Occasionally people take video footage of us at Speakers’ Corner, and post it on their YouTube channels. A recent example is here (video, 10:11). The man on the stepladder is Rod Lonsdale. I take my hat off to Rod and other members of The London Group who do this, and sometimes help us with our MGM campaigning.
Month: February 2018
Last call for support to promote the conference outside the Carabao Cup Final: Arsenal v Manchester City, Wembley Stadium, Sunday 25 February
Following the unexpected level of support we had outside the recent Chelsea v Barcelona game, we invite even more of you to support us at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, in two days’ time, where the Carabao Cup Final will be held (Arsenal v Manchester City). Kick-off 16:30, we’ll be gathering nearby around 14:30, then handing out leaflets to supporters, holding placards etc.
Please email us ASAP if you can join us (info@j4mb.org.uk), so we can bring along sufficient placards and leaflets, and let you know exactly where we’ll be meeting. Thanks.
You can book your conference ticket(s) here.
The Glass Blind Spot: “#GroundhogDay – Feminists Fight Homelessness”
Insightful (video, 26:36). A good calling out of Sophie ‘Doughnuts’ Walker (Wimmin’s Equality Party) and Polly Neate (indifferent to male suffering with respect to domestic violence as CEO of Women’s Aid, now indifferent to male suffering with respect to street homelessness as CEO at Shelter).
ICMI18 – animated advertisement on ‘The Conservative Woman’ website
Our animated advertisement for ICMI18 has just been published on TCW, at the top of the right-hand column. If instead you see an ad for the ‘SWIZT’ watch brand, you may need to clear your browsing history to see our ad.
Paul Elam: “My Response to the Southern Poverty Law Centre”
Interesting (audio, 7:49). Paul has posted the text on AVFM, here, and comments are being posted.
Paul will be giving the keynote speech at the July conference, “Female privilege: Why women should be ashamed of themselves”. Tickets are available until 31 March, here.
Drink-ban widow Barbara Woodward, 56, says driveway too long to walk. Spared an “unpaid work order” because it would make her feel “uncomfortable”.
Times caption: Barbara Woodward said the driveway at her Cheshire home meant a ban would result in “lifestyle changes”
A piece in today’s Times, emphasis ours:
A wealthy widow facing a ban for drink-driving caused laughter in a courtroom when she claimed that she needed her car as it was too far to walk down her quarter-of-a-mile-long driveway.
Barbara Woodward, 56, said the paved track to her rural home was so long that she would struggle to get about. She also asked to be spared an unpaid work order, claiming that it would “put her in an alien surrounding” as she had never worked and it would make her feel uncomfortable.
Woodward was found to be three times over the alcohol limit for driving at 9am on November 17 last year when she went out in her £79,000 Mercedes G-class 4×4 to buy sparkling wine with which she hoped to make bucks fizz for friends. It happened two days after the funeral of her husband, a lawyer.
Police were called after she was refused alcohol at a petrol station then drove at 5mph to a post office near her house in Chelford, Cheshire.
One officer said that Woodward, with make-up smudged across her face, was so drunk she appeared to have been up all night.
At Stockport magistrates’ court Woodward sought through her lawyer to postpone a driving ban, saying that the length of her drive meant she would have to “make lifestyle changes to go about her day-to-day life”.
She was convicted of driving with excess alcohol and banned for two years but spared the unpaid work.
Her lawyer, Nigel Beeson, told the hearing:
“She had nobody to call upon — no children, no relatives. Yes, she has friends, but they are dotted around the countryside. She has no neighbours and she will struggle to get around.” [J4MB: We can’t have rich women “struggling”, can we? If only taxis existed in Cheshire…]
A report by an unnamed probation officer said: “She has never had to pay a bill in her life. [Her husband] looked after her in every way. She is now struggling.”
Woodward was also ordered to complete a 12-month community order and fined £560.
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Judge halts the latest CPS/police show trial of a man for FGM, after photos show child to be unharmed
Published online 90 minutes ago by The Times, emphases ours:
The trial of a father accused of allowing his daughter to undergo genital mutilation collapsed today after the prosecution’s medical expert could not confirm that the procedure had been carried out.
