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offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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offsite link Does the Alaska Summit Signal a New Detente Between Russia and the US, With Huge Implications For Gl... Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:00 | Tilak Doshi
The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska could be a geopolitical game-changer, argues Tilak Doshi, opening up energy markets, empowering the Global South and leaving Europe trailing behind.
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offsite link UK ?Faces Social Unrest? if Labour Pushes Ahead with Islamophobia Definition Tue Aug 26, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Britain will face social unrest and reinforced perceptions of a two-tier society if the Government pushes ahead with plans for a formal definition of Islamophobia, the head of a new campaign group has warned.
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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Aug 26, 2025 00:42 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link The Guardian Blames ?Climate Breakdown? for Burkina Faso?s Dire Healthcare System Mon Aug 25, 2025 19:20 | Western Missionary
The Guardian has been caught blaming "climate breakdown" for the dire state of Burkina Faso's healthcare system. Nothing to do with the rampant poverty, instability and terrorism, then.
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offsite link Middle England is Becoming Poor Mon Aug 25, 2025 17:00 | Joanna Gray
Middle England is becoming poor, says Joanna Gray. This became undeniable after all the guests at a recent dinner party admitted they had switched from Waitrose to Aldi and Reiss to Primark.
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Imprisonment For Crime Victims?

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Thursday May 15, 2008 15:22author by Ms. L Report this post to the editors

Stop "detention" of refugee applicants

Applicants for asylum are the latest targets in efforts to quietly legalize imprisonment without trial for people who have never been accused of any wrong. Two EU countries have now followed the lead of the US: where this policy was the first legal stepping stone in the nefarious "rendition" program of kidnapping, imprisonment, disappearance and torture without cause.

Imprisonment without charge is specified by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees as one of the abuses which in itself qulifies victims for refugee status. It is precisely the type of abuse which the 1951 Geneva Convention was created to eradicate.

Why is the Ministry for Justice (i.e. the law enforcement branch of our government) eager to imprison those who report crime and apply for victims' assistance? Is it only where governments are the perpetrators?

What ramifications must we foresee in this for all other victims of crime? For all victims of war crimes by governments and other human rights abuse?

The record clearly warns us that legalizing such imprisonment without trial, without even the suspicion of wrong-doing, based on national origin, was the first tactical step in the gradual, insidious introduciton by the CIA of de facto carte blanche to imprison anyone for no reason (in which practices the EU has censured the Irish government's collusion.)

In view of said collusion, how can the Justice Ministry be entrusted with anything to do with refugees whatever? Why is the Justice Ministry so keen to have total control over the lives of all who come here to report human rights abuse abroad?

In view of the Justice Ministry's collusion with the CIA in making victims of human rights abuses "disappear" (i.e. assisting in illegal rendition) how can anyone consider appointing that Ministry as the jailer of such victims?

Human rights experts are unanimous in their strident opposition to imprisonment of applicants for asylum. Recent reports by Integrating Ireland and Nasc Immigrant Support Centre speaks of abundant testimony of revolting abuses in Justice "accommodation centres" (which we can now clearly recognize as a stepping stone to this proposal to imprison outright.) These abuses have included forcing applicants from their housing without cause, and then fraudulently reporting them "missing."

Institutions in England imprisoning non-nationals without charge have been frequently censured for their deleterious effect on traumatized children's access to proper diet, health and medical care. Such children's lives have been endangered by such imprisonment's arbitrary limiting their parents' freedom to move, act and communicate on their behalf.

What about the 7000 asylum applicants who have already disappeared while in Justice care?

The proposal to imprison future applicants is entirely based on Justice unsupported assertions that these alleged victims of human rights abuse should be blamed for their own disappearance without investigation.

Now Justice contends that future applicants should be imprisoned for these shocking failures by Justice to account for the fate of vulnerable crime victims in their care.

Meanwhile, Justice alone has the power to decide which asylum claims are valid: and its refusal of 90% does not match the statistics of any other source.

Justice claims that these thousands of people flee their country without any good reason. But their "findings" are belied by every other country in the EU, by the UN, and by every refugee crisis in history.

WRITE, RING, TEXT OR E-MAIL YOUR T.D. TODAY:

-NO IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT TRIAL

-NO DETENTION FOR ASYLUM APPLICANTS

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