Unjust Geneva Convention - Soldier Rots In Prison Warmonger Stays Free

When it was revealed that Her Majesty's Shadow Secretary of Defence, Emily Thornberry, has received political donations from a dodgy law firm, Leigh Day, who scoured the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan searching for 'victims of abuse' supposedly perpetrated by British soldiers with a view to suing them, it raised the age old issue of what are acceptable or unacceptable actions during warfare.

(Dodgy law firm get busted here)

It came as news to millions of people, myself included, that there exists a 145-strong department called the Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) charged with investigating these allegations and who's caseload has exceeded 1,500 cases. The investigation into whether Iraqi's or Afghans were ill-treated or unlawfully killed by soldiers will drag on until 2019 at the earliest and cost at least
$88 million.

How that affects soldiers efficiency on the battlefield is anyone's guess but it can hardly be conducive to their morale.

Law firms like Leigh Day and the IHAT who together swim in the fetid swamp of the recently created human rights industry would serve justice better if they investigated with equal vigour those who send soldiers into battle in the first place.

The infamous case of jailed-for-life Royal Marine Sgt Alexander Blackman, previously designated Marine A and the man who got him involved the war, Prime Minister Tony Blair is a case in point.
(Marine A prosecution here)

No one could have put the issue in clearer language than author and journalist George Orwell who opined on the issue way back in 1943. It's worth quoting part of his article from his Tribune newspaper column, As I Please, to illustrate the point:

"I note the surprise with which many people seem to discover that war is not a crime. Hitler, it appears, has not done anything actionable. He has not raped anybody, nor carried off any pieces of loot with his own hands, nor personally flogged any prisoners, buried any wounded men alive, thrown any babies into the air and spitted them on his bayonet, dipped any nuns in petrol and touched them off with church tapers - in fact he has not done any of the things which any enemy nationals are credited with doing in war-time. He has merely precipitated a world war which will have cost twenty million lives before it ends. And there's nothing illegal in that".

Since this was written the Geneva and Hague Conventions have been updated and re-written to clarify the laws of war with the noble intention of protecting prisoners and non-combatants among a myriad of other things.

In light of the fact that the war which resulted in Sgt Blackman being jailed for finishing off a fatally wounded Taliban terrorist was justified by Tony Blair using doctored intelligence reports and outright lies and also by the fact that he is free as a bird, it is abundantly clear that the Geneva and Hague Conventions make the serving soldier doing what he is trained to do liable to prosecution while absolving the warmonger from any responsibility or guilt whatsoever.

Blair lied to Parliament and along with his communications chief Alastair Campbell deliberately 'sexed up' the dossier on weapons of mass destruction and other matters in order to justify waging war on Iraq which posed no threat to Great Britain or it's people.
( One dodgy dossier story here)

In the context of Orwell's quote Tony Blair was party to precipitating a war which has so far cost the lives of anywhere between two-hundred thousand and a million souls, most of them civilians and it appears he has done nothing illegal.

Blair's actions have not  justified prosecution under the Geneva and Hague Conventions therefore they are not fit for purpose and consequently they should be considered invalid for deciding guilt for the causes and actions in modern international armed conflicts.

It must also be acknowledged that in addition to the appalling casualties resulting from Blair's war it has also precipitated the rise of ISIS which in turn has resulted in murder and mayhem across the world and a further untold increase in casualties.

Orwell ended his article thus:

"Nevertheless, a world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony-bin made use of by some other planet".

In conclusion, Sgt Blackman's action of dispatching a single terrorist to claim his virgins in paradise was done under unimaginable stress in the heat of battle and is trivial compared to horrendous casualties caused by the illegal actions of Tony Blair which were decided at his leisure with no stress at all.

Sgt Blackman is a hero who did what he was trained to do and therefore he should be released forthwith with his rank and benefits restored.
   

David Blunkett - Insulting To Our Intelligence

I read an article in the Daily Wail entitled ' British politicians have rarely been so ridiculed and despised and that should worry us all'. It was written by senior labour party big shot, former cabinet member and socialist hypocrite David Blunkett who was revisiting a previous pamphlet entitled ' In Defence of Politics.

Its a pathetic, dishonest article, bleating on about how the decline in trust for politicians and ministers has resulted in a subsequent decline in the authority of parliament. He further bleats that politicians are a despised breed and held up for constant ridicule. He briefly mentions the expenses scandal and the wrecking of the economy as possible reasons but his main thrust is that this 'malaise is a threat to the governance of our country and a threat to democracy itself.

