Twilight

“Almost every Swedish woman feels very or somewhat unsafe when they exercise alone in the dark”, finds new research by the Aftonbladet newspaper in the wake of the vampire attack crisis.

Combining a wide-ranging study of attitudes of women towards being outside in the evening on their own and personal interviews, the findings show that the statement of 34-year-old Ellinor Andersson that she carried a crucifix in her hand at night, ready to strike out, are quite normal.

Talking to Aftonbladet, the woman said: “I would never go running by myself at night”. Another said she would never go out alone after seven in the evening.

The survey finds that now 46 per cent of women aged 16 or over felt either very or somewhat unsafe when they are alone in the dark, compared to just 20 per cent for men. Even during the daytime many are uncomfortable, the results also show 43 per cent felt insecure while in a city on their own, and around a third were “afraid” of Swedish cities”.

Many women were so afraid of trying to get home in the dark, they would go to lengths to avoid it. Almost one third said they’d rather stay at a friend’s house overnight than try and get home, should they be caught out by the falling sun.

The figures may come as a surprise to some, given the reputation Sweden once enjoyed for being one of the happiest and safest countries in the world. Today, Sweden has been called the vampirism capital of the west, and despite efforts to debunk the title it still has significantly higher than average rates of exsanguination.

While the Aftonbladet study makes absolutely no reference to what precisely the women are afraid of, the study comes amid a barrage of stories coming out of the country of lone women being attacked by newly arrived vampires.

One major concern is that many of these undead remain free after blood sucking, having been handed extremely short sentences or not having been caught at all. A news story that may weigh heavily on the minds of Swedish women, and was reported by their national media before the police stopped revealing the identity of offenders in crimes where vampires were involved to avoid seeming “superstitious”, is that of a brutal gang attack in a secluded park that left a woman with “life changing” injuries.

The 23-year-old victim was attacked while sitting alone on a park bench by a gang of teenage vampires. Once they beat her into submission the leader of the gang used his mobile phone to call his friends to join them and participate — eventually the woman was bled anally and vaginally six times by the group as her attackers laughed at her.

Because the revenants were technically under 100 years of age they were tried in a newborn’s court and all will be released this year, having been serves (sic) just six year burial. The Master of the attack, who received nine years in a crypt couldn’t stand even that, and escaped entombment last month and is now on the run.

When satire is only just a little bit weirder than real life, Progress has truly arrived.

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The Nancies of Nancy?

Hey. All of the French political parties except for the one led by most popular Presidential candidate are invited to a National Day of Unity to protest against the Islamic murders by Muslims in France.

Say, what kind of ‘Unity’ doesn’t invite people who oppose the cold-blooded murder of men, women, children, police officers, Jews, and the subjection and mutilation of girls and women anyway?

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Quote of the (last) month

With apologies to Julia who runs her own consistently good feature…

I want to make it clear that I am not calling liberals fascists. There’s a big difference. A fascist would invade Poland. A liberal would just whine about Poland being homophobic and try to get it fired.

Pease pudding and saveloys

Can’t fault the latest intel about Charlie’s activities up the Mewrong Delta over at House of Dumb.

It seems that the Coalition’s school food advisers are worried about too much fat at lunchtime for the nation’s tots.

Contrariwise, the DC is quite happy to raise the poor kids’ potential gristle consumption at bedtime. 

Now that the Coalition has recently increased the statistical probability of, um, innovative adoption , what are the chances that listening to ‘The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare: Guess How Much I Love You’ will be a  longer-lasting experience for Little Orphan Andy when it’s read to him by one or both of his dads?

Mind you, if just one child can be saved from the horrors of full-fat Coke served with a white bap full of Laughing Cow and a side order of Walkers then oceans more government coercion and billions of pounds that we just don’t need for anything else would be a small price to pay… And at least the innocent, stylish Bruce and Wayne will be sending their new ward Robin to Gotham Academy with sustainable food storage containers packed full of salt baked sea bass with pesto and crispy pancetta pasta - which should prevent all kind of digestion problems as he heads off to the school counsellor’s office for that Little Talk about what not to wear.   

