Team Brian GB
09-27-2006, 07:41 PM
I wrote in my anti-terrorism thread earlier this week that the EU can (sometimes) be good for the British Judicial System, though that is a huge rarity- this is an example today.
A man called George Blake of Dutch Birth came to Britain after the Netherlands fell to the Nazis, claimed British Citizenship and proceeded to join MI6- the British overseas secret service during the Second World War and beyond. After the war ended and the Cold War set in, he became a double agent and started feeding classified information to the KGB. The information he sent was the details of British agents undercover in the Soviet Union- it is believed that his actions led to the torture and killing of 19 Britons abroad. He was uncovered in 1960 by the authorities, and was sentenced to 42 years for treason and conspiring to murder. In 1966 he escaped Wormwood Scrubbs (notorious reputation) and fled to Russia. After the fall of the USSR, he got a book deal with a London Publisher, he got paid an advance of £35,000 ($66,000) and was due to recieve a further £55,000 ($103,000) but the British Government blocked this in 1993.
Ever since, Blake has fought this decision through the British courts by proxy, and was defeated at every level- all the way up to the House of Lords in 2000. Today, the EU Court of Human Rights granted him £4,800 ($8,500) in compensation for "distress and frustration" for the length of time this legal process has been going on.
This man is a traitor, guilty of treason against the British Nation and is responsible for the deaths of 19 Britishmen, threatening the National Security of Britain during the height of the Cold War, who is on the run from the British Authorities and has 36 years remaining of his sentence to serve. But Strasbourg (where the court is based) forgets this, but perceives that his human rights have been broken and pays money out to him.
Absolutely disgraceful.
A man called George Blake of Dutch Birth came to Britain after the Netherlands fell to the Nazis, claimed British Citizenship and proceeded to join MI6- the British overseas secret service during the Second World War and beyond. After the war ended and the Cold War set in, he became a double agent and started feeding classified information to the KGB. The information he sent was the details of British agents undercover in the Soviet Union- it is believed that his actions led to the torture and killing of 19 Britons abroad. He was uncovered in 1960 by the authorities, and was sentenced to 42 years for treason and conspiring to murder. In 1966 he escaped Wormwood Scrubbs (notorious reputation) and fled to Russia. After the fall of the USSR, he got a book deal with a London Publisher, he got paid an advance of £35,000 ($66,000) and was due to recieve a further £55,000 ($103,000) but the British Government blocked this in 1993.
Ever since, Blake has fought this decision through the British courts by proxy, and was defeated at every level- all the way up to the House of Lords in 2000. Today, the EU Court of Human Rights granted him £4,800 ($8,500) in compensation for "distress and frustration" for the length of time this legal process has been going on.
This man is a traitor, guilty of treason against the British Nation and is responsible for the deaths of 19 Britishmen, threatening the National Security of Britain during the height of the Cold War, who is on the run from the British Authorities and has 36 years remaining of his sentence to serve. But Strasbourg (where the court is based) forgets this, but perceives that his human rights have been broken and pays money out to him.
Absolutely disgraceful.