Gerry Conlons Most Powerful Speech! — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:00Giuseppe come
3. 0:03came to bring some
4. 0:10see justice done
5. 0:13[Music]
6. 0:15was put in command
7. 0:18justice ball
8. 0:22- man
9. 0:25I was kidnapped from my bed by soldiers
10. 0:30with grease pit on their faces dragged
11. 0:34from my bed honk often taken to the
12. 0:37police station and tortured
13. 0:39I was then hooted and Hong Kong and
14. 0:44flown till a foreign country England and
15. 0:47tortured again and in a period of seven
16. 0:51days the British government and I don't
17. 0:56say the British police I say the British
18. 0:58government Roy Jenkins in particular
19. 1:02Merlyn races well one of those two
20. 1:07signed a form that give immunity to the
21. 1:11police who were allowed to torture us
22. 1:14and I mean torture to be held naked to
23. 1:20have officers and dog sat upon to be
24. 1:23taken out naked to country lands who did
25. 1:27honk off the hook taken off and told the
26. 1:31open your mouth and when you want to
27. 1:33shoot my head they have me in the head
28. 1:35with a revolver and I was oh in this
29. 1:37stuff they caught him I must pulled the
30. 1:39hammer back recalled the Circa this is
31. 1:42what they did this is what they were
32. 1:44allowed to do this is why no policeman
33. 1:47has ever been convicted of not just for
34. 1:51him in the Guildford for the Maguire 7
35. 1:53in the Birmingham six but any in
36. 1:55innocent prisoner and then we were taken
37. 1:59before a judge and there come was
38. 2:03already decided the only thing that was
39. 2:07and the balance was the length of time
40. 2:09we would get and Donaldson on the 22nd
41. 2:13of October 1975 when we were found
42. 2:17guilty of a crime we didn't commit said
43. 2:20that he wanted to know from the Home
44. 2:22Secretary when the proper legislation
45. 2:25was no longer on the statute program why
46. 2:29hanging wasn't available as the sentence
47. 2:31telling me and he looked at us myself
48. 2:35Carl Richardson who's my dad by the way
49. 2:39Carl died last year 55 years of age
50. 2:45several breakdowns in prison being
51. 2:48administrative man altering drugs Tim I
52. 2:53tell her what she didn't understand
53. 2:57confused went to live with her lawyer I
54. 3:00was there Logan I went to live where
55. 3:02Gareth and she went into Guildford one
56. 3:05day and the people he killed for came up
57. 3:07to her and expressed their sorrow and
58. 3:09Harland pian of what had happened to her
59. 3:11and she couldn't take it and she went
60. 3:14back and she decided she didn't want to
61. 3:15be recognized again so she had herself
62. 3:18the 22 Stoney and we still taken
63. 3:22psychotic drugs from the legacy of the
64. 3:26horror she went through at prison and in
65. 3:27my head I still hear Carol screams on
66. 3:32the 22nd of October when they dragged
67. 3:34her down the stairs and could hear her
68. 3:36feet being dragged along the corridor by
69. 3:39meal screws and the whimpering over and
70. 3:42the hounds over and then the doors open
71. 3:44and I'm going in and administer it me an
72. 3:47injection tell her to calm her down Carl
73. 3:50was never the same constant people real
74. 4:01willing to jail on the back of what they
75. 4:04were allowed to do the innocent Irish
76. 4:05people and they wanted her homies
77. 4:12what I knew I always knew I was going to
78. 4:15get released because I shouldn't have
79. 4:16been normal I didn't deserve to be there
80. 4:19I've done nothing except the Irish and
81. 4:24when they released me my father's woods
82. 4:26were burning into my brain the last time
83. 4:29I see my father alive was Friday the
84. 4:3218th of January 1980 and taken up to the
85. 4:36room he was in and it was full of people
86. 4:40in suits the corridor was full of people
87. 4:44policemen in uniform with guns and I'm
88. 4:49reaching out to hold my heart and trying
89. 4:52to pull the outrage of my selfishness
90. 4:54what I'm saying to me I'm dying you're
91. 4:58never going to see me again but don't be
92. 5:01worrying my death going to be the key
93. 5:04that opens the door to yourself that
94. 5:06gets you out and when you get out you go
95. 5:10out the front door cuz you remember they
96. 5:11put his in the back door and that's what
97. 5:15I did I went on burning him my brim was
98. 5:18putty help who lived in the cell across
99. 5:22from me and Godfrey for the last two
100. 5:25years of my sentence
101. 5:26puddy used to do marquetry and every
102. 5:29night it would be sanded and furnishing
103. 5:32an elephant wondered was he doing the
104. 5:35sodden and varnishing to cover the tears
105. 5:38and the whimper of missing his family
106. 5:44when patty came out from we fought for
107. 5:48other innocent paper because innocent
108. 5:51people fought for us
109. 5:53Polly set up mojo the miscarriage of
110. 5:57justice organization and he set it up
111. 6:00out of his own compensation because we
112. 6:02haven't let this go
113. 6:04because we haven't had justice Tony
114. 6:07Blair apologized in 2005 but then he may
115. 6:10not know it was election year and it was
116. 6:13to get all his votes in England that's
117. 6:15what it was about but we met Murray
118. 6:20Eagles who was the Under Secretary Jack