The case against the 29-year-old Somali taxi driver, who has three young daughters, was thrown out on the fourth day at Bristol crown court. Judge Julian Lambert directed the jury to find the father not guilty of child cruelty and described the decision to prosecute him as “deeply troubling”.
The judge said that medical evidence on whether the girl, aged seven, had undergone FGM was “wholly inconclusive at its highest” and that she had always denied being harmed.
The collapse means that no case of FGM has been successfully prosecuted in the 30 years the practice has been illegal.
The judge also described the evidence of the key witness who reported the offence after a conversation in the defendant’s taxi as “inconsistent”. Sami Ullah, who is a trustee of the anti-FGM campaign group Integrate UK, told the jury the driver had condemned the practice as “ignorant” before saying that he had had it done to his own daughter.
The taxi driver and his wife consistently denied that any of their daughters had been subjected to FGM.
Photographs taken by a paediatrician in Bristol called in to examine the girl showed a 2-3mm lesion on her genitals. By the time she was examined by a specialist in London three weeks later the mark had disappeared.
After the hearing Detective Chief Inspector Leanne Pook, Avon and Somerset police’s spokeswoman on FGM cases, said: “Our priority from the outset of this investigation has been to safeguard any vulnerable children and protect them from harm.
“We carried out a challenging two-year investigation, supported by professionals from a range of partner agencies, which resulted in evidence being passed to the Crown Prosecution Service and a charge being authorised for a child cruelty offence.
“We accept the findings of the court and will continue, as always, to work closely with our communities to protect those at risk of FGM, and our wider network of partner agencies and inspiring charities to raise awareness of and develop our responses to this important issue.
“FGM remains a deeply entrenched practice and we know these harmful procedures are happening in this country right now.”
A spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service described the prosecution as unprecedented. She added: “The CPS considered this case in accordance with the code for crown prosecutors and decided that there was sufficient evidence [J4MB: NO EVIDENCE is “sufficient evidence” in alleged FGM cases, where the CPS/police only target men, although it’s invariably women who carry out FGM at the behest of women. The CPS/police don’t target the middle-aged or elderly black women who actually carry out FGM, leaving female minors to their fate, sacrificed on the altar of feminist ideology.] to prosecute for an offence of child cruelty and it was in the public interest.
“The judge at Bristol crown court had the opportunity to hear the evidence live and challenged. He then made a decision to stop the case yesterday. We respect the judge’s decision [J4MB: Given there was NO EVIDENCE, the alternative to respecting the judge’s decision would be…?] and will not be appealing.
“This was an unusual and unprecedented case for the prosecution. Where we feel there is sufficient evidence, and it is in the public interest to pursue, it is right that we put cases before the court so that a decision can be made by judge or jury.”
Lisa Zimmerman, director of Integrate UK, described the judge’s decision to stop the trial as very disappointing. [J4MB: “Very disappointing” despite there being NO EVIDENCE.] “It is shameful that there has still never been a successful prosecution of this crime in the UK despite the fact that so many girls have been abused in this way across the country,” she said.
“The CPS and safeguarding services must protect young girls by taking urgent and serious action to ensure that perpetrators feel the full force of the law.
“Where there is evidence of genital mutilation the case must be prosecuted under the FGM Act.”
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Iceland is right to ban circumcision. Boys need protecting from it Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/male-circumcision-iceland-comment/
An interesting piece by Ian Dunt in iNews, despite the following absurd paragraph, which manages to reveal his ignorance of men’s rights activists, MGM and FGM:
Men’s rights activists, whose strange combination of aggression and theatrical vulnerability leads them to claim every offence against women as somehow akin to one against men, could use it to pretend that male and female circumcision were comparable, which they most manifestly are not.
Radhika Sanghani, the feminist who told us air conditioners are sexist, now introduces the “Big Nose Acceptance” movement
A piece from Squawker for our “You couldn’t make this s*** up!!!” filing cabinet.
William Collins: Policing – for or against us?
On the Victoria Derbyshire Show this morning, on BBC2, Derbyshire covered the issue of increased sentencing terms for perpetrators of domestic abuse. Needless to say she interviewed only women, all victims were assumed to be female, all perpetrators male. Standard BBC presentation, then, though it’s long been known that in couples where the violence is one-way, the perpetrator is twice as likely to be a woman as a man, and the highest rates of domestic violence are found in lesbian couples.
Justice for Men & Boys 