MADELEINE MCCANN missing since May 2007

GADAFFI GORDON BROWN UK PRIME MINISTER,THE LOCKERBIE BOMBER, Abdelbaset Al Megrahi AND ALEX SALMOND

2011-09-04T13:44:00.002+01:00

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Devastating secret files reveal Labour lies over Gaddafi: Dictator warned of holy war if Lockerbie bomber Megrahi died in Scotland

Devastating stash of documents left in British Ambassador's residence
Britain gave Libyan secret police questions to interrogate dissidents
We even informed Gaddafi how Cobra works and MI6 budget

By Ian Birrell

Last updated at 9:49 AM on 4th September 2011

The startling extent to which Labour misled the world over the controversial release of the Lockerbie bomber is exposed today in top-secret documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday.

In public, senior Ministers from the last Labour Government and the Scottish First Minister have repeatedly insisted that terminally ill Abdelbaset Al Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds in a decision taken by Scottish Ministers alone.

But the confidential papers show that Westminster buckled under pressure from Colonel Gaddafi, who threatened to ignite a 'holy war' if Megrahi died in his Scottish cell.

Friendship: Letters from Gordon Brown to Gaddafi sent in July 2007 (left) and September 2007 (right)

And despite repeated denials, the Labour Government worked frantically behind the scenes to appease Gaddafi's 'unpredictable nature'.

As recently as last month, a spokesman for Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond was insisting: 'The decision was taken on the basis of Scots law and was not influenced by economic, political or diplomatic factors.'

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Equally damaging, the documents also suggest that as well as sharing intelligence-gathering techniques, Britain gave Libya hundreds of suggested questions for Islamic militants detained in Libya in 2004.

This will inevitably cause widespread dismay because of the regime’s systematic use of torture during interrogation.

Friends: Former Prime MinisterTony Blair greets Muammar Gaddafi at his desert base outside Tripoli in 2007

Education: A letter from Downing Street reveals how Tony Blair was 'stimulated' by Said Gaddafi's PHD (left), while a second document reveals Tony Blair's New Year wishes to Gaddafi and his family (right)

The revelations come in documents – some marked ‘UK secret: UK/Libya Eyes Only’ – found strewn on the floor of the British Ambassador’s abandoned residence in Tripoli.

Many of the papers demonstrate the warmth of the relationship between Britain and Libya and, in particular, the extraordinarily close links between the Blair Government and the Gaddafi regime.

The notes show how:

Tony Blair helped Colonel Gaddafi’s playboy son Saif with his ‘dodgy’ PhD thesis while he was Prime Minister.
British Special Forces were offered to train the Khamis Brigade, Gaddafi’s most vicious military unit.
MI6 was apparently willing to trace phone numbers for Libyan intelligence.
Gordon Brown wrote warmly to Gaddafi in 2007 expressing the hope that the dictator would be able to meet Prince Andrew when he visited Tripoli.
MI6’s budget (£150 million in 2002) was readily disclosed to Libyan officials, along with details of how Britain’s Downing Street emergency committee Cobra operates.
Britain’s intelligence services forged close links with Gaddafi’s brutal security units.

Megrahi was released two years ago and transferred back to Libya, where he received a hero’s welcome from Gaddafi. Last week, it emerged he is still alive – although very ill – after he was tracked down to his home in Tripoli.

A series of documents marked ‘confidential’ and ‘restricted’ reveal that Gaddafi threatened Britain with ‘dire consequences’ if Megrahi died in Scotland.

Diplomats feared the harassment – ‘or worse’ – of British nationals; the cancellation of lucrative contracts with firms such as BP, Shell and BG; and the end of defence deals and counter-terrorism co-operation.

Devastating: The stash of documents were left in the British Ambassador's residence

As a result, the British Government ignored the anger of both America and the families of victims of Britain’s biggest terrorist outrage to push for the fastest release through the signing of a Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Libya.

Set against Britain’s role in the military intervention in Libya, and David Cameron’s description of Gaddafi last week as a ‘monster’, the revelations in the papers are bitterly ironic.

Yet during the concerted appeasement campaign, Britain was under no illusion about the nature of Gaddafi’s security forces or of what they were capable.

Another thick briefing paper points out that their primary objective was the protection of the Libyan leader, his family and their friends and to ‘defend the regime’s repressive politics inside and outside the country’.

