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FACT KILLS FICTION

FACT KILLS FICTION

The truth is still trying to catch up with the lies.

1970:   It is tiresome that the Turkish Cypriots are behaving in this aggressive and pettifogging way (Their obsession with percentages is perhaps illuminating in connection with the causes of the breakdown in intercommunal negotiations 1960-1963!).

 1970:  Although our right to the Base Areas does not legally derive from the Treaty of Establishment and our retention of them is not legally dependent on the consent of the Cyprus Government, it would in practice be difficult for us to retain them should the Cyprus Government choose to promote an active campaign for their removal[.....]If the Cyprus Government took steps to impede our use of the Base Areas, retaliatory measures would in theory be available to us. But we must recognise that the geographical position of the bases makes them hostage to Cypriot goodwill, and that in any such exchange, we would be the losers.

 1971: Finally, we have given careful thought to your suggestion that we might need to intervene physically to bar a Turkish intervention, if we were not to lose out to the Russians in Cyprus. I am afraid that this idea is just not on.

1971:  While the situation is not at this moment getting worse, the potential for evil increases the longer the communities remain apart.

1971(Re partition/double enosis):  [...] since the occupying powers would be our NATO allies, the Sovereign Base Areas would not be affected, although their legal basis might be shaken by the destruction of the 1960 complex of treaties.[...] Thinking Cypriots, of which there are some[!!!] are beginning to recognise that the only framework within which the problem can be solved is a European one.[...] If the Turkish General staff learnt anything from 1967, it must be that they should invade Cyprus while the going is good, without waiting for the international diplomatic machine to get into gear. I can see only one answer that would at least stand a chance of preserving our interests in Cyprus: to provide for a limited period a joint Anglo-American screen between Turkey and Cyprus .The object would be to gain time to allow saner counsels to prevail in Turkey,[...].

1974(22 July):  Our military bases on the island have usually been more of a liability than an asset.[....] If the complete removal of the Turkish community from Cyprus has to be ruled out as impracticable( as the example of the Palestinians suggests may be the case)then at least a de facto and temporary partition of the island into clearly defined Greek and Turkish areas seems essential.

1974(26 July):  When they achieve their objectives, they[the Turks] will be ready to talk.

1974(12 August):  [....] Kissinger had suggested  that he [Mavros] delayed [his visit to Washington] until this round of talks at Geneva was over [!!!].

1974(28 August):  His[Kissinger's] attitude towards the Greek Government seems to me to contain a personal element[...].

1974(16 November):  I gathered from Kissinger that he does not have much hope of putting off Makarios' return to Cyprus[...].He [Kissinger] was uncomplimentary about Makarios, whom he had seen a few days ago.

 William Mallinson

1 December 2008

Bush and Blair (Shrub and Bliar)

One of those whom I have always respected, anti-apartheid man Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has called for Bush and Blair to be taken to the International Criminal Court over the Iraq War. Well done, Archbishop! Apart from the blatant lying and the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, these two evil beings have brought the world nearer to destruction than ever before, opening the door to a major conflict - viz. Syria and Iran, whom the United States of Israel, with dark and dirty Saudi support, are desperate to attack. Let us hope that more people with the courage of the archbishop appear.

William Mallinson: HYPOCRISY

William Mallinson: HYPOCRISY: IN 1998, BRITAIN ARROGANTLY REFUSED TO ACCEPT A SPANISH EXTRADITION REQUEST TO SEND MASS MURDERER AND TORTURER GENERAL PINOCHET TO SPAIN TO ...

