Thursday 31 July 2008

Tony Leamon - Cornish Patriotic Activist - free !

I was joyous to receive the following news from Kernow:

I've received two emails within the past five minutes informing me that the Colonial Occupation forces in Cornwall have just visited Tony Leamon to tell him that he does not have to answer his bail tomorrow as planned.All charges against Tony Leamon have been DROPPED!!!After eleven months of hell he is now a free man!

Every now and again a victory comes to someone who deserves it.Many thanks to everyone who wrote letters and made telephone calls over the past 11 months.It appears to have paid off!

All the Best,Charles McLaughlin
Albuquerque, NM, USA

and

Please note that Tony Leamon was, this night, informed personally by his investigating officer, that he was released without charge!!!Eleven months later, and having confiscated his flags, his computer and John A. books, been interviewed three times and had two cancelled at the eleventh hour, he's been told he's done nothing wrong.He knew that; we knew that, but hey, what's an armed squad, 20 hours of police interviews and 11 months of hell, between friends...He's at home shaking and crying, of relief and happiness, and will, in time, thank you all for the tremendous and on-going support you have shown.A great victory for justice and for Cornwall.

Iwan

Tony, our Celtic Comrade, we are pleased to have helped you insome small way. Now do us all a favour and sue the Colonial Police and the Press !!!

Monday 14 July 2008

Latest outrage committed by the English Colonialists

This latest outrage will come as no surprise to many of us here: Well done Celtic League and yes, the English need a thorough investigation of their colonial abuse of occupied nations down the years.

BRITISH ARMY MORE ABUSE ALLEGATIONS

Just hours after the Celtic League added its voice to criticisms bythe Manx Nationalist Party of the policy of allowing military recruitment in Isle of Man schools more examples of the despicable behaviour of British Forces in Iraq have been highlighted
It has been alleged that British soldiers forced a boy of 14 to carry out an act of oral sex on a fellow male prisoner in Iraq.
The shocking new allegations are to be investigated by the Royal Military Police (RMP). Should the allegations be proven, it would mark a new sordid low in the behaviour of British troops in Iraq, and is sure to further tarnish the reputation of the United Kingdom in the Middle East.
Speaking about the victim at the centre of the latest allegation Phil Shiner (a solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers who is acting in several cases) said:
"Hassan, 14, was forced to give a man oral sex and maintain a prolonged simulated sex position. The watching soldiers laughed out loud. The MoD wants us to believe these were isolated incidents in Iraq andthat the "few bad apples" thesis prevails. But has there been systematic abuse by the British during its occupation of Iraq?"
Sir Jock Stirrup, the Chief of Defence Staff, speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show was keen to stress that the latest abuse allegations would be subject to proper police investigations. However, an investigation of these matters by the Royal Military Police in these circumstances could not be claimed to be objective and it is past time that there was independent International scrutiny of the appalling abuses perpetrated by British and other coalition forces in Iraq.

Wednesday 2 July 2008

Cornish Celt Tony Leamon - We don't believe it !!

We have just picked this piece of news up from across on this blog which follows the shennanigans of the Keystone Kops alias the Devon @ Colonial Cornwall Constabulary:

http://cornwall-police-watch.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Tony Leamon’s bail delayed again!
Tony must surely be at the end of his tether.

In an email to CPW, Tony Leamon said:“I was to have answered my bail today at 3 pm. At 11am this morning I had DC 196 Hampson on my door at 11am delaying the interview until the 31st July.
I AM sitting here shaking like a jelly.
Surely this delaying tactic is against the law!
My solicitor rang up yesterday to confirm the date-which they did.
So I got everything prepared. Now I am delayed to the 3st July at 3 pm.
This is the second time they have cancelled my hearing at the last moment. I am sure such delaying and shock inducing tactics are illegal somewhere, but clearly not in Cornwall.
It will be over 10 months since I was arrested, and I still haven’t been charged.
Arrested, yes. But not charged. I have been interviewed for over 18 hours, have had my computer, mobile phones, paperwork, flags, and John Angarrk books seized, ad still no charge.
I asked DC Hampson why he couldn’t get things organised.
He said it was “out of his hands”.
I asked if that was so, could I be seen by the person in whose hands it was.
Again, he said, it was out of his hands.
The term monkey and organ grinder come to mind.Speak to all later. Please keep emailing the West Briton, and ringing the police station.”

The journalist allegedly dealing with the story is to be found at: gharris@c-dm.co.uk
or her boss at: andy.cooper@c-dm.co.uk

CPW condemn the treatment that Devon and Cornwall police is meting out to Tony, whose only crime is to campaign for what he believes in.

We at the Celtic Warrior also fully condemn the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary aka the English Colonial Police in Cornwall for causing a life of pure misery on poor Tony Leamon. May they rot in hell particularly when on the same day, the plods release this story:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7485869.stm

Wednesday, 2 July 2008


Disciplinary panel for force boss

A senior manager at Devon and Cornwall Police is to face a disciplinary panel after an inquiry into the force's job evaluation exercise in 2005.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Colin Papworth, interim director of finance and resources, would face its panel.
The force said he had been suspended, but declined to comment any further.
The job evaluation which led to a review of salary scales led to staff protests outside police headquarters.
Chief Constable Maria Wallis, who was also under IPCC investigation for her role in the evaluation, quit in 2006.
No action was taken against her as a result of the inquiry.
Paid fairly
The force backed down over the review which Mrs Wallis authorised and which proposed cutting hundreds of civilian workers' salaries by thousands of pounds.
The force said the pay review had been designed to ensure staff were paid fairly.
The IPCC said a full report into Mr Papworth's disciplinary hearing would be published once proceedings had finished.
A Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman said: "In line with the police authority's human resources policy this decision has led to his suspension, with immediate effect.
"We are unable to comment further on this issue until any disciplinary action is concluded."

What is going on with this joke for a fucking police police force ?

Any answers, suggestions, comments please to us at the Celtic Warrior:

thecelticwarrior@googlemail.com

Tuesday 1 July 2008

A Method of Contact with the Celtic Warrior.

Of course, except for a few, I never know how many people are reading this web blog. I expect of those that are, a lot are horrified. Well, tough ! For those of you who are Celts and believe in fighting back, I am releasing the following email address:

thecelticwarrior@googlemail.com

By registering your own specific or even one off email addresses, you can send me news, views, comments, pictures of English or French flags burning etc etc and I'll be happy to publish them provided they fall within the general remit if battling the Imperialist Colonialist Forces. I won't respond but the publication on the blog will be proof that I have received your message and hopefully photograph. I expect a lot of grief but the delete button is easy and I enjoy a bit of Anglo whinging anyway and might even publish some. So there we are:


thecelticwarrior@googlemail.com

Look forward to hearing from you.

Sunday 29 June 2008

Latest regarding Tony Leamon - Kernow's answer to Michael Collins

RECEIVED TODAY:

Comrades - please support and spread this news which has just arrived in my 'in basket'. The media and press in Cornwall are weak and with a few exceptions made up of second rate journalists who are afraid of making waves with the authorities and which are police controlled. For too long the police have breached human rights in Cornwall and have walked free. Evidence of that to be found at:
http://cornwall-police-watch.blogspot.com/ and http://www.pinkpasty.blogspot.com/ (the fascist colonial police in Cornwall are taking action against Mr Lidbury by veiled threat to have him remove his website - the truth is too much for them you see) which points out that they are above the law, any law !

To the police to whom this e-mail is copied:

This material is forwarded to you and your must retain it and disclose it including its inserts and internet links under the terms and provisions of the Criminal Procedures and Investigations Act (CPIA).
It MUST be forwarded to the officer in case and recorded on the appropriate schedule (MG6 C) and disclosed both to the Crown Prosecution Service and to the lawyer representing Mr Tony Leamon who has been subject of an injustice at the hands of the fascist and government directed colonial police who cover Cornwall in a most corrupt manner.

Thanks, Tam Graham

Material received as follows:

CELTIC LEAGUE - PRESS INFORMATIONBAIL DATE FOR LEAGUE MAN ON TERRORISM CHARGE

Celtic League campaigner and Kernow branch treasurer Tony Leamon,will be appearing for at Camborne police station this Wednesday (2ndJuly 2008) to answer his bail, almost 10 months after he was first arrested on 6th September 2007 on suspicion of terrorism.

To give support to other victims of the British state's over enthusiasticuse of anti terrorist legislation, Mr Leamon has made a short video film of himself, for the Celtic League, to rely some of his feelings of having been on police bail for this extended period of time.

As will be seen from the video footage, Mr Leamon is in good spirits and has kept his sense of humour throughout, despite a very low period earlier this year when the pressure of the ordeal drove him to make a suicide attempt. The Celtic League has been campaigning on Mr Leamon's behalf sincehis arrest and the arrest of other members of the Cornish cultural and political movement at the same time. Mr Leamon, along with all of the other people arrested, were perplexed as to why the police had picked on them as part of the police investigation into the Cornish National Liberation Army/Cornish Republican Army.