Despite this, Simon McDonald, Gordon Brown’s foreign policy adviser, told the dictator’s son Saif in June 2008 how glad he was to hear of the first meeting between MI6’s head of station and the feared Libyan Internal Security Organisation.

‘I understand that this preliminary meeting focused on training,’ he wrote. ‘I look forward to hearing of progress.’

From the police to prisons, from the health service to the high court, the documents detail links and co-operation between the two countries at every level.

What appears to underpin them all is Tony Blair’s plan to bring Gaddafi in from the cold while winning rich contracts for British businesses.

Even the Department for International Development got in on the act, drawing up plans to work with Libya in Africa.

Among the most enthusiastic participants were the police, despite the shadow cast by the shooting in London of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984.

In November 2005 the then Home Secretary Charles Clarke met the Libyan security minister in London to agree a series of ‘security and co-operation talks’.

Six months later, at a meeting in Tripoli, Libyan officials asked for assistance on riot control, which they stressed was one of their ‘priorities’.

Despite the horrific reputation of Gaddafi’s jails, there was also collaboration with Libya’s prison services.

This included a trip to Libya by the former chief inspector of prisons Lord Ramsbotham, another in July 2009 by a team of British prison officials and the funding of visits to Libya by academics from King’s College, London, who were each paid £630 a day to run a two-week course in Tripoli.

Libya was notorious for corruption under the Gaddafi regime, with the dictator’s family dominating commerce and demanding a cut of most big deals.

Rivals who crossed them could have their businesses – or lives – destroyed.

But the Law Society spent 18 months working with Libyan officials to review laws on banking and the creation of a more ‘enabling’ business environment.

There were also exchange visits between British and Libyan health ministers and proposals for joint work from the Health Protection Agency.

Even former Labour leader Neil Kinnock became involved, holding discussions on education with Saif Gaddafi.

‘I am pleased that you had a successful meeting with Lord Kinnock,’ Tony Blair’s then foreign policy adviser, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, told the dictator’s son in an April 2007 letter.

The letter, updating Gaddafi on progress on several fronts, ran to four pages.

It concluded with the Prime Minister sending ‘his warm wishes to the Leader and to yourself’.

A separate cache of secret files found in Tripoli show that MI6 gave the Gaddafi regime information on Libyan dissidents living in the UK.

The documents, discovered in the Tripoli offices of former Libyan intelligence chief Musa Kusa, include a personal Christmas greeting signed by a senior spy as ‘your friend’.

They also reveal that MI6 and the CIA had a regular contact with their counterparts in Libya, in particular Mr Kusa, who became foreign minister and earlier this year defected to the UK.

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British Special Forces have warned Libyan commanders hunting Colonel Gaddafi that he could be wearing a suicide vest – choosing to kill himself rather than be captured.

A senior security source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘The intelligence suggests it will be packed with enough explosives to take out anyone around him.’

The incriminating documents were found in the wreckage of the British ambassador’s home in Tripoli, a three-storey house vandalised in April by Gaddafi loyalists.

There were several booklets filled with the faces of suspected terrorists, scores of personally signed letters sent from Downing Street and detailed intelligence data on the Gaddafi regime.

Incredibly, all this had lain amid the debris for four months, with no attempt made to secure the papers even in
the week after the rebels ousted the dictator from the city.

Mountains of shredded paper showed British diplomats tried to destroy many documents before fleeing.

One of the more intriguing proposals in the papers is the idea of founding a Centre for the Study of Meteors and Shooting Stars in the middle of the Saharan desert.

Hundreds of meteorites have been found in the Libyan desert, including rocks from the Moon and Mars.

Incriminating: The documents reveal the close ties between Gordon Brown and Gaddafi (pictured toegether on the left in 2009), and how the Libyan leader warned of a holy war if Megrahi (right) was not released

BLAIR HELPED PLAYBOY SAIF WITH HIS DODGY PhD THESIS:

Blair links: Saif Gaddafi

Tony Blair helped Colonel Gaddafi’s playboy son Saif with his ‘dodgy’ philosophy PhD thesis while he was Prime Minister.

The extraordinary revelation, confirmed by a leaked letter sent by Mr Blair to the tyrant’s son, demonstrates just how close the links were between the Blair Government and the Gaddafi regime.

Saif, 39, has called Mr Blair ‘a close, personal friend’ of his family. Mr Blair also had a close personal relationship with dictator Muammar, exchanging friendly notes even after he left No 10.

