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It's bellwether, Emily....not bell weather.

A bellwether is any entity in a given arena that serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings. The term is derived from the Middle English bellewether and refers to the practice of placing a bell around the neck of a castrated ram (a wether) in order that this animal might lead its flock of sheep.

'Thought you'd like that.
June Borsberry,
Toronto

It is pretty obvious that any MP who stayed away or voted for the exemption from the FOI is to be viewed as potentially corrupt. Perhaps the media should publicise a list of all those MP's ( and their party and constituency ) who voted for the exemption using Hansard as a reference. Publication of a list of MP's who voted for the exemption will at least give the electorate the chance to get rid of them at the earliest opportunity. The exemption from open scrutiny will be just what the corporate lobbyists wanted, plenty of scope for back hander's in the form of favours.

They think knowledge is power rather than for the purpose of getting worthwhile work done...

The truth is what each character cares about..there are many truths... and we know our own...

We can also forecast the truths of others from agenda and those present and absent at meetings..and create our own leadership for our kind and fighting epistemologies against theirs..

The truth we know has been built funded worked and stocked all around...

The public knows.. we are our own government we have our own common sense ...their information would only say who their mates are what they would have done and what they would want people to believe and we can see that all ready and work out our own truth...

For those colluding in our commons they have elected to say whatever their double talk will enable for motives and with options we can systematically test...we can explore every option and frame them with every case...we are hunting them down as offenders in every way until all the public are motivated to get rid of them and the word has won to liberate us all...

The commons is an anarchy of misleading obedience...a contretemps of euthanasic corruptors...sexist perverts.. privicidal maniacs..and crime fearing servants of the greed is good economies... all of them competing in drugs wars...and every other kind of survivalist disrespect until they are the mockable ...our public despise them...

Every man woman and child can express their own way..the collusion of political parties must be broken like the old pot of a well nourished house plant that needs open garden for it's roots to grow......

We will all have our own futures again in our Great Britain free from the eccentric empires of their minds!!!

Inspired by Winston Churchill... not the only leader alive in the heads of the nation...he said trust the people...we say trust what you care about...our world has already won...let's stop their villains having it off us...!!!

TLC...

I am just surprised that we voters would think that our MP's would vote for Freedom of Information.
What an excuse!! The fear that someone may wish to read a letter I had sent to my MP. They have obviously forgotten other acts that prevent this, which is the data Protection Act.

Brown's promise of listening to the people has already been his first casualty. Rotten to the core some MP's that is those that allowed this travesty. Some MP's were "honourable" in the debate. Yes I am all for publishing the names of those absent and those responsible.

I am at a loss to understand that how could a British citizen, who has sworn an oath of loyalty to the Queen and the United Kingdom, run a political organisation of another country, and direct it from here?
Is it legal under our current security and terrorism laws?

The question of how information will be found out from PMs since the controversial bill exempting them from the freedom of inforamtion law is passed, and how it would fit into GB's attempt to build trust, should not be worrying.

Being the source of information is not on the list of priorities which brings back trust to the government.

And more so, winning back the trust always happens in the circumstance of previous mistakes believed to be unethical.

So I don't think being the source of information is one of the rrors GB believes to have been committed by Tony Blair.

So, GB will go ahead and rectify the rrors he believes to have been committed by his precedessor, Tony Blair.

However, for me I think Tony Blair was correct in every way regarding his foriegn policy though he acted singled mindedly.

As constituent's correspondance already has protection, the intention appears to be to hide what MPs are doing. So, with this in mind, which of the following is more likely?

A - Govt and MPs are making decisions and taking action with the aim of benefiting this country, regardless of popular or Party approval or their own long-term private interests?

OR

B - Ministers and MPs who are behind this bill are concerned mainly with their own venal interests and their Party's vested interests, at the expense of this country and its citizens?

If you always will only vote for one party then you're decision has already been determined by Party politics (which is always for the benefit of a Party, not the country). Anyone with a free-thinking mind can make their own choice.

I was in Karachi on the day of the carnage on May 12 when 36 people were shot dead and 115 others were wounded. Curious for what actually happened being a security professional I talked to three police officials that were on duty at the area of killings. The police though were present but were helpless as they were not carrying weapons under orders of the Provincial Home Ministry that is run by the MQM. In two sectors police were told to handover charge of their posts to some armed men in civil clothes, called Sector Commanders, the commanders of MQM鈥檚 militant wing that is feared in Karachi.

ON May 12, in these two sectors where maximum killing took place, the police officers were told by the Sector Commanders not to interfere in law and order. Sector Commanders blocked the main roads leading to the airport that was also the route to be taken by the opposition rallies that planned to go to airport to receive the Chief Justice. This compelled the people coming from different directions to get down off their vehicles and walk on main road and proceed to airport. The sector commanders who had manned all the flyover bridges on the main road opened fire at the approaching participants of rallies. 36 people were killed and 115 received bullet wounds on that day, of which, 9 more have been killed so far.

The Sector Commanders started shooting at around 12 on May 12 and by 3 pm 20 people had died, all the victims being the people who had joined the rallies to receive the Chief Justice. Altaf Hussain made a speech to an MQM rally from his office in Edgware at 3 pm to blame the Chief Justice for this carnage.