Needless to sayMr Leamon and the other people arrested all maintained their innocence and denied ever having taken part in any criminal activity in the furtherance of their beliefs. With no or little evidence to go on,the police had to release the other arrestees from their bail andnow it is only Mr Leamon who has been kept hanging on.Mr Leamon has been due to answer his bail on 3 separate occasions(not including his arrest), but each time, after lengthy periods of questioning, his bail has only been extended further. Now Mr Leamon is hoping that Wednesday will be the fourth and final time he will have to visit Camborne police station on this matter. The Kernow Branch of the League are planning to hold a protest outside Camborne police station on the afternoon of the 2nd July and are requesting that all his supporters who are able to attend the protest to turn up at just before 1500. Those who are unable to attend the protest are encouraged to phone the Devon and Cornwall Police central number on 0044 (0) 8452 777444 (remember to include the 0 if phoning from the UK) and ask to be put through to Camborne police station, regarding Tony Leamon, not forgetting to state where you are calling from. Alternatively,emails can be sent to mailto:Police.Enquiries%40devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk with the same message of support. Supporters are requested to enquireafter Mr Leamon's welfare, who is registered disabled and has a debilitating disease. If Mr Leamon is bailed once again, he may have to forfeit attendance at the Celtic League's AGM - due to be held in Dublin on August 16th 2008 - in accordance with his bail restrictions. If this is the case or if Mr Leamon is charged, the League may hold a protest outsidethe British Embassy in Dublin on the weekend of the AGM. The Tony Leamon video link can be found below:http://rhisiart.talebot.googlepages.com/tl2

J B Moffatt
Director of Information
Celtic League
29/06/08

The Celtic League has branches in the six Celtic Countries.

It worksto promote cooperation between these countries and campaigns on abroad range of political, cultural and environmental matters. It highlightshuman rights abuse, monitors all military activity and focuses onsocio-economic issues.TEL (UK)01624 877918 MOBILE (UK)07624 491609Internet site at:

http://celticleague.net/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/

The old strange ways still go on in Celtic Cornwall

Will this spread to house burnings, people said so and I know it has it Wales recently, we attended a group burning at a remote location in the far west of Kernow (Cornwall) and on an ancient menhir site - a menhir being a standing stone. There were about 50 people there. Into my pocket I smuggled a dictaphone (small tape recorder) The items thrown onto the fire were a St George's Flag and a doll wrapped in the Union Flag - the hatred there was incredible and surprised even me. We were not allowed cameras. Some wore kilts, some jeans and combat jackets and the main man so to speak a long white robe - not blue like the bards and claimed he was a Druid much older than the Bards. The words I recorded were this (excuse spellings, dictaphones don't do that for you !):

Through the year’s circle of Samonios, Dumannios, Riuros, Anagantios, Ogronios, Cutios, Giamonios,
Simivisonios, Equos, Elembiuos, Edrinios and Cantlos, our Feasts of Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane,
Litha, Lamma, Maban and Samhain,
Celtic Archangel and Lord Protector Saint Michael look down upon us and our countries of Alba
and Saint Andrew, Mannin and Saint MaugholdMaughold, Cymru and Saint David, Eire and Saint Patrick,
Kernow and Saint Piran and Breizh and Santez Anna
Send the King of birds amongst us, the Chough which carries the spirit of the kings and in particular
Your High King, Arthur, to be returned as promised together with his knights, advised by the everlasting
Druids and descendants immortal of Merlin and in whose complete memory today we make this
Burnt sacrifice - then placed St George’s flag and doll wrapped in Union Flag describing it as a
Wiccan English image upon fire -as an offering calling upon you to bring death and destruction upon the
English and their children and their children’s children who are visited upon our islands like a
scummy plague. May they burn like these offerings.

All those present then cheered and a container of honeyed wine called mead was passed around. I was scared but impressed !

Saturday 28 June 2008

What can I do to help?

1. All the Celtic Countries are scattered with holiday cottages - some of the silly pricks advertise
on this blog - need we say any more ?

2. If you should see a car with an English sticker, flag, number plate converter on it damage it
- beware CCTV. Safer by night but if by day, key scratch it. Ruin the arrogant bastard's day
two tyres let down really ruins the arrogant bastard's day - after all, who carries two spares ?

3. Destroy any images of England on signboards using spray paint again best done by night -
don't forget, dispose of the can to avoid fingerprint evidence/DNA evidence and wear a mask
again destroy all materials used straight away

4. It is not illegal to publically burn the butcher's apron (Union Flag) or blood flag (George's
Cross) so why not do it and invite a few like minded friends. It is a very enjoyable experience.

5. a bit of night spraycanning with patriotic slogans is great - plenty of suggestions in the photos
on this blog but again watch for CCTV and fingerprints/DNA on cans

6. looking fot a squat - help youself to the adverts on this blog ! Gain entry without causing
damage. The property owners are English, they can afford it !

more ideas to follow my warriors

More ideas to follow

BASQUE REFRENDUM BILL APPROVED

BASQUE REFRENDUM BILL APPROVED

The Basque Government has voted in favour of a referendum bill introduced by Basque President Juan José Ibarretxe last month.

A majority of just one was enough to give the President the power to hold the first part of a referendum on 25th October 2008. The referendumwill ask two questions, the first of which will ask if people arein favour of a "negotiated solution' to the ETA 'conflict' if the armed group end its violence.

The second question, which will be put to a second referendum asks if all Basque political parties should work toward an agreement on what it calls the Basques 'right to decidetheir future'.The Bill was passed by 34 votes to 33, with 7 abstentions and one non attendance. The one vote deciding vote came from the Basque CommunistParty (Euskal Herrialdeetako Alderdi Komunista - EHAK). The EHAK decidedlast week to give their limited support to the bill, despite having been given the cold shoulder by Ibarretxe earlier on in the year when their party was looking at a possible ban by the Spanish state.
However, the referendum bill has not been without its critics. Insidethe Basque socialist/nationalist movement the bill has been criticized,among other things, for not going far enough, being too complicatedand only applying to the three out of the historical seven provinces the Basque Country - Biscay, Alava, and Gipuzkoa. Labourd, Lower Navarre,Soule (in the state of France) and Navarre (now an autonomous region in the state of Spain), will not be included in the referendum vote.The bill has also been heavily criticised by Basque socialist party(PSE-EE) and the Popular Party (PP). The PSE-EE has said repeatedlythat if the bill was passed by the Basque Government, they would seek a court order to prevent the referendum going ahead on the argument that the bill is unconstitutional. Ibarretxe has said in the past that he wants a future Basque country 'freely associated' with Spain,with its own separate legal system and European Union representation.In 2005 the Spanish Foreign Policy Minister said that this could not happen under an EU Constitution – perhaps one of the reasons why the Spanish Government are still so eager to push forward the Lisbon Treaty today, despite the Irish NO vote.President Juan José Ibarretxe's blog: http://www.ibarretxe.com/bitacora

BASQUE PEOPLE WE SAY UNITE AND GO FOR INDEPENDENCE ! BE BRAVE AS SCOTLAND WILL AGAINST THE BASTARD ENGLISH IN 2010 !

Blood drips from the English bastards hands

Blood drips from the English hands in Ireland; May the English bastards burn in hell !

CELTIC LEAGUE - PRESS INFORMATION

DUBLIN BOMBING SECRETS - JUST A COMPUTER CLICK AWAY FROM MARYFIELD SPY HQ

"The best possible responses to the tragedies of the past is to ensurethey can never happen again".
This comment was made in the Dail recently by An Taoiseach, BrianCowen, when responding to queries from Deputies about collusion bythe British government in atrocities such as the Dublin and Monaghanbombings.
The comment is contained as part of documentation provided by theOffice of the Taoiseach in reply to a query from the Celtic Leaguein May of this year. See link at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2631
Obviously, the Celtic League welcome the response from the Taoiseach'sOffice on this matter.
However, whilst the information supplied in relation to the Governmentsposition is comprehensive sadly it reinforces our view that the Irishgovernment wishes to continue a process of cover-up which has deniedjustice for so long to those who were killed and maimed and the relativeswho have campainged.
Perhaps what is most ironic about the current situation is that withinthe past twelve months the same British Intelligence Services, whose hands many believe are dripping with the blood of those murdered in Dublin and Monaghan, have commissioned a new facility in the Northof Ireland (at Maryfield, Holywood, Belfast.
Files critical to understanding the rationale behind the bombing atrocityand the identities of those in British Intellegence who helped perpetrate it are just a computer click away. But nobody in the Maryfield complex is talking and, more significantly, no one in the Taoiseachs Office is asking.
Related articles on Celtic News at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2267http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2181http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2122http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2104
J B Moffatt
Director of Information
Celtic League
28/06/08
The Celtic League has branches in the six Celtic Countries. It worksto promote cooperation between these countries and campaigns on abroad range of political, cultural and environmental matters. It highlightshuman rights abuse, monitors all military activity and focuses onsocio-economic issues.
TEL (UK)01624 877918 MOBILE (UK)07624 491609
Internet site at:
http://celticleague.nethttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/

Tuesday 24 June 2008

Mike Chappell well known Cornish Campaigner takes well deserved rest

Mike Chappell well known Cornish Campaigner takes well deserved rest
by ThomasGraham

On 12th June, 2008 and at the new Hospital de Torrevieja de Valencia and following a suicide attempt, former Cornwall/Kernow Celtic League Branch Secretary,Celtic Congress Member, Republican writer and poet and animal rights campaigner, Mike Chappell, 50 years,was diagnosed with severe post traumatic stress disorder arising from seeing persons burn to death and then the discovery of a multiple infant deaths coupled with ritualistic murders during his long and highly decorated police career.

This longstanding illness, previously untreated, has recently been complicated by divorce proceedings brought about by his commitment to the Cornish cause.

