Daily Mail

IRA's mockery of justice

2001 May 06
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THE human rights of IRA terrorists shot dead in an SAS ambush as they tried to blow up a police station and murder the officers inside were violated, a European court ruled yesterday.

In a decision condemned as "astonishing and perverse", seven judges said Britain should pay the families of the eight men - among them some of the IRA's most notorious killers - $30,000 each because the cases were not properly investigated. The European Court of Human Rights also made similar awards to the families of two other IRA men and a Sinn Fein member killed in separate incidents.

British taxpayers face a total bill from the action of $670,000 including legal costs. There were fears the ruling could lead to further compensation claims from relatives of terrorists killed by security forces.

The judges, including one Briton and an Albanian who spent his early years tracking down opponents of the former communist regime, did not rule that the deaths were unlawful. Their unanimous ruling related to procedural matters.

It was greeted with jubilation, by the families and with outrage, by Unionists and the Royal Ulster Constabulary. David Trimble, Ulster Unionist leader and First Minister at the Northern Ireland Executive, said the judgment was "astonishing and perverse".

"There would be people who would call into question the competence and the judgment of the European Court," he said.

A spokesman for the Police Federation, which represents RUC officers, said: "If IRA members are killed in action carrying out a murderous deed, they will be rewarded with a lump sum or pension. There really is no justice."

Asked if the government would pay compensation, a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair, said: "That is something that will have to be looked at."

The IRA unit, known as the "A Team", was ambushed by the SAS as it attacked Loughgall police station in County Armagh in May 1987. The gang exploded a large bomb which killed two RUC officers.

As the gang jumped from its van intending to shoot dead any survivors, the SAS opened fire, killing all eight and a motorist caught in the crossfire. Weapons recovered at the scene were later linked to eight murders.

An 11-week-old baby girl was hurt by flying glass when a bomb was thrown at a police station in Belfast, Northern Ireland, yesterday. Her injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.

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COMMENT:

It must be remembered that the European Courts are not in fact a part of the EU structure, thus this indubitably perverse decision can not be laid directly at the door of the European Union.

It must however be noted that the overwhelming majority of the participants in the European courts are in fact EU members thus it is not surprising that they dispense rulings rather than justice.

They are basing judgements, in the main, on the ‘Corpus Juris’ model of law – drawn up by the Emperor Justinius – with the direct purpose of ‘repression’; rather than Justice, as known in such civilised countries as America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Britain who base their legal system on British Common Law which is in turn based on ‘Natural Law’.

In the EU’s own book on ‘Corpus Juris’ it clearly states on page 40 paragraph 3 “….across a largely unified Europe this will provide a better, fairer, simpler system of repression……’ .

It becomes increasingly obvious that natural/British law and its concepts of justice are being swept away, to be replaced by LAW, with something of a disregard for Justice!! It is of course imperative to control and repress peoples, in order to set up a totalitarian, cantrally controlled Supra National State.

One can reasonably expect ALL rights, freedoms and courts to be increasingly subsumed to the ‘gift’ of the EU and the other branches of the New World Order – regardless of the needs, desires or best interests of the peoples the State wishes to enthral.

Greg Lance - Watkins

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