A Raid Finds Illegal Workers At A Chelmsford Restaurant

After an immigration raid discovered undocumented workers, one of whom had entered the country illegally by small boat the year before, the Chelmsford restaurant’s licence was revoked. When East of England Immigration, Compliance, and Enforcement team members visited Mosaic on Springfield Road on June 29, 2023, they reported seeing two undocumented workers.

However, Mosaic told the Chelmsford licencing review meeting they were not working at the premises. But immigration enforcement officers say one person was encountered while working behind a “Just Eat” terminal in a ‘staff only’ area, and the other was washing dishes in the kitchen.

According to Mosaic, one of the men—a relative of the licence holder—was in the restaurant looking for company since he was lonely and couldn’t speak English. The committee took notice of the fact that he had applied for permission to remain after entering the UK unlawfully on May 7, 2023, by small boat.

The restaurant said he was only charging their mobile phone by the “Just Eat” terminal area and talking to the staff but otherwise not doing any work. The committee was also told there was no evidence that the alleged illegal worker had been taking orders for delivery and the licence holder had offered Home Office CCTV footage showing evidence that there was no illegal work. It was alleged that this had been declined.

Just two days before the hearing, the committee was informed that he had mentioned charging his cell phone. When ICE officials found the other accused illegal worker in the kitchen, he might have been cleaning his own dishes.

The committee took notice of the fact that the licence holder had seen the man’s asylum seeker card and knew they were not allowed to work for pay or unpaid work. The committee was informed that this individual was homeless and that a member of the Mosaic staff had given them permission to remain on the property and eat for free.

It was claimed that the employee who had let this person remain on the property had been fired. The committee was informed that on the initial visit, he informed the ICE officials that he was just cleaning his hands.

The Committee observed that the individual’s first claim that he was only cleaning his hands would be contradicted if he had been doing his own dishwashing.

Graham Hopkins, representing the restaurant said the restaurant had set up new files for existing staff, had closed off rooms to prevent people living there and banned anyone but staff on its books from going behind the counter. He said these could be included as conditions. He asked the committee not to revoke the licence but to impose conditions as seen fit.

The committee has concluded that both individuals were working illegally. A statement as a part of the decision said: “Notwithstanding the licence-holders denial and the explanations put forward by him for the two individuals in question being on the Mosaic Restaurant premises, the committee was satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that these two individuals were illegal workers employed at the premises at the time of the unannounced visit on the 29 June 2023 by officers from the Immigration, Compliance and Enforcement Team (ICE).”

It adds: “The Committee had given consideration to the proposed conditions put forward by the licence-holders agent as an alternative option to revocation. However, the Committee was of the view that revocation was the only appropriate course of action in this particular case.”

Restaurants and takeout establishments that use foreign labourers ought to face harsh penalties, and our Home Office should be cracking down on immigration workers across the counties.

If you are an illegal immigrant who entered the United Kingdom unlawfully, you should be treated as such by the law, and any eateries and takeout establishments that are discovered to be hiring illegal labourers should lose their licences.

Unfortunately, in order to reduce labour costs, fast food chains and even convenience stores are turning to foreign employment. However, the Home Office need to be enforcing stiffer penalties against individuals who believe that hiring illegal immigrants is acceptable.

Photo Firm Offers To Delete Wheelchair-Bound Kids From School Photos

When parents learned that a school photographer had reportedly offered to have kids with wheelchairs and other special needs removed from class pictures, they were appalled.

Students at the small, rural Aboyne Primary School, located about west of Aberdeen, Scotland, were beaming for their school pictures, but parents reportedly had the choice to buy the pictures without the three children who had special needs or impairments.

Mum-of-two Natalie Pinnell was shocked to learn parents were allegedly given an option to remove her nine-year-old daughter Erin from the class photo. She said the option reportedly offered by Cornwall-based Tempest Photography had “devastated” her family.

The mum told the Press and Journal it felt like having her child “erased from history”. She told the paper: “I am absolutely heartbroken. Furious.”

She added: “A lot of the other parents have decided not to purchase their school photos in support. That means a lot. To give people the option to erase my daughter from history for the sake of optics is frankly inhumane. One of the cruellest things that I’ve ever experienced. Me and the other parents just feel devastated beyond belief.”

