MP may be tried as traitor (Galloway)

The Observer (U.K.) ^ | 04/27/03 | Antony Barnett and Martin Bright

[gulfcoast6]

I think ole Galloway is in a heap of trouble.

[GailA]

MASTER LIST Useless Nation's Oil for Food scam + galloway

[DianaN]

The liberals would love for sedition, treachery and treason to be added to the free speech right.
Absurd on it's face.

[cake_crumb]

'I hope to have chiselled on my gravestone: "He incited them to disaffect."'

-- George Galloway, husband of PLO terrorist leader Yasser Arafat's neice.

I'd like to know a LOT more about Galloways little side trips to buy equipment for al Qaeda, probably with Iraqi money.

[cake_crumb]

"The Brits have much stricter laws on these matters than we do. I should think there might be some chance of convicting Galloway, especially since it appears that he was paid by the enemy to make these kinds of statements."

That seems like it would fall under treason, rather than plain old sedition.

[Grampa Dave]

Hanging is too good.

Have him drawn and quartered by 4 horses with same pulling power.

Before that happens, have the horses drag him around Parliament several times with signs on their backs stating, "Traitors, take notice, this could be you!"

[kabar]

Forget treachery. It will be difficult to prove given the fact that there were plenty of other MPs spouting anti-war sentiments. The authorities should pursue tax evasion--just like the Feds did against Al Capone. Did Galloway include these funds in his tax returns? They need to follow the money.

[dighton]

"Galloway Enumerating his Iraqi Receipts"

[texasbluebell]

A couple of the many shocking things that turn up on this man. Galloway deserves some sort of award for stupidity, along with our own McDermott and Bonior, and--oh, I guess I could go on for a while. (Italics and underlining are added by me for emphasis below.)

link to article in the UK Telegraph

We don't know why Britain has turned against us, dictator tells MP By Benedict Brogan, Political Correspondent (Filed: 12/08/2002)

Saddam Hussein evoked the spirit of Winston Churchill yesterday when he vowed that his country would "never surrender" if America and Britain launched an attack against his regime.

In an interview in which he admitted a fondness for Quality Street chocolates and double-decker buses, the Iraqi dictator called on Tony Blair to help Britain recover its status in the Arab world by ignoring America.

His defiant message came in a conversation with the Labour MP George Galloway, who joined him for tea in Baghdad after a cloak-and-dagger drive through the city...

Since the Gulf war, Mr Galloway has been consistent and persistent in his condemnation of American and British air raids on Baghdad and elsewhere [now we know why though--$$$$$$$].

After the September 11 terrorist attacks on America, he angered many by writing that in some parts of the world "people will consider the US to have had to swallow its own medicine".

He was one of the first MPs publicly to shake hands with Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, in the 1980s. Over the years Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat have basked in his flattery.

Mr Galloway - nicknamed Gorgeous George because of his colourful love-life - was instrumental in twinning the city of Dundee, where he was born and raised, with the West Bank town of Nablus, which led to the Palestine Liberation Organisation's flag flying from Dundee's city chambers.

link to article in Frontpage

George Galloway, the MP who greeted Saddam in 1994 with the words "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability," also has an ambiguous relationship with Stalinism. He describes Fidel Castro as "Cuba's liberator" and as "cool not cruel." He was asked by an interviewer last year if he would describe himself as part of the "Stalinist left", and he replied, "I wouldn't define it that way because of the pejoratives loaded around it; that would be making a rod for our own back. If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did . . . The disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life."

[AnAmericanMother]

"The more mischief, the better sport!"

His son makes an appearance in Stevenson's David Balfour (he doesn't give a good impression) but I always had a soft spot for the old plotter. At least he died like a gentleman.

[timestax]

A little more digging might uncover espionage. Wouldn't that be exciting?! 38 posted on 04/27/2003 4:29 AM PDT by battlegearboat (Not a paddlewheeler) [ Post Reply

Yeah BUDDY !!

[ladyinred]

Now isn't that interesting.

It most certainly is.

[Cindy]

re post no.49...

Well, I guess you can say at the very least that Mr. Galloway is a very consistent man when it comes to who he supports and who he is against. Very interesting.

[Cindy]

re post no. 30...

Hmmmm... That's very interesting too, Piasa.

[nopardons]

BTT

[No Dems 2004]

This man was very wrong to instruct British soldiers to disobey orders. That rises to the level of encouraging desertion, which is the same as treason.

[Cindy]

MEDIA RESEARCH.org: "British MP Who ABC's Sawyer Commended
Was on Hussein's Payroll" (April 29, 2003)
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030429.asp#1

ARTICLE SNIPPET:
"A pre-war flashback: Diane Sawyer's trusted guidepost to European disgust with President Bush, it turns out, was on Saddam Hussein's payroll to the tune of $3 million a year. As recounted in the February 28 CyberAlert, on Good Morning America Sawyer showcased Labor Member of Parliament George Galloway's swipe at how “this born again, right-wing, Bible-belting, fundamentalist, Republican administration in the United States wants war,” a screeching she called “a wake-up call for me.” She contended that such widespread disgust with President Bush and America “really raises the question about what it means to override the United Nations if we don't get those nine votes...in order to pass the second resolution.”

     Now we know, thanks to London's Daily Telegraph, that papers found at Iraq's Foreign Ministry document payments to Galloway."

[Cindy]

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding an article entitled "SADDAM'S CASH" published in the May 5, 2003 Edition of THE WEEKLY STANDARD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900792/posts

[Cindy]

DAILY TIMES.com.pk - A New Voice For A New Pakistan: "GEORGE GALLOWAY IS A CROOK -- HOW CONVENIENT" by Scott Ritter (April 26, 2003)
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_26-4-2003_pg4_10