Typical was one sent from Downing Street on December 28, 2006. ‘Eid Mubarak!’ it begins, acknowledging a Muslim festival. ‘At this sacred time of harmony and reconciliation, recalling how our passionate God has mercy on mankind, I would like to express my personal wishes to you, to your family and to the Libyan people.’

The documents show Mr Blair’s surprising level of involvement with Saif’s 2008 London School of Economics thesis. Mr Blair sent Saif a personally signed letter on No 10 paper, addressing him as ‘Engineer Saif’ and thanking him for sending the 429-page thesis for him to read.

The PM also offered three examples of co-operation between governments, people and business ‘that might help with your studies’, including Make Poverty History, which he said worked because ‘it bought together an unusual coalition of players from Bono to the Pope . . . with a simple but inspiring message of hope.’

Mr Blair then discusses how to prevent corruption in oil-rich nations – even though the Gaddafis were notorious for stealing billions – and his ‘personal interest and commitment’ to the topics Saif studied.

He signed off: ‘I wish you well for your PhD and send my warm good wishes.’ Saif – who donated £1.5 million to the LSE – is said to have plagiarised much of his thesis.

A spokesman for Mr Blair said: ‘Neither Tony Blair or Downing Street officials saw Saif Gaddafi’s thesis in advance. A letter was drafted by officials giving examples of good practice which was sent in the Prime Minister’s name. It was perfectly proper to do so.’

WE HELPED TRAIN BRIGADE BEHIND REGIME'S WORST ATROCITIES

Who Dares Wins: The SAS spent six months training Libyan elite troops two years ago

Britain developed astonishingly close ties with the Libyan military following Tony Blair’s 2007 deal in the desert with Colonel Gaddafi, despite its history of brutal internal repression and bloody foreign adventurism.

Among the deals revealed this weekend are the use of UK Special Forces to train the feared Khamis Brigade, run by one of Gaddafi’s sons and thought to have been behind some of the worst atrocities in the recent conflict.

The SAS spent six months training Libyan elite troops two years ago as part of what was described by the Foreign Office as ‘ongoing co-operation in the field of defence’ between the two countries. A troop of four to 14 SAS men are understood to have trained the Libyans in counter-terrorism techniques, including covert surveillance.

The training was agreed under Tony Blair in 2004 but ‘signed off’ by Gordon Brown in 2009. British officials also proposed further military collaborations including:

Training Libyan officers at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
Dispatching a Royal Navy vessel to visit Tripoli.
Paying for high-ranking Libyans to visit the European Union and Nato headquarters in Brussels.
Sending 100 officers a year on English language courses.
The sale of naval ships to Libya.

It is now clear that British support for Gaddafi’s military machine went considerably further than training – and that much of it was based on ideas proposed by the deposed Libyan regime.

In April 2007, a month before the desert accord was signed, Mr Blair’s foreign policy adviser Sir Nigel Sheinwald told Saif Gaddafi that Britain was ready to develop a partnership with Libya ‘starting with some of the ideas you set out’.

Sir Nigel said he was ‘extremely pleased’ agreement had been reached on the sale of the Iskander missile system – although it was delayed by international pressure.

In February 2008, Gordon Brown wrote to the Libyan leader: ‘I am confident that our defence co-operation can grow, building on the accord signed in Sirte last May.’

Mr Brown hoped they could conclude negotiations on two arms deals: a £147 million anti-tank missile system and related £112 million communication system, plus an £85 million deal to supply radios.

In a letter to Saif in June 2008, Mr McDonald outlined the deal to train up to 90 members of the Khamis Brigade by Arturus, a UK-based private military security company. He added: ‘The MoD would then be willing to have serving personnel from UK SF [Special Forces] visit and provide quality assurance.’

Last night, Tory MP Patrick Mercer, a former Army commander, said: ‘Today’s friends are tomorrow’s enemies as these deals show.’

Devastating secret files reveal Labour lies over Gaddafi: Dictator warned of holy war if Lockerbie bomber Megrahi died in Scotland

Devastating stash of documents left in British Ambassador's residence
Britain gave Libyan secret police questions to interrogate dissidents
We even informed Gaddafi how Cobra works and MI6 budget

By Ian Birrell

Last updated at 9:49 AM on 4th September 2011

The startling extent to which Labour misled the world over the controversial release of the Lockerbie bomber is exposed today in top-secret documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday.

But the confidential papers show that Westminster buckled under pressure from Colonel Gaddafi, who threatened to ignite a 'holy war' if Megrahi died in his Scottish cell.