Additionally, according to Ms Pinnell, the school was unaware of the plan to shoot two sets of images and launched an investigation as soon as parents raised the matter.

“You can’t erase them because they’re inconvenient,” the businesswoman told MailOnline. “It’s devastating to have your child be erased from a photo or give parents a choice whether she should or should not be included.

“She is the most beautiful human being. Who could do this? I’m grateful that she’s not aware of it because the damage that would do to her self-esteem would be devastating. But I’m having to tell my other daughter about what’s happening to her sister. I’m not sure I’m going to sleep tonight.”

According to Ms Pinnell, she emailed two photo links—one including Erin and the other without—to the school. It was also alleged that a wheelchair-using girl from a different class was taken out of one of the photo options.

The mother declared that she would never do business with the company again and that it interfered with the elementary school’s activities. Ms Pinnell asked for schools to sever their connections with Tempest Photography and termed the situation “painful”.

She also mentioned that the school’s parents had given her their support and that there is now just one version of the class portrait for sale. According to Ms Pinnell, who spoke with MailOnline, she is still concerned that parents who ordered the class portrait might still receive one without her daughter.

Tempest will rightfully suffer a great deal of financial loss as well as, maybe more significantly, damage to their image. Children with disabilities already face enough difficulties; their condition does not warrant their erasure.

This option will appeal to some parents because of the shallow, attention-seeking, me-centred world we currently live in. They will be concerned about their child’s social media presence and how businesses and people will search and profile it in the future, thinking that people will assume their child attended a special school or something, which could hurt their chances in the future. Indeed, some parents are really that shallow!

Children with disabilities shouldn’t be kept out of regular school activities or school photos. This isn’t the Gestapo woke brigade, and we don’t live in 1930s Germany, and this is a horrific attitude towards disability.

Discrimination against persons with disabilities is illegal. In addition, it is illegal to discriminate against handicapped individuals indirectly, which disadvantages them.

Christians Accuse Cadbury Of Erasing Easter To Sell ‘Gesture Eggs’ Instead

Christians have retaliated against a Cadbury store, claiming that by offering “gesture eggs,” it is “erasing” Easter.

The chocolate giant, which insists it has used ‘Easter’ in its marketing for more than 100 years, had a two-for-£10 promotion on ‘gesture eggs’ at an independently run discount store in Springfields Outlet in Spalding, Lincolnshire.

The decision to remove the word ‘Easter’ has sparked anger among Christians, who argue that ‘without the message of Easter, there would be no reason for Easter eggs’.

Andrea Williams, the CEO of Christian Concern, told MailOnline: ‘The original Cadbury family who founded the business were deeply motivated by their Christian faith and used profits from their business to serve charitable causes across the world.

‘It’s a shame for them to have forgotten those deep Christian roots.’

Cadbury said the ‘gesture eggs’ promotion was independently run by Freshstore, which operates the discount store, and denied having any involvement in it. 

Other Cadbury outlet stores in Cheshire Oaks, Wirral, and Alfreton, Derbyshire, have also promoted ‘gesture eggs’.

Tim Dieppe, the head of public policy at Christian Concern, told MailOnline: ‘Easter eggs symbolise the resurrection—just as Jesus rose again from the tomb, new life emerges from eggshells.

‘They also symbolise the new life that we can have through the forgiveness that Jesus obtained for us on the cross, enabling us to be ‘born again’. Without the message of Easter, there would be no reason for Easter eggs. 

‘One wonders why Cadburys would want to erase the connection between Easter and eggs. If people stop celebrating Easter, they might well stop buying Easter eggs.’

It’s understood that the eggs pictured were named ‘Special Gesture’ eggs by the independent retailer and that ‘Easter’ is routinely used in other areas of Cadbury’s advertising. 

Outraged shoppers also criticised the promotion, with one simply writing: ‘The world’s gone.’ 

Another tweeted: ‘I’m not even religious and this gets my back right up. Why are all things Christian being attacked right now?’

A third said: ‘They can keep their eggs.’

A fourth posted: ‘What an utter disgrace, I am so so sick of this woke pandering society we live in.’

