What is it with the BBC and self-appointed “human rights” advocate Shami Chakrabarti? This little doe-eyed busybody appears to be a permanent inhabitant of BBC studios. She was on the most recent “Have I got news for you” programme, showing just how witless she is. This morning she was on the Today programme acting as the official spokesperson for those who oppose the 42 day detention bill. But she has no mandate whatsoever and it is merely the fact that BBC has decided to elevate her and the oxymoronic Liberty group which she represents that provides her with this bully pulpit. Whether it is panel games, current affairs or news items, Shami is assured her place by the BBC. Why?
UNIVERSAL SHAMI.
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Al Beeb always interviews the looney left to voice their opinion on the news, whether its greenpeace or Liberty, or some other looney group, they have the same mindset as the looney left Beeboids
its all propganda
The BBC’s bias and political addiction to the National Lottery funded lobby organisation, ‘Liberty’,and its ever-present spokesperson, Ms. S. Chakrabarti, is atavistic and unending.
Ms. S.Chakrabarti, and her totally uncritical political acolytes at the BBC, and in the liberal/Left, defines ‘liberty’in practice and selectively, as an anti-British, anti-American campaign, with a predilection to support Islam.
It would be out of character for ‘Liberty’ to support Christians in this case involving human rights:
“You can’t preach the Bible here, this is a Muslim area”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023483/You-preach-Bible-Muslim-area.html
Poor Shami is just a lower ranking member of the political class trying to work her way up with Liberty (it used to be the NCL) being a good way of getting noticed. No doubt in 20 years time she will be the Home Secretary and pushing 365 day detention and compulsory RFID chip implants in all citizens yet in her eyes keeping to her principles. If not she will end up working for the EU or even as a BBC governor so the circle can be completed.
It is interesting though how the Beeb appears to talent spot younger members of the political class quite early and give them prominence and importance. Mind you they have to have the “right” views.
Perhaps she’s after a job at the BBC like her sister?
Did she actually say *anything* on HIGNFY?
1327 is right of course, like previous directors before her, she’ll switch horses to Labour in a couple of years and then forget her profound attachment to civil liberties. Civil liberties for some, that is, Liberty never seem able to comment on the denial of civil liberties to anyone ont he right.
So that’s Chakrabarti, Jimmy Carter and Amnesty that should be banned from the BBC. And the UN. And Hugh Orde. Martin Mcguinness as well.
How better it would be and how much more impartial if we could just ban them from the airwaves like you can ban people from your website. How much more impartial to not have to listen to those we disagree with. Good one. I look forward to this new BBC where only the voice of Vance is allowed.
jo-el: So that’s Chakrabarti, Jimmy Carter and Amnesty that should be banned from the BBC. And the UN. And Hugh Orde. Martin Mcguinness as well.
Sounds an excellent start. Thanks for your suggestion.
joel: Where is her mandate to get so much airtime?
Would you like to give the BNP the same amount of airtime?
Joel
Don’t be an idiot. Nobody is talking about banning them: rather we are calling for open and balanced debate which is, err, what the BBC is supposed to provide.
Joel: my gym has more members than “Liberty”. I don’t hear the manager of my gym every time I turn on the goddamn radio.
Dr R: Joel like the rest of the BBC don’t believe in balance. They believe in the leftie liberal gay pro Muslim view being the ‘norm’ and anyone that opposes it are “racists”
And the UN. And Hugh Orde. Martin Mcguinness as well.
Add the DUP, shame on them trying to put a muzzle on the La Mon victims group!!!! That letter they sent to the victims is nothing more than censoring the voices of those who have suffered a t the hands of terrorists. What bastards the DUP are turning out to be.
Sorry should say victims group.
Dr R
“we are calling for open and balanced debate ”
There is no such thing on this site!
“How much more impartial to not have to listen to those we disagree with.”
What dumb crap. You really have no clue about what this site is for, do you?
Beeboid jerk.
here’s another darling of the left
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7424785.stm
What surprises me about that article is the fact that Bolton got the last word in and not some disaffected anti-war loon from the Al Beeb trying to “balance” his views with those of Al Beeb!
Mailman
Leave shami alone…her appearance is always useful..whatever she opines..I’m against it..I find it saves valuable time.