HYPOCRISY

IN 1998, BRITAIN ARROGANTLY REFUSED TO ACCEPT A SPANISH EXTRADITION REQUEST TO SEND MASS MURDERER AND TORTURER GENERAL PINOCHET TO SPAIN TO ANSWER CHARGES. YET SHE IS NOW DESPERATE TO ACCEDE TO A SWEDISH REQUEST TO SEND JULIAN ASSANGE TO SWEDEN, TO ANSWER BELATED AND TRUMPED UP SEXUAL MOLESTATION CHARGES, WHICH SEEM TO CENTRE ON HIS NOT HAVING USED A CONDOM. HE HAD ACTUALLY BEEN INVITED INTO THE BEDS OF HIS ACCUSERS. THESE WOMEN SHOULD THEMSELVES BE CHARGED WITH MALICIOUS PROSECUTION AND COERCIVE SEX. ASSANGE'S LAWYER, THE BRAVE HUMAN RIGHTS SUPPORTER GARZON (WHO ALSO PREPARED THE CASE AGAINST THE MURDEROUS PINOCHET), HAS STILL NOT RECEIVED WRITTEN REASSURANCE FROM EITHER THE SWEDISH OR AMERICAN GOVERNMENT THAT ASSANGE WILL NOT BE SENT TO AMERICA. AND EVEN IF SUCH ASSURANCES ARE GIVEN, ONLY A FOOL WOULD BELIEVE THEM, GIVEN THE PACK OF LIES THAT THE AMERICANS TOLD ABOUT THEIR REASONS FOR INVADING IRAQ. THEY WOULD SIMPLY LIE AGAIN. AS FOR POST-STIEG LARSSON SWEDEN, WITH ITS BILDERBERGED AND TRILATERAL COMMISSION PUPPET FOREIGN MINISTER, BILDT, ANY CLAIM THAT THE GOVERNMENT MUST LEAVE IT TO ITS COURTS IS RUBBISH, AS THE SWEDISH CONSTITUTION MAKES IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT IN EXTRADITION CASES AT LEAST, THE GOVERNMENT CAN IGNORE A COURT'S RULING, WHATEVER ILL-INFORMED NONSENSE THE 'NEW STATESMAN' PUTS OUT, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE. THANK GOODNESS FOR COURAGEOUS PEOPLE LIKE ASSANGE, GARZON AND PRESIDENT COREA OF ECUADOR!

Sexual Harassment at Corfu Airport

Who controls Greece? Private security companies?

                                                                                                                       8 May 2012

To: Mr George Nikou

From: Dr. William Mallinson

  

Dear Mr. Nikou,

I am writing to you to put in an official complaint about the behaviour of a member of the Brinks security staff, a Mr. Gayboy, at Corfu Airport on Thursday 3 May, at approximately 19.25 hours, some thirty five minutes before my Aegean Air flight A3 407 to Athens. I also have some questions to put to you, for which I should be grateful for a considered response. Before doing that, I should provide you with the following background.

Having shown my Greek identity card and boarding pass to a Brinks official (which I found odd, since policemen usually do this job), I passed through the electronic security gate. There was no bleep. Mr. Gayboy then stepped forward to search me. I had put my watch, belt and jacket through the scanner, and was wearing only moccasins, underpants, close-fitting jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt, the latter not tucked in.

Mr. Gayboy lifted my shirt, inserted his fingers down the front of my jeans, almost reaching my pubic hairs, and began to work his way around the front of my waist. At this point, I asked him to stop, as I was not looking for a boyfriend, since I was not a homosexual. I said that the regulations did not permit private staff to put their hands down men’s trousers, but he disagreed. I then asked a policeman sitting a few yards away if Mr. Gayboy was allowed to put his fingers down my front. I was already feeling sufficiently harassed that I was unaware as to what exactly the policeman said, but I gained the impression that he appeared to condone the sexual harassment. Perhaps he was confused. I asked Mr.Gayboy whether I should take my trousers off for him. He then asked me to turn around, whereupon he put his fingers down the back of my trousers, and continued his dirty groping. He also squeezed my left buttock. I asked him whether he was a homosexual, explaining that I was not, whereupon he said that he was ‘two men’; he then had to be told by his two colleagues not to attack me. To my extreme embarrassment, this sexual harassment happened in the full view of other passengers. I found the whole episode distressing.