And a fifth wrote: ‘I love Cadbury’s chocolate but won’t be buying any Easter eggs called gesture eggs.’ 

This is not the first time Cadbury has come under fire for the omission of the word ‘Easter’. The National Trust Easter egg trail, which used to be sponsored by Cadbury, was renamed the ‘Great British Egg Hunt’ in 2017.

Although it was a while ago, I can recall a period when Cadbury produced quality chocolate.

Since 2010, Mondelez International—originally Kraft Foods—has controlled the British multinational candy manufacturer Cadbury, formerly known as Cadbury’s and Cadbury Schweppes.

With operations in over 50 countries worldwide, it is the second-largest confectionery brand in the world.

Cadbury was founded in 1824 in Birmingham, England, by John Cadbury, a Quaker who sold tea, coffee, and drinking chocolate.

Cadbury developed the business with his brother Benjamin, followed by his sons Richard and George. George developed the Bournville estate, a model village designed to give the company’s workers improved living conditions.

Cadbury USA produces candy, gum, breath mints, and cough drops. The company was formed after Cadbury Schweppes purchased the Adams brand from Pfizer in December 2002 for US$4.2 billion.

After so many mergers, Cadbury is no longer what it once was. Before, everything was fine. The many mergers wrecked everything, and now, regrettably, it’s just American junk at exorbitant costs.

Cadbury chocolate now tastes terrible; in fact, I’d rather eat doggy chocolate, while all the time putting up their prices and making their products smaller in size.

Maria Branyas Morera, 117, Is The World’s Oldest Person. The Secrets Of Long Life May Be Discovered By A Spanish Pensioner

Today marks Maria Branyas Morera’s 117th birthday. Scientists are hopeful that the Spanish retiree may help them discover the keys to a long life.

In 1907, Ms. Morera was born in San Francisco, during a second outbreak of the bubonic plague.

After her father, Josep, became ill in 1915, during the First World War, the family decided to return to Spain.

He ended up dying of tuberculosis on the ship they were crossing the Atlantic on, with his now-centenarian daughter injuring herself in a fall during the same voyage and later discovering she had lost her hearing in one ear.

After that, she lived through two world wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish Flu Pandemic, and most recently, COVID-19.

She got the official title of the world’s oldest person following the death of French nun Sister André in January 2023.

Unlike most people her age, Ms. Morera uses social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, extensively and informs her 16,000 followers on a daily basis about her life.

Today she wrote, ‘Good morning, world. Today I turn 117 years old. I’ve come this far.’

But Ms Morera’s exceptional health at such an age has drawn the attention of scientists to study her body.

Scientist Manel Esteller told Spanish news outlet ABC: ‘She has a completely lucid head.

‘She remembers with impressive clarity events from when she was only four years old, and she does not present any cardiovascular disease, common in elderly people.

‘It is clear that there is a genetic component because there are several members of her family who are over 90 years old.’

Ms. Morera has consented to participate in some scientific tests so that researchers might learn more about the keys to a long life in an effort to aid others.

Samples of her blood, urine, and saliva have already been taken, and they will be compared to those of her 80-year-old daughter.

The samples will enable researchers to examine Ms Morera’s genetic makeup and aid in the creation of medications that might combat illnesses linked to ageing.

Ms Morera, who has three daughters, eleven grandchildren, and thirteen great-grandchildren, credits “order, tranquilly,” and “avoiding toxic people” for her longevity.

Since she was ninety-two, she has made living a stress-free life her top priority and has resided in protected accommodation in the Catalan town of Olot.

Until she was 105 years old, she exercised every morning, read newspapers, and played the piano.

After winning the title of world’s oldest person last year, she posted on Twitter, ‘Sorry for not responding individually.

‘I am surprised and grateful for the expectation generated by the fact that I am the oldest living person in the world.

‘Thank you very much to everyone for the interest shown, although I have not done any merit. These days have been very overwhelming.’

She said that she wanted “peace and tranquilly” and that she would not be answering any further requests for interviews from journalists.

This lovely lady’s willingness to assist scientists is admirable. Consider the vast amount of experience and tales this woman possesses.

