- I put this little piece together earlier this year as
soon as I heard that establishment freemason poodle Brian Hutton was chosen
to get the Blair government off the hook.
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- I hope you can post this. It gives details on exactly
the nature of Htton and exactly why he was picked to do a "job"
on our freedom of speech, whilst also defelecting the spotlight from the
real reasons that we went to war in the first place.
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- Thabks
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- Andy
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- http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=34477
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- From Andy: read all and form your own conclusions!
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- I posted this to my friends and the BBC (radio 5 live
in UK - they didn't comment on it all afternoon...)
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- begin snip
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- "This will be a whitewash.
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- Brian Hutton is an establishment freemason, he ran the
same military tribunal hanging courts in Northern Ireland that are identical
to camp X-ray! The Diplock courts, and he was chosen by blair and his advisors
as the most expedient way out...
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- This is what the poodle, representing the Ministry of
Defence, said in 1973!!!
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- talk about conflict of interest!!!
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- 1973: 'Bloody Sunday' inquest accuses Army The coroner
presiding over the "Bloody Sunday" inquest has accused the British
army of "sheer unadulterated murder". The accusation came from
the Londonderry City coroner, Major Hubert O'Neill, after the inquest jury
returned an open verdict on the deaths.
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- Thirteen people died on 30 January last year when members
of the Parachute Battalion opened fire on people attending a civil rights
march in Derry.
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- Another man died later in hospital and 14 others were
also shot and injured.
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- Major O'Neill said there had been no justification for
the soldiers to open fire.
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- He said: "These people may have been taking part
in a parade that was banned but I do not think that justifies the firing
of live rounds indiscriminately."
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- But Mr Brian Hutton, QC, representing for the Ministry
of Defence told Major O'Neill the inquest had heard only part of the evidence.
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- "It is not for you or the jury to express such wide-ranging
views, particularly when a most eminent judge has spent 20 days hearing
evidence and come to a very different conclusion," Mr Hutton said.
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- Andy : he was an establishment kow-tower in 1973, and
still is, and that is EXACTLY why Blair picked him to preside over this
upcoming whitewash...
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- Catholic priests who were at the rally gave evidence
to the inquest.
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- They said many of the dead men were unarmed and running
away when they were shot.
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- They also claimed the troops failure to stop firing prevented
them from helping the sick and dying.
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- The MP for Antrim North, Reverend Ian Paisley, has said
he will ask the Northern Ireland Secretary for Major O'Neill's removal.
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- "Mr O'Neill is not fit to be coroner for he has
let his religious and political feelings dictate his decision," Mr
Paisley said.
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- Lord Hutton was the former Lord Chief Justice of Northern
Ireland where Britain has been condemned internationally for human rights
abuses;
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- Shayler did not act in public interest, court rules
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- Staff and agencies Thursday March 21, 2002
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- The country's highest court, the Law Lords, today ruled
that the former MI5 agent turned whistle-blower, David Shayler, did not
act in the public interest when he disclosed state secrets alleging illegal
activities and incompetence in the security services.
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- Andy : LOL LOL LOL, Shayler acted *precisely* in the
public interest!
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- The House of Lords unanimously rejected a human rights
challenge tabled by Mr Shayler and said he could not use "public interest"
defence in his forthcoming Old Bailey trial.
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- Mr Shayler is accused of disclosing state secrets in
1997 in a series of newspaper articles about alleged illegal activities
and incompetence in the security services.
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- Five law lords said there was no incompatibility between
the 1989 Official Secrets Act, under which Shayler faces prosecution, and
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights guaranteeing "freedom
of expression". Lord Bingham of Cornhill said: "Despite the high
importance attached to it, the right to free expression was never regarded
in domestic law as absolute." The European Convention recognised that
it was not absolute and could be restricted if a state could show that
restriction was necessary in a democratic society. The 1989 act imposed
a ban on disclosure of information or documents relating to security or
intelligence by a former member of the service "without lawful authority".
