Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
Unfree Citizen1974The Southern state and its partiesPrisoners and the hunger strikesThe Southern state and its partiesPrisoners and the hunger strikes
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There are only a few copies of this book left. This is an accoynt of the events of Bloody Sunday by two eye witnesses Fulvio Grimaldi and Susan North.
Price 40p; or 48p post paid from Connolly Bookshop “‘Garda Review”’
In an article in last April’s issue of “Garda Review’, (Monthly Magazine of the Garda Siochana) the assistant Garda Commissioner Patrick McLaughlin proposed that the whole basis of the law be changed to give the Gardai a free hand and to shift the onus of proving innocence onto the accused. At the moment (except under the Offences Against the State Act), a person is innocent until proved guilty by the state or by the prosecution. What Assistant Commissioner McLaughlin wants is that the person be considered guilty until he proves himself innocent.
Political control of the law This line of thinking in the high ranks of the Gardai bears out only too seriously the warnings that those of us who have opposed the : Offences Against the StateAct and the Special Courts, made about the Behind the Wire Peoples Democracy. Phil Mc Cullagh describes the mind-wrecking boredom and terror of the daily routine in Long Kesh where he has been interned without trait since August 1971. Michael Farrell describes the course of his and Tony Canavan’s hunger strike ordeal in Crumlin Road Jail while sentenced on a trumped up charge of breaking a law that only Orange and UDA men are allowed to break. Order now from Unfree Citizen sellers or from Connolly Bookshop. new measures.
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and bitter struggle very srmilar extension of political control to all sections of the law “‘Garda Review” can if they wish, try and pass off this sort of public thinking by Gardai as part of an on-going open debate. (As indeed they do try in their September issue No. 9). However anyone with any experience of state politics knows that this sort of magazine is often used to fly kites for the government and their forces, to test public opinion in preparation for the introduction of Repressive laws that exist now must be opposed lock, stock and barrell — to ignore them or wish them away only opens the way for the little Hitlers to impose even more laws against the people and in support The story of the Algerian fight for Independence, how the Algerian people won political freedom from the French Colonialists after a long to that which is being waged in The book, written by P.D. member Michael Farrell, concludes with a Some Assistant Commissioner Patrick McLaughlin UNFREE CITIZEN