According to organization of the MQM, the Sector Commanders get direct orders from the party chief Altaf Hussain. Hussain鈥檚 deputy, Imran Farooq, who also lives in UK, helps the Sector Commanders execute the orders.

Do the people of Britian really know that the planning of this carnage in Pakistan was carried out in their country,,,in Edgware? Do they know that orders to kill 45 innocents were issued from Britain? Will the man responsible for this massacre be ever brought to justice?

Brossen99 and anyone else interested in whether their MP voted 'in the interests of preserving the confidentiality of constituents' mail' and, entirely coincidentally, also preserving them forom having to divulge expenses claims (ahem) I heartily recommend the excellent 'public whip' website. It will tell you (for any division, not only this) exactly which MP votes which way.

Then you just have to decide what you will do about it (safe in the knowledge that, having had your very best interests at heart, your private correspondence with your MP will not be divulged through an FOI request...)

Stalin & Co Plus oh so many more throughout the former Soviet Union were also exempt from public scrutiny. they also had the Stasi like organisations such as currently being set up here.

Vote for none who did not vote against such a bill.

Otherwise accept:-

The choice is that of the voter, the next vote may be the last that matters.

How much time and money is Gordon Brown going to waste rescuing AFRICA ?
My heart bleeds for the long suffering people of Africa along with everybody else but while the country is run by immoral gangsters and tyrants who endorse MURDER or RAPE you my as well use the billions of pounds worth of aid money to build a spectacular bomb fire. You could argue that Iraq needed new leadership, but more than Africa??
Leaders who would be ashamed of their soldiers raping or killing people and not publicly covering them up. Publicly putting their own people on trial is the only way forward for Africa. Will I see this in my lifetime. No chance !

How much time and money is Gordon Brown going to waste rescuing AFRICA ?
My heart bleeds for the long suffering people of Africa along with everybody else but while the country is run by immoral gangsters and tyrants who endorse MURDER or RAPE you my as well use the billions of pounds worth of aid money to build a spectacular bomb fire. You could argue that Iraq needed new leadership, but more than Africa??
Leaders who would be ashamed of their soldiers raping or killing people and not publicly covering them up. Publicly putting their own people on trial is the only way forward for Africa. Will I see this in my lifetime. No chance !

The present ruling goverment in Pakistan, in its eight years of power, has failed to address the simplest of the country's problems: LAW & ORDER. Unfortunate as it may be, Pakistan is in its worse state ever, in its 60 odd years of existence.

The law and order situation in its biggest city of 15 million, Karachi, is the worse in the country. This is not due to the vast population or unemployment, but due to organized crime at the hands of the MQM. Over the decade in which the MQM lay underground, people at home have forgotten the brutal murders committed by them and the no-mercy attitude of the organization and its spearhead, Altaf Hussain.

Altaf Hussain is a holder of a British passport. I dont see him being classified as a terrorist, despite having multiple murder cases registered against him in his own country. His organized crime rings have taken over peoples lives and soulss. Armed robbery, gun-point looting, killings (as displayed on 12-May-2007) and forced/forged votes are just a few things his hooligans are capable of.

I urge all Britons to reassess if this man actually deserves to live on Brit soil? He certainly doesnt deserve to live in Pakistan. I feel he knows better than anyone else that the return to his 'homeland' is more than just 'unsafe' for him.

MQM is the only political platform for 98% middle class & lower middle
class peoples in Pakistan. The reason behind all this propaganda is due
to this because they belong to this class & according to all these
luxurious peoples like Imran Khan who now say that He has made
Shaukatkhanam Hospital but he has collected huge donation from Karachi with MQM for
hospital & according to his own interview on a channel that he receives
donation of Rs.70million/yr for Shaukatkhanam but not even a single
person who has been hospitazied in Shaukatkhanam for free even for a
single day then what you expect from Imran, all this propaganda, false cases
are just the movement to dismiss Musharraf & come in power. These 2%
higher class including Imran Khan on one side says west should not
interfere in our matter & know he is beggaring west for justice this means
Imran Khan has no confident on Pakistan芒鈧劉s judiciary. The real truth is
that Altaf Hussain is not a politician he is the Great Leader, &
Pakistani nation needs a Leader to solve their issues, not a politician like
Nawaz Sharif, & Benazir. MQM workers are the best example of his
manifesto & instructions. After 12th may violence all the political parties
made grand alliance against MQM & instead of making people cooldown they
are spreading fire & oiling the fire but MQM understand the conspiracy,
"make people distribute in sect", then Governor of Sindh
Dr.Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan, on his own goes door to door to make people calmdown and made
great efforts to restore peace. Every problem has a solution if
discussed on a table neither on streets/courts; this is the teaching of
beloved Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). In this respect if we saw
previous governments of Pakistan till 1999, what they do if there was any
type of tension in the country they have only choice, operation against
people those peoples who themselves are the nation of Pakistan. If Altaf
Hussain was really a fascist or terrorist then there was no possibility
of peace in the city after 12th may. But what happens this is the
success story of his Leadership and instructions to MQM followers. After
12th may all opposition parties combine with Pakhtuns & when MQM solve all
the matters with their leadership on the table then they start
opposition of Pakhtuns this is the level of sincerity with the peoples of
Pakistan. These 2% class is that class that can't remain away from power
long time because their financial resources are the resources of
Government Treasure from which they looted, & fill their personal banks accounts
in World Bank. Imran Khan is actually playing in the hands of these
liars, & he is playing with fire, without a leader you may think where the
nation can go. Dont think negative & comeout from the grip of negative
thinkers & thinking.

