who were subjected to sexual violence and psychological abuse by predominantly Asian [Pakistani heritage] criminal gangs in northern English post-industrial towns such as Rotherham.
The scale of ‘missing episodes’ – which are recorded when parents or social workers cannot find a child at risk of sexual exploitation and subsequently call the police – is harrowing. Children known to be at risk of sexual abuse have gone missing more than 55,000 times over the past three years – the majority being underage girls. Many are suspected to have ‘gone missing’ when visiting adult men who groom them with money, alcohol and drugs...
Combating child sexual exploitation is by no means easy. Many of the young people involved do not consider themselves victims. According to The Times investigation, some victims fear repercussions from their abusers, while others have moved away and are difficult to track down. A great deal of work and specialist knowledge is needed to build bonds of trust with victims of child sexual exploitation and to secure evidence for arrests and prosecutions... (MORE - details)
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(The Conversation) Asian grooming gangs: how ethnicity made authorities wary of investigating child sexual abuse: In the UK, the debate around so-called Asian grooming gangs and the sexual threat they pose to vulnerable white girls shows no sign of abating. A leaked report produced by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has upheld a complaint made by a father whose daughter had been missing for a week. He said a police officer told him that Rotherham “would erupt” if it came out that Asian [Pakistani heritage] men were habitually having sex with underage white girls.
[...] This is something the media has been suggesting for many years due to the explosive mix of sex, race and excessive political correctness. The Times has even claimed there was a “conspiracy of silence on UK sex gangs”. The leaked IOPC report came just days after yet another scathing report was published, this time in Manchester, about the abject failure of the police and children’s services to protect vulnerable young girls from Asian grooming gangs there.
Grooming gangs cover up (EU Today): A 2018 report by the unit says that 90% of these cases involved the unwilling "bride" being taken overseas for her nuptials . . . The evidence is clear to our helpline today, as with past public inquiries such as Rotherham, Victoria Climbié and others, that police and other professionals charged with safeguarding against forced marriage fear treading on cultural toes, rocking the boat and, worse, being branded racist. The consequences for victims are devastating.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chi...ar-AAKA4lj
EXCERPTS: China has jailed a popular blogger for "defaming martyrs" after he suggested the death toll of the China-India border clash last year was higher than the official count of four. Qiu Ziming -- with over 2.5 million followers on China's twitter-like Weibo -- was sentenced to eight months in prison, the court in the eastern city of Nanjing announced Tuesday.
He is the first person to be jailed under a new provision of China's criminal law that bans the "defamation of martyrs and heroes". [...] Beijing passed a law in 2018 that made a civil offence of "defamation of martyrs and heroes", including war-time heroes idolised in Communist Party history and modern-day figures such as fallen firefighters and soldiers.
It was made a criminal offence in February. (MORE - details)
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Cynical Sindee: Ironic that priggish, uptight China is one place where a member of a communist activist clique could probably not burn the flag of the host country.
EDIT: Wonderful update with respect to the stuff below. Here's a piece about an historical revisionist Home Office report from five months ago clarifying that "grooming gangs" -- including arguably the very term itself -- have no basis in members being of Pakistani heritage or the crypto-Asian usage in these articles.
So someone needs to modify this Wikipedia article about the earlier Huddersfield grooming gang along with its sources. It begins here with the first 20 men convicted being all of Asian – mainly Pakistani – origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddersfie...rpetrators
Nice to know that the Inner Party's retroactive solution to all problems in "1984" is being recruited to eliminate these perpetrated misconceptions in the non-ficitional world. Even if it does confusingly make one feel as if they stepped into a parallel universe with an alternate history.
"Like a good Nietzschean, O'Brien believes that power creates reality. Those in power (or as O'Brien terms it, "control") determine truth. O'Brien says to Winston:
‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation—anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.’"
UK: "Failure to tackle grooming gangs is a national scandal"
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/01...l-scandal/
EXCERPTS: The authorities’ inability to tackle group-based child sexual exploitation cases across England is nothing short of a national scandal. A recent investigation by The Times makes for particularly grim reading.
The investigation found that vulnerable children as young as 11 are slipping through the cracks in the system. It concludes that the police are failing to protect thousands of underaged girls at risk of systematic sexual abuse. These findings come a decade after The Times revealed the industrial-scale exploitation of more than 1,400 children – girls who were subjected to sexual violence and psychological abuse by predominantly Asian [Pakistani heritage] criminal gangs in northern English post-industrial towns such as Rotherham.
The scale of ‘missing episodes’ – which are recorded when parents or social workers cannot find a child at risk of sexual exploitation and subsequently call the police – is harrowing. Children known to be at risk of sexual abuse have gone missing more than 55,000 times over the past three years – the majority being underage girls. Many are suspected to have ‘gone missing’ when visiting adult men who groom them with money, alcohol and drugs...
Combating child sexual exploitation is by no means easy. Many of the young people involved do not consider themselves victims. According to The Times investigation, some victims fear repercussions from their abusers, while others have moved away and are difficult to track down. A great deal of work and specialist knowledge is needed to build bonds of trust with victims of child sexual exploitation and to secure evidence for arrests and prosecutions... (MORE - details)
- - - RELATED - - -
(The Conversation) Asian grooming gangs: how ethnicity made authorities wary of investigating child sexual abuse: In the UK, the debate around so-called Asian grooming gangs and the sexual threat they pose to vulnerable white girls shows no sign of abating. A leaked report produced by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has upheld a complaint made by a father whose daughter had been missing for a week. He said a police officer told him that Rotherham “would erupt” if it came out that Asian [Pakistani heritage] men were habitually having sex with underage white girls.
[...] This is something the media has been suggesting for many years due to the explosive mix of sex, race and excessive political correctness. The Times has even claimed there was a “conspiracy of silence on UK sex gangs”. The leaked IOPC report came just days after yet another scathing report was published, this time in Manchester, about the abject failure of the police and children’s services to protect vulnerable young girls from Asian grooming gangs there.
Grooming gangs cover up (EU Today): A 2018 report by the unit says that 90% of these cases involved the unwilling "bride" being taken overseas for her nuptials . . . The evidence is clear to our helpline today, as with past public inquiries such as Rotherham, Victoria Climbié and others, that police and other professionals charged with safeguarding against forced marriage fear treading on cultural toes, rocking the boat and, worse, being branded racist. The consequences for victims are devastating.