119. 6:22Straw at the Ministry of Justice and she
120. 6:25came out of the side door and she went
121. 6:28over the main party and she started
122. 6:29crying and she said I've been in the
123. 6:31back room reading your facts
124. 6:33you were not a miscarriage of justice
125. 6:35use was something else we always knew we
126. 6:40were something else this wasn't a
127. 6:42mistake this was deliberate policy by
128. 6:45the British government in order to stop
129. 6:48a murderous campaign in England by the
130. 6:50IRA and 1994 Barbara Mills the Director
131. 6:58of Public Prosecutions ordered the
132. 7:00government to put a 75 year public
133. 7:04Community Interest order on Arceus the
134. 7:06Official Secrets Act the only criminal
135. 7:09cases in British history why to protect
136. 7:13the people who made their names on it
137. 7:15and let me tell you who they are
138. 7:17Michael here versus who prosecuted us
139. 7:20who withheld evidence fattier Mirim
140. 7:23Attorney General and then Lord
141. 7:26Chancellor M word the policeman who is
142. 7:30the negotiator between the Balkan street
143. 7:32and the Special Branch he was a
144. 7:35run-of-the-mill Detective Sergeant
145. 7:38he organized the perjury they made him
146. 7:43head of the Metropolitan Police fetcher
147. 7:47netted him and blur minima Lord and when
148. 7:50he was Middle Lord plurals who offered
149. 7:53Kenneth Pierce and away for her services
150. 7:56to justice and we kind of heard that
151. 7:58input is happening and investiture at
152. 8:01the same time she turned it on but I'll
153. 8:04tell you what I wish they had appended
154. 8:07Julian Assange and Edward Snowden a
155. 8:11Bradley money in Iran when we were in
156. 8:14jail that can't on earth the paper said
157. 8:18the government are holding and refusing
158. 8:21to let the public say I wish there was a
159. 8:24broadly money in Iran Dan Rodney Mullins
160. 8:27kept the contract between the people and
161. 8:28himself because this is people elect
162. 8:31politicians to go in the park on our
163. 8:36behalf dan rich our lands to keep his
164. 8:38safer and to give us better economic
165. 8:40conditions we don't elect them to get
166. 8:43into bed they're all companies we don't
167. 8:46get in the bed with Alexis Chile's
168. 8:48Halliburton and all the rest and we
169. 8:51don't get them to pay like the bankers
170. 8:53we needed a property money here when the
171. 8:56Anglo Irish Bank was collapsing and
172. 8:58people were being taxed to death and
173. 9:00having to take your mother that's what
174. 9:03we needed
175. 9:04[Applause]
176. 9:09anybody ask yourself are we richer and
177. 9:13wiser because of what Bradley Manning
178. 9:15did get back there are we are and are we
179. 9:18more informed about making choices when
180. 9:20the next election comes up us did the
181. 9:23dirty deeds that are done dirt cheap by
182. 9:26politicians and bankers and oil
183. 9:28companies I would think we are but what
184. 9:31Bradley Manning did was exposed the
185. 9:35horror of what governments expect their
186. 9:39children their sons and daughters to do
187. 9:42on their behalf the pre-tax of going to
188. 9:47war deliberate people who the OASDI the
189. 9:54enemy and the enemy is neither yahwah we
190. 9:58all need
191. 10:01to be a word of what is being done and
192. 10:04on him because it's not my name there
193. 10:07Turnitin I didn't vote for a politician
194. 10:11to take me to war or to take my country
195. 10:15to war or to send young men and women to
196. 10:18war to be blown up and shot some of them
197. 10:23coming back without limbs some of them
198. 10:26coming back so traumatized that they
199. 10:28become outside of society that's not
200. 10:32what you get politicians in the par four
201. 10:34we have to stand up and say tell them
202. 10:38you represent us not big business not
203. 10:43funny Mac not mortgage companies not
204. 10:47JPMorgan not
205. 10:48sheis America we need to do enrich our
206. 10:54lives not destroy our lives at times
207. 10:57like this people are sitting in selves
208. 11:02across the world and they can't hear our
209. 11:04voices
210. 11:06but if we talked about it and debated
211. 11:10and encouraged others to become part of
212. 11:13it they will hear our voice and not only
213. 11:17will they hear our voice but the
214. 11:19politicians will hear our voice it was
215. 11:22people part that got the Guilford for
216. 11:25the Birmingham sex out of jail and it's
217. 11:28been people ply that's got everybody out
218. 11:30so did you
219. 11:33politicians are there to represent us
220. 11:36not to talk down to us because if they
221. 11:39talk down to us we have the choice and
222. 11:41never they elect them again
223. 11:43we need them to fulfill the contract
224. 11:45that they make with us we need to hold
225. 11:49them to that contract and I just like to
226. 11:53say I could have been hungry for
227. 11:57something I didn't do
228. 11:59and thank God the capital punishment is
229. 12:03no longer in existence in
230. 12:17[Music]
231. 12:18from this lab that makes Adam
232. 12:25know that
233. 12:29[Music]
234. 12:29[Applause]
235. 12:32the
236. 12:34it's a big number
237. 12:39[Music]
238. 12:42[Applause]
239. 12:56you