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Midnight 26June2015, wall-thump ref from No.18 to "heavily made up" from QI; interpreted as me writing falsehoods - I'd stake my life that everything I've said/written is 99% accurate. 29June, Channel4 prog on Trent Park ([size=12]http://www.channel4.com/programmes/spyin...recordings), MAE clicking to "They'll do anything to stay in power" - the idea that I'm telling untruths is firmly written into 'their' narrative, and is false.
From book: 'How Corrupt is Britain', David Whyte, Ed.
Part3: Corruption in Government & Public Institutions.
Ch7. British State Torture: From 'Search and Try' to 'Hide and Lie' by Paul O'Connor
Individual references I've had are (usually-) single word underlines.
In June 1975 an eminent Harley Street doctor flew to Dublin, The purpose of the trip was to carry out a medical examination of a patient in the St John of God Hospital in the lrish capital. The patient was suffering from severe angina My medical book says of angina: "a sense of suffocation.."; angina pectoris - "pain in the centre of the chest". There's a breathlessness I sometimes get, which has been ref'ed with "oxygen thirst" & "The man who forgot to breathe". It may be [neuralgic pain pulse there] a stress reaction, but it never 'feels' organic and is very closely associated with the imposition of an arrhythmic heart beat pattern whic I know is inorganic/indigenous. When anxious, the heart reciprocates; equally, when the heart has a pattern reflective of a stress/anxious state, the mind reciprocates with an anxious state, a kind of two-way effect which 've had an awful lot of, for years. I've also had an irradiated simulation of angina pectoris, a poor imitation of heartburn; of the character of a simple microwave heating effect, just above the solar plexus, a condition which is 'always associated with the risk of sudden death according to the doctor. The doctor was Dr Denis Leigh, a leading consultant psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal and the Maudsley Hospitals in London, and more importantly, medical consultant to the British Army. They have quite an ability to influence the heart's operation, which they're very fond of using - any muscles in fact.
The patient, Sean McKenna, was a former member of the IRA who had been subjected to so-called 'in-depth interrogation' following the introduction of internment without trial in August 1971, He was one of the 14 'hooded men' whose infamous treatment forced the lrish state to launch a case alleging torture against the UK government at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Leigh's medical examination was being carried out on behalf of the Crown to bolster the UK defence that the men had not suffered long-term physical or psychiatric damage as a result of their interrogation. I had a weird msg a while ago, saying it would take yrs to push this thru' Strasbourg courts (I hadn't even considered it - I'm 'just this guy', this is well beyond me, but a boys gotta do what - etc.). I think it was saying for me to "just get on with your life" - ie, abroad.
The 'in-depth interrogation' that McKenna and the others were subjected to consisted of five techniques that had been widely used by the British army in counter-insurgency campaigns in Aden, Cyprus, Malaya, Palestine ard elsewhere - hooding, white noise Absolutely masses of white noise for yrs, from what I assume to be radio-frequency irradiation from the moment I wake to the moment I sleep, including when they wake me up to do a heavy footed walk-past to whatever they just played into my mind, and for a siren to go off; also, mic auditory effects., deprivation of sleep 180days of torture (synthetic migrainous neuralgia) from the moment I'd put my head down on the pillow, for 6-12hrs/day and food poisoned and/or tainted with smelly chemicals & hematuric toxins, and finally, wall standing in a stress position I always have a stiff and sore upper neck - a focus of the hissing sound; also masers(?) to limbs, causing soreness and stiffness. There was a sixth technique not alluded to in the training manual, regular physical beatings of the men I was set-upon recently by 3 lads who are a part of the organised attack - bruised & bloodied [neuralgic pain to left temple there]. Codenamed 'Operation Calaba', the in-depth interrogations took place at a former military airbase at Ballykelly outside Derry which had been specially modified for interrogation. Until 2013 the men and the general public believed that the torture had in fact occurred at a different military base. I've had what were supposed to be threats of this, being kidnapped & 'interrogated', including Gitmo, ffs...
Dr Leigh reached some alarming conclusions. He found that McKenna's angina was known to British army doctors before the interrogation went ahead, and 'it would be hard to show ... that it was wise to proceed with the interrogation, and that the interrogation did not have the effect of worsening his angina'.
McKenna complained of a number of psychiatric symptoms 'mainly of an anxious and fearful nature' This is the Holy Grail of the 'influence technicians', along with inculcating paranoid schizophrenia (what's not commonly known, is the direct mind invasion technologies, that are now available [right big toe starts to hurt there, a very frequent effect]). The night the analogue Radio4 Shipping Forecast came thru' saying "Cromarty, 999; Finnistaire, 999.." etc, I made the mistake of moving heavy boxes to my front door, as a hindrance to anyone who was clearly threatening to come in. This was a mistake; no matter how much I'd prefer ppl who want to do me harm were unable to access my home at night when I'm asleep (they'd done it before, moving furniture), the 'correct' response would've been to unlatch the door. according to Leigh, who concluded, 'with regard to his other psychiatric symptoms I think that one will probably have to regard them as being the result of the so-called 'deep interrogation' procedures'.