This lady is amazing. People try to stay balanced. Stay away from people who aren’t. Don’t drink too much, and don’t smoke. Have a sense of humour, and don’t take offence too easily. Try to see others as your family and make allowances for them when they don’t meet your expectations. Forgive and forget when you can, and give others what you can.

Bankrupt Labour-Run Local Authorities Threaten To Hike Council Tax To Balance Their Books By Turning Off Streetlights And Cutting Bin Collections 

Residents of Birmingham will see significant increases in council taxes along with reduced services as the “bankrupt” town hall joins a growing number of local governments in their financial crunch.

City councillors are set to vote on a ‘devastating’ package that would see taxes rise nearly 10 percent in each of the next two years—around 21 percent in total—equivalent to roughly £340 extra on a typical Band D property.

Given that prices for police and fire services are also rising, the overall increase may be substantially larger.

In an attempt to save £300 million, rubbish collections would now happen every two weeks, street lights would be turned down, and road maintenance budgets would be slashed.

The Labour-run local authority issued two ‘section 114’ orders last year—effectively an admission it had gone bust.

The meeting today comes after another stricken Labour-run authority, Nottingham City Council, approved its own cuts last night.

During a heated discussion, some council members broke down in tears as they decided to cut back on youth, social services, and jobs. Public restroom fees and the elimination of in-home pest control services have sparked concerns that they may exacerbate rat infestations. The maximum increase in council tax permitted by the government will occur at the same time, at 4.99 percent.

A swath of other town halls are warning they will also have to reduce costs, raising concerns that the crisis is still spreading.

Birmingham City Council leader John Cotton has said it has ‘no alternative than to face these challenges head-on’ – but residents say they have been left with a ‘horrible’ situation, fears of more crime, a rise in fly-tipping, and growing numbers of potholes.

Council officials have been finding it difficult to deal with the £815 million equal pay settlement, the possibility of a walkout by GMB-affiliated employees, and the requirement to liquidate assets in order to pay back government bailouts.

Dimming street lights to save £900,000, cutting £12 million from highway maintenance, and switching to biweekly trash pickups to save £4 million annually are some of the suggested steps.

The changes might result in the loss of employment for up to 600 municipal employees, and residents will also be responsible for additional expenses such as burial fees for their deceased.

In the upcoming fiscal year, adult social care will also see cuts of £23.7 million, and crisis payments—which are necessary to pay for necessities like food, gas, and appliances—will be discontinued.

Once more, the people who pay taxes and work hard will be the ones responsible for paying the outrageous expenses incurred by incompetent local council members.

You get what you vote for, and all those who are on six-figure salaries won’t care.

Too many people refuse to become part of our society and instead accept freebies from our government. I promise that immigration will bankrupt our nation, but we are handing our nation away on a silver platter because we are willing to put up with all of this crap without resistance.

Diversity and multiculturalism are constantly funded by money, yet vital services are neglected.

Thousands of illegal immigrants have crossed the sea this year, and it’s only March. We should get the forensic accountants in to see where all our money is going.

Politicians have no concern for the general public, but they do want to suck the life out of hard-working taxpayers, and to all the people who believed that Brexit would help, you were conned. You were lied to. Immigration has not decreased, there is no stopping the boats from coming over, and there’s no NHS funding. Lies, all lies.

Shocking Moment: A Female Police Officer Drags A Rough Sleeper Across The Ground And ‘Stamps’ On His Stomach 

This is the shocking moment a female police officer drags a rough sleeper across the ground and appears to stamp on his stomach.

The video, obtained by the BBC, shows a female Greater Manchester Police officer pulling the man’s sleeping bag across the street with him still in it.

In disturbing pictures that occurred last September outside Manchester Town Hall, she then appears to purposefully stamp on the man’s chest while grabbing him by the arms in an attempt to raise him off the ground.

After the horrifying event, the 31-year-old Sudanese refugee had injuries, and he subsequently had blood in his urine and a fever.

GMP said the officer’s actions ‘fell below the standard we expect’ and she had been ‘dealt with’ following the incident, which homeless charity Crisis described as ‘appalling and dehumanising’.

The 31-year-old stated in an interview with the BBC that he has been residing in the UK for the last three years and has been granted permission to stay here.

