British Murderers Get British Law

In the 17th Century it was perfectly legal for an English man to kill an Irishman. The case of two Derry youth, Gary English and James Brown, shows that not much has changed. They were mowed down by a British Army Land Rover sent out to corner groups of protesters during the H Block hunger strike. The vehicle ploughed into a crowd at Creggan Junction. English and Brown died as a result. The Brits tried to ignore the massive cry of outrage which ensued. But a local enquiry forced them to take were sent for trial — not for murder but for ‘reckless driving’! Predictably the two Brits were aquitted.

This episode illustrates the larger injustice of H Block/Armagh. The special repression against the prisoners is, as we in PD have argued, directed against the whole nationalist community. It exists alongside ‘normal’ law for supporters of British rule. The aquittal of the two murderers shows this: one law for the British and arother for the Irish, continued appeasement to Paisley’s mobsters..:

politicians who played a major role tion of the assassination of members of the RUC and UDR. These people have consistently acted to stabilise and shore up imperialism jn the North, because to do otherwise would challenge their positions of power and privilege, which they have no intention of letting go. nature of the law in the North. Scores of people are being charged in relation The catholic hierarchy and bourgeois in undermining the hunger strike haves also been vigorous in their condemna-