In fact McKenna's psychiatric condition was such that he had been released from Long Kesh internment camp in May 1972 directly into the care of a psychiatric unit. Within one week of his arrest his shock of black hair had turned white. His daughter described 'a very broken man, sitting crying, very shaky' A primary aim of 'the programme', to completely 'break' a person (I'm 'just this guy', the people who do these things must have an enormous ver-capacity, whilst being ravenous & intoxicated). Four days after the June 1975 medical examination Sean McKenna died. He had suffered a massive heart attack. The notes of this medical examination, discovered aimost 40 years later in the British National Archives, may yet come to haunt the British state.
In 1976 the European Human Rights Commission (EHRC) upheld a complaint by Ireland that the treatment of the 'hooded men' Lots of references I've had to 'hoods' & the like constituted torture, and referred the case to the European Court of Human Rights for judgement. The Commission had condemned the five techniques as a 'modern system of torture' with 'a clear resemblance to those systematic methods of torture that have been known over the ages'. The employment of electromagnetics & radio frequencies leave no evidence, hence the torturers 'field day'; the imposition of extreme & chronic pain, for eg., can be done at arms length & evidence-frei, and so they're happy to do it.
The stakes could not have been higher in terms of the legal and political fallout if the United Kingdom, one of the original signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights, had been found to have sanctioned torture They're torture-murdering British citizens - Englishmen, on frabricated and trumped-up so-called 'charges' & in consequence of their own deliberated iatrogenic machinations; their current ways of the mind, again - their 'one size fits all'/'get out of gaol free' card/magic wand, are all entirely evidence-free, except perhaps, for the implants and the what-seems-like-general knowledge. I'm 'informed' by reference, that William Hague & Theresa May have signed-off on this. One memo warned that 'the security forces will be on international trial and we must do everything possible to minimise the risk of losing this battle'. This is absolutely the case; they've done so much to me that if it were to come to court (a magnificent proposal), they would be seen as Dr. Mengeles heirs, the worst of the worst, & liars, fabricators, frauds - consequently FTW - anything goes, they hound me 24hrs a day, awake & asleep with dream choreography (last nights, 29June'15, being hyper-aggressively attacked by a smiling Damian Lewis look-alike, becasue i'd said a couple of days ago that I liked him; and hounded thrughout the day and night with apophenics, tv pic/sound breakups, mic auditory effect sounds, and neuralgic pain pulses and headaches - all very SOP. After writing about their heart effects, the same night I had a very strong heart palpitation for 5seconds to a usual reference from tv, just so I know that I'd already known [neuralgic to right temple] that they can stop me dead at any time. Frankly - "Fuck 'em". I could speak for days on each aspect of their attacks, I've had so much and for so long - they have absolutley no boundries on their being pro-cess and they call themselves 'teachers', 'doctors', 'gods' & 'superheros' where they deserve to be at a new Nuremberg). This was until recently one of the few inter-state cases taken to the court that ran its full term. As this chapter will show, the case and the subject matter dealt with in the case would also have major international implications many years later in lraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo.
The United Kingdom successfully used the pretext of 'security' to ensure that British witnesses gave their evidence to the EHRC at a secret NATO airbase in Norway. In these hearings the United Kingdom argued that the use of the five techniques did not constitute 'administrative practice' and had not been sanctioned down a chain of command. It was further argued that the men had not suffered any long-term physical or psychiatric effects.
In his evidence to the Commission Dr Leigh testified that the psychiatric effects of the interrogations were minor and their persistence was due to the conditions of everyday life in Northern lreland. His confidential report on Sean McKenna cited above painted a very different and alarming picture.
The lrish government had enlisted the help of two expert witnesses, Professor Robert Daly /'daily' who had worked with the RAF and Professor lan Bastiaans who had treated Nazi concentration camp survivors. Both men were adamant that the 'hooded men' had been tortured and were suffering serious after-effects on both their physical and psychiatric health. Dr Leigh weighed in on the side of the UK government. He failed to mention his own medical assessment of Sean McKenna. This was not the only evidence being withheld from the Commission and the court.
