British justice

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Bloody Sunday 'witness' jailed (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4188085.stm)

Sadly typical outrage. :angry:

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Irish Republican Socialist Party
PO Box 1981, Derry
Tel 028 71262999

Saturday 22 Jan 2005

IRSP representative in Derry, Eamon O’Donnell, today hit out at the British establishment and their lackeys in Ireland in their continuing contempt for the people of Derry by their politically motivated arrest and imprisonment of local Republican Martin Doherty.

Thirty-three years since Bloody Sunday the British state have yet to learn the follies of their past mistakes when they imprisoned their opponents in Ireland on false and fabricated charges. These tactics failed in the past and they will fail now. Is this the best that they can throw at us?

These events do little to instill confidence in the Saville inquiry among the people of Derry although this inquiry is now going down the road of the ill-fated Widgery and the whitewash that it produced.

The people of Derry, going on past and present experience, cannot expect truth, honesty and justice from the British establishment in Ireland. The IRSP call for the immediate release of Martin Doherty from his illegal incarceration. It is our profound belief that there will never be justice in Ireland while the British maintain their occupation of the six counties.

ENDS

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Hey O, what is Doherty supposed to know that the Brits are willing to throw him in jail to find out? Ironic that the first person to be thrown in jail over this whole thing is a witness rather than one of those jack-booted paras.

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I think the Brits are trying to coerce or trick Doherty into admitting that the IRA started Bloody Sunday. That's of course not backed up by any other evidence, including eyewitnesses and forensics, but that's what they're attempting to do by placing members of the IRA at the scene.

There were shots fired back after the Paras opened fire though. A Derryman named Red Mickey fired some shots back and then was shot. He escaped and survived and the IRSP are working on a memorial to the man.

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Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2005, 10:09 PM
I think the Brits are trying to coerce or trick Doherty into admitting that the IRA started Bloody Sunday. That's of course not backed up by any other evidence, including eyewitnesses and forensics, but that's what they're attempting to do by placing members of the IRA at the scene.

There were shots fired back after the Paras opened fire though. A Derryman named Red Mickey fired some shots back and then was shot. He escaped and survived and the IRSP are working on a memorial to the man.
I knew all that. I was just curious as to whether Doherty&#39;s testimony was supposed to have any kind of extraordinary significance and where it fit into things. The coersion part I agree with. It&#39;s pretty standard fare here (in the U&#036;) in the other of the world&#39;s two greatest democracies as well. <_<