Blowing the whistle on justice

JJS

Yes, "the Attorney General must explain ..." but will he? No -- because we now live under a system dedicated entirely to its own self-preservation. Even our Prime Minister has one -- and only one -- agenda: to retain power at any cost. Hence the same attitude trickles down and has become ubiquitous. And we wonder where Mugabe et al learn such lessons in politics.

Alan Stoddart

According to Bertrand Russell twas ever thus: "This study will try to explain how this situation is not something that has occurred by chance and it will offer evidence that militant Islam has been a card played by the global elites of the dominant Anglo-American establishment to achieve the long-term goal of a world government. As we related in Part One, the British used Islam to legitimize their puppet rulers in Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Palestine after taking over the Middle East in World War I. Because of this Islam was seen by much of the Arab populace as just another part of the corrupt colonial establishment. That is why the legitimate anti-colonial movements, such as those of Nasser, Mossadegh and Bhutto, were primarily secular in nature. When these nationalist movements began to succeed outside of the British sphere of influence the British turned to their Islamic allies to subvert these independent regimes. The Muslim Brotherhood stands out as the most important counter-revolutionary movement of this period in the Middle East, and one of the British-based Globalists' most important strategic assets today."

David M

The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the - Web Reconnaissance for 01/09/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.

J. Isaacs

Derek Pasquill has just been on Channel Four News in the UK with his solicitor saying they are now considering legal action against the Foreign Office. Meanwhile, the Foreign Office is considering disciplinary action against Mr. Pasquill. Obviously the Foreign Office has been shown up as still the "camel corps" of Melanie Phillips' book "Londonistan." Time for a bit of camel whipping or, better still, camel-jockey whipping, since one wouldn't want to be cruel to animals.

J. Isaacs

The BBC's Newsnight has, surprisingly, already begun whipping those camel-jockeys, but not with its somewhat anodyne interview of Mr. Pasquill and his solicitor. Rather, a rib-tickling report on former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, featured a new stage show being put on by Mr. Murray's Uzbekistan belly dancer wife. He married her after being thrown out of the Foreign Office, seemingly for having an affair with her and telling the truth about atrocities under Uzbekistan's totalitarian government, which the camel-jockeys did not want revealed. In the one-woman show her story is told and there is, naturally, loads of belly dancing. Book tickets while stocks last.

Herbert Thornton

This is disturbingly reminiscent of the situation in Britain in the 1930s, when several people in the British Civil Service and Armed Forces became so concerned about government inaction that they passed secret information about Nazi rearmament to Winston Churchill.

The main difference is that the current government is even more brazenly determined to conceal from the public the truth about the peril facing the country than was the case before World War 2.

David lodge

Indeed Miss Phillips, and such things will occur time and again until the top mandarins of the so-called Civil Service are held accountable for such outrages. I put it to you that until they are threatened with prosecution, removal from their positions and their pensions are forfeit, they will proceed with impunity as they always have

John East

"The Attorney General must now explain precisely what public interest was served by this prosecution...." Could it be that Nulab interest was served, which is the role of our Attorney General. Presumably the 20 months that this ran meant that sub judice rules applied and the gory details along with public debate were suppressed.

M Clyde

Alan Stoddart writes: 'militant Islam has been a card played by the global elites of the dominant Anglo-American establishment to achieve the long-term goal of a world government.' I'd have to endorse that. How else do you explain the fact that one of the first political Islamists, Amin al-Husseini, was actually promoted by the British to Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in 1920? From this position he continued to stir up Arab unrest against Jewish immigrants to Palestine. What were the British playing at? It seems that British policy over Palestine was divided from the start; some might argue double-dealing. Myself, I prefer the c*** up theory to the conspiracy theory. But that's not to say that there are not elements which exploit and fan on British incompetance for evil ends. I had always thought that the Palestinian problem was essentially a civil problem that was therefore capable of some kind of rational, secular solution. However, studying the role of al Husseini, and especially the links he forged with the nascent Muslim Brotherhood, formed in 1928, and the links both of them forged with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, shows the extent to which opposition to Jewish settlement was ALWAYS based on theological grounds, not civil ones. Add to the lethal cocktail the evil influence of Nazism, and you can see that the roots of Islamic anti-sematism are both deep and poisonous and this is the greatest impediment to peace. The ineptitude of the British in not recognising the 'fanaticism' of Islam, or at least of Islamic radicals, is simply astonishing but I believe it stems from a naive liberal sentiment that all faiths are equal, and that what we now call Islamism IS a faith and not a political ideology akin to Nazism and actually sharing a common history in the 20th century. From what Pasquill unearthed it seems the British FO has learned absolutely nothing in the last 90 years.

Ian C

The incoherence of this gov't is futher apparent in this episode. On the one hand they want an unsaleable 90/56 days detention rights and on the other they are prosecuting non-secret material whistelblowers under Official Secrets legislation. Competent or what......?

M.Lester

An excellent article, Melanie. What I found even more telling & entertaining were all (10 so far) comments which were objective, relevant & well written. Many thanks, chaps!

george

MR Clyde I am in agreement with you and believe that to the 'eminence grises' of the FO, it was a great disappointment that Israel was not "destroyed" in 1948 and for the American state department too. Husseini was appointed to a role created by the British, against the wishes of many Islamic clerics, as Grand Mufti to foment trouble so that the British could later claim that the Israel experiment had failed and would be therefore have to be dismantled. This was in line with their engagement to secure an environment in which their economic aspirations towards Arab oil and the immense blowback in British business contracts which would follow to modernise the medieval ME would proceed. unincumbered.

N

Do you know what is happening concerning the blogger known as lionheart?

Ya Know....

I thought American media was Orwellian, thanks for upping the bar.