Irish Blog has been receiving considerable solidarity in the US, with many supporters of Irish Freedom, re-sharing this Blog and carrying the censored message, about what is really happening in Ireland, to fellow Americans. One Human Rights Activist in particular, called Darius Koltuniak, has been successful, in highlighting and organizing solidarity against British repression in Occupied Ireland, particularly with regard to the Political Internment of Irish activists. Unfortunately since he started highlighting Political Internment in Ireland, he has been receiving abuse, particularly insidious in three instances, using Irish names for cover and a death threat in another incident. This type of fascist intimidation of Americans by British agents, coupled with censorship and political internment, is part of the course of any genuine activist, for the Irish Cause of Freedom. It is part of what the British call, Low Intensity Operations, from their manual on Dirty War, which is partly psychological, along with dividing and discrediting the Irish Cause for Freedom. Solidarity is critical in this struggle, as Dariusz, who's own father, was politically interned in Poland for years, knows all to well. I am calling on all supporters of the Irish Cause, to bring this matter to the attention of their respective, elected political, representatives, for their immediate attention, both in Ireland and in the United States. I also call on you, to bring the matter of Political Internment by remand in Occupied Ireland, for their immediate attention, which will require persistence. For further details you can contact Darius Koltuniak on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/dariusz.koltuniak?fref=ts beir bua, brionOcleirigh
With the internment of the Chairperson of the Irish Anti-Internment League, Dee Fennell, and the privatization of Irish Water, neither our rivers or speech, are any longer free. In fact a monkey in the US, has more Civil Rights, than an Irish person in Occupied Ireland, almost 45 years after the start of the Civil Rights Campaign there. Certainly with regard to Habeus Corpus and Free Speech, this is the case, as both articles below, demonstrate. I have been banned today myself, despite not being affiliated, to any political group, by Facebook, because British Agents are both censoring and carrying out a campiagn of harrassment, with numerous complaints to Facebook and group managers there. Irish Blog is being slowed by intranets, to the point, some people give up on access. However, there are still the faithful, for which I am grateful. I ask you, to please share the posts and pictures, particulery related to Political Internment and Censorship in Ireland. beir bua, brionOcleirigh
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015
Statement by the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton
The arrest, detention charges and remand for Dee Fennell speech in Lurgan Easter Sunday is an attack on the fundamental right to have and express a political opinion as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UN and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.This is a stark warning that both the British and the 26 counties states are determined to silence anyone who dares to question the status quo or express their opposition to British rule and partition. Last August the Minister of Justice of the 26 counties announced draconian new laws designed to silence and imprison Republicans for expressing a political opinion. Now the Stormont regime is moving along the same path. These measures can also be extended to cover all forms of political dissent, whether political, social or economic. People need to be warned against this and say it.Bodies of civil and political rights must protest against this gratuitous attack on the human rights of Irish citizens. When the centenary of the 1916 Rising fast approaching, it is obvious that the British puppet regime in Stormont is trying to silence the Irish Republicanism and take underground. Such coercive methods have failed in the past as this effort will also fail. Fin / Crioch
Apes are people too? NY judge grants human rights to chimpanzees
Chimpanzee and human DNA differ by only about 1 percent – but should chimps be given human rights? A US judge said "yes" on Monday, ruling that apes held at a New York university are covered by the same laws that let humans challenge their detention.
New York Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe said a pair of chimpanzees held at Stony Brook University are covered by a writ of habeas corpus – a legal principle that lets people challenge the credibility of their detention. The duo, named Hercules and Leo, reside at the university for research purposes.
The lawsuit against the university was originally filed by the Nonhuman Rights Project in December 2013, in an attempt to free Hercules, Leo, and two other chimpanzees living on private property.
The courts threw out the suit, but the group has been appealing ever since, receiving a victory on Monday after convincing Jaffe that the apes are sufficiently intelligent enough to be covered under habeas corpus.
The verdict has allowed for a Stony Brook University representative to be ordered to appear in court to provide a legally acceptable reason for detaining Hercules and Leo. That hearing has been scheduled for May 6.
During the hearing, the university will respond to a petition by the animal rights group which argues that Hercules and Leo should be set free and moved to a sanctuary.
“The NhRP (Nonhuman Rights Project) has asked that Hercules and Leo be freed and released into the care of Save the Chimps, a sanctuary in Ft. Pierce, Florida. There they will spend the rest of their lives primarily on one of 13 artificial islands on a large lake in Ft. Pierce, along with 250 other chimpanzees in an environment as close to that of their natural home in Africa as can be found in North America,” the Nonhuman Rights Project wrote on its website.
However, it remains unclear whether the chimps will actually be freed.
Richard Cupp, a law professor at Pepperdine University, cautioned against reading too much into the ruling.
“The judge may merely want more information to make a decision on the legal personhood claim, and may have ordered a hearing simply as a vehicle for hearing out both parties in more depth,” he wrote in an email to Science. “It would be quite surprising if the judge intended to make a momentous substantive finding that chimpanzees are legal persons if the judge has not yet heard the other side’s arguments.”