Imran has asked some questions from MQM leader Altaf Hussain on a private TV Channel here in Pakistan:
1. What is the financial resources of Altaf Hussain?

2. Why did Altaf did not come to Pakistan?

3. MQM politics is on gun point?

Ans1: The financial resources of Altaf Hussain was given by his millions of followers in verious sorts like donations, zakat, funds etc.

Ans2: Pakistan's politics was mostly under attack of establishment like ISI. The former Director of ISI Gen r. Hameed Gul has also tried to kill Altaf Hussain when he was in a hospital after a operation of kidney transplant in 1982, when MQM was not founded, but it was in the shape of a student organization.

Ans3: When MQM whenever bycot elections even local body election or national election the turnover of voters was seen a huge decline peoples at that time were elected by only 100, 1200 votes like in the city Karachi whos population is about 2million. A good example is election 1992-93 when MQM announced bycot of elections then there were no voter on the roads while that time is the time when every street of Karachi was under security of Rangers, and Army and suddenly MQM announces to take part in election millions of people comeout from their houses and voted MQM. There is no question remains. If MQM is doing politics on Gun point then why in Karachi all the political parties has central offices there even MQM is in power since 4 years, while after 12th may violence 51 offices of MQM including karachi and other parts of country like, NWFP, Punjab, Lahore, Balochistan, were burnt by the opposition parties like MMA, JI, PPP extremist and religious party of Pakistan, that was directly pointed out that they were the first who takes guns and bullets in the politics in shelter of Gen. Zia ul Haq. PPP, Benzair Bhutto own brother founded a terrorist organization called Al-Zulfiqar on the name of her Father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was killed in an encounter because he was found involved in illegal activities like robbery, ransom, rape, kidnapping, Hijaking Air Craft of PIA, leaded Talibans when these organizations were founder their was no name of MQM and ALtaf Hussain in the history of Pakistani Politics.

If Altaf Hussain was tried in british courts then from a Pakistan, anyone can ask questions from Imran Khan in british court too:

1. He recieves 70million PKR/year for shaukat khanam hospital where does he use this money?

2. On 12th may PPP, ANP, MMA, PML(N), JI, Sunni Tehrek, were also found involved in starting the violence under the shelter of their central leadership then why should not Imran try their leadership in British court while they are also there like Benazir Bhutto, and Nawaz Sharif and two times these person have enjoyed power and both times their government was dissmised on the charges of corruption, extra judicial killings, under custody killings, illegal usage of powers.

Imran Khan should be prisoned in british jail.

Reality of 12th may in a video<

It was a irony that political leadership vacuum amongst the muhajir communities in the 1980s was hijacked by the gangsters of MQM and APMSO. Even some founding fathers of MQM were sacrificed on the orders of "Altaf Bhai". On 12th May, once again, the true face of MQM was exposed. No one is against the ideas that MQM stands for. It鈥檚 the ruthless way how it executes its gangsterism on the innocent people of Karachi.

How unfortunate that these sincere muhajirs are unable to understand that they need an alternative leadership. Isn't there anyone amongst Muhajirs who could stand up and reclaim the leadership torch from the gangsters of MQM.
Altaf has to be tried in court, in Britain or else it will be mockery of justice in the UK. It will be mockery of war on terror, while on one hand British government has given a refuge to an all time terrorist.

MQM is worst than IRA. At least IRA didn't kill its own people. Here MQM gangsters have been filmed live, killing innocent people, all on the orders of "Altaf Hussain".

Dear my father, my two brothers, and cousin were not sacrificed their lives on the orders of Altaf Hussain, they were killed under the custody of Police in the Government of PPP, Benazir Bhutto. Now who do you blame for that person who have rised his voice for the rights and security of of our life. Remember that after Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah what the Pakistani nation has suffered is also the reason of lack of leadership and after Al-Hussain you and your hero forcing the Pakistan to dip in a gorila war. Imran Khan has collected prove against MQM from Naserullah Baber who him self has said on record that left the judiciart that black corts can't do anything kill these peoples on the road with bullets, then what we expect from him is our future that we have left behind when my father, two brothers and two cousin were killed. Answer me that who is the responsible of the killing of all my family persons.

Imran Khan has once again proved his legendry courage by undertaking the challenge of brining one of the worst terrorists, Altaf Hussain, to justice. I wish Imran all the best in putting an end to the criminal activities of Altaf Hussain once for all. I believe Altaf has committed enough heinous crimes under the protected umbrella of U.K. citizenship. It鈥檚 over Mr. Hussain.