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Conference tallis::celt

Title:	Celt Notefile

Moderator:	TALLIS::DARCY

Created:	Wed Feb 19 1986
Last Modified:	Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1632
Total number of notes:	20523

321.0. ""Post-Stalker...is anyone surprised?"" by RUNWAY::FARRINGTON (TIOCFAIDH AR LA) Tue Jan 26 1988 08:10

    (reprinted from The Boston Globe, 26 January 1988.)
    
    BRITAIN WILL NOT CHARGE ULSTER POLICE IN SIX DEATHS
    
    Associated Press
    
    LONDON-The British government said yesterday that although justice
    might have been perverted in Northern Ireland, no police officers
    will be charged after an investigation of an alleged shoot-to-kill
    policy towards suspected terrorists six years ago.
         In Dublin, the Irish government said it was "deeply concerned"
    about the decision not to prosecute and was seeking clarification
    from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government.
         More than three years after the investigation began, Attorney
    General Sir Patrick Mayhew told the House of Commons it appeared
    that "untrue and misleading" material had been included in police
    investigations of killings.  However, he said it was in the public
    interest that no charges be made.
         Mayhew told lawmakers that Sir Barry Shaw, the chief prosecutor
    for Northern Ireland, said it appeared that "material and important
    facts had been omitted and that matters which were untrue and mis-
    leading in material and important respects had been included" in
    the original police investigations of the killings.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
321.1	Holy Cow	WELSWS::MANNION	This land ain't _her_ land	`Tue Jan 26 1988 08:48`	13
	No, I'm not surprised at all. Thatcher is having a fit of deepest security at the moment. Last night's Panorama interview was enough to make you sick, all her talk about "the common people" not wanting any freedom of information about the security forces and their subversive little games. The "Stalker" decision is from the same place, really. She said recently that "there is no such thing as society", what she wants to protect is the privilege and power of her kind, so I'm sure she'd think that there is such a thing as The Establishment. The Police are just one of her arms in defending it. Phillip
321.2	There is a suker punch coming....	GAOV07::MHUGHES	dean corp-trialladh don banrion	`Tue Jan 26 1988 13:50`	19
	Leaprechauns will update the Boston Globe. The Irish government is NOT seeking clarification from the British government. It IS seeking clarification from the Anglo-Irish Secretariat (a formal creation of joint Irish-British civil servants), a body set up by the Anglo-Irish agreement. My opinion is that this is a very clever ploy by C.J. Haughey the Taoiseach. The Anglo-Irish secretariat cannot get the inquiry report as it is not being made public. C.J. Haughey might be using the formal mechanisms of the Anglo-Irish agreement (which he operates with strong reservations), to dig the grave of the agreement. Now if the agreement cannot deliver it will look like a complete waste of time, money, energy, and possibly lives. Snake sees a devious scheming mind at work...... and he knows his like when he see it.
321.3	"Will he, or won't he...?	RUNWAY::FARRINGTON	TIOCFAIDH AR LA	`Wed Jan 27 1988 06:18`	9
	(A Cynical Note of Caution) Ah yes, the 'Boss' is mischievous, but is he Machiaveillan? The man has an affinity for the status of power, but given the opportunity to scrap the Anglo-Irish agreement, will C.J. risk the status of his tacitly agreed upon "National" government with F.G., and the P.D.'s? Greater promise always carries the burden of greater doubt!