MOROCCO'S TANGIER: Something Like A Camel Ride! By Uncle Monty.

MOROCCO'S TANGIER:

Something Like A Camel Ride!

By Uncle Monty at Canada's Vancouver.

Tangier Photos By Alex Albion.
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Going directly from the very British feeling of Gibraltar
to the very Sunni feeling of Morocco’s Tangier, requires
an immediate psychological and emotional adjustment on
the part of those who are neither Islamic nor North African
like me. Tangier is a steaming place of activity and contrasts.
But much like Morocco itself, it exists under what is, more or

less, a borderline police state in which the individual can be,

and is, snatched off the street by Morocco’s civilian police

thugs of the Sûreté Nationale du Maroc. Such patrol the

Tangier streets, and every other city and town in Morocco,

around the clock and I saw at least three people snatched

off the streets in broad daylight or at night on three

separate occasions over the course of two days

while exploring the old Sunni city by foot.
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View of Downtown Tanger or Tangier.

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One young guy was grabbed by the neck by the three

plainclothes agents and literally dragged, kicked, and

bungled into the waiting white Sûreté Nationale van at

around 9.30 at night. Next day, another one was wrestled

to the ground and then physically frog-marched to the

large white van with the identity of Sûreté Nationale

again emblazioned all over it. While the third incident was

of an oldish fellow trying to run away and the police van

chased him down and he was caught up by the quick roving

van of the Sûreté Nationale thugs at when they immediately

snatched him off the streets. He then disappeared from public

view as the Sûreté Nationale van speeded away. Morocco's

notorious and exceedingly savage Gendarmerie Royale du Maroc

(para-military national police) and the Sûreté Nationale du Maroc

(civilian national police force) operate with absolute immunity

and impunity due entirely to the consent and encouragement of

The King of Morocco - MOHAMED VI - and his "progressive"

Moroccan government. Those who the authorities consider are

insulting or demeaning to the king and/or the Moroccan royal

family are prosecuted with a vengence, according the critical

website of afapredesa.org. To me, Mohamed VI sadly

sounds more like a thrown back to the last and

late Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi:

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Democracy and Legal Reform in ...
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Arriving Safely at Tanger or Tangier Seaport.

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But at St. Andrew’s Parish there was no sign of such

disquiet. Rather, it was an Anglican oasis in the middle of

the Sunni police terror that is Tangier. And, if one wanted

any more evidence of the non-stop Africanization of the

English Anglican Church, then St. Andews of Old Tangier

was the place to be. Officiating as a retired and visiting

clergyman from Brum Diocese, the Rev’d Robert Warren,

71, stood tall at his towering height of six foot six over the

congregation that saw bunches of Africans from at least 12

different African nations attend the morning service at the

late 19th century-built St. Andrew's right in the heart of

Tangier. The majority of the 100 or worshippers were

black. Most of them were immigrants to Morocco. Re-
cently, in just one swoop and scoop the Rabat authorities

arrested some 564 illegal immigrants in Morocco.

http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2008/09/catching-rabats-raree-show-by-uncle.html

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The African immigrants that spoke to me at St. Andrew's

were quick to tell how they wanted to leave Morocco to

enter freebie England as fast as they could. Please stay

away, I said to myself. We've already got too many

God-damn immigrants in England due to hideous New

Labour and we don't need any more, I mused in my

own thoughts as one of them also told me that "England

is paradise to us black people." Yeeeeep, we already

know that, don't we? Paradise for them, hell for us.

For godsake forget England and be sure to stay at

where you first came from!!! We don't want you,

even if New Labour insists we do when we

don't ... so say most of the Brit white folkz.
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Sunni Muslims Attending Tangier Mosque.

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Father Robert and his wife Jackique were making

their first ever visit to Morocco which will see them

at Old Tangier's St. Andrew's for the next month.
His former diocesan bishop was John Sentamu, who
is now the presiding Archbishop of York and who is

as black as the ace of spades being of Ugandian-birth.