The Irish attorney general, Declan Costello, had no access to military or police witnesses, no ability to cross-examine, and cruciaily, had been denied sight of hundreds of documents which were extremely damaging to the British case. By this stage the tortured men had also initiated civil cases against the British government alleging torture. The legal advice within the Ministry of Defence was blunt: the cases should be settled out of court to avoid embarrassment or worse. Officials feared that the
minister for defence at the time of the interrogations, Lord Carrington, could face conspiracy charges if evidence were heard in open court. So anxious was the government to settle out of court at all costs that a recommendation was made to pay compensation to one of the men despite the fact that he was believed to be active in the IRA at the time the recommendation was made. Both the prime minister and the attorney general were advised of this at the time in a letter which warned. 'Given the interrogation procedures themselves were unlawful, it would constitute a conspiracy to arrange for these procedures to be put in place.'
Some of the documents that the European Court did not see have now emerged from the archives. These include memos between ministerial aides and a Lt Col. Richard Nicholson. [strong neuralgic pain there whilst underlining to the side centre right of my head - they start to play games, over-referencing anything & everything, when I start to note their references, so I stop] He led the interrogation team that had been brought in from the Joint Services Interrogation Wing in Ashford, Kent to train the Royal Ulster Constabulary special branch officers who carried out the interrogations. Nicholson admitted that some of the men had spent 36, 45 and even 49 hours in stress positions against a wall, but 'never more than 6 hours at a stretch'. The ministerial aide reported that Nicholson had assured him that if a detainee collapsed he was allowed to get a 'second wind'. The memo continues, 'In our own interests we did not want detainees to be in such a state of collapse that thev could not talk to us.'
A detainee who was not cooperating also faced deprivation of sleep and a bread and water diet ref'ed separately: 'once a prisoner was cooperating he was allowed to sleep ... in some cases an interrogatee (sic) could go for a couple of days without sleep' The excruciating 180 consecutive days of synthetic trigeminal/migrainous neuralgia I had, always started very soon after I put head to pillow to sleep, 6-12hrs of unbelievable pain to the right side of my head/face each night. Nicholson reported that a diet of bread and water was provided every six hours 'until they began to talk'. This led to an average weight loss of between 6 and 7 lbs in less than a week, although the official record notes that one prisoner 'who had not provided much useful information lost over a stone'. In addition the 'hooded men,had to endure ongoing sensory deprivation in the form of white noise, which was described by one of the victims as 'absolutely ear piercing'. I've had this for years and have always referred to it as the 'EM hiss' (electromagnetic), tho' there's what I take to be the radio frequency 'reception' causing a variable hiss (corresponding to the power-setting/number of people 'logged-on' - odd and casual as it sounds, I've come to terms with this shit). There's also a rage of mic auditory effects - MAE, from hissing and clicking, to high-pitch tones, car horns suddenly sounding in my pillow-side ear when I'm about to sleep, and the spoken word in hi-fi (since I got a firm science-jargon & hence a tangible understanding - right or wrong, but with a firm logic to it - of the means behind many of the effects I was being subjected to, most of the smart-arsed showing-off has stopped). The MAE comes thru the hearing system, which is very different to sounds actually inside the head/mind. It starts as soon as I wake, goes all thru' the day, indoors or out, and as I lie down to sleep, the relative increase of blood pressure in the head causes the pulsing hiss, to my heart beat, to get substantially louder. Right-side heavy (everything's right-side heavy). From very very loud, to more restrained & quiet. Mornings are very 'busy' times.
Needless to say the records make no mention of the ongoing brutal assaults on the men. Nicholson, who was later awarded an OBE, made the astonishing Kafkaesque claim that the hooding of the men was a voluntary process, and offered to provide statistics on voluntary versus mandatory hooding. His statistics claim, with no trace of irony, that two of the men spent 120 per cent more time 'voluntarily hooded than mandatorily hooded'.
The circulation list on these documents show that ministers, their permanent under-secretaries, and even the director-general of intelligence (DCI) were being copied in on these exchanges and were well aware of the situation. In one letter the DGI explained to a minister of state that some of the men volunteered to keep their hoods on because there were 'windows in the cells'.
By 1974 the Labour minister for defence, Roy Mason, was aware of 'substantial medical evidence of lasting psychiatric damage' to one of the other men, Pat Shivers, who had lost 16 lb in interrogation and developed a facial tic. From the moment I ordered this book from the library, I started getting facial RF shots causing a tremor of the local muscles; cheek, eyelids, corner of the mouth & more. The book arrived some 4-5wks later & I sussed what the gig was. A possible effect 'they' can induce, is uncontrollable 'shivers'; this has happened to me one time, entirely extraordinarily and out of place, early one morning one a warm flat when I'd got-up to have a snack - large amounts of physical pain seem to make me quite hungry.
