A major victory for truth and common sense. "Police apologise over mosque show," from the BBC, May 15 (thanks to all who sent this in):
West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have apologised for accusing the makers of a Channel 4 documentary of distortion.The apology and the promise of £100,000 were made at the High Court on Thursday.
It follows comments made about a Dispatches programme, Undercover Mosque, which tackled claims of Islamic extremism in the West Midlands.
The police statement said the force was wrong to make the allegations.
A press release issued by the police and the CPS in August 2007 claimed the Dispatches programme, broadcast in January of that year, misrepresented the views of Muslim preachers and clerics with misleading editing.
One preacher was shown saying a homosexual should be thrown off a mountain, another that women were born deficient.
Police also reported Channel 4 to television watchdog Ofcom for "heavily editing" the words of Islamic imams.
But in November, Ofcom rejected the police and CPS claims, and Channel 4 said it was going to sue the CPS and police for libel.
'Damage and distress'
The statement, released to the media after the High Court hearing by West Midlands Police, said they accepted there had been no evidence that Channel 4 or the documentary makers had "misled the audience or that the programme was likely to encourage or incite criminal activity".
It added that the Ofcom report showed the documentary had "accurately represented the material it had gathered and dealt with the subject matter responsibly and in context".
The police statement concluded: "We accept, without reservation, the conclusions of Ofcom and apologise to the programme makers for the damage and distress caused by our original press release."...
Heads should roll over this.
As if it was not bad enough as it is. To go after the whistleblowers is the most despicable thing one can imagine.
The UK has become an Orwellian nightmare where the fox is in charge of the chicken coop.
televised report: Police And CPS Apologise Over Mosque Show
The real concern here following the 'seeing of the light' by the powers over us... IS WHEN ARE THE POLICE AND THE CPS GOING TO PROSECUTE THOSE WHO ACTUALLY BROKE THE LAW HERE!!! They have all the evidence as they seized hours upon hours of video as part of their witch hunt against investigative journalism. I mean c'mon... What does it take to arrest a Muslim these days? A bomb strapped to their chest?
Apparently an Asian called Anil Pattani led the police investigation.
http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/publications/freedom-of-information/chief-officers.asp
He has previous.
robertdb:
What does it take to arrest a Muslim these days? A bomb strapped to their chest?
Sadly, no. This chap was observed dressed as a suicide bomber at the London Mo-toons protest in Feb 2006 but the police just stood and watched. They did go to speak with him at his home address later (having realised he was a known scumbag) but he wasn't in.
If you are a Muslim in the UK you have to do something pretty spectacular to get noticed by the police.
One small win for Freedom, and religious sanity.
last night the heavy handed police bashed the footy fans in manchester who were not causing trouble whilst there is footabe of police getting bashed by those that were causing trouble.
Apparently the top policewoman on radio was expressing concern at the policeman getting bashed.
As usual no concern about heavy handed police bashing people not causing trouble.
But when it comes to moslems....
well at eid in manchester the police watch the moslems brings roads to a standstill, drive dangerously, set off fireworks in the crowds, verbally abuse women, and so on.....
Seems moslems can do what they want and the police can't enforce any law.....
perhaps they are too scared of being bashed by moslems which makes sense if they can't even manage drunken scots yobs?
There is also another parallel with islam here.... out of 100,000s of fans only a tiny minority caused a problem....
we hear this about islam.
well that tiny minority were not stopped by the majority. in fact there is footage of a small minority bashing a car being cheered by the majority.
The police are afraid of the muslims. They back away in fear in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZNx0xHe0p0&eurl=http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/
I agree with Battle_of_Tours, a bit of good news.
"The police are afraid of the muslims. They back away in fear in this video. "
,...yep, and it is only a matter of time before the Muslims think they are in control, then the real trouble begins and bodies will become many..
Muslims only bring violence, hate, and death to any country they immigrate to. and just like these police officers, they back away. soon there will be nowhere to back into. Then you will have to make a decision.
Yes OK, but that is not the point. When are the cowardly cops going to put on, or was it take off their boots, raid the mosques and arrest the imams and mullahs.
I watched this video that Borg was kind enough to post:
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England is in dire straits, as is France, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.
These militant Muslims, full of fury against all infidels, are the closest thing to Nazis that the world has seen since WWII. They won't be assimilated. They will do what they do best: attempt to destroy their host country with the goal of planting sharia on the ruins.