Jihad Watch reported on this firing last week, but what Ross Lister actually said had not yet been revealed. Now we know: “the comment in question was on a post about the consequences for terrorists, former PC Lister wrote: ‘What? Wrap them in bacon?’”
According to Chief Constable Jerry Graham, this was beyond the pale: Lister had “damaged the reputation of the constabulary and undermined public confidence. PC Lister’s behaviour and judgement has fallen so far below the standards expected that I have decided to dismiss him from the constabulary without notice. The communities of Cumbria expect officers and staff to act on their behalf with integrity, fairness and judgement. The trust of local communities, particularly minority groups, is hard won and easily lost.”
Think about this for a minute. Lister suggested wrapping terrorists in bacon. Now Graham is afraid that this will result in the police losing the trust of the local Muslims. Yet Graham would no doubt also insist that jihad terrorists aren’t really Muslims at all, and have nothing to do with Islam. If that is so, why should the local Muslims be offended at what Lister wrote?
This insanity will be the death of Britain. Quite literally.
“UK Policeman Fired For Facebook Comment About Wrapping Terrorists in Bacon,” by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, October 11, 2017:
A policeman has been fired from the Cumbria force for gross misconduct after making a Facebook comment that was judged as likely to cause offence to Muslims.
Ross Lister, a serving PC in Barrow-in-Furness for three years, was dismissed following a Misconduct Special Case Hearing at Cumbria Constabulary headquarters, the North-West Evening Mail reported Tuesday.
Speaking at the hearing, Chief Constable Jerry Graham said: “The conduct admitted by PC Lister today … refers to a Facebook post that he wrote that he either knew or should have known, or at least reasonably have foreseen, would have caused offence and be considered derogatory to members of the Muslim faith and by people of other faiths and none.
“PC Lister’s behaviour and judgement has fallen so far below the standards expected that I have decided to dismiss him from the constabulary without notice.”
The exact contents of the comment, which was left on another post and deleted days later, were not made public during the course of the trial.
According to the paper, the comment in question was on a post about the consequences for terrorists, former PC Lister wrote: “What? Wrap them in bacon?”
Prosecutors announced on Monday that the comment failed to meet “the very high threshold necessary for a criminal prosecution”, Cumbria’s chief constable said it “damaged the reputation of the constabulary and undermined public confidence.”
“PC Lister’s behaviour and judgement has fallen so far below the standards expected that I have decided to dismiss him from the constabulary without notice,” stated Graham.
He added: “The communities of Cumbria expect officers and staff to act on their behalf with integrity, fairness and judgement. The trust of local communities, particularly minority groups, is hard won and easily lost.”
The former police constable is far from the first to have found themselves in trouble with the law for irresponsible use of bacon. In June, Alex Chivers was jailed for six months for assaulting two Muslims in a north London street with a “slab of bacon”….
Paul says
I suppose they’d much prefer we wrap them up in cotton wool.. at our expense of course naturally..
Ned kelly says
I guess Im lucky I just got a 7 day ban on Facebook for this supposed racist + hate speech…(Same, I get lots of friend requests from muzzies, I block the lot, + use a fake photo now, that stopped it)…..really???
Rouge1 says
Simple technique that is physically harmless but very effective. If your government didn’t despise you they would pig coat your guns bullets and bombs. But they dispise you.
Bob says
Rouge – read up the alleged causes of the Indian Mutiny!
Pet Charles says
I wonder if the good chief would say “Pakistani grooming gangs” to avoid offending Asians
mortimer says
They are actually MUSLIM grooming gangs because they think it isn’t a sin to humiliate dirty KAFIR girls. Their motive is raise the flag of jihad through rape.
Jack Diamond says
Alex Chivers was jailed for six months for assaulting two Muslims in a north London street with a “slab of bacon”….irresponsible use of bacon. Did they televise this trial?
Assault with a deadly bacon. Even threatening such an assault is hate speech (but what if was turkey bacon?)
Even if it’s a terrorist. Would he still have been in trouble saying kill a terrorist instead of wrap him in bacon? Yep. There will be no end to what offends Muslims, Chief Constable, your very existence offends them. The solution? An all-Muslim police force. Bloody ‘ell.
Cheerio,
The Porky Pig Liberation Party
mortimer says
Careful, Jack, soon Porky Pig the cartoon character will become illegal and any reference to him will be seen as Islamophobic and chargeable. The thought police have arrived and will soon kick down your door.
gravenimage says
Here’s my favorite Porky Pig cartoon, featuring Porky and his trusty camel fighting Jihadists, including a suicide bomber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VVY-iSI69c
Jack Diamond says
“this fort unfair to Arabs”…. Porky had them down. Right down to the bullet-head suicide bomber.
Why is a cartoon pig in 1940 smarter than most of the world in 2017?