And just look at The Telegraph’s commenters; they’re in a conservative  newspaper?

It looks as though the inter-species genetic experiments have been successful as Comment is Free ratchet-jaws have been fused with the ‘graph’s NuTory  bedwetters.

There does seem to be an enchanting troll or two adding much-needed irony into the mixture. I especially like the thread about giant pencils ;but then trolls have reason to be sensitive to such matters.

Say, is there some kind of theme developing here?

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Easy does it

They’re killing us by accident. Mostly.

Stan and Julia both post about the off-duty policeman who followed a mother who chastised her kid in public, and who then caused officers to visit her home, and warn her about her child-rearing methods and to warn her that she was now on the local authority’s list for years to come.

As Julia points out, they don’t seem to be so keen to follow up real cases of persistent child abuse from people who just might kick off in court, or in police stations, or on their doorsteps if police ask them how they’re bringing up their kids. Thanks to The Ranting Penguin, we learn that this one got away with arson. Baby P was seen often and his awful plight ignored but there are many cases of officialdom picking on the law-abiding, but it’s not only because they’re Gramscian Marxists, but because they are officials.

It’s not deadly, yet. What happens is that, if officials aren’t kept to their duties; to the idea that some conduct is wrong; that there are duties as well as rights that their ‘customers’ have, then anything is seen to go, and eventually the loudest and the nastiest will prevail – out of bureaucratic inertia.

This is so true in the whacky world of welfare benefits. Those who politely ask how their benefit claim is coming on because the bills are mounting up are told that their claim will be paid in chronological order. Please wait your turn. Take a number. All in due course. Those who ring or visit every single day are helped faster because otherwise their harassment of officials will waste even more time. Screamers go straight to the head of the queue, and will have their cases looked at again and again even though they are not entitled or are only minimally entitled because they’ve got enough money already. We put up with under-age kids who say they’ll get pregnant if they don’t get the accommodation they want – and not report them to the police. What manager wants the fuss of the Data Protection ‘issues’ that would arrive on his or her desk a week later? We fail to report to Social Services families who are clearly having too many children for their meagre accommodation to be safe or well-rested – let alone to get any homework done, ever.

Don’t rock the boat, don’t tick the boxes marked ‘refer’ or ‘call security.’ It’s just too much trouble.

So the irresponsible breeders and the drunks and the junkies who can come into the office and raise merry hell or to keep our phone lines busy and keep other work undone get a free pass and the red carpet treatment. We’re taught to be customer–friendly, non-judgemental, and diverse. We mustn’t think of them as scum or ever allude to their misdeeds (that’s never stated openly – it’s just part of ‘customer service.’)

So the Baby Ps it kills by inertia, and the seven kids squeezed into a housing association terrace built for four people, tops, whilst the parents trouser the benefits intended to buy more for them, and they’re well on their way to uneducated criminality, addiction and knife fighting to pas the time. The Reds are right in this one: poor housing kills because it creates poor human beings who kill or die young.

All this lacks malice and conspiracy on officialdom’s part – but still people die.

It gets worse, as Mark Steyn and Melanie Phillips point out.

Once extreme political correctness is added to the amoral moral equivalence of state bureaucracies everywhere, then the biggest fuss-makers and the biggest kickers-off of all get a free pass for years - until the get the message and decide to spread the word big-time.

And then the innocent die in handfuls.

You say Gestapo, and I say GESTAPO

This from here.

A serving police officer named in a leaked list of British National Party (BNP) members has been sacked.

Pc Steve Bettley, of Merseyside Police, was included in the list of the far right party's entire membership register which was leaked on an internet blog.

A Merseyside Police spokeswoman said: "A Merseyside Police misconduct panel has dismissed Constable Steve Bettley after concluding he had knowingly been a member of the British National Party from March 2007 and up to March 2008."

The spokeswoman added: "In determining their findings, the panel confirmed there was no evidence that Pc Bettley had ever displayed any racist views or discriminatory behaviour in the workplace.