Who is this political fraudster trying to kid? The people's respect for politicians was on the skids long before the expenses scandal broke. This scandal  proved what the people knew already, that the political class have no respect for the people they are supposed to serve and no respect whatsoever for their hard earned money. As far as David Blunkett and the rest of the shysters are concerned taxpayers money is theirs to spend as they see fit and for buying votes for their continuance in power.

More worryingly they believe there's an endless supply of it and when the supply of ready cash runs out, no problem they will just borrow billions more from China and our enemies and leave our children and grandchildren pick up the bill.

David Blunkett didn't raise a bleep of protest when the mentally disturbed, power hungry fanatic Gordon Brown systematically went on a taxpayer funded spending binge and who increased borrowing and debt at the top of the economic cycle when he should have been preparing for the downturn we all knew was coming.

There was not a squeak of protest from David Blunkett when Brown and Balls wantonly wrecked the best final salary pension schemes in the whole of Europe or when the two morons sold half of Great Britain's gold reserves for a rock bottom price costing the British people an estimated £16 billion.

Where was David Blunkett's concern for democracy when the megalomaniac Brown was foisted on the British people as their Prime Minister without a single popular being vote cast.

David Blunkett moans about the threat to democracy but he was a willing partner in a government that has handed over ever more of our sovereignty to the unelected, unrepentant Maoist Barrosso and that other appointed totalitarian Herman von Rumpoy who has openly stated he wants to destroy Great Britain as an independent sovereign country.

David Blunkett's concern for democracy couldn't stretch itself to opposing Peter Mandelson's calls for a government built for the European Union in a post democratic age.

David Blunkett has the gall to mention Philip Gould in glowing terms,  referring to him as ' the brilliant labour party strategist'. That's not how I remember the guttersnipe.

Together with Alastair 'Dodgy Dossier' Campbell,  Peter Mandelson and Phony Tony Blair, this is the man who was responsible for dragging British political life into the sewer where it remains to this day.

Gould's sole purpose in life was to achieve political power for Labour and keep it for all time. Thus we now have spin doctors, media managers, rebuttal units, centrally controlled 'lines to take' by our supine MP's. These manipulators divided the country up into special interest groups with each group cast as victims and then made promises unique to themselves in exchange for their votes.

Probably the most disgusting of all tools Gould and company gave us is the smear unit. These units are used to belittle, degrade and smear opponents or even perceived opponents of their tawdry regime.

So bad was Philip Gould and his fellow power hungry plotters that the smear units were often used against their own side. Thus we have the indignity of government ministers being briefed against and smeared by their own side.

David Blunkett's article is not contrition or a warning against extremism filling the vacuum left by the people ignoring a disrespected political class, it is a crude attempt at justifying their continuing existence.

Hence we have the ridiculous and outrageous lie that '' following the financial crisis, politicians were the ones that saved the Western world from complete financial meltdown in those dark days of 2008''.

So there you have it, David Blunkett and the politicians saved the world from complete disaster.
We don't know how lucky we are. 

Does David Blunkett seriously think we are going to fall for this nonsense? Is this is what the elite, out of touch political class think of our intelligence?

It wasn't the people of Greece or the bankers that spent their country into oblivion it was Papandreou and his politicians,  it was the terminally stupid Biffo and the politicians who did the same in Ireland, it was Berlisconni and the politicians in Italy and likewise Spain, Portugal and rest of the beleaguered Euroland.

More importantly for us it was with David Blunketts' approval that Gordon Brown, Ed Balls and the Labour politicians that spent Great Britain into bankruptcy.

The sub-prime mortgage scandal in America was directly caused by politicians interfering in the mortgage market, insisting that home loans be made to people who had no chance of repayment.

David Blunkett then goes on to suggest a solution or how to reconnect with the public and restore their faith in the political process. This is breath taking hypocrisy and I consider this section of this nonsense to be a bigger insult to my intelligence than the rest of his shameful article.

'' the first step is to be honest with the public. Politicians' habits of deceit and dissembling have exacted a terrible toll''.

This quote is an admission that David Blunkett and the political class deliberately and routinely lied to the British public in order to impose their ideologically driven political agenda.

To atone for this appalling admission he at least must step down with immediate effect and call a by election in his constituency. As a senior member of the last administration he has inside knowledge of all the other politicians who have deliberately lied and must convince them to do the same.

If David Blunkett wants the political class to start again and begin a new relationship with the governed then it will have have to be without him and the current political order. He and they are responsible for the current sad state of our country and its wrecked economy.

They have systematically and routinely lied to the people and they must go.

I for one will never trust these arrogant, lying, self serving bastards ever again.