Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted. Ayn Rand
So the Brits have caliphitulation (that's an original, Pamela to Islamic supremacism and will stop terror camera surveillance in Muslim areas.
Which of course makes perfect sense. As long as the Amish cameras aren't dismantled, it's all good.
Bags are to be put over scores of surveillance cameras in parts of Birmingham with large Muslim populations, after local objections.
Safer Birmingham Partnerships (SBP) said 216 cameras were put up including covert ones, mainly in the Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook districts.
The cameras were financed through a counter-terrorism fund, but the SBP said they would tackle all crime.
Councillor Salma Yaqoob said people had lost faith in the authorities.
'Sneaky handling'The Respect Party councillor for Sparkbrook said: "In terms of reassurance it's going to take a lot more than plastic bags.
"The residents have lost faith with the authorities for their sneaky handling of the way they went about this and will not be reassured until they have been told the locations of the hidden cameras too."
"The residents have lost faith with the authorities"?




So I'm guessing the cameras remain in place all over Britain to monitor those who are likely not a danger to society. Kind of reminds me of gun laws. More and more I find myself simultaneously astounded and yet not the least surprised.
Posted by: Philip Grey | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 08:55 AM
http://newstime.co.nz/london-muslims-offend-british-soldiers.html
The British government is living in dhimmitude(Q 9:29)
Posted by: Stepnanie | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 08:58 AM
Salma Leader of the Marxist Respect party - a way into Parliament.
She of- Ban the EDL!!
Hate filled creature that she is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvru6pbl2Aw
Loved by the BBC Traitors.
Location of hidden Cameras?
Worth a try Salma.....
So now the dhimmi police can train the cameras on little old English ladies out to get their daily bread?
The population of non muslims have lost faith watching the constant bowing to muslim demands, in THEIR OWN Country!!
Wish they'd place a plastic bag over her head!!
Posted by: Veronica | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 09:49 AM
Bags are to be put over scores of surveillance cameras in parts of Birmingham with large Muslim populations, after local objections.
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The Brits should immediately investigate those who objected to the cameras, and do it publically. They should get on all the news programs, and say stuff like, "Abdul Muhammad of Birmingham doesn't like the idea of the authorities investigating terrorism. We thought he was a man of peace; he always says so. So we have begun an investigation of him, his associates, his mosque, his purchases, etc."
C'mon, Brits. Do I have to do all of your thinking for you?
Seriously, if they would publically embarrass those "peaceful" muslims who are "offended" at cameras, MAYBE they would begin to make some headway with this problem.
But if they give in completely on this issue, they have basically ceded British territory to the islamists. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF BRITAIN!
Posted by: Person of the Book | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 09:59 AM
Have these cameras caught any terrorists? If not, why are the taxpayers of Britain funding them? Paranoia and spite, perhaps?
The Amish started after, and are much like, the Quakers. The Quakers were all part of the Great Civil War, fighting against their own God-given government of King James or Charles. The Quakers have a history of rebellion, why should they be trusted now?
Actually, the religion you need to watch out for are those Krishna followers with their "Hare Hare, Rama Rama, Krishna Krishna." Their religion explicitly justifies all-out war. The Bhagavad-Gita is expressly a call to arms. Sure, the war was a fratricidal conflict played out nearly 2 millenia ago, but who knows when they might try again!
Pamela is such a dummy it's not funny.
Posted by: Yehoshua Shimon Narinsky | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Brilliant! Reverse surveillance - the terrorists are the one's we CAN'T see. Really, when did the English lose their testicles, and are we that far behind?
Posted by: Leigh Patrick Sullivan | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM
Check out Salma Yaqoob's personal website to see her other views. (Just Google her name).
Israel, the Gaza Flotilla, Palestinian products in supermarkets, etc, are all there.
She is supposed to represent "all" of her constituents in Birmingham, not act as a self-appointed "Muslim-only community grievance facilitator" for the entire Ummah.
Posted by: Bob Smyth | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 10:52 AM
Yeah, that's what I'd do...put bags over the cameras in the Muslim neighborhoods because those people can be trusted...
Posted by: Larry Lambert | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 11:13 AM
The British elite are fools.
Who cares if a group of possible terrorists have lost faith? If they don't like it they can leave, the sooner the better. The Brits better grow a pair before it's too late.
I'm embarrassed for them.
Posted by: auntie izlam | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Ironic that you used a Rand quote to lead this item. I suspect she'd have a stroke over the presence of the cameras.
Posted by: Kozak | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 11:15 AM
The ironic thing is I would just love to see the cameras come down. All of them. It is unbecoming to a free people to live in a surveillance state. But so long as the cameras are up, I agree that this idea of taking them down in Muslim neighborhoods and leaving them alone in the culturally Brit neighborhoods is insanity.