Death threats and abuse arising from that commitment and so on proved too much for his marriage to endure. One of Europe's finest Trauma specialists, Doctor C. RICHEZ who has a private clinic in Pedro Lorca, Torrevieja, Valencia has arranged for Mike who is heavily medicated, to spend time in a private clinic in La Manga, Murcia away from all contact with the outside world for the forseeable future.The La Manga Clinic has been used by celebrities such is its success rate.

Mike is being visited on a regular basis by his friend, Reverend Dr. Joel Gonzalez Garcia from Cuba, an outspoken Evangelist preacher who has come to respect and admire Mike's rigid Methodist views.

Mike is described as 'utterly devasatated at his wife's request for divorce' and says'no matter what any lawyer or court on earth says, she will always be my wife, recognised by God and our marriage can be put asunder by no man. My vow was before God the Almighty and when I make such a vow, it is until death. She makes her own decision here but the time will come when she will have to answer for her actions in Heaven before the Almighty as we all shall. I shall never crave another woman ever. She was, is and ever shall be my wife.That is the Cornish way. That is the Methodist way.'

Mike values loyalty above all things. He gives it absolutely and he expects it in return. He reads the bible nightly and will doubtless find a passage there which relates to it. Once breached, he rarely leaves a stone unturned to bring those who have been unloyal to book.
For that reason, he virtually worships 'Cornubia - Land of the Saints' by John Miller and a print of it decorates his Bible. Cornwall is such he says, ' a land of the saints and fit only for the Saints. All else will burn in the pit of damnation.'

Mike came to note as a Republican many years ago when as a young policeman, he clambered down a cliff to rescue a holiday maker who had fallen whilst trying to rescue an expensive pair of sunglasses. Breaking his own leg in the process but heaving the holiday maker over his shoulder and climbing back up the 120 feet, a subsequent operation required 14 steel pins to rebuild his smashed left leg. He was awarded a Royal Humane Society Award for Bravery and invited to Buckingham Palace to collect the award.

He accepted the invitation on the grounds of nosiness wishing to see how the other half lived and turned up casually dressed much to the horror of the Palace staff. The conversation ran thus:

Prince Phillip: You've come a long way today ?

Michael : From Cornwall. I doubt you've ever heard of it. It is a long way for a piece of paper and a slice of Lyons Swiss Roll (which he had on a bone china plate held in in hand)

Prince Phillip: How do you feel being in the presence of Royalty ?

Michael: How do you feel being in my presence? If I had my way you lot would be given a council house and made to work for your living.

Exit stage left Prince Phillip. Exit stage right Michael's promotion prospects!

Another amusing yarn occurred during the so called 'Loving Cup of St George' protest in Truro when Royal band wagon member, Bruno Peek who holds a list of Royal Orders and Decorations brought an icon of England's St George to Cornwall, a Celtic Nation, something he dare not do in Scotland or Wales. Faced up by Mike Chappell, Peek started to quote the Bible. This was not a wise move for Mike was brought up a primitive Wesleyan Methodist - Chapel three times a day on Sunday, no alcohol and bible lessons in the Temperence Hall during the week and who virtually knows the good book back to front and upside down as well. Needless to say, Peek looked decidedly peaky !

Mike wishes his friends, particularly those in the Celtic League around Britain his very best wishes and particularly Iwan le Moine, Tony Leamon - who faces severe problems of his own with quite incredible bravery and dignity - and Sue Bowen in Cornwall as well as John Angarrack, Rhisiart Tal-e-bot, Dr Alan Kent and others. He kneels at his bedside and prays every day and will certainly be praying for them all.

The British Consul in Alicante and the Chief of the local Guardia Civil have also been in touch with Mike to offer their best wishes as have former close colleagues from around the world including a former head of Special Branch. His outspokeness has made him many enemies but he has always had money for the needy and the hungry and for stray dogs. Strangely, his outspokeness has also made him many friends amongst what is broadly called 'the establishment'.

He assures those who depend on him for what have become known as his special 'red cross' or as he calls them 'white cross' (after Saint Piran of Cornwall to whom he also prays) parcels that these will continue and that the necessary arrangements have been made with his bank.

Response One :

**Mike - my special pal - I was the IRA man - you were the Copper BUT you never, ever condemned me or my beliefs just my killing ways. Now I write or should I say 'lap top' and we have become buddies. You always have a home here. I know you want for Kernow what I want for all 32 counties of Eire and that made us brothers. Get better slowly, comrade and then come to see me. We can talk about what makes your blue Celtic eyes sparkle and flame - politics !
In solidarity, Tom.**


Response Two:
Maireid Sullivan
at 02:55 on June 23rd, 2008 good stuff:
ThomasGraham, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Response Three:
ThomasGraham, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Response Four:
Thanks Maireid - I'll pass on your thoughts and prayers to Mike. His own Cornish seem to reject him but we shall make him an honorary Irishman and embrace him. He is a true Celt. Kind, tempramental, deep, moody, fun. He has worked hard to bring Irish PoW's home particularly Noel Maguire, he loves the 32CSM with a passion as he does his animals, and he is, or was, always good for an arguement and good craic.

Thursday 12 June 2008

Tony Leamon - Kernow/Cornwall's Michael Collins shows bravery in the face of the Imperial & Colonial Police

This just in from the Tony Leamon support group. A direct and very dignified message from Mr Leamon himself:

"My temperament is a lot better these day because I think the police are finally showing how weak their case is. I am almost looking forward to my next bail hearing on July 2nd.

Of course this is still affecting me and my family. My father,94, is still terrified of the police at the door. In my entire life I do not remember the police having to knock on our front door in anger.

My mother, who is slowly recovering from her bi lateral mastectomy, is keeping a brave face on all this, as all mothers do.

One thing that has given us all strength is the support I have received from complete strangers. Everything from people who recognise me in the street, to emails from other continents. Every time I type my name into Google, and see all the hits, my heat soars. Not just for me, but for all of the little people who fall foul of the state.

I answer my bail on Wednesday, July 2nd, at 3pm. I'm going to Camborne Police Station again. I have spoken to the West Briton, our local paper, and they hope to have a reporter present. I ask that anyone who can make it stands outside the police station, with a Cornish flag, Do so politely, and with the dignity we all have. If you cannot make it, give them a ring, stating it is non urgent, and then state you are enquiring about the progress of Mr Leamon's case.

Please do not use any aggression, or intimidation with them. They are only doing their job.

I thank all my friends, from all over the world who are giving me their support.

Kernow Bys Vyken - Cornwall forever !"

Thursday 5 June 2008

The whole world will know about the plight of Celtic Cornish campaigner, Tony Leamon, who has fallen foul of the Colonial Police in Kernow and dropped into a kind of 'Catch 22' situation. The whole world except Kernow itself, that is, where there is a press & media ban in place on the whole rotton affair.

Well there is now a 'You Tube' film let on the matter to be found at:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=OIvwoEV4gOo

Good Luck Tony Leamon. The world watches while the Colonial Police and their masters inflict misery. One day the press in Kernow will have the guts to reveal what is happening !

Tuesday 3 June 2008

US IRA Men Call For Legal Status

FREEDOM FOR ALL PRISONERS OF WAR WHETHER STILL SERVING OR IN THE US !

US IRA Men Call For Legal Status

http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irish-voice/news/Articles/us-ira-men290508.aspx
U.S. IRA Men Call for Legal Status

By Cahir O'Doherty
A GROUP of former IRA prisoners living in the U.S. haslaunched a campaign to secure their legal status here.

The organization, Thar Saile (Irish for "overseas"), is made up of former prisoners, many of whom have faced deportation while living, working and raising families in the U.S. for decades.

Many are married to American wives and are the fathers of American-born children.

In 2000, President Bill Clinton announced that deportation proceedings against the former IRA prisoners would be halted and they would move into "deferred action" status.Although the action was hailed at the time as tangible result of the peace process in Northern Ireland, the men's legal status in the U.S. has yet to be finally resolved.

Currently the former prisoners cannot travel to Ireland to visit family. They must also constantly renew their work permits over a period of months on an ongoing basis,frequently jeopardizing their employment in the process.

Irish American Unity Conference (IAUC) president Kate McCabe told the Irish Voice, "The position of our organization is that the U.S. government's position toward this group of people is out of step with its entire policy toward the Irish peace process. Martin McGuinness has been to the White House on a number of occasions to meet withPresident Bush, so it doesn't make sense that they're targeting this group of men."

Last week the IAUC released a document entitled "Prisoners of Peace," making the case that the reintegration of former prisoners is a first and critical step in any peace process. In Northern Ireland, they point out, former prisoners are holding elected office and working together to build a new society. Only in the U.S. is their status still unresolved.

"It's anachronistic that these men are being targeted.Although no formal deportation orders have been filed against them - with the exception of Pól Brennan who iscurrently jailed in Texas - most of these men have to renewtheir work permits every 60 to 90 days, which then takes a further month to process," McCabe said.

"Trying to keep a secure job is made difficult when you know you have to renew your work permit constantly like this. We feel it's harassment."

The objective of Thar Saile is to end the uncertainty for the former IRA prisoners and their families by providing them with a permanent legal status and the right to live,work and travel here and abroad unencumbered.

This week Thar Saile has promised to launch a broad-based education and communication campaign around this issue,working with their supporters around the U.S. to bring this issue to the attention of all major political candidates.

