{"id":41583,"date":"2020-12-14T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41583"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:21:57","slug":"heres-how-the-bloody-brits-have-gotten-away-with-bloody-murder-for-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41583","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how the Bloody Brits have gotten away with bloody murder for centuries."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Excerpt from an article titled:<\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sott.net\/article\/445704-The-Ministry-of-Defence-blacklisted-Declassified-but-wont-admit-it\">The Ministry of Defence blacklisted Declassified &#8211; but won&#8217;t admit it<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>by Mark Curtis<\/p>\n<p><strong>The UK prime minister operates a patronage system<\/strong>\u00a0as brazen as in any country, often appointing party donors or confidantes to key public positions and,\u00a0<strong>as we now see under Covid-19, handing out commercial contracts to companies\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v42\/n21\/peter-geoghegan\/cronyism-and-clientelism\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v42\/n21\/peter-geoghegan\/cronyism-and-clientelism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>connected<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0to government insiders.<\/strong>\u00a0This is all reinforced by a revolving door of personnel moving between government and large arms or energy corporations which influence and sometimes determine policy-making.<\/p>\n<p>Most shocking perhaps is that\u00a0<strong>British ministers cannot even be made accountable under the law for contributing to deaths, whether at home under Covid-19 or for their complicity in the terrible British war in Yemen.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They are protected by a medieval concept of\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<\/strong><a title=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-05-02-british-government-ministers-have-been-complicit-in-millions-of-deaths-since-1945-so-dont-be-surprised-that-they-wont-face-justice-over-coronavirus\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-05-02-british-government-ministers-have-been-complicit-in-millions-of-deaths-since-1945-so-dont-be-surprised-that-they-wont-face-justice-over-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Crown immunity<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>which deems that ministers cannot commit a legal wrong and do not act as persons, but as agents steeped with Crown authority,\u00a0<em>and are therefore untouchable under the law.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sott.net\/article\/445704-The-Ministry-of-Defence-blacklisted-Declassified-but-wont-admit-it\">https:\/\/www.sott.net\/article\/445704-The-Ministry-of-Defence-blacklisted-Declassified-but-wont-admit-it<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from an article titled: The Ministry of Defence blacklisted Declassified &#8211; but won&#8217;t admit it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}