Do our politicians and our lawyers know nothing about warfare? They have arrested five Royal Marines and charged them with murder! What exactly to they train them and pay them to do? If you send a trained soldier into battle, or into a 'difficult' situation, then you cannot impose civilian rules on them. They are trained to fight. They are trained to kill. They face an enemy who will kill them given an opportunity.
What do they expect from our troops? They cannot go to war with the thought that 'if I get this wrong I could be charged with murder'! It is ridiculous. If you have just lost your best mate in action then frankly you are not acting rationally. They are not out shopping in Windsor on a Saturday morning.
Is it not about time that our lawyers departed to Afghanistan and hunted for the people who have killed over 400 of our soldiers in this utterly pointless war and asked the CPS to charge them! It is that stupid!
How the hell can our soldiers fight a war against a very aggressive enemy with one hand tied behind their backs? I have consistently maintained for a few years now that there is an element of our Political Class/Civil Servants who do not support our armed forces.
They are hell bent on the destruction of the troops and this is just another example of their agenda.
I know that we must maintain a service code of conduct but when soldiers go to war and could be killed then, believe you me, normal ethics disappear. If you are faced with someone trying to kill you then you don't think twice. You kill him/her!
The enemy of the British Army are very safe in the knowledge that if they are captured then the British Army have so many rules to observe that frankly they will have laugh at us. So many have donned friendly uniform and then reneged on the deal it is not surprising that they are not trusted.
Our problem is that the British Army face not only the Afghan warlords, who have not actually lost an ounce of their power since the joint British/American forces invaded their territory, but they are being stabbed in the back by the British establishment...as ever!
The enemy is not in Afghanistan it is actually in Islington, Tower Hamlets and surrounding suburbs. Most of them travel into Westmonster by bicycle!
I watched the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 from the safety of my living room sofa but it has remained with me all these years and I am not remotely connected with it. Everybody with an iota of common sense knew from day one that this was a failure of officialdom. Crowds only react to direction and clearly when only one ambulance penetrated the stadium someone had fouled up badly.
What I find almost unbelievable is the extent of the cover up. According to the independent panel who have been examining the evidence the cover up must have been huge. Police, Ambulance Service, Unions, Government and Judiciary were all involved and this makes it imperative that ALL concerned are rounded up and prosecuted.
I have often posted about the endemic corruption which exists in this country much of it emanating from Common Purpose and it is no coincidence that many of the Yorkshire Police senior officers have a Common Purpose background.
In this case 'apologies' are not sufficient. We now want prosecutions and it must begin with every senior officer in every service who colluded in this cover up. It could be ground breaking because many of those involved have since been promoted to very high positions. I hope that some people are now running very scared because what they did was unforgivable and inconceivable.
There are some very rotten apples in this basket. I suspect that the CPS will be very reluctant to follow this through but it is SO high profile they may have no choice. The truth is out. There is nowhere to run. Friends in high places cannot protect them now.
My final thought. This collusion is so callous. It is so depraved and disgusting that I am surprised that it has taken so long to uncover it. It means that there are many, many people involved who knew what was happening. These same people are still in situ and if they feel that it was OK to keep silent about this then the next question is what else have they covered up? Believe me Hillsborough is the tip of the iceberg but at least we have located the iceberg!
This morning Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric were found not guilty of tax evasion. Now I don't know if their actions were intended to dodge tax but what I do know is that the case appeared rather flimsy. Now I read that this was a police investigation that lasted five years and cost wait for it...eight million pounds! What!?
This is happening far too often. How many times do we hear that the CPS is bringing cases into court that are badly researched and far too costly. I do not know if the reported figures are accurate but bearing in mind the result it does appear that somebody is defrauding the government. It is high time that the competence of the CPS came under the spotlight and their success rates investigated.