Westman says
I think, Jack, it just shows how PC is a threat to society by bending reality into delusion. It’s understandable that uber-liberals want a peaceful non-judgemental world; however, there is just a “little” problem that the world has no intention of cooperating. The nation that will not guard its assets will lose them.
gravenimage says
Yes–while this cartoon does not specifically mention Islam, its understanding of Muslims–their whining and fake victimhood, their cruelty, their desire to be “Martyred” while murdering Infidels–is absolutely spot on.
Laura says
They only need to ‘think’ it’s bacon for it to result in prosecution.
jewdog says
Doesn’t this overreaction really mean that British law-enforcement officials actually equate Islam with terrorism, albeit subconsciously? If Islam really has nothing to do with terrorism, then why would they care?
Those British policemen should be wrapped in Freudian slips.
Jack Diamond says
Because they equate bacon with Islamophobia. It is now officially a weappon. You will require a license to possess bacon.
Bob says
Especially 45+calibre bacon!
mortimer says
LOGICAL ARGUMENT FROM ROBERT SPENCER:
1) Police officially say that JIHADISTS are not REAL Muslims.
2) Insulting FAKE Muslims does not insult REAL Muslims… NONE of whom are jihadists.
3) Therefore, it is not a crime of Islamophobia to insult FAKE MUSLIMS.
Roger says
it’s okay for moslem crap to fire derogatory comments about everything non Islamic but if when we respond we become victimised…We not only are expected to cop it from these pricks but we are judged and penalised by our own people…Definitely something wrong with our ‘Law making’ puppets…
Rob says
It starts in the schools. Fill kids minds with bullsh**t long enough and those kids will grow to both believe it and fight to defend it. Islamists were cozy with Nazi officials before and during WWII and learned valuable lessons in how to overcome and control societies; those techniques now being applied throughout the world. But how will the British judicial system win back trust when Anglo-Saxon Britons become a minority in their own country? Will the British judicial system even care at that point?
Light_n_Fluffy says
So this is ‘gross misconduct’? It’s only gross if one thinks about eating these bacon wrapped Muslims.
gravenimage says
UK: Policeman fired for Facebook comment about wrapping jihad terrorists in bacon
……………………..
The idea that Muslims would be enraged over a mild punishment *for Jihad terrorists* is incredibly telling.
I would say I hope this officer sues to get his job back–but he might get nowhere in this insane climate.
RobL says
It is a horrible future the Brits are serving up to themselves. The foreign hordes are taking over. The PC, multiculturalists who dominate the current landscape, along with the conquering 7th century inbreeds, will destroy a once great, soon-to-be muslim country.
I’ve been. My kids have been. My grandkids will never be able to go to Great Britain, as it won’t exist for them.
shoehorn says
So he gets fired for joking about terrorists, because that might offend Muslims because Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. Cognitive dissonance?
gravenimage says
+1
More Ham Ed says
You have quite accurately pointed out a bit of circular logic. Bacon bits +1 for you.
WorkingClassPost says
So now we have baconophobia.
Can we sink any lower?
Carlos Danger says
70+ years ago a company of British infantry could march down a Cumbrian country lane singing ….
….Hitler, he only had one ball;
Goering had two, but very small;
Himmler, his fate was simlar;
and Dr. Goebbels had no balls at all.
Now it’s Chief Constable Jerry Graham who can’t even name his enemy and who has no balls at all.
Jack Diamond says
Great tune, The Colonel Bogey March. But then Hitler and Himmler hadn’t resettled into the Britain yet. Or had they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsQM9HKtvA4
Jack Diamond says
“Resettled into Britain yet”… not much fun in Stalingrad.
gravenimage says
Great song, Carlos Danger!
balafama says
even worse ,in britain tim burton was sentenced to jail for calling someone a taqquiya artist . when clearly there is the concept of taqquiya in the hadeeths . the judge said it was religious harassment , how then is it not religious harassment to jail a preacher who says homosexuality is against GOD or for all the atheists who mock JESUS and christianity . the insanity is beyond comprehension.it would be great to watch the court proceedings and how they arrive at such judgments.(pls donate to tim burtons defense ,just google the case )
christians need to start using these same laws against muslims who call them cross worshippers,polytheists and all such names designed to hurt christians .
PRCS says
1. “According to the paper, the comment in question was on a post about the consequences for terrorists, former PC Lister wrote: “What? Wrap them in bacon?”
2. Also according to the article, “Cumbria police’s Chief Constable Jerry Graham’s deliberation in deciding to sack Mr Lister was made public in response to the CPS decision not to charge him.”
As with all the hullabaloo about making sure UBL received a proper burial–per Islamic law/tradition (despite the assertions of liars and idiots that he was “not a real Muslim”), why would Muslims be offended by the former constable’s post concerning “terrorists’?