From 1971 to 1978 both Conservative and Labour governments conspired to withhold evidence and mislead the EHRC, the European Court of Human Rights and lreland, a member state of the European Community. In 1978 the European Court ruled that the treatment of the men constituted 'inhuman and degrading treatment' but not torture. The judgement thus overruled the earlier finding of the Commission. Four of the 17 judges disagreed, and the Irish judge argued in a dissenting opinion that a site visit should have taken place to properly establish the facts. Had such a visit taken place (as occurred in another contemporaneous investigation involving allegations of torture during the military dictatorship of Greece) we can only speculate which of the interrogation centres would have been shown to the learned judges, since Lt Col Nicholson had warned Whitehall that it was vital to keep the existence of Ballykelly secure. It was 'not known that it existed', he added ominously.
In its judgement the Court found that 'the five techniques, as applied in combination ... were used systematically, they did not occasion suffering of the particular intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture as so understood'.
A 'special stigma was attached to the word torture, the Court opined. In 1977 the British attorney general, Sam Silkin QC, solemnly promised in Strasbourg that the five techniques, which no longer carried the 'special stigma' of torture, would never again be used as an aid to interrogation in Northern lreland or elsewhere. That appeared to be the end of the matter.
ln 2013 the Pat Finucane Centre, an independent non-governmental organisation (NGO), discovered hundreds of documents about the lreland v UK case that contradicted the judgement. It approached Ireland's national broadcaster, RTE, whose investigative journalists then began their own research in the National Archives in London. They made a dramatic discovery. Buried among the thousands of documents was a 1977 memo from the then secretary of state for Northern lreland, Merlyn Rees, to his Labour prime minister, James Callaghan, about the ongoing case. Rees wrote, 'lt is my view, (confirmed by Brian Faulkner before his death) that the decision to use methods of torture in Northern lreland in1971/72 was taken by ministers - in particular Lord Carrington, then Secretary of State for Defence.' In a hand-written note on the margin, a senior civil servant commented, 'this could grow into something awkward if pursued'. The allegation that a minister of the Crown had sanctioned the use of torture would indeed have been awkward, had it been pursued, The special stigma attached to the word torture is reflected in international law, which allows for no departure under any circumstances from the strict prohibition of torture. There is no statute of limitations in respect of possible criminal charges, so seriously is this violation regarded.
In 'Combating Torture: A Manual for Judges and Prosecutors', academic Conor Foley refers to the Search and Try obligation on states:
The four Geneva Conventions ... require states parties to search for
people alleged to have committed or ordered grave breaches of the
Conventions, such as torture and inhuman treatment, or who have failed
in their duties as commanding officers to prevent such grave breaches
occurring. The 'search and try' obligation is without frontiers under the
Geneva Conventions.
Successive UK governments, rather than comply with their legal obligation to 'search and try' allegations of torture, adopted a policy more akin to 'hide and lie'. This was to have consequences many years later. The inquiry into the 2003 murder of an Iraqi civilian, Baha Mousa, by British soldiers was told that the five techniques had again been used in Iraq by every single battle group in the field. The failure by the ECHR to attach the special stigma of torture to a member state in 1978 had fatal consequences for Baha Mousa. Others took note.
In 1999 the High Court of Israel ruled that certain interrogation practices used by the General Security Service against Palestinian prisoners, while illegal, did not constitute torture, and specifically referenced the Ireland v UK judgement in doing so. The US attorney general also took note when seeking to justify torture in lraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay. The infamous 'torture memos' prepared for President Bush made direct reference to the lreland v UK judgment. On page 31 the memo reads:
The European Court of Human Rights ... recognised a wide array of acts
that constitute cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment,
but do not amount to torture. Thus they appear to permit, under international law, an aggressive interpretation as to what amounts to torture, leaving that label to be applied only where extreme circumstances exist'.
ln 'Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture', Guardian journalist Ian Cobain provides damning evidence that the UK government did in fact 'do' torture, and had been doing so for decades in counter-insurgency wars from Brunei to Aden, and from Ireland to lraq. In June 2013 UK foreign secretary William Hague apologised in Parliament for the torture of Mau Mau suspects in Kenya during the 1950s. Over £50 million was paid out in compensation to some 5,000 Kenyan victims. ln 1972 prime minister Edward Heath had promised Parliament that the Ballykelly torture techniques would never be used again.
As the declassified documents make clear, both he and his cabinet colleagues actually went to great lengths to ensure that those responsible for torture would not face any sanction. The international legal obligation to 'search and try' those involved in sanctioning and carrying out torture was ignored. Successive governments adopted the motto 'hide' (the evidence) and 'lie' (to the court). The process was corrupted from beginning to end, from the interrogations at an isolated airfield on the banks of Lough Foyle to the office of the prime minister in Whitehall.
