Cameron comes out with more blame and ban bollox

The Tory leader is sounding more and more like John Beyer with
everything he says.

From Guardian Unlimited:

Cameron proposes curbs on violent video games

James Sturcke and agencies
Tuesday August 28, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

David Cameron said today that companies which make music videos,
films and computer games have a responsibility not to promote
violence, as he unveiled a raft of measures to combat crime in
Britain.
The Tory leader set out a long-term strategy to change behaviour,
starting in the home and at school.

Warning that it could take a generation to bring crime under
control, he strongly condemned Labour’s “knee-jerk” law and order
reforms.

Speaking as he revealed a “mini-manifesto” on law and order this
afternoon, Mr Cameron said a Conservative government would introduce
what he called a “social covenant” to make communities feel safer.

“Today’s document sets out our view on popular culture – that the
companies which make music videos, films and computer games have a
social responsibility not to promote casual violence, the gang
culture and the degradation of women,” Mr Cameron said.
Under a Tory government, police would be given more freedom and
families strengthened through tax and benefit policies as well as
better flexible working options, Mr Cameron said.

The Tory leader said Labour’s record on crime had been its “biggest
broken promise” and that Britain had to “fight back against the
gangs, the guns and the graffiti … the drugs, the danger and the
disorder”.

Earlier he insisted short-term measures were also necessary to end
the early release of prisoners from overcrowded jails – threatening
to put criminals two to a cell.

“We are never going to deal with crime unless we look at the broader
context and say, ‘Yes, tough laws, strong action on the police, but
also action to strengthen our society’.

“And that includes, I think, video games and things like that where
we do need to think of the context in which people are growing up.”

Mr Cameron said his previously-published plans to incentivise
couples to stick together through the tax system would also assist
the law and order agenda.

“This is long-term generational change,” he told BBC1’s Breakfast
programme.

“I think instead of the knee-jerk reactions we are seeing from the
government, what we are producing today is a comprehensive
substantial report about the things we need to change, whether it’s
frankly in the home, in the police station, on our streets or in the
schools.”

The Tories also want to give teachers the final say on expelling
unruly pupils and end the controversial early release of prisoners.

With jails close to capacity as a result of the UK’s growing prison
population, he added: “You may have to ask the prison estate to
double up more prisoners in cells.”

Other options included prison ships and putting disused army camps
to use as jails.

Mr Cameron’s comments came as he sought to reclaim the political
agenda after a difficult summer for his leadership, with growing
disgruntlement among Tory traditionalists and criticism of his trip
to Rwanda while his constituency in Witney, Oxfordshire, was
flooded.

The Tories also ran into trouble with a campaign focusing on
hospital closures, billed as a post-holiday fight-back, when some
NHS trusts questioned the accuracy of the party’s research.

We expect John Beyer to come crawling out of the woodwork with much
smugness saying “This is what we’ve been saying all along”.

Cameron condems Labour’s knee jerk law and order reforms but if
blaming violent video games and films for crime isn’t knee jerk we
don’t know what is.

All of Cameron’s proposals to fight violent crime come straight out
of the pages of the Daily Mail. Ban violent games, music video and
films, abolish the human rights acts et etc.
Go onto the Tories website and see for yourself.

Knee jerk reactionism is just what Cameron and the Tories are
proposing here and it won’t stop violent crime and won’t stop more
sensless killings of innocent kids at all!

It’s all a load of bollox!

Rhys Jones murder…David Cameron leads the way to blame!

The senseless and tragic murder of 11 year old Rhys Jones by a teen gun tooting piece of pondlife has no doubt got the agenda driven self appointed moral guardians chomping at the big to blame rap music, video games and films for the fucked up society we live in today.

And here David Cameron gives them the platform they want to do just that!

Cameron: Rap and feckless fathers are to blame

Last updated at 13:49pm on 24th August 2007 Comments (1)

Conservative leader David Cameron has called for the creation of a ’social covenant’

David Cameron praised the “awe-inspiring” bravery of Rhys Jones’s parents today as he declared that their son’s murder symbolised Britain’s social breakdown.