“Dr R
“we are calling for open and balanced debate ”
There is no such thing on this site!
Matt | 02.06.08 – 11:43 am | # ”
Dissenting views are more likely to get on this site that on the BBC
A point someone raised earlier – what right did the beeboids have to constructively never admit the bnp exist ? Are we not to be allowed to decide for ourselves, that we don’t like them ?
Has anyone noticed how we now get a trade unionist a day on toady, telling us how we need a windfall tax on oil co’s ( as though gordo’s 80% plus current tax take isn’t enough !)
Does this mean the beeboids are endorsing the ‘must move to the left to re-engage with traditional labour votors’ strategy ? Or is it one of the conditions the unions have stipulated, free access to the bbc, to take up the labour funding shortfall ?
Liberty’s views on ID cards are interesting. While I believe they are against them Shami rarely mentions this subject and it doesn’t seem to be mentioned on their main webpage. Thankfully the slack has been taken up by much better independent protest groups but it is a little unusual Liberty don’t want to get involved in what has to be the civil liberties issue of the moment. An unkind person might say that this is because they don’t want to upset their friends in the Labour party and worse put their lottery funding in peril.
she made it on radio 2 today as well
Martin: “Perhaps she’s after a job at the BBC like her sister?”
I also thought that was the case but apparently not.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/03/24/smworld24.xml
“Question you are always asked Are you related to the BBC correspondent Rita Chakrabarti? The answer is no”
Maybe that should be ‘surprisingly no’? 😉
I have very nearly injured myself in the past diving for the remote to change channels whenever Smarmy appears on BBC. She is THAT annoying!
S Brown: Shame they couldn’t get her first name right!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/reporters/4237722.stm
She represents the interests of a group of people (who couldn’t be identified for fear of being called a racist) who’re dedicated to our destruction. It stands to reason the BBC would have her on air as much as humanly possible. Birds of a feather and all that.
Nice observation from the Times of India.
For some reason this piece didn’t appear in the previous post
“The Guardian is far to the Left of not just the Tories but also of New Labour, the paper’s constituency seemingly that of the “Londonistan” of mullahs and minarets. The Guardian used to be called the Manchester Guardian; today it might well be called, by fans and foes alike, the Madrassa Guardian.”
S Brown:
Martin: “Perhaps she’s after a job at the BBC like her sister?”
I also thought that was the case but apparently not
Hey, you’re not related to that dumb harpy Alibi-Brown are you?
Your secret is safe with me
In the Sunday Times they have a list of the most powerful people in Britain, this ‘Human RIghts’ activist is ranked in the top 10 most powerful people.
Why on earth does the BBC allow this deluded person so much air-time to spout her distorted views?, the BBC by giving Chakrabarti so much air-time allows her by default to gain credibility for her views, which in turn leads to more TV interviews, and more appearances on the BBC.
Shami gets a lot of BBC coverage considering she speaks only for her tiny membership and nobody else.
“In the Sunday Times they have a list of the most powerful people in Britain, this ‘Human RIghts’ activist is ranked in the top 10 most powerful people”
ROFLMAOWMP
What drivel. Just what you’d expect from the ignorant tossers at the ST.
Jack Bauer: Hey, you’re not related to that dumb harpy Alibi-Brown are you?
It’s not a good time to be a ‘Brown’!
What with that above-mentioned harridan and our ‘PM’ Gordon ‘Bennett’ Brown AND that part time Defense Sec Des Browne!
I’m thinking of changing my surname to something less offensive… Something like Hitler? 😉
I hate to give Atlas Shrugged too much fodder, but sometimes he’s not so far out there:
http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/home/programmes/powerdynamic.aspx
Take a look at the list of speakers (fifth one down), just below the bold, green “What happens on the programme?”
I think participation in anything to do with ‘Common Purpose’ should be banned for BBC personnel. Clearly, it’s the freemasonry of the ‘liberal elite’.
“Take a look at the list of speakers (fifth one down), just below the bold, green “What happens on the programme?”
Below Portillo???? LOL.
looks like the post at 5:06pm has hit a nerve with the sad beeboid lefties 😆 😆
I’m thinking of changing my surname to something less offensive… Something like Hitler?