When I turned to leave, a Brinks female, who had observed the proceedings, asked me to open my bag, whereupon I took everything out of it. She refused to put the contents back. Strangely, and unprofessionally, she did not even ask me to unzip the two side containers (which contained my running shoes). So what was the point of her ‘search’?

I said that I would do a ‘kataggelia’, using the Greek, whereupon the policeman politely asked for my passport. He seemed surprised when I produced my Greek identity card, but took it, and then proceeded to write something down, on a sheet of blank white paper (!). I did not ask him why he did this, but wrote down his number, in his full view. His police number is 2----. He was not impolite, but I noticed that he did not ask for the identity card of Mr.Gayboy, at least in my presence. This strikes me as prejudiced, even with racist connotations. Perhaps he needs to explain himself. Most of the whole episode was in English, with bits of Greek. For example, I think that I used the word ‘pousti’, since someone who puts his hand down men’s trousers and squeezes men’s buttocks is probably one, at least in my reasoned opinion.

I should therefore be grateful if you would kindly do two things: first, investigate my complaint, and ensure that Mr. Gayboy is not allowed to sexually harass men again, particularly in public, and second, to kindly let me have an answer to the following questions:

a) Are Brinks staff allowed to put their hands down men’s      trousers, particularly in public?

b) What should I do if this happens again?

c)Are Brinks staff allowed to check travellers’ documentation, or should it be the police, in whom I generally have more confidence than inadequately trained private security staff?

d)Was this sexual harassment recorded on a security camera, as I think it should have been? If so, then this must be viewed.

e)Is it up to private security staff to replace items in a bag?

f)Should private security staff who ask to look at the contents of a bag ignore the side compartments?

I have been coming to Corfu regularly since 2004, as a lecturer of the Ionian University, and such blatantly unacceptable and unprofessional behaviour and sexual harassment has never occurred in my presence at Corfu Airport. I am travelling there again soon, and hope that these people will not try to harass me sexually again.

I look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

William Mallinson

Dr. William Mallinson

Author, journalist and

Lecturer, British History, Literature and Culture,

Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting,

Ionian University

PS Please excuse my having written in English, but it is better than my Greek. 

Δ/Δ15 Νικου Γεωργιος 3:37 PM (2 hours ago)
to me, d15_mpantazis

Dear Mr. Mallinson,

We are sorry for the late reply due to heavy workload.

Upon receival of your email, we communicated your letter to the airport Manager of Corfu Airport and asked for investigation on the matter. After the collection of all relevant information, the Airport Manager conveyed to us the reports of the persons working for the private security company  (BRINK'S) who were involved in the process of your security screening.  The conclusion derived from the reports was that all procedures applied during the screening of you as a person and your cabin bags were implemented according to the requirements of the relevant Security Regulations.

We understand that sometimes it is not easy for everyone to accept the process of physical search but still it is a procedure that airports are required to follow by security regulations. All parts of the body to be searched are described in detail in the European regulations and the security staff is trained and obliged to follow them, otherwise it is a violation of regulations. Your remarks are under consideration and our authority has given specific instructions to the airport to make every effort to create the less possible inconvenience to the passengers during the implementation of the controls ensuring the satisfactory level of security.

Sincerely yours

George Nikou

Director

HCAA/ AVSEC Division 

Dear Mr. Nikou,

Thank you for your reply to my e-mail about the sexual harassment which I had to endure at Corfu airport at the hands of inadequately trained private (Brinks) staff. I note your reply, but consider it far too vague to be credible. You do not appear to have actually answered any of my six questions, in particular that as to whether private staff are allowed to put their hands down men's trousers, particularly in public. I should be grateful if you could kindly endeavour to elicit specific answers to my specific questions. Otherwise, your reply could well be construed as condoning sexual harassment.

I look forward to specific answers to my specific questions which, as I am sure you appreciate, are in the public interest.

Yours sincerely,

William Mallinson

Dr. William Mallinson

  

                                                                                    

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