In an emotional speech, the Tory leader blamed rap music bosses, lad mags, feckless fathers and the video game industry for the rise in gang violence and yobbish behaviour.

But he also warned that “our shock today will turn into a shrug tomorrow” unless everyone — neighbours, ministers and schools — took responsibility.

“How many more parents have to bury their children before we decide to choose a different path for our society?” he asked in a speech in Brize Norton, near his Oxfordshire constituency.

Mr Cameron spoke out as Home Secretary Jacqui Smith also called on internet giant YouTube to stop hosting footage of gangs boasting of their exploits.

He changed a speech in which he had planned to focus on defence issues after seeing Mr and Mrs Jones’s moving appeal for people to come forward to catch their son’s killer.

In a call for much tighter censorship, Mr Cameron complained bitterly that media regulators such as Ofcom currently “meekly give in” to film and video directors on the violent content of films and games.

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Rhys Jones was shot and killed in Toxteth at the age of 11

He added: “The brutal and callous murder of Rhys Jones has shocked us all.

“What his parents said yesterday, when they spoke of their loss of their boy and what he meant to them, was so powerful and moving.

“Their bravery – and their sense of social responsibility – in doing their broadcast after everything they had been through was awe inspiring.

“It must not be allowed to become just another testimony of despair that shocks a nation one night and is then forgotten.”

Developing his theme, Mr Cameron said that the murder of 17 children on the streets of London this year was further proof of a “remorseless increase in gang culture” and “the seemingly endless availability of guns”.

He suggested that government “summits” and “crackdowns” on crime had failed to tackle the roots of the problem.

But he stressed that responsibility for the breakdown went much wider than just politics.

Echoing President Kennedy, Mr Cameron said: “We should ask not just what we expect from our government in response to these dreadful crimes — but what do we expect from ourselves and from society?”

He said that big business needed to accept it had a role in helping families protect their children.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had to fight back tears in a TV interview after watching Rhys Jones’s parents talk about his murder

Retailers should stop selling alcohol to young people and music and TV companies had to stop producing violent material.

Magazines that glorify “getting wasted”, music businesses that grow fat off “the exploitation of black youth”, film and video game directors who push the boundaries of acceptable violence, and regulators who meekly give in to them, “all have a responsibility,” he said.

And as Labour has emphasised more voluntary acceptable behaviour contracts, Mr Cameron called for greater responsibility.

“Parents who don’t know where their kids are and what they’re up to at night should not just be helped to do their job properly – they should be shamed into doing it,” he said, adding that fathers who abandon their families, “should be treated like the selfish people they are”.

Home Secretary Miss Smith today admitted parents would be worried after the murder.

“I can completely understand why any parent would feel worried for their children,” she told GMTV.

She also said internet footage of guns and gangs should be stopped.

“I do think that YouTube have a responsibility,” she said.

Oh look…John Beyer has been using the murder of a father of three by drunken yobs to further his own ”We need to ban violent films and TV programmes” agenda…

 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/letters/article2889271.ece

So doubtless he will be lapping up Cameron’s blaming of rap, video games and films for the murder of this little boy and using that too try and get some more paying members for mediawatch-uk too.

But blaming convininent scapegoats such as rap music, violent video games and films won’t stop another innocent child dying and won’t solve the problem of violence amongst kids and in society one little bit!

Senseless tragic murder? No, another chance to for Beyer to plug Mediawatch UK!

We suspect Beyer will be amongst the first out of the starting blocks
to blame the recent horrible shooting murder of an 11 year old boy on
the media too.

From the Belfast Telegrah courtesy of mediawatchwatch:

Far too much violence on TV
Thursday, August 23, 2007

The news that three teenagers have been charged with the murder of a
father-of-three shocks us all.

But we must ask ourselves what influenced these youngsters to act in
the way they did? We frequently see violence on television and
reality footage of similar scenes, and we are all now aware of the
phenomenon of ‘happy slapping’ and such images appearing on social
websites.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently expressed concern about all the
violence ‘that kids can see so easily now’ in the media. For more
than 15 years, Mediawatch-uk has monitored over 1,000 films shown on
the five main TV channels, and the most frequently portrayed violence
involves firearms and violent assaults.