He clarified that, along with a number of other homeless immigrants, he was rough-sleeping near Manchester Town Hall and that municipal representatives would often wake him up each morning. However, this time it was a policeman.

The Sudanese man said, ‘We told them we had nowhere to go and that it was very cold. I was telling her I need to sleep.

‘But she stamped on my stomach with her foot. It caused me problems; I had a fever and in the following hours, I had blood in my urine.’

The man said the force has now apologised to him, and he has now found accommodation.

Matt Downie, chief executive of Crisis, told the BBC: ‘It’s appalling to see such dehumanising treatment of people rough sleeping.

‘If the police behave in this way, how do we expect the public to improve the way they treat rough sleepers?

‘We know there’s a problem here, we know that people are regularly abused and that some awful things happen to people on the streets.’

A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said: ‘Greater Manchester Police was first made aware of this concerning video in around September last year.

‘The officer’s behaviour fell below the standard we expect, especially concerning respect for all members of the community, and the officer’s actions were dealt with.

‘The superintendent responsible for the city centre personally discussed the incident with the officer and made it clear that her actions were unacceptable and must not be repeated.

‘She, along with other employees, received refresher training on how to deal with similar situations in the future.’

The startling event occurs in the midst of a wave of rising mistreatment of rough sleepers in the United Kingdom.

Some people don’t think this man is human. Although I recognise that some people do not want immigrants in our nation, I believe that they should be treated with respect while they are here since they are humans.

Our government gives them the right to remain here in the UK, but sadly there is nowhere to house them.

Perhaps immigrants shouldn’t be here, but that doesn’t give us the right to treat them this way.

It doesn’t matter if this man was resisting or not. She ought to have been acting properly; no police officer should be stamping on someone’s stomach.

Although it’s obvious that some people believe that rough sleepers are less than human, you don’t treat individuals in this manner.

Guards Forcefully Strip A Girl Prisoner

The prison watchdog has said he was ‘deeply shocked’ after a vulnerable teenage girl was forcibly strip-searched by male officers at a child jail.

Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, also blasted the ‘inappropriate use of pain-inducing techniques’ at Wetherby Young Offenders Institution (YOI) in West Yorkshire.

The institution was holding 165 boys and girls aged 15 to 18, including some of the country’s most ‘challenging’ young offenders, when inspectors visited at the end of last year.

The report, published today, said officers ‘often had to intervene several times a night to remove ligatures’ from girls held at Wetherby.

Mr Taylor said, ‘We were deeply shocked to find adult male officers restraining and stripping an incredibly vulnerable girl not once but twice.

‘While they no doubt acted to prevent serious harm, the presence of multiple men pinning her down and removing her clothes will have caused further trauma and, given how predictable the behaviour of this particular girl was, the YOI has no excuse not to have made sure that female officers were in attendance.’

The chief inspector’s report said, ‘The level of self-harm among girls was extremely high, and this resulted in very high levels of use of force and assaults on staff.

‘There was a high number of pain-inducing restraint techniques and strip-searches under restraint.

‘Many of these incidents were not in accordance with national policy and were not properly authorised.’

It claimed that 24 child strip searches had occurred in the prior year, with half of the kids being restrained.

‘Pain-inducing techniques had been applied nine times in the last 12 months and on every occasion had been deemed inappropriate by the Independent Review of Restraint Panel,’ the report went on.

It found evidence of ‘poor practice’ including one case where officers carried out ‘the restraint of a child, which resulted in an injury that had not been referred to senior leaders’, it said.

In order to stay warm throughout the winter, some kids claimed to have slept in their dayclothes.

According to the study, Wetherby has the capacity to house up to 266 juvenile offenders who have been convicted by a court or who are on remand. Some of these individuals are “the equivalent of high-security prisoners in the adult estate.”

Campbell Robb, chief executive of criminal justice charity Nacro, said: ‘Today’s report from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons into the Wetherby young offenders institution makes for disturbing reading and is another example that putting children in custody should be an absolute last resort.

It seems like these officers had to go in many times a night to remove ligatures, which put them in an extremely challenging situation. But was it preferable for the young people to suffer from self-inflicted pain that might not have been reversible, or from suffering from restraint?