Did Muslims actually express offense or outrage about that post (providing therein the tacit admission that violent jihadists really are true Muslims), or was this really the Chief Constable’s overreaching assumption that they would?
No Fear says
Sharia for the UK, it’s coming sometime and maybe ……
(apologies to the Sex Pistols)
commies says
Wow, this is a warning to all foolish tourists. Not only do you need to worry about real terrorists, but you need to worry about the British govt and all British leaders terrorising you. Avoid the place. They may lock you up like the commies sent people to Siberia. I cannot believe that the Brits actually fought in world war two. They seem like such wimps. If the wimps of today were in power in 1939 to 1945 they would have handed their country over to Hitler all the while apologising. If Antifa comes to the UK they will let them take over, trash their country, etc. They will let teenagers ruin their country and punish workers for criticising Antifa. Next the cops will not even be able to joke about locking up bank robbers, murderers, etc. Next heroin traffickers will complain and the cartels will win. The Brits are fairies….oops, I may get arrested. I will save myself a few bucks by avoiding all travel to fairyland.
Laura says
What you say is cruel but true. However, the the heart of a lion still beats in the breast of the average Brit, but whenever his inner lion roars, the police break down his door and drag him off to jail.
roger woodhouse says
Like the period before the 2nd world war Britain was indeed run by a weak bunch of appeases.Thats why we had a 2nd world war.The British people are waiting for another Churchill to spring from somewhere to wake them from their slumbers.God knows we need one right now.
Rob says
Winston Churchill (who was negatively impressed by Islam) would today be arrested in Britain for the “crime” of Islamophobia!!
Britain (Europe and most of the rest of the world) are following a” Neville Chamberlain” policy of “peace in our times” thru accommodation. And history clearly shows what a calamity Chamberlain’s policy let loose upon the world.
Shmued B Dovid says
Chief Constable is a disgrace. Correct me f am wrong but this thing about pork and bacon was stolen by Mohammed when he tried to sell his cult to the Jews in Medina before killing them of course) . The Jews didn’t buy it. If this is true then tis action serves to perpetuate the lie that pork and bacon is haram and is a divine law when in fact it isn’t. Do you remember about 9-12 months ago the Chief Constable of Manchester backed down and succumbed to local Muslim sensibilities when the police during anti-terrorist training sessions called out Allahu Akhbar. The Muslims thought this was insulting to Muslims as there are also other none-Muslim terrorists in the world. Since then of course the Muslim(s) attacked and murdered revellers at the G-Mex Manchester Arena a few months ago. Why has the police trainers failed to reintroduce this phrase Alahu Akhbar??? Same pathetic spineless innexusable weekness. Give this officer his job back and romote him with a substantial wage increase. Note…..any spelling mistakes herein are not my own but thrust upon me by Allah.
Transmaster says
I call pork Allah Meat, I get so tired of all of the PC, Islamophobia crap-o-la. Social Media is a bane of the modern world. An Imam farts in mosque located at the Farfara Oasis in Western Egypt, and thanks to social media it’s echo is heard around the world in 10 seconds. Watermelon are racist, fried chicken is racist, bow ties are racist, Dr. Suess is racist. Since everything imaginable is racist it no longer s the killing word it once was. Islamophobia has replaced racism at the killer insult.
Voytek Gagalka says
Apparently he did not go far enough. He should say that “to wrap them in bacon” and FRY on the slow oven. Jihadis most certainly do not deserve to be only just “wrapped in bacon” and left unattended!
Ed Lee says
I say this to Muslims and the Chief Constable: If your skin is that thin, you will not make it anywhere in this world.
Matthieu Baudin says
We need to be sensitive at all times about what we say about terrorists lest we cause offence to anyone or to any group. Dismissal from the force seems a bit light as a punishment, alternatively perhaps he and his wife could be auctioned off at a slave market in one of the British Sharia enclaves?
fbijihadidefender says
British police has already admitted Jihad is Islamic.
mgoldberg says
Absurd and worse. My word, if the brits had found a bunch of hindhu’s who were doing unspeakable crimes, and commented that they’d made them eat lamb, or Mcdonal’s every day, no one would ever be fired for the loss of Indian Hindu confidence. What dementia the brits have grown in their ‘culture’. Last weeks comment by that doink, the ‘Prince’ Charles, who commended the pirates of Somalia’s piracy, theft and even murder, as ennabling the improved quantity of fish availabe due to the threats of piracy from them. Madness, cowardice and worse. When and if the brits awake, they will face the madness they’ve
created with almost no strength of their own culture to sustain them.
