20-01-2011, 10:36 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:Shades of the gross abuse of 'Public Interest Immunity Certificates' throughout the 'Arms to Iraq Affair' eh?Peter Presland Wrote:O'Donnell replied to Chilcot that releasing Blair's notes would damage Britain's relations with the US. and would not be in the public interest.
And there's lies revealed the bollocks of Mandarin double-speak.
Obviously not being "in the pubic interest" doesn't actually mean that. The public would be extremely interested to know what's being said in their name.
What it means is that it's in the "interest" of a handful of senior public officials and even fewer senior politicians and their dribble-wipers - to protect their powdered arses from receiving the sudden discourteous arrival of swiftly moving public boots towards them, should they, the pubic, learn what really transpired.
It's part of a carefully refined Orwellian use of language where things actually mean their opposites but, to the mass of the general public, have a certain comforting, reassuring feel to them.
'The Public Interest' actually means the interests of a tight knit cabal of Mandarins in pursuit of their hidden agendas.
It really does puzzle me how they continue to get clean away with it.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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