More and more people now recognise that media violence has
contributed to social violence just as the late Mary Whitehouse CBE,
warned over 40 years ago.

For three years running, the Office of Communications, the regulator,
has found that the majority of people believe there is too much
violence and swearing on television but has done little to respond to
these expressions of public concern.

For these reasons, we have launched a new online petition to the
Prime Minister calling for a substantial reduction in violence and
swearing on TV. If you would like to add your name please, sign our
petition at: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ViolenceonTV.

We aim to get one million signatures by January 2008.

John Beyer, Mediawatch-uk

Just the usual exploiting tragic sensless killings for his own ends
bollox from Beyer!

“We aim to get one million signatures by January 2008.”

And hopefully one million fully paid up members by January 2008 too!

Don’t bet on it Jonny Boy!

What happens when you only live on the Daily Mail?

Well this film tries to find out.

From the Guardian courtesy of the Melon Farmers:

Film examines Daily Mail ‘diet’

Tara Conlan
Monday August 20, 2007
The Guardian

In the footsteps of Supersize Me, a documentary-maker has attempted
to find out whether we are what we read by giving up all news sources
except the Daily Mail.

For 28 days, Nick Angel screened out all television, radio, print and
online news sources except for the middle market tabloid.

The film, which will air on the former US vice-president Al Gore’s
digital channel, Current TV, on Wednesday, shows the self-confessed
London media liberal Mr Angel as his regulated news diet begins to
take its toll.

He begins the documentary with the belief that the Mail’s main
purpose is to “terrify its readers” and make the world seem like a
more menacing place.
Mr Angel said: “It’s important to know what the Mail thinks, because
it’s a lightning rod (or so it claims) to ‘Middle England’ – that ill-
defined and slightly scary mass of people whose various incarnations
include the ‘Moral Majority’ and ‘All Right Thinking People’.

The film also features an interview with former high profile Daily
Mail features editor-turned-artist Jane Kelly as well as a lifelong
Daily Mail reader.

The Daily Mail Diet will air on Current TV on Wednesday August 22 at
9.15pm

Sounds brilliant! John Beyer should tune in as he’s stuffed himself
full of the Daily Mail for years. Lol!

What happens if you only get your news from our favourite reactionary
right-wing rag? Well a severe case of parnoia of immigrants, asylum
seekers and foriegners coupled with indigestion causing you to
spew “BAN THESE SICK FILTH” every five minutes!
Must go and see a Doctor!

Manhunt 2 ban: Rockstar boss tells other companies to join the fight

We hope they hear him!

From MCV UK courtesy of the Melon Farmers:

Rockstar Leeds boss:

`Manhunt ban is an attack on industry’

Tim Ingham

Head of studio says decision will affect future `edgy’ titles from
other firms

Founder and current boss of Rockstar Leeds Gordon Hall has warned
other video games firms that they should rally behind the developer
against the BBFC’s decision to ban Manhunt 2 – or face similar
prohibition in the future.

Hall told MCV sister magazine Develop that the outlawing of the title
was an “attack on our industry” and has the potential to affect other
freedom of expression across the industry.

“I don’t think Rockstar specifically has been picked on, but I do
think that the wider issue attacks our entire industry,” he said. “We
need to teach people that games are an art form – they are more
artistic than film.

“I think the games industry should rally behind us, because there
will come a time when we’ll all have an idea that’s a little edgy,
and we need to have the freedoms to express it.

“We are an adult entertainment industry – we may have started out
with child-like technology making games solely for a younger
audience, but it’s just not like that anymore. It might take
legislature a little while to catch up, but if the industry sticks
together hopefully we can change people’s attitudes quicker.”

Mr Hall is right, other games companies should get behind Rockstar
and lobby against the BBFC’s decision to ban Manhunt 2.

