Scotland, a Country Crying for Justice and Salvation; The Alex Salmond case goes deep into whether Scotland has integrity as a Nation, the pillars of justice in Scotland are now so compromised that there can be no trust in SNP Leader Nicola Sturgeon, her SNP Government, and no trust in the integrity of the Scottish Civil Service, we have a Scottish government that acts maliciously against the people who they see as a threat to their position and power, the word to describe them is corrupt

Dear All

At some time in your life, you will experience an injustice done to you, either deliberately or accidentally. Whether deliberately or accidentally, you feel a tremendous sense of loss, anger  and injustice both physically and mentally. I have a few in my time, which is why you are reading this blog, it got started because I suffered one. In the case of my injustice, it was the University of Glasgow closing ranks to protect liars and abusers. If I had been rich, I would have got justice because simply I would have been able to sue Glasgow University and expose what they had done to me in a court of law. I never got my day in court, and I never got justice, this is a reality for many poor people in Scotland. In the case of Alex Salmond, his rights were abused by the Scottish Government, then the same Government led by Nicola Sturgeon closed ranks to cover up their behaviour and protect those who had abused his human rights. Salmond experienced what happened to me, but he was rich and able to use the Courts, in the both attempts to destroy him. Salmond found out the hard way, that so called decent people in positions of power were open minded to abuse their power.

Many people now are coming to the conclusion that there was a plot against Alex Salmond to destroy his reputation, his career and to ultimately put him in jail for the rest of his life. His crime was that his return to political office would endanger some people's position and status. If you had a fundamental belief in the pillars of justice that hold up Scottish society, your belief has now been shredded. No one in their right mind can trust the Scottish Government, The Crown Prosecution Service or the elected politicians serving as Ministers in the SNP Government. Trust in the two leaders, Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney has gone, trust in the Permanent Sec, Leslie Evans has gone, trust in Sturgeon's husband, Peter Murrell has gone, trust in the officials who said one thing and when found out the evidence wasn't true, trust in them has gone.

Although a lot are focused on seeing SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon resign, others need to be removed as well not just from elected public office but also from public life. To stop at Sturgeon resigning would be a major injustice, everyone who had any role must be removed. Integrity of government is at stake here.The SNP under Nicola Sturgeon have smashed integrity in public life, because more and more people know about the cover up, the lies, the attempt to jail an innocent man. The identity of the Alphabet women remains a secret by order of the Court, but these women are closely connected to Nicola Sturgeon. Sturgeon wasn't standing up for some minor female public officials. The feeling now across the political spectrum is articulated by people like Robin McAlpine as such that there was a 'coordinated plan of action created by a powerful group of people, developed and executed in secret but using public resources'. McAlpine further states that the plan had the 'sole purpose of forcing a perceived opponent out of public life in Scotland'. His view is shared by many people, when Sturgeon signed off on a code of conduct to allow complaints about former ministers, she must have known as a trained lawyer, this was wrong and open to abuse.

When the 'in house' plan to destroy Alex Salmond by the Scottish Government failed, they hadn't reckoned on what would happen in a judicial review, they panicked. Having failed, the new urgency was to cover up what they had done, because the plan was at risk of collapsing and exposing all those who were involved and what their exact role in perpetrating it. To protect their power and position became their number one priority which is why they instigated what was said to be a wide-ranging cover up. They must have thought destroying Alex Salmond would be so simple, just get him into a rigged hearing, find him guilty, destroy his reputation. If they had achieved their objective, then Nicola Sturgeon would have been safe from any attempt by Salmond to return to public life. Alex Salmond wouldn't have been so completely destroyed politically he could never be able to stand as a candidate under the SNP banner. If Salmond had returned, several people would stand to lose out, up to and including their lucrative jobs, they had no guarantee their positions would be safe.

So, from a rigged hearing, matters progressed to a criminal level, the second bite at the Cherry. Having lost the civil case, they escalated to get the criminal trial going, a mere stitch up which they regarded as routine because they held the levers of power now became an intention to seek to jail Salmond. Salmond jailed would have welded shut any investigation into the cover up. Everyone would be then be safe and secure, but when the jury returned their verdict, Alex Salmond walked from court as a free man. People who operate the levers of power in Scotland had committed the greatest ever abuse of power to attempt to arbitrarily to remove someone’s liberty. As others pointed out, this wasn't the usual “rough and tumble” of politics, it was something deeply sinister. It was the type of thing used in Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany, where a civil service allegedly neutral had been corrupted to its core and acted for the benefit of certain members of a political party.

There is a wider issue here for all Scots, Salmond is the lightening rod, he is just the trigger which led to the cascade, just like Peter Cadder was the lightening rod which forced the Scottish Government into making the Crown Prosecution Service restore human rights taken away by them and police. Cadder was someone whose case  caught my interest about 10 years ago, the Scottish Government fought 'tooth and nail' to deny suspects the automatic right of access to a lawyer. As I said back then in 2010, Peter Cadder has made the biggest legal breakthrough in Scotland in 30 years.

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2010/10/peoples-champion-peter-cadder-no-law.html

The Scottish Nationalist Party don't do justice, they don't respect rights and they don't respect the purity that must be upheld by governance. Fairness, Equality and Human Rights aren't deeply held beliefs, they are convenient hooks to use to advance their political agenda. In 2010, Alex Salmond led the SNP Government, perhaps he should appointed better Ministers, and perhaps he should have taken more interest in detail. In part, he is to blame for his own misfortune because the integrity of government and organisations were allowed to slip on his watch. It should have been drilled into the backs of people's heads that when it comes to justice, not only will it be done, respected, but it will also be seen to be done. The SNP chipped away at government turning it into their own little monster and attack dog. Bring in and keeping poisonous people in positions of power who lacked integrity and could be used as the SNP saw fit.