Regardless of whether the apes are granted personhood after the hearing, the group says it plans on using the ruling as precedent in future cases.
“This is a big step forward to getting what we are ultimately seeking: the right to bodily liberty for chimpanzees and other cognitively complex animals,”Natalie Prosin, executive director of the Nonhuman Rights Project, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
“We got our foot in the door. And no matter what happens, that door can never be completely shut again.”
A similar ruling was made in Argentina last year, with orangutans being granted the status of “non-human persons” with legal rights.
However, the verdict contradicts a separate New York ruling made just four months ago, when a court stated that a chimpanzee is not legally a person and therefore not entitled to human rights.
Almost 50 years, after the Civil Rights movement in Occupied Ireland, there are less civil rights now, than there was even then, thanks to the surrender of the Bad Friday Agreement, signed by Pedo Sinn Fein, 20 years ago, who are now administrators on behalf of the Queen of England, in Ireland. There will be a British election, for the House of Commoners in Ireland in the coming weeks, and with just a few exceptions, it makes absoloutely no difference, who the British commoners vote for in Ireland, because the facts are, that it is not a democracy by any standards. Either way, the people will get, a neocon Government of kleptocrats and colonialists. Any activist, journalist, Human Rights lawyer, who insists on demonstrating these facts, will be censored, to a lesser or greater extent, and if still insistent, will either be politically interned or assassinated, as has already happened. The British Paedophile Prime Minster, Edward Heath stood up in the House of Commoners, approximately 40 years ago, and promised, that Britain, would not again torture, after they were already found guilty, by the European Court of Human Rights, of torturing many Irish political internees, who were involved in the Civil Rights Campaign. Britain has not honoured those promises and simply has outsourced torture and extra-judicial execution. Britain is not a member of the International Criminal Court, to avoid prosecution for it numerous crimes against humanity and plans to leave the European Court of Human Rights, because it cannot comply with basic, civilized, requirements.
The hundreds of thousands of Civil Rights marchers in Occupied Ireland, were eventually shot off Irish streets, by the British Army, with atrocities like Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy. The Campaign morphed into armed resistance, becuase it had no choice, which was eventually hijacked by Pedo Sinn Fein, with the help of Pedo MI5, the unnaccountable British Secret Service warlords of a Dirty War, still being waged in every sphere of government, with varying degrees of intensity, in British Occupied Ireland. Today there is an undemocratic Junta in Stormont, that includes the Pedos, admininistering the colony, along with a British Vice Royal. The only possible, peaceful, way, to change all of the this, is a total, cross community, boycott, of corrupt corporations and individuals, who have hijacked the instruments of a proper transparent, democratic, community. This requires dialectic unity and solidarity, that always remains, accountable to the people and defends their interests at all costs. This is the challenege for the activists and people, who want real change in Ireland. It is a challenege, that must remember, the hard lessons of recent and older experience, to avoid the pitfalls, of being once again, led by careerists and traitors, to the people of no property in Ireland. The only other alternative, is violent revolution, otherwise the people, might as well lie down, roll over into an Orwellian nightmare and have their offspring raped and murdered by unscupolous predators, like Edward Heath. Below are two articles which explain what lies ahead or perhaps more accurately, what doesn't.
Back to the Dark Ages as the Tories plan to scrap your Human Rights
by mike sivier
A face of evil: Theresa May wants to take away your human rights and leave you at the mercy of government repression.
Tory plans to take away your human rights are moving ahead with Theresa May announcing that they would scrap the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights if they win the 2015 general election, “in the national interest”.
In whose interest? Not yours. Certainly not mine. She’s quite clearly confusing minority Tory interests with those of this country. They do that a lot.
If you want to get humour from the situation, Mrs May made her announcement at a conference organised to find ways of winning broader support in 2015. How badly off-track can you go?
There may, in fact, be a reasonable argument for modifyinghuman rights legislation; we have all been appalled when judges have made decisions in favour of defendants because the alternative would “infringe their human rights” – but this is not a good reason to scrap the lot. It’s a reason to give out guidance on how it should be properly interpreted.
But getting rid of these rights altogether shows that the Conservative Party wants to turn government into an instrument of suppression, grinding the workers and the poor underfoot. Better people have already raised concerns that the Coalition is becoming an Orwellian “boot stamping on a human face – forever”; this would make that future a certainty.
It is likely that Conservative members of the Coalition government – most notably Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling, Maria Miller and Mark Hoban – will fall foul of human rights laws, either in this country or in Europe, if the UK continues to abide by them, and this in itself provides enough grounds for us to speculate about why Mrs May wants to get rid.
