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offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Masking Our Schoolchildren Was Child Abuse ? A Rare Chance to Stop It Returning Wed Jul 30, 2025 17:00 | Dr Gary Sidley
Thanks to the Declaration of Dumfries, parents now have a real shot at suing councils that unlawfully forced masks on their children ? and at making sure this form of child abuse never happens again, says Gary Sidley.
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offsite link Rotherham Police Sexually Abused Us Too, Say Five Grooming Victims Wed Jul 30, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Just when you think the rape gang scandal can't get worse, five Rotherham victims say police officers abused them too ? claims currently being investigated by South Yorkshire Police itself, sparking fears of a whitewash.
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offsite link The Online Safety Act is a Censor?s Charter Wed Jul 30, 2025 13:00 | Andrew Doyle
We were assured by Conservative and Labour politicians that the Online Safety Act was designed to protect children. In the last few days, its real, more sinister purpose has become, writes Andrew Doyle.
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offsite link Political Censors Have Cynically Hijacked Vital Child Protections Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
Andrew Orlinski in the Telegraph says the Online Safety Act has less to do with protecting children than suppressing populist political sentiment.
The post Political Censors Have Cynically Hijacked Vital Child Protections appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Edinburgh University?s Decolonisation Report is Pure Left-Wing Politics Wed Jul 30, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
Edinburgh University's 'Decolonised Transformations: Confronting the University of Edinburgh?s History and Legacies of Enslavement and Colonialism,' is Left-wing politics of the worst kind, says Professor James Alexander.
The post Edinburgh University’s Decolonisation Report is Pure Left-Wing Politics appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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The Perameters for the all-party Oireachtas Committee have been Published.

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Tuesday July 25, 2006 13:04author by Chris Murray - The Unmanageables Report this post to the editors

The Fall-out from the 'CC' case continues.

Most Irish newspapers carried an advertisement yesterday which included details
of the issues which will be studied in relation to the 'CC' case and the 'A' case.
These are published as perameters for the fifteen member committee which
contains three women, one TD(fine Gael) and two senators.
The'CC' case prompted an expected constitutional crisis, wherein the 1935
legislation pertaining to the 'honest mistake' mechanism was allowed in the case of
someone accused of statutory rape but of an age with the victim. Justice Mary Laffoy had no
option within the perameters of that legislation but to release 'CC'.

The constitutional repurcussion was felt when Mister'A' was released. He had not claimed 'honest'
mistake and had been imprisoned for rape of a then 12 year old. The Minister for Justic'es response was the'double whammy' wherein the loophole in the law would be closed through re-writing
the legislation and re-incarcerating Mister'A', both of which were accomplished on the same day.

All political parties approved the legislation and sought after amendments were not included, except those of the government parties.

The ombudsman for children requested the excision of 'Section 5' because it was not gender neutral
and open to constitutional challenge. Her letter re the issue was read into the record of the dail by Green Party Td Ciaran Cuffe.

The problem arose , therefore of the consent issue, or as Mister Mc Dowell states the definition of the boundaries with age as an issue in relation to unlawful carnal knowledge of a minor.
Or- Honing the legislation which passed through both houses of the Oireachtas (unopposed , save by Joe Higgins TD)

The job, therefore of the committe is to accept recommendations and opinions of the NGO's, support groups and individuals who have an interest in the matter of the age of consent.

The closing date for interested parties is: 30th November 06.

Submissions in writing to:

Clerk to the Joint Committee on Child Protection
Kildare House
Kildare Street
Dublin2.

Issues covered by the 12 man/3 women will be :

Criminal Law.
Age of Consent.
Criminal Law procedures.
Recommendations.

The info is available in the National newspapers of 24/07/06.

It does not give an age at which an individual is entitled to submit relevant materials to the committee, nor does it deal with the reality of how the new law copperfastened the 1935 legislation, retained the 'honest mistake' mechanism and added an assortment of new criminal offences through the offices of 'Section 5' as well as putting a rape victim on the stand of a court room to explain how they were dressed and acted at the time of the offence.

The rape victim who will be put on the stand to explain this information to the judge will be , in the
in the eyes of the law, a minor.

The perameters published do not take cognisance of the ongoing fall-out of criminalising children for sexual acts, nor do they address the issues of further traumatising the victim of alleged rape.

The NGO's will have to do that.

The issue of the age of consent will be addressed to teenagers in dialogue, but the ultimate decision will be left to the deputies who form the cross-party committee.

Related Link: http://www.ireland.com
author by C Murraypublication date Mon Sep 17, 2007 18:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Newstalk 106 is reporting that we are to have two referenda within the year.
One on the Reform Treaty and one on Child Protection.

I included the issue of the Referendum on Child Protection in here because the issues
in the Referendum on protection will address the issues raised by the Criminal law
Bill which went through the Dail as emergency Legislation in 2006 and was amended to
included solicitiation in early 2007. On September the 10th 2007,aspects of the protection
of children were enacted as part of the Criminal Justice Bill 2006- which was introduced
to the Dail by Minister Mc Dowell and was referred to the Council of State by the President.
This involves sections of the Criminal Justice Bill , the PDF's and
explanatory are at :- http://www.justice.ie (September 10th 2007)

Sections of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) act 2006 (amended 2007)
are constitutionally challengeable , particularly Section 5 , the initial wording of the
referendum will outline protections for kids and the wording will indicate if they
are in line with Ireland's international obligations. Mr Ahern states that the two referenda
may be on the same day dependent on the 'matters arising'

Related Link: http://www.justice.ie
author by C Murraypublication date Wed Sep 19, 2007 13:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

E. Gilmore has changed the porfolios of the front bench. Pat Rabbitte is taking on Justice.

Brendan Howlin gets Law reform and Constitutional reform- in FF, Law Reform is partnered with
Justice in the same portfolio, so the area divided by Labour signals a change in approach to
the issue of FF portfolio division.

Michael Mc Dowell, it will be remembered, caused multiple problems in the Department
of Justice, Equality and Law Reform with introduction of laws that are unconstitutional and
did not address the issues of child protection/ statutory rape/human trafficking under
Ireland's duty of protection to the child in adherence to international rights and treaties.
The Laws at issue are still on the statutes and as Mary harney proclaimed were drafted within
'The Constitutional Framework'.

author by C Murraypublication date Wed Sep 19, 2007 16:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Richard Bruton retains the deputy leadership, but 7 front-benchers have lost their portfolios.
There is no information as yet ,if Enda Kenny has shuffled or divided the portfolios as Labour have.
Labour split Justice, Equality and Law reform between Brendan Howlin and Pat Rabbitte.

Rabbitte has Justice and Howlin has an interesting new portfolio entitled:- Law Reform and
Constitutional matters. When News comes out about the FG re-shuffle, I shall put it on here.
Jan O Sullivan form Labour got the Health Portfolio, whilst Joan Bruton retained Finance.

There are new FG front-benchers, and mostly they are men. Two doctors that got elected
in the recent election are named onto the front bench.

 
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