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Pauline Mellon with a piece from her new blog The Diary of a Derry Mother. Her article initially featured on 13 January 2014. TPQ wishes her well with the blog.

I tend to approach the press with caution always mindful of how some elements of the press portrayed the innocent victims of Bloody Sunday as gunmen and bombers.



As someone who campaigned for Marian Price McGlinchey on a humanitarian level I find the assertion by many journalists that Human Rights campaigners now look 'ridiculous' to be offensive, without merit and little more than a revisionist opinion. One quite possibly manufactured and disseminated to dissuade people from highlighting injustice in the future.

In the North of Ireland the ongoing erosion of civil and human rights continues and I for one will continue to highlight the failure to honour and uphold these fundamental rights. I never condoned the killings at Masserene or elsewhere but by the same token I never condoned state abuse.

The campaign for Marian McGlinchey was mounted to highlight her severe ill health and how her treatment was in breach of articles 3,5,6 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. I was always fully aware that in the end the serious charges Marian faced would be a matter for Marian, her legal team and the courts. Marian's guilty plea does NOT absolve the state of their wrong doing in this case.
 
If highlighting human rights abuse can make people like myself and others look 'ridiculous' then those in media should maybe consider how they look when they mostly ignore issues such as these and then attempt to ridicule those who don't.





Ridiculous

Pauline Mellon with a piece from her new blog The Diary of a Derry Mother. Her article initially featured on 13 January 2014. TPQ wishes her well with the blog.

I tend to approach the press with caution always mindful of how some elements of the press portrayed the innocent victims of Bloody Sunday as gunmen and bombers.



As someone who campaigned for Marian Price McGlinchey on a humanitarian level I find the assertion by many journalists that Human Rights campaigners now look 'ridiculous' to be offensive, without merit and little more than a revisionist opinion. One quite possibly manufactured and disseminated to dissuade people from highlighting injustice in the future.

In the North of Ireland the ongoing erosion of civil and human rights continues and I for one will continue to highlight the failure to honour and uphold these fundamental rights. I never condoned the killings at Masserene or elsewhere but by the same token I never condoned state abuse.

The campaign for Marian McGlinchey was mounted to highlight her severe ill health and how her treatment was in breach of articles 3,5,6 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. I was always fully aware that in the end the serious charges Marian faced would be a matter for Marian, her legal team and the courts. Marian's guilty plea does NOT absolve the state of their wrong doing in this case.
 
If highlighting human rights abuse can make people like myself and others look 'ridiculous' then those in media should maybe consider how they look when they mostly ignore issues such as these and then attempt to ridicule those who don't.





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6 comments:

  1. AM9:33 PM, January 18, 2014

    Pauline,

    your blog is intelligent and crisply written. Long may it continue. Don't dare sue TPQ for plundering it!!

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  2. Pauline Mellon10:09 PM, January 18, 2014

    Thanks Anthony

    Just glad to get my thoughts out there,so please stay tuned there's more on the way!!!

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  3. Aine11:31 PM, January 18, 2014

    Well said Pauline, I echo Anthony's sentiments - keep writing :)

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  4. Mike Craig2:06 AM, January 19, 2014

    Well said, Pauline!
    No one could have put it better.

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  5. Anonymous11:54 AM, January 19, 2014

    best of luck with ur new site pauline, love the cover page image, luks great and ur style of writin is so bullshit free and unpretentious - a breath of fresh air u are,the main stream media is dooooomed, beir bua derry mother

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  6. marty11:24 AM, January 22, 2014

    Just home from the hills of Dun na Gall where one can partake in the viewing of such grand homes belonging to the quisling $inn £eind hierarchy,no average industrial wage built these homes thats for sure,has the Northern bank money been unfairly distributed among the elite,its something our dear Derry mother and her comrades should be looking at when she is finished taking down the ego,s in Derry council, good job Pauline, ye Derry wannns can ask the right questions ,Blogs such as this are for sure the way to go, chipping away at those who think they have fooled us all,the Alison Morris type image at the head of the post is a sure reminder that the "free press" is anything but, the Birmingham Six would still be hanging , McGurks bar would have been an own goal,and the the victims of state mass murder on Bloody Sunday would have been gunmen and bombers, so a cara its is alongside TPQ and other blogs that may just stop state brainwashing from becoming a walk in the park,as you have said some people like to be treated like mushrooms ,kept in the dark and fed shit, keep her lit kid a good job...

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