Father Robert’s described Sentamu as “brilliant,” but

now too old, he surmised, to become the first black

Archbishop of Canterbury. I hope the retired Brum vicar

is right! With screaming gays, pushy women clergy, loud-

mouth leftist bishops like John Saxbee, the politically-
and theologically-divided laity, and never-ending, breed-

ing blacks, the last thing the Church of England needs is

yet another destructive issue and step of installing the

first black or foreign-born or female or gay Archbishop of

Canterbury. God forbid! When such should happen, which

it will, I will conceivably turn my back completely on the

Anglican Church until the day I die. And, if the vile British

Labour Party in 2010 should, by fair or foul, gain yet
another 5 years in office, I will almost certainly leave

England for good. I detest everything that New Labour

has done and what it represents of its own making in the

form of today’s Broken New Britan that started with

the political creep called Anthony Blair. I also openly

reject such parrotting of socialistic beliefs and agendas
from both within and without the Church of England.
At least at Tangier, the Sunni theology refuses outright

to embrace such claptrap that is espoused by all too
many inside The English Church and vile New Labour

of today. I cannot wait to vote them out of office for

good and not that the David Cameron's Tories

make me feel all around that much happier!
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Meet HAMZA: At 16, a Tangier Street Kid.

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With his smattering of English, Hamza, 16, bubbled

all over me with his excitement at first meeting me

on the street for only one thing - for whatever money

or food he could beg or con from out of me!! Whatever,

Hamza was a charming street kid of Tangier and we

liked each other almost instantly, I must say. British or

American or European visitors stick out a mile away for

resourceful young lads like Hamza, who relies almost ex-

clusively on such folkz for whatever money he can ably

and skillfully extract out of them by his sheer charm

and becoming personality. Hamza, however, couldn't

charm the local police who have regularly beaten him

for just being a street kid and for having committed no

crime whatsoever. I did whatever I could to help the

lovable rascal!! He attends state school only occasion-

ally and very reluctantly, he told me. The smattering

of English he spoke was picked up by Hamza mostly

from visiting Yankz and Britz that he seemed to like to

mingle with more than with his own native folkz. His

first love, beside nice girlz, is the guy called Eminem!!

He loves wearing the Eminem image on his clothing

as shown above in my photo of Hamza taken of

him on the streets of Tangier.

Eminem : Official Site
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Homeless Mohammed at age 29.

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The Tangier shopkeepers screamed at him when-

ever he got too near their shops. That's how I

came to notice Mohammed and to discover he

was homeless and sleeping rough at age 29. What

shocked me the most about him was the huge un-

treated boil and scab on his upper left arm that was

festering badly and needed to be medically-lanced

before it got any worse than it was. When I photogra-

phed him and his nasty boil, one of the shopkeeper

started to yell at me as loud as he could, too. I still

kept on photographing Mohammed as shown above.
Before I left him, I made sure he had some food and

some money in his pocket to help him as best as I

could. He then hugged he, did Mohammed. I only

wish I could have also got him some medical treat-

ment for that cruel and poisonous boil of his. It was

at least 4 or 5 inches round ... Much too, much!
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Selling His Hand-Made Ship at Tangier.

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To earn extra income, he makes and then sells

his hand-made ships on the streets to whoever

wants to buy one of them. The model ship shown

with the man above was a mere 250 Moroccan

Al-Maghrib Dirhams or about 22 English quid.

I first saw the man - whose name I didn't get -

carrying his ship on his shoulder soon after taking

my first camel ride on one of the 6 or 7 camels I

had encountered at the almost empty and nearby

Tangier beach. He spoke no Enlglish or Spanish,

and since I couldn't speak Arabic, we simply com-

municated by gestures and signs! His model ship

was superbly crafted and quite heavy at five feet

long and all hand painted, too.
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Tangier Youthz Taking A Free 18 Wheeler Ride ...

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I had looked out for them for two days to get a

quick photoshot of them hitching dangerous free rides

on the back of some 18-wheeler trucks on the main

roads of Morocco's Tangier. Gangs of 15 to 20 local

youthz of about ages 15 to 19 or so, I saw waiting

patiently for 18-wheelers to stop at some traffic

lights or at a bottleneck and then quickly jump on

the back of such to ride as far as they could. The

local traffic copz would blow their whistles when-

ever they saw such youthz on the back or order

the driver to stop as the kidz then fled the scene.

