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Dog ‘Trained To Give Nazi Salutes And Obey Hitler’
By David Meikle
A DOG lover has told a court her boyfriend trained her ‘lovely little’ dog to give Nazi salutes and respond to videos of Adolf Hitler.
Suzanne Kelly, 29, said he had recorded the pug responding to statements such as ‘gas the Jews’ and ‘Sieg Heil’ and uploaded the video on YouTube — where it has been viewed more than 3million times.
Following com- plaints, police arrested Mark Meechan for allegedly commit- ting a hate crime in April last year.
The 29-year-old, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, has insisted he only did it to annoy Kelly and in another
video he apolo- gised for any offence caused.
Giving evidence at Airdrie sheriff court, Ms Kelly said: ‘I was just annoyed that he had made my dog look like something evil.
‘I didn’t think it would have the effect that it did. Mark has been unable to work because of it. I did not want anyone to be offended. He made my cute wee dog look like a monster, Nazis are monsters.’ In the clip the pug, Buddha, appears to lift its paw to the Sieg Heil com- mand.
Under questioning, Ms Kelly said Meechan was not a racist and had never expressed any anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic views.
The court earlier heard Ephraim Borowski, 66, director of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, label the video ‘grossly offensive’. He said he had lost mem- bers of his own family to the Nazis. The group’s web- site was bombard- ed with abusive comments after the video emerged, he added.
Prosecutors allege Meechan commu- nicated material that would stir up hatred on religious grounds.
Meechan, who denies wrong doing, faces an alternative charge of posting an anti- Semitic video aggravated by reli- gious prejudice. The trial was adjourned until November.
Dennis Rodman Offers To
Help Trump, US ‘Straighten
Things Out' With North Korea
By Geoff Herbert
An unlikely mutual friend is offering to help President Donald Trump make peace with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Dennis Rodman is offering to help the U.S. "straighten things out" with North Korea after the two countries have escalated ten- sions with threats of a potential nuclear war.
"I just want to try to straighten things out for everyone to get along together," the former NBA star told "Good Morning Britain" on Wednesday.
Rodman, who has visited the
dictator in North Korea several times, most recently offered an olive
branch on behalf of Trump with a gift of the real estate mogul's book "The Art of the Deal." Meanwhile, he's suggesting Trump talk to Kim to find common ground and avoid violent confrontation.
"The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
Kim is "just like everybody else," Rodman said. The basketball Hall of Famer, also known as "The Worm," told host Piers Morgan that his trips to Pyongyang included "cool things" like karaoke, skiing, horseback riding and laughing.
Rodman, who
appeared on Trump's reality TV show "Celebrity Apprentice" twice, endorsed Trump for president back in 2015.
"I think if the presi- dent even tries to reach out for Kim, I think it will be a great possibility. Things can happen if Donald Trump, if they sit down, and have some type of mutual conversa- tion," Rodman told "Good Morning Britain." "It don't have to be like a friendship type of conversation, just a mutual conversation saying, 'Hi, I would love to engage in some words and politics and over the history of your coun- try and my country and just try to start some dialogue.' I think that'll open up maybe the door just a little bit."
Earlier this year, North Korea missile tests prompted Trump to threaten "fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen." North Korea has since conduct- ed more tests, including launching a midrange ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear bombs over Japan last week
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