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Minister Starmer’s meeting with President Biden. To consider what might be discussed, we refer to the 2021 US-UK Atlantic Charter and its declarations for democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and transparency. The latter we take to mean Britain’s illegal money laundering business. All of these relate, in part, to Britain’s relations with the US and to our ally the Republic of Ireland so we feel comfortable suggesting issues that might be of interest to Americans and particularly Irish-Americans.
· The 2023 Legacy Act abandons the rule of law to bury the truth of 1000+ killings of Irish citizens (many British Subjects) whose deaths bore evidence of police, Army, and MI-5 collusion with loyalist terrorists. Were this to happen anywhere in the U. S., governments would fall. Are the British strangely confident with a cover-up because America is playing along?
· Both the Conservative and Labor parties for 25 years have undermined not only the 1998 GFA but its subsidiary agreements with delay, denial and defunding of obligations and systemic political destabilization. It has all been carefully calibrated by Whitehall to minimize any effort to conduct an Irish Unity poll. How long must these maneuvers deprive the people of Ireland the vote that should have yielded a 32 County Republic in 1918? How can America trust the British to keep their word with this record?
· Labor and Conservatives supported BREXIT. No usual Command Paper or policy analysis was ever produced before the 2016 referendum and none since. It was a calculated gamble that a re-elected Trump would reward the UK for breaking away from the EU: (1) to escape the obligations of the EU human rights convention and avoid a State sponsor of terrorism label; and (2) to end compliance with EU illegal money laundering regulations. The dirty money finances drug, arms and human trafficking and undermines America’s sanctions against Iran and Russia. Expect Britain to seek an American bail-out from the folly of Brexit with trade and sweetheart military and intelligence contracts. Fair enough. What are friends for? Restore Ireland’s 32 County sovereignty through Privy Council, Parliament or plebiscite and then let such US-UK trade discussions commence.
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