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 SAS-war-hero-jailed-after-betrayal - Sunday Telegraph 11th Nov/12#

But his lawyer said he pleaded guilty after being warned that he could 
 otherwise face a five-year sentence. 

"I consider the sentence to be excessive and the basis of the guilty 
 plea unsafe. It is a gross miscarriage of justice and grounds of  appeal are already being prepared.”  

Guilty pleas entered under threat of long jail terms or huge fines are a 
disgrace to the British legal system. They are nothing less than a bribe 
to plead guilty.

They will have their job cut out if they think they can show that the 
basis for the Guilty plea was unsafe, because such a finding would mean 
chaos as huge rafts of cases had to be revisited.

COMMENT:-

 

The implications of this disgraceful abuse of privilege by the authorities are far reaching, not least because Judge Advocate Alistair McGrigor set aside the constitutional rights and liberties of the subject which entitles law abiding British subjects to bear arms for self defence and the protection of the Realm, a right carried to America by Englishmen along with our common law Constitution and principle of law which still stands there to this day. 

 

It is not generally understood that it is by no special dispensation that our policemen may carry arms, it is by this very constitutional right which was unlawfully removed from the people by an establishment controlled government in 1925 when the establishment feared a socialist revolution although this reason was not revealed until many years later.

 

What the establishment still didn't understand at that time was the then Liberal Prime Minister Asquith was a Fabian Socialist and that a covert socialist revolution had already taken place right under their noses when in 1911 George V was persuaded by Asquith to give Royal Assent to the Parliament Act 1911 which removed the authority of the House of Lords to protect the Rights and Liberties of the British people. Asquith had previously tried it on with Edward VII but he was shrewd enough to see what was afoot and refused his Royal Assent. Now we have Clegg another Liberal  and very likely another Fabian working to do away with our House of Lords altogether as part of the plot to remove from the people their ancient common law Constitution.

 

Sgt Nightingale is just another victim of our corrupt political and judicial system, a system that has obviously been corrupt since the death of Edward VII, a King that despite his personal shortcomings was much respected by his subjects. Just as George V allowed his governments to ride roughshod over his people unopposed so has his granddaughter Elizabeth II who should in this instance have intervened as is her duty to ensure that justice is  administered fairly and in the spirit of the law especially as the defendant is under her direct command and responsibility.

 

According to the reports of this case most people would agree that unless some important evidence is being withheld this case should never have been allowed into court, which begs the question, why was it? Was it in the public interest? Very questionable. Was it in the interest of justice? What was just about it? Thieves get lighter sentences. A law had been broken, but was that law legitimate when it sought to unconstitutionally deprive the people of their lawful right to bear for their self protection and the protection of the Realm and has already been put to question in the court and hopefully will be again.

 

But was this draconian outburst not so much in the interest of public safety but in the interest of the safety of the establishment that is beginning to fear for its corrupt existence as it did in 1925? Doubtless many people when reading of this case will recall Dunblane shootings, the paedophile implication and the suspicions of a cover up created by a hundred year ban on the publication of the evidence especially at this particular time when the judiciary and much of the establishment is under public scrutiny.

 

Perhaps in its fear and desperation the establishment which makes up the anti-British army in our midst which has surrendered our sovereignty and lawful right of self governance to its foreign masters might now turn in on itself like rats trapped in a barrel. Should this happen, pilloried though he presently is, Sgt Nightingale might yet go down in history as the hero who caused the spark that ignited the long accumulated pile of refuse that has the effrontery to place itself above the law and condemn those who protest its rightful and lawful ownership.   BL.

 

 

General List

 

Absolutely disgusting - we now jail our returning war heroes. Another prat of a civilian Judge

That's no way to recruit more - wonder who arranges all this nonsense! Part of The Grand Plan, perhaps? Moral destruction?

 

At least a lot of "senior" people are working on his case - my heart goes out to him!

 

These Judges really ARE part of the problem - they live on another planet! What ARE we going to do about it - it can't go on like this?

 

You can forget the BBC, they are also part of the problem - we need the papers on the side of the nation and patriots.

