State of few rights, many wrongs

SO Mary Harney believes the Columbia Three got a fair trial and should hand themselves in to the Colombian authorities.

Ian Paisley jnr is delighted that the verdict of their original trial, being innocent of training FARC rebels, was overturned.

In the days following the second verdict such politicians were given a wide berth by sections of the media to make similar statements, with little attention either to the facts about this case of the nature of the Colombian state.