Thread by @AnthonyMcIntyre

A thread by Carrie:
No matter what your political perspective, if youre at all interested in the processing of the past, if you want justice or you just want truth, if you're against prosecutions or for them - this case of ours is an indictment of the whole shitstem in a nutshell

The way the PPS and PSNI have pursued Anthony is an indictment of their approach to the past. They are wasting time and money on this nonsense, and doing it so badly even the judges who are protecting them are moved to call them "careless".

The Chief Constable has said that the PSNI does not have the funds to pursue historical cases and contemporary policing. Yet they are throwing money away on this.

THIS is the case they are choosing to pursue to get historical justice: some wood in Anthony's socks while he was in prison in the 70s, a bombing that they didn't even know the date of & that he was the intended target of, & MEMBERSHIP charges. FOR FUCKS SAKE. Are you kidding me?

If I were a victim who was seeking justice I WOULD BE SPITTING NAILS at the PPS. How dare they prioritize this over your own case? Really? Not to mention going after the Boston Tapes only ensures no one will get any real truth, nevermind any prosecutions.

If I were a British solider worried about being prosecuted, I would be very worried indeed.

If you're the unlucky sod who gets chosen to be the sacrificial lamb, you're going to be subject to a beyond ridiculous case that wastes even more time and money just so this corrupt and unaccountable shitshow can say they were applying their unfairness "equally to all sides"

Have a look at our case and see the absurdity you will be in for, because guaranteed any British solider that actually should be prosecuted won't be the one in the dock. It'll be whoever the government deems best to send a message via, and that message will be: Shut The Hell Up

I wish there was a way to have those campaigning on the past - whatever their persuasion - see this case as the indictment of the status quo that it is. I mean really look at what the PPS and PSNI have done here.

They utilized an international treaty to pursue someone for having wood in his socks while in prison in the 70s.

They claimed they were investigating a bombing they didnt know the date of. On one of the changing dates they came up, Anthony was in Castlereagh.

Let that sink in.

They didn't even bother to check their own records before sending an international treaty request.

The bombing was a loyalist pipebomb thrown at a house that Anthony was in. He was the target, the intended victim.

They did not tell the US Courts this.

They let the US authorities believe they were investigating serious, urgent crimes. Crimes they desperately needed the Boston Tapes to solve.

That is an abuse of process.

We all know the fall-out from the PSNI subpoenas of the Boston College archive. The damage to history, to society who will suffer from the subsequent lack of candour.

Some believe that was the intent of the subpoenas and that cannot be discounted. Not now, given the absurdity of this vindictive case being pursured against Anthony.

At some point, will there be any accountability?

Likely, not. This is Northern Ireland, and this is the way things work. They don't.

Chris Bray does an excellent job of explaining the absurdity
bostoncollegesubpoena.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/far…

If you are at all concerned with legacy issues, please, look at this case, and use it to indict the status quo.
-Carrie

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