Lord Bingham said: "The crux of this case is whether the safeguards
built into the Official Secrets Act are sufficient to ensure that unlawfulness
and irregularity can be reported to those with the power and duty to take
effective action, and the power to withhold authorisation to publish is
not abused and that proper disclosures are not stifled."
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- He added: "If a person who has given a binding undertaking
of confidentiality seeks to be relieved, even in part, from that undertaking
he must seek authorisation and, if so advised, challenge any refusal of
authorisation. If that refusal is upheld in the courts it must, however
reluctantly, be accepted." Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Hutton, Lord
Hobhouse of Woodborough and Lord Scott of Foscote unanimously agreed and
dismissed Mr Shayler's challenge. He is due to face a criminal trial later
this year after making claims in the Mail on Sunday in 1997 that agents
in the 1970s tapped the telephone of Peter Mandelson, later to serve as
Northern Ireland secretary, and kept a file on Jack Straw, now foreign
secretary.
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- Profile of "Lord" Hutton
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- 'A classic establishment figure'
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- If Lord Hutton's name has previously penetrated the public
consciousness, it would have been for his role in the extradition case
against General Augusto Pinochet, writes Matthew Tempest
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- Monday July 21, 2003
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- Lord Hutton: charged with investigating the death of
David Kelly. Photo: PA.
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- Beyond the fact that he was born and spent much of his
career in Northern Ireland, Lord Hutton is a classic establishment figure:
a lawyer, law lord and Balliol man to boot. Educated at an all-boys boarding
school in Shrewsbury, the Ulster-born James Hutton then took a first in
jurisprudence at Oxford, continued his studies at Queen's College, Belfast,
before being called to the Nothern Ireland bar in 1954.
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- A long and distinguished career across the Irish sea
followed. The then Mr Hutton became junior counsel to the attorney general
in Belfast in 1969, a QC (Northern Ireland) in 1970, and a senior crown
counsel in Ulster from 1973-79.
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- Since this period was the height of the Troubles, where
Northern Ireland appeared on the brink of civil war, Lord Hutton will have
crucial experience not only of the judiciary, but also of Whitehall and
even the security services.
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- He was also a member of the joint law enforcement commission
of 1974, and a judge of the high court of justice before finally, in 1988,
becoming the lord chief justice of Northern Ireland.
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- In 1997 he became a law lord.
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- If Lord Hutton's name has previously penetrated the public
consciousness, it would have been as one of the law lords ruling on the
extradition case against General Augusto Pinochet. Lord Hutton ruled that
the Chilean former dictator was liable to be extadited for crimes of torture
committed after 1988.
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- Andy : and then he was let go!
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- The 72-year old Baron Hutton of Bresagh in the County
of Down is married, with two daughters, and sits as a crossbencher in the
Lords.
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- He lists no hobbies or clubs in his Who's Who entry,
although he is a past president of the Northern Ireland Association for
Mental Health, and is currently a vistor at the University of Ulster.
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- Belfast Telegraph > News Publication Date: 21 July
2003
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- Ulster Judge with life and death experience London Editor
Brian Walker profiles LORD HUTTON, the law lord from Northern Ireland who
faces the greatest challenge of his career, to head up the inquiry into
the circumstances surrounding the suicide of the MoD weapons inspector,
Dr David Kelly
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- By Brian Walker email: brian.walker@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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- WITH the Prime Minister's future ultimately at stake,
the eyes of the world will also be on Northern Ireland's Brian Hutton,
when Tony Blair enters the box to give evidence in what will surely be
the most sensational appearance of his life.
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- This is one forum the Prime Minister will not be able
to dominate easily.
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- Now 72, Lord Hutton, unlike most law lords, has presided
over life and death issues for many years.
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- He will surely keep Mr Blair on a tight rein and squash
any attempts at grand-standing by any of the considerable egos likely to
appear before him.
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- He is known as a very reserved and private man.