In the case of Salmond, details are so important, which is why I recommend a visit to read the coverage on the Wings over Scotland website, neither of us are fans of each other, but we both share two things in common, we believe in justice strongly and we each think the other is a wanker! Wings is getting access to some very interesting material which you can read, and for ease he has highlighted relevant parts so you can home in on and ponder. As I said previously, I was in the SNP, and I met Salmond many times at elections, he would say hi nd chat to me in quiet periods, when the allegations surfaced, I didn't he would be found guilty, and I wasn't inclined to believe the witnesses, and as the public record shows, neither was a jury. I am staunch anti SNP now, but I believe in all the Nolan principles of conduct in public life, and stitching someone up is totally wrong even if they are your political enemy. There is a duty on all of us, people in Scotland to demand our government and public bodies aren't corrupt and always act in good faith. My view for a long time is that the SNP are unfit to be the Government of Scotland, they are corrupt every aspect of government and its various arms and they are spreading their poison downwards and into every organisation in Scotland that they can.

In an article on Wings, Robin McAlpine says he is of the 'decided view that people in a position of power in Scotland misused that power in a manner which is not acceptable'. In reading his article, he makes strong opinions that, the 'complaints procedure was created and designed to target a specific individual'. He also concludes that 'in a position of power, you should never create laws or procedures for a purpose related to the pursuit of an individual; it represents a gross misuse of those powers'. The bit which will interest many and rightly so is that was as he terms “grooming” of complainants against the same individual", and recently we know find out that witnesses from the Scottish Government got 'coaching' before they gave evidence to the Holyrood Committee investigating the Scottish Government processes, its generic name is the Alex Salmond Inquiry. Witnesses against Alex Salmond being allegedly 'groomed' and those questioned by the inquiry getting 'coaching' before they give evidence. Generally people who tell the truth don't need 'coaching', so what do they need coaching on, they are senior figures in the Scottish Government, educated to degree level as a minimum. Who is the company that gave the 'coaching'? Why is their name being kept secret from the public?

The phrase use by many online about what has happened to Alex Salmond is, 'Oh what a tangle web, we weave when we first practice to deceive'.

Salmond is the first injustice ever to happen in Scotland, there have been hundreds, prior to the Cadder Case, how many people were denied our rights because of bad politicians and bad civil servants, and yes, the term to use is 'bad people'. Strip them of their wealth and position and what are you left with, wretched people who commit evil with no conscience, no sense of guilt, people who have turned from the light. There are certain things you can't buy in life, class and integrity, these are things which you must choose, even if the path is difficult.  

Corinthians 10:31 says, 'So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God'.

Did all those who attempted to imprison Alex Salmond do so for the glory of God? Do they think the end justifies the means? Do they consider themselves good people, people of value and people of worth? Do they think because they are people of relative wealth, that status put them above the law, and above decency? Position, money and power gave these people status, and like the lawyer who steals their clients' money, they are unworthy of a position of trust. Those officials who took part in the stitch up of Alex Salmond and the cover up which is now happened have no place in the governance of Scotland, and making judgments that affect its people.

Robin McAlpine wrote something which is staggering about the Alex Salmond Affair. He said:

"At this point we have moved into the territory of the kind of behaviour we seldom see in western Europe. Certainly, seeking to jail someone for political expediency is something I did not believe I would see in Scotland in my lifetime".

For a long time, I blogged on SNP stupidity and corruption, I was attacked, abused and mocked for it. I was the first to say that the Scottish National Party is a 'rat ship'. I also pointed out that sooner or later that the 'rats' would turn on each other. The reason is that these SNP people have no loyalty, no integrity, they are small minded corrupt little people who do not believe in public service. They talk about how it is an 'honour' when elected at the podium, but they don't believe it, they don't believe in honour, it's a buzzword to tick a box that they are 'humble'. Why are so many 'humble' people elected to public office in the SNP not speaking out about what has happened to Alex Salmond?

Where is their integrity?

The civil service in Scotland has been corrupted, there needs to be an intervention from the UK Govt, there needs to be a judge led inquiry, and I think the conclusion must be that we need a suspension of SNP control of the Scottish Government. Such a measure has never happened before, but due to the enormity of the problem created by the SNP, suspension is a viable option. One thing is certain, the SNP cannot roll back what has happened, this is something that SNP leader cannot fix, everyone cannot go back to be at least in the public eye 'pals'. Too much damage has been done here, Alex Salmond like Peter Cadder has done Scotland a great service because each in their own way has shown us a great injustice which I maintain cannot be fixed without outside intervention. No one, no party has the right to abuse power as the Scottish National Party has done in Government. No party has the right to use the processes of government for political expediency to attempt to destroy an individual innocent of no crime.

Finally, there two quotes from Plato, that I want to leave you with:

"When there is crime in society, there is no justice" and "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

Many believe in Scotland that a crime has been committed against Alex Salmond, and as we have seen by the amount of smearing against him by the SNP and their allies, he is truly hated. Telling the truth however is never a wrong thing, righting an injustice is always the right thing to do. One thing for certain, I don't think that protestations of what happened weren't maliciously would cut much ice with Scots, especially if this were to subsequently move forward in any way as a possible criminal trial. Already people are saying 'the repeated failure to produce documents even in the face of a Court Warrant appears to be, on the face of it, contempt of court'. I can certainly go along with that concept because the more you read about this, the more it stinks to high heaven.

Yours sincerely

George Laird                                                                                                                        The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University