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The 12th, Marian Price, gay issues... George Galloway talks tough in Belfast

By Jane Hardy
Thursday, 9 August 2012

George Galloway

•  ENLARGE

MP George Galloway has said that dissident republican Marian Price should be freed.

The politician was speaking last night at the Belfast Feile.

He told the West Belfast Talks Back session: “The courts freed Marian Price so she should be freed”, adding he did not support her “political line” and if she reoffended she should be charged and brought before the courts.

Mr Galloway then revealed he had just spoken to the 58-year-old prisoner, convicted of bombing the Old Bailey, while talking to her husband Jerry McGlinchey.

“I have just spoken to her on the phone for the first time and she's not a well woman,” he said. “For all the damning with faint praise, and Ruth Dudley Edwards' reference to her ‘remarkable recovery’ (after Price's 1973 hunger strike), the courts decreed she should be released and it's time to free Marian Price.”

Alongside Mr Galloway on the panel was a rainbow coalition of opinion-makers and politicians: DUP MP Gregory Campbell, author Ruth Dudley Edwards and Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly.

The first half of the debate discussed, without resolving, Syria and the Middle East question.

Opinion divided pretty much along sectarian lines, with Galloway and Kelly regarding Western inaction on Syria as hypocrisy and part of a ploy to destabilise Iran.

Gregory Campbell and Ruth Dudley Edwards, in different ways, pointed out the complexity of the situation and the fact that the situation after any Western intervention might not look better than before.

After broadening talk out to Israel and Palestine, Ms Edwards caused some hissing in the audience by suggesting the Feile might introduce an Israeli representative to “hear the other side”.

It then moved on to gay issues which led to some agonising from Mr Campbell, although his statement of concern that marriage between a man and a woman could be undermined by acceptance of the “lifestyle” of the lesbian and gay community received surprising support from George Galloway.

The Respect MP for West Bradford caused amusement by saying you couldn't promote homosexuality — “you either are or you aren't” — and adding that attendance at any number of Pride marches would not change his orientation.

The debate turned to recent trouble over July 12, with a discussion over whether the Orange Order should be banned following a band's misbehaviour and the singing of ‘The Famine Song’ outside a Catholic church.

Discussion was fierce, and intensified later between Messrs Campbell and Kelly over whether the former would ever shake hands with the latter.

You can only hope that these exchanges are in some way cathartic.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/the-12th-marian-price-gay-issues-george-galloway-talks-tough-in-belfast-16195641.html#ixzz23AQvzGTb

Reply to Owen Paterson on Marian Price - 

 Irish Independent  Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Sandy Boyer in a letter takes the North of Ireland's political boss to task over hisGuardian letter which fed disinformation on Marian Price

Owen Paterson, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has written a letter to the editor of The Guardian (London) attempting to justify imprisoning Marian Price. I’ve included his letter below.

Paterson makes two essential points:

• That Marian Price was released on “license”, parole in American terms, which he had the right to revoke.
• That he does not have the legal right to release her because it can only be done by the Parole Commission.

Unfortunately for Mr. Paterson, neither is true.

He claims she received a royal pardon “the Royal Prerogative of Mercy” for a 20 year sentence related to the Old Bailey bombing but was on license for a life term for the same bombing.

If so, this would have been a strange and meaningless order. Granting a pardon for a 20 year sentence while simultaneously releasing someone on license from a life sentence would have achieved absolutely nothing.

If Mr. Paterson seriously believes the royal pardon doesn’t apply to Marian Price’s life sentence, all he has to do is produce it. Instead he states that the only copy of the pardon has been lost or shredded. Marian Price’s solicitor, Peter Corrigan, says that this is the only time in the entire history of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy that a pardon has gone missing.

Paterson also states that he can’t release Marian Price because “It would be outrageous for any secretary of state to do anything other than adhere strictly to the law.”

But the Life Sentences (NI) Order 2001 proclaimed by “Her Majesty” provides explicitly that “The Secretary of State may at any time release a life prisoner on licence if he is satisfied that exceptional circumstances exist which justify the prisoner’s release on compassionate grounds.”

There could hardly be more “compassionate grounds” for releasing Marian Price. United Nations doctors who examined her in July reported she was “unable to comprehend the allegations being made against her to sufficient degree to inform her defence” and that “she would be unable to follow the evidence in her own hearing as she lacks the ability to attend to detailed evidence”. She is presently hospitalized with pneumonia.

If Owen Paterson is serious about enforcing British law, he should release Marian Price immediately.