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From book: 'How Corrupt is Britain', David Whyte, Ed.
Part3: Corruption in Government & Public Institutions.
Ch7. British State Torture: From 'Search and Try' to 'Hide and Lie' by Paul O'Connor
Individual references I've had are (usually-) single word underlines.
In June 1975 an eminent Harley Street doctor flew to Dublin, The purpose of the trip was to carry out a medical examination of a patient in the St John of God Hospital in the lrish capital. The patient was suffering from severe angina My medical book says of angina: "a sense of suffocation.."; angina pectoris - "pain in the centre of the chest". There's a breathlessness I sometimes get, which has been ref'ed with "oxygen thirst" & "The man who forgot to breathe". It may be [neuralgic pain pulse there] a stress reaction, but it never 'feels' organic and is very closely associated with the imposition of an arrhythmic heart beat pattern whic I know is inorganic/indigenous. When anxious, the heart reciprocates; equally, when the heart has a pattern reflective of a stress/anxious state, the mind reciprocates with an anxious state, a kind of two-way effect which 've had an awful lot of, for years. I've also had an irradiated simulation of angina pectoris, a poor imitation of heartburn; of the character of a simple microwave heating effect, just above the solar plexus, a condition which is 'always associated with the risk of sudden death according to the doctor. The doctor was Dr Denis Leigh, a leading consultant psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal and the Maudsley Hospitals in London, and more importantly, medical consultant to the British Army. They have quite an ability to influence the heart's operation, which they're very fond of using - any muscles in fact.
The patient, Sean McKenna, was a former member of the IRA who had been subjected to so-called 'in-depth interrogation' following the introduction of internment without trial in August 1971, He was one of the 14 'hooded men' whose infamous treatment forced the lrish state to launch a case alleging torture against the UK government at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Leigh's medical examination was being carried out on behalf of the Crown to bolster the UK defence that the men had not suffered long-term physical or psychiatric damage as a result of their interrogation. I had a weird msg a while ago, saying it would take yrs to push this thru' Strasbourg courts (I hadn't even considered it - I'm 'just this guy', this is well beyond me, but a boys gotta do what - etc.). I think it was saying for me to "just get on with your life" - ie, abroad.
The 'in-depth interrogation' that McKenna and the others were subjected to consisted of five techniques that had been widely used by the British army in counter-insurgency campaigns in Aden, Cyprus, Malaya, Palestine ard elsewhere - hooding, white noise Absolutely masses of white noise for yrs, from what I assume to be radio-frequency irradiation from the moment I wake to the moment I sleep, including when they wake me up to do a heavy footed walk-past to whatever they just played into my mind, and for a siren to go off; also, mic auditory effects., deprivation of sleep 180days of torture (synthetic migrainous neuralgia) from the moment I'd put my head down on the pillow, for 6-12hrs/day and food poisoned and/or tainted with smelly chemicals & hematuric toxins, and finally, wall standing in a stress position I always have a stiff and sore upper neck - a focus of the hissing sound; also masers(?) to limbs, causing soreness and stiffness. There was a sixth technique not alluded to in the training manual, regular physical beatings of the men I was set-upon recently by 3 lads who are a part of the organised attack - bruised & bloodied [neuralgic pain to left temple there]. Codenamed 'Operation Calaba', the in-depth interrogations took place at a former military airbase at Ballykelly outside Derry which had been specially modified for interrogation. Until 2013 the men and the general public believed that the torture had in fact occurred at a different military base. I've had what were supposed to be threats of this, being kidnapped & 'interrogated', including Gitmo, ffs...
Dr Leigh reached some alarming conclusions. He found that McKenna's angina was known to British army doctors before the interrogation went ahead, and 'it would be hard to show ... that it was wise to proceed with the interrogation, and that the interrogation did not have the effect of worsening his angina'.
McKenna complained of a number of psychiatric symptoms 'mainly of an anxious and fearful nature' This is the Holy Grail of the 'influence technicians', along with inculcating paranoid schizophrenia (what's not commonly known, is the direct mind invasion technologies, that are now available [right big toe starts to hurt there, a very frequent effect]). The night the analogue Radio4 Shipping Forecast came thru' saying "Cromarty, 999; Finnistaire, 999.." etc, I made the mistake of moving heavy boxes to my front door, as a hindrance to anyone who was clearly threatening to come in. This was a mistake; no matter how much I'd prefer ppl who want to do me harm were unable to access my home at night when I'm asleep (they'd done it before, moving furniture), the 'correct' response would've been to unlatch the door. according to Leigh, who concluded, 'with regard to his other psychiatric symptoms I think that one will probably have to regard them as being the result of the so-called 'deep interrogation' procedures'.
