It’s remarkable how Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt defends free speech in Hong Kong and, also, apparently, its violent adherents wrecking of public buildings and defiance of the forces of order there. I’m sure Mr Hunt’s threats to China, like Anne Widdecombe’s behaviour in Strasbourg makes some people proud to be British.
Perhaps, from a loftier perspective, the soon to be canonised John Henry Newman, like them an Alumnus of Oxford University is also basking in their reflected glory, while wondering what expression in his “IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY” most influenced their behaviour.
The Hong Kong violence arose from China’s attempt to extradite from Hong Kong critics of the Government in Beijing.
As I write Britain’s Home Secretary is trying to have the journalist Julian Assange deported to the United States for revealing criminal behaviour of American and British governments of the same nature which earned Ribbentrop and other Nazis appropriate punishment at Nuremburg.
Assange, who has never been found guilty of any crime is being held in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison, which has proven escape proof since its creation some decades ago.
Apart from Kilmainham Gaol, now a Museum, Belmarsh is the only prison, I’ve been in — so far. With friends concerned with challenging Miscarriages of Justice I once visited Frank Johnson who had been framed by police with the murder of his employer and friend. Frank had nothing to do with paramilitaries or politics, and the police staged a robbery by some stooges in a stunt to discredit the IRA and the stoog es started a fire which killed Frank’s friend. The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction after Frank had served 26 years. Had he “fessed up” to a crime he had not committed he would have been released ten years or more earlier.
An apology and a correction to yesterday’s BLOG:
Richard Pigott – Star Witness and Forger for THE TIMES shot himself in 1889. But THE TIMES survives 130 years later in all its deathless dishonour
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