In an unexpected development, two men seen in CCTV footage attacking police officers at Manchester airport in July have been charged by the CPS and the police officers involved have all been cleared. The Mail has the story.
Two brothers have been charged with assault following a brawl at Manchester Airport which sparked anti-police protests over the summer after partial footage was widely shared on social media.
The furore erupted in July after videos of the incident shared online showed an officer kicking 20-year-old Mohammed Amaaz during an attempted arrest of him and his 25-year-old brother Muhammed Amaad.
Tensions were raised further when their lawyer Akhmed Yakoob claimed the fracas had been an “attempted assassination”, triggering anti-police protests in the brothers’ home town of Rochdale.
But dramatic CCTV footage then revealed the three police officers had been attacked, leaving a WPC with a broken nose and another officer slumped on the floor.
Last month, with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) apparently no closer to announcing charges against the brothers, Nigel Farage hired two solicitors to bring a case against them.
He contrasted prosecutors’ slow progress with bringing charges against the pair with the ultra-fast prosecution of far-Right [sic] figures “who said unpleasant things on social media” and suggested this was evidence of a “two-tier” justice system.
But now the CPS has said the two men have been charged with assaults on police officers on July 23rd and that none of the police officers will face charges.
Mohammed Amaaz is charged with two offences of causing actual bodily harm, one charge of assaulting an emergency worker and one charge of common assault, while Muhammed Amaad, 25, is charged with causing actual bodily harm.
Today, Mr. Farage’s Reform U.K. party said the charging of two men after a disturbance at Manchester Airport was “long overdue” and claimed its legal threat had prompted prosecutors to act.
Mr. Farage and his deputy Richard Tice said in a statement today: “It’s obvious the CPS has only charged the attackers today because of the pressure applied by Reform U.K. MPs.”
They added they expect a parallel investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to “exonerate” the police officers, adding that “Nothing less will be acceptable”.
The IOPC said its investigation into the use of force by police on six people was nearing completion.
Worth reading in full.
Only took five months.
Yet in September we learned that “a criminal investigation has been launched into who gave Manchester Airport CCTV footage to the Manchester Evening News following the police ‘stamp’ incident”.
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States are protection rackets. So of course their governments are going to talk up or even fabricate threats, even if they don’t really exist or need to be confronted.
But that’s not just true of external enemies or imagines climate change or exaggerated diseases. There is war against inequality, against poverty, against racism, against misogyny.
The relationship between state and population is by definition one of abuse.
The state has to be seen as a necessary evil. It sometimes does some good things, and our lives are comfortable so we have become too complacent and trusting, and lack the imagination required.
All reflective of obsession with the here and now, and inability of politicians, media and academia with ideas above its station, to take the Long View (one of the better things the BBC still does).
The Ukraine War ignores the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union and the Minsk Agreement, that NATO would not advance ever further eastward.
The War on Terror ignored history going all the way back to The Crusades, ignored that Saddam Hussain was not Osama Bin Laden, and ignored WMD gone AWOL.
The climate fallacy ignores the real inconvenient truth of a geological record going back millenia, aeons, millions and billions of years, in favour of convenient untruths like the Hockey Stick.
The deadly pandemic fallacy ignores risk-benefit in general, and in particular ignored that during the 1968-69 “Mao Flu” epidemic, none of the grotesque interventions of 2020 were even considered – my school didn’t close, my teachers focused on getting us through our “O” level examinations the following June, and the club cricket season started as per usual on the third Saturday in April, not the second Saturday in July.
So much for the Hand of History on politicians’ shoulders. All summed up by the old H.L. Mencken adage:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
Your list is okay except for the Crusades? Jesus Christ.
You mean the rather lethargic 400 year reaction to the Muslim Jihad which exterminated 30K churches from Arabia to Spain, from 630 AD to 1099, and killed and enslaved millions of Christians and completely destroyed the Christian unity around the Med, by eradicating Christian states from Syria to northern Spain. You live in the West bruv, because that is the name given to the rump that was left.
Salah-din murdered thousands of Musulmans and Christians, he was not a knight in any sense. He was a Jihadist. Walter Scott and these morons with their anti reality revisionism, all of it anti-Catholic. No CC no you. Or maybe a you with your ass in the air licking a carpet braying to the rapist Moh and his moon idol.
