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Lord Hutton - establishment plant

Waltzing Matilda | 23.07.2003 07:03

LORD HUTTON - THE MAN IN CHARGE OF KELLY INVESTIGATION - WAS THE QC REPRESENTATING THE MOD AT THE ORIGINAL INQUEST INTO THE BLOODY SUNDAY MASSACRE IN 1973, SHOWING HIS PRO-ESTABLISHMENT LEANINGS AT THE TIME. HE LATER BECAME LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND. THIS ARTICLE SUGGESTS HUTTON IS A FREEMASON. (THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN RE-POSTED, HAVING BEEN SURPRISINGLY DELETED FROM THE NEWSPAGE).

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LORD HUTTON, THE MAN IN CHARGE OF KELLY INVESTIGATION
Posted By: UKmailbag
Date: Tuesday, 22 July 2003, 1:50 a.m.
From Andy: read all and form your own conclusions!
I posted this to my friends and the BBC
(radio 5 live in UK - they didn't comment on it all afternoon...)
begin snip
"This will be a whitewash.
Brian Hutton is an establishment freemason, he ran the same military tribunal hanging courts in Northern Ireland that are identical to camp X-ray! The Diplock courts, and he was chosen by blair and his advisors as the most expedient way out...
This is what the poodle, representing the Ministry of Defence, said in 1973!!! Talk about conflict of interest!!!
1973: 'Bloody Sunday' inquest accuses Army
The coroner presiding over the "Bloody Sunday" inquest has accused the British army of "sheer unadulterated murder". The accusation came from the Londonderry City coroner, Major Hubert O'Neill, after the inquest jury returned an open verdict on the deaths.
Thirteen people died on 30 January last year when members of the Parachute Battalion opened fire on people attending a civil rights march in Derry. Another man died later in hospital and 14 others were also shot and injured. Major O'Neill said there had been no justification for the soldiers to open fire.

He said: "These people may have been taking part in a parade that was banned but I do not think that justifies the firing of live rounds indiscriminately." But Mr Brian Hutton, QC, representing for the Ministry of Defence told Major O'Neill the inquest had heard only part of the evidence. "It is not for you or the jury to express such wide-ranging views, particularly when a most eminent judge has spent 20 days hearing evidence
and come to a very different conclusion," Mr Hutton said.
Andy : he was an establishment kow-tower in 1973, and still is, and that is
EXACTLY why Blair picked him to preside over this upcoming whitewash...
Catholic priests who were at the rally gave evidence to the inquest. They said many of the dead men were unarmed and running away when they were shot. They also claimed the troops failure to stop firing prevented them from helping the sick and dying.
The MP for Antrim North, Reverend Ian Paisley, has said he will ask the Northern Ireland Secretary for Major O'Neill's removal. "Mr O'Neill is not fit to be coroner for he has let his religious and political feelings dictate his decision," Mr Paisley said.
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Lord Hutton was the former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland where
Britain has been condemned internationally for human rights abuses;

Shayler did not act in public interest, court rules
Staff and agencies
Thursday March 21, 2002
The country's highest court, the Law Lords, today ruled that the former MI5 agent turned whistle-blower, David Shayler, did not act in the public interest when he disclosed state secrets alleging illegal activities and incompetence in the security services.
Andy : LOL LOL LOL, Shayler acted *precisely* in the public interest!
The House of Lords unanimously rejected a human rights challenge tabled by Mr Shayler and said he could not use "public interest" defence in his forthcoming Old Bailey trial.
Mr Shayler is accused of disclosing state secrets in 1997 in a series of newspaper articles about alleged illegal activities and incompetence in the security services.
Five law lords said there was no incompatibility between the 1989 Official Secrets Act, under which Shayler faces prosecution, and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights guaranteeing "freedom of expression".
Lord Bingham of Cornhill said: "Despite the high importance attached to it, the right to free expression was never regarded in domestic law as absolute." The European Convention recognised that it was not absolute and could be restricted if a state could show that restriction was necessary in a democratic society. The 1989 act imposed a ban on disclosure of information or documents relating to security or intelligence by a former
member of the service "without lawful authority". Lord Bingham said: "The crux of this case is whether the safeguards built into the Official Secrets Act are sufficient to ensure that unlawfulness and irregularity can be reported to those with the power and duty to take effective action, and the power to withhold authorisation to publish is not abused and that proper disclosures are not stifled."
He added: "If a person who has given a binding undertaking of confidentiality seeks to be relieved, even in part, from that undertaking he must seek authorisation and, if so advised, challenge any refusal of authorisation. If that refusal is upheld in the courts it must, however reluctantly, be accepted." Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Hutton, Lord
Hobhouse of Woodborough and Lord Scott of Foscote unanimously agreed and dismissed Mr Shayler's challenge. He is due to face a criminal trial later this year after making claims in the Mail on Sunday in 1997 that agents in the 1970s tapped the telephone of Peter Mandelson, later to serve as Northern Ireland secretary, and kept a file on Jack Straw, now foreign secretary.
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Profile of "Lord" Hutton
'A classic establishment figure'
If Lord Hutton's name has previously penetrated the public consciousness, it would have been for his role in the extradition case against General Augusto Pinochet, writes Matthew Tempest
Monday July 21, 2003
Lord Hutton: charged with investigating the death of David Kelly. Photo: PA. Beyond the fact that he was born and spent much of his career in Northern Ireland, Lord Hutton is a classic establishment figure: a lawyer, law lord and Balliol man to boot. Educated at an all-boys boarding school in Shrewsbury, the Ulster-born James Hutton then took a first in jurisprudence at Oxford, continued his studies at Queen's College, Belfast, before being called to the Nothern Ireland bar in 1954.

A long and distinguished career across the Irish sea followed. The then Mr Hutton became junior counsel to the attorney general in Belfast in 1969, a QC (Northern Ireland) in 1970, and a senior crown counsel in Ulster from 1973-79. Since this period was the height of the Troubles, where Northern Ireland appeared on the brink of civil war, Lord Hutton will have crucial experience not only of the judiciary, but also of Whitehall and even the security services. He was also a member of the joint law enforcement commission of 1974, and a judge of the high court of justice before finally, in 1988, becoming the
lord chief justice of Northern Ireland. In 1997 he became a law lord.

If Lord Hutton's name has previously penetrated the public consciousness, it would have been as one of the law lords ruling on the extradition case against General Augusto Pinochet. Lord Hutton ruled that the Chilean former dictator was liable to be extadited for crimes of torture committed after 1988.
Andy : and then he was let go!
The 72-year old Baron Hutton of Bresagh in the County of Down is married, with two daughters, and sits as a crossbencher in the Lords. He lists no hobbies or clubs in his Who's Who entry, although he is a past president of the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health, and is currently a vistor at the University of Ulster.

Waltzing Matilda

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