Images from Cornwall - Kernow

We receive many e-mails in the course of a day. Some contain poignant photographs and some of them sent from Kernow can be seen here. All along, we sense that there is growing ill feeling in that Nation against the English Imperialist Oppressors and although the Cornish are frequently mocked by the Anglo bastards, we wonder how much longer that is to be the case ? From small beginnings and despite constant harrassment from the Colonial Police, Cornish freedom fighters seem to be moving forward. Grafitti is good for publicity and some can be seen in the photographs. One photograph appears to show a freedom fighter with a very modern looking firearm.
Many have described the 'Cornish Question' as a festering boil on the backside of English Imperialism - perhaps that boil is now festering and may soon break.
We send much Celtic Solidarity from across the Celtic Sea to our brothers in Kernow.

Saturday 31 May 2008

And so it is admitted - the English Imperial & Colonial System hides away its murderers !

The blood is on their hands !

Illegal activity by the British State during the decades of Northern Ireland's Troubles needs to be owned up to, a body set up by the British government said today.

The Consultative Group on the Past, established last year to produce a report on how Northern Ireland dealt with the legacy of its conflict, said innocent people had been allowed to die.

The group is due to produce a report later in the year but the co-chairman, retired Church of Ireland primate Lord Eames and former Policing Board vice chairman Denis Bradley,outlined their thinking in an address in Belfast. They made it clear it was not just the actions of the republican and loyalist terrorist groups that had to be come to grips with, but those of the British state as well.

Lord Eames said what many had great difficulty in coming to terms with was that “the state not only sought to be an honest broker during the conflict but also played a combative role and, in this context, sometimes went beyond their own rules of engagement”. He said it was one of the critical issues facing the group,difficult as it may be for some in society to hear.

“Elements of the state, on some occasions, acted outside the law and through handling of intelligence it could even be said innocent people were allowed to die".

"We cannot ignore that, in fact, the state sometimes acted illegally.”

The group did not believe unionists had anything to fear from listening to and trying to understand how the state conducted itself - discovering or admitting wrong things were done could be a “liberating experience”, he said, "But admitting state wrongdoing must not take away from the work of the vast majority of the British security forces, Lord Eames added.

Having to confront the state about acknowledging its wrongdoing must not take away from the majority of men and women in the RUC and UDR/RIR who did their duty and suffered appallingly and unjustly as a result,” he said.

Mr Bradley said the gathering of intelligence and the use of informers by the state was almost inevitable and had undoubtedly saved lives and stopped atrocities. But he noted Northern Ireland was a small place with close-knit communities. “The scale of the use of informers throughout the conflict corroded the fabric of our communities and the constant pressure now exerted for information about informers to be revealed only serves to further undermine the well being of communities to a degree that could be poisonous.”

Another key challenge identified by the group was how far the justice system could deliver for victims and survivors -and it said many may have to face up to the fact no one would ever be brought to book for their actions.

Mr Bradley said a democratic criminal justice system was
vital to a civilised society, but the judicial process was a “crude instrument” to use when dealing with a conflict such as that experienced in Northern Ireland.“We must be honest with ourselves about the realities of what any court or inquiry can deliver.”

There were otherways of seeking the truth that do not include long drawn out judicial processes, he said. Lord Eames said everyone must be encouraged by developments in Northern Ireland over the last few years but warned "the reality is that we live in a society that is still divided". "There are issues from the past that must be dealt with if we are to truly ensure that we do not repeat the mistakes ofthe past." Sinn Fein boycotted today's event, saying it protested at the failure of Lord Eames and Mr Bradley to invite republican groups representing the families of those who were victims of British state violence. A spokesman for the Consultative Group said they had not invited any victims` groups to the event for fear of missing someone out. All such groups would be invited when the full report is launched later in the year, he said.

Farewell to the Kingdom of Spain and the United Kingdom - The Political map of Europe faces changes

Farewell to the Kingdom of Spain and the United Kingdom - The Political map of Europe faces changes

Basque Country - independence referendum likely

A Basque Government referendum Bill was placed before the Basque

Government on 29th May, 2008, that could be the first step towards the

Basque Country voting for independence from the Spanish state in 2010.

In a move that marks the beginning of what could possibly be the firstof several referendums on

independence over the coming years in WesternEurope, including one in Scotland, the Basque

Prime Minister, Juan Jose Ibarretxe, presented the Bill to the Basque Parliament

PresidentIzaskun Bilbao. The formal presentation took place before the BasqueParliament in

Gasteiz/Vitoria and the wording of the Bill is planned to be debated in the Parliament on 27th

June 2008 and no corrections will be allowed.

If agreed, the Bill will be put to popular vote on October 25th 2008 and Ibarretxe has stated that

he expects the BasqueParliament to give the Bill their total support. However, the Spanish

Socialist Government in Madrid, headed by Spain'sPrime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez

Zapatero, has said that it willseek a court order to prevent the vote going ahead if the Bill

isapproved on 27th June. Ibarretxe's decision to propose the Bill comesafter negotiations

between Zapatero and Ibarretxe broke down overthe last couple of weeks, with Ibarretxe

stating that the Spanish PM did not want to negotiate with the Basque institutions. Ibarretxe

said in a statement:"We want to have the right to decide and the right to live together in peace."

Referendums on independence are also planned for Scotland in 2010and in Catalunya on 2014.The

political map of Europe has seen much change in recent years with the break up of

Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic,the crumbling of the former

Yugoslavia into smaller states including Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and so on and the newly

emergent nations following the collapseof the Soviet Union. Many might view this process with

sadness but former countries which were combined have go on to prove themselves very able to

manage their own affairs as in the case of Sweden and Norway which were united until 1905.

These nations have never looked back so bringing a sense of inevitability to the process and an

ever closer step to a 'Europe of 100 nations' forseen in an early European Union document.

And we at the Celtic Warrior say - Vote 'yes' for freedom from the Imperialist and Colonialist States wherever they be !

Sunday 25 May 2008

Please take that extra step to help Celtic Cornish campaigner - Tony Leamon

Here's the latest message I've received from those who support Cornishman Tony Leamon in his brave stand against the English police force who control his Country. We shall be supporting him in solidarity :


May I invite you to read this message and if you are a member of a group or organisation or have friends, to pass it on to achieve the largest possible response. Let us together with true Celtic solidarity and in a peaceful manner make a difference in support of our friend, Tony Leamon - a Cornishman who said 'I am Cornish'. Thankyou.

Celtic Cornish activist and cultural campaigner, Tony Leamon from Falmouth in Cornwall again answers his police bail on Wednesday 2nd July, 2008 when he once more he will report to the custody centre at Camborne Police Station.

It will have been 10 months since his initial arrest by heavily armed police who searched his house and seized his Cornish books, flags and other possessions. Since that time, he has obediently answered his bail on three occasions and been subject of three lengthy and pressured interrogations concerning alleged terrorist activity even though the search revealed no firearms or other materials designed to cause damage or injury.

Although he battles with cancer and Myalgic Encephalopathy and cares for his 94 year old war vet father as well as his mother who has herself suffered cancer, Mr Leamon, a pacifist, has faced the situation with great bravery and good humour.

Known locally as 'the Cornish Giant', he travels everywhere by public transport and never fails to proclaim his Celtic Cornishness with a broad smile as well as giving his time generously to the Cornish cause and other local cultural activities. He has made friends in most of the Celtic Nations and embraces the uniqueness of Celtic culture and beliefs.

He bears no malice against the local police but is critical of the management of the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary with its very obvious control by outside influences. Indeed, in Cornwall, the police are now regarded as being alike colonial masters and have lost much public support.

A sinister side to this whole affair is the complete refusal of the mainstream media in Cornwall to give this matter any public airing and other Cornish activists subject of raids and arrests who were subsequently released without charge have only be given minimal press coverage. The silence has been deafening. This has led many to believe that the media is subject of control and censorship, a situation which has previously been the case in the Duchy where hidden powers wield great control.

Again, following 10 months police bail which has placed many restrictions on his life, Tony Leamon faces his eventual fate on Wednesday 2nd July, 2008.

There has been worldwide support for this man with scores of messages sent not only to him but to the police themselves and there has recently been a surprising turn of events. A local journalist has asked to hear from those who have supported Mr Leamon down these long and painful months. Ginette Harris who writes for the West Briton newspaper would be pleased to hear from anyone who has been in communication with the police, the press, the Crown Prosecution Service or Mr Leamon himself.

She has asked letters take a certain format: where you live, why you are supporting him, any activities you may have undertaken to assist him , for example, handing out leaflets, offering money, phone calls, letter writing, e-mails etc.

Please e-mail Ginette at: gharris@c-dm.co.uk and also leave a message on the West Briton's contact site, to be found here:

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=232606&command=newPage

You are also invited to copy your correspondence to the police themselves at:

Police.Enquiries@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk

asking for your e-mail to be copied to Detective 196 Hampson of Bodmin CID and to disclosed to Mr. Leamon's lawyer - Mrs G. McKinley of Vivian, Thomas & Jervis Solicitors, PO Box 23, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 3UF as well as the Crown Prosecution Service.