Tiredofstupid says
Beyond disgusting, the brits will tolerate the rape of a million or so little white girls for 20 or so years but a constable making a somewhat bitter joke about terrorists loses his job immediately even though it was not official correspondence and actually a non-official facebook post. Soon the Queen will pass and Charles al-britanni will assume the throne and sharia will completely rule the land. How sad for a once proud nation and people.
manat bint allaha says
what’s the big fuss?
after countless experiments, the world health organization has determined that a pound of bacon and a bottle of wine a day cures the jihadi syndrome irreversibly.
revereridesagain says
An officer’s living sacrificed to earning the “trust” of a tribe of savages bent on conquering and destroying the civilization that has given them shelter. That about sums up the malevolent insanity of political correctness, multiculturalism, and Islamophilia. Lose their “trust”? We should work to lose their trust so thoroughly that they will tremble at the thought of what we might do next.Wrapping dead jihadists in bacon is an excellent start.
PC Ross Lister is my hero of the day. Chief Constable Jerry Graham is a cowardly, scurrilous, back-stabbing, groveling little careerist who is eagerly aiding and abetting the takeover of his own country by Muslim savages who will, eventually, present him — and his children, if he has any — with the choice to convert or die.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Be careful what you InstaGoogleTweetFace.
Guess who will be first in line when the local boys decide to organize a vigilante group?
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpsZSbqKwTU
More Ham Ed says
I’m cooking bacon, pork chops, pork rinds, sausage, smoked ham and bratwurst, along with making ham sandwiches and placing bacon bits on my salad, all evening in honor of this topic.
Laura says
I don’t think that violent jihadists are nearly as frightened of bacon as we seem to think they are.
John Forbes says
The UK Government & Police seem to LURCH FROM ONE IDIOCY to another in ROUND after ROUND of APPEASEMENT & in the mean time the GENERAL PUBLIC’s Children( Whites, Sikhs & Hindu & anyone else that can get their hands on ) are Beaten, raped, & Prostituted,
MUSLIMS march & celebrate AL-KUDS day in the center of London just after an attack,
SADIQ KHAN says terrorist attacks are an every day part of Big City Living ? Really ? In Khabul or Baghdad possible & even there no one is happy about it or sees it as acceptable !
Andy Burnham states after the Manchester Bombing that the BOMBER was not a Muslim ! His Syrian Parents came to the UK – 22 Years before & sought asylum – Granted – Son ends up at University in the UK BUT uses Public Grant money to travel to Syria to learn bomb making .
Returns & blows himself up & kills 22 others – Mainly Children !
WHY – because ISLAM TEACHES that WESTERN MUSIC is evil & immoral !
Cowards – PIGS !!!
Georg says
Un$*&^#(!believable.
Infidel says
It has gone completely absurd in the UK and it is getting worse by the day..
garbut says
It is the Chief Constable who is a complete disgrace.
Without doubt it is he who has lost the trust and respect of the community.
What he said has caused me great offence
and he should be arrested immiediately
for this.
Carolyne says
PC Lister was wrong. He should not recommend wasting delicious bacon on garbage.
patriotliz says
“… jihad terrorists aren’t really Muslims at all, and have nothing to do with Islam. If that is so, why should the local Muslims be offended at what Lister wrote?”
Because….wrapping the terrorist in bacon….offends Muslims BECAUSE the implication is that the Islamic view that bacon is haram…and that someone would use haram bacon to mock/insult even a supposedly pseudo-Muslim is… offensive.
But no one has ever brought up the irony why Osama bin Laden was given a respectful “Islamic” burial at sea if what he did had nothing to do w/ Islam…and that terrorists don’t represent Islam.
Anyways…..I like the Hungarians idea to deter Muslim migrants by putting pigs’ heads along their border fences. (don’t know if they actually did it). Hungarians, I’m proud to say as a 3rd generation Hungarian, are not into PC but are basically in the WWII common sense mentality to mock the enemy that they have historically been at War with for 14 centuries…which the rest of Europe seems to have developed mass amnesia concerning the previous Islamic invasions.
Aussie Infidel says
What would have happened, had the policeman posted the following comments on his Face Book page?
“Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah (opposition) and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah.”
“Indeed, those who disbelieve in Our verses – We will drive them into a Fire. Every time their skins are roasted through We will replace them with other skins so they may taste the punishment. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted in Might and Wise.”
“O you who have believed, fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness. And know that Allah is with the righteous.”
Would Chief Constable Graham have said that those comments “damaged the reputation of the constabulary and undermined public confidence?” But they are verses taken straight from Islam’s holy book the Quran – verses 2:193, 4:56 and 8:123 respectively. Or would he dismiss them as part of that mythical perverted version of Islam which extremists supposedly follow?
Graham is an ignorant dhimmi fool. Is it any wonder that more and more Brits are losing confidence in the police to protect them against those who are sworn to subjugate their religion and culture? He would do well to remember Churchill’s words, “Appeasers are like those who feed a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
john vieira says
Repent…the end is near!!! With utter IDIOTS like this Chief Constable in the lead methinks we are soon to be FED to the lions…..