Wednesday 16 May 2012

The CPS

How proud we need to be today, that we have the Crown Prosecution Service. This fabled organisation is led by a man who has a nobility beyond reproach. He is avowedly Left wing and a great believer in the Human Rights industry.

He brought a prosecution against a man who killed a burglar, based on the evidence of another burglar. The case was dropped when it came to court, being mere political posturing by the CPS. This is the same organisation that is taking so long over the simple matter of an MP having allegedly lied about who was driving his car, when caught by a speed camera. The charge, brought after considerable and unexplained delay, is perverting the course of justice.

Clearly, Mr, Starmer is a great believer in transparency and accountability as he has made very little of the prosecution of a Cabinet Minister, but launches live TV announcements about members of the Murdoch empire, in a similar predicament.

I think that the nature of the outrage evinced by Mrs Brooks is interesting. Her annoyance isn't just that she is 'innocent', but that the prosecution is being brought due to political pressure (or the CPS's own leanings). I think there may be something to this. Over 40 people have been arrested over this scandal, but the first charges  in the current investigation are these, and none are charged with criminal offences that might be said to be based on the central issue. No, Mrs Brooks and others are charged with destroying information that, the speculation is, night have been incriminating.

When the police launch an investigation into your work practices and you go into the office, extract a number of boxes of material and burn them in your garden (not what is alleged here) then it would be reasonable to assume that the two are connected and you are up to no good. It isn't proof though and though Keir may think that an old fashioned concept and not applicable in political trials, it is still the law.

It will be interesting indeed to see if the CPS think that the law should be allowed to have much bearing on the case. A great deal of information and not a little speculation swirls around daily in the Leveson inquiry, which seems to blithely ignore stumbling into possibly legal areas, where it may harm a future prosecution. Then there is the Left media reporting the inquiry, with many aspects amplified beyond reality. We are, for instance, continually told that 'this is bad news for the Prime Minister' because he knows someone who is appearing. No substance to the assertion being required.

A clear picture that Rebekah Brooks was in charge of a very unpleasant organisation has been framed and it is impossible to believe that any trial would not be conducted in the oxygen of an extremely opinionated atmosphere. According to the biased media, pursuing their favourite target, Murdoch, she had to know what was going on because she was in charge. At times they hardly seem able to stop short of suggesting she must have personally organised it and probably ordered it, because she is the darling of Murdoch.

On this basis every corrupt police officer must be operating under the instructions of his Chief Constable. Once again, the Left expect an ignorant public to swallow their version of reality whole. Well, maybe we shouldn't.

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