Unbelievable BBC interview with man pulled from wheelchair by cops.

[ferrelhadley]

"Whos apathetic now?"

 

[Tankus]

Someone elses view

Wheels Come Off Protester’s Complaint

Jody Macinytre, radical pro-Palestine supporter and sufferer from cerebral palsy has made much hay of the fact he was dragged out of his wheelchair by riot police at Thursday’s protests. Yet he has previously admitted to be coordinating breaking police lines. He claims on his blog he is a revolutionary yet spent a BBC interview declaring his innocence and denied live on Sky that he was in fact a revolutionary before going on to claim that the police had no reason to move him out of the way. However he has revelled in, and incited, violence on his website.

His argument is undone when a quick glance at his blog shows that he has been at the forefront of the protests so far at Westminster and managed to walk all the way up to the top of Millbank back in November, blogging that “It was an epic mission to the top. Nine floors; eighteen flights of stairs. Two friends carried my wheelchair, and I walked.” Macintyre can’t hide behind his disability when the police treat him like any other violent trespassing thug. It’s called equality…

Hat-Tip : Phil Taylor

UPDATE: Further pictorial evidence emerges of the police being as gentle as possible in moving Macintyre and in doing so the officers put themselves in personal danger from the hail of missiles. Here is a quote from Graham Mitchell the photographer “Mr McIntyre was in the front row of the crowd and in a very precarious position, especially as he is wheelchair bound. It was clear from my vantage point that the police moved him as gently as possible and in doing so the officers put themselves in personal danger from the hail of missiles. Once he had been moved away from the front line to a safe distance, the officers sat him on a low level wall. Mr McIntyre got up and started arguing with an officer. He was so wound up that he eventually tried to strike an officer and was only stopped from doing this due to the intervention of a famale passer-by.

http://order-order.com/2010/12/14/wheels-come-off-protesters-complaint/

...wait for it..........................!

 

[audiotech]

Mr Jody McIntyre is, 'hiding behind his disability and is a "violent trespassing thug"'? You agree with this?

 

[audiotech]

 

[Das Uberdog]

be good if a few people brought a wheelchair down to the next demo, abducted Brown with a bit of duct-tape and sent him rolling slowly towards the nearest police line... it would be fantastic on many levels if the police just decided to batter him.

 

[ferrelhadley]

Wait a guy whos blog has a tag line about Guy Fawks being the only honerable man to enter parliament is whining about breaking police lines???

 

[rollinder]

be good if a few people brought a wheelchair down to the next demo, abducted Brown with a bit of duct-tape and sent him rolling slowly towards the nearest police line... it would be fantastic on many levels if the police just decided to batter him.

 

[rollinder]

Don't know if this has been posted yet. Jody Mcantyre, "Who's apathetic now?"

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/15/jody-mcintyre-who’s-apathetic-now/

100 years ago another severely disabled person, Helen Keller, broke through the massive obstacles of blindness and deafness to see more clearly than those around her the misery created by capitalism and the possibility and necessity of fighting for a socialist alternative to it. She is well known for her achievements in overcoming her disabilities. Less known is that she was a revolutionary socialist.

She too was dismissed and patronised and accused of "using" her disability as a weapon. She wrote.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1910s/12_11_03.htm

She could have been talking about Richard Littlejohn. Jody Mcantyre is the Helen Keller of our day. He speaks not only for disabled people but for us all.

I'm being a bit crap at stringing intelligent comments together today mad but want to say thanks for this post & quotes &
"Jody Mcantyre is the Helen Keller of our day. He speaks not only for disabled people but for us all."
^ agree.

 

[cointreauman]

I have posted on the BBC site to detail my own thoughts on the shit Ben Brown - if you complain about the Ben Brown interview through the official complaints page you get directed to the [age set up by Kevin Blackhurst where he asks fo comment (now over 750!) Keep then comng and if you are censored - get back in there and repost - mine is being modded right now.

Kevin Bakhurst is the controller of the BBC News Channel and the BBC News at One and the deputy head of the BBC Newsroom

C

 

[ymu]

Heh. Nearly 800 comments on that BBC blog now. And most of them lengthy and thoughtful. Kind of undermines the BBC's dismissal of the complaints as an 'internet campaign' (which usually refers to cut'n'paste spam, which are rightly ignored these days).

Bakhurst hasn't been back since he reinstated/edited his #99 advising people to look at Jody McIntyre's blog, as if it hides some sinister dark secret that demonstrates why he deserved to be attacked like that. Evan Harris is on there being a twatty liberal, and getting a hard time for it.

 

[ernestolynch]

That loon 'Fawkes' is TORY.

 

[dylans]

That loon 'Fawkes' is TORY.

A right wing Tory. Some of the comments on that blog are to the right of the BNP

 

[Santino]

Fawkes was behind a lot of the 'outrage' about Hague's relationship with that bloke.

 

[Open Sauce]

That is fucked. Well out of order.

You can make a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission here.

