Aaah the British press, the beacon of impartiality, journalists dedicated to exposing the truth and identifying the villains in society, good honest investigative journalism - anybody remember that? those heady halcyon days of Fleet street.

Well they are sadly gone, if they ever existed in the first place, the press today appear hell bent on vilifying the victim and praising the attacker, The Opinionator wrote about a British Soldier who after much abuse and harassment from his tormentors hit back and he is the one who was taken to court and subsequently fined about £1750 some of which was paid to the "victim" as compensation.

Now there is another  "absolute gem" of "unbiased reporting this time from the Times Online, once again involving followers of the Religion of Peace.


From the Article - my comments are in bold type

A father of seven allegedly stabbed to death by his Asian neighbour was a British National Party activist who had subjected the family next door to years of racial taunts, threats and violence, a murder trial was told yesterday.

What has the BNP got to do with this, the implication to be drawn from this is : If you are a member of the BNP you are by definition a violent thug and thus guilty of any allegation made against you even when you are dead

Keith Brown's family had helped the far-right party in the local elections in Stoke-on-Trent and Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, attended his funeral, Stafford Crown Court was told.

Would this have been mentioned if the Brown Family had leafleted for the Labour Party somehow I think not, does it matter who they leafleted for?

Mr Brown and his family, none of whom worked, were said to have been jealous of their industrious Pakistani neighbours and to have inflicted a spiral of abuse on them. Habib Khan is accused of stabbing Mr Brown to death with an eight-inch kitchen knife.

This I find truly appalling, this is pure demonization, character assassination, this creates an image of a completely dysfunctional family and at the same time portraying the other family as holier than thou.

I make no comment on the actual case but it appears to me that the dice are loaded against you if you are in a case that involves the Religion of Peace.

Can you imagine the uproar from Equalities Commission and other such organizations if the Pakistani family had been described as the Brown family have been, voices would be screaming from the tops of tall buildings words such as racist, Islamophobe and calling for a retrial because  the adverse publicity may affect the Jury's decision.

Let us not forget what Mr Browns Daughter said

Mr Brown's daughter, Bianca Barker, 18, said that Asian women neighbours laughed as she tended to her father as he bled to death on the pavement. Miss Barker said that female members of the family next door appeared to take pride after Mr Khan plunged a meat-cutting knife five inches into her father's back. A videotape was played showing Miss Barker's tearful interview with police two days after her father was killed.