Brings a whole new meaning to Bill Hicks' mighty 'suck satan's ****' routine _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
I'm not surprised in the slightest. I've always held that more money one has, the more likely one is to spend it on hookers. Also, the more conservative one is, the more likely they're a closet homosexual.
If you didn't care what happened to me,
And I didn't care for you,
We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain.
Wondering which of the buggars to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing.
Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 480 Location: the beano
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject:
Royal Blackmail - This week's grapevine rumour
indymedia story
Main article: 2007 Royal blackmail plot
In October 2007, Viscount Linley was the victim of an alleged blackmail attempt. Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan were charged with demanding money with menaces after they attempted to extort £50,000 to prevent release of a video that they made of an aide claiming that he had had oral sex with a member of the Royal family and a male Member of Parliament. The aide is also allegedly seen on a video tape taking cocaine from an envelope embossed with his employer's name. The scam was exposed when a detective, posing as a royal aide, met the two men in a London hotel on 11 September. They pleaded not guilty at the pre-trial hearing on 20 December 2007; the trial is timetabled to begin on 14 April 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Armstrong-Jones,_Viscount_Linley#Bl ackmail_allegation
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject:
Royal blackmail claims 'a farce'
...............Mr Thwaites, defending Mr McGuigan, said in his closing speech that Mr Strachan was a "Walter Mitty" type fantasist who believed he was close to the royals.
He said attempts to sell the tapes by claiming newspapers had already made offers for them "may be a dirty business, it may not be a very moral business, it may be despicable" but was not criminal.
He said police officers had failed "abysmally" to gather evidence against the defendants, adding that jurors were invited to fill the gap with a "shrug".
This referred to the "sting" meeting when Mr Strachan was asked whether publicist Max Clifford would get the tapes if the officer did not pay and Mr Strachan did not complete his answer.
Mr Thwaites said if the prosecution was right "a shrug of the shoulders is all that you need to be found guilty at the Old Bailey".
"This is a joke. This whole case is a farce from beginning to end. You cannot convict people on evidence as poor as this - as insubstantial, as insignificant, as incomplete as this," he added...........
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