We're one crucial step closer to seeing Tony Blair at The Hague

George Monbiot

Desmond Tutu has helped us see the true nature of what the former prime minister did to Iraq and increased pressure for a prosecution

Tony Blair arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London to give evidence on media ethics to the Leveson inquiry in May 2012. 

For years it seems impregnable, then suddenly the citadel collapses. An ideology, a fact, a regime appears fixed, unshakeable, almost geological. Then an inch of mortar falls, and the stonework begins to slide. Something of this kind happened over the weekend.
When Desmond Tutu wrote that Tony Blair should be treading the path to The Hague, he de-normalised what Blair has done. Tutu broke the protocol of power – the implicit accord between those who flit from one grand meeting to another – and named his crime. I expect that Blair will never recover from it.
The offence is known by two names in international law: the crime of aggression and a crime against peace. It is defined by the Nuremberg principles as the "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression". This means a war fought for a purpose other than self-defence: in other words outwith articles 33 and 51 of the UN Charter.
That the invasion of Iraq falls into this category looks indisputable. Blair's cabinet ministers knew it, and told him so. His attorney general warned that there were just three ways in which it could be legally justified: "self-defence, humanitarian intervention, or UN security council authorisation. The first and second could not be the base in this case." Blair tried and failed to obtain the third.
His foreign secretary, Jack Straw, told Blair that for the war to be legal, "i) there must be an armed attack upon a state or such an attack must be imminent; ii) the use of force must be necessary and other means to reverse/avert the attack must be unavailable; iii) the acts in self-defence must be proportionate and strictly confined to the object of stopping the attack." None of these conditions were met. The Cabinet Office told him: "A legal justification for invasion would be needed. Subject to law officers' advice, none currently exists."
Without legal justification, the attack on Iraq was an act of mass murder. It caused the deaths of between 100,000 and a million people, and ranks among the greatest crimes the world has ever seen. That Blair and his ministers still saunter among us, gathering money wherever they go, is a withering indictment of a one-sided system of international justice: a system whose hypocrisies Tutu has exposed.
Blair's diminishing band of apologists cling to two desperate justifications. The first is that the war was automatically authorised by a prior UN resolution, 1441. But when it was discussed in the security council, both the American and British ambassadors insisted that 1441 did not authorise the use of force. The UK representative stated that "there is no 'automaticity' in this resolution. If there is a further Iraqi breach of its disarmament obligations, the matter will return to the council for discussion as required in paragraph 12." Two months later, in January 2003, the attorney general reminded Blair that "resolution 1441 does not authorise the use of military force without a further determination by the security council".

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Yet when Blair ran out of options, he and his lieutenants began arguing that 1441 authorised their war. They are still at it: on Sunday, Lord Falconer tried it out on Radio 4. Perhaps he had forgotten that it has been thoroughly discredited.
The second justification, attempted again by Blair this weekend, is that there was a moral case for invading Iraq. Yes, there was one. There was also a moral case for not invading Iraq, and this case was stronger.
But a moral case (and who has launched an aggressive war in modern times without claiming to possess one?) does not provide a legal basis. Nor was it the motivation for the attack. In September 2000, before they took office, a project run by future members of the Bush administration – including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz – produced a report which said the following: "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." Their purpose, they revealed, was "maintaining American military pre-eminence". The motivation for deposing Saddam Hussein was no more moral than the motivation for arming and funding him, two decades before.
But while the case against Blair is strong, the means are weak. Twenty-nine people have been indicted in the international criminal court, and all of them are African. (Suspects in the Balkans have been indicted by a different tribunal). There's a reason for this. Until 2018 at the earliest, the court can prosecute crimes committed during the course of an illegal war, but not the crime of launching that war.

