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The emperor has no security

 
 
Hieronymus
23:10 / 19.11.03
There's so much to this story (about the Mirror's Ryan Parry sneaking into Buckingham Palace to expose the breach in security) that reminds me of Nathaniel Heatwole in the US.

So are the legal charges that are being considered (or in Nathaniel's case, in motion) the logical result of such a civil action? Is the exposure more important than the exposer's accountability? Doing the time IS part of satyagraha, is it not?

Discuss.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:44 / 20.11.03
When Willie Whitelaw was Home Secretary and Michael Fagan got into the palace, he offered (rather honourably) to resign, as it was ultimately his responsibility as HS. And he was a fucking Tory!

Blunkett's ordering an inquiry into why security was shit. Honestly, is this bastard ever gonna take responsibility for anything? (I'm not saying he should necessarily resign over this, much as I'd love him to- just that the right thing to do under the circumstances would be to offer his resignation. It would, at the very least, be good PR.)

Back to the point at hand, remember the "Secret Policemen" thing last month, when the guy was gonna get prosecuted for working as a copper under false pretenses? Blunkett didn't get away with screwing him over... yeah, you'd have to be aware of the possibility of getting done for exposing this kind of shit, but I'd rather people got away with it, from a moral perspective.
 
 
bjacques
07:35 / 20.11.03
Shooting the messenger is the first impulse of an embarrassed honcho. Anyone who delivers bad news--spectacularly--and doesn't plan for reprisals is either stupid or crazy, regardless of the morality.
 
  
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