In fact McKenna's psychiatric condition was such that he had been released from Long Kesh internment camp in May 1972 directly into the care of a psychiatric unit. Within one week of his arrest his shock of black hair had turned white. His daughter described 'a very broken man, sitting crying, very shaky' A primary aim of 'the programme', to completely 'break' a person (I'm 'just this guy', the people who do these things must have an enormous ver-capacity, whilst being ravenous & intoxicated). Four days after the June 1975 medical examination Sean McKenna died. He had suffered a massive heart attack. The notes of this medical examination, discovered aimost 40 years later in the British National Archives, may yet come to haunt the British state.
In 1976 the European Human Rights Commission (EHRC) upheld a complaint by Ireland that the treatment of the 'hooded men' Lots of references I've had to 'hoods' & the like constituted torture, and referred the case to the European Court of Human Rights for judgement. The Commission had condemned the five techniques as a 'modern system of torture' with 'a clear resemblance to those systematic methods of torture that have been known over the ages'. The employment of electromagnetics & radio frequencies leave no evidence, hence the torturers 'field day'; the imposition of extreme & chronic pain, for eg., can be done at arms length & evidence-frei, and so they're happy to do it.
The stakes could not have been higher in terms of the legal and political fallout if the United Kingdom, one of the original signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights, had been found to have sanctioned torture They're torture-murdering British citizens - Englishmen, on frabricated and trumped-up so-called 'charges' & in consequence of their own deliberated iatrogenic machinations; their current ways of the mind, again - their 'one size fits all'/'get out of gaol free' card/magic wand, are all entirely evidence-free, except perhaps, for the implants and the what-seems-like-general knowledge. I'm 'informed' by reference, that William Hague & Theresa May have signed-off on this. One memo warned that 'the security forces will be on international trial and we must do everything possible to minimise the risk of losing this battle'. This is absolutely the case; they've done so much to me that if it were to come to court (a magnificent proposal), they would be seen as Dr. Mengeles heirs, the worst of the worst, & liars, fabricators, frauds - consequently FTW - anything goes, they hound me 24hrs a day, awake & asleep with dream choreography (last nights, 29June'15, being hyper-aggressively attacked by a smiling Damian Lewis look-alike, becasue i'd said a couple of days ago that I liked him; and hounded thrughout the day and night with apophenics, tv pic/sound breakups, mic auditory effect sounds, and neuralgic pain pulses and headaches - all very SOP. After writing about their heart effects, the same night I had a very strong heart palpitation for 5seconds to a usual reference from tv, just so I know that I'd already known [neuralgic to right temple] that they can stop me dead at any time. Frankly - "Fuck 'em". I could speak for days on each aspect of their attacks, I've had so much and for so long - they have absolutley no boundries on their being pro-cess and they call themselves 'teachers', 'doctors', 'gods' & 'superheros' where they deserve to be at a new Nuremberg). This was until recently one of the few inter-state cases taken to the court that ran its full term. As this chapter will show, the case and the subject matter dealt with in the case would also have major international implications many years later in lraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo.
The United Kingdom successfully used the pretext of 'security' to ensure that British witnesses gave their evidence to the EHRC at a secret NATO airbase in Norway. In these hearings the United Kingdom argued that the use of the five techniques did not constitute 'administrative practice' and had not been sanctioned down a chain of command. It was further argued that the men had not suffered any long-term physical or psychiatric effects.
In his evidence to the Commission Dr Leigh testified that the psychiatric effects of the interrogations were minor and their persistence was due to the conditions of everyday life in Northern lreland. His confidential report on Sean McKenna cited above painted a very different and alarming picture.
The lrish government had enlisted the help of two expert witnesses, Professor Robert Daly /'daily' who had worked with the RAF and Professor lan Bastiaans who had treated Nazi concentration camp survivors. Both men were adamant that the 'hooded men' had been tortured and were suffering serious after-effects on both their physical and psychiatric health. Dr Leigh weighed in on the side of the UK government. He failed to mention his own medical assessment of Sean McKenna. This was not the only evidence being withheld from the Commission and the court.
The Irish attorney general, Declan Costello, had no access to military or police witnesses, no ability to cross-examine, and cruciaily, had been denied sight of hundreds of documents which were extremely damaging to the British case. By this stage the tortured men had also initiated civil cases against the British government alleging torture. The legal advice within the Ministry of Defence was blunt: the cases should be settled out of court to avoid embarrassment or worse. Officials feared that the
minister for defence at the time of the interrogations, Lord Carrington, could face conspiracy charges if evidence were heard in open court. So anxious was the government to settle out of court at all costs that a recommendation was made to pay compensation to one of the men despite the fact that he was believed to be active in the IRA at the time the recommendation was made. Both the prime minister and the attorney general were advised of this at the time in a letter which warned. 'Given the interrogation procedures themselves were unlawful, it would constitute a conspiracy to arrange for these procedures to be put in place.'