I can’t criticise the officers, but what I can criticise is the poorly managed system that puts them in that position and a vulnerable child in that position.

Female officers should have been present because how would you feel if you were being pinned down by a group of men who were forcibly removing your clothes?

It sounds a bit depraved to me. The kind of treatment you’d expect from other parts of the world. Restrain by all means, but removing clothes should not be tolerated, especially not in the Great Britain that I grew up in.

I’m sure it’s an extremely hard job, but we should all expect some dignity and the same sex person if we are being stripped, it’s a bare minimum really.

If these things are happening, there may not be enough female prison officers, and if male officers are there, then there needs to be female officers present because otherwise, it leaves both parties open to all kinds of issues and accusations.

As A Clothes Brand Popular With Gen Z, The North Face Offers 20% Off For ‘Racial Inclusion’ Courses

Fans of outdoor clothing brand The North Face can get a voucher for more than 20% off at the retailer, but only if they can pass a woke ‘racial inclusion’ course.

Those hoping to get a handy discount off their new puffer jackets or woolly jumpers from the company beloved by Gen Z will be required to correctly answer multiple-choice questions in the quiz titled ‘ALLYSHIP IN THE OUTDOORS: A digital course about racial inclusion and allyship created by The North Face’.

The hour-long programme claims to be ‘designed to foster a deeper understanding of the unique challenges that people of colour face when accessing the outdoors’.

The first module titled ‘Diversity and the Outdoors: Where are we Now?’ says the ‘dial moved further in June 2020 when George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis’ and that this event ‘fostered a new awakening in the outdoors that racial inclusion and representation matters’.

Later modules include topics such as ‘white privilege’ while one asks: ‘How many people of colour do you see on the slopes, on the hills or on the trails?’

Another segment argues that ‘privilege can give us access to the outdoors’, The Sun reports.

It adds: ‘In this context, we refer to “white privilege,” meaning that your race and skin colour can give you access to the outdoors when others can be excluded because of historic, enduring racism and biases.’

The programme even urges participants to file formal complaints to their bosses if their colleagues brand them ‘woke’.

At the end of all this, fans can finally claim their 20% off voucher.

Free Speech Union founder Toby Young said: ‘The irony is that The North Face is implicitly acknowledging here that all its customers are white.’

Free Speech Union founder Toby Young said: ‘The irony is that The North Face is implicitly acknowledging here that all its customers are white.’

The North Face has been approached by MailOnline for comment.

This wokeness is like a disease. Like a planned attack of psychological warfare on the public, and they’re brainwashing our children—it’s almost like everyone’s on crack.

People of colour, I assume, are not compelled to take the test, which makes this polarising and almost apartheid-like.

This should be illegal. Discounts for one ideology but anyone who disagrees has to pay the full price. That’s discrimination.

A clothes shop has no business in politics, they’re supposed to sell clothes for goodness sake, and if they can’t resist telling us what to think and do, then I will resist shopping for their clothes.

I would rather pay the 20%, but now I have a much cheaper option, I just won’t shop for their clothes.

Since North Face no longer wants its core clientele and can’t thrive on shoplifters alone, I anticipate the company going out of business very soon.

I long for the days when buying garments could be done at Richard Shops and C&A. Back then, the store where you purchased the apparel mattered more than the label.

Well, that’s North Face now done. These companies seem intent on destroying themselves. Another company with a death wish.

Shocking Moment: A Retired California Pastor Scrawls A SWASTIKA On His Jewish Neighbour’s Groceries

A retired California pastor has been caught on camera drawing a Swastika on his Jewish neighbour’s groceries.

At 10:15 p.m. on December 5, Leah Grossman approached her neighbour Mark Nakagawa after seeing him scribble on a seltzer box on her doorbell video.

When the video footage was presented to Nakagawa, he first denied drawing the Swastika and then stated he was attempting to educate her on the symbol’s origins.

Grossman said it wasn’t her first run-in with Nakagawa and claimed he had previously called her a fascist in a homeowners’ meeting for hanging an Israeli flag from her balcony after the October 7 attacks.

Speaking to CBS about the drawing, she said, ‘I just fell to pieces. Like I’ve never shook like that before. My toes were shaking.

‘I get emotional thinking about it because it reminds me of all the people I know—my family, my children.’

