American seeking asylum needs observers for Supreme Court appeal

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report

Wednesday April 09, 2008 16:37

by Ray - various orgs.(pers cap) - knows the appellant

Making sure justice is seen to be done

A New Yorker who was a witness at the scene of the World Trade Centre bombing in 1993 has filed documentation in the Supreme Court that the Ministry for Justice here suppressed evidence in her claim for asylum. She is requesting that activists, members of the public or people interested in immigration/asylum issues come to her Supreme Court appeal on Friday April 11, at 11 am at the Four Courts, Dublin (I assume).

I met Ms. L several days ago (I have known her for the past three years), and she expressed the worry that in the absence of impartial observers at her Supreme court appeal, both the Irish authorities and the security agencies of her home country (the United States) would perpetrate abuses of process so as to deny her asylum and return her to the persecution she fears awaits her should she be returned unwillingly to the United States. Given what we have had confirmed over the past few years about the modus operandi of the US intelligence and security services, her fears are not imaginary. In any case, sympathy both moral and practical for a vulnerable individual in Ireland's biased and manifestly unjust asylum system is not only natural, but the duty of any conscious and concerned citizen.

I shall let Ms. L make her appeal in her own words:

"Dear_________

Please attend in person and/or urge your associates to come show your interest in these proceedings.

This concerns the courts' extraordinary refusal to hear evidence of government lies, suppression of evidence, and cooperation with human rights abuses by the CIA in Ireland in a case concerning a question of risk to the life of an elected official.

The courts' treatment of this case is all the more aberrant considering that the respondents (in this case the Refugee Appeals Tribunal and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, et al.) have explicitly and implicitly admitted the Applicant's (Ms. L's) allegations, both in writing and in court.

Why has the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the Constitutional validity of a statute; a question in which their jurisdiction is inalienable?

Why did the Supreme Court decline jurisdiction suddenl and extraordinarily in direct response to evidence of government collusion in CIA human rights abuses in Ireland?

Why did former Minister for Justice Michael McDowell and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court personally preside over these shocking travesties?

PLEASE COME TO COURT!

'If you don't give him shelter, he'll have no place to hide!'"