Events in August 2008

Question

Whats all Happening this month? I remember there was a bunch of cool stuff.... but i forgot when i forget things usually don't come back so, anyone know?

Answer 1

August 4th 76th birthday of michael w suffering from typers cramp,late nights, phobia for lawnmowers, heat exhaustion, its 32c outside, and many other Q and A problems.plus a wife and 2 cats that never stop ( I dare not say anymore)

Answer 2

One of the major ‘hidden’ events that will unfold this month is the decision to be made by the US authorities about the fate of Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle.

Ok, I know most Americas and many British people will ask who are these two guys.

Let me fill you in !!

Never since the Pilgrims of the Mayflower sought asylum in America from persecution by the British authorities have British citizens found it necessary to seek political asylum in the US. But now it has happened…although the US news media have put a lid on news about this item. (There have been a couple of media reports in local papers in England but also virtually nothing in the UK either)

On 11 July 2008 the Yorkshire Post published a report entitled “Holocaust denier convicted of trying to incite race hate online”.

See link below…

Here a report from a British blog…

"Mr. Simon Sheppard and Mr. Steve Whittle who were the first people in the World to be tried and subsequently charged with Inciting racial hatred for publishing anti-Semitic articles on a website hosted in the USA. When found guilty they fled to Ireland and then flew to Los Angeles to claim political asylum after they had received confirmation from the US Government that the articles were not illegal in the US. They fled persecution and to my knowledge they are the first indigenous British people from the UK to have ever done this. The Court case was a total sham but most crucially, as I said, was the first of its kind in the World (previously sites hosted in the US were deemed out of the jurisdiction of the UK laws) and now they are also the first from the UK to claim they are fleeing Political persecution in the UK (rightly so). I spoke with the Department of Homeland Security in America who state quite clearly that the British media have 'gone crazy' about this story with them receiving hundreds of telephone calls a day yet the only publications to have even mentioned this story are local Yorkshire ones, this indicates to me that the bigger publications KNOW of the story and are actively following it but are not publishing it, this does not make any sense to me at all? I would surmise that the people of the UK need to know about the dictatorial regime we live under where the most fundamental of human rights is not afforded to us - the right to freedom of speech. I would be most grateful if you could look into this and get back to me."

And I think the US public should hear about this.

Oh, and happy birthday Mike :)