Friendship: Letters from Gordon Brown to Gaddafi sent in July 2007 (left) and September 2007 (right)

And despite repeated denials, the Labour Government worked frantically behind the scenes to appease Gaddafi's 'unpredictable nature'.

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This will inevitably cause widespread dismay because of the regime’s systematic use of torture during interrogation.

Members of Gadaffi family home's looted--look at size of swimming pool of his daughter!

2011-08-25T13:07:00.000+01:00

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Gaddafi Family Members' Homes Plundered

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12:12pm UK, Thursday August 25, 2011

Libyans have broken into the homes of two of Colonel Gaddafi's children in Tripoli, stealing cars and other luxury items.

The large swimming pool in Aisha Gaddafi's luxury villa

After driving out the guards, rebels looted the villas, while neighbours wandered from room to room expressing their anger at the Gaddafi family's wealth and ostentatious tastes.

One beachfront home belonged to Al-Saadi Gaddafi, the leader's third son. He was commander of the regime's special forces and an ex-footballer.

About 200 people stormed into the property, said Seifallah Gneidi, a 23-year-old rebel who took part in the looting.

A rebel fighter inside the house of Al-Saadi Gaddafi

Mr Gneidi, who was armed with a Kalashnikov, said he took a large bottle of gin, a toothbrush with a gilded handle and a pair of Diesel jeans.

"We wanted to have the stuff that he had," he said.

He said the rebels were not condoning the looting of private property, and were only allowing the symbols of the Gaddafi family's abuse of power to be plundered.

Mr Gneidi said Al-Saadi, 38, had four cars at the villa - a white Lamborghini, a BMW, an Audi and a Toyota - that were all driven away by looters.

Rebels Loot Gaddafi Family Homes

In an office area in the villa, reporters saw large piles of catalogues for yachts and cars.

One catalogue by the firm Benetti had a handwritten note with the words 'post it' attached, referring to a £6m quote for a 30-metre yacht.

An unfinished underground passage with thick concrete walls led from a second villa to the street.

The complex also had a grass football pitch and a kennel with four cages, one decorated with pictures of dobermans.

Rebels examine clothes in Aisha Gaddafi's property

The rebels also ransacked the home of Al-Saadi's sister, Aisha.

"I can't even believe what I am seeing," said Tripoli resident Muftah Shubri, as he walked across the lawn to a large, covered pool.

Aisha, 35, appeared to care for ordinary Libyans but her neighbours said a small clinic had been destroyed to make room for the villa.

Her DVDs included action and mystery films and a video on getting back in shape after childbirth.

Bohemian crystal glasses and a brown Dolce and Gabana leather jacket for one of her children were among the other items found.

10 year old girl shot in head getting out of bed in TRIPOLI Libya -true face of war

2011-08-25T13:06:00.000+01:00

Child victim of the Libyan snipers: Fighting for life, girl of ten shot in head as she got out of bed

By Vanessa Allen

Last updated at 12:36 PM on 25th August 2011

Ten-year-old Alaa Salem lay in a coma yesterday amid the chaos of an overcrowded Tripoli hospital, her skull smashed open by a sniper’s bullet in her own home.

She was ‘picked off’ by one of Gaddafi’s gunmen shortly after clambering from her bed. A second bullet tore into the shoulder of her mother Salha as she went to her daughter’s aid.

For doctors at the Sharaa Al Zawiya Hospital in the heart of the Libyan capital it is an all-too familiar story.

One of their own, a consultant, lies in a coma on the ward, the victim of a sniper. He was targeted as he helped a three-year-old girl shot by a rooftop gunman. Doctors say their friend, like the little girl he went to assist as she arrived at the hospital in an ambulance, will not survive to see the new Libya.

Fight for life: Ten-year-old Alaa Salem is tended to by a doctor and her mother Salha at a hospital in Tripoli yesterday

Pain etched on his face: In this unimaginable situation, Alaa's father Saleem seems almost too afraid to comfort his daughter as she is finally taken for surgery

The enormity of what doctors face here could be seen on every ward yesterday with dozens of sniper victims only partially masked by the bloodstained curtains around the beds.

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Gaddafi's Neverland: Fairground rides, a zoo and a shrine to his dead daughter... inside the tyrant's bizarre lair

This brutal urban war is now claiming as many civilian casualities as the rebels and militia who perish while fighting on the front line.