As everyone in the UK should know by now, the draconian rules of the sickness and disablement benefits system overseen by Smith and his cronies has led to the deaths of thousands of people who had a right to expect a reasonable level of care from their government. If efforts to seek justice through the UK’s legal system fail, then there is likely to be an attempt at international level. The Tories could fend this off by removing the UK from the convention, although it seems likely that the International Criminal Court might then take a position on the matter.
Scrapping your human rights provides the Tories with many more opportunities for evil, though. Let’s look at what we could lose.
The United Kingdom helped to draft the European Convention on Human Rights, just after World War II. Under it, nation states’ primary duty is to “refrain from unlawful killing”, to “investigate suspicious deaths” and to “prevent foreseeable loss of life”.
As you can tell from the behaviour of the Department for Work and Pensions, the Coalition government has been reneging on this obligation – wholesale – since it came into power.
Is killing disabled people – or rather, allowing their deaths when this outcome can be clearly foreseen – in the national interest? Do you have any family members or friends who are disabled? Do you know any who have died as a result of this government’s barbaric policies? What do you think of that, and of the fact that withdrawing from the European Convention and scrapping the Human Rights Act would mean this government would get away with it?
Article 4 prohibits slavery, servitude and forced labour – in other words, the government’s Mandatory Work Activity or Workfare schemes. The government could try to weasel its way out of accusations relating to this, by saying these schemes are labour “considered to be a part of a person’s normal ‘civic obligations'” but the argument against this – that they have not served the interests of the person but of the companies to which they were attached – is strong. These schemes have been worse than useless at getting people into employment but an excellent money-making scam for the businesses concerned, including the ‘Work Placement Provider’ companies that receive government money for very little.
Article 6 provides a detailed right to a fair trial, including the right to a public hearing before an independent and impartial tribunal within reasonable time, the presumption of innocence, and other minimum rights for those charged with a criminal offence. The government’s current attempt to push through laws allowing “secret courts” to hear evidence against defendants – which they defendants themselves are not permitted to know and at which they are not allowed to be present – is a clear violation of this.
Article 8 provides a right to respect for one’s “private and family life, his home and his correspondence” – and of course Mrs May would be in violation with her “Snooper’s Charter” that would allow the government to look at your emails.
Article 10 provides a right to freedom of expression, which means that, if Mrs May has her way, anti-Conservative websites like this blog would be swept away and its author could be imprisoned (for an indefinite period of time, as the protections under Article 6 would no longer apply).
Article 11 protects the right to freedom of assembly and association, including the right to form trade unions. The Tories have always hated the unions, even in their current, very nearly toothless, form. They would relish the opportunity to make unions illegal and remove the rights of all employees.
There are more, but you get the gist. The Human Rights Act of 1998 is the British legislation that makes the European Convention effective in the UK, as far as is possible, meaning that breaches of it may be remedied in British courts, rather than the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
So that’s what Mrs May means, when she says she wants to scrap these laws. If you have been paying attention, you should be terrified.
You may also be questioning her definition of “the national interest”!
It is clearly a controversial move, and this is why the Tories are taking a “softly, softly” approach to it. They’re putting it out now, two years before the general election, to test the waters, and they know they’ll probably get a reaction against it.
Suppose something happens over the next two years that gives them an opportunity to say – and they will – that “restrictive European laws on Human Rights have prevented us from acting in the public interest”? Won’t that sway the opinion of the Daily Mail-reading public against the very rights that protect them?
It’s a strategy that has worked in the past. By the time the election arrives, you can expect the Tories to have worked the nation up to fever pitch about it – to the best of their ability.
It’s a trick.
They think you’re turkeys and they want you to vote for Christmas.
Do not let them make a fool of you.
Will Washington Kill Us All?
By Paul Craig Roberts
April 15, 2015 "ICH" - Did you know that Washington keeps 450 nuclear ICBMs on “hair-trigger alert”? Washington thinks that this makes us “safe.” The reasoning, if it can be called reason, is that by being able to launch in a few minutes, no one will try to attack the US with nuclear weapons. US missiles are able to get on their way before the enemy’s missiles can reach the US to destroy ours.
If this makes you feel safe, you need to read Eric Schlosser’s book, Command and Control.
The trouble with hair-triggers is that they make mistaken, accidental, and unauthorized launch more likely. Schlosser provides a history of almost launches that would have brought armageddon to the world.
In Catalyst, a publication of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Elliott Negin tells the story of Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov. Just after midnight in 1983 the Soviet Union’s early warning satellite system set off the alarm that 5 US ICBMs were headed for the Soviet Union.
Col. Petrov was supposed to inform the Soviet leader, who would have 8 to 10 minutes to decide whether to launch in retaliation. Who knows what he would have decided. Instead Col. Petrov used his judgment. There was no reason for the US to be attacking the Soviet Union. Moreover, Petrov reasoned that an American attack would involve hundreds of ICBMs, possibly thousands. He checked whether Soviet ground-based radar had detected incoming ICBMs, and it had not. Petrov decided it was a false alarm, and sat on it.