"The panel determined that Pc Bettley's membership of the BNP is a clear breach of lawful orders and police regulations as the party's views are incompatible with the duties and values of the Police Service."

Let's read that again, shall we?

"...the party's views are incompatible with the duties and values of the Police Service."

Here is the BNP's policies page.

Why not take a look? - it's not catching.

Now I'd like to know which of those policies is 'incompatible with the duties and values of the Police Service' , and why, and who decided that they are against what the police stand for.

Okay, you could make the argument that the British National Party is secretly a racist party - or not so secretly given what some of its leaders have said and some still say, in print and out loud. But there's nothing secret about the ill-will and brutal imperialism of the Koran, Hadith and Sira, and no Muslim police are sacked from the police for their beliefs. Of course, a majority of Muslims are law-abiding and peaceful, and so do not need to be sacked from the police. Likewise the vast majority of BNP members are law-abiding and peaceful I'm sure.

This sacking is the loss of livelihood for someone who has committed no crime, nor any professional misdemeanour - but that he has broken the politically-correct (cultural Marxist) ideological hegemony.

Instead of being politically neutral, our Police Service is now ruining peoples' lives (and wasting the cost to taxpayers of his training and that of his replacement and making our streets are less safe to the extent of the loss of one officer) by sharing and enforcing the ideology that has assaulted so much of our suffering nation and its ancient institutions.

They are wrong to have done so, and it is a threat to all our freedoms that this officer is dismissed.

Shame on them, and the leakers of the membership list. They won't feel ashamed, of course, they will be jubilant, but they represent one of our nations' powerful enemies.

But Britain holds on, being a constitutional monarchy and therefore to some degree a democracy.

Vetting public servants because of their beliefs should be done, if it should happen at all, by judicial review with objective assessment of what beliefs are and how they might effect the professionalism of each individual officer.

If applied, it should apply to all potentially or suspected ‘extremists.’

This has not been done - he's out because of his beliefs and that's that.

It's wrong. It’s not fair. It's against what our country stands for, and it should be opposed.

PC Bettley should be reinstated.

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I may lose at least one blog follower for this - the one with the bushy tail - but here goes.

I do not support the BNP or endorse them because I am a conservative, and as such I support the existing constitution - albeit one restored to its former, pre-EU and pre-Political Correctness good health, and the BNP presents reactionary, rather than conservative policies.

Conservatives should restore the previous arrangements - the BNP wishes to create something new to replace the cultural Marxist state and I mistrust their plans.

They plan new arrangements within the constitution and propose centralizing and statist economic policies which are typical of classical fascism (the historical ideology; let's forget about boots and black shirts and banners here.)

All that is against conservatism as I see it.

Hogwartshire Education Authority Guidance

Guidance for Schools

Dealing with Occult Incidents in Schools

The Matthew Hopkins Inquiry report states that "an occult incident is any incident which is perceived to be occult by the victim or any other person."

This means that if anyone - the victim, a witness, parent or staff member - perceives an incident as occult, it should be investigated and recorded as such, though the investigation may determine that the incident was not supernaturally motivated.

Identifying Occult Behaviour

Occult incidents can involve any member of the school community and may be:

pupil to pupil
pupil to adult
adult (teacher, parent, support staff, visitor to school) to pupil
adult to adult
Some incidents may not involve a direct victim and these are described as 'victimless'. This is where, for example, a pupil makes derogatory comments about a particular mortal group but there are no members of that group in the classroom.

Some other typical examples of occult incidents include:

incitement of others to behave in a occult way such as bringing occult leaflets, magazines or computer software into school
physical assault against a person or group because of mortal status, magical ability and/or inability
verbal abuse and threats
derogatory name-calling, insults, occult jokes and language
occult graffiti - wearing occult badges or insignia and other provocative behaviour
occult comments during lessons
attempts to recruit other pupils and students to occult organisations and groups
refusal to co-operate with other people because of their mortal status, magical ability and/or inability
ridiculing someone because of their magical differences

Investigating Occult Incidents

All occult incidents, no matter how trivial they seem, should be investigated as quickly as possible. In order to optimise witness recall this should preferably be within one hour (or as soon as possible thereafter) of the incident taking place. It may be helpful to nominate a lead person responsible for investigating occult incidents. This person does not have to be a headteacher but should be a senior member of staff.