Some of the documents that the European Court did not see have now emerged from the archives. These include memos between ministerial aides and a Lt Col. Richard Nicholson. [strong neuralgic pain there whilst underlining to the side centre right of my head - they start to play games, over-referencing anything & everything, when I start to note their references, so I stop] He led the interrogation team that had been brought in from the Joint Services Interrogation Wing in Ashford, Kent to train the Royal Ulster Constabulary special branch officers who carried out the interrogations. Nicholson admitted that some of the men had spent 36, 45 and even 49 hours in stress positions against a wall, but 'never more than 6 hours at a stretch'. The ministerial aide reported that Nicholson had assured him that if a detainee collapsed he was allowed to get a 'second wind'. The memo continues, 'In our own interests we did not want detainees to be in such a state of collapse that thev could not talk to us.'
A detainee who was not cooperating also faced deprivation of sleep and a bread and water diet ref'ed separately: 'once a prisoner was cooperating he was allowed to sleep ... in some cases an interrogatee (sic) could go for a couple of days without sleep' The excruciating 180 consecutive days of synthetic trigeminal/migrainous neuralgia I had, always started very soon after I put head to pillow to sleep, 6-12hrs of unbelievable pain to the right side of my head/face each night. Nicholson reported that a diet of bread and water was provided every six hours 'until they began to talk'. This led to an average weight loss of between 6 and 7 lbs in less than a week, although the official record notes that one prisoner 'who had not provided much useful information lost over a stone'. In addition the 'hooded men,had to endure ongoing sensory deprivation in the form of white noise, which was described by one of the victims as 'absolutely ear piercing'. I've had this for years and have always referred to it as the 'EM hiss' (electromagnetic), tho' there's what I take to be the radio frequency 'reception' causing a variable hiss (corresponding to the power-setting/number of people 'logged-on' - odd and casual as it sounds, I've come to terms with this shit). There's also a rage of mic auditory effects - MAE, from hissing and clicking, to high-pitch tones, car horns suddenly sounding in my pillow-side ear when I'm about to sleep, and the spoken word in hi-fi (since I got a firm science-jargon & hence a tangible understanding - right or wrong, but with a firm logic to it - of the means behind many of the effects I was being subjected to, most of the smart-arsed showing-off has stopped). The MAE comes thru the hearing system, which is very different to sounds actually inside the head/mind. It starts as soon as I wake, goes all thru' the day, indoors or out, and as I lie down to sleep, the relative increase of blood pressure in the head causes the pulsing hiss, to my heart beat, to get substantially louder. Right-side heavy (everything's right-side heavy). From very very loud, to more restrained & quiet. Mornings are very 'busy' times.
Needless to say the records make no mention of the ongoing brutal assaults on the men. Nicholson, who was later awarded an OBE, made the astonishing Kafkaesque claim that the hooding of the men was a voluntary process, and offered to provide statistics on voluntary versus mandatory hooding. His statistics claim, with no trace of irony, that two of the men spent 120 per cent more time 'voluntarily hooded than mandatorily hooded'.
The circulation list on these documents show that ministers, their permanent under-secretaries, and even the director-general of intelligence (DCI) were being copied in on these exchanges and were well aware of the situation. In one letter the DGI explained to a minister of state that some of the men volunteered to keep their hoods on because there were 'windows in the cells'.
By 1974 the Labour minister for defence, Roy Mason, was aware of 'substantial medical evidence of lasting psychiatric damage' to one of the other men, Pat Shivers, who had lost 16 lb in interrogation and developed a facial tic. From the moment I ordered this book from the library, I started getting facial RF shots causing a tremor of the local muscles; cheek, eyelids, corner of the mouth & more. The book arrived some 4-5wks later & I sussed what the gig was. A possible effect 'they' can induce, is uncontrollable 'shivers'; this has happened to me one time, entirely extraordinarily and out of place, early one morning one a warm flat when I'd got-up to have a snack - large amounts of physical pain seem to make me quite hungry.