The ban will effect other controversial titles because it has given
the self appointed moral guardians a bigger platform and bigger
weapons to attack the video games industry and lobby the regulators
to ban more games which they consider objectionable.

It has set a precedent where every game with the slightest whiff of
violence and the smallest drop of blood will now face “BAN THIS
CORRUPTING FILTH!” calls from the Kieth Vaz’s of this world!

Beyer repeats his “ban all porn” call

Banning “violent” porn doesn’t go far enough. We need to ban anything
and everything with the slightest whiff of sex in it and lock those
who look at it up for three years. FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY!
Yes yes we’ve heard it all before Mr Beyer!

From Mediawatch UK:

Tougher pornography clampdown needed

The head of a national media watchdog has warned that Government
plans to deal with the most violent and extreme pornography `do not
go far enough’. John Beyer of mediawatch-uk said legislation in the
pipeline would not include a lot of R18 material. Government plans
to outlaw the possession of extreme pornography will be debated in
Parliament in October when the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
gets a Second Reading. `We believe that most people would like to
see a general clean up and the government acting to eradicate
pornography altogether,’ said Mr Beyer. `Legislation ought to be
extended to include material currently classified R18 by the British
Board of Film Classification which many would regard as extreme’.
mediawatch-uk is also calling for a worldwide treaty to outlaw the
posting of offensive material on sites such as YouTube … Mr Beyer
said: `Pornography on the internet is a huge problem that must be
dealt with globally’ and he called upon the Government to work
towards an international treaty.

Catholic Times 5/8/2007

“We believe that most people would like to see a general clean up and
the government acting to eradicate pornography altogether.”

For “most people” read right-wing Daily Mail reading middle England
who want the government to snoop into the private bedroom activities
of the adult population of this country.

It’s doubtful that most people would want to see law abiding people
thrown in jail mearly for watching consensual simulated sex because a
few people find it “grubby”.

Beyer in war of words with fake Alzhiemer “death” show producer

In an article in the Guardian on Wednesday the maker of the ITV film
Malcom and Barbara: A Love Story blames Mediawatch UK for stiring up
the controversy……

“If anyone had bothered to call me I would have told them the
situation. I just feel that I shouldn’t be reprimanded for something
I haven’t done.”

John Beyer responds with this letter in the Guardian…

Film-maker Paul Watson blames us for the controversy over his
production for ITV, Malcolm and Barbara: Love’s Farewell (ITV under
pressure, August 1). But in a radio interview, Mr Watson – who said
he did not set out to deceive – said he had not read “sufficiently
clearly” the news release from ITV which suggested, wrongly, that the
moment of Malcolm Pointon’s death was shown at the end of his film.
In these circumstances it is hardly fair for us to be blamed for
voicing concerns about what seemed to us to be an important ethical
question relating to broadcasting standards and policy. I do not
agree that this praiseworthy project has been “wrecked”. As a result
of the controversy the programme has attracted a great deal of
advanced publicity and Mrs Pointon has had many opportunities to set
out very well the case for greater resources to be given to
Alzheimer’s patients and sufferers.
We believe our intervention has given rise to a healthy debate about
whether or not it is right to broadcast the solemn moment of death
and the private grief that accompanies it. It has had the additional
benefit of focusing on the internal processes by which programmes get
to the screen and the spin that is attached to attract viewers. It
has also added to the national and parliamentary discussion over the
spate of malpractices that have come to light in recent weeks. We are
confident that the steps now being taken by the BBC and some
independent production companies will build new foundations to
restore trust in broadcasting.
John Beyer
Director, Mediawatch-UK

It seems that another TV programme maker is learning that Mediawatch
UK always condem things they haven’t seen based on tabloid
sensationalism and hysteria.

In this case it’s obvious ITV delibratly fed the tabloid press the
lie that the programme was going to show the Alzhiemer victim’s
moment of death and they new that by doing so the press would tip off
people like Mediawatch UK who would give an outraged quote of moral
indignation which would further boost the programme’s publicity and
thus generate more viewers.

This proves further how some broadcasters, the tabloid press and
pressure groups like Mediawatch UK work almost (if sometimes
unwitingly) hand in hand!