'Alaa's window was open and as she stood up the bullet went through her forehead. She fell and I knew she was hit. I thought she was dead. I tried to go to her, but I fell too.'

Incredibly, Gaddafi’s mercenaries, paid up to 10,000 dinars (£5,000), have been expressly ordered to target the civilian population which has the inevitable effect of paralysing freedom of movement. It means that citizens who briefly erupted into celebration on Sunday now cower in fear of gunmen they cannot see who target them through long-range gun sights.

Moments before she was shot, Alaa Salem was lying in bed in her family’s home in Bab al-Azizia, the centre of much of yesterday’s gunfights.

Praying for a miracle: Salha, who was also injured by the sniper, and Saleem have been told by doctors that they do not know if their daughter will live or die

Her mother recalled how she had watched as her daughter woke slowly and stood up, still sleepy.

Across the street, a sniper was squeezing the trigger of his high-velocity weapon.

Salha said: ‘Alaa’s window was open and as she stood up the bullet went through her forehead. She fell and I knew she was hit. I thought she was dead. I tried to go to her, but I fell too.’

In the chaotic aftermath, 43-year-old Salha did not immediately realise she had also been hit, in the left shoulder.

Yesterday she was in the next bed to her terribly ill daughter. The sniper’s bullet lodged inside Alaa’s brain, leaving her in urgent need of life-saving surgery.

Doctors told her parents four long days ago that she would need an operation to remove the bullet, and that without it she could die.

But medical shortages in Tripoli meant they could not operate until yesterday as they had no oxygen to keep her alive during the complex surgery.

The hospital has been overwhelmed since the fighting began in Tripoli and supplies of oxygen, anaesthetic and other life-saving drugs are now dangerously low.

Salha said: ‘The doctors told my husband and me that they could not tell us if she will live or die until they operate.

'Until yesterday there were no doctors here, but now volunteers have arrived to help us, and surgery doctors are here.'

‘But then they said they had no oxygen left, so they could not treat her. We have waited for three days. Until yesterday there were no doctors here, but now volunteers have arrived to help us, and surgery doctors are here. We need the Red Crescent here, we need medicines and help. We must get help.

In Alaa’s ward alone, three of the seven beds were filled by victims of the snipers. One, the doctor, was shot inside an ambulance as he brought a patient to the hospital.

Wounded: With blood streaming down his body, this man receives treatment, but doctors say their is a desperate shortage of supplies to help the injured

Injured: This man was hurt in a firefight with pro-Gaddafi forces, but many of the hospital beds are now being taken up by victims of snipers

Medics said he was brain dead, with no chance of survival. An hour earlier, they stopped treating an 18-month-old baby who was also declared brain dead.

Another victim: Economics student Amir Salem was shot four times by Gaddafi soldiers in Tripoli's Green Square

In a cruel irony, another bed in the ward is taken by a Gaddafi fighter, a mercenary from Chad who doctors said would survive.

On another ward, a mother lay crying as doctors examined her stomach, ripped open by a sniper’s round. She sobbed that she was shot as she crossed a park with her children. She lost consciousness and was taken to hospital, but still screams that she does not know if her children are alive or dead.

Doctors say there is a desperate shortage of supplies and the snipers are preventing not only doctors and nurses reaching the hospital but also cleaners and chemists. Rebels implore civilians to go to the hospitals to give blood, but they run the risk of being shot by snipers on the way.

As we attempted to cross Tripoli, we witnessed rebels flagging down cars to stop them from driving into the snipers’ sights.

Streets which were considered safe only hours earlier were closed as the gunmen took up positions on both sides of the highway, picking off cars as they passed by.

The crack of gunfire is a constant reminder of their presence, and mixes with the sound of mortars exploding and the call to prayer from surrounding mosques.

Rebel soldiers have set up checkpoints on all the key roads across the city, desperate to maintain their grip on supply routes and stop ammunition and fuel reaching Gaddafi loyalists

Operation Withern--Shop a moron from the riots

2011-08-11T13:09:00.000+01:00

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Operation Withern is investigating the serious disorder and violence that has been affecting parts of London.

Operation Withern's priority is to bring to justice those who have committed violent and criminal acts. As the detailed and thorough investigation progresses we will be issuing photographs of people we want to speak with.

If anyone recognises individuals in the photographs or has any information about the violence and disorder that has occurred they should contact the Major Investigation Team on 020 8345 4142. Alternatively anyone can report crime and provide information anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

CCTV – Ealing assault
On Monday 8 August at around 22:45hrs officers in Ealing were dealing with sustained violent disorder in Springbridge Road, when they became aware of a man, 68, being attacked.