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Should we be surprised? Though the Nuremberg tribunal described aggression as "the supreme international crime", several powerful states guiltily resisted its adoption. At length, in 2010, they agreed that the court would have jurisdiction over aggression, but not until 2018 or thereafter. Though the offence has been recognised in international law for 67 years, the international criminal court (unlike the Rwanda and Yugoslavia tribunals, which hear cases from before they were established) will be able to try only crimes of aggression committed beyond that date.
The other possibility is a prosecution in one of the states (there are at least 25) which have incorporated the crime of aggression into their own laws. Perhaps Blair's lawyers are now working through the list and cancelling a few speaking gigs.
That the prospect of prosecution currently looks remote makes it all the more important that the crime is not forgotten. To this end, in 2010 I set up a bounty fund – www.arrestblair.org – to promote peaceful citizens' arrests of the former prime minister. People contribute to the fund, a quarter of which is paid out to anyone who makes an attempt which meets the rules. With our fourth payment last week, we've now disbursed more than £10,000. Our aim is the same as Tutu's: to de-normalise an act of mass murder, to keep it in the public mind and to maintain the pressure for a prosecution.
That looked, until this weekend, like an almost impossible prospect. But when the masonry begins to crack, impossible hopes can become first plausible, then inexorable. Blair will now find himself shut out of places where he was once welcome. One day he may find himself shut in.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/03/tony-blair-the-hague-iraq-war

NWN: Good ! This bastard Blair ought to get the rope !

David Cameron orders plans for military intervention in Libya to take the fight to 'death cult' ISIS 

• The spread of ISIS in Libya has led the Prime Minister to investigate plans for possible military intervention in the North-African country
• Cameron described ISIS as 'one of the biggest threats our world has faced' 
• Prime Minister was speaking ahead his tour to South East Asia  

David Cameron has warned that Britain must be prepared to help put an end to the the deadly spread of jihadi groups like ISIS across the world in order to prevent attacks on home soil.

The Prime Minister made specific references to the threat of Libya, where an ISIS franchise has been running terror camps and implementing the group's barbaric interpretation of Shari'a.

Speaking ahead of his four day tour of South East Asia, Cameron described ISIS as 'one of the biggest threats our world has faced.' 

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Defiant: David Cameron has warned that Britain must be prepared to help put an end to the the deadly spread of jihadi groups like ISIS in Libya

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21 Egyptian Coptic Christians were lined up and beheaded on a Libyan beach by ISIS militants 

Cameron has already began to order security personnel to investigate the best way for Britain to help ease the threat of radicals in countries like Libya, according to The Sunday Telegraph. 

The defiant warning comes as reports suggest that Sousse gunman Saifeddine Rezgui,23, was believed to have attended a terror camp in Libya.

He used his newly learnt weapons skills to shoot dead 38 foreign tourists, including 30 British nationals, at a popular tourist beach in Sousse, Tunisia.

Fears remain that ISIS lone wolf terror attacks could strike in Britain, following the shocking terror attacks in France, most notably the Charlie Hebdo massacre. 

Experts claim this ISIS jihadi 'sounds like an American'

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Led down the beach to their deaths, the video was filmed in high definition and released last February

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Some experts have questioned the authenticity of the video, sparking rumours it may have been staged

Leading the massacre, an American accented fighter plays the leader role similar to Jihadi John

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Barbaric: Following the horrific scenes, the camera focuses on the blood stained water 

Although the ISIS group in Libya have reportedly been forced out of much of the Libyan city of Dernah, their militants still maintain a worryingly strong presence in the struggling country.

Photos emerged this week of black ISIS banners being pulled down by rebel militants in Dernah and an ISIS commander was marched through the streets naked before he was executed.

Despite the apparent losses suffered by ISIS, the group continues to hold checkpoints in the city of Sirte as well as carrying out atrocities in other parts of the country. 

David Cameron's decision to visit several of the South East Asian states, including Malaysia and Indonesia comes amid fears that Islamic State is looking to gain a foothold in the region.