It was getting dark and just by chance I happened

to see a truck with 8 youthz riding on the back as

pictured above. The truck was going at full speed

and only by sheer luck and camera speed was I

able to finally get somekind of photo showing such

youthz doing their free ride ... Only certain older 18

wheelers do the trick for them and that allows them

to hold onto the back door rods and with a back bum-

per that they could step and stand on. The newer

trucks don't have such back fixtures for such

youthz to grab or hold onto. It's a game of adven-

ture and of a daring challenge and of a thrill ride, I

suspect, for such cocky youthz. However, one day,

if it hasn't already happened, some of those kidz

will be tragically killed on the dream truck of their

invincible youth! I'd hate to see that!! But it's

part of the "izzat" of some Moroccan youthz.
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Typical City Scene of Morocco's Tangier.

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Tangier is above all like somekind of camel ride!

It's bumpy, it's jumpy, it's scary, and it's curvy!

If you haven't taken a camel ride, then do so to

understand precisely what I mean about such.

From the Sûreté Nationale thugz snatching people

off the streets to Hamza the street kid to Mohammed

the rough sleeper to the model ship builder to the

18 Wheeler free riders to the camels I encountered

and to the bunches of immigrant Africans at St. An-

drew's morning service at Old Tanger, the whole

experience of the Sunni city for me was like some-

kind of camel ride from beginning to end. No wonder

Contessa Maria is in despair at my propensity to

write and photograph while she wants me to spend

more time with her than with complete strangers

on the streets of some strange place like Tangier.

Right you are, my dear Maria ... But don't despair

quite yet! I only have one life to live and so I must

do what I do to embrace it all for good or bad or

for whatever may come my way with joy or

sadness or whatever uplifts or befalls me!
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Good wishes from Vancouver, Uncle Monty.

+William Laud, 2010.

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The rainbow stretched across the open sky as
Maria and me sailed on the BANASA from

Gibraltar to Morocco's Tangier. The image I took

was with Maria's latest Xmas gift to me of the bino-

cular digital camera that can capture images of upto

infinity like the huge rainbow and The Rock of

Gibraltar standing awesomely and majestically

some 10 miles away in the far distant back-

ground from the passenger deck of the ship ...

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:: UPDATE ::
Hello Monty.

Sincerely and Prosperity greeting come to u in Jesus Name. I will

first of all introduce myself to you. i am Ishmael Godu who meet

you at the St Andrew Catholic (Anglican) church in Tanger Morocco.

i was very much happy to get incontact with you in Tanger so i

decieded to write you as my belove father. I am a Liberian Refugee

(shown with Father Robert and me in the above story caption photo)

belong to the Grebo ethnic tribe of Maryland County. I am 26 years

of age and a Junior High School Student of (A.G.M) Assemblic of God

Mission. I am Homeless' Schooless and presently seeking refuge in

Morocco because of the Civil-War in Liberia in which my father

were killed for no reason alone with two of my brothers. and our

Homes were burn down by the Rebel during the last war in 2003

which separated me from my family. In april 14 2005 I fled from

Liberia into exile. I can't go back to my country (Liberia) because

I am wanted I fought against the rebels who killed my father. I

don't have no shelters.I don't know the well about my mother and

the rest of my family. Furthermore I can't return to my County

because my county is a place with deep Traditional belief and

Witchcraft pracitice in which my uncle is the chief in the killing

society. Therefore I am kindly asking you for some assistance

to continue my education.to resettle my life becausei dont

have no source of income from anywhere. thanks Ishmael .
ishmaelgodu@yahoo.com

1.13.2010.

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STOP & SEARCH IS ILLEGAL.

By Uncle Monty at Flagstaff, Arizona.

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Two days ago, The European Court of Justice ruled New

Labour's "Stop & Search" laws, and its consistent abuse

by the British Police, are a gross violation of Human

Rights inside the United Kingdom. The landmark ruling

declares such "Stop & Search" tactics by the police to

be grossly illegal, too. Its taken almost 10 years for the

court to finally rule against such inimical and unjust laws.

