Illegal Wars and your Taxes!

Campaign to Make Wars History

If you are tax payer in the UK then you have been, without your consent and probably your awareness, supporting the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More so if you voted for any of the candidate MPs who arranged the wars, who sat in Parliament and cote to continue to prosecute the wars, or who voted against War Crimes investigations.

Given the existence in English Law of the International Criminal Court Act 2001, and in particular, sections 51 and 52 of that act the prosecution of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, by UK Military at the behest of UK Government, is an act of genocide and a war-crime, under English Law. What the ICC Act 2001 does is integrate the ICC into English Law, whereby a War Criminal can be investigated,  indicted in England, and arrested and handed over to the ICC at the Hague for trial.

However, there's a lot of resistance to such moves being made. You see, Blair is not the only one, and a full accounting for these Wars of Aggression would scoop up a good few thousand people across the Establishment. In my mind that would be a very good thing to achieve, and would lend itself to removing US Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction from UK Soil and Waters, and edge the global community closer to a more peaceful world. A demilitarised Britain would be a fine example to other nations populations to take action to end Militarism, which is a pox upon all our lives.

International Criminal Court Act 2001 : The text

International Criminal Court Act 2001 : Section 51,52

Under these same statutes, it is also a war-crime to assist in any way the continued commission of these crimes.

The term 'ancillary to the commission of a crime' has the following definitions:

"PART 5 Offences under Domestic Law

England and Wales

55 Meaning of “ancillary offence”

(1) References in this Part to an ancillary offence under the law of England and Wales are to—

(a) aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence,

(b) inciting a person to commit an offence,

(c) attempting or conspiring to commit an offence, or

(d) assisting an offender or concealing the commission of an offence.

(2) In subsection (1)(a) the reference to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring is to conduct that in relation to an indictable offence would be punishable under section 8 of the Accessories and Abettors Act 1861 (c. 94).

(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) In subsection (1)(c)—

(a) the reference to an attempt is to conduct amounting to an offence under section 1 of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 (c. 47); and

(b) the reference to conspiracy is to conduct amounting to an offence of conspiracy under section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45).

(5) In subsection (1)(d)—

(a) the reference to assisting an offender is to conduct that in relation to a relevant offence would amount to an offence under section 4(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58); and

(b) the reference to concealing an offence is to conduct that in relation to a relevant offence would amount to an offence under section 5(1) of that Act."

Thus the votes in Parliament for the war, and all other votes that support the continuation of the war, the funding of the war itself, the dissemination of propaganda and misinformation and  the paying of taxes, or that proportion of taxes which goes towards supporting that continued military activity or any infrastructure that allows those military activities to continue, including the parliamentary offices, staff and infrastructure of all parliamentarians who support the wars, is also conduct ancillary to the commission of the War,  as outlined by the above mentioned legislation, which are ratified English, Welsh Law.

Not many people know this. But then not many people are being told about these matters. Certainly the News Press media, owned as the bulk of them are by Oligarchy entities not domiciled in the UK,  are not reporting on this in the manner they ought to if they were in any way speaking truth to power or supporting the interests of the people.

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Campaign to Make Wars History

It is possible to access the evidence, as the lovely people behind *The Campaign to Make Wars History have collated and prepared all the evidence (see the videos below) so that YOU can then present it to your local police station, requesting that they investigate the war crime which you are reporting.

Campaign to Make War History

Videos of a recent Press Conference, presenting the work being done to expose the illegality of the Iraq and Afghan Wars, and the work being done to investigate the breaches of English Law with regards these crimes and to bring to account all those involved.

2022* the website of MHW is no longer active.

Here is a copy of the site archived at WayBackMachine : www.makewarshistory.co.uk -

It contains a wealth of information, collated by the MHW team. Superb resource. It is true that Court Judgments in London have blocked every attempt at moving forwards on War Crimes Investigations, and the Establishment have *exhausted the MHW team, in the same manner they are oppressing Julian Assange and others by waging wars of attrition.

*The Austerity Campaign was designed to exhausted the UK Community Voluntary Sector, and Devolution has protected Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland from the worst ravages. Exhausting activism has a long tradition amongst the English Ruling Class.

The Press Conference was held in

Room C, 1 Parliament Street

Tuesday 15th January 2008 3pm

Here's some videos from that meeting.

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiNI5SbIsyg - no longer online.

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDsUxph5nBk - Chris Coverdale, 2001 International Criminal Court Act 2001

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPx9QsXqXBI - : Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and ex-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith for war crimes

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORRVu2KYXUg - Questions & Answers

This report from : grimupnorth.blogspot.com

WAR CRIMES -WHY WASN'T THIS REPORTED?

As a journalist, I pride myself on being media savvy. Unfortunately, like everyone else, I have to scour the internet to by-pass the mainstream media and sometimes miss stuff.

So I wish to now report the press conference held with John McDonnell MP and members of the Campaign to Make War History who briefed MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain's former Prime Minister and the former Attorney General. 

The press conference held with John McDonnell MP and members of the Campaign to Make War History who briefed MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain's former Prime Minister and the former Attorney General.

Officers from Scotland Yard have started a criminal investigation into the deaths of Iraqi citizens killed during the armed invasion and occupation of Iraq.

The Metropolitan Police are also acting in response to crimes reported by peace activists from We Are Change UK and The Campaign to Make War History. In an unprecedented step, the case was handed to the War Crimes division of the Counter Terrorism branch who are now investigating allegations of 14 criminal offences committed by Tony Blair, Lord Goldsmith and others. The offences are under the International Criminal Court Act 2001, which came into effect under English common law, just two days before 9/11.

Evidence was provided to the police relating to the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and conduct ancillary to these crimes under Sections 51 and 52 of The International Criminal Court Act 2001.• a crime against peace and complicity in a crime against peace under Articles 6 and 7 of The Nuremburg Principles.• murder, incitement to murder and conspiracy to murder under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.• conspiracy to commit genocide, a crime against humanity and war crimes under the Criminal Law Act.
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