Dear Mr Holt,
Some days ago I was handed a
copy of your recent article in
The Irish Times Weekend Review (Saturday,
January 7th 2006) on the now-opened
"SuperDump" in
Kilconnell
(County Galway), which is located near my home.
Though I feel
your article is in many respects extremely good, I am nonetheless very concerned
by the fact that it contains no mention at all of the
United Nations Aarhus
Convention Agreement which the
Republic of Ireland signed in
1998.
As you may not be aware of the extremely important
link - the BROKEN link that is - between the Kilconnell superdump, and the
United Nations Aarhus Convention Agreement, I would be very grateful if you
could please take note of the contents of the January 15th 2006
Indymedia
Newswire publication I have reproduced below - which attempts to briefly
explain the important "broken link" in question, together with some of the
extremely negative and worrying social consequences closely associated with
it.
I also hope that your many other colleagues in the media who
this e-mail is being copied to will note the contents of the Indymedia Newswire
publication reproduced below as well.
You, and your other media
colleagues, may wish to note too that as a direct result of this huge
Greenstar / National Toll Roads rubbish dump project, I have so
far spent a total of around 21 months living in forced exile (away from my home
in County Galway), in order to avoid being corruptly criminalised in connection
with my efforts to challenge the legality of the Kilconnell SuperDump; and, that
in spite of the very best efforts of myself,
Mr Gerard Madden (Senior
Social Worker, Omagh, Northern Ireland), and my GP (
Dr Michael McCavert),
I remain unable to find a lawyer who is willing to help me prepare my legal
defence in connection with the criminal offence I was charged with in
2002: which, as you may already know, is a very straightforward and
blatant violation of
Article 6 of
The European Convention on Human
Rights Act 2003 (Republic of Ireland).
In addition, the very
severe and prolonged mental torture I am being subjected to as a
consequence of being deliberately deprived of my legal rights under the
European Convention of Human Rights - for no good reason whatsoever that I know
of - means that
The Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention Against
Torture) Act, 2000 (Republic of Ireland) is also being blatantly violated in
my case: all with the full knowledge (and approval apparently) of
Minister
for Justice Michael McDowell TD, and
Northern Ireland Criminal Justice
Minister David Hanson MP. (Full details of the letters from Mr Madden
and Dr McCavert sent to Minister McDowell TD and Minister Hanson MP can be
found in the list provided at
http://www.constitutionofireland.com/ .)
For
future reference purposes, a copy of this e-mail will be placed at the following
address later today:
http://www.constitutionofireland.com/EddieHoltIrishTimesJournalist17January2006/Email.htm Translations
facilities will be made available at the above address.
Yours
sincerely,
William Finnerty
"St Albans"
New
Inn
County Galway
Republic of Ireland.
PRINTED
COPY: Dr Michael McCavert GP, Omagh Health Centre, County Tyrone,
Northern Ireland.
>>> From
Indymedia
Newswire location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72344&condense_comments=false#comment134512
>>>
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Difference between signing
and ratifying a convention by W. Finnerty
Sunday, Jan 15 2006,
1:08pm The
Amnesty
International text below has been taken from their page at:
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/torture/cat.shtml =========================================
WHAT
IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIGNING AND RATIFYING A
CONVENTION?
If a state (country) has signed a
convention or treaty, it has declared that it agrees with the principles
included in the convention or treaty and that it will not do anything to
undermine it.
If a state (country) has ratified a
convention or treaty, it has also agreed to be legally bound by that convention.
From then on it is known as "a state party to that
convention".
(Amnesty
International)
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With
the
United Nations international
Aarhus Convention
Agreement in mind, which the
Republic of Ireland
SIGNED on
25 June 1998, but never ratified (see
http://www.unece.org/env/pp/ctreaty.htm for details), where
does all this leave the Republic of Ireland Government in regard to the
National Toll Roads / Greenstar SuperDump at
Kilconnell (in County Galway)? - and a whole string of other
environmental issues including, for example, alterations (i.e. "Amendments")
made to the
Waste Management Act and the
National
Monuments Act since June 25th 1998
?
Background information on the planning permission
basics for the Kilconnell rubbish dump, which not only undermined the
international Aarhus Convention Agreement, but made smithereens out of it as
well, thanks to all the extremely tight cooperation between
Local and
Central Government,
National Toll Roads, the
Legal Profession, the so called "
Opposition
Parties", and the "
Traditional Media", have been
outlined at the following address:
http://www.annmariekelly.org/LegalAidApplication/3November2004.htm The
basics of the international Aarhus Convention Agreement (part of "
United
Nations Agenda 21" or "
21st Century Agenda") can be
seen at:
http://www.finnachta.com/TheAarhusConvention.htm It's
small wonder that so many are doing so much for so long to keep the general
public in the dark regarding Ireland's signing of the Aarhus Convention
Agreement in 1998? - which, amazingly, has still to "be laid before
Dail
Eireann" - as required by
Article 29.5.1 of Bunreacht na
hEireann (the Constitution of Ireland). Almost 8 years on, and there is
still no sign at all of any stir in that direction
???
Display absolute and total contempt for the
undertakings involved in the signing of the United Nations Aarhus Convention
Agreement (after billions of EU subsidy money has been secured/conned as a
result of signing up for it), violate the Constitution of Ireland, alter the law
in ways which are repugnant to the Constitution, betray the State, betray the
citizens of the State, betray themselves: all "for a few dollars more" - and
another very cosy term in office? - "serving the public" of
course. http://www.constitutionofireland.com/ +++
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