Her doorbell camera captured the event.

Outside the door, Nakagawa is seen stopping by her shopping bags and kneeling down to scribble something in black ink on a seltzer box.

Then, Grossman screams out to him from outside her front door, saying, “Is there a problem?”

He replies: ‘What?’ and she asks again, ‘Is there a problem?’ to which he says ‘No.’

She then directly asked him: ‘Is that a Nazi symbol?’

He said ‘No’ and then claimed that he was ‘just walking by here’ and didn’t know what the drawing was.

He continued to insist he had no idea what the sketch was, even when Grossman said she had seen him and told him about the camera.

As a single mother of two young boys, Grossman expressed her intimidation at what she saw to be anti-Semitic behaviour.

She told CBS: ‘What’s going on in the world has really opened up a crevasse of anti-Semitism, and I think people feel really emboldened to push Jewish people around. People just shouldn’t get away with this.’

She also said that Nakagawa had previously called her a ‘fascist’ for hanging an Israeli flag from her balcony.

When KCAL News questioned Nakagawa about the event, he first asserted that he had no idea how Grossman would respond to the symbol and then said that he was attempting to educate her about its meaning as a symbol of peace.

Nakagawa knew exactly what he was doing.

Who would have thought? An anti-Semitic pastor, great, huh? And how do people find any moral ground for picking on Jewish people like this?

Most haters will follow anything they read online so that they too can seem cool.

This man is just another religious hypocrite who lies, but these people are everywhere. Hate crime should be jail time.

I’m sure that this Jewish lady didn’t need a history lesson on a Swastika by this man, and this man is the devil in sheep’s clothing, and just having a religious title to their name doesn’t make this man moral.

I’m guessing that the term ‘Never Forget’ has been forgotten.

It Boldly Delved Into Politics In A Star Trek Episode That Was ‘Banned’ For 34 Years

A Star Trek episode that made reference to an ‘Irish unification in 2024’ is still banned in Ireland.

The High Ground, the twelfth episode of the third series, debuted in 1990 and tells the story of a terrorist group holding a member of the USS Enterprise-D crew captive in order to achieve their goals. 

However, because of a contentious scene where Brent Spiner’s android character Data uses the ‘Irish unification in 2024’ as an example of a political goal attained by bloodshed, the episode has only been aired once in Ireland in the 34 years since it was released. 

So great was the concern over the line’s possible ramifications that the episode, which was first broadcast in the US, was neither shown on the BBC nor Ireland’s RTV network.

A redacted version was aired on Sky without the sensitive line in 1992. 

The High Ground was finally broadcast on the BBC on September 29, 2007, in what is thought to be its only transmission.

Apart from Irish unification, Data gives two other examples of violence successfully achieving a political cause: Mexico’s independence from Spain and the Kenzie rebellion (an event in the Star Trek universe). 

The decision not to air the episode in 1990 reflects the febrile political situation at the time, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, amid terrorist threats from the Provisional IRA, which had stated its aim to liberate the region from British rule.

After more than thirty years, Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, has its leader in Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, who was elected as the country’s first republican First Minister. 

After a two-year break, power-sharing was resumed last month under the devolved administration, Stormont.

The Star Trek episode’s writer, Melinda M. Snodgrass, said that the narrative was intentionally modelled by the circumstances in Northern Ireland during the 1990s. 

She said that she wanted to explore the idea that ‘one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist’.

The first season of Star Trek debuted on television in 1966 and lasted for two years. 

It returned for a second series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, which aired between 1987 and 1994.

The BBC said it was unable to ascertain exactly why a ban was implemented, given that it ‘dates far back’. 

With Great Britain the way that it is now, I wish I could boldly go where no one’s gone before. 

It was not intended to be taken literally, which is why it is termed science fiction.

Star Trek has clever and well-planned plots, and it’s excellent that the programme was able to address delicate subjects by using space and distant civilizations as a lens.

Shows like Star Trek won’t be able to be as progressive today or in the near future because of this cancel culture. Unfortunately, some people become outraged if the situation mentioned occurs too close to reality. This is life now, but not as we knew it. Wait till people are told that Star Trek is science fiction; there will be an uproar.

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