The Prime Minister is heading to Indonesia on the first stop of a four-day tour intended to drum up trade for Britain.

He will also use meetings with President Joko Widodo in Jakarta and later Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia to raise the threat from the extremists.

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Horrific: ISIS have become feared for their brutality and merciless killings, most notably the Speicher massacre a year ago

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Brutal: Shi'a Iraqi army recruits were made to lie on the ground before they were gunned down in cold blood

Around 500 people from Indonesia - which has the world's largest Muslim population - and 200 from Malaysia are thought to have joined IS in Iraq and Syria.

Earlier this month, Malaysian police reportedly foiled a twin terror attack, thought to have been ordered by ISIS strategists.

In a statement Inspector General of Malaysia's Police Khalid Abu Bakar described how the failed attacks could have been 'like what happened in Tunisia, France and Kuwait last month.'

Several popular entertainment areas, frequently used by Westerners, are believed to have been the intended targets by the terrorists. 

Cameron said: 'We will only defeat these brutal terrorists if we take action at home, overseas and online and if we unite with countries around the world unite against this common enemy. 

'All of us face a threat from foreign fighters and from increasing radicalisation within our countries and it's right that we look at what help we can provide to one another.' 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3174923/David-Cameron-orders-plans-military-intervention-Libya-fight-death-cult-ISIS.html#ixzz3h1YETiab

NWN: Doesn't this confirm that Cameron is a 'paid agent' for the NEW WORLD ORDER/NWO ? 'We' helped to de-stabilise Libya. We got Gaddafi murdered. Then 'we' got some of our people murdered by some Libyan militants in Tunisia recently. What a surprise ? British people were targetted due to the foreign policies of UK's government zionist followers like David Cameron.  Well it was a surprise for the 'brain deads' who don't keep up with the news or events, and who have the attention span of a goldfish. The idiots in Britain primed by the controlled mass media said "why us ?".And now that idiot Cameron is planning even more of the same as shown above? So Britain and UK citizens will become even more of a target.

We are having more and more austerity imposed on us, all because the big banks like Rothschilds want that. As it means more profits for them.

Gaddafi promised action in stopping the human flood of refuse now swamping Europe. He stamped on ISIS and Al Quaida (as did Saddam Hussein). So 'we' got rid of him/them ! The flood is heading our way, and what are the Camerons of the world doing ?

That's right Nothing to stop the flood ! But doing even more warmongering . Which is what has got us into this whole mess in the first place.

Our 'Establishment' is collapsing - 

Thank God !

60 Minutes Australia: Special Investigation Spies Lords and Predators. Recently Broadcast on Australian TV .

Prime Minister David Cameron only today railed against 'conspiracy theories'. Well, here is another conspiracy theory Cameron !

John Tyndall Died 10 Years Ago Today

Ten years ago – on 19th July 2005 – John Tyndall, editor of Spearhead, founder of the British National Party and chairman of the National Front during its most successful era, died at his home in Hove aged 71.
With hindsight we can see that the last chance of rescuing the BNP died with John Tyndall.  The tragedy of the BNP’s multiple splits and factional bitterness has recently been replayed as tawdry farce, with the former girlfriend of one of the party’s drug-dealing leaders giving sordid revelations to ‘anti-fascists’ about cocaine abuse and fraud at the BNP’s national headquarters.
Let us instead remember the BNP built up by John Tyndall, which for a brief moment promised to arrest our nation’s decline into decadence, multiculturalism and alien domination.
John Tyndall’s memory stands as a beacon of hope for nationalists, long after those who seized control of his party have passed into tragicomic irrelevance.

http://efp.org.uk/john-tyndall-died-10-years-ago-today/

Remember the British victims
of Zionist Terrorism
E.g.: the King David Hotel, Lord Moyne, Sgts Paice and Martin etc.

