The GOP’s Young Hatemonger – Page 1 – The Daily Beast

John Avalon in The Daily Beast discusses a rather nasty little piece of work, Audra Shay, in his article: “The GOP’s Young Hatemonger.”

Audra Shay, accused of endorsing racism on Facebook, became head of the Young Republicans on Saturday. John Avlon uncovers new details about her disturbing online comments.

Thirty-eight-year-old Audra Shay’s campaign to become the next chairman of the Young Republicans went from obscure to infamous over the past week, after The Daily Beast revealed details of posts of her Facebook account…”more

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Children involved in riots – PSNI

Criminals active in causing riots in Northern Ireland have sunk so low that they get children to do their fighting. The dissident republicans are complete and utter cowards:

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BBC NEWS: “A senior policeman has said young children were involved in rioting in north Belfast on Monday which he said was orchestrated by criminals

Assistant Chief Constable Alistair Finlay said his officers faced an “extraordinarily dangerous situation”.

Twenty-one police officers were injured in the Ardoyne area and two blast bombs were thrown in violence after the passing of an Orange parade.

Mr Finlay said at least one gunman fired at police to try to murder them.

A BBC reporter saw a masked rioter fire a single shot from a handgun towards the police.

A loaded rifle was also handed into police after a group of children were seen playing with it.

Police said they fired 18 baton rounds during the trouble.

“It was dangerous, particularly from the sinister element of people amongst that crowd wanting to shoot police officers, wanting to kill police officers,” Mr Finlay said.

“Wanting to derail whole processes through that, so it was an extraordinarily dangerous situation.”

The Real IRA has been blamed by Sinn Fein for the trouble…”more

Eight soldiers’ bodies flown home

Wootton Bassett Citizens salute Army heroes. Image by Getty Images via Daylife

As the bodies of the latest British Army heroes return home. We need to remember that British soldiers are doing a magnificent job in very harsh conditions, in Operation Panther’s Claw they are taking the fight to the Taliban. It is important that we continue the solidarity with our forces and those of the International Security Assisistance Force (ISAF) in order that Afghanistan is freed from the threat the Taliban poses. Jeremy Paxman’s BBC Newsnight programme last night posed the question why are we in Afghanistan, I would have thought even Jeremy Paxman had enough intelligence to work that out. The problem is that the British Army must have the tools and manpower to do the job and our Labour government is failing to provide, to its shame, the British Army with the necessary equipment. The Taliban threat must be curtailed and military action is require to bring this about; there also needs to be a political settlement with some kind of acceptable representative state with clean government. By all accounts the Afghan people do not want to be ruled by the Taliban.

BBC NEWS: “The bodies of eight British soldiers killed in Afghanistan in a single 24-hour period will be flown back to Britain later.

Thousands of people are expected to line the streets as their coffins are driven through Wootton Bassett, near RAF Lyneham, in Wiltshire…”more

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