QUOTE OF THE MONTH

‘When dealing with law and order, and justice, it is important to emphasise the need to be on the side of law-abiding citizens, as opposed to the criminals. I come down heavily in support of those who believe that our modern system of justice tends to lean over towards the law-breaker. So while supporting impartiality in the administration of justice, as depicted in our coat of arms showing the scales evenly balanced in the centre, if we have to choose between the good guy and the bad guy, there should be no equivocation.’

Ian Smith [former prime minister of Rhodesia]

Most people would undoubtedly agree with this view. That the ‘rights’ of terrorists and criminals should not be promoted at the expense of the interests of ordinary citizens. Labour, however, disagree.

Labour, and the British ruling class in general, have placed the ‘rights’ of so-called asylum seekers to enter England ahead of the rights of the English to live in their own country free from persecution, and free from the threat of terrorism.

Labour, and the British ruling class in general, have also been prepared to tolerate various organised crime rackets [eg Chinese Snakehead syndicates] making huge profits from smuggling so-called asylum seekers and illegal immigrants into this country.

Labour, and the British ruling class in general, have also been prepared to indulge the activities of extremists instead of defending the victims of terrorism.

There have been 3 main acts of terrorism in England since the commencement of the war on terror [after 9/11]. There was the murder of PC Stephen Oake in 2003, the 7/7 suicide bombings, and the subsequent 21/7 failed attempted terrorist bombings. In addition, there have also been other terrorist activities by British Muslims abroad [eg the 2 suicide bombers in Israel].

It may be recalled that Stephen Oake was stabbed 8 times in the chest as he wrestled with a terror suspect, the Algerian Kamel Bourgass, in a flat in Manchester. Another 2 men were found at the flat and another surrendered himself to the police shortly afterwards in connection with the murder.

All 4 of these men were so-called asylum seekers. The police believed that they were Algerian Muslim extremists.

The tenant of the flat had had his application for asylum refused, but had not been deported. Instead, after he had been on the run for 4 years, he was finally caught but then granted exceptional leave to remain because it was alleged that he would be in danger if he were returned to Algeria.

Up to 3,000 GIA Algerian Muslim extremists were let into the country by the Tories in the 1990s. The GIA are conducting a terrorist campaign in Algeria.

Of the four 7/7 suicide bombers, Mohammed Khan, Hasib Hussein, Shehzad Tanweer were born in Britain. Germaine Lindsay was born in Jamaica, although he immigrated to the UK as a young child.

Of the five 21/7 terrorists [including the man who is believed to be responsible for the discarded bomb subsequently found], Maktar Ibraihim, Yasin Omar, Osman Hussein, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu and Ramzi Mohamed - at least 4 are immigrants. Details of Ramzi Mohamed’s background have not been released by the police.

Asiedu is Ghanian and needed an interpreter for his court appearance. Ibraihim is Eritrean, Hussein is Ethiopian and Omar is Somalian. Hussein was granted a British passport as an act of fraud, claiming to be an asylum seeker which it is now clear he was not. He also goes by, and has another passport in the name of, Hamdi Issac.

Ibrahim also managed to obtain a British passport, despite his criminal past which included shoplifting, the targeting of whites for mugging, his drug use, and serving half of a 5 year prison sentence during which he participated in a riot in which several prison officers were injured. He also used aliases and at times claimed to be Sudanese.

There are of course others who have been detained and charged for assisting the terrorists, and those who have entered and fled the country who are believed to have been involved.

Of the 13 people who were in the forefront of the terrorist campaign, at least 9 were immigrants of various descriptions. Some have been allowed to stay, or even given British passports, despite clear criminal activity.

Without continued immigration, it would have been very difficult for Al-Qaeda to have carried out its acts of terrorism. Certainly, its activities would have been much reduced.

Nor should the comment by Lord Hoffman be forgotten when the judiciary decided to overturn government legislation and allow the Belmarsh detainees [who were immigrants the government believed were involved in terrorism] to enter this country:

‘The real threat to the life of the nation... comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these.’

Immigration and so-called asylum seeking are key factors in the Al-Qaeda terrorist campaign in England. It is not in the interests of the English that immigration and asylum seeking continue. Yet Labour are determined that there is to be no change in government policy.

Then there is the recent victory for the animal rights terrorists with the announcement that the Hall family would stop breeding guinea pigs at their farm in Staffordshire. The guinea pigs were used for scientific research.

This is after a 15 year terrorist campaign of death threats, graffiti, night-time use of loudhailers, cars being damaged, bricks thrown through windows, cut telephone and electricity lines, smear campaigns, hate mail, bomb hoaxes, arson attacks and, most depraved of all, the digging up of the grave of 82-year-old Gladys Hammond whose body was stolen. The campaign of intimidation was not confined to the Hall family, but also included anyone who had any contact with them.

The Hall family were unable to rely upon the rule of law and were effectively hung out to dry by the government and the judiciary. Even after the desecration of Gladys Hammond’s grave the local residents were refused a 25 mile exclusion zone which would have kept the terrorists away from the locality.

However, the judge said that he wanted to give the terrorists, as he himself described them, one last chance and instead granted an injunction which would allow protests to continue on Sundays between 12pm and 3pm.

One of the terrorists, John Curtin, had previously been convicted for trying to dig up the body of the Duke of Beaufort. This had been an anti-hunt protest. Another, Mel Broughton was jailed for 4 years in 1997 for trying to smuggle incendiary bombs into an animal testing facility. Another, Kerry Whitburn, is a full-time activist and has been jailed several times.

The Hall family have now finally found they have no alternative but to close down their business at the end of the year. The so-called animal rights activists have made clear that they will continue to harass the Hall family nonetheless, and that they will move on to other targets after their success.

The fact is that the British ruling class in general, and Labour in particular, do equivocate when they have to choose between the good guy and the bad guy, and if anything, they prioritise the ‘rights’ of the bad guy.