You may care to send a message via this website contact if you fear the police (not uncommon in Cornwall) or if you wish to remain anonymous. Don't forget to clearly state that the message refers to Tony Leamon of Falmouth, Cornwall and that what you say is for the attention of Devon & Cornwall Police - DC 196 Hampson Bodmin CID and Mrs. G. McKinley his solicitor.

https://secure.crimestoppers-uk.org/ams.form.anonymous.asp

If you feel able, why not express your views to those who allegedly control the police - a little like school governors, the Devon & Cornwall Police Authority at:

PolAuth@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk

You are also invited to view a special site which has been set up at:

http://cornwall-police-watch.blogspot.com/

Although Tony Leamon's dignified behaviour when faced with the huge and increasingly authoritarian state may be known around the globe, it has received very little coverage in his home country of Cornwall. Let us all work together and try to change this.

Whatever you do, we sincerely thank you and rest assured that even if the decision is made to charge Mr. Leamon, the evidence will surely have been trumped up by one of the least efficient and most complained about police forces in Great Britain.

A little effort on your part will help Tony Leamon in his brave battle against the cruel system in place in Cornwall today, a battle which may end up with him being made into the latest victim in a small Celtic Country where those who ask 'why?' or say 'no' are subject to the full force of the English Imperial & Colonial System.

'The Tony Leamon Support Group'

Friday 23 May 2008

Plaid Cymru gains power in Cymry/Wales !

From across at the offices of the Celtic League, this fantastic news from Wales ! Independence beckons Cymru !

Plaid Cymru's control in Cymru/Wales continues to grow as the Welsh nationalist party gains control of yet another strategically important council.

After the local Council election results on 1st May 2008, Plaid congratulated itself on a great victory as numbers voting for the party increased considerably. The media in Wales though generally portrayed a negative result for Plaid, mainly because it lost overall control of its onlycouncil seat of Gwynedd County Council. Nevertheless, Plaid had obtained a sizeable minority of Councillors in many of the Council seats throughout Wales and consequently has been working hard to form coalition deals with independents and other parties to gain control of the councils.

This tactic has paid off for the Party, with a coalition deal being struck with the Liberal Democrats in the Welsh capital of Caerdydd/Cardifffor the first time and Plaid's Dilwyn Roberts has now also been elected as leader of Conwy County Council last week. Now this week, Plaid has announced that it has formed a coalition with independent Councillors in Caerffili/CaerphillyCounty Council, which has resulted in them taking overall control of the Council for only the second time in history.

The Labour Party has always traditionally held rule in Caerffili and has usually done so with a large majority. However over the last few years Labour's majority has been decreasing in the town at Local and Parliamentary level, while Plaid has made substantial gains. Caerffili is a commuter town for Casnewydd/Newport and Caerdydd/Cardiff and is located at the bottom of the Rhymney Valley. Caerffili is about 3 kilometres from Caerdydd.

J B Moffatt
Director of Information
Celtic League
23/05/08

The Celtic League has branches in the six Celtic Countries. It works to promote cooperation between these countries and campaigns on abroad range of political, cultural and environmental matters. It highlights human rights abuse, monitors all military activity and focuses on socio-economic issues.

TEL (UK)01624 877918 MOBILE (UK)07624 491609 Internet site at:http://celticleague.nethttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Blow for ETA freedom fighters

This bad news just received. The ETA organisation have shown equal fortitude to some of the Celtic Freedom Fighters in Eire in their battle against the Imperial and Colonialist Spanish and French states.

Spanish and French police arrested the reputed leader of the armed Basque separatist group ETA and five other people, hitting back amid a sustained campaign of bombings by the militant organization, officials said Wednesday.

Francisco Javier Lopez Pena and three other alleged ETA members were detained in the southwestern French city of Bordeaux on Tuesday night, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.

Two more people were arrested Wednesday, one in Spain and a French citizen in France who was linked to the Bordeaux apartment, he said. French police said handguns and materials that could be used for making bombs were found in the apartment.

"This is not just another police operation in the sense that one of the detained, Francisco Javier Lopez Pena, is in all likelihood at this moment the person with most political and military weight in the terrorist group ETA," Rubalcaba said from Senegal, where he was on an official visit.
The minister was to cut short that visit and fly back to Madrid — evidence of how seriously Spain's takes the first arrest of a reputed ETA chief since 2004.

Since ETA ended a cease-fire in December 2006, Spanish and French police have arrested dozens of alleged members of the organization.

The latest arrests came amid a renewed campaign of attacks by ETA. The group was blamed for killing a policeman in a massive car bombing last week in a Basque village. It claimed another car bombing Sunday near Bilbao — the latest in more than 20 attacks by the organization since it called off the cease-fire after peace talks with the government failed.

Lopez Pena was instrumental in ETA's decision to end the truce, said a Spanish police official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.

ETA is blamed for killing more than 825 people since the late 1960s in its campaign for an independent Basque state in territory straddling northern Spain and southern France.
The latest attacks are seen as an attempt by ETA to show it remains a force to be reckoned with and will not be ignored as politicians discuss how to end the region's decades-old conflict.

Besides Lopez Pena, the other three suspected ETA members arrested in Bordeaux were identified as Ainhoa Ozaeta Mendiondo, Igor Suberbiola and Jon Salaberria. A fifth person, Jose Antonio Barandiaran, a former mayor of a Basque town, was arrested in Spain's northern Basque region Wednesday morning. The French citizen arrested in Bordeaux was not immediately identified.

A French police official said four handguns, false identity papers, computers and material that could be used for making explosives — including sodium chlorate and time-bomb equipment — were seized in the Bordeaux apartment.

The official was not authorized to be named publicly.

The suspects have not made any statements since their arrest, the official said.
The office of French Prime Minister Francois Fillon confirmed the arrests in a statement, calling Lopez Pena "one of the historic leaders" of ETA and saying he had been wanted by police for 20 years.

"The success of this operation illustrates again the remarkable quality of the anti-terrorist cooperation between France and Spain," the statement said.

The apartment where the suspects were seized was blocked off by French and Spanish police Wednesday morning. It is located on a busy boulevard in a working class district of the city.
Many ETA members live in French Basque areas in the southwest of the country. The group is considered a terrorist organization by Spain, the European Union and the United States

Kernow/Cornwall - 'There may be trouble ahead'

Cornish militants have been at it again and we are forced to asked when the English Imperial and Colonial Establishment will listen ?

Not only has spray canning being resumed but also the threat made against the English Flag of St George being flown in the Country.

Known as the 'banner of blood' (not only in Kernow but elsewhere in the other Celtic Nations and also, quite oddly, by more than one right wing English group) 'the loathsome flag' and the 'blood cross' due to its bloody history, activists have again stated clearly that they will be removing such insults across Kernow.

I trust we can all support the Celtic Cornish here in the other celtic Nations as well, where the sight of this insulting image would not be permitted.

In short, the message seems to be, 'remove this reminder of English superiority now or face the consequences !'

We recently found this little ditty on a Cornish webpage which says it all:

'Loathsome flag of blood red cross
Cause of many a Cornish loss
With face as white as sun bleached bones
Despised in all good Celtic homes

Alban, Kembry, Kernow all hope
For freedom from the Anglo's yoke
The right to determine own destiny
No shackle of English autocracy

To stand as equal partners in the world
With fair taxation for a fair day's toil
Local work, decisions and lien
To stand again as free men'

RIP Brian Keenan - Irish Patriot

Senior IRA commander Brian Keenan has died after a battle with cancer, Sinn Fein said today.

The West Belfast-based republican was a key figure in the organisation during the peace process.

A Sinn Fein spokesman confirmed his death.

Born in 1942 in county Londonderry, the son of a member of the Royal Air Force, Keenan grew up in a family with no republic leanings, and moved to England in his teens, where he worked as a television repair man.

He returned to Ulster when the Troubles began and joined the IRA in around 1970. By the following year he was the quartermaster of the Belfast brigade, and involved in masterminding Belfast bombings.

In 1973 he took control of the IRA's bombing campaign in England and became IRA Quartermaster General. He was regarded as the right-hand man of Gerry Adams, then imprisoned in Long Kesh and attempting to influence the direction and structure of the IRA from his prison cell.

Keenan served a 12-month prison sentence in the Irish republic in 1974, and came to the attention of the English police in 1975 when his fingerprints were identified at the hideout of the Balcombe Street Siege gang.

The warrant issued for his arrest in 1975 led to his extradition to England when he was arrested in Ireland in 1979, in his pocket an address book listing his contacts. He stood trial in June 1980 for masterminding the IRA's bombing campaign in England and was jailed for 18 years.

After his release in 1993 he rose to become one of the seven members of the IRA's ruling Army Council. For a time he split from his old mentor Mr Adams after the IRA's first ceasefire in 1994, wanting to continue the armed struggle.

He was on the Army Council that authorised the 1996 Docklands bombing that killed two people and ended the IRA ceasefire.

As the peace process got under way in the late 1990s, however, he swung his authority behind the twin track strategy of talking peace while threatening to return to bloodshed if demands were not met, dubbed the Armalite and the ballot box.
Both politics and violence were "legitimate forms of revolution", he told IRA waverers in 2001, and both "have to be prosecuted to the utmost".

"The revolution can never be over until we have British imperialism where it belongs - in the dustbin of history," he said, in a message aimed at keeping up the IRA's resolve and preventing activists from defecting to the dissident Real IRA.

Keenan acted as the IRA's go-between with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, eventually playing such a key role in negotiations that Mr Adams remarked: "There wouldn't be a peace process if it wasn't for Brian Keenan."

He resigned from the Army Council in 2005 due to ill health.

Cornish Language Agreement

For hundreds of years the dwindling band of surviving Cornish-speakers have been so divided that they could not even agree what their language should be called.

