BBC News Saturday, 13 May 2006, 11:32 GMT 12:32 UK
Afghan hijackers 'not spongers'
 The men said they were in imminent danger from the Taleban |
In a statement, the nine asylum seekers said they were desperate to be allowed to work and contribute to UK society.
They also apologised to passengers on the flight they hijacked to Stansted in 2000, for the fear they had caused.
Tony Blair has said the decision not to return the men to Afghanistan is "an abuse of common sense".
Six years ago the men hijacked an Ariana Boeing 727 that was on an internal flight in Afghanistan, saying they were escaping the Taleban.
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Subject: Human Rights Laws Are The Only Means to Protect Against Government Abuse and They Are Inadequately Observed
Date: Saturday 13 May 2006 10:44
From: Gary D Chance
To: news24@bbc.co.uk
You must get the abuse of power by the government with respect to human rights into your reporting, and you are not doing so. Thus, there can be no meaningful public debate and discussion about human rights laws in this country until these abuses are brought into the open.
The courts rule against the government in tip-of-the-iceberg situations where the government does not abide by the law hoping to get away with abuse for as long as it takes to legally process these claims. Then the government wants to change the law. There is no trickle down effect with those in government recognising the necessity to abide by the human rights laws. Instead, abuse of human rights is set from the top of government as its policy.
Below the water line of media reporting are abuses of human rights in this country that boggle the mind, but these are connected with the abuse of power with the use of surveillance technology by those using it thinking that they can get away with anything and are above the law.
Start reporting the extent of the human rights abuses and start having a meaningful discusion before the government and those would be types who want to be in government, i.e., David Cameron, wind up turning loose the worst side of the human character once again as flourished in the Third Reich which led to the death of 50 million in World War II.
You had a spy story report this morning about the Special Operations Executive's Indian Princess who operated in Nazi occupied Paris saving many lives as a wireless operating before being captured and killed by the SS most likely by a horrible torture death.
You might as well forget about this reporting and recognise that all those who died in World War II fighting Fascism reflected a useless sacrifice because the same identical activity is currently being carried out in London and has been for many years. The extraordinary brutality of the Third Reich which beggars belief and imagination is being carried out once again only with updated technology.
If you can't recognise the current reality and choose to live in the past, there is little sense in carrying out your job which will at some point be engulfed by human rights abuses from those in power who wish to keep that power at all costs.
Here we are again right back where we started a couple weeks ago before the government blew up with the scandal of the released prisoners who were subject to deportation. This is the point where Charles Clarke was slamming the media and Tony Blair was bashing human rights.
It is not a policy or law problem of protecting the public against those who have committed crimes and are about to be released into the public. Those foreign nationals could have been processed before release to ensure proper processing on release.
To focus attention on the fact that there was a concern about these prisoners applying for asylum which created a reluctance in contacting them before release is a smokescreen used as an excuse to cover up a failure of the Home Office to carry out its own policies under the law.
Those who want to rewrite the human rights laws are trumpeting the need to protect the public against further criminal acts by those who are known and convicted offenders.
The real abuses, however, are coming from those who want to destroy the human rights of innocent people like me who have never done anything and are subjected to malicious attacks by the very criminals who have been reported by me for their crimes. And, such an abuse of human rights leads to protecting those who criminally abuse the use of surveillance technology against the innocent for their own corrupt self interest (greed, glory and power).
What has happened in my case is a complete abrogation of human rights along with the democratic rule of law, law enforcement and the legal justice system by fabricating allegations. Those on the ground actually doing the work feel that their false allegations justify the ongoing use of surveillance technology as a weapon to imprison, punish, torture and execute based upon a presumption of guilt and a manufactured threat and danger which does not exist, never has and never will.
In addition, they feel free to carry on with any and all R&D experimentation including the lethal use of this surveillance technology and its medical experimentation in much the same manner as the Nazis carried out such research and medical experimentation in its concentration camps. That is why I call the use of this surveillance technology the portable concentration camp.
Changing the human rights laws which protect the individual against the government will lead to extensive abuse of power with the government itself acting as a vigilante mob and organised crime such as I've been experiencing 24/7 for almost eight years since August 1998 when surveillance technology was installed and placed at the disposal of scores of [untrained, unvetted and inexperienced] people [bent on revenge and retaliation] to use for vigilante activity which goes on as of this writing.
[If you analyse legislation and behaviour carefully, you will find that this government is creating mob rule.] Its the Third Reich all over again, and the media remain silent.
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Subject: "Public Safety Has Always Got To Come First" said Lord Falconer
Date: Saturday 13 May 2006 12:15
From: Gary D Chance
To: news24@bbc.co.uk
This is simply not true, and it is not the policy of this government as can be dramatically seen in the release of 1,023 foreign national prisoners without proper processing for possible deportation.
The hijackers are not the kind of criminals who would be expected to commit crimes as a common criminal would. They would most likely be subjected to torture and death if returned to Afghanistan. They hijacked an aircraft to escape this. Apparently they have paid the penalty to society for this crime.
The public safety is not being served by the surveillance technology abuse carried out against me. The reverse is occurring: the criminal is flourishing carrying out continuous criminal activity of violent abuse and establishing a standard of antisocial and criminal behaviour in this environment.
The policy of this government has nothing to do with public safety first. It has everything to do with keeping itself in power and smokescreening its terrible failures.
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