It turned out that the early warning system had mistaken a pattern of sunlight reflection on clouds as missiles. This was a close call, but Negin reports that “a failed computer chip, and an improperly installed circuit card are some of the culprits” that could initiate nuclear war. In other words, the sources of false alarms are numerous.
Fast forward to today. Imagine an American officer monitoring the US early warning system. This officer has been listening to 15 years of war propaganda accompanied by US invasions and bombings of 8 countries. Terrorist warnings and security alerts abound, as do calls from American and Israeli politicians for nuking Iran. The media has convinced him that Russia has invaded Ukraine and is on the verge of invading the Baltics and Poland. American troops and tanks have been rushed to the Russian border. There is talk of arming Ukraine. Putin is dangerous and is threatening nuclear war, running his strategic bombers close to our borders and holding nuclear drills. The American officer has just heard a Fox News general again call for “killing Russians.” The Republicans have convinced him that Obama is selling out America to Iran, with Senator Tom Cotton warning of nuclear war as a consequence. We will all be killed because there is a Muslim in the White House.
Why isn’t anyone standing up for America, the patriotic American officer wonders, just as the alarm goes off: Incoming ICBMs. Are they Russian or Iranian? Was Israel right after all? A hidden Iranian nuclear weapons program? Or has Putin decided that the US is in the way of his reconstruction of the Soviet Empire, which the American media affirms is Putin’s goal? There is no room for judgment in the American officer’s mind. It has been set on hair-trigger by the incessant propaganda that Americans call news. He passes on the warning.
Obama’s Russophobic neocon National Security Advisor is screaming: “You can’t let Putin get away with this!” “It might be a false alarm,” replies the nervous and agitated president. “You liberal pussy! Don’t you know that Putin is dangerous!? Push the button!”
And there goes the world.
Considering the extreme Russophobia being created among Americans by the Ministry of Propaganda, the demonization of Vladimir Putin–the “new Hitler,” Vlad the Impaler– the propagandistic creation of “the Russian threat,” the crazed neocon desire for US world hegemony, the hatred of Russia and China as rising rivals capable of exercising independent power, the loss of American Uni-power status and unconstrained unilateral action. In the midst of these emotions and minds swayed not by facts but by propaganda, hubris, and ideology, there is a great chance that Washington’s response to a false alarm will bring the end of life on earth.
How much confidence do you have in Washington? How many times has Washington–especially the crazed neocons–been wrong?
Remember the 3-week “cakewalk” Iraq war that would cost $70 billion and be paid out of Iraqi oil revenues? Now the cost is $3,000 billion and rising, and after 12 years the radical Islamic State controls half of the country. To pay for the wars the Republicans want to “privatize,” that is, take away, Social Security and Medicare.
Remember “Mission Accomplished” in Afghanistan? Twelve years later the Taliban again control the country and Washington, after murdering women, children, funerals, weddings, village elders, and kids’ soccer games, has been driven out by a few thousand lightly armed Taliban.
The frustrations of these defeats have mounted in Washington and in the military. The myth is that we lost because we didn’t use our full force. We were intimidated by world opinion or by those damn student protesters, or blocked from victory by some gutless president, a liberal pussy who wouldn’t use all of our power. For the right-wing, rage is a way of life.
The neocons believe fervently that History has chosen America to rule the world, and here we are defeated by Vietnamese guerrillas, by Afghan tribesmen, by Islamist fundamentalists, and now Putin has sent his missiles to finish the job.
Whoever the White House fool is, he will push the button.
The situation is deteriorating, not improving. The Russians, hoping for some sign of intelligence in Europe, contradict Washington’s anti-Russian lies. Washington calls truthful contradiction of its own propaganda to be Russian propaganda. Washington has ordered the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a US government agency, headed by Andrew Lack, a former chairman of NBC news, to counteract an alleged, but non-existent, “Kremlin Troll Army” that is outshouting the Western prostitutes and “perpetuating a pro-Russian dialogue” on the Internet. In case you don’t remember, Lack is the idiot who declared RT to be a “terrorist organization.” In other words, in Lack’s opinion, one that he can enforce, a truth-teller is a terrorist.
Lack epitomizes well Washington’s view of truthful reporting: If it doesn’t serve Washington’s propaganda, it is not true. It is terrorism.
Lack hopes to control RT with intimidation: In effect, he has told RT to shut up and say what we want or we will close you down as a terrorist organization. We might even arrest your American employees as aiders and abettors of terrorism.
To counteract a Revanchist Russia and its Internet Troll Army, the Obama regime is handing $15,400,000 to the insane Lack to use to discredit every truthful statement that emerges from the English language versions of Russian media. This amount, of course, will rise dramatically. Soon it will be in the billions of dollars, while Americans are evicted from their homes and sent to prison for their debts.
In his budget request, Lack, who seems to lack every aspect of humanity, including intelligence, integrity, and morality, justified his request, which will be granted, for the hard-earned money of Americans, whose standard of living is falling, with the wild assertion that Russia “threatens Russia’s neighbors and, by extension, the United States and its Western allies.”
