Saturday, January 17, 2004
Now that Kilroy has gone, can we plead with the BBC to hire Richard Littlejohn to replace him? Then we can demand they fire him for writing stuff like this. This is why Dicky sticks to working within Rupert Murdoch's grubby little Empire, if he worked for anyone halfway reputable they'd have to fire him five seconds after the next time he wrote or said something. This time he's fulminating about the hopefully imminent release of the british Guantanemo detainees. Dicky does reassure us halfway through "I’m all for the presumption of innocence" but surrounds it with gems such as insinuating that as soon as the detainees return home, we'll have "one of them walking in to the Bull Ring shopping centre with a Semtex corset under his parka or tipping a tube of ricin down the air vent at Holborn Tube station".
"[T]he prospect of them being released back on to the streets of this country without the evidence against them being tested is insane." As Dicky well knows, there isn't evidence against them, that's why they're going to be released rather than standing trial. He knows that if there were the faintest chance of them being charged with something they would be, he can hardly claim that Britain is soft on the US's 'War Against Terror'. But then, like I said at the start, if Dicky had to produce proof for anything that skittered across the gaping void that is his brain, he wouldn't be working for News International would he?
(Barry Cryer on Kilroy: "He's a difficult man to ignore but it's worth the effort")
"[T]he prospect of them being released back on to the streets of this country without the evidence against them being tested is insane." As Dicky well knows, there isn't evidence against them, that's why they're going to be released rather than standing trial. He knows that if there were the faintest chance of them being charged with something they would be, he can hardly claim that Britain is soft on the US's 'War Against Terror'. But then, like I said at the start, if Dicky had to produce proof for anything that skittered across the gaping void that is his brain, he wouldn't be working for News International would he?
(Barry Cryer on Kilroy: "He's a difficult man to ignore but it's worth the effort")
