Comments on The Pensive Quill: Criminologists Challenge Ford Over Marian Price

From Helen McClafferty: Hydebank Prison turned aw...

2012-06-06T08:34:36.501+01:00

From Helen McClafferty:

Hydebank Prison turned away the UN doctors - refused them entrance into the prison no less access to examine Marian Price.

The English Bastards would be much happier knowing they killed both Gerry McGeough and Marian Price in prison.

What other excuse do they have for this blatant disregard for human rights?

Covered elsewhere by Cork PSG

From Sandy Boyer: Bernadette McAliskey on the UN ...

2012-06-05T23:32:49.157+01:00

From Sandy Boyer:

Bernadette McAliskey on the UN doctor who was supposed to see Marian last week.

The reference to the UN doctor:

he was actually turned away from Hydebank because 'they weren't ready for him' - they wondered if meeting with the prison officials on the problems facing the prison might suffice!! - I understand he had to
spell it out for them that wasn't a couretesy call it was a UN
compliance inspection based on an emergency alert to the UN Rapporteur on Health;the would be back and expect to gain entrance and access to Marian. Why look for conspiracy when bog-standard arrogance & ignorance underpins the land of Lilliput! He will make a report and recommendation to the UK govenrment following that. This I beleive is not published.

From Helen McClafferty: Now is the Time to Take ...

2012-06-05T23:24:14.171+01:00

From Helen McClafferty:

Now is the Time to Take a Stand Against the Anti Good Friday Agreement Unionists

While it appears that Nigel Dodds and other Dissidents within the DUP have got themselves into a frenzy over the stance taken by the SDLP on issues of human rights and their calls for the release of Gerry McGeough and Marian Price, it is important to understand that this is not just a stamping of Dissident DUP feet. ...There are more sinister elements working quietly behind the scenes. Those Dissident Unionists, of which there are many, including Foster and Morrow, have never supported the Good Friday Agreement. They do not want the Good Friday Agreement to work. They do not want the Peace Process to work. Of course, they will willingly accept the benefits of that same process. They will accept the grants, the funding, the Ministries, the pay cheques, but they will continue to thwart all attempts to build a sustainable peace in Ireland. What they want is a return to the days of a Protestant State for a Protestant People, a return to the days of the B-Specials.

The recent letter presented to the British Secretary of State by Morrow asking for Gerry McGeough to serve his full sentence and remain in prison until 2031 is an attempt by the Dissident Unionists to thwart and manipulate an International Agreement under which Gerry would be released after serving two years. They will use whatever means possible to achieve this. Gerry's imprisonment is destabilising the Peace Process. The internment of Marian Price, Martin Corey without charge is destabilising the Peace Process. The Dissident Unionists, now being led by Nigel Dodds and Maurice Morrow know this. But Dodds and Morrow are only puppets being used by what Gerry Adams refers to as 'securocrats' who work quietly behind the scenes directing the Anti Good Friday Campaign.

The stance taken by the SDLP and Fianna Fáil has to be supported. Sinn Féin have also called for the release of Gerry, Marian, Martin and others. While our campaign has ciriticised Sinn Fein for their lack of effective action on these issues, our stance has been vindicated by the statement released by Anita Cavlan on her resignation from the party. However, we have always accepted that the imprisonment of Gerry and others does not benefit Sinn Féin, the SDLP or the Nationalist People of Ireland. It will only ever benefit the Dissident Unionists and we must never forget this.

Our campaign has succeeded to bringing together the people of Irish America, the people of Catalonia and the people of Ireland in supporting justice for Gerry McGeough. We have brought on board politicians from the SDLP, Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Independents and the Socialist Party. TD's, MLA's, MEP's, the ERC and ICV and Councillors have come together in a single cause. To support the release of Gerry McGeough and to protect the Good Friday Agreement in the interests of peace and justice.

Now is the time for all those who support peace, justice and equality to stand together, regardless of political affiliation, against the attempts of Dissident Unionists to bring down the Good Friday Agreement.

Damian Herron
Chairman - Northern Ireland
Free Gerry McGeough Campaign

From Sandy Boyer: Marian Price's force feedin...

2012-06-05T23:21:58.368+01:00

From Sandy Boyer:

Marian Price's force feeding

Marian Price’s health was permanently damaged when she was force fed over 400 times while on hunger strike in a British prison. She described the force feeding in an interview with the Dublin magazine The Village.

“Four male prison officers tie you into the chair so tightly with sheets you can't struggle. You clench your teeth to try to keep your mouth closed but they push a metal spring device around your jaw to prise it open. They force a wooden clamp with a hole in the middle into your mouth. Then, they insert a big rubber tube down that. They hold your head back. You can't speak or move. You're frightened you'll choke to death.”

Marian Price’s husband, Jerry McGlinchey, said in an interview with “Radio Free Eireann” that he is "very, very worried" about her health. He says she never recovered from the force feeding which caused tuberculosis that had to be treated as recently as 2010. The anorexia has returned and she suffers from such severe arthritis that she can't even open her hand.

McGlinchey believes that her health will get steadily worse as long as she is in prison. He said that “My fear is that Marian will slip into a deep depression that it would take her years to come out of. I believe that is what the government intends.”

"administrative internment" As 'equ...

2012-06-05T13:56:35.112+01:00

"administrative internment"

As 'equal' partners in that administration SF need to act and stop dancing!

Saint?MaryHedgehog, it is not the first time that...

2012-06-05T06:54:23.363+01:00

Saint?MaryHedgehog,

it is not the first time that these people have been raising this issue. Phil Scraton took Maurice Morrow apart on the BBC a few months ago. But they also raise awareness about other issues and their advocacy work is not restricted to Marian.

Great - more compelling evidence & voices but ...

2012-06-05T02:36:55.790+01:00

Great - more compelling evidence & voices but they took their time...
It is time to rise up Ireland but you are slow at it now - drowning in subjugation/standovers & financial woes...
The rally has shown many do know what this is all about...

I believe that there is a muslim man interned in a...

2012-06-04T22:59:21.360+01:00

I believe that there is a muslim man interned in an English prison for a number of years now seven I think,then I read todays lead story in the Irish News which ex army information officer Colin Wallace tells us (as if we didnt already know) that it was known to the security forces and right up to the british government that loyalists namely the uvf carried out the bombing that killed 13 people in Mc Gurks bar.he said"the bombing created a major public relations problem for the british government.if the attack had been attributed to the uvf,serious questions would have been asked as to why loyalists werent being interned"the brits still havent told the full truth about that bloody attack,or their role in it. and these are the people qsf now take wages from, and who lock up people without due process,"move on" the bearded one and his cronies echo. fucking rushing headlong backwards to the days of hanging and flogging if you ask me!

Marian Price rally in Belfast

Well, if Ford does not take heed of that Articulat...

2012-06-04T22:32:17.421+01:00

Well, if Ford does not take heed of that Articulate letter by two eminent Criminologists , then , He is under orders from MI5/MI6, and , the British Prime Minister.

A big thank you to , Professor Phil Scraton of Queen’s and Dr. Linda Moore of the University of Ulster for writing the letter, also to Eamon Mc Cann for posting it on the PQ.
Lets see what happens.

Marty, Phil Scraton was on the radio that day wit...

2012-06-04T22:32:14.981+01:00

Marty,

Phil Scraton was on the radio that day with the clown Maurice Morrow which you alerted me to.

Fucking brilliant, how good it is to have read thi...

2012-06-04T22:28:18.935+01:00

Fucking brilliant, how good it is to have read this post, this should encourage if needed even more people especially ex activists to get in there and help get this very ill woman either home or into an outside hospital,