We have two CCTV clips and two stills on of a suspect and one witness.
Anyone with information is asked to call the incident room on 020 8721 4205; or if you wish to remain anonymous, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

PLEASE NOTE: this is a separate investigation to Operation Withern

More more information please visit www.met.police.uk

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items are from between 09 Aug 2011 & 11 Aug 2011.

ALEXIS BAILEY Teaching Assistant from Stockwell, London PLEADS GUILTY TO burgulary with intent to steal

2011-08-10T22:40:00.002+01:00

unbelievable--- someone who is supposedly a mentor to primary school kids! You couldn't make this stuff up!!!

Uneducated amoral welfare dependent CHAVS london riots uk

2011-08-10T22:34:00.000+01:00

Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters

By Max Hastings

Last updated at 12:49 PM on 10th August 2011

A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black reporter named Joe Strickland.

He said: ‘Don’t you believe all that stuff people here are giving media folk about how sorry they are about what happened. When they talk to each other, they say: “It was a great fire, man!” ’

I am sure that is what many of the young rioters, black and white, who have burned and looted in England through the past few shocking nights think today.

Rich pickings: Hooded looters laden with clothes run from a Manchester shopping centre

It was fun. It made life interesting. It got people to notice them. As a girl looter told a BBC reporter, it showed ‘the rich’ and the police that ‘we can do what we like’.

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If you live a normal life of absolute futility, which we can assume most of this week’s rioters do, excitement of any kind is welcome. The people who wrecked swathes of property, burned vehicles and terrorised communities have no moral compass to make them susceptible to guilt or shame.

Most have no jobs to go to or exams they might pass. They know no family role models, for most live in homes in which the father is unemployed, or from which he has decamped.

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They are illiterate and innumerate, beyond maybe some dexterity with computer games and BlackBerries.

They are essentially wild beasts. I use that phrase advisedly, because it seems appropriate to young people bereft of the discipline that might make them employable; of the conscience that distinguishes between right and wrong.

They respond only to instinctive animal impulses — to eat and drink, have sex, seize or destroy the accessible property of others.

Their behaviour on the streets resembled that of the polar bear which attacked a Norwegian tourist camp last week. They were doing what came naturally and, unlike the bear, no one even shot them for it.

A former London police chief spoke a few years ago about the ‘feral children’ on his patch — another way of describing the same reality.

The depressing truth is that at the bottom of our society is a layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations. They do not have what most of us would call ‘lives’: they simply exist.

Nobody has ever dared suggest to them that they need feel any allegiance to anything, least of all Britain or their community. They do not watch royal weddings or notice Test matches or take pride in being Londoners or Scousers or Brummies.

Not only do they know nothing of Britain’s past, they care nothing for its present.

They have their being only in video games and street-fights, casual drug use and crime, sometimes petty, sometimes serious.

The notions of doing a nine-to-five job, marrying and sticking with a wife and kids, taking up DIY or learning to read properly, are beyond their imaginations.

Undercover police officers arrest looters in the Swarovski Crystal shop in Manchester. One rioter lies injured and blood can be seen on the wall

Last week, I met a charity worker who is trying to help a teenage girl in East London to get a life for herself. There is a difficulty, however: ‘Her mother wants her to go on the game.’ My friend explained: ‘It’s the money, you know.’

An underclass has existed throughout history, which once endured appalling privation. Its spasmodic outbreaks of violence, especially in the early 19th century, frightened the ruling classes.

Its frustrations and passions were kept at bay by force and draconian legal sanctions, foremost among them capital punishment and transportation to the colonies.

Today, those at the bottom of society behave no better than their forebears, but the welfare state has relieved them from hunger and real want.

When social surveys speak of ‘deprivation’ and ‘poverty’, this is entirely relative. Meanwhile, sanctions for wrongdoing have largely vanished.

When Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith recently urged employers to take on more British workers and fewer migrants, he was greeted with a hoarse laugh.

Mindless: People wearing masks swig alcohol next to a burning car in Birmingham city centre last night

Every firm in the land knows that an East European — for instance — will, first, bother to turn up; second, work harder; and third, be better-educated than his or her British counterpart.Who do we blame for this state of affairs?