Sandy Boyer
Free Marian Price Campaign, US

Owen Paterson letter to The Guardian

You refer in your editorial (Northern Ireland: keep focused, 28 July) to the case of Marian McGlinchey (nee Price). I should be grateful for the opportunity to set out the facts.

Marian McGlinchey received two life sentences in 1973 for her part in the Old Bailey bombing. She was subsequently released on licence in 1980. At the same time she was granted the royal prerogative of mercy (RPM) in respect of a separate conviction which carried a 20-year fixed term sentence. The RPM did not cover her life sentences.

All life sentence prisoners remain on licence for life. They can be recalled at any time if they breach the conditions of their licence or pose a risk of serious harm to the public. A similar system was endorsed by the previous government in the legislation to give effect to the part of the Belfast Agreement that dealt with the early release of prisoners.

Before revoking a prisoner's licence under the Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001, however, the secretary of state must first seek a recommendation from the wholly independent parole commissioners. This is what I did in the case of Marian McGlinchey; their recommendation was that she was in breach of her life licence. Consistent with my overriding responsibility in Northern Ireland for public safety, and in accordance with the law, she was returned to prison.

The independent parole commissioners are now reviewing the case in full. If they are satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the protection of the public that the prisoner should be confined, then they may direct the prisoner's release. The prisoner has full legal representation and can challenge the case made against her; Marian McGlinchey has yet to do this. The decision of the parole commissioners is final and cannot be overruled by the secretary of state.

It would be outrageous for any secretary of state to do anything other than adhere strictly to the law. Yet the clear inference in your editorial is that I should discard due process and interfere politically in this case. That would fatally undermine the rule of law in Northern Ireland. That is not something I am prepared to do.

Owen Paterson MP

Secretary of state for Northern Ireland

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Hitler's Olympic's London 2012 Censored by Indymedia Ireland

The following article was censored by Indymedia Ireland, who are continuously involved in censorshit, similar to Hitler book burnings in Munich, prior to his holocaust and after the British holocaust in Ireland, both of which disappeared over 12 million people. Fascist and Stalinist censorshit, are really two sides of the same coin, which this author personally does not approve of, but those who engage in censorshit such as the Pensive Quill are fascist in deed and should know better.

The Olympic Torch carrying the Olympic Flame from Olympus in Greece, came via a very circuitous route around the world. Thousands of Brits lined the streets to watch it pass. Held overhead by a runner, the Torch is light enough to carry for long distances while producing a bright flame visible to all even in daylight. It can withstand wind, rain or a fall without being extinguished, while carrying enough fuel to burn all day. At night it must allow refueling while still lit. The Olympic Torch represents a major technological achievement, while its design has remained the same since before WWII.

Its invention is the single most archetypical symbol of the Olympic. The Olympic Flame for millions of people in the years since its invention, continued all over the Britain before the start of London 2012. The British like many other promises, said they would create a new Olympic Torch with a smaller carbon footprint but like the promises of the peace process and ending torture, they once again failed to deliver. The Torch for London 2012 is still Hitler’s design. So London 2012, the Olympic Torch still burns the same mixture of propane and butane as designed by Adolf Hitler, its inventor all those years ago.

Yes, thee Adolf Hitler that German engineer of advanced German engineering. The fact is, the whole torch relay thing is Hitler’s  concept. Before Hitler in 1936 there simply was no torch relay. Hitler adopted a very intimate, hands-on, Olympic approach and has had a long lasting effect in many ways. The Olympics of London 2012 remain a live entity of Hitlers creative vision, that the Olympic Committee have worked ceaselessly to keep.

Hitler besides inventing the Olympic Torch, worked with filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to define the aesthetic of Olympics London 2012, creating a work of evolved art which the world had never remotely seen before. Hitler and Riefenstahl’s Olympic concept continue to inspire London 2012 today. Hitler and Riefenstahl actually branded the Olympics, which Olympic committee dare not change. They have recognized the creative genius of that vision, which London 2012 cannot equal and they try their best to recreate it every four years.

Yes the Olympics happened before 1936 but were a really low-key event. Hitler made 1936 Berlin Games a centerpiece of global propaganda which London 2012 cannot match. Hitler spared no expense in producing an unforgettable spectacle on the global stage, that London 2012 cannot touch. The 1936 Games Olympics were Hitler’s special project, with his fingerprints all over it, right down to the Olympic Torch he personally invented. Hitler took a simple sporting event and raised it to a ritual, that continues to mesmerize the world. The Olympics of London 2012 are still the pinnacle of Hitler’s creative work as an artist.

