British Justice.

Most people in the country have heard of Abu Qatada the Muslim cleric and I use that term very loosely, who Britain is trying to deport to Jordan to stand trial in that country where he has all ready been found guilty of  crimes. He is now under house arrest hereafter being released  from custody, he has to remain in his house 22 hours a day and is only allowed out for two hours. This is estimated to be costing the British tax payers £10,000 a week. He can't be deported to Jordan because of rulings by the European Courts of Human Rights because of the risk that evidence obtained by torture could form part of any future trial. All this seems to fly in the face of retired business man  Chris Tappin, who I believe most people will not have heard of, myself included till this Saturday. Next Friday he will be escorted, by British police to Heathrow Airport where he will be handed over to US Marshals and taken to America for trial on alleged terrorist acts. The company he once owned exported  five batteries from Texas to Amsterdam, with the paper work all in order. This was done for a man called Robert Gibson a British business man through a firm called Mercury Global Enterprises (MGE) this was unbeknown to Gibson the vendor,or Tappin was a front for US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency to entrap business men  engaged in illegal export of controlled technologies. The Americans say that these five batteries costing $25,000 to export were going to be used in Hawk air defence missiles. All that now aside he is going to be extradited on a US-UK extradition treaty signed in 2003 by Tony Blair and George Bush. Mr Tappin's extradition was allowed to proceed by a magistrates court, the High Court, the Home Secretary and the European Court of Human Rights.. At no point could  his lawyer fight the case on its merit or test the evidence. This must be a denial of justice, but it would seem that since (9/11) the Americans have got paranoid, and if you are not with them then you must be an enemy. Now although most people would sympathise with the Americans, this extradition. Must be on dubious grounds and should be looked at very closely before he is extradited. Not only that but he could face a long term in prison perhaps years before he is brought to trial. Is allowing this extradition under these conditions what we call British Justice. A known guilty terrorist can't be extradited yet an innocent business man can?