22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY
His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.
He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.
He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.
In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.
Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.
That one conversation destroyed his life.
The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.
His wife said he came home a broken man.
On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.
His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.
Here is where it gets worse.
Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.
The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,
Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.
Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.
Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.
The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.
There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.
The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.
Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.
Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.
Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.
Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.
This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.
Sources: @BBCNews@guardian@thetimes@PrivateEyeNews
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“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
It beggars belief that we’re back here again despite all the evidence. If we care about vulnerable people and if we care about being evidence led, we will reject this outright at 2nd reading, put an end to this nonsense and fix palliative care instead.
@krassenstein Without their courage to record what was happening and to come forward and attest to what they saw, we would’ve never known that Alex was executed.
Don’t let ICE intimidate you from recording. That’s what they want.
Stella Carlson and Kayla Schultz are heros.
Period.
BREAKING: Kayla Schultz, the woman who got the closest video of Alex Pretti’s killing from her car, speaks out for the first time.
She says she will not be intimidated because that’s exactly what ICE wants from all of us. The moment you show you ARE intimidated is the moment they attack.
Source @CNN
The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.
#Greenland ALERT: Multiple news sources in DC and Alaska are reporting the 11th Airborne Brigade has alerted two battalions, 1,500 troops, to be ready to move to "Minnesota." This is a really bad attempt at Strategic Deception.
I warned several times this year that alerting this specific unit for deployment is a High confidence, UNAMBIGUOUS indicator of a Greenland invasion.
This also means SOF units are very likely quietly training and mobilizing for the mission to seize Greenland by force.
Hang on. Let's see if exposure makes Trump back down.
Urgent: how to help save a young protester’s life.
I cannot believe how many years we’ve had to recycle this dystopian practice. God, when will it end? #ErfanSoltani
🚨 BREAKING: Robin Kelly just announced she is moving to impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
“Secretary Noem has violated the Constitution and must be held accountable for terrorizing our communities.”
This is what accountability looks like.
AU legal case update - we are sending a dossier to the GMC's own regulator
We have lost the first stage of the appeal in our legal case against the GMC over Physician Assistants and Anaesthesia Assistants (PAs and AAs).
The next legal step would be to go to the Court of Appeal, but we cannot afford to do this - even with our lawyers acting pro bono.
But we do have one last chance; going to the body that oversees and regulates the GMC itself - the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA). We plan to ask the PSA whether the GMCs approach to regulating PAs is fit for purpose.
During the court hearing we uncovered the GMC’s shambolic decision-making, and we revealed that the risks to patients, doctors and associates were never even assessed by the GMC. We need reassurance that these decisions were not simply taken by CEO Massey and handed down by him as a diktat to all his staff.
The evidence that came out in court was that the GMC was very aware of the risks posed by PAs, and had the legal power to set Scope if it so wished; but that it wilfully decided not to. Our dossier will repurpose a huge amount of very useful evidence on how this happened.
Our lawyers worked incredibly hard on our original case but in the end we did not crowdfund enough money to meet their fees. Asking them to do this additional work will need more cash. We are keeping our Crowdjustice open and hope we can raise enough to see this through. We do not yet know the exact costs involved.
Full statement - https://t.co/9QGCTCjav0
To every sub postmaster, every family member, every person still navigating the long shadow of the Post Office scandal: I wish you a Merry Christmas - one grounded in peace, strength and the knowledge that your fight has reshaped the national conscience. https://t.co/YAQqEma03j
I want to say something many will hate but it needs to be said. I have met Nigel Farage. I do not know him well but I know the world he moves in. We move in similar circles sometimes. The kind of private rooms and members clubs that most people in Britain will never see. I know how the rich speak about ordinary people. They laugh. They joke about how easy it is to wind you up. They know exactly which buttons to press. They know you are angry and tired and struggling and they know you want someone to blame. That is why they point at boats while they pick your pockets.
I did not grow up rich. I did not grow up in privilege. I understand struggle and the real world. But my life changed and now I see both sides. I sit with billionaires and politicians and decision makers and I hear conversations you never will. I know the truth. They do not care about you. They do not care about your future. They care about profit and control. They see ordinary people as tools or distractions. I am telling you this because I am tired of watching good people being manipulated.
Look at your life before Brexit and look at it now. Look at your shopping bills. Look at what food costs in Europe right now. Look at how much tax you pay on imports. Look at your wages and energy prices and mortgages. Look at the 10,000 NHS staff we lost when freedom of movement ended. Look at the ambulances that do not arrive. Look at nurses and teachers using food banks. Tell me honestly. Are you better off?
Nigel helped build the crisis you are living in. Then he pointed at immigrants and told you to blame them. That is the con. He pulled the UK out of the Dublin III agreement which means we cannot return asylum seekers to Europe anymore. He created the boat chaos then told you to panic about it. Someone who worked in immigration for more than ten years told me they saw it coming. It was planned. It is a strategy. And you are falling for it.
Now he wants austerity again. He wants to cut wages for young people. He wants to rip up workers rights. He wants private health insurance and a French style NHS where the rich get treated first and the poor get nothing. He wants you fighting each other so you never see who is robbing you. If you vote for him you are voting to destroy your own life. Not mine. Yours.
None of this affects me personally. I drink champagne with the people who control the money. I will be fine no matter what. Reform will not hurt me. Reform will hurt you. It will hurt your children. Your parents. Your future. I am telling you because I care. If I did not care I would stay silent and watch you suffer.
You think I am your enemy because I make you uncomfortable. I am not. Your enemy is the one who lies to you and blames the vulnerable while he empties your pockets.
Reform will not save you. Reform will finish you.
Think. Before they take everything.
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