I wonder if the BBC will return to Duggan’s mother and ask her if she still thinks her son was ‘assassinated’ or ‘executed’? The BBC were quite happy to allow her to say such things repeatedly on numerous interviews unchallenged.
When you consider that the shooting of Duggan sparked off mass rioting in which people died, lives wrecked and numerous buildings destroyed by arson you’d think the BBC would be more responsible in not allowing such inflammatory rhetoric to be aired without questioning it…..especially as there is a drum beat for a repeat rampage.
The BBC would naturally be happy to see the streets return to anarchy so that they can blame it on Coaliton ‘austerity’ policies……the BBC diverted attention from the real cause of those riots….a man who had a loaded gun for criminal intent and the mostly criminal thugs who took advantage of the ‘left’s’ consensus that they could riot because of their socio-economic position meant they had no other choice, it was a ‘protest’ not criminality.
Here the BBC have to report the truth….but make no other comment:
“There in Ferry Lane Mark Duggan was shot and fatally injured by the police as a result of his possession of that gun and what he was thought to be about to do with it,” Mr Brown said.
He told the jury that armed police surrounded the cab but as Mr Duggan got out he was seen to have a gun in his hand.
“The police marksmen were in no doubt that this was as dangerous a position as possible – gun in hand – and he was seen to start to bring it round as if to shoot.
“The gun was found to be loaded with a bullet, as you know and as you will see in photographs. He was shot.”
The court heard the gun, a BBM Bruni Model 92 handgun with one bullet in it, was found near the scene of the shooting.
Mr Brown said it was in a black sock which was ripped at the toe to expose the barrel of the gun and at the heel so the cocking lever was showing. It had been modified to take live 9mm bullets.
All of course on a day when two police officers are killed by a gunman.
IPCC told us in August 2011 that Duggan had been armed –
http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/news/Pages/pr_090811_dugganupdate.aspx
Some groups will riot on the least provocation, like when that US film went out recently. And some will not, even when an innocent member of their own community is shot dead by police –
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/06/anthony-grainger-shooting_n_1323031.html
Naturally this only got a brief mention on MSM.
And of course the bBBC reports today are full of details about Dale Cregan’s past. But he is white and British, so they don’t have to hide it with the euphemisms that are reserved for their favoured ethnic criminals.
Well, quite. Our betters at the Beeb refrain from reporting stuff about actual convited criminals for fear that this may provoke a supposed Islamophobic backlash, even as they help provoke actual riots by reporting deranged conspiracy theories about mythical death squads.
A cyn ic could almost think that the ‘responsible reporting’ thing was just a pretext to suppress anything unhelpful to the left…
The irresponsible over-grown adolescents at the heart of BBC reporting and commentary simply can’t get enough of Duggan-style criminality, rioting and demonstration.
Here is a quote from Newsnight’s Economics editor Paul Mason; think about this next time your TV licence direct debit shows up on your bank statement….
“At the point of the wedge, alongside the estate youth, are the self-styled ‘Book Bloc.’ They’ve gone into battle in green helmets with mattress-sized mockups of book covers: Endgame by Samuel Beckett, Negative Dialectics by Theodore Adorno; Debord, of course; and—for levity—the tales of an unruly school-kid, Just William by Richmal Crompton. They’ve copied this tactic from a group of Italian students, who are at the same moment lobbing firebombs into the side-streets of Rome.”
Can’t believe they didn’t have a copy of ‘Why Everything’s Kicking Off All The Time Everywhere Thanks To The Conservative-led Coalition’ by Paul ‘Just For Men Autostop’ Mason.
I thought that dreary heap of sub-Polyversity Grant doodoo was the reading material of choice for today’s urban guerilla.
I tried that ‘Book Bloc’ malarkey when the looting hit my ‘hood. Never mind Beckett, The Analects of Weyman Bennett or Toynbee’s Tuscany, I went out in a mattress-sized mock-up of an Argos catalogue – now that’s ‘Situationist’. And probably why Paul Mason’s diversity compliant ‘political trailblazers’ set me alight.
But this is also an abject lesson in the hierarchy of politically-correct causes that Islam sits atop. Even this item breaks the Gregory protocols by giving an amount of detail in proceedings that is completely absent from the trials of Pakistani paedophile gangs.
How do you explain that, David?
We know you’re there.
You can tell that the BBC are stuck when they have to ask lady lawyers in Blackburn about domestic violence in some new defined cause of their making…”coerced consent” was it?…well.it`ll make Womans Hour within the week I`m sure.
Well clearly it`s a PC Turkey when they can`t even get anyone in from Goldsmiths or Royal Holloway to speak in its favour…but have to go to Blackburn, Lancashire.
Now then-they started this , so can I finish?…this lady lawyer says she deal with loads of this domestic abuse by proxy or bad body language or nasty post-it notes…whatever!
Might this be linked to the Religion of Peace having a few of its friendly brethren living disproportionately in this area…no, surely not…for neither she nor Naughtie even thought of that…as if!
shades of the disgustingly vile harriet harman.
‘we’re not getting enough convictions for rape, so let’s create some new categories of rape – drunken furgle you enjoyed at the time? Yep, that’ll do nicely.’
The BBC’s obscene identification with murderers like Cregan reveals the ugliness of modern Liberalism.
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