Now after protracted and delicate neogtiations, Cornwall’s hardy linguistic scholars have set aside their differences to settle a standard written form for the language they treasure.

Since the early 20th century there has been a successful campaign to revive spoken Cornish, but the use of sources from different eras meant there were several versions of how it should be written. The result was a rivalry between proponents of Unified Cornish, Kernewek Kemmyn, Modern Cornish, Unified Cornish Revised, Kernowak Standard, Kernewek Dasunys and other variants that would have left speakers of the original language utterly bemused.

As a measure of the differences Cornish-speakers could not even agree whether the language should be called Kernowek, Kernewek or Curnoack.

Now after two years of negotiation, scholars from all the different factions have reached agreement on a Standard Written Form which will be used in future in education, in pamphlets and brochures, and on public signs.

A thousand years ago, Cornish, which is closely related to Breton and Welsh, was spoken by most of the population in southwest England. Its decline began in 1549 when the Latin prayer book was replaced by an English version, provoking a revolt by people who spoke only Cornish. The repression that followed culminated in the massacre of 4,000 rebels and left a bitterness that lingers to this day.

Cornish retreated down the peninsula. The last monoglot Cornish speaker is believed to have been a man called Chesten Marchant who died at Gwithian in 1676. Dorothy Pentreath, the last native speaker, died in 1777 at Mousehole. The last living link with the language was broken in 1891 with the death of John Davey, of Zennor, who took to the grave the Cornish phrases his grandfather had taught him.

By 1900 Cornish was a dead language that survived only in a few manuscripts and the notes of 18th and 19th-century linguistic scholars who had recorded what they could before it vanished completely.

Its reconstruction and revival began in the early 1900s with renewed interest in Cornish heritage and there are now about 300 people who can speak it fluently, with several thousand more who have at least a rudimentary grasp.

Cornish is unique among minority European languages because it was revived after having died out. A team of scholars led by a Norwegian linguist, Trond Trosterud, devised the standard written form under the auspices of the Cornish Language Partnership.

Its development officer Jenefer Lowe, who has been speaking Cornish since she was a girl, said: “There were scholastic disagreements and some pretty firmly held opinions but we managed to reach agreement in the end. The standard form draws on the forms already in existence. This means that users of any form will find much that is familiar, alongside some differences.”
Benjamin Bruch, a former lecturer in Celtic studies at Harvard University who helped to draw up the SWF, said: “It is a critical and extremely exciting time in the history of the language. There has been a huge change in perception and awareness of the language over the past ten years.”
He added that he hopes the move will encourage a stronger sense of Cornish identity. “If you have no language you have no land. A lot of people feel it is part of their identity, part of their heritage. Cornwall is lucky because people are working hard to use it more and more. It gives it a fighting chance when others are going.”

Cornwall County Council is now asking that Cornish be recognised by the EU as an official regional or minority language, like Welsh or Gaelic. That could ease the way for EU funding for teaching – which at present is restricted to DVDs in three secondary schools. Frances Bennett, a teacher of Modern Cornish, said: “Young children are really keen to learn the language. It’s like a secret code to them.”

Starting point

Myttin da Good morning
Dohajydh da Good afternoon
Gorthugher da Good evening
Fatla genes? How are you?
Meur ras Thank you
Marpleg Please
Pinta korev marpleg Pint of beer, please
Yeghes da/Sewena Cheers
A vynn’ta kavoes neppyth dh’y dhybri? Do you want something to eat?
Ple’ma an bysva? Where is the toilet?
My a’th kar I love you
Dyw genes Goodbye (God be with you)

From: The Times of London
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3972485.ece?Submitted=true

Tuesday 20 May 2008

New book in Kernow - arrests to follow ?

Cornish rights campaigner, John Angarrack, has launched his latest book entitled 'Scat t’Larrups? - Resist and Survive.'

This follows on from his previous books, 'Breaking the Chains' and 'Our Future is History' have both had a huge influence on the political outlook and attitude of many ordinary Cornish people, with some stating that it was not until they had read the arguments presented by Angarrack in his books that they 'woke up' to their Cornish identity and the suppression of their rights as a people. 'Breaking the Chains' and'Our Future is History' both concern themselves with the on going issues of constitutional deception, cultural assimilation and the neo-colonialism of the English system.

Copies of Angarrack's books have been confiscated by the Devon and Cornwall police under different circumstances, including all the copies owned by Cornish campaigners who were arrested in police raids last year. His latest book, 'Scat t'Larrups?: Resist and Survive', looks at what happened during the period of the arrests and attempts to set events in their proper context.

Mr Angarrack, who enjoys near cult status amongst Celtic Cornish activists has said:

"[The book] might also provoke another round of police raids."

The book is available from: http://johnangarrack.co.uk/ (if you dare to buy it - safe outside of UK but within it - who knows ?)

As the website says:

"Scat t’Larrups?Resist and Survive.
Publisher: Independent Academic Press
Date of Publication: 2008 Pages: 330Style: Hardback
ISBN: 0 9529313 54
Cover text: The year is 2007 and Government react to what appears to be a co-ordinated threat to national security. The Secretary of State sets normal affairs of Government aside to hold two days of crisis talks with her advisors and the future king is consulted. Dawn raids by dozens of armed police result in suspected terrorists being rounded up at gunpoint. Enemy flags, instruction manuals and documents in a foreign language are taken as evidence. High profile personalities are offered special protection and the press hint of a plot to blow up the QE2. The tension abates only after Government and judiciary conspire to intimidate the community into compliance.
A Tom Clancy thriller? No. The events described above really happened – in Cornwall. But what is the truth behind the sensationalism and why did Government take such extreme measures against Cornish people? John Angarrack’s follow-up book to Breaking the Chains and Our Future is History looks at what happened during this period and attempts to set events in their proper context."

Why not buy it and fly in the face of the facist colonial police in Kernow !

Eire/Ireland : 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF CIVIL RIGHTS 1968 – 2008

40TH ANNIVERSARY OF CIVIL RIGHTS 1968 – 2008

Historical Background

Forty years ago, in 1968, a series of events took place here which changed the face of Northern Ireland irrevocably. These events were the culmination of attempts since the early 1960s by a number of different organisations and individuals to highlight injustices in Northern Ireland . The Campaign for Social Justice, the Derry Housing Action Committee and the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster were examples of this. Their concern was not with the great constitutional issues which had dominated political debate thereto, but with the everyday issues which dominated people's lives. In 1967, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was founded to address all these issues. The following year, inspired by the courage of Civil Rights leaders in the United States , and by their example of peaceful non-violent protest, Civil Rights protesters began to take to the streets of Northern Ireland . Their objective was to bring an end to injustice in the system of public authority housing provision, injustice in public and private employment practices, injustice in voting and representational rights, and the arbitrary and oppressive powers available to the state to suppress dissent.

The things that happened during that pivotal year had a profound effect upon our society, and precipitated an avalanche of change which left no part of our community untouched. Such was the importance of these events, and what they led to, that it is appropriate and even necessary, 40 years later, to commemorate them in a sober and reflective way, to seek to learn from what happened, to consider the significance of the Civil Rights Movement for our society today and the continuing resonance of the issues which it addressed, and the ideals which underpinned it.A number of those who were active in leadership positions in the Civil Rights Movement in 1968, have established a broad based Civil Rights Commemoration Committee to commemorate the events of 1968, in such a way as to serve the historical record as best we can, and to generate a balanced and inclusive reflection upon that year.

Sunday 04/27/08, key figures associated with the civil rights movement in Derry assembled at the gave of the late Mrs. Mary Ellen O'Doherty, the “Mother of Irish Civil Rights” to mark her 100th birthday on April 28, 1908. She died last year on June 16th, surrounded by her loved ones from at home and abroad, in hospital, after a short illness.

Former Mid-Derry MP and former Minister for Community Relations in the ill-fated 1974 Stormont Executive, Mr. Ivan Cooper gave a short oration as did her son, Fionnbarra, a co-founder of NICRA in 1967.A wreath of fresh flowers, formed into the figures "100" was laid on her gave by her daugher Deirdre and a grand-dauhter, Emma, an under-graduate from Belfast, Pics and an audio/vidual recording were made by Luke Coyle, a son of the Late 'Vinny', who was Chief Marshall of around 700 stewards during the civil rights era.

Copies of pics can be obtained on request via rights.civil@googlemail.com

Mary Ellen O'Doherty {1908-2007)

Saturday 17 May 2008

IRISH REPUBLICAN INFORMATION SERVICE

Received from the Irish Republican Information Service - English out and a United Eire !

Irish Republican Information Service (no. 149)Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, IrelandPhone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: saoirse@iol.ieDate: 16 Bealtaine / May 2008

Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom

http://saoirse.info

In this issue:1. Republican SF calls for No vote2. British occupation is the crime3. Irish and Cypriot jail experience recalled4. UVF-linked band gets lotto and Ulster-Scots body cash 5. Bobby Sands film gets first showing at Cannes6. Amnesty calls on 26 Counties to accept exonerated Guantánamo detainees7. People not being told truth about text, says Alliance8. Protesters removed from Hill of Tara9. Scottish Insurrection remembered10. Glasgow RSF on May Day march

1. REPUBLICAN SF CALLS FOR NO VOTE

REPUBLICAN Sinn Féin on May 14 called for a No vote in the Lisbon referendum "to defend sovereignty, neutrality and democracy".

