POLICE DOG MAULS 20 (Britain)

TEN people savaged by the same police dog are suing for compensation.   Alsatian, (German Shepherd Dog) Bosco, is alleged to have bitten 20 people in one year. One man had his calf torn to shreds, another needed 80 stitches and a third had internal surgery. A 15- year-old boy needed 10 stitches. Half of the claims in Middlesbrough are by innocent people. A man curious about a police swoop was bitten by Bosco and needed nine months of treatment.

(Perhaps this is how the "authorities" plan to treat us Americans after we are disarmed "for our own safety." Fact is, as many people are aware, they are already doing this to us here and I have heard of one man who received a 40 year sentence for hurting a police dog in his own defense He busted the dog's lip! I have heard of many others, often in handcuffs, who were chewed on for a couple of minutes to "get the dog a little practice"! Ed.)

ARMED police were called to Newcastle's Bigg Market last night after two men were seen running around on top of a building with a pistol.

Armed officers were called to the roof of Sunlight Chambers where two men, aged 19 and 20, were arrested with an air pistol and a police spokesman said they had been totally thoughtless.

A witness said: "The two lads came down pretty much straight away and were put in a police van."

China Daily-Inside China Today

THOUSANDS of fighting crickets were confiscated by Chinese police yesterday when they raided an illegal gambling den in Shanghai. More than 90 gamblers were arrested in the midnight raid. Some broke limbs while attempting to flee by jumping from second-floor windows. Seven ringleaders are being interrogated on suspicion of raising and training the crickets. They were found in a locked strong room sealed with seven padlocks, apparently to prevent the doping of champion insects. Police also found high precision measuring instruments used to ensure that only crickets of equal weight and stature fought each other. The crickets, in seven crates, are being kept at a police station, where officers have been told to keep them alive as a key piece of evidence. All gambling was banned when Communist China was founded, but illegal wagers on cards, mahjong and almost any variety of sporting contest remain a favourite pastime.

(A joke follows, no apologies to anyone. I think it's funny and I ABHOR "political correctness" so if any of our readers of Polish descent don't like it they are welcome to send us a "Scottish" joke we will print it. If you can't laugh at yourself and your culture once in awhile you need to chill a bit. Ed, who is of Scottish descent.)

Poland's worst air disaster occurred today when a small two-seater Cessna-152 crashed into cemetery early this afternoon in central Poland. Polish search & rescue workers have recovered 826 bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging continues into the evening.

LIVONIA, Mich., October 20, 2000-- A Livonia man faces felony charges for his alleged involvement in what police suspect is a major dog fighting ring.

Officers called to the home of a 37-year-old man and his family Thursday after neighbors complained of dogs yelping and crying. Police said that they arrived to find five pit bulls in the yard and one in the basement, which was equipped as a training facility for fighting dogs.

Police said that the dogs showed signs of serious signs of neglect. One had wounds that were gangrenous.

All of the dogs have been destroyed.

Investigators found graphic video of live dog fights, but they say that the fights took place at another location. Police are looking look for the main fight venue and for others involved in the fights.

Neighbors were surprised to learn that the man was involved in that type of activity.

(Remember I've mentioned that the Brits say, "Now that they have our guns they aren't afraid to tell us the truth!"? Well, did you hear about this on the news over here in America? Ed.)

BRITAIN'S best selling sweetener was condemned as dangerous and potentially toxic in a report compiled by some of the world's biggest soft drinks manufacturers - who now buy tons of it to add to diet drinks.

Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other manufacturers produced the report in the early 1980s before the sweetener, aspartame, (Nutrasweet etc.) had been approved for use in America. It warns that it can affect the workings of the brain, change behaviour and even encourage users to eat extra carbohydrate, so destroying the point of using diet drinks.

The documents were unearthed last week under freedom of information legislation. It follows a decision by researchers at King's College in London to study suspected links between aspartame intake and brain tumours.

Britons drink more than 9 billion cans or bottles of pop a year, of which about half contain artificial sweeteners. Aspartame, made by Monsanto and also marketed under the name NutraSweet, is 200 times sweeter than normal sugar and is used in many popular low-calorie foods and drinks. It has been declared safe in a number of studies and has been approved for use in both America and Europe.

There has, however, always been concern at its tendency to break down, producing methanol, (wood alcohol) which is both toxic in its own right and which breaks down further to produce formic acid (the substance ants sting with) and formaldehyde (embalming fluid). Phenylalanine, another breakdown product of aspartame, is also dangerous to people with phenylketonuria, a common enzyme deficiency.

The 30-page aspartame report was drawn up under the auspices of America's National Soft Drinks Association (NSDA), whose governing body at the time included senior Coca-Cola and Pepsi executives. It says: "We object to the approval of aspartame for unrestricted use in soft drinks." It then lists ways in which aspartame was believed directly to affect brain chemistry, including the synthesis of vital neurotransmitters such as serotonin.

Other papers obtained with the NSDA documents show the Food and Drug Administration also had misgivings. Despite this, it approved aspartame.

Dick Adamson, of the NSDA, said that, in l983, it evaluated the data on aspartame and posed a number of questions. Once they were answered, it no longer had concerns about the safety of aspartame in carbonated drinks.

Ben Deutsch, a spokesman for Coca-Cola, referred questions to the NSDA.

"The corporations are planning our futures," Nader remarked to the Washington Post on June 17. "They are making sure [our children] grow up corporate. The kids are over-medicated, militarized, cosmetized, corporatized. They are raised by Kindercare, fed by McDonald's, educated by Channel One. They are given hand-held entertainment units like Gameboys, seduced by Disney movies and toys, and their coaches and teachers all operate against a backdrop of corporate logos and sponsorship." Ralph Nader

"Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is a World Government. this can best be achieved by strengthening the United Nations system. In some cases this would mean changing the role of the UN agencies from advice giving to implementation."
United Nations Human Development Document
Page 88, 1994

The Brady Bill is the minimum step Congress should take. We need much stricter gun control and eventually we should bar ownership of handguns except in a few cases. ~~ Clay, Democratic Representative, St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 8, 1993, pg. A1

I now think the only way to control handgun use is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. ~~ M. Gartner, then President of NBC News, USA Today, January 16, 1992, pg. A9 (Not true anymore! The Klinton Admin. is arguing in a court case right now that the Constitution gives no guarantee for private ownership of firearms by "we the people". Kiss the Constitution goodbye if "I-Gore" gets elected! Ed.)

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny, which though now appears remote in America, history has proven to be always possible. ~~ Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (A democrat, believe it or not! Ed.)

The maintenance of the right to bear arms is a most essential one to every free people and should not be whittled down by technical constructions. [State vs. Kerner, 181 N.C. 574, 107 S.E. 222, at 224 (1921)]

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German philosopher

"When treason prospers, what's the reason? None dare call it treason!"

I will fight til Hell freezes over; then I will fight on the ice. BrianWilson.net (Me too! Bless you all. Ed.)

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