Wrong on so many levels

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Eighteen policemen were sent to arrest a Northern Ireland veteran Dennis Hutchings. He was then subjected to 26 aggressive interrogations of around 45 minutes each over an 80 hour period.

This is a man who has already been investigated twice and cleared twice over the same incident in which a fleeing terrorist suspect who turned out to be entirely innocent was shot dead.  

There is a throwaway expression 'That is wrong on so many levels'. Here's a case where it is exactly right. Sending 18 policemen to arrest Dennis Hutchings and ransack his house was wrong on so many levels. 

An incomplete summary.

1) Dennis Hutchings was a 74-year-old man when this raid happened in 2015.

2) The former Regimental Corporal Major in the Life Guards was suffering from a heart condition.

3) He had already been investigated twice, and cleared twice, over the same incident which happened 44 years ago.

4) There is no forensic evidence in the case and the patrol’s weapons are no longer available to examine.

5) All defence witnesses are dead.

6) There is no new evidence.

7) This is an obscene waste of police resources at a time when we are told that they are so pressed.

8) Dennis Hutchings served his country for 26 years. In Northern Ireland that service meant squalid living conditions, a dreary thankless job, and the constant danger of violent death.

9) This persecution is being done solely to please terrorists and terrorist sympathisers.
             
10) The terrorist murderers of Northern Ireland were given 'Letters of Comfort' by Tony Blair assuring them of immunity from prosecution.


How can something so wrong on so many levels happen?

The reasons are squalid:

The government wants to appease Sinn Fein.

Dennis Hutchings is an ideal scapegoat because the governing class despise the British Army and more particularly the working class from which its ranks are filled.

The implications are worse:

To send an army of policemen to arrest a frail old man who has served his country and already answered for his actions twice shows a moral degeneracy in our rulers which is as frightening as it is disgusting. 

This is wrong on so many levels, because Britain has gone wrong on so many levels.



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