AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE
1919 CHESTNUT STREET, SUITE 1724
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19103
May 2, 2024
TO: U. S. Representative Richard E. Neal, Ranking Member, Foreign Affairs Committee
FROM: John Corcoran, Chairman
RE: GFA, US-UK Trade, & Legacy Law
We offer some topics for your consideration and action. We expect these issues will arise during the remaining months of Session. We ask you to read and act on them and/or ask if you have any questions.
- UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron visit to Department of State—The ostensible reason for this low-key visit of Foreign Secretary Cameron (April 12th) was to share views on whether Israel actions in Gaza constitute violations of international law. We hope to find out if Britain’s violation of international law in N. I. was also a topic of this conversation. To date the U. S Department of State has not publicly acknowledged or sought punishment for Britain’s 1000 extra-judicial executions made invisible by the Legacy Law cowardice.
- Legacy Law Deadlines Cover-up– The N. I. Attorney General has refused to prosecute the soldiers who murdered 13 innocent protestors on Bloody Sunday. In 2023, 78 years after WW II, Germany convicted a secretary, Irmgard Furchner, of accessory to 10,000 murders without relating her crime to any specific victim. The British claim prosecuting their lying soldiers is “too difficult” to prosecute only 40 years after Bloody Sunday even when the victims and perpetrators are identified and those killed were as innocent as those sent to the gas chambers.
UK N. I. Secretary Heaton-Harris seeks to obstruct PSNI Chief Constable Boutcher from expediting information on the murder of Fergal McCusker (28) in 1998 sought by his family before the Legacy Law deadline passed. This is all part of Britain’s stonewalling strategy to delay as many Coroner inquiries before the May 1st deadline in the Legacy legislation.
- Leahy and Global Magnitsky Laws to Protect Human Rights –The U. S. has two relatively new laws to punish individual foreign actors involved in human rights abuses (Magnitsky) and to punish by blocking or proscribing foreign aid for those countries seeking assistance for military or police units suspected of committing or sanctioning human rights abuses like extra-judicial executions, rape, and torture. When can we expect the Department of State to recommend President Biden use EO13818 to place personal U. S. travel and financial sanctions on former British Secretaries of Defense Ben Wallace, Liam Fox, and Gavin Williamson. For decades they stone walled requests for British Army and MI-5 records involved in N. I killings; obstructed Freedom of Information requests from victims by falsely claiming they did not exist or were barred pursuant to the Official Secrets Act; denied the Government of Ireland’s request for all records pertinent to the assassination of Irish attorneys Patrick Finucane and Rosemary Nelson; and refused to provide British Army and MI-5 records related to the no-warning act of war bombings of Dublin and Monaghan shopping centers in 1974. It remains today the largest and most senseless act of slaughter of the entire conflict involving Ulster Defense Regiment members and MI-5 operatives of the Four Field Survey Unit. How long must the British escape responsibility for this record of lawlessness?
- U. S. Departments of State and Commerce –Pursuant to the attached memo, we ask the Secretaries of Commerce (Gina Raimondo) and Secretary of State (Antony Blinken) Political & Military Affairs Bureau to review whether exemptions waivers granted to Britain to expedite procurement of U. S. military and other defense high-technology was appropriate. Is it too much to ask that the record of the UK undermining the GFA and its lawlessness in NI be addressed before doing favors for those who we know to be untrustworthy? We want Britain to provide a plan to restore truth and justice to those victimized by the illegal and immoral Legacy Law. No new U. S. trade deal or “trade framework” should be considered or approval for Britain’s exemption of the ITAR standards for procurement! This is expressly contemplated under the 2015 Congress Trade Priorities and Accountability Act.
These requests steps are necessary in an important Presidential Election year when foreign policy is under extra scrutiny. Two former British Prime Ministers have publicly endorsed Donald Trump, and the Heritage Foundation in Washington D. C is awash with British Subjects that have approved a battle plan for Trump to impose a British style of lawlessness on American foreign policy and Trump now has a former British SAS Paratrooper with a fake name, Christian Craighead, with a dodgy past probably placed there by MI5 as Britain’s own version of a backstop on American policy on Ireland. Sir Keir Starmer has uttered nothing of substance about Ireland’s re-unification and the former prosecutor is placing a high priority on getting back into Europol, the data center for EU member nations to fight terrorism, international crime, drug and human trafficking and human rights offenses like transnational repression, torture, and rape. Letting the UK back into Europol without serious compensation for its lawlessness in Ireland would give a whole new meeting to placing a fox in a chicken coop!!
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