Lack promises to do even more: “The US international media is now set forth to refute Russian propaganda and influence the minds of Russians and Russian-speakers in the former Soviet Union, Europe and around the world.” Lack is going to propagandize against Russia inside Russia.
Of course, the CIA organizations–the National Endowment for Democracy and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty–will be enriched by this anti-Russian propaganda campaign and will support it wholeheartedly.
Therefore, the Union of Concerned Scientists’ call for cooperation with Russia to take ICBMs off hair-trigger status is unlikely to occur. How can nuclear tensions be reduced when Washington is building tensions as fast as it possibly can? Washington’s Ministry of Propaganda has reconstructed Putin as Osama bin Laden, as Saddam Hussein, demonized figures, bogymen who evoke fear from the brainwashed American sheeple. Russia is transformed into al Qaeda lusting for another attack on the World Trade Center and for the Red Army (many Americans think Russia is still communist) to roll across Europe.
Gorbachev was a trick. He deceived the old movie actor. The deceived Americans are sitting ducks, and here come the ICBMs. The crazed views of the American politicians, military, and people are unable to comprehend truth or to recognize reality.
The propagandistic American “media” and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.
The Union of Concerned Scientists, of which I am a member, need to come to their senses. It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other. The demonization of Russia and its leader by the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, and the rest of the American Propaganda Ministry, by almost the entirety of the House and Senate, and by the White House makes reducing the threat of nuclear war impossible.
The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth. Global Warming can disappear instantly in Nuclear Winter.Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
Ken Livingstone said:- "I was raising in parliament against Mrs Thatcher the Kincora Boys Home where boys were being abused and MI5 was filming it because they were hoping to be able to blackmail senior politicians in Northern Ireland. They were hoping to catch one of Ian Paisley's MP's - and they never did - and give themselves some leverage. The truth is there's been an awful lot of covering up of paedophiles and paedophile rings for decades and decades." The statement above, proves that politicians from all parties knew for decades, about MI5 and the RUC/psni, being involved in the Child Rape of innocent Irish children. It further demonstrates that MI5 and the RUC/psni are not just involved in the cover-up of such crimes but are actively using Child Rape as an instrument to control politicians and judges.This power over politicians and judges in Occupied Ireland, has given MI5, the instrument to create a Police State, where organised criminal activity of this insidious, rogue, secret service, is conducted with impunity and protected from public scrutiny. The Rogue Police State, known by the British as Northern Ireland, runs International Drug Trafficking, the Child Rape business industry, which includes, illegal child trafficking and child sex trafficking. This Rogue State, run by MI5 is in reality, a highly sophisticated Criminal Network, which through the use of filmed Child Rape, guarantees secrecy, by blackmail, arranging that only the plebs, who are not allowed a cut, from this highly lucrative, criminal activity, will, if caught, be prosecuted. They will prosecute anyone, who would expose their Criminal State, while protecting those useful to them, such as paedophiles in Sinn Fein and DUP. The Criminal State of Northern Ireland, operates a cell like structure within the Police, Intelligence Services and the Judicial System, while perverting the the course of justice for every man, woman and particularly children in Occupied Ireland. They have for decades destroyed the integrity of Irish society, extending their paedophile rings, to also blackmail, the police, intelligence services and Judicial System in the south of Ireland. Using blackmail, death threats and bribery, that has almost destroyed, the entire Irish civil justice system and perverted Irish Justice, into the service of an even bigger and more dangerous Criminal Organisation, the City of London. The motive by the elite in the City of London, to permit and enable all of this, is to control the politicians by blackmail and the Irish communities through fear of the drug gangs on the street. M15 routinely, have police from the RUC/psni, seconded to them and visa versa, blurring any distinction between civil police and political police, with the full co-operation of compromised politicians, of the ruling Junta, Sinn Fein/DUP. Independent evidence of MI5 Paedophile Rings, has been seized and suppressed by MI5, while they persecute fall guys, for their crimes, while shielding their protected perpetrators. By these methods, they protect their Criminal Organisation and elite Paedophiles, in False Flags Operations such as the Omagh Bombing and Dublin/Monaghan Bombings.
Seamus Daly, a totally innocent Irish man, is the latest fall-guy, for their involvement in the Omagh Bombing, while the Craigavon 2, like the Guildford Four and Brimingahm Six, are other examples of MI5 perverting the course of justice in Ireland. Human Rights Activist, both in Ireland and abroad, should demand that MI5 and their servants in Dublin Castle, hand over all evidence, without delay or omission, related to these matters. They have the video's, photographs, the names related to these matters, and also know many of those who murdered Irish children, after first raping them. All genuine Irish people, must demand to see the complete records immediately, before they too are destroyed. We also demand the immediate release of both the innocent Craigavon 2 and Seamus Daly, prior to the removal of MI5 perverts of justice, from Ireland.