Ken Livingstone, contemptible as ever, declares the riots to be a result of the Government’s spending cuts. This recalls the remarks of the then leader of Lambeth Council, ‘Red Ted’ Knight, who said after the 1981 Brixton riots that the police in his borough ‘amounted to an army of occupation’.

But it will not do for a moment to claim the rioters’ behaviour reflects deprived circumstances or police persecution.

Of course it is true that few have jobs, learn anything useful at school, live in decent homes, eat meals at regular hours or feel loyalty to anything beyond their local gang.

This is not, however, because they are victims of mistreatment or neglect.

It is because it is fantastically hard to help such people, young or old, without imposing a measure of compulsion which modern society finds unacceptable. These kids are what they are because nobody makes them be anything different or better.

Rampage: We are told that youths roaming the streets are doing so because they are angry at unemployment, but a quick look at an apprenticeship website yields 2,228 vacancies in London

A key factor in delinquency is lack of effective sanctions to deter it. From an early stage, feral children discover that they can bully fellow pupils at school, shout abuse at people in the streets, urinate outside pubs, hurl litter from car windows, play car radios at deafening volumes, and, indeed, commit casual assaults with only a negligible prospect of facing rebuke, far less retribution.

John Stuart Mill wrote in his great 1859 essay On Liberty: ‘The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.’

Yet every day up and down the land, this vital principle of civilised societies is breached with impunity.

Anyone who reproaches a child, far less an adult, for discarding rubbish, making a racket, committing vandalism or driving unsociably will receive in return a torrent of obscenities, if not violence.

So who is to blame? The breakdown of families, the pernicious promotion of single motherhood as a desirable state, the decline of domestic life so that even shared meals are a rarity, have all contributed importantly to the condition of the young underclass.

The social engineering industry unites to claim that the conventional template of family life is no longer valid.

Protection: Asian shopkeepers stand outside their store in Hackney that was battered by the looters. This time, though, they're ready to take them on

And what of the schools? I do not think they can be blamed for the creation of a grotesquely self-indulgent, non-judgmental culture.

This has ultimately been sanctioned by Parliament, which refuses to accept, for instance, that children are more likely to prosper with two parents than with one, and that the dependency culture is a tragedy for those who receive something for nothing.

The judiciary colludes with social services and infinitely ingenious lawyers to assert the primacy of the rights of the criminal and aggressor over those of law-abiding citizens, especially if a young offender is involved.

The police, in recent years, have developed a reputation for ignoring yobbery and bullying, or even for taking the yobs’ side against complainants.

‘The problem,’ said Bill Pitt, the former head of Manchester’s Nuisance Strategy Unit, ‘is that the law appears to be there to protect the rights of the perpetrator, and does not support the victim.’

Police regularly arrest householders who are deemed to have taken ‘disproportionate’ action to protect themselves and their property from burglars or intruders. The message goes out that criminals have little to fear from ‘the feds’.

Do rioters, pictured looting a shop in Hackney, have lower levels of a brain chemical that helps keep behaviour under control? Scientists think so

Figures published earlier this month show that a majority of ‘lesser’ crimes — which include burglary and car theft, and which cause acute distress to their victims — are never investigated, because forces think it so unlikely they will catch the perpetrators.

How do you inculcate values in a child whose only role model is footballer Wayne Rooney — a man who is bereft of the most meagre human graces?

How do you persuade children to renounce bad language when they hear little else from stars on the BBC?

A teacher, Francis Gilbert, wrote five years ago in his book Yob Nation: ‘The public feels it no longer has the right to interfere.’

Discussing the difficulties of imposing sanctions for misbehaviour or idleness at school, he described the case of a girl pupil he scolded for missing all her homework deadlines.

The youngster’s mother, a social worker, telephoned him and said: ‘Threatening to throw my daughter off the A-level course because she hasn’t done some work is tantamount to psychological abuse, and there is legislation which prevents these sorts of threats.

‘I believe you are trying to harm my child’s mental well-being, and may well take steps . . . if you are not careful.’

That story rings horribly true. It reflects a society in which teachers have been deprived of their traditional right to arbitrate pupils’ behaviour. Denied power, most find it hard to sustain respect, never mind control.

Mob: A crowd of people rush into a fashion store in Peckham

I never enjoyed school, but, like most children until very recent times, did the work because I knew I would be punished if I did not. It would never have occurred to my parents not to uphold my teachers’ authority. This might have been unfair to some pupils, but it was the way schools functioned for centuries, until the advent of crazy ‘pupil rights’.