From 1971 to 1978 both Conservative and Labour governments conspired to withhold evidence and mislead the EHRC, the European Court of Human Rights and lreland, a member state of the European Community. In 1978 the European Court ruled that the treatment of the men constituted 'inhuman and degrading treatment' but not torture. The judgement thus overruled the earlier finding of the Commission. Four of the 17 judges disagreed, and the Irish judge argued in a dissenting opinion that a site visit should have taken place to properly establish the facts. Had such a visit taken place (as occurred in another contemporaneous investigation involving allegations of torture during the military dictatorship of Greece) we can only speculate which of the interrogation centres would have been shown to the learned judges, since Lt Col Nicholson had warned Whitehall that it was vital to keep the existence of Ballykelly secure. It was 'not known that it existed', he added ominously.
In its judgement the Court found that 'the five techniques, as applied in combination ... were used systematically, they did not occasion suffering of the particular intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture as so understood'.
A 'special stigma was attached to the word torture, the Court opined. In 1977 the British attorney general, Sam Silkin QC, solemnly promised in Strasbourg that the five techniques, which no longer carried the 'special stigma' of torture, would never again be used as an aid to interrogation in Northern lreland or elsewhere. That appeared to be the end of the matter.
ln 2013 the Pat Finucane Centre, an independent non-governmental organisation (NGO), discovered hundreds of documents about the lreland v UK case that contradicted the judgement. It approached Ireland's national broadcaster, RTE, whose investigative journalists then began their own research in the National Archives in London. They made a dramatic discovery. Buried among the thousands of documents was a 1977 memo from the then secretary of state for Northern lreland, Merlyn Rees, to his Labour prime minister, James Callaghan, about the ongoing case. Rees wrote, 'lt is my view, (confirmed by Brian Faulkner before his death) that the decision to use methods of torture in Northern lreland in1971/72 was taken by ministers - in particular Lord Carrington, then Secretary of State for Defence.' In a hand-written note on the margin, a senior civil servant commented, 'this could grow into something awkward if pursued'. The allegation that a minister of the Crown had sanctioned the use of torture would indeed have been awkward, had it been pursued, The special stigma attached to the word torture is reflected in international law, which allows for no departure under any circumstances from the strict prohibition of torture. There is no statute of limitations in respect of possible criminal charges, so seriously is this violation regarded.
In 'Combating Torture: A Manual for Judges and Prosecutors', academic Conor Foley refers to the Search and Try obligation on states:
The four Geneva Conventions ... require states parties to search for
people alleged to have committed or ordered grave breaches of the
Conventions, such as torture and inhuman treatment, or who have failed
in their duties as commanding officers to prevent such grave breaches
occurring. The 'search and try' obligation is without frontiers under the
Geneva Conventions.
Successive UK governments, rather than comply with their legal obligation to 'search and try' allegations of torture, adopted a policy more akin to 'hide and lie'. This was to have consequences many years later. The inquiry into the 2003 murder of an Iraqi civilian, Baha Mousa, by British soldiers was told that the five techniques had again been used in Iraq by every single battle group in the field. The failure by the ECHR to attach the special stigma of torture to a member state in 1978 had fatal consequences for Baha Mousa. Others took note.
In 1999 the High Court of Israel ruled that certain interrogation practices used by the General Security Service against Palestinian prisoners, while illegal, did not constitute torture, and specifically referenced the Ireland v UK judgement in doing so. The US attorney general also took note when seeking to justify torture in lraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay. The infamous 'torture memos' prepared for President Bush made direct reference to the lreland v UK judgment. On page 31 the memo reads:
The European Court of Human Rights ... recognised a wide array of acts
that constitute cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment,
but do not amount to torture. Thus they appear to permit, under international law, an aggressive interpretation as to what amounts to torture, leaving that label to be applied only where extreme circumstances exist'.
ln 'Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture', Guardian journalist Ian Cobain provides damning evidence that the UK government did in fact 'do' torture, and had been doing so for decades in counter-insurgency wars from Brunei to Aden, and from Ireland to lraq. In June 2013 UK foreign secretary William Hague apologised in Parliament for the torture of Mau Mau suspects in Kenya during the 1950s. Over £50 million was paid out in compensation to some 5,000 Kenyan victims. ln 1972 prime minister Edward Heath had promised Parliament that the Ballykelly torture techniques would never be used again.
As the declassified documents make clear, both he and his cabinet colleagues actually went to great lengths to ensure that those responsible for torture would not face any sanction. The international legal obligation to 'search and try' those involved in sanctioning and carrying out torture was ignored. Successive governments adopted the motto 'hide' (the evidence) and 'lie' (to the court). The process was corrupted from beginning to end, from the interrogations at an isolated airfield on the banks of Lough Foyle to the office of the prime minister in Whitehall.
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Martin Luther King - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Albert Camus - "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion".
Douglas MacArthur — "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
Albert Camus - "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
Albert Camus - "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion".
Douglas MacArthur — "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
Albert Camus - "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."