ITV are the main culprits here though and they should be given a
throughly good kicking for misleading the public.

Christian Voice show their homophoic hypocrisy!

Christian Voice will stop at nothing to ban anything which offends
their religious beliefs and to have the law censor and silence those
who say or produce anything that they deam “blasphemous”.
But they want the freedom of speech to be able to turn up at Gay
Pride marches and pour their brand of homophobic bigotory upon
paritcipants and to slander those organisations that support the
cause of gay rights.
CV has pursued a relentless campaign to take away the freedom of
speech of those who produced Jerry Springer: The Opera because it
offends their beliefs.
It has never been enough for them to stear clear of watching the
production, no they have had to try their damndest to stop everyone
else from watching it too.
They don’t want the freedom for people to produce and see things
that offend them but they do want the freedom to hurl insults at
homosexuals and not only that but to do demand that the law
persecute homosexuals because they dissaprove of their lifestyles.
So as ususal for some religious people it’s free speech for some
(those who disagree with them) and not for others (those that do
not).
Not free speech for those who disagree with our beliefs but free
speech for us to slag off gays!

From Christian Voice hypocrite bigots:

Gay Pride March 2007

Some 15,000 homosexuals and hangers-on paraded perversion through
the streets of a rainy London on Saturday 30th July. Just two dozen
Christians stood in dignified witness and preached the Gospel of
repentance and salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ to those declaring
their sin as Sodom .

In shame, some major British companies took part in the parade, with
British Airways and Lloyds Bank taking the lead. Nationwide and
Barclays Bank also jostled in with promiscuous lesbians and young
men desperate for their looks not to fade. And of course the Gay
Police Association, caught out lying in the Bloody Bible ad, took
pride (going before a fall) of place. (See the full list below.)

It is now the 5th year in a row that homosexual policemen and women
have dishonoured their uniform by associating it with the corruption
of homosexuality. The banner of the Gay Police Association, so
recently reprimanded for their dishonesty by the Advertising
Standards Authority (see link to CV article), was carried aloft. The
Fire Service also could have deployed a fire engine better somewhere
else (helping those made homeless by floods?) than in such a
disgusting exhibition.

The Army Chief of Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, an infantry-
man and a vice-president of the Officers’ Christian Union, and his
Royal Air Force counterpart, the experienced jet pilot Air Chief
Marshall Sir Glenn Torpy, banned their personnel from wearing their
uniforms in the parade.

Sadly, the Admiralty did not follow the same example. The Royal Navy
is a member of the divisive Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme,
and a spokesman said they would be using the parade ‘as a
recruitment opportunity.’ The parents of normal young men and women
contemplating a career in the Senior Service might take note that,
to borrow the famous words of Sir Winston Churchill, rum might be
out of fashion, and the lash abolished, but Naval chiefs are still
rather keen on sodomy aboard ship.

Given the Navy’s repellent, even if quite undeserved, reputation for
institutionalised homosexuality typified by Sir Winston’s joke
about ‘rum, sodomy and the lash’, one would have thought Admiral Sir
Jonathan Band, Chief of the Naval Staff, would be trying to distance
the Service under his command from the unpleasant ‘hello sailor’
stereotype. But perhaps, as one who last commanded a ship a distant
ten years ago, the Admiral has forgotten the close proximity in
which sailors exist and the opportunities for abuse of power that
provides on board ship. Anyway, his decision is beyond sense or
parody.

There were floats from government departments, national charities,
trades unions, banks, airlines – all wanting to show how politically-
correct they are – alongside those of homosexual clubs. And then
there were the marchers themselves, transvestites competing with
body-building clones for attention, all flash on the outside, empty
on the inside.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, commented: ‘How
these poor people need the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and how our
nation needs to repent of its corporate sin. Facing thousands of
gesticulating, hate-filled, aggressive gays, observing so many hell-
bound souls and watching as such a degrading spectacle goes by is
not a pleasant experience. But if Christians do not voice some
disapproval of national sin, as the Holy Spirit-filled prophets did
in their day, we aren’t fulfilling our calling of being salt or
light. In a dysfunctional nation already under judgment, who knows
what worse judgment than what we have already might come if we do
not keep up our prayer and witness against evil. So it isn’t nice to
do, but there is a sense in which prophetic witness is a bit like
cleaning out the toilets – it’s a mucky job, but someone has to do
it.’