During that time, millions of people have been abused

under the anti-terrorism guise of Stop & Search inside

so-called "Free England." I myself was subjected to such

abuse at Gatwick Airport by sly smiling Police Inspector

C. Button (CB783) just a few hours before the close of

2oo9 on New Year's Eve as I was preparing to fly out to

Gibraltar from Gatwick's North Terminal. I was easy

prey for Mr. Button's totally arbitrary and capricious

actions against me in order, I presume, for him to meet

New Labour's "Race Quota" under the beastly laws of

"Stop & Search" and to give life to his need to act out his

own "power trip" in front of other airline passengers!

The court ruling came too late for me to stop Inspector

C. Button's totally uncalled invasion of my privacy

in the open public at where I was humiliated and

degraded for no other reason than Button's own lame

rationale and oddball police psychosis. Now two weeks

later, I am still seething at him. When I return to

homebase in the wintery UK, I shall take steps to con-

sult with legal counsel to possibly instigate litigation

against the "dear" Inspector, the Gatwick Division,

and the Sussex Police. I demand at least a formal

apology to begin with ... I will have my full story soon

on what really took place at UK's Gatwick Airport on

New Year's Eve, 2oo9, by the over-the-top policeman

known to me as "dear" Inspector C. Button!!!

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Judges in Strasbourg say UK powers under Terrorism

Act 2000 violate convention on human rights.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/stop-and-search-ruled-illegal?CMP=AFCYAH
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Next Story:

"Excuse Me, Dear Inspector!"

Or What The Dear Inspector C. Button

Did To Me At UK's Gatwick Airport.

His Sly Smile I Shall Always Remember.

By Uncle Monty.

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PS - Thankz for the dozens and dozens of emails from

my many friends that are mostly snow-bound in the

UK and Europe, and in parts of America, right now.

Pooooooooooor thingz! But look at what has just happ-

ened in Haiti to all the poor devils there with possibly

thousands killed by the massive earthquake to hit the

capital Port-Au-Prince and much of its infrastructure

is now mostly devastated. The whole Haiti tragedy

is so heart rendering. So, guyz and galz, stop com-

plaining so badly about all the snow and ice at where

you are. It'll soon thaw and all will be alright, while

Haiti will take years to fully recover, if ever! Thankz

then to Jill Ferguson. Bev Brittan, Sally Morgan,

Elizabeth Middleton, Tom Grosvenor, John Lenhart,

The Reeds, Bishop Jonathon Blake, Curt Yates, Shelia

Aarons, Arlene Johnson, Patty Reynolds, et al, for your

nice and welcomed emails and what have you. As most

of you know, I rarely get to go anywhere, so please stop

being jealous of me for taking only a New Year short

break to Gibraltar, Morocco, Canada and USA with my

dear Contessa Maria. In other words, STOP WHINING

or I'll have to find that "dear" Inspector Button to

"Stop & Search" you just for the hell of it ...

LOL, Uncle Monty.

+St. Hilary, 2010.

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Haiti Earthquake

Thousands missing, feared dead in 7.0

earthquake that leaves Port-au-Prince in ruins

read more

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By Joseph Guyler Delva, National Post.

January 13, 2010 12:00 AM.

Photographs by Thony Belizaire,

AFP, Getty Images, National Post.

PORT-AU-PRINCE - A major earthquake hit

impoverished Haiti yesterday, toppling build-

ings and burying residents in rubble. It was

feared thousands could be dead. The capital,

Port-au-Prince, was covered in a pall of grey ...
Disaster - Earthquake - Haiti - Photos

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The Italian daily La Repubblica reports the death of the

Most Rev'd Serge Miot, Catholic Archbishop of Port-au-Prince.

According to the brief report, missionaries found his body in

the rubble of the archbishop's office. They also report that the

Vicar-General, Msgr. Benoit, was still missing. The Fides news

agency, states the Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, Archbishop Bernardito

Auza, was reported as saying: "Port-au-Prince is totally devastated.

The cathedral, the Archbishop's Office, all of the big churches, all

of the seminaries have been reduced to rubble. The same luck for

the Ministry buildings, the Presidential Palace, the schools. The

Parish Priest of the Cathedral, who was spared, told me that the

archbishop of Port-au-Prince would have died under the rubble,

together with hundreds of seminarians and priests that are

under the ruins." Independent Catholic News (ICN).

01.14.2010.

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