May 31, 2021 NYC & Philadelphia
The American Brexit Committee has again expressed its concerns for Brexit’s impact on Ireland with the U. S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. After a recent meeting with British Ministers, loyalist gang leaders issued threats of violence over the N. I. Protocol intending to intimidate the EU and the United States. N. I. loyalist thugs are often used by the British to kill Catholics and to destabilize political and social institutions. The Johnson government recently has also announced plans to make use of a totally inappropriate legal mechanism (force majeure) to escape compliance with the Protocol’s obligations and no doubt to undermine the Good Friday Agreement.
“British bully tactics in N. I. continue unabated and no wonder” stated attorney Jim Cotter of Boston. “The British now after 50 years have to stop lying and smearing the families of 12 innocent civilians murdered in Ballymurphy in 1971. Add 40 years of deceit over the Bloody Sunday killings and 45 years of obstructing Ireland’s demand for British Army records in the no warning Dublin-Monaghan bombings, and the collusion assassinations of attorneys Rosemary Nelson and Patrick Finucane and one must ask what more is needed to officially designate Britain as a State sponsor of terrorism?” Michael Hand of Rhode Island added: “The British spent three decades corrupting law and justice to crush the civil rights movement and since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has been sealing records of their treachery (for 70 years in some cases), obstructing inquiries and destroying evidence while making a mockery of Article II of the European Human Rights Convention.”
Attorney Richard Lawler (CT) questioned whether such a track record of lying, cover-up and disrespect for human rights and the rule of law should prevent the United State from acting upon any of Britain’s Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), extradition and deportation requests. “Their failures to comply with the GFA and the NI Protocol are proof positive they are simply not worthy of the trust of the American people.”
Ambassador Tai has made it clear to Britain that American trade priorities currently are focused on China, the EU and the WTO. “If and when trade talks with Britain continue , we urge Ambassador Tai to work closely with Members of Congress,” remarked Larry Prelle (NJ), and consider the appropriate use of the Congress Trade Priorities and Accountability Act and the Countering America’s Adversaries with Sanctions Act to prevent human rights abuses in Ireland and to penalize breaches and delays implementing the GFA obligations and the NI Protocol. For example, if, as promised, Britain unilaterally grants amnesty to British soldiers involved in killing civilians and Irish citizens in NI, meaningful penalties, contingencies and postponements of any UK trade deal should be instituted.”
Sean Culkin of Maryland concluded: “In his dismissal of pleas for the unity referendum as provided in the GFA, Prime Minister Johnson typifies British arrogance and antipathy towards Irish democracy with his public assurances that ‘there will be no unity referendum for a very, very long time.’ America must make it clear to Boris & Co. that the same will be true for any US-UK trade deal. ”
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