HM Ever­s­ley

The re­cent rev­e­la­tion of the il­le­gal wire-tap­ping of phones and in­ter­cep­tion of e-mails rais­es sev­er­al ques­tions and is­sues that need to be looked in­to and pro­nounced up­on with ex­pe­di­en­cy by our sys­tem of jus­tice. Where­as no one is above the law, some­one needs to in­form the per­son who made that state­ment in ref­er­ence to this is­sue that the "law" as de­ter­mined by the peo­ple of the na­tion is ad­min­is­tered by a ju­di­cia­ry and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies.

These agen­cies de­ter­mine through due process the le­git­i­mate law en­force­ment pro­ce­dures to un­der- take crime in­ter­ven­tions and not the Par­lia­ment, Cab­i­net or any unau­tho­rised in­di­vid­ual or group.

The SIA re­port­ed to the pre­vi­ous Prime Min­is­ter on­ly and there­fore ei­ther was in­struct­ed by him or they de­cid­ed by them­selves what ac­tions to take. This needs to be ad­dressed.

If the ac­tions of the for­mer Prime Min­is­ter were not sub­ject to par­lia­men­tary over­sight, then they may not be cov­ered by par­lia­men­tary priv­i­leges. If the of­fice of the Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic is the na­tion's high­est of­fice, then the il­le­gal mon­i­tor­ing of phone calls and e-mail should rep­re­sent a sub­ver­sion of the in­sti­tu­tion and of­fice of the Pres­i­dent.

The present regime has spo­ken many times of its in­tent to hold peo­ple ac­count­able for their ac­tions yet it has demon­strat­ed a glar­ing lack of in­tent to in­ves­ti­gate the sig­nif­i­cant ev­i­dence of the abuse of pub­lic of­fice by peo­ple un­der the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion. The se­ri­ous­ness of the re­cent rev­e­la­tions de­mands swift and af­fir­ma­tive ac­tion, yet the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Min­is­ter of Jus­tice are both silent. We as a peo­ple need to guard our democ­ra­cy and don't leave it for some­one else.

HM Ever­s­ley

Vista­bel­la, San Fer­nan­do