Is there anybody out there who doesn't think that the extradition of Christopher Tappin to the US stinks?
Here is a man who didn't even know he had been indicted for three years. A man accused to selling batteries - batteries FFS! - to a firm in the Netherlands to sent them on to Iran to be used in missile production. Here is a man who has committed no offense in the UK.
So what do we do? We give him a couple of weeks to appeal and then cart him off to America to be locked up and have his bail opposed.
Attorney General Dominic Grieve said his extradition had highlighted problems with the treaty between the UK and US, which are not "readily curable" which as far as I can see is the understatement of the century!
In a written statement which she was unable to finish reading, Mrs Tappin said "At the heart of our despair is the fact that nobody was prepared to listen to Chris's defence before carting him off. They ticked the boxes but were deaf and blind to the possibility of injustice."
She had still not been able to talk to her husband since he was extradited and he was being held in isolation, "locked up for 23 hours a day".
What the hell is wrong with the government of this country that we have to cowtow to this sort of all-American bullshit. They don't let us do it to their citizens, so why the hell do we roll over and let them do it to ours?
3 comments:
Yet another of Blair's evil legacies ..
Now we know why he was so keen to repeal the Treason Act ..
It is truly appalling on three counts. The extradition which by-passes scrutiny of the 'crime' by a UK court. The concept that US laws can be used in this country against something done in this country. Plus the use of terror extradition treaty for something that is not a crime here let alone a terror offence.
If he'd been a muslim terrorist they wouldn't have got past first base
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