Irish Blog has already attempted, to organize a Petition to bring Britain, before the International Criminal Court in the Hague, in the same way that the Palestinian Authority has taken Israel to the ICC. The Petition has been censored, as is Irish Blog, to a considerable extent, with intranets including Facebook, by British agents in Ireland.The Petition requires the same commitment, persistence and resistance to British interference in Ireland, as has the struggle of the last 45 years.
People with a proven track record of integrity, such as Bernadette, Marian, Eamon, Martin, Francie, Kate and others, some of whom are not permitted by the British, to leave their own neighbourhoods, might consider organizing this initially, by a conference call, with technical help. As respected elders, with considerable experience, they could guide the mobilization of the Petition worldwide, for the sake of Unity, to overcome British elements, which will seek to divide and distract the organization of this petition throughout Ireland. I propose this, as a totally peaceful, civilized, alternative step, on the path to Irish liberation.
A successful Petition to bring Britain before the ICC for crimes against humanity in Ireland, can only be organized and mobilized effectively by a genuine party of the Irish people on the ground in Ireland, with a proven track record of integrity. I am calling on people of integrity in Ireland, to form a group along the lines of the
H-BLOCK/ARMAGH COMMITTEE, to Petition, for Britain to be taken before the International Criminal Court in the Hague, for all it's war crimes, including genocide in Ireland, in the same manner as the Palestinian Authority is currently doing. Because of censorship, Irish Blog respectfully requests, that this proposal, is brought to the attention of those elders mentioned, for consideration by you, if you are acquainted with them. I believe this proposal, needs to transcend party politics, in order to be successful.
Bloody Sunday: Put Britain in the dock I witnessed the events of Bloody Sunday and its violent legacy. The British government, not soldiers, should be held to account
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
The outcome of the Saville inquiry has been published. A second British prime minister has apologised for the killing of unarmed and innocent protesters. This time the British government acknowledged the actions of members of the British army were unjustified and unjustifiable.
Prosecutions of individual foot soldiers are unlikely. Their own testimony cannot be used, and almost 40 years after the event, prosecution will raise a whole new series of concerns and debate about human rights violations oppressive litigation, and the application of the terms of the peace agreements. A respected human rights lawyer has already offered their services in prosecuting the real culprit, the British state. But Lord Saville has exonerated the state.
I was on the speaker's platform on Bloody Sunday. Despite burying the images in some deep mental archive, Bloody Sunday refuses to fade or mellow in my consciousness. Initially, disbelief gave way to fear, horror, anger, and then detachment. Finally, I was angry only with myself.
My political analysis had until then discounted any real belief – despite the long history of Anglo-Irish conflict – that the British government would countenance killing the people in order to suppress the protests. Now that it had happened, it made sense to me that it had always been going to happen and would continue; it was fundamental to the nature of the British state in Ireland. I felt I should have known that, and now I did, I was still up for the fight.
The key impact of Bloody Sunday was that a whole generation made a similar analysis and this fuelled some 25 years of violent political conflict, at least tolerated by the majority of the "minority population" and actively pursued by a significant but sustainable minority. It is responsibility for this legacy that sets Bloody Sunday apart from subsequent atrocities on all sides.
As a member of parliament at the time, I was denied the right to give parliament an eyewitness account. The home secretary,Reginald Maudling, lied to the House and the media willingly collaborated in uncritically repeating the government misrepresentation. In what was considered gross overreaction and disgracefully violent behaviour, I crossed the floor of the House and hit him.
I did not call for a public inquiry, did not welcome the Saville inquiry and only testified to respect the wishes of the bereaved families. I regret none of those things, but challenge the view that it was an expensive waste of time, energy and money. Had Bloody Sunday been no more than a violent and disgraceful overreaction or unlawful behaviour on the part of a few "squaddies" or overzealous commanders, it would not have required the British government and its military to create the complicated labyrinth of lies and deceit which has taken hundreds of testimonies, thousands of pages, millions of pounds and 38 years to unravel.
The Bloody Sunday Trust and the bereaved families have shown great stamina and courage in their quest for disclosure and truth. Respectfully, however, Bloody Sunday isn't just about the families or how the 13 individuals lost their lives that day; the 14th dying later of his wounds. It is about whether the British government committed a war crime in 1972 and in so doing started a war. It is the British government, not their anonymous and brutalised soldiers of their alphabet army who should be in the dock, at the international court of justice at The Hague. If Saville has closed that route to truth and justice, the British government will consider it worth every penny.
Had the British state been speedily held to account at The Hague, things might have been different for a lot of people, not least for nine Turkish human rights activists on their way to Gaza. They might not have been so confidently slaughtered by the state of Israel.
