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RealityLicks -> RE: Corruption in the UK pt 2 (4/10/2008 11:29:52 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
Isnt the difference though, that we have a country in which
a) we got to find out about this case in the first place
b) lots of agencies and people were pissed enough about it to pursue it
c) the agencies and people who pursued it, didnt get bribed to shut up or get "disappeared"
d) eventually the agencies and people who pursued it, are getting somewhere with it
Not a bad comparison with others - albeit that it occurred in the first instance doesnt put us anywhere near the top of the league on open, honest commercial dealing. Although we have to remember that he who put the kybosh on the investigation is the same one who deceived the country into the worst strategic blunder since 1956.
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Sorry for not replying sooner but I was amply refreshed last night and thought it better to wait.
Seems to me that these campaigners owe their success to the support of The Guardian - not exactly lots of people and agencies - but we shouldn't have to wait for a left-leaning media organisation to uphold the law: we have a well-funded system in place to do so, which should be and claims to be, above outside influence.
No, Alan Rusbridger hasn't been disappeared but remember the courts recently gagged that SAS whistleblower over extraordinary rendition, so clearly as a country we are not above "disappearing" folk when it is deemed necessary. We don't know what we don't know. It's obviously safe to assume that other illegal acts are carried out to benefit British companies and individuals about which we will never hear a whisper.
Inevitably, the focus falls on Tony Blair and rightly so, although the original mess occurred under Thatcher and directly benefitted her son. Tony's sexing up of dossiers hasn't endeared him to the Establishment very much and I'd guess that this latest stain on his name has passed through partly because of his treatment of senior civil servants.
So although the courts and the press have collared the executive on this occasion, I remain doubtful that this is not simply the tip of a very big iceberg - one we will never know entirely. It could even be argued that this expose appears precisely to encourage us in our belief in the supposed integrity of our public servants, which I personally believe is a far worse crime. What are the odds of getting that through court?
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