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- Educated in England, but retaining traces of an Ulster
accent, he has always kept his political distance and a low public profile,
but has shown a strong personality in court.
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- "He is not afraid," said one senior Belfast
solicitor who knows him well, "and he is completely independent."
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- His experience as a trained prosecutor, also rare for
a law lord, will stand him in good stead in the essentially straightforward
task of the inquiry, that of establishing truth beyond reasonable doubt.
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- One of his early cases was to prosecute the then Bernadette
Devlin MP after the Bogside riots in August 1969, looking very uncomfortable
as she mocked the charges and the mandatory six month sentence.
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- As the last Lord Chief Justice of the province to experience
life as a so-called "legitimate target" of the Provisional IRA,
he achieved a reputation for fair and meticulous judgment.
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- Few of his verdicts were challenged, despite the unpopularity
of the non-jury Diplock courts.
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- Rising rapidly to the top in Belfast and then elevated
with a great sense of relief to the final Court of Appeal in the Lords,
he has managed to keep his slate clean of political controversy, building
up his reputation as a lawyer's lawyer who relies heavily on legal precedent.
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- While reckoned to be a small "c" conservative,
he has not invariably sided with the Establishment.
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- Two major decisions, one each from a criminal and a rights
lawyer, appear to confirm his independent streak.
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- In the early 90s, he ruled that the 11-plus marking system
discriminated against girls; and in a decision later overturned, he ruled
that "subsequent ill-treatment" while in custody could render
a prisoner's original arrest illegal - a decision which, if upheld, could
have had momentous consequences.
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- As a law lord, he upheld the detention in England of
the former Chilean dictator General Pinochet over attempts to extradite
him for crimes against humanity.
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- In one hotly political case last year, he agreed with
Peter Robinson's case against John Reid's extension of the six week time
limit on the Assembly to elect a First and Deputy First Minister in 2002,
but was overruled.
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- from SAOIRSE Irish Freedom February 1997
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- Six Counties Chief Justice a Freemason Within days of
taking up his position of Britain,s new Lord Chief Justice in Occupied
Ireland Robert Carswell faced scrutiny from the former British Labour Party
spokesperson on the Six Counties, Kevin McNamara, to ascertain if the senior
member of the judiciary has ever been a member of the Freemasons or the
Orange Order. Carswell was appointed in November 1996 as a successor to
Lord Chief Justice Brian Hutton. The Dublin administration was not consulted
about his appointment, despite precedent being set in the London-Dublin
agreement of 1985.
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- Robert Carswell, an infamous anti-Republican, presided
over many high profile trials in recent years including the Casement Park
show-trials into the deaths of two British soldiers. Now Kevin McNamara
has tabled a series of House of Commons questions into the background and
appointment of the new court,s chief.
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- He is being aided by fellow Labour MP, Chris Mullin,
who is a member of a Home Affairs Select Committee at Westminster which
is investigating the extent of Freemason,s influence among politicians,
the police and the judiciary.
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- McNamara received written and evasive replies from the
Lord Chancellor,s department, "The Lord Chancellor does not require
candidates for, or holders of, judicial office to declare membership of
any lawful organisation. McNamara referred to the description of the Orange
Order as a "lawful organisation as "an unhappy reply given what
happened at Drumcree when the rule of law was challenged by the Orange
Order.
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- Asked why he was pursuing the issue, McNamara replied
"I was never happy with him [Robert Carswell] and his judgements on
various things. I thought it would be helpful if he was aware that people
were keeping an eye on him.
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- Meanwhile in Britain the Association of Women Barristers
has compiled a dossier on members of the judiciary with links to the Freemasons
and is recommending to the Commons Home Affairs Committee that anyone appointed
a judge be required to resign membership of the Freemasons or at least
disclose it publicly.
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- Josephine Hayes, chairperson of the association, said
there were probably more judges who were Freemasons than those identified.
The Masonic yearbook for 1996/97 lists over 30 judges as high-ranking or
"Grand Officers of the Masonic Order.
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