Friday 24 April 2009
Gurkha Veterans deserve right to stay
Press Association: Gurkhas to hear settlement ruling
Gurkha campaigners are due to find out if the Government has bowed to pressure to give veterans who left the Army before 1997 the automatic right to settle in the UK.
Immigration rules introduced in 2004 allowed serving Gurkhas with at least four years' service to settle in the UK.
But the rules do not apply to Gurkhas discharged from the British Army before July 1 1997.
Last year a High Court judge ruled that the policy excluding older veterans was unlawful and in need of urgent review.
The Government pledged to publish a new policy by December 2008 but the deadline passed without an announcement and in March campaigners returned to court to enforce the ruling.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is due to announce the new policy to the House of Commons while Gurkha veterans and campaigner-cum-actress Joanna Lumley watch from the public gallery.
But campaigners fear the new rules will still not give older Gurkhas the same rights as their younger counterparts.
Gurkhas who left the Army before 1997 are allowed to apply for the right to settle in this country but more than 2,000 former Gurkha soldiers have been refused permission.
Victoria Cross winner Tul Bahadur Pun, who is in his 80s, was only granted leave to stay in 2007 after a long campaign against a decision by officials to turn down his application.
The Gurkha brigade was formed following the partition of India in 1947 but Nepalese Gurkha soldiers have been part of the British Army for almost 200 years.
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Undebunkable Chemtrails Video That The "Debunkers" Ignore...
...and yes, Chemtrails interfere with weather
(but why they are used, no-one fully knows...)
And You Tell Me There's No Suppressed Technology?
It's another of those 'conspiracy theories' that good citizens don't notice. Imagine the standard of living if all the secret technology was released to the public...we'd be "free and independent" as JFK said! No more poverty anywhere! Can you imagine being sick enough to withhold such technology from society just to maintain your position of control? (Bearing in mind that we don't know just how much technological capability is being withheld, because, duh, it's secret.) What did Nikola Tesla really develop?
Individual Liberty? But that's "selfish"!
No, we need to look after each other voluntarily without having a government do all that at gunpoint. Sounds absurd at first but soon you realise that the reason it sounds so is because of the very unfree nature of our current existence. Envision greater possibilities! Ok, some kind of massive wake-up would be needed before this kind of free, responsible, uncontrollable society could emerge. And that's what we are seeing day by day in the world - a massive waking up of the previously enslaved masses (including myself I must add!)
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