AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE
1919 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 1724
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103
John M. Corcoran Esq, Chairman
Michael J. Cummings, Secretary
August 8, 2021
In the aftermath of Britain’s exit from the EU, Her Majesty’s Government has taken an ugly and unconscionable turn. Prime Minister Johnson needs to clear the slate of official killing in Northern Ireland before begging America for a Brexit bailout and trade deal. His proposed solution: amnesty for all. Other than the obvious self-serving objective, can there be ANY merit to this unilateral proposal that so undermines the Good Friday Agreement? This year two aged Germans who worked in the Sachsenhausen and Stutthof SS concentration camps will be tried in Germany on charges of accessory to murder. Ask anyone who survived those camps and the State sponsored terrorism that governed them if any purpose is achieved with their prosecution. The words ‘truth’ and “justice” would fall from the lips of many.
The nation that parades the Magna Carta across the globe to proclaim their founding of the rule of law now abandons it. British Conservatives believe the rule of law does not apply to Army, intelligence and police personnel when doing Her Majesty’s bidding or otherwise.
Prime Minister Johnson began this cover-up earlier with the adoption of the SPYCOPS bill which retroactively pardoned dozens of double-agents in NI who have been linked to more than 100 murders of Irish civilians. This amnesty is primarily for those British security forces involved in collusion killings and assassinations coordinated by the British Army and MI-5 and directed at Sinn Fein elected officials, their family, friends and neighbors. State sponsored terrorism by any name. This proposed amnesty ensures families of victims get neither truth nor civil redress.
Why now? Distracting the British public is imperative. First, the negative impact of Brexit has barely begun. Without UK participation in the EU Luganos Convention for legal services and/ or a EU agreement for financial services, Britain’s service sector economy will suffer. Secondly, this cover-up initiative will end a two-decade campaign by Michael Gove and the Ministry of Defense to undermine the Good Friday Agreement. Thirdly, Lord Frost is successfully obstructing the NI Protocol. The British Cabinet will now work to launch a charm offensive in the United States to help American’s forget about Ireland’s unity, truth or justice.
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Britain’s confidence in their political and media influence in the States begins with the U. S. State Department. It underestimated President Clinton’s interest in Irish peace, but has served Her Majesty well. Consider these ‘English’ successes since 1998.
- Prior to a 2006 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on a US-UK Extradition Treaty, there were public reports by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, British-Irish Rights Watch, the reports of Justice Barron and Sir John Stevens and a BBC documentary Dirty War in Northern Ireland all depicting the corruption of law and justice in NI. None troubled the State and Justice witnesses who knew little of the British justice system, were unconcerned about the continuing use of Diplock courts and claimed “our [America’s] steadfast partnership” with the UK is threatened by “misguided fears” and “misleading assertions.” Senator Dodd assured them he was neither misinformed nor being misled about fears for American rights and for those escaping the oppression of British rule in Ireland
- The U. S. State Department Human Rights Report (2019) United Kingdom section was apparently written by the British. It reports no human rights abuses, no delay in prosecutions and no reports of the government or its agents committing arbitrary or unlawful killings. Never has 24 words expressed so much folly and deceit.
- Secretary of State Pompeo and Treasury’s Mnuchin imposed meaningless sanctions on the Saudi Arabian killers of journalist Kamal Khashoggi but left the mastermind, Prince Bin Salman, untouched. State demanded no accountability of Britain for British Ministers collusion with loyalists’ killings of lawyers Patrick Finucane and Rosemary Nelson.
- Treasury and State teamed up to impose sanctions on Syrian officials over human rights abuses and killing of opposition leaders. No sanctions are imposed for Britain’s failure to prosecute killers in the ranks of the police in NI and for Britain’s assassination of Sinn Fein elected officials.
- State publicly rebuked China for intimidating foreign journalists. British journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney are arrested and detained and their gear used in the Loughlinisland documentary NO STONE UNTURNED confiscated. Not even a “troubling concern” from Foggy Bottom.
- Since 2006 there have been six public reports released including the deSilva, Saville, and KENOVA documents depicting the official orchestration of mayhem and murder in NI which justified American concerns. The “special relationship’ kept it all under wraps.
So, when we lay out the welcome mat for the British, let us hope it includes Congressional hearings and a vigorous review of the Good Friday Agreement by the Administration. It’s the least we can do for all the times America has remained silent or indifferent to the pleas of NI victims denied truth, justice and accountability by their British overlords.
Michael J. Cummings, Secretary
201 W Evergreen Ave, Apt 715
Chestnut Hill, PA 19118, castlecomer@gmail.com, 267-766-5028
Michael J. Cummings, a native of Springfield, Mass., is a graduate of St. Anselm’s College (B. A., 1968) and New York University (M. P. A., 1970) . He established the American Brexit Committee in 2016 and serves as Secretary. He is a former member of the National Boards of the Irish American Unity Conference (1996-2013), the Ancient Order of Hibernians (2001-2008), and the Irish Northern Aid Committee (1988-1996). He also served as Chairman of the Capital District Irish National Caucus (1979-1982). He worked for the State of New York for 36 years.
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