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Frederick Douglass
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
 
 
 
 
 
  Jamaican-born: am I not a citizen and a Briton?
Jamaican-born is the label of choice used by the police to divide British citizen into different categories: British-born and naturalised-Briton.
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Blaqfair does not support violent protests
We note that the Open Directory claims that Blaqfair "supports violent protests", which is incorrect.
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Operation Kingfish or kin spin?
winston smith
The Big Lie is the Nazi propaganda technique of choice used by New Labour’s spin doctors.
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Tony Thompson, a propagandist at the Observer
winston smith
On Boxing Day 2003, David Bieber shot dead Ian Blakehurst, a traffic cop, in east Leeds, northern England. Bieber is, Blakehurst was, white. On December 2 2004, Bieber began a life sentence for Blakehurst’s murder. Was his murder a gun crime?
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Death in Brixton
winston smith
Andy Beckett’s “Death in Woolwich” centres on Daniel Williams killing Norman Francis in Woolwich, south-east London, on October 15, 2001. Beckett’s alleged theme is each death has outcomes, “aftershocks”. They affect not only the victim’s family but also everyone involved (1).
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John, Reid our lips: A change has got to come
Ezra Goldstein
Twenty years separate the Ritchie and Rocky Bennett inquiries. Each inquiry investigated the death of a black man in a psychiatric hospital. But had governments implemented Ritchie recommendations, Rocky Bennett inquiry might not have been necessary.
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Telling porkies
Ezra Goldstein
The Metropolitan police force will no longer use the label black-on-black. The force has used the label to describe shootings involving black victims and suspects.
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Without The Observer, the cat’s out the bag
Winston Smith
How does a service such as the Metropolitan police, famous for its racism, goes about getting the public to believe its claims about links between ethnic minorities and certain crimes? It gets the Observer, a newspaper known for its liberal anti-racist posture, to make them on its behalf.
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Sneaky, sinister and bigoted: The Independent stirs up racial hatred
Winston Smith
If lord Reith is right and “news is the shocktroops of propaganda” (Taylor 1999:336), then newspapers are the propagandist’s armoured divisions. Last autumn three well-publicised shootings in Nottingham, Hoddesdon and Leicester, undermined police stereotype of Jamaicans as being responsible for firearms related homicides.
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The Guardian of big-lies
Winston Smith
In 2000, the Tory attack on the “liberal-elite” was the Metropolitan police first volley in its propaganda war to rollback Macpherson (Hague, 2000). The “liberal elite” in question not only consisted of columnists of the Guardian newspaper and its readers but also those of the Observer (1&2). The Met has won those newspapers to its strategy of demonising Jamaicans as criminals.
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Gun crime: the Metropolitan police Big lie
Winston Smith
In partnership with the Home Office, the Metropolitan police stereotype Jamaicans as criminals responsible for all gun-crimes. Is the stereotype a Big-lie?.
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PC 2322 David Blun-kkk-ett MP
BBC1’s Secret Policeman, 21/10/ 03, tells viewers little they already did not know about police attitude to race, especially Asians and Blacks.
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  In memory of David Oluwale, the first of 1000 Black people killed in police custody since 1969.
 
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