Speaking at a press conference launching Republican Sinn Féin's campaign against the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution Ruairí Ó Brádaigh said the issue at stake was not EU membership, as claimed by the Yes campaign. It was about the movement of power towards the centre in Brussels and the tightening of the EU grip.

In a statement Ruairí Ó Brádaigh said:

"Republican Sinn Féin calls for a NO vote to defend sovereignty, neutrality and democracy and defeat the Lisbon Treaty in the coming referendum on June 12. "Those supporting Lisbon have freely admitted that it is 95% - 96% the proposed EU Constitution which was rejected by the people of France and Holland in referenda in 2005. Lisbon is the EU Constitution by the back door in that it would constitute or establish a new European Union in the form of a supranational Federal State. Qualified Majority Rule "Lisbon is also a power-grab by the EU s Big States, Germany, France, Britain and Italy. By making EU law-making mainly dependent on population size, it would increase the relative weight of the Big States in making EU laws in future and reduce that of smaller States like the 26 Counties. Sovereignty "Under Lisbon more than 50 policy areas will no longer be covered by a member state's veto. Another clause gives the EU Council of Ministers the right to extend its powers in all areas with the exception of defence. Neutrality "The mutual defence clause contained in Lisbon would commit all member states to assist by all means in their power any EU state which is the victim of armed aggression on its territory. This is a significant step towards the full militarisation of the EU. It will be recalled that a Fianna Fáil general election manifesto in recent times guaranteed no participation in the NATO led Partnership for Peace without a referendum. Yet 18 months later the Fianna Fáil-led administration brazenly brought the State into that Partnership for Peace without a vote of the electorate. Neutrality is being steadily eroded." Democracy "The non-elected EU Commission holds the power to initiate legislation. Under Lisbon the 26-County State will lose its commissioner for five out of every 15 years, ie for one-third of the time."Lisbon would give the EU Court of Justice the final decision on what our human and civil rights are in a wide range of areas. Already its Laval ruling set the free movement of goods and services as superior to the right of workers to strike. The Lisbon Treaty will further this agenda, placing competition above the rights of the working people. "The issue at stake here is the Lisbon Treaty, the movement of power towards the centre in Brussels and the tightening of the EU grip, NOT the question of EU membership. If Lisbon is defeated, life will go on as before as happened when France and Holland rejected the proposed constitution and the whole matter will have to be reconsidered. In fact this State could give a lead to the other peoples of Europe to demand their own referenda in turn, thus increasing democratic accountability. "Voting NO to the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution is opposing the creation of an undemocratic superstate, increased militarisation, the erosion of neutrality, the privatisation of public services and unfettered capitalism. We want a more democratic, not a less democratic Europe, a Europe of peoples."

2. BRITISH OCCUPATION IS THE CRIME

ON May 15 a spokesperson for Republican Sinn Féin condemned the ending of automatic 50% remission for prisoners within the Six Occupied Counties. Richard Walsh, RSF Director of Publicity, added that British occupation was the greatest crime being committed in Ireland.

"A foreign military power does not and cannot have the right to incarcerate people on Irish soil," he said. "And the fact that many people have been jailed by the English for opposing the illegal occupation of our country is especially abhorrent.

"Those sentenced to ten years' or longer imprisonment will have to serve the entirety of the British-imposed sentence before being considered for parole. This means that these sentences are effectively being doubled. Automatic fifty percent remission has also been cast aside for the remainder of prisoners.

"It should always be remembered that it is the occupation of Ireland by a foreign enemy which remains the greatest crime being perpetrated against the Irish people." 3. IRISH AND CYPRIOT JAIL EXPERIENCE RECALLED

A LITTLE-known chapter of recent Irish history was recalled on May 10 with the launch of a book on Irish Republicans and Cypriots who were imprisoned together in British jails in the late 1950s.

The book, Cypriot and Irish Political Prisoners by Vias Livadas, published by Power Publishing of Nicosia, shows how Irish Republicans and Cypriot EOKA guerrillas developed close links in British prisons such as Wormwood Scrubs and Wakefield Prison.

Speaking at a reception in the Pearse Centre in Dublin, former family home of 1916 leader Pádraig Pearse, the journalist and historian Tim Pat Coogan noted that Ireland and Cyprus were both subjected to partition.

But whereas Ireland historically had to deal with only one major power, "Cyprus is tossed like a cork in a storm set off by many cyclones."

Vias Livadas said the Irish and Cypriot prisoners were jointly known as "the rebellious team" and that their "permanent goal" was escape. Among the Irish contingent were well-known Republicans such as Séamus Murphy, who famously escaped from Wakefield prison in 1959, Manus Canning, Donal Murphy, the late Cathal Goulding, Seán Mac Stiofáin, Séamus McCollum and Joe Doyle.

Among the attendance were Cypriot Ambassador to Ireland, Sotos Liassides; Prof Frixos Joannides, formerly of University College Dublin; Séamus Murphy, Manus Canning, Eamon Boyce, Cathal Óg Goulding, son of the late Cathal Goulding; Máire Mhic Stiofáin, widow of Seán Mac Stiofáin; ex-Eoka member Renos Kyriakides and former Sinn Féin abstentionist TD for Mid-Ulster, Tom Mitchell. Republican Sinn Féin Vice Presidents Cathleen Knowles McGuirk and Des Dalton as well as Ard Chomhairle member Des Long, Limerick also attended.

The ceremony was chaired by veteran Republican Charley Murphy.

4. UVF-LINKED BAND GETS LOTTO AND ULSTER-SCOTS BODY CASH

A 'BLOOD and thunder' band with links to the youth wing of the loyalist death-squad the UVF is among dozens of loyalist bands to receive funding from the Six-County Ulster-Scots Agency and the British National Lottery. The level of funding contrasts with the repeated refusal of DUP Stormont Culture Minister Edwin Poots to provide funding for the Irish language.

Sixty-five flute, accordion and pipe bands were given funds totalling more than £166,100 last year.

More than £4,600 of British lottery money went to Pride of Ardoyne, which takes part in a contentious parade past the Ardoyne shops in north Belfast each year.

The funding, administered through the Six-County Arts Council, was for new instruments.

The band marches with a banner bearing an emblem of the so-called Young Citizens Volunteers - the UVF's youth wing - and the names of two former band members, UVF man Sam Rockett, who was killed by the UDA during the 2000 loyalist feud, and William Hanna, killed by the British army in 1978.

Among the bands given funding by the Ulster-Scots Agency was Mourne Young Defenders Flute Band which received £1,800 for musical tuition and a further £1,219 for an 'Ulster-Scots summer school' run by its members.

Mourne took part in the abortive 2006 so-called 'Love Ulster' loyalist march in Dublin. The planned march down O'Connell St was abandoned due to the scale of protests led by Republican Sinn Féin. The band is called after Alan Johnston, an Orangeman and member of the British army's infamous Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) who was killed in Kilkeel, Co Down, by the Provisionals in 1988.

The Arts Council gave about £102,500 to 24 bands, mostly for musical tuition. The Ulster-Scots Agency gave about £56,500 to 38 bands for instruments.

The British Big Lottery Fund gave £6,980 to three bands under its Awards for All scheme. 5. BOBBY SANDS FILM GETS FIRST SHOWING AT CANNES

TRAFFIC ground to a halt and hundreds of onlookers gathered in the warm sunshine to spot the stars arriving at the opening of the 61st Festival de Cannes on May 14.

The festival's official sidebar section, Un Certain Regard, opened with the world premiere of Hunger, which deals with the last six weeks in the life of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.

The first feature film directed by Steve McQueen, a Turner Prize-winning English artist, it features German-born and Killarney-raised actor Michael Fassbender as Sands. Dublin actor Liam Cunningham plays a priest who visits him in the H Blocks of Long Kesh.

The screenplay for Hunger is by Enda Walsh, the Irish playwright of Disco Pigs, Bedbound and The Walworth Farce. Walsh says: "Very simply, it made me question what I believed in the world. I acknowledge and respect these people's belief in something. It is this that should have universal relevance."

The film, which was announced at Cannes last year, was funded by Channel 4, Northern Ireland Screen and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.

Even before the official opening of Cannes 2008, the crowded festival market was open for business with screenings under way from early morning to attract film distributors worldwide.

6. AMNESTY CALLS ON 26 COUNTIES TO ACCEPT EXONERATED GUANTÁNAMO DETAINEES

AMNESTY International has called on the 26-County administration to accept into the 26 Counties exonerated Guantánamo detainees unable to return to their home countries for fear of torture.

At least 25 of the 270 men still held in the US detention centre have been cleared for release or transfer.

"These are innocent men. None of these men have ever been charged with a crime by the United States, let alone convicted," said Colm O'Gorman, director of Amnesty's Irish branch.

"The US government has cleared them for release but having been imprisoned in Guantánamo these men face imprisonment, torture and possibly death if they are returned to their own countries.

"They have spent years of their lives in prison for crimes they never committed and can now never return home. They are victims of the frenzy of human rights violations cast as security measures imposed by the US as part of its so-called 'war on terror'."

One case study highlighted by Amnesty concerns Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov, a 30-year-old Uzbek national who was living as a refugee in Afghanistan when he was captured in 2001. Despite being cleared for release, he remains at Guantánamo because he cannot safely be returned to Uzbekistan. Colm O'Gorman urged the 26-County administration to accept one or more of the detainees, saying it could lead by example in "protecting the human rights and human dignity of these innocent victims" being the first country to do so.