So as the best athletes from all world compete in London 2012, tens of thousands of spectators with TV cameras reaching billions all over the world, the focus is on Hitler’s torch at the London 2012 Games. The British recreated again, Hitler's glorious human transcendence of the evolution of  the German master race in all of its power and glory, right in the middle of London 2012.

Londoners, once again in east London lost their homes to create the Olympic Village. Hitler once again certainly has had a tremendous influence on the architecture of London going right back to the early 1940. Londoners are now celebrating his influence on their city.With the creme de la creme of the world’s athletes competing beneath snipers and surface to air missiles in the highly fortified Olympic enclave, Hitlers vision is truly alive again in London 2012. Hitler Hype ?


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London 2012 Hitler's Olympics Militarized

 international | arts and media | opinion/analysis  Thursday August 02, 2012 07:34 by BrianClarkeNUJ - AllVoices 

With Irish Concentration Camps

First they came for Marian Price,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't Irish..

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Muslims,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Muslim.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

London 2012 Internment

The truth about British Occupied Ireland can be suppressed for the time being but it cannot be erased from the record of objective history written by truth tellers not corrupt corporate state sponsored revisionists.

Global Alternative Media Rising to challenge British Propaganda

The establishment media such as the BBC world service, no longer has a monopoly on reality. British official lies are challenged daily, buried historical and contemporary truths are dug up while objective reality is preserved. Truths such a Britain's ethnic cleansing of Ireland and it's engineered holocaust in Ireland, which has accounted for the disappearance of 6 million Irish people. The con artists's tricks have been revealed, the global alternative media's engine of peace, liberation, understanding and sanity is rising.

British media are forced to admit they have been lying to the world about almost everything and their warmongering is not mainstream. They are losing their control over the minds of the masses and they are also losing control of their own minds in the process.In fact, British establishment journalists have already gone crazy and lost their tenuous grip on reality. Their subjective world is falling apart around them and their temporary power is disappearing daily. Truth is too strong and will win out. British establishment media is going against commonsense reality and while winning some battles, is losing their war on the truth.

Not everyone of the British media has lost their heart and mind. There are still some respectable and honourable journalists around who place the facts of history, above the lies of the British government. The writer "b" of MoA writes:
"Commentators on the news websites are now mostly highly critical about the usual propaganda pieces. There also seems to be a slight shift in international media." Whereas until recently past the British establishment media was all-powerful and its official narratives were unquestioningly accepted by the general public, today its legitimacy is rapidly collapsing and it is failing to make people believe in government lies.

Young readers of news are looking to rising global independent media to get the facts about critical issues and conflicts. In the process, their worldview is changing and their government made beliefs are dying. It is essential to understand that, as British empire has always done with its monolithic corporate-financier interests of the City of London, seeking regional hegemony, as a step toward total Commonwealth domination, saying and doing anything in order to achieve it. As resistance increases, British lies become more difficult to sell with the obvious inconsistencies of their propaganda crumbling in full public view.

Britain's sense of logic is funny and twisted, but it is not unique. That's the way of the world. Throughout history, the British empire first attempted to conquer the truth, reality, and human consciousness, and then moved their way to resource-rich lands. Ireland being their first colony and still is their training ground, both for tactics and equipment, for it's industrial war complex to showcase and sell to their compliant neo-colonial commonwealth mentored regimes.The dying power of the British empire is dependent on the cult beliefs and cult personalities that are created by media such as the BBC world service, to divide and conquer, to have the Irish at each others throats, to have Muslims stabbing each other in the back, to justify its brutal rule at home and places such as British Occupied Ireland, abroad.

It is a sign of hope for Ireland and for the collective life of mankind, when the sovereignty of truth overcomes an empire of death that has ravaged the world for far too long. The UK media would have us all believe, their's was the Empire of civilization while their pupils the US is the Empire of savagery, while they wait to pick up the scraps of their failing 'special relationship.' This is why torture and internment without trial in British Occupied Ireland, is relevant to everyone worldwide today. This is why Olympic London 2012, in a city with a centuries ol history of dictating torture and abuse of human rights, is right now a primary stage for protest, for all genuine human rights activists worldwide.

For some this hope is a tediously slow, ongoing process but it will bear fruit over time. Ordinary citizen journalists and truth tellers world wide are making use of the internet and will continue like the Occupy movement to serve to clarify as catalysts, getting many more people thinking and acting on the growing inequalities, which are an intrinsic part of this Brutish unjust system of government, not just in British Occupied Ireland or it's Commonwealth but most parts of our world currently. It starts with us all individually and while everyone may not support the politics of Marian Price or Irish political dissidents or prisoners of conscience in British Occupied Ireland, the experience of internment without trial, the concentration camps of Occupied Ireland an Nazi Germany, the holocaust and massacres of more than 12 millions Irish and Jews in both, coupled with today's religious wars instigated by Britain in their former ruled territories of the Middle-East, on innocent Muslims, as they attempt to create a false reality and legacy of world wide eternal wars with the rest of the world.