Posted by: Brianna | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Wouldn't it be cheaper and more effective to just put plastic bags over the heads of terrorists?
Posted by: ParahSalin | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Have these cameras caught any terrorists? If not, why are the taxpayers of Britain funding them? Paranoia and spite, perhaps?
They HAVE caught terrorist suspects. Thats why they're offended.
Posted by: SpiritOf1683 | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Why doesn't the UK just get it over with, just convert the church of England to Islam and join the OIC?
Posted by: Arius | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 01:11 PM
And in a related story: The website of the company which supplies the so-called "terror cams" to the British government has been marked as a "hate site" by PayPal. PayPal officials are quoted as saying that mention of the story by Pam Geller on her "Atlas Shrugs" blog prompted the decision... (/sarc)
Noted and linked with gratitude:
http://viewedfromtheright.blogspot.com/2010/06/world-upside-down-uk-to-cover-terror.html
-LTB
Posted by: Lipton T. Bagg | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 01:42 PM
I agree with Kozak.
The presence of the surveillance cameras is absolutely anathema to a free society.
Of course, they would be absolutely unnecessary in a truly free society where guns are not illegal to own and use for defense of the home and property.
Posted by: Mark | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 02:13 PM
"I suspect she'd have a stroke over the presence of the cameras."
I suspect she'd have a bigger one over the thought of putting the cameras in the areas of the people who are NOT likely to commit terrorism, but taking them down in the areas of the people who ARE. The cameras should not be up at all. But so long as they are, taking them down in only the Muslim neighborhoods is suicidally stupid.
Posted by: Brianna | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 02:59 PM
It looks like the government is the worst threat to the safety of the british citizens. The greatest empire the world has ever known (besides the romans) brought to it's knees by a bunch of illiterate, woman-beating, immigrants.
As an American I expected the British to win the war on terror since we Americans have already been compromised at the highest levels of government. But it looks like everyone is going to go down with the ship.
Posted by: jonyjoe101 | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 03:03 PM
The Brits are reaping the whirlwind. If the muslims truly cared about combatting terrorism they would applaud the hidden cameras as a way to uncover those who would seek to destroy British muslim relations through 'unislamic' terror (jihadi) acts. But the islamists know that these terror incidents are part of islamization of Britain and thus fully sanctioned under Sharia law and they want to have the right to travel like cockroaches under the radar until it's too late to catch the terror participants.
If there is another terror act in Britain, I won't have any sympathy for them unless they change this insane decree.
Posted by: eaglewingz08 | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 03:04 PM
I wonder what would happen in England if 'my people' (Teh Eeeeevil Jooooooooooos) objected as a group to the cameras being on the streets in their neighborhoods ? Would The Ministry Of Silly Walks cave in like what's going on now ?........... It's as if the government there wants something to hap................ I'd better not say anything else.
Why not ? Of course you can. Speak your mi..........
I'd better not.
What's the matter now ?
These Moose Limb fu..............
Stop it Kenny !
I'm...... about.......... at............ the.............. end................... of............................ my................................ tolerance......................................... capacity.
Kenny Solomon
Eeeeevil American Jooooooooooo.
Molon Labe, Peace Lovers...... Molon Labe.
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If it matters, here's what I do for a day job: I install surveillance systems. Yeah, really. That's what I do and I'm damn good at it too. I work mostly in schools here in South Flori-duh. And yeah..... My job shouldn't and wouldn't be necessary in a sane world.
Posted by: Kenny Solomon | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 03:28 PM
Unfortunately Big Brother will be watching us in the UK even more as the relentless Jihad against our way of life continues. However, given the fact that Muslim communities undertake a form of passive resistance when it comes to co-operating with the authorities (they don't co-operate with them as much as possible) - I believe the cameras should stay up in areas where the authorities believe Muslim extremists operate. It's not a question of erosion of civil liberties - it's simply necessary in order to protect the rest of us from terrorist attacks. The criminal activity of the terrorist nature takes place in Muslim communities. I believe that unless Muslims themselves are prepared to ACTIVELY co-operate with the security services to root it out, they should stop whining. It's not about them, they should learn that once and for all.
Posted by: Marianne | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 03:38 PM
Reminds me of the pressure to NOT do airport screening on Muslims.
Like the old joke about the drunk looking for his keys at night under the street lamp -- he knows he lost them in the dark alley, but he can see only under the street lamp, so that's where he looks. Similarly, we know where the problems are, but we don't want to look there, so we waste our time searching somewhere else.
Says something about the sobriety of the West.
I wonder how long until the Muslim communities start demanding their own "independent homelands" in Britain with full jurisdiction, if not independence (Bophuthatswana / Bantustan anyone)?
Posted by: Libby | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 03:38 PM
Sounds like the inmates are running the asylum.