Ok, best make the complaint as good possible

http://www.pcc.org.uk/cop/practice.html

Presumably 12.i

The PCC has form with complaints about Littlejohn though,

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/12/feeble-pcc-fails-to-take-on-littlejohn.html

 

[Streathamite]

If anybody else wants to compain about the Littlejohn piece, here's an adequate standard complaint, and I checked for the right Code Clauses too;
Richard Littlejohn's comments on the wheeelchair User Jody McIntyre, in his column on the date cited above (to be found as the second article in his column), constitute an absolute, total disgrace. firstly, his comparison with tyhe 'andy' character from 'Little Britain' - when it is evident Mr McIntyre has cerebral palsy and is a genuine wheelchair user - breaches clause 212.i of your code, and is outrageously nasty too. Littlejohn's assertion is that Mr mcintyre has only himself to blame for the police dragging him fr4om his wheelchair and assaulting him, is equally despicable.
Both comments, in fact the whole piece, is such a misrepresenting 'smear' that it breaches 1.ii of the code too.

 

[Gromit]

I like the bit in the interview where he accuses him of 'rolling towards the police'. He could have dangerously rolled over a coppers toe and ended a promising career early couldn't he the evil protestor!!!!!

 

[Bethany_Vile]

I'm not entirely sure if i'm down with complaining to the BBC for this. The presenter was completely owned by Jody during that interview. If he was trying to bully him it's clear that Jody came out on top, and was not the weaker party. Save complaints for the IPCC i say, because the man needed no help here!

 

[dennisr]

Ok, best make the complaint as good possible

http://www.pcc.org.uk/cop/practice.html

Presumably 12.i

The PCC has form with complaints about Littlejohn though,

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/12/feeble-pcc-fails-to-take-on-littlejohn.html

Don't know if this has been posted but over a 1,000 complaints about that cartoon so far - its good to see the level of support and recognition of the appalling view this represents:

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/12/ppc-complaints-littlejohn-mcintyre/

 

[dennisr]

Wait a guy whos blog has a tag line about Guy Fawks being the only honerable man to enter parliament is whining about breaking police lines???

- right wing loons don't do irony

 

[cointreauman]

Ther BBC Editors Blog Now has over 1020 responses

The vast majority in support of Jody and flaminf Ben Brown

A few prats are sticking to their guns that it is all orchestrated and the BBC did no wrong - no sensible retorts or arguments Just a WI type repsonse. Boo Hiss - You are all wrong

Loads of peopleare suggesting that Ben Brown makes n appointment at h Job Centre!

C

 

[rekil]

They seem to have given up adding any more comments to the blog, so it looks like people are posting to a previous one about people with disabilities (Access All Areas). Bakhurst has reappeared on twitter after vanishing for a bit and declining to respond to anyone.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

It finished up with 1056 comments - he he

 

[rollinder]

Ok, best make the complaint as good possible

http://www.pcc.org.uk/cop/practice.html

Presumably 12.i

got a reply frown the PPC today

Thank you very much for contacting us with your complaint about the article in the Daily Mail about Jody McIntyre. We have received numerous complaints about the coverage.

In response to the concerns raised, we sought to contact Mr McIntyre to see whether he wished to make a complaint to the PCC. We have now received a formal complaint from Mr McIntyre, and we will take forward the complaint with him directly.

We will seek to inform you of the outcome of the matter in due course. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.

Best wishes

Simon Yip
Administrator

(my bold) yay that they're at least appearing to take it seriously and bothering to investigate.(ish)

 

[lighterthief]

Richard Littlejohn and the Daily Mail will be absolutely lapping this up though.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Richard Littlejohn and the Daily Mail will be absolutely lapping this up though.

Let them. All the more likely that Littlejohn's going to run into the wrong person at the wrong time and get a taste of Broken fucking Britain.

 

[lighterthief]

More likely to keep filling their coffers with advertising: http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op...=15&gid=media/2010/nov/25/abce-abcs&cat=media

 

[Maggot]

got a reply frown the PPC today



(my bold) yay that they're at least appearing to take it seriously and bothering to investigate.(ish)

Yes, but as the chairman of the PCC is Paul Dacre, don't expect too much.

 

[shagnasty]

I haven,t gone through the old thread please forgive me if this as been posted

reply to complaint from bbc which gives a blog link

Thank you for your feedback regarding the BBC News Channel broadcast on 13 December 2010.

We appreciate some viewers felt Ben Brown was too challenging during his interview with student tuition fees protestor Jody McIntrye.

The Controller for the BBC News Channel Kevin Bakhurst has written a blog in response to these concerns, it can be seen at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2010/12/interview_with_jody_mcintyre.html

Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.

Kind Regards

BBC Audience Services

 

[tar1984]

Are the BBC stupid enough to believe that peoples only problem with that interview is it was too challenging. Or that that pathetic blog post goes any way towards addressing the problems.

 

[treelover]

While what happened is wrong, I am a bit baffled about the massive concern on the issue (is it tied in with the student demo euphoria?) and of course Jody who is articulate, intelligent and spunky enough to speak for himself, one could argue he doesn't need 'abled bodied' people to give sympathy. Imo, the real outrage is the hundreds, yes hundreds of disabled people who with hate crimes are physically attacked, often very violently every year, the BBC did a programme on it with Lady Di's friend Rosa Monckton, it was heartbreaking, we don't hear much about them....