Evidence pre-2009: Betty Williams 7

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

- Martin Luther King, Jnr.

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."

- Abraham Lincoln

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[My Name and Address withheld]

Betty Williams, AS/MP

House of Commons

London

SW1A 0AA

Tuesday, 15th July, 2008.

Your reference: C6097/63361 My reference: 080715 Betty Williams.doc

To Betty Williams, AS/MP,

I am in receipt of your letter of 12th July, 2008.

This is to confirm that everything I pledged in my recent brief telephone conversation to your assistant. Namely, and in more detail:

[1] That I shall see the Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Kim Howells, forced from office. Every Minister has a duty to best represent the best interests of United Kingdom travellers to any foreign country. In this case, the United States.

You say that 'representations' are continually being made to the US authorities about the treatment of UK travellers. Obviously, the representatives of the UK Government are failing miserably. The Americans, effectively, are showing the greatest contempt to the UK.

As a result, a more robust response should be made and the UK should give ultimatums to the US that the UK Government will not tolerate the abuse or corruption the US immigration system meters out to it's unfortunate victims. But of course, the UK is in the pocket of the US and will not do anything to upset the Americans - and all at the cost of such abuses of human rights to go unpunished.

Conclusively, any representations made to US authorities are totally worthless. There is a saying in the US and it applies to the UK Government: You 'talk the talk', but you don't 'walk the walk'. Former PM John Major said: “Fine words butter no parsnips”.

Both you are Kim Howells are paying lip-service to human rights but are failing miserably, and pathetically, to carry through your alleged principles. That is assuming either of you have any - which it seems not.

Anyone who has the power to protest should protest. Making grovelling apologies doesn't count. So spare me and my dignity any more pathetic excuses for not demonstrating that either of you are human beings capable of doing what is right.

[2] I repeat for the last time that this is a matter of human rights - not just corrupt immigration procedures in other countries. It affects everyone, from Royalty and Presidents right down to those with absolutely no quality of life and have to 'bum around' begging for money, sleep rough, etc. Human rights are not just for a privileged few. But based on the actions of you and that useless hypocrite in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, it seems that it is reserved for just the smallest minority (namely, saving your own skins).

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So, do us both a favour. Spare me the bulls**t excuses. Stop treating me like a fool and trying to con me into believing you cannot do anything. I am not one of the very tiny minority of feeble-minded electorate who thinks that the sun shines out of Gordon Brown's New Labour ass. The truth is that you, like Howells, just really don't really give a damn.

I hope you also suffer such a similar indignity one day - just so you know what exactly what it feels like. I hope you get the chance to travel to another country, get apprehended, get told you have no human rights, no access to your Embassy or Consulate, no access to legal representation, etc. I hope you get to experience the terror of knowing that if you do not comply, you could be imprisoned and have your spouse threatened - and possibly abused.

You wouldn't think I was talking abut the US, would you? But if you decide to visit the newly designed www.nohumanity.com, you will slowly come to realise that this is the truth. I shall be busy in the coming weeks collecting horror stories from other sources - just to prove that this is an issue which is not just about me or my wife. You will be able to read about air crews suffering nightmare trips to the US, you will read about Mexican women being raped and abused. All of these things are down to corrupt or power-drunk US immigration officials. And it's just the beginning.

As for your suggestion I get legal help. You are just taking the p**s again. New Labour destroyed the legal aid scheme, and where it still exists in it's fragmented form, there are no lawyers who can help me. Furthermore, the official line is that it is a legal issue which must be addressed in the US, not in the UK. And in the US, I cannot find a lawyer or get financial help. Therefore, I am totally helpless. I have tried both avenues and drawn a blank.

In closing, let me say that this is my last letter to you. You are now beneath my contempt.

Time for me to 'walk-the-walk' and start the process of trying to get you and Howells kicked out of office. This country deserves better than those who sit back and do (effectively) nothing to try to prevent the human rights abuse of their own citizens.

Yours earnestly,

[My Name withheld]

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