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Justin 9/11 Truth Organiser
Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 500 Location: Cumbria / Yorkshire Dales
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: SAS soldier needs our help... |
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Here is someone else who could do with his defence team being briefed about 9/11. I wonder if perchance he has a relative in David Ray Griffin!:
Quote: | SAS soldier faces legal action threat
By Sean Rayment
(Filed: 09/04/2006)
An SAS soldier who refused to fight in Iraq because he believed that the war was illegal has been threatened with legal action by government lawyers.
Ben Griffin, who left the Special Air Service in June last year after spending three months on operations in Baghdad, has been informed that the Government is considering "civil proceedings" against him after he described the war as "illegal" in a Sunday Telegraph interview.
Mr Griffin, who served in the Parachute Regiment for seven years before joining the SAS in June 2003, became the first member of the elite force to refuse to fight alongside American troops because of his moral convictions.
Although Mr Griffin spoke freely about his private views, and accepted that his refusal to fight had compromised his role as a soldier, he did not reveal any information on SAS tactics or operations.
In a letter to this newspaper, however, the Treasury Solicitors, who act as the Government's legal representatives, claimed that Mr Griffin had breached a binding and life-long "solemn undertaking" not to disclose any events of his career in the SAS without first informing the Ministry of Defence.
The letter states that to breach the confidentiality contract, which all members of the special forces have to sign before they are allowed to join the elite units, is an "actionable civil wrong".
Last night, Mr Griffin said that the suggestion that his article had damaged the SAS was nonsense.
The human rights lawyer, Simon McKay, of McKay Law, who is Mr Griffin's legal representative, said: "The suggestion that Mr Griffin's comments damaged the SAS does not stand up to scrutiny.
"The truth is that this is an attempt to gag Mr Griffin, not because he disclosed details about SAS operations but because he embarrassed the Government." |
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Annie 9/11 Truth Organiser
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 830 Location: London
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject: (Un)civil actions |
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Hi Justin
This is a good post and we should do what we can.
Over the last decade the government has increasingly used the civil courts and injunctions to silence its critics. If this soldier had divulged operational details and plans about SAS activity, then he may conceivably have damaged national security. Speaking out against an illegal war is a matter of conscience, and to say that it compromises the SAS's operational capability is utterly preposterous.
The government is currently trying the same thing with David Shayler who, unlike this soldier, did not sign a civil confidentiality contract. They have already prosecuted him under the Official Secrets Act. Not content with having put him in prison twice, they are now reeactivating a civil action against him. In September 1997 government lawyers took out a temporary injunction against David and the media, specifically the Mail on Sunday newspaper. While they dropped the injunction against the newspaper (too big and scary), they stayed the action against David.
We tried to settle it a few years ago, but they refused. It was convenient for them to use the injunction to frighten the media and publishers away from employing him - if fact, they even used it to prevent the publication of his novel! However, since he has become politically active again and is trying to publicise the 911 campaign, they have decided to reactivate it. They want to drag him through the courts again and sue him for huge damages. Can they get any more corrupt?
Regards
Annie _________________ All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing - Edmund Burke.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem Americanam appellant - Tacitus Redactus. |
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Justin 9/11 Truth Organiser
Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 500 Location: Cumbria / Yorkshire Dales
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Annie,
The solicitor looking after the interests of this chap can be found at:
http://www.mckaylaw.co.uk/indexsa.html
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