Michael Cummings letter on British injustice and the C2.
Posted by Jim on March 4, 2015
Dear Editor: U. K. Prime Minister Cameron defended British security services which repeatedly interviewed but failed to detain Mohammed Emwazi aka ‘Jihadi John’ (“Cameron Defends…” 2/28). Ironic no? Britain spent most of 1971-1972 throwing hundreds of Irish men and women in jail without arrest, charge or trial and continues to do so today in the case of the Craigavon 2. Anne Cadwallader’s book Lethal Allies documents those same security services, using loyalist thugs to kill hundreds of Catholics labeled as terrorists.
Mr. Cameron assured the media that there was “robust oversight of the security and intelligence services …and when people commit heinous crimes against British Subjects ” the government ” will do everything it can to put them out of action.” What happens when it is the security services of the government that commit those heinous crimes? The Royal Ulster Constabulary made good on its threats to kill attorney Rosemary Nelson (1999). The de Silva Report into the murder of attorney Patrick Finucane (1989) a British Subject and Irish citizen, cited the security services as doing all they could to pervert the ends of justice. Those culpable in those murders have not been “put out of action.” So penetrating is Irish bigotry even militant jihadists are treated better!!
Had British ‘security’ services not spent decades spinning the N. I. civil rights protest into a guerilla war, they might have recognized the real enemy.
Michael J. Cummings