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Galloway may be tried as a traitor
from Al-Guardian, EFL
George Galloway, the anti-war Labour MP who is suing over allegations he secretly took money from Saddam Hussein, faces the prospect of a criminal prosecution for treachery. The Observer can reveal that the Director of Public Prosecutions is considering pursuing the Glasgow politician for comments during the Iraq war when he called on British troops not to fight.
Coward, Traitor, Stalinist. Sticks and stones and criminal prosecutions may break my... oh crap!
In an interview with Abu Dhabi TV during the Iraq conflict, Galloway said: 'The best thing British troops can do is to refuse to obey illegal orders.' Lawyers for service personnel claim his call for soldiers to disobey what he called 'illegal orders' amount to a breach of the Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934. The maximum penalty is two years in jail. The relevant part of the Act is Section 1, which states: 'If any person maliciously and advisedly endeavours to seduce any member of His Majesty's forces from his duty or allegiance to His Majesty, he shall be guilty of an offence.' Under the terms of the Act, the word 'maliciously' means wilfully and intentionally.
And of course he can't claim that's not true
Galloway dismissed attempts to prosecute him, but said: 'I hope to have chiselled on my gravestone: "He incited them to disaffect."'
for his pieces of gold
Or his 30 pieces of silver...
Galloway's calls for British troops to disobey orders came during the TV interview in which he described Tony Blair and George Bush as 'wolves' for embarking on military action. When accused of treachery, Galloway said: 'The people who have betrayed this country are those who have sold it to a foreign power and who have been the miserable surrogates of a bigger power for reasons very few people in Britain can understand.'
Ouch! think that'll come back to bite him in the arse?
After Galloway made the comments on Abu Dhabi TV, Justin Hugheston-Roberts, chairman of Forces Law, a nationwide group of 22 law firms which acts for service personnel and their families, wrote to the DPP asking him to prosecute or allow a private prosecution to be brought. Last week the Crown Prosecution Service wrote to the lawyers requesting more information and details of the comments Galloway made. Hugheston-Roberts has refused to reveal the identity of his clients, but said they were meeting this week to decide on the best course of action. Hugheston-Roberts said if the CPS decided not to prosecute but gave consent for a private action, then his clients would be happy to pursue that avenue.
Sounds like the fox-hunt is on, whether the government wants to or not
Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-27
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=13547