I have learned from experiemce, that when approaching the truth, ir is better to start with myself and my own experiences. I have described in previous articles, traumatic experience from home and my life, relevant to this subject. My parents passed on to me their experience, from Ireland's eternal war with itself and the British Government. It has left a bitter, painful, legacy, that I have tried to come to terms with, in a healthy progressive direction. As a result I believe that it is critical that Ireland has a proper, transparent forum of international standing, to come to terms with it's inherited history, going back to the Irish Holocaust, which was historically, Ireland's most traumatic event and has shaped our modern culture considerably, with all it's ills and graces. The beat way I can try to explain some of this, is with my pet dog, called Tibet, who is of the Shih Tzu breed and was given to me, as a very young pup, as a present. Like the pet dog of my childhood, which was more of a fox than a dog and one of my joyful childhood memories. Spontanaeity and loyalty, being their most notable characteristic. Relying primarily, on their keen sense of smell and hearing, Tibet my present pet is more aware, earnest and loyal than most humans I have known in my lifetime. Teddy my childood pet, was by far my best firend. Tibet who was given to me as a pup too young to have learned much from it's mother, and has rarely been around other dogs, so it constantly amazes me just where he learned, so much of his behaviour and I can only conclude, it is in his DNA. Even at very long distances, at the faintes sound of fireworks, Tibet will run for cover immediately and hide until it is long gone. I am convinced it is connected, with ancestral memories of gunfire, while he fears any expanse of water, to the point, that he has broken his dog leash on the beach, many times to get away from the sea. Like myself he is generally a happy dog but he also, still has his issues. When I was young, my mother used to tell me stories, about wounded Irish rebels, that her father used to take across the Shannon river from north Tipperary by boat because, being on the run, they could not get medical help there. Some were gruesome tales, particulrly those shot in the stomach. Unlike these stories, the Irish Holocaust, has long been a taboo subject in Ireland along with it's civil war, where the Irish Government and the Roman Catholic clergy, co-operated in it's cover-up, which was part of the airbrushed, school curriculum, that was part of the great lie. Despite the official denial, I frequently had very vivid nightmares, of horses and carts coming around the village and taking cartloads of dead bodies away. When I would awake from the nightmares, I would hear voices calling and see vivid shadows of people, darting around in the light of daybreak. Now if you talk like this in Ireland, they will put you away in some intitution or other and throw way the key, but we did talk about it among ourselves as children. Many years later it indeed was a revelation to learn, some of the real history of Ireland, which confirmed indetail, my vid dreams of the past. The lingering pain and longing of these memories, would often hauntt me, in the wide open spaces of the west of Ireland, bereft of it's people, lost to Holocaust and subsequent ongoing emmigration. A lot of our music and what is left of our culture refelects this. While the old Celtic Church stood with the people, unfortunately, like most of our Irish politicians, the Roman Catholic Church, took the Queen's shilling, to kee the people ignorant, as do our historians of academia, still do today. Indeed it has now permeated, to most of the leadership of resistance, who control the minds of the brave, with a combintio of censorship and a revisionist, non-factual, narrative, caredully controlled to enforce the old order and empower leverage, rather than the voiceless people, of no property. The reason, all of this is important, is because later on in mu own life, I found myself, caught up in the many contradictory extremes of Irish life. After Bloody Sunday in Derry, where the British army massacred unarmed Civil Rights demonstrators, along with many more around the north, I had a gut reactionary, motivation, to involve myself, which is not a progressive basis, like the dialectic of materialism or the historical lessons of conflict, that would create progress. Having said that, too much analysis, can also be paralysis, so there is probably a balance there somewhere, which only an uncensored dialectic of everyone can deliver. Either way, this issue needs to be resolved in an inteligent way, based on facts extablished by the International Criminal Court, from an international, independent, objectibe basis of justice, so we can all move on to a genuine reconciliation and forgiveness, without exploitative, outside interference or indeed censorious, self serving, manipulate expoitation, which can only exist in such an environment. History does repeat itself and until, the lessons are learned. We already have had 800 years of this particular, rithless brand in Ireland. All people who care about Ireland and humanity are needed, to make this happen, not the same repetitive, control elites, replacing an old set of control eltes, with the tools of censorship and brute force, because frankly, the whole island is in a mess, with all the usual characteristics, of dying civilizations and pillaged indigenous peoples, such as rampant alcoholism, child abuse, domestic violence, drug abuse, abject poverty, physically, mentally and spiritually, to the point of self destruction and insanity. The island is virtually bankrupt in all of these areas In this environment of emotional incest and island censorship, currently in the grip of corrupt corporate politicians, media, policing, judiciary and material nihilism. It needs help from the free spirits who were forced to leave, along with enlightened, empowerment, from an international of communal solidarity.We simply can't accomplisih all of it on my own. We need your help, to carry this message and build a new Ireland of tolerance and equality, on a foundation of truth, justice and forgiveness. We need your, to recruit your friends, to sign the petition below and beat the widespread censorship of the facts of genocide, Holocaust all detailed in the links and videos, below. I offer a sincere thank you, to those who already signed yesterday and I ask you to carry on this good work and try to organize people in this Cause. It is the Cause of the people of no property, who survived, crimes against humanity, it is also the Cause of Ireland. TheTruth can set us Free in an non violent way and we all have a moral responsibilty to engage it, before we would consider engaging in violent conflict, that is destroying so many young llives So, please play your parrt, in whatever small or big way you can?