Posted by: proof | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 04:54 PM
Yehoshua Shimon Narinsky: Congratulations. You win the prize for Dumbest Troll of the Week, and it's only Thursday.
Remove the cameras with the plastic bags over them. Replace them with pretty little Muslim-pleasing flower pots (or plastic severed heads or whatever pleases Muslims), with little camera lens holes in the front. Replace removed cameras, which will now be hidden surveilance cameras instead of obvious ones.
It's not a secret if they know you're doing it.
Posted by: lilredbird1 | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 06:48 PM
This is asinine. They want everything covered - Burqas for the females and plastic bags for everything else.
Posted by: Sadie | Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 10:36 PM
I hope no one construes my initial comment as supporting surveillance cameras. I don't. In fact, I believe that methods such as these are more injurious to free societies than the Islamists could ever be.
Posted by: Philip Grey | Friday, June 18, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Reminds me of the pressure to NOT do airport screening on Muslims.
Same here.
Posted by: AuntieMadder | Friday, June 18, 2010 at 01:53 AM
Simply require ALL Muslims to wear plastic bags over their heads that way their identity will be kept secret...... I know what you are thinking, but they will never realize the consequences of doing this until its too late as it were.
Its a WIN WIN their identity is kept secret and Muslims hove gone on to meet their allah, thingo or whatever it is.
Posted by: Aussie | Friday, June 18, 2010 at 05:24 AM
When in the hell is this world going to quit letting the Musulms tell them what to do? Little by little they are taking over the world.
Posted by: trebor Nworb | Friday, June 18, 2010 at 08:51 AM
So muslims have more rights than the natives in the UK?
WTF ???
If I had to live in that shithole that obama gets his inspiration from, I would be removing and destroying all cameras in non-muslim areas.
DON'T GIVE YOUR RIGHTS AWAY TO THE INTRUDERS WHO SEEK TO DESTROY YOU ! ! !
HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET ???
Posted by: naajis kuffaar @ islamsucks.org | Friday, June 18, 2010 at 09:37 AM
It’s exactly like gun control. Punish the innocent, reward the guilty.
The Democrats’ criminal buddies don’t like private citizens owning guns because we might shoot back.
So they take guns away from the law-abiding, allowing the criminals to be as armed as they want to be.
And immigration:
Obey the law and apply for citizenship and it might take five years to finish the program.
Break the law but vote Democrat and you get instant citizenship.
Posted by: democratsarefascists | Friday, June 18, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Is this from The Onion?
Posted by: vladdy | Friday, June 18, 2010 at 09:30 PM
WAKE UP U.K.
YOU'RE ACTING INSANE.
Posted by: USA Jim | Friday, June 18, 2010 at 11:44 PM
I prefer the suggestion of putting plastic bags over the muslims' heads instead of the cameras.
Posted by: auntie izlam | Saturday, June 19, 2010 at 03:26 AM
I live in a London that is full of cameras, you get used to it so as to not even think about them. They are everywhere. So why Muslims specifically want them covered in Birmingham makes no sense, unless the complainers have been pressured by their communities leaders complain and to get them covered up. This act in itself speaks volumes.
The United Kingdom is still majority indigenous Anglo Saxon whatever that really means as this island is a huge mixture anyway historically, though that is however Caucasian racially. Race is of no importance but the pushy demanding ideologues who want to change this country to mirror their country of origin are further alienating themselves through these demands.
Separation of society into Ghettos is well on the way in this country, assimilation has ceased. The fracturing of society through forced acceptance of multicultural nirvana is continuing apace.
I can see the majority indigenous English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish populations reaching a breaking point through fear, anger, frustration and will try to organise and mobilise in an attempt to stop the takeover. But also I predict the UK government under the direction of left wing intelligentsia will stamp down hard on any public unrest, the UK media will carry only accepted pro-Islam anti-white-indigenous views.
The UK is lost as is most of Europe.
You have a huge physical ocean and even now (after the world financial crisis) massive wealth of people, natural resources and the Constitution as insulation from the shock of our fate. Guard it well! You may well stand-alone.
I don’t expect the Leftist Intellectual Elite to hang around for long as society degenerates into nasty dirty civil unrest, they will have money offshore to pay for their escape. They will gloat over their experiment from afar; maybe they will cry, but it will be too late.
I am a simple man, just another Joe on London’s streets, but don’t believe the UK media and Government propaganda, things are not well with the people, however much the populous try to ignore what is happening and burying, ‘loosing’ themselves in IT, work, gym, TV, whatever.
Go anywhere in London and you see the furtive looks, you can feel the mistrust and sense the atmosphere, maybe tourists can’t tune in but as a resident it is palpable.
I shan't say 'good luck America', as you will have to fight for your country and not trust to your leaders and fate!
My real name is hidden, through plain honest fear.
Posted by: UK Joe | Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 12:16 PM