"The Irish Government (sic), by permitting the use of Shannon airport to planes involved in the extraordinary renditions programme, must bear some responsibility for the human rights black hole that is Guantánamo. It can provide an example to others by now being part of the solution," he said.

Amnesty's call was echoed by German-born Murat Kurnaz, who spent over four years in Guantánamo despite US military intelligence admitting there was no "definite evidence" linking him to al-Qaeda or any other terrorist activity. Murat Kurnaz's detention was prolonged partly because German authorities refused to allow him to return.

7. PEOPLE NOT BEING TOLD TRUTH ABOUT TEXT, SAYS ALLIANCE

THE 26-County administration is deliberately keeping the public in the dark about the detail of the Lisbon Treaty to ensure the referendum is carried, the People Before Profit Alliance claimed as it launched its No campaign on May 14.

Eddie Conlon of the group's steering committee said he would encourage everyone, including the head of the 26-County administration Brian Cowen, to read the Lisbon Treaty.

Earlier this week, Brian Cowen acknowledged he had not read the text "from cover to cover", but said he had negotiated 95 per cent of the treaty and knew exactly what was in it.

Eddie Conlon said No campaigners had been accused of scaremongering but they seemed to be the only people who had studied the treaty. "I think when people read what's in the treaty they will find that what we say is true."

He said the treaty would lead to the further militarisation of the EU because it called on member states to increase their military spending and obliged them to make their facilities available for EU military activity.

Richard Boyd Barrett said the treaty was an obvious attempt by EU leaders to deceive the European public. "What's absolutely clear at the heart of this is an attempt to ram the treaty through that nobody can understand and to avoid, if at all possible, people having any say on it."

He said politicians on the Yes side never talked about the substance of the treaty. "In particular you do not see them address the specific aspects of the treaty that have been highlighted by the No campaign around the issues of democracy, around the issues of militarisation, around the issues of the threat the Lisbon Treaty poses to our public services."

He said the Lisbon Treaty was "a recipe for privatisation of public services in Europe, for the further militarisation of the European Union, for the creation of a European army that's going to have a more aggressive military role on the world scene".

8. PROTESTERS REMOVED FROM HILL OF TARA

THE tents and tepees used by motorway protesters on the lower slopes of the Hill of Tara were dismantled on May 8 by the Office of Public Works.

With assistance from gardaí and with a private security firm present, the OPW arrived at Tara with a pick-up truck to remove about half a dozen tents, tepees and other structures that around a dozen people had lived in, some of them for the past two years.

Towards the end of the operation, the campers were told that one tepee, in which they have had a "sacred fire" burning since they arrived, could remain for another day or so for a final religious ceremony.

It was the last campsite used by the protesters. Many of them had previously camped at Rath Lugh close to the national monument at Lismullen, which was discovered during works on the M3 motorway.

While there were no confrontations or resistance from those living there, some questioned the authority of the gardaí and the OPW. The group claimed their rights under Irish and EU legislation to practise their religious beliefs were being infringed.

The OPW denied this, saying it had "no problem" with people practising their religious beliefs, but that under the National Monuments Act "it is our duty to protect the monument. This is about the structures here".

While some claimed there had been no warning they were being "evicted", the OPW said they were made aware that there is no camping allowed on any national monument.

"One month ago, we issued letters to all those camping there stating there is no camping allowed here or on any national monument," the OPW spokesperson said. The campsite was not visible from the mound of the hill, but was on the northern slopes near copses.

There were a number of large, rounded tents and Indian-style tepees made from wood and reinforced with steel and plastic poles. In one area, a channel had been constructed to gather rainwater in a plastic drum. It was dug into the ground below the channel and the OPW is concerned by anything that causes damage or destruction to the monument.

The OPW spokesman said last month's letters had asked people to leave voluntarily and while some had done so, there were around a dozen who did not.

In the last couple of weeks, a "temple" was built in the middle of the campsite. According to its builder, Niall Callaghan, "this temple was built for the women. It had four doors, one east, west, north and south. The poles were eight feet high and it was 16 feet across. It was about to receive a thatched roof".

He called it "free-standing" and denied that any holes had been dug to insert the poles. He shouted his objections at the gardaí and said they had "sold their souls to Satan".

It was one of the first structures dismantled by OPW staff, who put it in the back of a large truck.

9. SCOTTISH INSURRECTION REMEMBERED

ON Saturday, April 26, members of the Francis Hughes Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Glasgow, gathered alongside Scottish Republicans, socialists, nationalists and members of the public to commemorate the 1820 battle of Bonnymuir, otherwise known as the Scottish Insurrection.

Organised by the 1820 Martyrs Society those present assembled on a sunny but windswept moor near Bonnybridge in Stirlingshire to remember a band of gallant comrades who fought and died while fighting against tyrannical employers and demanding a decent wage and working conditions.

Three of them were hung, drawn and quartered, and others who were taken prisoner were sent to penal servitude in far off lands by the British Establishment.

The 50 plus attendance were addressed by local councillors and historians and reminded of the brave effort that the 25 workers made in facing a troop of British cavalry sent against them. And although betrayed form the start by spies, traitors and quislings the brave workers were determined to strike a blow for the working man.

Those present were also reminded of present-day struggles and comparisons were made between the 1820 martyrs and ongoing struggles around the world.

The event was concluded in nearby Bonnybridge with a social.

10. GLASGOW RSF ON MAY DAY MARCH

REPUBLICAN Sinn Féin led the Irish contingent at the Glasgow Trade Union Council march on its 150th year to celebrate May Day. The march was held in Glasgow on Sunday, May 4, 2008.

In a statement the PRO of the Francis Hughes Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin, Glasgow, said that prior to the commencement of the march, they were approached by a trade union steward and informed by her that the police and some members of the public had raised concerns about one of the flags being carried, the Starry Plough.

The statement said: "She stated further that those who complained including the police felt the flag invoked IRA and terrorism connotations. We informed her that their impressions were outrageous and with no foundation. We proceeded to march without further delay with our colour party which included the Tricolour and Cumann banner.

"However, after the event we were stopped by two policemen. They told us that they had to question us about the Starry Plough following a complaint by a member of the public. We explained the historical significance of the Starry Plough and justified why it was more than appropriate to raise this flag alongside other trade unionists and workers. We are not sure if our explanations were fully acceptable as they took the details of one of our members, Máirtín MacCriostái." "Máirtín spoke after the incident saying: 'I was shocked but not surprised by the continued animosity shown towards Irish Republicans in this country. I didn't see concern raised about the many other political/cultural banners present at the May Day event. Why was it just ours? As an Irish Republican living in Scotland I'm not unaccustomed to such shows ignorance by the authorities. I'm totally outraged at the political interference by Strathclyde Police and the fact that they raised their concerns at a march by trade unions about a flag which is widely recognised by trade unions and workers world wide and adopted by the trade union and labour movement in Ireland.' "No pun is intended but is this not an opportune moment to 'flag up' the ignorance of some. Perhaps Strathclyde Police should be more informed of the importance of the Starry Plough. The Francis Hughes Cumann calls on all trade unions, the Irish community and all progressive forces here in Scotland to unite in defending the democratic rights of workers and the national identity of minorities, including the Irish. We see this as a totally inappropriate act of political interference by Strathclyde police. We must ask why the authorities have taken such offence to a flag that was adopted by fellow Scottish and Irish Republican, James Connolly, and in part represents the social injustice, free speech and men dying for their convictions. "What's next if it is the Starry Plough now? Is it the Red Flag next?"

Friday 16 May 2008

CELTIC SOLIDARITY WEBSITE

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TONY LEAMON

More news from across at the Celtic League about Tony Leamon:

CORNISH BRANCH MEMBERS PLIGHT GETS INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION

The plight of Celtic League campaigner Tony Leamon was highlighted last night on a three hour weekly radio broadcast from Taos, New Mexico, USA. The program, dedicated to Tony Leamon, was devoted to Kernow and focused on the legends, language and people of Kernow,including the injustice being suffered by Mr Leamon.

Mr Leamon, who was due to answer bail last Tuesday, was informed byDevon and Cornwall police on the day that his bail would be delayed until July 2nd 2008. The psychological strain that the Devon and Cornwall police have been putting on Mr Leamon, who has suffered severe emotional distress from his ordeal throughout the last 8 months, has been drawing sympathy for his cause from around the globe.Support from across the USA, Australia, Spain, Malaysia and the Celtic countries has been growing on a weekly basis. At this weekend's Annual Rio Grande Valley Celtic Festival and Highland Games in Albuquerque,New Mexico, USA visitors will be able to read a leaflet about Mr Leamon's plight being distributed at the Cornish stall.

In addition, visitorswill be able to sign up to the distribution list to be kept updated about Mr Leamon's case.

As one of the festival's organisers and CelticLeague member told the Kernow Branch this week:"{Tony's} case is one that has gathered support world wide".Relevant links to earlier items on Celtic News at:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2607http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2544http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2280http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2450http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2451http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2478http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2537http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/2541
J B Moffatt
Director of Information
Celtic League
16/05/08

The Celtic League has branches in the six Celtic Countries. It worksto promote cooperation between these countries and campaigns on abroad range of political, cultural and environmental matters. It highlightshuman rights abuse, monitors all military activity and focuses onsocio-economic issues.TEL (UK)01624 877918 MOBILE (UK)07624 491609Internet site at:http://celticleague.net/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/