I know all that full well, bruv – but still better not ignored by armed forces invading the hornet’s nests of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Well done Spaniards and rump of Holy Roman Empire (among others), for repelling the Moors from Northern Iberia and Ottomans from the Gates of Vienna.
They Shall Not Pass.
And they also had the Woodstock Festival.
When everything is on a ‘war footing’ nothing is on a ‘war footing’. Perhaps the last hurrah of the Old Elite?
” and of course the management of the Covid [PLAN]demic.”
So far good reading.
I will quote Neil Oliver: “The MSM are mostly talking to themselves!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox57X2qiuEU
Climate Covid War Propaganda
Didn’t Churchill talk with Starlin and make a deal to carve up Europe post WW2. The scale of that renders Ukraine into insignificance by comparison.
Roosevelt was there too, Churchill probably had the least influence on the result.
One common theme is the tendency to exaggerate.
CO2 causes warming, but not enough to worry about.
Putin is dangerous but the threat is not difficult to deter.
Covid was unpleasant, but less dangerous than the flu for most people.
You sum up the situation perfectly and very concisely.
Climate change, Covid, War on Terror, BLM, DEI, creating conflicts around the world etc. etc. etc. are all started and cheered by “liberal” politicians and their presstitutes in the media.
There are hardly any “sceptic” politicians or main stream media to counter these “liberal” lies.
The US public have come to their senses and elected someone who has surrounded himself with sceptic sage advice.
Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia have also.
The Ukraine war was started by liberals in the US and EU meddling in Ukraine culminating in the US/EU violent Maidan coup of 2014.
Even now liberal European politicians are inflaming the situation with talk of a European Army.
When these troops start coming home in thousands of body bags hopefully the people of Europe will vote out these liberals for sceptic politicians who understand that Russia was deliberately “provoked” and that Russia’s actions were “justified”.
“Geopolitically” (stupid word) the logic of MAD (mutual assured destruction) still holds: Since nukes were constructed despite they’re only useful for committing so-called war crimes – the ultimate terror/ morale bombing weapon for killing masses of unfortunate civilians – you’ll either have so many nukes that the other guy can’t risk attacking you with his nukes without effectively committing suicide or the other guy can blackmail you into whatever he wants and there have been numerous attempts of Russian second- and third-line politicians, TV celebrities etc to do just that. Eg, ads threatening Germans with nuclear annihilation unless they vote AfD have been making rounds on Facebook. Hence, the Europeans will need to acquire more nukes if they want to maintain themselves.
This, not something like “democracy and human rights”, is the real US legacy to mankind and we’ll have to live with that despites it’s — see above — MAD.
Thanks Ben,
great article.
the fact underpinning both Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the so-called ‘humanitarian interventions’ of the Blair Government and its successors on the world stage, is that might is right.
Good point. We see this doctrine played out in various parts of the world.
Fighting “Climate Change” has had several purposes, all intended to consolidate power for the Globalists.
But since Trump’s election and his policy of negotiating with Putin to end the Ukraine Proxy War, the EU now feels threatened so the tune is changing.
This is a quote from Von der Leyen, the unelected, unaccountable head of the EU “We have to put Ukraine in a position of strength so that it has the means to fortify and protect itself – from economic survival to military resistance. It’s basically about turning Ukraine into a steel porcupine that is indigestible to invaders. It is now of utmost importance to step up the defence investment for a prolonged period of time. It’s for the security of the EUROPEAN UNION (note she doesn’t say Europe). And we need, in the strategic environment in which we live, to prepare for the worst and therefore step up the defence.”
Fighting “Climate Change” will not be possible if the priority becomes “stepping up the defence” so we can expect a change in tack before very long. The public is being softened-up for that already with the emphasis now being “Trump, The Unreliable Ally and The Big Bad Putin.”
The EU will want its Defence Union PDQ and, a source of funding. Look out for EU and UK “War Bonds.”
Conspiracy theory coming up.
The war hysteria is being stoked to give governments an excuse to cancel the net zero and climate change bullshittery that they realise is falling apart around them.
A war on the horizon is a great reason to start manufacturing and go back to heavy industry. It’ll create jobs, fill the ‘black hole’ get people off benefits etc.
If my little conspiracy theory is right I say bring it on.