There are two events on:
Saturday 1st August 2015
which we ask you to attend and support.
These events have been initiated by the

Forgotten British Heroes Campaign

(1) at 4.00pm
Wreath-laying and short open-air meeting
near the site of a Zionist bomb outrage at
the British Colonial Club in Trafalgar Square
[see assembly place details below]

(2) at 6.00pm
Indoor Meeting and video presentation

Meeting Chairman:
Jez Turner
who, until recently a soldier in the British Army, will open the meeting
with introductory comments on the need to study Zionist terrorism in
the 1940s because its techniques are the model — and the provocation —
for the wave of terrorism which is sweeping the world today

Speakers:

Richard Edmonds:
On the theme: In the ongoing and future wars between the state of Israel
and the Arab/Muslim world, Great Britain should be strictly neutral.
Britain owes Israel nothing.

Lady Michèle Renouf:
will show her film of unique interviews on
British victims of the Zionist terror groups

Martin Webster:
How the ‘Establishment’ frustrated the attempt to have
the war criminal and terrorist Menachem Begin arrested
when he visited the UK as Israel’s Prime Minister in 1977

Peter Rushton:
The history of Zionist terrorism against British servicemen,
diplomats and other Crown servants — perpetrated in tandem
with genocidal ethnic cleansing atrocities against the Palestinians

Literature stalls + post-meeting Social

RV will operate from 5pm 5.30pm.
  Phone from 9am onwards on the day for details of meeting and wreath laying
07917 921734

Forgotten British Heroes Campaign
PO Box 301, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4QW
Tel: 07932 049019
<forgottenbritishheroes@inbox.com>

Invitation

You are cordially invited to attend an outdoor and an indoor event
in central London on

Saturday 1st August

which we have organised to honour the memories of British servicemen
and women and civilian personnel who were murdered or mutilated by

Zionist terrorists

after the Second World War, both in Palestine and here in Britain, whose sacrifice
is being deliberately expunged from the historical record by corrupt politicians of
all the main parties who now grovel to Zionist billionaires for financial patronage.
We especially seek to honour the memories of:

• The 20 year old British Army Sergeants Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin
who were kidnapped and then hanged by piano wire
in Netanya, Palestine, on 31st July 1947;

• the 100 British Mandate officers and civilians murdered by a huge bomb
at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, on 22nd July 1946;

• Rex Farran — brother of Captain Roy Farran DSO, MC, an SAS
anti-terrorism specialist — who opened a letter-bomb addressed to
“R. Farran” at the Farran family home in May 1948;

• Those injured and maimed by a bomb detonated at the former
British Colonial Club in Trafalgar Square, London, on 7th March 1947.
 
Please be at the Edith Cavell Memorial statue,
which is in the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square
(near the site of the former British Colonial Club)
at 4.00pm on Saturday 1st August.

Please bring bring Union Jacks and the flags of
England, N. Ireland, Scotland and Wales
— but no other flags or banners.

There will be a wreath-laying near the site of the former Colonial Club and then a
short open-air public meeting. We will expose the Zionists as the inventors of
contemporary terrorist techniques and exponents of genocidal war crimes against the
indigenous people of Palestine which began with the massacre of villagers at
Deir Yassin on 10th April 1948, and which continue with the recent mass
slaughters of mainly civilian Palestinians in Gaza and
on the illegally-occupied West Bank.
 
You are then invited to join us at a
private indoor meeting
in West London
which starts at 6.00pm

The theme of the meeting will be:

“Zionist Terrorism — Yesterday and Today”

There will be video presentation and speeches which explore Zionist terrorism in greater detail.

A redirection service will operate from 9.00am on the day of these events
(Saturday 1st August) on the following mobile phone number -

07917 921734
We look forward to your support and your company at either
— or hopefully both — these important events.

Yours faithfully,

Martin Webster  ·  Richard Edmonds  · Lady Michèle Renouf  ·  Jez Turner  ·  Peter Rushton
for:
Forgotten British Heroes Campaign