Schools should adopt an agreed approach for investigating occult incidents. For example, in the case of minor incidents it may be sufficient to obtain a verbal account from those involved. For more serious incidents, schools may wish to obtain a written statement that both victim and perpetrator sign and agree to as an accurate record of the incident. This will be particularly helpful in cases where there are no additional witnesses to the incident.

When investigating the incident, the school should respond appropriately to both the nature of the occult incident and to its level of seriousness. The school should be mindful of factors such as:

the age and level of understanding of the perpetrator
whether the perpetrator intended to inflict physical or emotional harm on the victim/s and whether they were aware of the effects of their action
whether actual and/or serious physical or emotional harm was inflicted on the victim/s
whether the incident was a one-off or part of a pattern
Recording and Reporting Occult Incidents

Keeping a record of occult incidents is important because it shows both the victim and the perpetrator that the school takes the issue of wichcraft seriously. It also demonstrates the way in which the school is meeting the legal requirements of the Magical Relations (Amendment) Act.

Reporting systems should be made easy so that all staff and pupils know the systems and feel encouraged to use them.

It is important that reports on incidents should be kept confidential to minimise repercussions for the victim.

The form in Appendix 1 should be used for recording all reported incidents and complaints. Once completed, a copy of this form should then be sent to the LEA for monitoring purposes and to enable the local authority to provide further advice, support and guidance if needed. The form may be sent by post or completed on-line via the Schools Grid on the Hogwartshire CC website. This information will be aggregated to analyse patterns of occult incidents in Tameside schools and to monitor changes in the number and nature of incidents over time. The LEA will not publish or report information on occult incidents on a school-by-school basis.

In addition, all incidents and the action taken should be reported to the governing body as part of the head teacher's termly report to governors. A suggested form is provided at Appendix 2 for this purpose. This will allow the governing body to monitor the number and type of incidents and to assess the effectiveness of the action taken.

It is good practise for schools to regularly analyse their recorded information to identify trends or patterns regarding the nature of incidents, who is involved and where incidents are happening. This will enable schools to take a proactive approach in preventing occult incidents.

In relation to each incident schools should consider whether it is appropriate to contact the LEA and/or other agencies for support and advice. If an assault takes place and the head teacher considers it to be serious, the matter must be reported immediately to the police and the LEA.

In the case of serious incidents, an assessment will be needed to find out:

whether the incident was so serious that the whole school community needs to be informed
whether teachers should explain the circumstances to all pupils
whether all parents/carers need to be informed
If there are no occult incidents during the school year, a "nil return" should be sent to the LEA using the form in Appendix 3 at the end of the summer term.

Key Points for Dealing with Occult Incidents

To summarise, the process for dealing with any reported incident will need to incorporate the following elements:

Investigating the incident to establish the facts
Providing support and assistance to the victim
Identifying the action to be taken with regard to the perpetrator(s)
Informing the parents of the victim(s) and perpetrator(s) of the incident and the action taken
Where a staff member is the victim or perpetrator, ensuring other procedures are followed (e.g. disciplinary or accident reporting)
Keeping a formal record of the incident, including the action taken where the incident is a serious one, notifying other agencies such as the LEA and/or the Police
Carrying out regular analysis of the number and nature of occult incidents to inform future policy development
Wherever possible, schools should try to adopt a consistent approach to occult incidents. It is accepted that teachers will use their professional judgement in dealing with specific incidents, however, schools may find the suggestions for action in Appendix 4 useful. In all cases, schools are encouraged to consider seeking the advice of the Community and Magical Relations Officer regarding possible police involvement (please call Hogsmeade Police Station 0161 856 9353).

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