 

There's already plenty of websites - acting as information holes in the colander - now we need to reach MOTCO man! (Man on the Clapham Omnib

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9669410/SAS-war-hero-jailed-after-betrayal.html

SAS war hero jailed after 'betrayal'

An SAS soldier has been jailed for possessing a “war trophy” pistol presented to him by the Iraqi Army for outstanding service.

Sgt Danny Nightingale with his wife Sally on their wedding day and, right, on duty Photo: WARREN SMITH

By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent

Sgt Danny Nightingale, a special forces sniper who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sentenced to 18 months in military detention by a court martial last week.

His sentence was described last night as the “betrayal of a war hero”, made worse because it was handed down in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday.

Sgt Nightingale had planned to fight the charge of illegally possessing the 9mm Glock.

But his lawyer said he pleaded guilty after being warned that he could otherwise face a five-year sentence.

The soldier had hoped for leniency given the circumstances. At the court martial, even the prosecution described him as a serviceman of exemplary character, who had served his country for 17 years, 11 in the special forces.

The court was told that he returned to Britain in a hurry after two friends were killed in Iraq, leaving his equipment — including the pistol — to be packed up by colleagues.

It accepted evidence from expert witnesses that he suffered severe memory loss due to a brain injury.

Judge Advocate Alistair McGrigor, presiding over the court martial, could have spared the soldier prison by passing a suspended sentence. Instead he handed down the custodial term.

Sgt Nightingale and his family chose to waive the anonymity usually given to members of the special forces.

His wife, Sally, said her husband’s sentence was a “disgrace”. She called him a “hero who had been betrayed”. She said she and the couple’s two daughters, aged two and five, faced losing their home after his Army pay was stopped.

The soldier’s former commanding officer and politicians have called for the sentence to be overturned.

Lt Col Richard Williams, who won a Military Cross in Afghanistan in 2001 and was Sgt Nightingale’s commanding officer in Iraq, said the sentence “clearly needed to be overturned immediately”.

He said: “His military career has been ruined and his wife and children face being evicted from their home — this is a total betrayal of a man who dedicated his life to the service of his country.”

Patrick Mercer, the Conservative MP for Newark and a former infantry officer, said he planned to take up the case with the Defence Secretary. Simon McKay, Sgt Nightingale’s lawyer, said: “On Remembrance Sunday, when the nation remembers its war heroes, my client — one of their number — is in a prison cell.

"I consider the sentence to be excessive and the basis of the guilty plea unsafe. It is a gross miscarriage of justice and grounds of appeal are already being prepared.”

In 2007, Sgt Nightingale was serving in Iraq as a member of Task Force Black, a covert counter-terrorist unit that conducted operations under orders to capture and kill members of al-Qaeda.

He also helped train members of a secret counter-terrorist force called the Apostles. At the end of the training he was presented with the Glock, which he planned to donate to his regiment as a war trophy.

But in November 2007, two of Sgt Nightingale’s closest friends, Sgt John Battersby and Cpl Lee Fitzsimmons, were killed in a helicopter crash. He accompanied both bodies back to Britain and helped arrange the funerals.

In Iraq, his equipment was packed by colleagues, one of whom placed the pistol inside a container that was sent first to the SAS regimental headquarters in Hereford, then to his home where it remained unopened until 2010.

In 2009, Sgt Nightingale, now a member of the SAS selection staff, took part in a 200-mile fund-raising trek in Brazil. He collapsed after 30 miles and fell into a coma for three days.

He recovered but his memory was severely damaged, according to two expert witnesses, including Prof Michael Kopleman of King’s College, London, an authority on memory loss.

In May, 2010, Sgt Nightingale was living in a house with another soldier close to the regiment’s headquarters when he was posted to Afghanistan at short notice.

During the tour, his housemate’s estranged wife claimed her husband had assaulted her and kept a stash of ammunition in the house. West Mercia Police raided the house and found the Glock, still in its container.

Sgt Nightingale’s court martial did not dispute that the pistol had been a gift. It accepted statements from expert witnesses, including Dr Susan Young, a forensic psychologist also from King’s College, London. She said that he probably had no recollection that he had the gun.

The court also accepted that Sgt Nightingale had suffered severe memory loss. But the judge did not believe that he had no recollection of being in possession of the weapon.