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Judge lashes US anti-terror laws [Donald Trump's sister]
Belfast Telegraph ^ | 4-14-2006 | Sean O'Driscoll

Posted on 04/14/2006 11:31:53 AM PDT by UlsterDavy

Judge lashes US anti-terror laws 'No choice' over deporting ex-INLA man to Britain

By Sean O'Driscoll 14 April 2006

A new Jersey federal judge has lambasted the US government's anti-terrorism policies while agreeing that she had "no choice" but to allow the deportation of a former INLA member and two of his children.

In a very strongly worded opinion, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a sister of billionaire mogul Donald Trump, said the words engraved under the Statue of Liberty in New York were now meaningless.

She said that Malachy McAllister's conviction for conspiracy to murder an RUC officer was part of an 800-year-old struggle by the Irish people against British oppression and that he could not possibly be considered a threat to US national security.

She appealed to the US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, to intervene. "I would implore the Attorney General to exercise his discretion and permit this deserving family to stay."

The judge said that the US should consider "the 800 years of history that led Malachy to fight with his people to remove British rule, and the persecution inflicted by that rule on Northern Ireland and on Malachy and his family."

She also said it was a shame on the US if the words engraved under the Statue of Liberty are now meaningless.

"I refuse to believe that 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . .' is now an empty entreaty. But if it is, shame on us."

Concurring with the three judge appeal court that the McAllister family should be deported under US anti-terrorism laws, she said that she had struggled to find a way to keep the family in the US.

"I concede. I cannot find a way to keep the McAllisters in this country, and I have surely tried ? Congress's definition of 'terrorist activity' sweeps in not only the big guy, but also the little guy who poses no risk to anyone. It sweeps in Malachy McAllister. Malachy's children, Sean and Nicola, are swept in, too," she said.

The ruling appears to end legal hopes for McAllister, who fled with his family to Canada and the US after loyalists fired 26 shots into his Belfast home in 1988.

However, his Belfast- born lawyer, Eamonn Dornan, said that New Jersey Congressman Steven Rothman will be introducing legislation into the House of Representatives specifically to halt the family's deportation.

In deciding the case, the three-judge court agreed that existing law did not allow the McAllister family to stay in the US but differed sharply on Mr McAllister's claim that his family would still be under threat if they returned to the UK.

Judge Jane Roth said that the McAllister family faced little danger of persecution in Northern Ireland. She said that the Board of Immigration Appeal were justified in ruling against the McAllisters, based on a US government report on Northern Ireland.

She noted that the report found that "Catholic nationalists, conservatives, and IRA supporters and former IRA members (even those who were convicted and sentenced for terrorist offenses) were able to freely go about their lives, hold prominent positions in business, government, education and other walks of life, and participate openly in the political process and hold public office."

Mr Dornan said that the decision was not unexpected, given the views expressed at a hearing of the appeal court last July.

He said a number of members of Congress hope to persuade the Attorney General not to proceed with the deportation.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ireland; nosurrender; terrorism; uk; ulster; wot
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1 posted on 04/14/2006 11:31:56 AM PDT by UlsterDavy
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To: UlsterDavy

"Shut up and judge"


2 posted on 04/14/2006 11:33:22 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: UlsterDavy

Nominated by Ronald Reagan.


3 posted on 04/14/2006 11:33:52 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: UlsterDavy
"Judge Maryanne Trump Barry...said the words engraved under the Statue of Liberty in New York were now meaningless."

"She said that Malachy McAllister's conviction for conspiracy to murder an RUC officer was..."

Pssssssst. The inscription says nothing about give me your thugs, murderers and terrorists. Judge...you're fired.

4 posted on 04/14/2006 11:34:44 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Ping


5 posted on 04/14/2006 11:35:48 AM PDT by fanfan (FR is the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world. Thanks Jim.)
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To: UlsterDavy

Roughly translated, she said, "I got family money, so I can talk from a high-falutin' position in life and lecture all you bobos".


6 posted on 04/14/2006 11:36:40 AM PDT by laconic
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To: UlsterDavy

How do people with absolutely no common sense ever get to be judges. OH, I know, they were lawyers first! That explains it.


7 posted on 04/14/2006 11:36:47 AM PDT by calex59 (No country can survive multiculturalism. Dual cultures don't mix, history has taught us that!)
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To: CWOJackson

You're exactly right, but sadly she won't be cashiered.


8 posted on 04/14/2006 11:37:08 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Illegal Immigration: What hope is there, when El Presidente' Bush is leading the insurrection.)
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To: UlsterDavy

Surprised.

She gave positively glowing testimony for Justice Alito during his confirmation hearings.


9 posted on 04/14/2006 11:38:18 AM PDT by Republican Red ("How good is it? Al-Jazeera gave it 4 1/2 pipe bombs")
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To: UlsterDavy
She seems to harbor some resentment againts the Brits!
10 posted on 04/14/2006 11:44:42 AM PDT by dodger
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To: CWOJackson
"Judge Maryanne Trump Barry...said the words engraved under the Statue of Liberty in New York were now meaningless."

"She said that Malachy McAllister's conviction for conspiracy to murder an RUC officer was..."

The judge wants to make the law against murder meaningless.

11 posted on 04/14/2006 11:45:34 AM PDT by DejaJude (Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
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To: dodger

For real...

So to the judge, violence against the democratic wishes of the Ulster people isn't terrorism.


12 posted on 04/14/2006 11:53:54 AM PDT by UlsterDavy (http://www.newvotersalliance.com)
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To: Republican Red

She sure did. Very articulate. Sounded like an intelligent lady. If I understand her argument here correctly, we are supposed to sympathize with the ongoing struggles between peoples in their own land even though they have decided to come to the US? And our laws shouldn't have precedence over their historical enmities?

Well, to give her credit, she did decide to return this family even though she didn't want to.


13 posted on 04/14/2006 11:56:55 AM PDT by twigs
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To: fanfan; UlsterDavy; Happygal; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; ...
Judge lashes US anti-terror laws 'No choice' over deporting ex-INLA man to Britain

So... she didn't want a terrorist to stand trial?

14 posted on 04/14/2006 12:21:30 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~| IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
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To: UlsterDavy

Understand that she's just a woman. Linear thinking is not their forte.


15 posted on 04/14/2006 12:21:30 PM PDT by Skylab
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To: UlsterDavy

INLA___now that's an acronym I haven't heard in a while. I guess there are still remnants of them around. They also had a political wing IRSP---pretty much Marxist. From what I know the INLA pretty much fell apart after the Hunger Strike. I didn't know the Donald sister was a judge.


16 posted on 04/14/2006 12:25:43 PM PDT by brooklyn dave (Imagine them singing "What a friend we have in Jesus" in Mecca)
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To: CWOJackson
What a stupid b___ch. I was in NI when those aholes blew up a building where boy and girl scouts were assembling for a poppy day parade.

Those dirty murderers should all be strung up.
17 posted on 04/14/2006 12:28:07 PM PDT by MiHeat
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To: MiHeat

Agreed. The judge is positively hydrophobic -- foaming at the mouth -- and lacking all sense.


18 posted on 04/14/2006 12:32:37 PM PDT by docbnj
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To: docbnj

I'm beginning to think 2/3 of the judges in this country are clueless and a disgrace.


19 posted on 04/14/2006 1:00:49 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: MiHeat; potlatch

20 posted on 04/14/2006 2:29:59 PM PDT by devolve ((----Kimberly Guilfoyle - bicoastal or another thespian?))
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