I recently received a letter from a teacher who worked in a county’s pupil referral unit, describing appalling difficulties in enforcing discipline. Her only weapon, she said, was the right to mark a disciplinary cross against a child’s name for misbehaviour.

Having repeatedly and vainly asked a 15-year-old to stop using obscene language, she said: ‘Fred, if you use language like that again, I’ll give you a cross.’

He replied: ‘Give me an effing cross, then!’ Eventually, she said: ‘Fred, you have three crosses now. You must miss your next break.’

He answered: ‘I’m not missing my break, I’m going for an effing fag!’ When she appealed to her manager, he said: ‘Well, the boy’s got a lot going on at home at the moment. Don’t be too hard on him.’

This is a story repeated daily in schools up and down the land.

Making a run for it: These four looters dash from the Blue Inc store in Peckham with plundered goods

A century ago, no child would have dared to use obscene language in class. Today, some use little else. It symbolises their contempt for manners and decency, and is often a foretaste of delinquency.

If a child lacks sufficient respect to address authority figures politely, and faces no penalty for failing to do so, then other forms of abuse — of property and person — come naturally.

So there we have it: a large, amoral, brutalised sub-culture of young British people who lack education because they have no will to learn, and skills which might make them employable. They are too idle to accept work waitressing or doing domestic labour, which is why almost all such jobs are filled by immigrants.

They have no code of values to dissuade them from behaving anti-socially or, indeed, criminally, and small chance of being punished if they do so.

They have no sense of responsibility for themselves, far less towards others, and look to no future beyond the next meal, sexual encounter or TV football game.

Behind bins: Rioters in Hackney stand in front of a makeshift barricade

They are an absolute deadweight upon society, because they contribute nothing yet cost the taxpayer billions. Liberal opinion holds they are victims, because society has failed to provide them with opportunities to develop their potential.

Most of us would say this is nonsense. Rather, they are victims of a perverted social ethos, which elevates personal freedom to an absolute, and denies the underclass the discipline — tough love — which alone might enable some of its members to escape from the swamp of dependency in which they live.

Only education — together with politicians, judges, policemen and teachers with the courage to force feral humans to obey rules the rest of us have accepted all our lives — can provide a way forward and a way out for these people.

They are products of a culture which gives them so much unconditionally that they are let off learning how to become human beings. My dogs are better behaved and subscribe to a higher code of values than the young rioters of Tottenham, Hackney, Clapham and Birmingham.

Unless or until those who run Britain introduce incentives for decency and impose penalties for bestiality which are today entirely lacking, there will never be a shortage of young rioters and looters such as those of the past four nights, for whom their monstrous excesses were ‘a great fire, man’.

People:: Ken Livingstone,; Wayne Rooney
Places:: Birmingham,; Manchester,; London,; United Kingdom
Organisations:: Lambeth Council,; London Police

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Youngest boy aged 11 at Court for looting in London

2011-08-10T22:29:00.001+01:00

Chavvy mother takes son to court, NOT drags, as is being said in the newspapers. Nice to see she respects authority and got dressed for the occasion as well as making sure her little tw@t of a kid was nicely dressed too.

this from the Daily Mail:

He pleaded guilty to burglary, after stealing a waste bin worth £50 from Debenhams. A charge of violent disorder was dropped.

During the brief hearing, the court heard the boy has already been given a referral order after being convicted of a separate offence just last week. No details of the conviction were given.

LONDON RIOTS -catch this looter bragging on twitter

2011-08-09T16:08:00.003+01:00

CLICK TO ENLARGE

@zampos on TWITTER aka TONY BENNETT (stalker) is making posts when he's told..

2011-08-06T22:53:00.001+01:00

CARTER RUCK HE'S ON HOLS N UNABLE TO CHANGE LIBELLOUS STUFF HE'S POSTED.

TONY BENNETT lies to CARTER RUCK

2011-08-06T22:33:00.002+01:00

about being on holiday. A screen shot has been taken of who was online in the last 24 hours at JILL HAVERN forum and lo and behold a certain TONY BENNETT (stalker) is listed, which is kinda odd because he's told law firm CARTER RUCK he's on holidays and has no internet access to take down libelous posts he's made at JILL HAVERN forum...tsk tsk tsk who's a naughty boy then?

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Youngest boy aged 11 at Court for looting in London

LONDON RIOTS -catch this looter bragging on twitter

@zampos on TWITTER aka TONY BENNETT (stalker) is making posts when he's told..

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