"The worst crimes in UK history'
In a time of peace the West is permanently at war. Massive standing armies are continuously fed their natural fare. And, incredibly, the myth of the UK being a peace-loving country is sustained by a "liberal' media who endlessly regurgitate the spurious justifications of the political elite. There are currently only two states on the planet which routinely attack other sovereign states and yet the UK and the US persist in seeing themselves as on the side of righteousness and peace.
John McDonnell is an outstanding member of parliament who tells it as it is; together with Annie Machon (former MI5 officer) and Chris Coverdale (of "Make war history') they held a press conference on 23 rd April, 2013, under the heading "Accounting for War'.
As John McDonnell pointed out the UK has been involved in 5 illegal wars since 2001. These have caused the deaths of at least 1 million adults in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya and Syria. An estimated 600,000 children have died.
We are all responsible for this. We let it happen. These children have parents who grieve as we would grieve at the death our own child. Our grief would be all the more bitter in the knowledge that the killing took place at the behest of pitiless fantasists who are not being brought to justice for their crimes. As John declared our government issued the orders for war with the consent of Parliament, the Queen, Law-enforcement authorities and taxpayers. These, he claimed, are the worst crimes in UK history.
Annie Machon resigned from MI5 in protest against the UK's illegal activities in Libya which included efforts to destabilise the state and a plan to murder President Gadaffi. At the press conference she stated that UK's secret agents are active in a number of Middle Eastern and other countries attempting to destabilise governments including Syria where covert action is widely understood to have been going on for decades. Moreover the lack of effective oversight of the UK secret service is such that even government ministers cannot discover the extent of their activities. Even as information emerges about the crimes of illegal kidnap, rendition (sending abroad), and torture of individuals the government has chosen not to have a root and branch examination of the relationship of government, elected representatives and the law but has passed further legislation to protect the secret services and to prevent evidence of illegality becoming public.
Annie Machon informed the UK media that the secret service
had definitely "fixed' the intelligence purporting to justify the invasion of
Iraq and that Iran, too, was to have been invaded in 2008. It was not invaded
because the US intelligence agencies advised that there was no evidence that
Iran was making or was intending to make a nuclear bomb.
Chris Coverdale quoted from the 1970 UN Declaration on Principles of
International Law',
Point 6:
"No State or group of States has the right to
intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal or
external affairs of any other State. Consequently, armed intervention and all
other forms of interference or attempted threats against the personality of the
State or against its political, economic and cultural elements are in violation
of international law."
The UN Declaration makes it clear that the invasion of another state is an illegal act and those who authorise it can, under the law, be brought to account.
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