Funny.
And I wonder… are there any Hitler’s left in Germany?
Imagine gouig through life saying… “Hi, I’m Darren Hitler… no relation.”
Yes, there are Hitlers and Himmlers.
Where is Ms. S Chakrabarti’s and ‘Liberty’s support for the human rights of MARK STEYN (who was brought up in England), who has written about many subjects eruditely, including Islam, but who now faces a British Columbia ‘Human Rights’ Tribunal? Nowhere.
The case can be followed here:-
“Free Speech is ‘a red herring'”
http://www.steynonline.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Good point, George R.
That would, by the way, be the same Mark Steyn who, briefly, worked for the BBC – which swiftly gave him the boot once it worked out his political stance.
The Corporation is markedly quiet on the subject, too.
1327:
Poor Shami is just a lower ranking member of the political class trying to work her way up with Liberty (it used to be the NCL) being a good way of getting noticed. No doubt in 20 years time she will be the Home Secretary and pushing 365 day detention and compulsory RFID chip implants in all citizens yet in her eyes keeping to her principles. If not she will end up working for the EU or even as a BBC governor so the circle can be completed.
It is interesting though how the Beeb appears to talent spot younger members of the political class quite early and give them prominence and importance. Mind you they have to have the “right” views.
Good points which I very much agree with.
However
On this matter Shami C is right IMO.
What can you do with 42 days you can not do with 28 days? Which is already a very long time to be held in a prison cell away from you job, family, or business without even knowing what you are maybe going to be charged with. Any normal person could well have gone completely insane after a week never mind 6 weeks.
I simply dont see the point in it. Unless the point is winding up innocent but rather volatile young Muslim men, possibly provoking them to later violence or civil disorder.
Just imagine how you would feel if after 6 weeks away from your job your wife had left you and your business had gone bankrupt.
If the old bill cant cobble together a charge after a month, of hopefully working as fast as possible, then its very likely the suspect is innocent anyway.
You would all do well to remember that if this country carries on the way it is for too many more years, it may be your children one day locked up without charges for months, for saying something the government of the day is not too keen on. Even though it plainly cant prove anything or what they dont like is not illegal anyway, otherwise they would have CHARGED them with something.
I see no useful positive point in this measure whatsoever. A viewpoint shared with almost the entire Conservative Parliamentary Party, I am very glad to say.
I read the following in her Wikipedia entry:
“She was shortlisted in the Channel 4 Political Awards 2006 for the “Most Inspiring Political Figure” award. It was voted for by the public and she came second to Jamie Oliver…”
Says it all really, doesn’t it? She’s beaten by a fat-tongued faux-cockney cook in a political contest.
The BBC is tired and clueless. That’s why it constantly recycles failed leftist pols like Tony Benn (on the wrong side of every debate in history) and Roy Hattersley (ineffectual and opinionated). Even worse are Abbott & Postello. Does anybody actually watch them? Or that tiresome black American woman Bonnie something? or that miserable Israel-hating Irishman Apaulin?
As for the Swami, yes, I’m sure the BNP has far more members and actual electoral support (more than the Greens) – ‘Liberty’ has none.
libertus: your local gym has more members than “Liberty”
– and it does more good for society as well.
The BBC trumpets Gordon Brown’s “concern for our national security”. How about securing our borders and deporting illegals or would that make him open to the charge of acting like the dreaded, much-feared BNP?
For the information of Ms. S. Chakrabarti, whose side are you on?:
“Speech row rocks multi-ethnic Canada”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7273870.stm
Background information:
“Mark Steyn Case Wakes Up Canadian Press to Human Rights Tribunals’ Threat th Free Speech”
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07121902.html
‘Mark Steyn on Multiculturalism’
Come on, he aint THAT concerned!
Mailman
For the urgent attention of Ms.S.Chakrabarti and ‘Liberty’:
Mr. FOROUD FOULADVAND, British citizen, is facing execution in IRAN:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021252.php
Jack Bauer: “Imagine gouig through life saying… “Hi, I’m Darren Hitler… no relation.””
Heh. There is of course the famous Edward Elizabeth Hitler:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_(TV_series)