Since when Lithuania limited the gay speeches in media,estonias ministry of justice is thinking now how to legalice gay marriage. They want to show how tolerant estonians are. Well they havent asked any questions from estonians. They just make the decision by theyrselves,who cares what people think. We think diffrently and were in covernment..so why not? Let's do it?
Most of estonians are pretty upset to such thing accure.
Tuesday 21 July 2009
US terror policy report delayed
A key report on the detention of terrorism suspects ordered by US President Barack Obama will be delayed by six months, officials have said.
Mr Obama commissioned the report as part of his efforts to close the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay by the beginning of next year.
Analysts say this delay raises doubts about his ability to meet the deadline.
Officials attributed it to the need to ensure the review was comprehensive and to consult thoroughly with Congress.
They said another report on the interrogation of suspects and their transfer to other countries would be delayed by two months.
However, a task force did send an interim report setting out legal goals for handling terrorism suspects in the future.
 |  We want to get this right and not to have another multiple years of uncertainty around these issues  Unnamed Obama administration official  |
"Where appropriate, prosecution of those responsible must occur as soon as possible, whether in federal court or before a military commission," the interim report said.
It also said justice could not be done unless suspects are proved guilty "in a court of law that affords them a full and fair opportunity to contest the charges against them".
'Get this right'
The reports were ordered in the wake of Mr Obama's announcement that he would close the Guantanamo Bay prison by 22 January 2010. Administration officials say that this deadline still holds.
But, reports the BBC's Jane O'Brien in Washington, there are still a number of major problems - what to do with the remaining detainees being the biggest.
Fewer than 20 out of about 245 inmates have been transferred from the detention centre in the six months since Mr Obama signed an order to close it within a year, the Associated Press news agency reports.
More than 50 inmates have been cleared for transfer overseas. Mr Obama has said others will be tried by modified military commissions or in US courts.
The administration is also open to the possibility of indefinitely holding detainees who cannot be transferred or tried, though this has not yet been applied.
In Washington lawmakers from both parties have opposed the idea of transferring detainees to US soil.
Congress has asked the administration for a detailed plan on how Guantanamo will be shut before it releases funds for its closure.
Administration officials said delays over submitting reports were granted to conduct reviews that were as thorough as possible.
One unnamed official was quoted as saying the administration wanted to present a plan with "legal foundation".
"We want to get this right and not to have another multiple years of uncertainty around these issues," the official said.
The Guantanamo Bay detention centre was set up in January 2002 to hold suspects deemed to be "enemy combatants".
Human rights groups and some foreign governments have long criticised the prison.
Source: BBC News
Terrified Merseyside Police Swoop on BNP’s ‘Punish the Pigs’ Truck—for Its Number Plate
Five terrified and jumpy Merseyside police officers swooped on the famous Manchester British National Party’s ‘Punish the Pigs’ truck this afternoon — and issued owner Derek Adams with a caution for the numbers on its rear number plate ‘being too thin.’
The astonishing incident took place outside St Anne’s police station in Liverpool this afternoon, where super activist Mr Adams had taken the truck in support of Mr Peter Tierney’s bail appearance.
The Merseyside police, clearly upset at the large amount of public support the BNP crowd and truck received — by way of hoots and cheers from passing motorists — panicked and ordered a police car with no less than five officers to swoop on the truck.
Pulling up to the Pig Truck and swerving in behind it like boy racers, the five officers, complete with stab-proof vests and sullen faces, ordered the driver and Mr Adams out and began looking for something to say about the truck.
Mr Adams is, of course, an old hand with state harassment, having recently exposed the extremist leftist corruption within Manchester City Hall, and he let the officers search high and low while he stood to one side with a large smile on his face.
Finally, the only thing that the jobsworths could find to do was to issue Mr Adams with a caution that the numbers on the truck’s rear licence plate were “too thin” and that he needed to get a new plate made.
The officers — who strangely objected to being filmed and photographed by numerous BNP supporters in the area — then jumped back into their car and sped off, obviously in search of equally important criminal acts.
Speaking to BNP News after the incident, Mr Adams dismissed it as “nonsense. This truck has been on the road since before the June European elections, and no policeman has ever said anything of that sort before.
“Of course I will get a new rear number plate for the truck, but if they think they can frighten the BNP away with such childish scare tactics, they are badly mistaken.”
Peter Tierney Defiant in the Face of Continued Police Harassment
Liverpool British National Party activist Peter Tierney has vowed to fight the continued police harassment against himself and the party in that city to the bitter end. Speaking to BNP News immediately after being informed by the Merseyside police this afternoon that he had been charged with assault, Mr Tierney said he was innocent and would prove it.
“This is what the BNP gets when it defends itself,” Mr Tierney said. “We were distributing leaflets on St George’s Day when the extremist leftists attacked us. We had to defend ourselves, along with our old folk and women, and now I get charged with assault. So this is how democracy works,” he said.
“What this means is that if the BNP dares to defend itself against the proven violence of the far left and its Labour and Tory-supported organisations, then we get charged.”
Mr Tierney said this turn of events was a gross miscarriage of justice, and that he would most certainly fight the matter right to the very end, no matter what the cost.
“The bail conditions mean that I am not allowed to enter the city, which is where my living is. They are denying me my right to earn my keep with these measures. This is nothing butt harassment.
“I am determined not to let the Merseyside police and the Tory and Labour-backed violent extremist leftists succeed in their plan to continue this harassment,” Mr Tierney said. “We are a growing force, and they have forgotten that we now have elected public representatives at the most senior level of government. We are not going to take this lying down.”
Mr Tierney thanked the 50 or so supporters — some of whom had travelled from as far away as Scotland to attend his hearing — who turned out to demonstrate opposite Liverpool’s St Anne’s police station this afternoon.
“I know some of them, like Steve Coulthard from Halifax and Derek Mills from Stirling, travelled a long way, and Liverpool BNP is proud to have firm friends and supporters like that,” he said. “I know it is an effort for people to take off work and get out here, but my friends have done it, and with the support of the whole BNP, we are determined to give these fascists a legal lesson which will put an end to this sort of nonsense once and for all,” Mr Tierney concluded.
* The new court date has been set for 5 August. See you all there.
Source: BNP News
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