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‘Callous’ responses [Marin County, California]
How appalling is the state of Marin’s conscience that all but one person who had been asked about Memorial Day in Marinview came up with such ignorant and callous responses; one so absurd and offensive to proclaim it a day about “me.”
Perhaps Marin needs to move from a day of remembrance to a day of “Get a Clue.”
JJ Jackson, Novato
“Newport shopkeeper told to remove ‘obey our laws’ T-shirt,” from the South Wales Argus, May 29 (thanks to Benedict):
A NEWPORT shopkeeper has been forced by police to remove a T-shirt from his shop window because they felt it “could be seen to be inciting racial hatred.â€
Matthew Taylor, 35, the owner of Taylor’s clothes store on Emlyn Walk in the city, printed up and displayed the T-shirt with the slogan: “Obey our laws, respect our beliefs or get out of our country†after Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, was killed in near Woolwich barracks in London last week.
But following a complaint from a member of the public, police came to his store and threatened to arrest him unless he removed the Tshirt from sight.
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Firenze Sage: Â After an 18 minute delay the police arrived to find a decapitated soldier.
Call 911 again and again and they  arrest a shopkeeper.
An 85-year-old woman arrested outside Gillingham Mosque  after allegedly hurling abuse at Muslims has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence.  The arresting officer was Muslim.
The woman shouted ‘Go back to your own country!‘ as  Muslims left religious services.
The pensioner, from Chatham, was handcuffed and taken away in a van by officers after trouble flared as worshippers left Friday prayers.
She was held by officers outside the Canterbury Street mosque as Kent Police vowed to take a hard line against reprisal attacks following the terrorist murder of a soldier.
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Firenze Sage: Â Off with her head? No that’s what the other side does.
Four More Years by Firenze Sage
Decapitation in the Islamic World Why 85 Year Old Woman Was Arrested
President Obama said the government would be there for the “folks in Monroe, Oklahoma after the devastation of last week†during his address on the Jersey Shore Tuesday afternoon, making him the second Democrat Tuesday to call Moore, the city crushed by a tornado May 20, by the same incorrect name.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) also called it “Monroe†in an MSNBC interview with Chris Jansing.
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Firenze Sage: Â I feel so sorry for ole what’s his name. Â jaj48@aol.com
An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts.
Oregon Public Radio reports that an unidentified woman called 911 during a weekend in August 2012 while Michael Bellah was breaking into her place. Her call was forwarded to Oregon State Police because of lay-offs at the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office only allows the department to be open Monday through Friday.
“Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,†the 911 dispatcher told the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away? Do you know if he’s intoxicated or anything?† More information
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Firenze Sage:  Will the citizenry sit still yet again or will they finally toss out the louts who cannot get priorities straight.  jaj48@aol.com  Four More Years
MI5 asked Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo if he wanted to work for them about six months before the killing, a childhood friend has said.
Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight his friend – one of two men arrested after Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder in south-east London on Wednesday – had rejected the approach from the security service.
The BBC could not obtain any confirmation from Whitehall sources. Â More information
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Firenze Sage: Â Well so much for British efficiency but then remember Philby. Â jaj48@aol.com
