Comments on: Belfast Project: High Court Rejects McIntyre’s Motion for an Injunction

By: Case of the Day: Commonwealth v. Karen Read | Letters Blogatory

Case of the Day: Commonwealth v. Karen Read | Letters Blogatory — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:51:05 +0000

[…] why I thought the case for extending such a privilege in the Belfast Project affair was weak. I earned or in any event received the enmity of Ed Moloney, who never really understood what Letters Blogatory was about or what my project […]

By: Ted Folkman

Ted Folkman — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:42:45 +0000

In reply to Ed Moloney. Classy! Ed, I write about the law of international judicial assistance, not about Irish history or politics, not about colonialism, not about how to tell history. Perhaps in your eyes that is foolish, perhaps understanding the law abstracted from the politics and morals of a particular case—which is what I expressly say in the post I am trying to do—is absurd. But let me point out that if years ago you had better understood the things I have been writing about this case, none of the fiasco that followed might have happened, because you might not have made promises the law would not allow you to keep. So there is value in knowing what the law is.

By: Ed Moloney

Ed Moloney — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:11:14 +0000

You have been a dickhead from the start of this affair, and that has not changed. You write from a deep, fundamental and irrevocable ignorance of Irish politics, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the politics of the past, i.e. who gets to tell the truth about what happened, who did what to whom and who broke which laws during the Troubles—particularly whether British forces were every bit as murderous, criminal and immoral as the IRA. You look at this case as if it was on the same plane as a burglary in suburban Boston as opposed to what it was and is, a deeply political and ancient struggle between a former imperial power and the remnants of its first colony. As we say in Belfast, ‘Wise up!’