London Gay Pride Parade Participants 30/06/07:

British Airways: ‘proud partners’
Lloyds TSB: sponsor
Madame Tussauds: with Mayor of London on board
SCOPE (The cerebral palsy charity – what are they trying to
achieve?)
London Bus Company
Royal Navy
Gay Police Association (that’s the ones who can’t tell the truth)
London Fire Brigade
Greater London Authority: GLB Staff Network
London Ambulance
Iconic Youth@pride
Metropolitan Community Church North London (AKA the ‘gay church’)
Young Lesbian and Gay ‘Christians’ (Er, ‘From the beginning of the
creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man
leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and the two shall
be one flesh.’ The Lord Jesus Christ, Mark 10)
Capital FM (So now we know – Capital Radio is gay)
Barclaycard and Barclays Bank
UNITE: campaigning about homophobia (far left)
NUT (teachers – need to reach their full potential)
NASUWT (more teachers – could do better)
CWU (Communication Workers’ Union )
Lgbtlabour.org
NAZ project (minority ethnic HIV group)
IMAAN: Muslim LGBT support
Thasistahood.org: (Black lesbians – few as they are)
Press for change pfc.org.uk (transsexuals)
Translondon (more transsexuals)
Bird Club (Lesbian group, as in ‘Arrive early, as we kick things off
with some Live Bird On Bird Action from London beauties Bird Club!’)
Spectrum Haringey
Nationwide
Respect
Environment Agency (as Britain floods, the Environment Agency
parties)
Civil Service Rainbow Alliance
Shell
Outwest
Jewish Gay and Lesbian group
Socialist Party
A Buddhist group
Msclondon.co.uk (leather and motorcycle fetish bores)
Amnesty International (so now you know)
Proudly Catholic
Transport For London
Lesbian and Gay Unitarians
London Gay Symphony Orchestra (Shostakovich would have ripped up his
10th symphony rather than have it played by this shower. Stick to
Tchaikovsky, girls)
ELOP: East London ’s Lesbian and Gay Centre
Gay Sunday Walking Group (we kid you not)
B.T Openreach
The Raelian Movement: rael.org (‘The Raelian Revolution is boldly
bringing about a complete paradigm shift on our planet. The Messages
given to Rael by our human Creators from space contain the world’s
most fearlessly individualistic philosophy of love, peace, and non-
conformism.’ Hmm, so homosexuals are aliens from space. OK.)
Gay and Lesbian Immigration Group
LYC London (Asian homosexual club)
British Transport Police
Metropolitan Police (Depressingly recruiting amongst the emotionally-
challenged)
The Pink Paper (- the homosexual rag of record)

DISCLAIMER: Mediasnoops thinks that Christian Voice and other
homophobic twats should have the freedom to turn up and preach about
the “evils” of homosexuality wherever they want. But we think it’s
just a shame that they want to deny others the freedom to say
anything which goes against their “sacrosant” beliefs and have them
done for “blasphemy”.

Manhunt 2 ban: Rockstar appeal

Mediasnoops says go for it!

From the Melon Farmers:

Update: Game On…

Rock Star appeal the BBFC ban

From iTWire see full article

Rockstar Games has confirmed the filing of an official appeal
against the BBFC ban of their game Manhunt 2

Two months ago the BBFC rejected the game giving Rockstar six weeks
to consider an appeal or reapplication based on cuts made to the
game. Sounds like Rockstar want to get Manhunt 2 onto UK store
shelves as it is though.

If Rockstar is, or possibly even if not, successful there may be a
similar appeal in the US in an attempt to overrule the AO rating
given in that market.

Rockstar must challenge the BBFC’s view that the game could turn
players into violent psycopathic killers!