Comments on: HRC hamstrung by restrictions on MI5 investigations http://sluggerotoole.com/2007/02/13/hrc-hamstrung-by-restrictions-on-mi5-investigations/ Conversation, politics and stray insights Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:06:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Crataegus http://sluggerotoole.com/2007/02/13/hrc-hamstrung-by-restrictions-on-mi5-investigations/comment-page-1/#comment-107513 Crataegus Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:55:21 +0000 #comment-107513 Scurrilous. Highlights yet again a fundamental problem and speaks volumes about the state of British democracy. <b> Yokel</b> There is a valid argument that you are not going to get real progress here unless there is a hack of a lot more truth. How can you? Indeed I think there is a case for not voting for many of the incumbents in the coming election simply for the reason we don’t know the truth about their past, and we don’t know if others have ‘influence’ over them. Where do their interests lie? Can they be trusted? Who are they working for? Whose interests do they represent? Scurrilous. Highlights yet again a fundamental problem and speaks volumes about the state of British democracy.

Yokel

There is a valid argument that you are not going to get real progress here unless there is a hack of a lot more truth. How can you?

Indeed I think there is a case for not voting for many of the incumbents in the coming election simply for the reason we don’t know the truth about their past, and we don’t know if others have ‘influence’ over them. Where do their interests lie? Can they be trusted? Who are they working for? Whose interests do they represent?

]]> By: Pete Baker http://sluggerotoole.com/2007/02/13/hrc-hamstrung-by-restrictions-on-mi5-investigations/comment-page-1/#comment-107505 Pete Baker Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:27:08 +0000 #comment-107505 "This is the same Bill that downshifts the importance but retains the non jury Diplock Courts." Or as <a href="http://sluggerotoole.com/index.php/weblog/comments/it-creates-a-new-system-of-non-jury-trial-in-northern-ireland/">Peter Hain stated at the time</a> "It creates a new system of non-jury trial in Northern Ireland" “This is the same Bill that downshifts the importance but retains the non jury Diplock Courts.”

Or as Peter Hain stated at the time

“It creates a new system of non-jury trial in Northern Ireland”

]]> By: Yokel http://sluggerotoole.com/2007/02/13/hrc-hamstrung-by-restrictions-on-mi5-investigations/comment-page-1/#comment-107503 Yokel Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:23:17 +0000 #comment-107503 Face it everyone, the government isn't going to turn on this tap of truth. There's too much at stake in getting the much vaunted process back on track and stable over the next few years so there's next to no chance of anything truly significant or wide ranging emerging via official channels. It'll take a rogue in the system to start unravelling this kind of stuff. Face it everyone, the government isn’t going to turn on this tap of truth.

There’s too much at stake in getting the much vaunted process back on track and stable over the next few years so there’s next to no chance of anything truly significant or wide ranging emerging via official channels.

It’ll take a rogue in the system to start unravelling this kind of stuff.

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