The Queen of England Rears Her Head: the re-opened case of Jeremiah Duggan
Hey now. This just floored me. From The Guardian, on the long-going determination to re-open the  Jeremiah Duggan case.
The power of the attorney general to make decisions free from the scrutiny of courts came under renewed attack last week, in a challenge by the family of Jeremiah Duggan, a British student whose death in Germany five years ago has been described by lawyers as “disturbing and bizarre”.
The attorney general, Lady Scotland, who is said to have considered the case personally, refused to consent to the Duggan family’s attempt to seek a fresh inquest into his death, stating that it had “no reasonable prospect” of succeeding.
The family are challenging her claim that the attorney general’s decision is “immune” from judicial review, the process by which the courts scrutinise the decisions of public officials, and the “long-standing practice” of providing no detailed reasons for such decisions.
Simple and straight forward so far. But then there’s this.:
The family are challenging her claim that the attorney general’s decision is “immune” from judicial review, the process by which the courts scrutinise the decisions of public officials, and the “long-standing practice” of providing no detailed reasons for such decisions.
The case, which the high court last week allowed to proceed, could be the most high-profile challenge to the role of the attorney general since the House of Lords considered the controversial BAE affair earlier this year. In that case the court scrutinised the role of the then attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, in advising prosecutors to drop the investigation into allegations of corruption at BAE, following threats from Saudi officials. “It is a logical progression from the decision in the BAE case that our government should be more transparent and answerable,” said Frances Swaine, the lawyer representing the Duggan family. “This case could have wider ramifications. If it succeeds it would be a way of opening up our constitution.”
Good golly. The BAE Case. This is actually jaw-dropping. I know next to nothing about the details of the BAE Scandal, except the manner that the Lyndon Larouche organization used it in the months after Kenneth Kronberg’s suicide. It was a heavy handed flurry of distraction to get the members of the National Committee, in Leesburg, to quit thinking about what had just happened with Kronberg and get back to the matter of saving Human Civilization. Perhaps it will be worthwhile for me to reconstruct this for precision (from things I posted on this very blog), but in general the events followed as thus.: #1: Lyndon Larouche “revealed” that Molly Kronberg had donated money to the George W Bush re-election campaign, and demanded to know “What more needs be said?” #2: A flurry of reports came out of the Larouche-pac site about the BAE Scandal. #3: The Internal Daily Briefings relayed the suggestion, from Jeffrey Steinberg, that History has changed due to the implications of Larouche’s most recent web-cast on the subject of the BAE Scandal, and thus we all understand how everyone is under such distress at the moment because of this history changing web-cast on the BAE Scandal. #4: The topic of the BAE Scandal was summarily dropped and never mentioned again and the organization moved on to other matters. (Not quite in the proper chronology, so indulge me for this one: #5: a Larouche troll posts a comment informing me that I am an “empty husk of humanity”.)
All of this is sort of tangeantal and either demonstrates an element of irony from the fates, or is a hidden message from the British — relayed in the Guardian which, as we established five years ago for reporting on the death of Jeremiah Duggan — is a tool of the British Oligarch in its aims for war in Iraq, and the coming… Dark Age?
Actually, Larouche is on a bend saying Obama is not going to be president — which seems to swerve somewhere between a statement of Assassination and to the “birth certificate” story-line. (But that one’s tipped off from one follower, the … um… cryonics guy). Witness, and to get away from serious matters of manslaughter for a little bit of levity — if darkly tinged:
Obama is not going to make it to the presidency on jan 21– so all these morons like Emmanuel who think they’re going to be “in power†will be surprised to learn that there is a true american underground that will likely invalidate Obama– and at the same time “educate†the Obamatrons– about what the american constitution says… that yuo have to be natural born citizen of the US which Obama is nOT.
I thought the British were going to stop him, as opposed to the “True American Undergroundâ€. Which is… ?
To finance the Real American Revolution– against tyranny– invest in the Larouche organization! Start a Larouche Club in your town
Yeah, I’ll get right on that. (And yes, I am here just reposting this. The more pertinent and important press release from Erica Duggan and “Justice for Jeremiah” precedes that comment at the end of this here.) More pertinent to this case, Larouche is now beating the drums against Gordon Brown… a proxy for the Queen of England, I suppose.
Meanwhile, back to that imporant matter:
The new evidence submitted by Mrs Duggan included reports by three crash investigators and a forensic photographer.
The coroner’s pathologist, who carried out a post mortem examination on his body on its return to the UK, said his injuries were consistent with being beaten around the head.
AND, I have some mixed feelings about the comments left to this here, but I guess it’s understandable where they come from.
I note that factnet is down as their funds are low, which is where I would have dumped a probably briefer comment perhaps stating simply “BAE?” and assumed everyone knew where that came from. As is, I had to spell that one out.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:12 am
http://naningku.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-kassim-ahmad-old-at-75.html
Kassim, himself knowing less than he should about Islamic culture, was visibly shaken by the event and to stand clear he found Lyndon LaRouche. He soon dragged the ideas of the man into the country.
This was a useful move. LaRouche’s movement not only served Kassim with good ideas but would prove useful as an American connection that did not appreciate Anwar Ibrahim.
LaRouche was leader of a Quaker political movement which later became a faction of the Democrats. His ideas were and are revolutionary, threading the development of political, economic and scientific ideas carefully from sources in the Greek beginning to reach for a future humanity.
[Um?]
November 17th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Don’t know who Kassim is, but–
Quaker political movement? Make that a tiny group of deranged LaRouche family members, mostly crazy old Dad and crazy old Mom (Lyndon and Jessie).
Faction of the Democrats? Make that a tiny group of deranged LYM members.
Threading? Carefully??
Sources “in the Greek”–well, first of all, let’s be clear that Lyndon H. LaRouche can’t read a word of Greek. Not a word.
Second of all, let’s be clear that he doesn’t understand Platonic dialogues in any English translation. LaRouche’s “commentaries” on Plato are risible.
No one’s reaching for a future humanity from Lyn’s version of the Republic or the Parmenides, believe you me.
As for an American connection, Lyn’s an American, all right–but only in the sense that there are a lot of wackos in this great big rollicking country of ours.