An friend who works for RAI – the Italian equivalent of the BBC – commented on how they bury news over there.
A news broadcast of 30 minutes devoted almost its entire length to the farcical Amanda Knox trial with about one minute given to the kind of item that in any normal civilised country would have been headline news everywhere.
A Mafioso Pentito – that is someone who has repented – revealed that one of the people who commissioned the murder of Judge Falcone was Berlusconi.
(If you don’t know who Falcone was, he was a heroic figure who fought the Mafia in Sicily until his car was blown up).
Imagine the equivalent here! That the Prime Minister could have been involved in the killing of a national hero? Would that have been front page news, or what? But then every thinking Italian knows where Berlusconi got a lot of his money from.
One of the reasons I have great reservations about Europe, besides being governed by unelected bureaucrats is the astonishing degree of corruption there at every level – and not just in Italy. Chirac was a crook. Mitterand was a Nazi stooge. Sarkozy doesn’t bear thinking about. And what will the future bring, with countries like Bulgaria, where murderers get elected to parliament so as to avoid prosecution.
But then again, a very significant percentage of Indian politicians are convicted criminals. And we all know about the Chinese.
No doubt our lot will catch up. I see the great Toad announced yesterday for the umpteenth time that “he” is going to wage war on benefit frauds. No, he’s not. It’s another ludicrous case of mistaking an announcement of intent for action. When the tax and benefit system you have created means it pays people not to work, what do you expect?
Drayton, I think that you do not need to look very far away from home to see that our men also have blood on their hands. Dr. David Kelly who inconveniently dismissed the existance of WMDs in Iraq, is the only man to have used a knife to kill himself and yet left no finger prints on it, and the only man to have bled to death with less blood loss than caused by a minor injury.
Ah, lets not forget Stephen Milligan, the journalist who was alleged to have committed suicide after allegedly threatening to expose gay sex sessions with two then
serving cabinet ministers.
There was allegedly more to the story involving the introduction of a
footballer to the cabinet ministers which was allegedly arranged by a third
party who had very close links with an extremely powerful paedophile
ring.
The footballer has not been seen or heard of since as he too surprisingly committed suicide.
David Kelly is a very interesting case and there's certainly much more to that than meets the eye. However it is wrong to say that the British Government had anything to do with his death as the clever money is on the Iraqi Secret Service. The UK does not undertake assassinations otherwise the whole IRA leadership could have been wiped out in an evening.
We have of late been complicit in torture which is bloody ironic considering that Bliar allowed “repatriation” of UK based terror suspects by the CIA, when his hag of a wife battles hard (for huge amounts of Legal Aid) to allow know terrorist to stay here at our expense.
Finally, what never ceases to amaze me is how Blair and Brown has made this Country a Police State and done away with so many of our rights. Signing up to Europe is just the last of a long list of abuses of power.
And I thought the conversion to police state was only going on here…
In Ontario, Canuckistan, Premier Dolton McWimpy has authorized police checkpoints anywhere the cops want. He's even granted SPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) freedom to roam wherever they like. All it takes is a phone call from a bored neighbor or competitor for armed and untrained thugs to storm your property and into any building they desire — without warrant. They can confiscate animals, assess penalties, and see a person spend the rest of his/her life and savings defending spurious charges.
Simon M. talks a lot of sense.
There is no chance whatsoever that the Iraqi secret service was involved in the Kelly murder.
First he was building a strong case against a war, secondly their embassy based staff were under a restricted travel order and thirdly they would have had no knowledge of the anti-depresant drugs that he was taking and which were alleged to have been taken by him prior to his death. The allegation was proved false when the autopsy found the equivalent dose of half a pill in his bloodstream.
Kelly was murdered in another location and moved to the woods. For the Iraqis to have had local interrogation facilities and be able to move him back to near his home when they would have been under surveillance (if they actualy existed), is impossible.
We know who did it and we know who ordered it while out of the country.
There is no chance whatsoever that the Iraqi secret service was involved in the Kelly murder.
First he was building a strong case against a war, secondly their embassy based staff were under a restricted travel order and thirdly they would have had no knowledge of the anti-depresant drugs that he was taking and which were alleged to have been taken by him prior to his death. The allegation was proved false when the autopsy found the equivalent dose of half a pill in his bloodstream.
Kelly was murdered in another location and moved to the woods. For the Iraqis to have had local interrogation facilities and be able to move him back to near his home when they would have been under surveillance (if they actualy existed), is impossible.
We know who did it and we know who ordered it while out of the country.