Irish Blog requests the International Criminal Court, to immediately initiate an investigation into the Irish Holocaust and the British genocide of six milliom people in Ireland. We believe the the ICC Prosecutor has a reasonable basis to believe, that a crime against humanity, within Irelamd and the Court's juristiction exists and that both war crimes and a genocide has been committed against Irish people. We believe that an investigation, would be consistent, with the principles of International justice. We furnish the following preliminary evidence, as a basis for an immediate investigation.
Irish Blog seeks the support, of all Irish people and political parties, to empower the prosecution of this investigation. We urge all Irish people and political parties, to examine carefully the following preliminary investigation in the link below and mentor the request, that both Irish and British Governments make available, all relevant material, within their juristictions, to help the International Criminal Court arrive at a fair, just, settlement with appropriate restitution to any victim or their next of kin, primarily to prevent a re-occurrence of these crimes against humanity and that all parties recognize, the gravity and consequence of genocide and holocaust. Irish Blog also requests, a ceasefire, by all military and paramilitary forces in Ireland, until this matter, is thoroughly investigated and adjudicated,
WE SIGNED: PETITION FOR ICC IRISH HOLOCAUST INVESTIGATION
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Jan 06, 18:19
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Dennis Kaplan, OH
Jan 06, 18:07
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dagmar karin dag, Argentina
Jan 06, 17:43
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P. Amith, WA
Jan 06, 17:37
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Mary Lochhead, United Kingdom
Jan 06, 16:51
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Tina Christiansen, Denmark
Jan 06, 15:30
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Gillian Edwards, United Kingdom
Jan 06, 15:06
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Jo Sullivan, NY
Jan 06, 13:57
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Heidi Wood, CO
Jan 06, 13:16
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I am Irish (mom and dad)
Michal Mydlarski, Poland
Jan 06, 11:31
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Serdar Murat, Austria
Jan 06, 10:24
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Sue Harrington, CA
Jan 06, 10:03
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Jan 06, 09:24
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OCCUPY THE EMPIRE OF THE CITY!!!
Brion O'Dunlaing, MO
Jan 06, 08:52
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David Dice, PA
Jan 06, 08:02
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Nicole Maschke, OH
Jan 06, 07:49
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For my mother's parents. For my brothers and sister in Ireland. For all those brave and courageous men, women and children, who stood their ground. Defended their homes and said proudly who they were, and that their lives mattered. While I cannot be there to stand by your side on this. Know that my soul is there with you. The waters are no barrier between us. For I am there. I am proud and honored to stand by your side. May the wind be always at your back. Godspeed.
pedro simoes, Portugal
Jan 06, 06:14
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Sharon Leduc, MA
Jan 06, 06:24
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H. McGarry, NY
Jan 06, 06:12
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John Brewer, OH
Jan 06, 05:58
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Winn Adams, WA
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Charles Woodliff, GA
Jan 06, 06:07
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Azaima Anderson, NM
Jan 06, 05:49
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Terry King, CA
Jan 06, 05:48
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steve finger, NC
Jan 06, 05:31
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K Halboth, WI
Jan 06, 05:27
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ankie brunschot, Netherlands
Jan 06, 05:05
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Victoria McFarlane, United Kingdom
Jan 06, 04:56
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Arild Warud, Portugal
Jan 06, 04:44
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AniMae Chi, SA
Jan 06, 05:14
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michaelann bewsee, MA
Jan 06, 05:08
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Kristin Love, WA
Jan 06, 04:52
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Christine U, Romania
Jan 06, 03:50
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Glennis Whitney, QL
Jan 06, 03:32
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Srecko Arnus, Slovenia
Jan 06, 03:17
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Not only Irish people also in whole so called British empire in past, This empire together with France and Antanta forces when was first world war gave our people and land to Italians. Same happened when end second world war. For me is this genocide. So called big country even now each day doing this around the world and dont forget on crimes who maked in more than 2000 years Vatikan and catholic church.
Andreas Giovani, Cyprus
Jan 06, 03:02
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Dimitris Dallis, Greece
Jan 06, 02:45
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Richard Rosenheim, NY
Jan 06, 02:39
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K Halboth, WI
Jan 06, 02:20
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It's ABOUT Time! The TERRIBLE and Fully Preventable GENOCIDE against the IRISH people by the British should be fully accounted for and the perpetrators brought to justice! The Irish Holocaust is still deeply entrenched in the minds and hearts of those of Irish ancestry; especially those that reside in the United States where many of our Irish ancestors arrived in Slave boats starving and impoverished. We Will Never Forget!
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