Internment without trial and torture are instruments of war used for centuries by the British on defenceless civilian communities, to ultimately liquidate all native of resistance, to their brutal international piracy and savagery. The famous statement about the inactivity of German intellectuals during the Nazi rise to power while purging group after group, is as true in today's corporate fascist London 2012 as it was for Hitler's Nazi Olympics.

First they came for Marian Price,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't Irish..

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Muslims,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Muslim.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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Letter concerning the detention of Marian Price

 international | rights and freedoms | opinion/analysis  Wednesday July 25, 2012 04:11 by Brian Clarke 

We wish to draw your attention to the continued detention of Marian Price, which we feel constitutes an alarming breach of human and civil rights

Marian Price Interned Political Prisoner of Conscience

We wish to draw your attention to the continued detention of Marian Price, which we feel constitutes an alarming breach of human and civil rights.
Ms Price had previously served a long jail sentence in England and in the North and was released and pardoned in 1980 due to ill-health resulting from force-feeding over many months in 1973 and 1974.
Ms Price was arrested in May 2011 on the basis of charges, which have since been dismissed. At the time she was granted bail for those charges and has also been granted bail on subsequent charges brought against her, yet she remains imprisoned by order of Owen Paterson, British Secretary of State, who claimed to revoke her licence.
Ms Price’s health and welfare are at the forefront of this campaign and she has been declared too ill to attend court after spending more than a year in isolation. Ms Price is the victim of psychological torture and internment without trial, and as a result of this her mental health and physical health has deteriorated rapidly. Given concerns about her very poor health, we are calling for her immediate release based on humanitarian grounds. – Yours, etc,
Msgr RAYMOND MURRAY, Human Rights Activist; Fr PETER MCVERRY SJ, Centre for Faith and Justice; Fr SEÁN MCMANUS, President of the Irish National Caucus, US; MARGARETTA D’ARCY, Aosdána/Women In Media Entertainment; ÉAMON Ó CUÍV TD; MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN TD; THOMAS PRINGLE TD; JOAN COLLINS TD; RICHARD BOYD BARRETT TD; JOHN BROWNE TD; GERRY ADAMS TD; MARTIN FERRIS TD; DESSIE ELLIS TD; SÉAN CROWE TD; MICHAEL COLREAVY TD; JONATHAN O’BRIEN TD; MARY LOU MCDONALD TD; PEARSE DOHERTY TD; SANDRA McLELLAN TD; BRIAN STANLEY TD; PADRAIG MACLOCHLAINN TD; AENGUS O’SNODAIGH TD; CAOIMHGHÍN Ó CAOLÁIN TD; PEADAR TOIBÍN TD; JOE HIGGINS TD; CLARE DALY TD; Councillors: LOUISE MINIHAN; MANNIX FLYNN; Cllr CHRISTY BURKE; CIERAN PERRY; MELISA HALPIN; BRID SMITH; HUGH LEWIS; NIALL RING; ANNA QUIGLEY; PAT DUNNE; VINCENT JACKSON; DAMIEN O’FARRELL; Senators: LABHRÁS Ó MURCHÚ; JIM WALSH; KATHRYN REILLY; DAVID CULLINANE; TREVOR O’CLOCHARTAIGH; DARRAGH O’BRIEN; BRIAN Ó DOMHNAILL; and Dr FÉILIM Ó hADHMAILL, School of Applied Social Studies, UCC; Dr CIARÁN DAWSON, Centre for Oral Irish, UCC; Dr ÓRLA O’DONOVAN, School of Applied Social Studies, UCC Dr KIERAN ALLEN, School of Sociology, UCD,

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Rank	Country				Total
1	China	9	5	3	17
2	United States	5	7	5	17
3	France	3	1	3	7
4	N. Ireland	3	0	1	4
5	Italy	2	4	2	8
6	South Korea	2	2	2	6
7	Russian Federation	2	0	3	5
8	Kazakhstan	2	0	0	2
9	Japan	1	4	6	11
10	Australia	1	2	1	4
11	Romania	1	2	0	3
12	Hungary	1	1	1	3
12	Brazil	1	1	1	3
14	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
15	Ukraine	1	0	2	3
16	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
16	Georgia	1	0	0	1
16	South Africa	1	0	0	1
19	Colombia	0	2	0	2
20	Great Britain & N. Korea	0	1	2	3